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Jew hatred at NBC

Atlas reader Surak takes action agaisnt Martin Fletcher's vile piece over at hard leftarded NBC;

I am writing to register my disgust with the propaganda piece by Martin Fletcher run by NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, December 25, 2007.  This was not a news piece, but rather a slanted editorial employing barely veiled anti-Semitism.

Beginning a few years ago, Israel has been forced to construct a barrier – over 90% a fence, but portions a wall – to prevent homicide bombings and sniper attacks, in which more than 1000 Israeli men, women and children have been murdered, their bodies torn apart by shrapnel.  This death toll is proportionally equivalent to well over 50,000 Americans murdered by terrorists.  Such barriers were erected after Palestinian Arabs turned down statehood for at least the third – some say the fourth – time.  Mr. Fletcher dwelt at length on the clever graffiti of the Palestinian Arabs, but not the funerals of the innocent civilian victims of their bombs, bullets, rockets and missiles.  It’s also a shame he missed out on the biggest story for Palestinian-Arab Christians: their relentless persecution and murder at the hands of their Muslim neighbors simply for practicing their religion.

Mr. Fletcher then pulled out what I can only describe as the lowest anti-Semitic canard – Jews being the enemies of Jesus.  This was manifest in Mr. Fletcher’s dwelling on one man’s miniature sculpture of the Israeli security barrier preventing the wise men from reaching the baby Jesus.  I wish you had shown pictures of the Israeli babies who were literally murdered in their parents’ arms by snipers’ bullets, or by shrapnel from bombs, all courtesy of the Palestinian-Arabs.  But that would not have fit your twisted Christmas message for the world; Jews – enemies of Jesus; terrorists – delightful multicultural people.  Goebbels would have been proud of you.  I had no idea NBC News was so sick.  Are you trying to incite a pogrom?

FOX NEWS AND THE SAUDIS

Regular FOX news watchers have noticed the increasing Saudi influence at FOX News ever since the French riots of 2005 when after one phone call, FOX newscasters stopped calling the Muslim rioters Muslims. Now it veers away from any real news in the war on Islamic jihad and pursues missing girls, missing blond girls,  missing pregnant girls, missing pregnant blond girls, missing murdered blond girls, missing murdered pregnant girls, and ..... car chases, spousal murders and particularly blond murders (save Fred Barnes and the Beltway Boys and Hume's news hour and E.D. Hill ).

Fox Guarding the Wolf House Joe Kaufman, Front Page Magazine

Fox News has long been considered a beacon to those that distrust televised liberal media, meaning every channel other than Fox. One of the indicators of the station’s right-leaning bent is that it has, for the most part, gotten the ‘War on Terrorism’ correct. However, with the undue influence of a Saudi Prince related to militant causes and with this month’s acquisition of Beliefnet, a religious resource website that proudly promotes radical Islam, signs show that the war coverage may soon be taking a turn for the worse.

In September of 2005, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal purchased 5.46 per cent of Class B voting shares in News Corp, the company that owns Fox News and a number of other media and entertainment entities. This had replaced the three per cent stake in Class A non-voting shares bin Talal had previously held through his investment corporation, Kingdom Holding Company (KHC).

With his newfound voting rights, bin Talal stated his intention of supporting Rupert Murdoch, the principal owner of News Corp, helping Murdoch to stay in power and avoid hostile takeover by other interested investors. Some have said that this was like making a deal with the devil, as Murdoch has been left vulnerable to the whims of an individual that has been involved in despicable causes.

In April of 2002, bin Talal had donated $27 million during a Saudi telethon that was raising money for the families of suicide bombers. As well, he had given $500,000 to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to be used towards the distribution and propagation of a set of Islamist books for American libraries. The set included Jamal Badawi’s Gender Equity in Islam, which sanctions the beating of women by their husbands, and a version of the Quran, Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s The Meaning of THE HOLY QURAN, which has been banned by the Los Angeles school system.

Utilizing his position of power within Fox News (today, he is the second largest shareholder), bin Talal has worked to influence programming at the station.

Read it all

Jew bashing at WaPo

Taking a page from the jihad journalism of the  New York Times, The Washington Post has  joined the chorus of media Jew haters by spreading Arab myths and lies.  WaPo is dishonest in their  reporting and analysis, attempting to victimize the Pali savages while  demonizing the Jewish victims. It all eerily echos pre-war Germany and the demonization of the Jew.

The unending undulating promise of annihilation of the Jews, inculcation of Muslim children in Islamic countries to hate, to kill the infidel, to aspire to be homicide bombers, honor killings, clitorectomies, wife beating blah blah blah is under reported - given a free pass by the moral inverters at WaPo.

Instead of reporting and throwing  much needed light on the  unimaginable tragedy averted by some divine hand in Sderot on Thursday;

..... a catastrophe was averted this time because the missile barely missed: (IRIS blog here)

Ten children, and eight others, are suffering from trauma in the Negev city of Sderot after a Kassam rocket slammed down just 40 meters from an elementary school. The attack occured around 11 AM.

This is but one of under 7,000 rockets fired into southern Israel since 2003. Does WaPo discuss that Islamic terror? What if rockets were fired into the elementary school of WaPo editors? How would they report on that?
Instead what you have is taqiya (advancing Islamic lies.) From CAMERA;

WASHINGTON POST  OBSESSED WITH  ISRAELI 'MISTREATMENT' OF ARABS;
Second time in six days, 'blame Israel' coverage gets front-page placement

 

Six days ago an unbalanced, front page news feature headlined "Sealed Off By Israel, Gaza Reduced to Beggary," blamed Israel for Palestinian Arab suffering caused by Israeli reaction to Palestinian terrorism. Today The Washington Post jerked the same knee. "For Israel's Arab Citizens, Isolation and Exclusion" (December 20) also got front page treatment, and reconfirmed the paper's narrow, misleading perspective on Arab-Israeli news.

 

Basic factual errors:

 

1) Jerusalem bureau chief Scott Wilson, who also wrote "Sealed Off By Israel" and who's been named the paper's new foreign editor, says "except for a relatively small Druze population, Arabs are excluded also from military service mandatory for all but ultra-Orthodox Jews, an essential shared experience of Israeli life ...."

 

That would be news to the many Israeli Bedouin, Arab Muslims, who have served in the Israel Defense Forces over the decades, often in key roles as scouts and trackers. Contrary to Wilson, Arabs are not "excluded" from serving in the Israeli military; rather, they are not required to serve, as most Israeli Jews are. No law stops them from volunteering, however. Indeed, Ha'aretz (normally a source the Washington Post would embrace since it is often unfairly critical of Israel) reported in a 2004 article titled "Number of Muslim, Christian Arab volunteers in IDF growing" that:

New figures made available by the Israel Defense Forces show the number of Muslim and Christian Arab Israeli volunteers in the army is growing. The deaths of five soldiers from the IDF's Desert Reconnaissance Unit (the so-called Bedouin unit) in an attack on an army outpost near Rafah earlier this month drew public attention to the service of Bedouin in the IDF.

However, the reports on the incident paid little attention to the fact that most of the dead were not Bedouin: Three of the five soldiers killed were Muslim Arabs from villages in the Galilee and Triangle, who had volunteered for military service.

CAMERA got a November 3 correction from The Los Angeles Times on just this error. 

 

2) Wilson writes that Israeli Jews outnumber Israeli Arabs "five to one in a population of about 6.5 million people."

 

There are two basic factual errors here: Israel's population is not "about 6.5 million people," it is 7.2 million, according to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. And the Jewish population does not account for 80 percent to the Arab population's 20, which would be a "five to one" ratio. Rather, subtracting 310,000 "others," mostly non-Jewish relatives of Jewish immigrants, the recognized permanent population is 76 percent Jewish. But subtracting also another estimated 200,000 non-Jewish foreign workers, Israeli Jews constitute barely 75 percent of the total, outnumbering Israeli Arabs by about four to one, not five to one.

 

Add these fundamental errors of omission:

 

Wilson focuses on a young, attractive, well-educated Arab Israeli couple, Ahmad and Fatima Zubeidat. They apparently are the type of couple most Americans wouldn't mind having as neighbors. Yet an Israeli government agency denied their application to move into a new Jewish community built on state land. The article indicts Israeli government and the larger Jewish society for not investing in Israeli Arab towns and villages on par with Jewish areas, and specifically for not letting the Zubeidats move to the new Galilee town of Rakefet.

 

3)  What the article does not report, to the positive:

 

* The average Israeli Arab is  (like the Zubeidats) better educated, more prosperous, and freer religiously and politically than the citizens of most Arab countries throughout the Middle East;

 

* Israeli Arabs enjoy the same legal rights, if not economic and social standing, as Israeli Jews;

 

* Israeli Arabs hold 12 of the Knesset's (parliament's) 120 seats. One is a deputy speaker (and was temporary acting president). Israel Arab members exercised the balance of power on key decisions, making possible formation of Yitzhak Rabin's government in 1992 and passage of both the Oslo I and Oslo II accords;

 

* An Arab is one of Israel's 14 Supreme Court justices;

 

* Arab ambassadors and consuls represent Israel in a number of countries; and, for example,

 

* An Arab woman, Rana Raslan, won the Miss Israel contest in 1999 and represented the country in the Miss World competition.

 

4) What the article does not report, to the negative:

 

* Wilson mentions without the necessary detail that "Israel's Arabs ... commonly refer to themselves as Palestinian citizens of Israel ...." Actually, increasing numbers refer to themselves as "Palestinian by nationality, Israeli by citizenship" ("A Day on the Green Line," by Eric Rozenman, B'nai B'rith's International Jewish Monthly, Fall, 2002) - a troubling bi-polarity for a state subjected to renewed Palestinian terror warfare since 2000;

 

* Until the 1993 - 1998 Oslo process and the start of the "al-Aqsa intifada" in 2000, instances of disloyalty by Israeli Arabs were rare. Since then, however, hundreds have been arrested on charges of participation in anti-Israel terrorism, including murder.

 

* Many Israeli Arabs participated in anti-Jewish riots inside Israel at the start of the second intifada, including in the Galilee;

 

* Arab Knesset members have challenged the Jewish character of the state. Some have sided, at least rhetorically, with Israel's enemies, including the Palestinian Liberation Organization under Yasser Arafat, Syria, and Hezbollah;

 

* Long before the "al-Aqsa intifada," Israeli Arab attitudes included those of popular poet and anti-Zionist Knesset member Tawiq Zayyad, whose poem "Here We Will Remain" told Israeli Jews: "We will lie on your chest like a wall/ Stick in your throat like a piece of glass ... We will sing the songs/ Fill the streets with demonstrations/ Fill the jails with honor and make children/ Each generation more revolutionary than the one before it."; and

 

* While Hamas attacks Israel from the Gaza Strip and West Bank, a leader of Israel's internal Islamic fundamentalist organization, the so far non-violent Islamic Movement, has stated - in a religious dialogue with Jews - that in the Holy Land, "only Muslims can rule here."

 

Without this missing information, how are Post readers - the majority of whom are likely to believe American-style efforts at minority integration should be the norm -- to understand the final paragraph:

 

"'I'm very left-wing, but I think Arabs should live in one place, ultra-Orthodox Jews in one place, secular Jews in one place and so on,' [Nadav] Garmi [of the town in which the Zubeidats have been denied residency] said. 'If you want a good neighbor, you have to have a place for everybody. It's best not to mix too much.'"

 

Perhaps as confirmation of "those prejudiced, anti-Arab Israelis."

'Allah Willing, America Will Soon Be Annihilated… We Will Reach America… The Eyes of the Nation of Muhammad are set on Washington, London, Moscow, Paris, Delhi, Beijing' (more here)

Terror Loving AP Faces Charges

The mainstream media aligned with the terror force takes on new meaning literal and  grave with this;

AP Is Hung Up On Husseins Bruce, Democracy Project

The US has now turned AP photographer Bilal Hussein over to the Iraqis for trial:

In Washington, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell explained the decision to bring charges now by saying “new evidence has come to light” about Hussein, but said the information would remain in government hands until the formal complaint is filed with Iraqi authorities.

Morrell asserted the military has “convincing and irrefutable evidence that Bilal Hussein is a threat to stability and security in Iraq as a link to insurgent activity” and called Hussein “a terrorist operative who infiltrated the AP.”

Now, comes this blast from the president and chief executive of Associated Press, Tom Curley, in defense of its photographer in Iraq, Bilal Hussein:

We believe Bilal's crime was taking photographs the U.S. government did not want its citizens to see. That he was part of a team of AP photographers who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for work in Iraq may have made Bilal even more of a marked man.

In the 19 months since he was picked up, Bilal has not been charged with any crime, although the military has sent out a flurry of ever-changing claims. Every claim we've checked out has proved to be false, overblown or microscopic in significance. Now, suddenly, the military plans to seek a criminal case against Bilal in the Iraqi court system in just days. But the military won't tell us what the charges are, what evidence it will be submitting or even when the hearing will be held….

Perhaps it is not surprising that the operators of the world's largest prison-camp network have found a way to provide access to due process in a form that actually looks more unjust than indefinite imprisonment without charges.

But this is a poor example -- and not the first of its kind -- of the way our government honors the democratic principles and values it says it wants to share with the Iraqi people.

Actually, quite a bit is known about Bilal Hussein. Michelle Malkin presents a useful summary, with Hussein's "convenient" photos, and John Hinderaker at Powerline neatly asks, “How stupid does the Associated Press think we are?”

The coming trial of Bilal Hussein may yet again exhibit why the Associated Press should both avoid Husseins, and should get new management with journalistic integrity instead of journalistic bombastity and self-righteous, self-defensive impermeability to following the facts.

DEM SHAM: CNN Goes Green uh....Yellow

Yellow as in cowards. By G-d man, is this diabolical or what? A government by the people, for the people blah blah blah according to Hillary. NO time for such nonsense. Stealing the presidencywith the leftist tools, the Crescent News Network, uh make that the Clinton News Network (same thing.)

Everyone, every questioner, a plant.

Not just potted plants hat tip Larwyn

In the continuing saga of Hillary Clinton's quest for royalty, she has deployed the potted plant brigade! Yes, these individuals are ones that are pre-selected, pre-coached, pre-determined to infest 'town hall' meetings and give her questions that she is, actually, prepared to answer. No more of this messy business of actually having a 'discussion with the people', as they have turned out to be just a bunch of rabble. Not worth time hearing a question that might put you on the spot, when you can get a lovely and easy to answer question from someone your very own staff has picked out.

One of the first to be noticed was a plant at a 'energy town hall' run by Hillary Clinton, in which the prescripted nature of the question led to questions, and the final revealing that the questioner was, indeed, given a question to asked based on the campaign's decision that she fit the demographic type they were aiming at (Major Garrett, FNC 10 NOV 2007). Of course the Hillary campaign would first deny then admit and then say 'well everyone is doing it', which does point out that if everyone is engaging in non-public 'public' townhall discussions, then the entire system is a sham, with Hillary's campaign just being extremely INEPT in hiding it. Ah, the joys of admitting how deceitful you are: if you are alone in doing it you look like a power hungry group willing to do anything to sway public opinion, and if you are caught and all others are doing it so well as to not be found out then you are miserably incompetent.

Such CHOICES presented by the Hillary campaign! Deceitful OR Incompetent, the choice is yours.

So, surely, once caught they wouldn't do this again, right?

Ah, you do not understand the 'Will to Power' of Hillary Rodham Clinton! It turns out that this was just the LATEST plant in the hothouse of same, and that ABC News ( 10 NOV 2007) reported that an earlier incident had taken place which it had NOT TOLD YOU ABOUT. Amazing, a news organization covering up that it had suspected such activity was going on by an individual campaigning to be President. So, is this just keeping quiet to help a candidate or incompetence?

Kurt has more here.

Jennifer Bea has painstakingly researched this bombshell. Very well researched and laid out, huge amount of empirical evidence here;

CNN GOES GREEN, BY GARDENING PLANTS The War Against Political Correctness

I have spent more than 12 hours researching the “random” questioners at the CNN Democratic Debate that was held on November 15th, 2007. I started out looking around, because there was a story about the first questioner, Catherine Jackson, who may have been a plant. As it turns out, she is an anti-war type, who has rallied against the war outside of Harry Reid’s office in Nevada. Harry Reid is one of the biggest supporters of surrender in Iraq, to this day denying the surge is working, among other things. The story came out about Catherine when someone recognized the name and discovered a news story of her interview during one of these protests.

So I got to thinking, who is she, and who are the other people.

I looked up CNN’s transcripts of the debate, to find out who they are. At the same time, I paid attention to other blogs and news outlets, to find some mention of The Diamonds and Pearls girl, being Maria Luisa, and CNN made her ask her question. She said she felt stupid, because she wanted to ask a question about Yucca Mountain. There were links to her My Space page, indicating she was 15.

But the transcripts said her name was Maria Parra-Sandoval and she was a student at UNLV, and in the video clips of that question, that’s what she said her name was. Interesting that no one picked that up. So I popped her name into my Yahoo search engine to discover that Luisa is her middle name, her full name is Maria Luisa Parra-Sandoval, and she worked in Harry Reid’s office in Nevada and DC. (Picture on page 23) She was also invited as a guest on the floor off the 74th session of Nevada Legislature, by a man named Rubin Kihuen, he was elected in 2006 and a member of the Nevada Assembly Democrats. Upon further research and a tip from a commenter on another message board, it turns out that she came here illegally from Mexico as a child with her family, but since gained legal status, and has won scholarships to attend UNLV.

UPDATE: Check this out! CNN plants questions to protect Hillary 

TERROR ALIGNED MSM BLACKOUT GRIM MILESTONE: 10,000 ISLAMIC ATTACKS

Regular Atlas readers are more than familiar with the grave Religion of Peace.com meter on my left sidebar that tics off the number of radical Islamic attacks since 9/11. When I started blogging, it read close to 4,000. Today we mark the grimmest of milestones, over 10,000 Islamic attacks since 9/11.

What along and terrible road and more depressing yet is it is getting worse. And going to get much worse before it can get better (G-d willing.)

Patrick Poole notes the day at Front page today

The establishment media is seemingly obsessed with “grim milestones” in the War on Terror, as the Associated Press reminds us this past weekend. But in the next week those same establishment media outlets will probably stand mute when yet another “grim milestone” is reached – the10,000th attack by Islamic terrorists and militants since 9/11, which is responsible for approximately 60,000 dead and 90,000 injured.

The chronicler of this bloody tally is Glen Reinsford, editor of TheReligionofPeace.com, who began compiling and updating daily a detailed list of reported incidents of violence and terrorism around the world targeting non-Muslims and Muslims alike. Because of space limitations he only posts the past two months worth of attacks on his websites main page, though he has archived all of the incidents from past years (2001-2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). He also maintains a banner graphic with the updated number of attacks, which people can post on their own websites.

When asked what prompted him to begin such a labor-intensive undertaking, Reinsford identifies the tepid response to Islamic terrorism by otherwise outspoken Muslim groups, with one organization particularly in mind:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations. After 9/11, I kept an eye on them and was quite disgusted by their lack of moral perspective. They complain about issues that affect Muslims which are quite trivial, on average, compared to what is happening in the name of their religion. They do occasionally denounce terror in a general, somewhat ambiguous, sense but there is an obvious lack of passion. Their real interest is themselves.

Reviewing the list of recent incidents, it is surprising how many “smaller” attacks occur daily, which the establishment media pass with only a casual mention. While high profile attacks, like the one last week in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan that killed 75 and wounded at least 100 (many of them school children), receive plenty of attention, smaller incidents, such as the attack last week on a hotel in Baramulla, India that killed one, rarely register with the Western media.

Because Reinsford relies on the establishment media for his numbers, the true number of attacks and their victims are underreported:

In my case, I use published media reports from reputable sources on the Internet, such as the Associated Press. None of the information comes from rumor or word of mouth. Every bit of it can be verified through publicly-available sources. If anything, I undercount the attacks.

In his explanation of his methodology, he notes that he doesn’t include combat-related

Please read it all and make a mental note that The Religion of Peace has come under attack by that mental patient, Jim Sutter. Sutter, a notorious rabid leftard tool, spends his pathetic days getting sites like mine, Jihadwatch and now Religion of Peace banned by filtering companies that service tens of thousand of companies. I have been banned, now so, ReligionofPeace.com

Spencer at Jihadwatch;

The Religion of Peace site, which keeps an invaluable running tally of jihad terror attacks and features a wealth of other useful information as well, is being blocked by Net filtering services in the same way that Jihad Watch was, and for the same reason: that malicious and pathetic serial liar, the "Rev." Jim Sutter, has reported the site as hate speech.

I received this email yesterday:

Dear Fellow Bloggers:

The Religion of Peace Needs Our Help!

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com

An individual by the name of (Rev.) Jim Sutter targeted our good friends at The Religion of Peace in an effort to shut down the site. The results of Sutter’s actions provoked a number of internet companies to incorrectly categorize The Religion of Peace. These incorrect categories have caused the site to be listed as a hate site, and consequently blocked by some servers. We know that the accusations made by Sutter, and the various companies are untrue. The Religion of Peace provides accurate facts about Islam -- not lies. Nor can the site be accused of being racist. First of all Islam is not a race, it is a political religious ideology. Secondly, The Religion of Peace speaks out against all violence that is directed towards Non-Muslims and Muslims.

Anyone who has a blog that attempts to defend the west from radical Islam or Marxists knows that they are constantly at risk of being labeled racist, and shut down by individuals and organizations who do not want the truth to be known. The efforts to silence our voices will increase. We are all in this fight together. Therefore, it would be
greatly appreciated if all of you would post a notice on your blogs, urging your readers to support The Religion of Peace by sending protest e-mails to the offending companies. Islam and the thought police are coming after all of us. Free speech is in jeopardy. We need to pull together into a strong and united force to combat those who intend to crush us.

Out of respect for others The Religion of Peace has avoided asking for assistance. They did not want to impose their problems onto anyone else. I have permission to make this appeal on their behalf.

Please ask your readers to contact the following companies with a short polite e-mail clearly stating that The Religion of Peace -- http://www.thereligionofpeace.com (include the url in the e-mails) is against violence, not racist and should be categorized appropriately under labels such as General News, Politics and Religion.

To the best of our knowledge the e-mail addresses are correct. If anyone encounters problems please contact The Religion of Peace:

Secure Computing
e-mail: sites@securecomputing.com

SonicWall
e-mail: cfssupport@sonicwall.com

SurfControl
e-mail: customerservice@surfcontrol.com

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.  Further background information is provided here.

Be sure to follow that link for further background information. There you will find the story of Sutter's dealings with the the editor of TheReligionofPeace.com, which are in many ways similar to my own interaction with this mendacious bully. Sutter's utter disregard for the truth and fair dealing are abundantly on display.

UPDATE: Why did CAIR ignore a terror threat made against Muslims? Because Sutter made it, and apparently CAIR knew that. Read about the strange Sutter/CAIR connection at CAIRBaby (thanks to DC Watson).

AL DURA: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO!

EXCLUSIVE from Honest Reporting!

Brangelina: Dhimmiwits

In the world she is financing, they'd cut her clit off so fast, her head would spin. Baby Zah's and Shi's too. And wrap these tools up in the chador...

If it wasn't Diana West, I'd say we were being punked. Of all the stoopid bitches, and when did Brad become such a pussy boy? Uh, don't answer that. Geez ........... I know who has the penis in that family. And anyway I am pretty sure Brad is borderline retarded.

Brangelina: Dhimmiwits Diana West

Flash!
    Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have just bought a manmade island of the coast of Dubai in the shape of Ethiopia. News accounts tell us they plan to use the reclaimed piece of land to showcase....Guess what?
    The Dubai boycott of all things Israeli?
    The quaint effects of sharia law?
    The homey haunts of what Rep. Pete King once memorably called "Al Qaeda heartland"?
    Or, perchance, solidarity for the forces of Ehiopia, where their daughter was born, still fighting jihadist forces in Somalia? Or the abuse of de facto child slaves forced into camel jockey servitude to entertain the oil-rich and jet-fuel-burning set?
     Hah! And nope. Breitbart reports: "The Hollywood couple intend to to use the reclaimed piece of land to showcase enviromental issues and encourage people to live a greener life, the Emirates Today newspaper said."
    The mind reels from a poison cocktail equal parts loathesomeness and  pretensiousness. Of course, Dubai, whose princelings have a history with Osama bin Laden, and Brangelina are a perfect fit: Pitt and  Jolie both  have made cinematic sops to jihad--Pitt starring in "Babel," Jolie starring in "A Mighty Heart"--so they might as well, er, submit to Dubai's allure as the emerging "global leisure and finance hub."

It gets more unfathomable. Read it all here. Manmande environmental island.

Enviro - "mental" alright.

Photo cred: Edward Cropper

Al Dura: Alfred Dreyfus Redux

UPDATED: RUSHES CUT! SCROLL!

The screening of the al Durah Rushes should take place in a Paris courtroom today. This will mark a real turning point in the fight for a more honest media.
Richard Landes at Second Draft will be one of the invited viewers in the court. Richard and Yaacov over at Belly of the Beast will post analysis of the events as time allows. They both have extensive pre-screening posts up now...

Thoughts before the Court Viewing of the France2 Rushes

Belly of the Beast calls us to  Join the Fight for an Honest Media 

Atlas Shrugs: Al Dura:  Karsenty Press Conference
Previous Al Dura posts at Atlas here.

UPDATE: The tape is missing 9 minutes. Why am I not surprised?

UPDATE: jay advised me that Richard has just called in. The rushes were CUTdown to 18 minutes from the original 27- more on the blog soon.

UPDATE: Honest Reporting  had Alain Benjamin in the courtroom. Read it .............

Melanie Phillips over at The Spectator has great court reporting here;

The drama of today’s hearing was enhanced by the appearance of Enderlin himself, who until today had not graced this case with his presence. As the film was shown to a packed and overheated (in every sense) courtroom, Enderlin and Karsenty offered rival interpretations of the images on the screen. If Enderlin thought he would thus demonstrate the inadequacy of Karsenty’s case, he was very much mistaken. On the contrary, parts of his commentary were so absurd that the courtroom several times burst into incredulous laughter.

Enderlin offered only a vague, rambling and unconvincing explanation of why he had only produced 18 minutes of footage rather than the 27 he claimed to have received from his cameraman in Gaza (Enderlin himself was not in Gaza when these events occurred). After the hearing Professor Richard Landes, one of the people who had already seen the contested footage, said that two scenes had been cut out which clearly showed that the violence had been staged -- including one in which a Palestinian preparing to throw a missile is suddenly picked up and carried into an ambulance despite showing no signs of injury. This scene, said Landes, was filmed by Reuters, who actually filmed the France. What struck me very forcibly about the 18 minutes overall was that, although this was supposed to have been filmed during continuous firing by the Israelis for 45 minutes, much of the footage consisted merely of a violent demonstration by stone throwing youths, many of whom who appeared to be enjoying the exercise. One child was pictured riding a bicycle through the melee. There was no evidence of any of them being killed or injured. From time to time, to be sure, youths were dragged onto stretchers and into ambulances – but there was no sign of anyone actually being shot, no-one falling under fire, no sign of any blood or injuries whatever. The nearest it got to an injury was a sequence in which a young man coyly pulled his shirt open a little to provide a glimpse of a neat red circle on his stomach, which he claimed was a (rubber?) bullet wound. But since he appeared to be in no pain whatever and was grinning throughout his turn for the camera, this seemed an eminently implausible way for someone who had just been hit by gunfire to behave.

There were many very strange things about this footage which just didn’t add up. When it came to the footage of the ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah, the following stood out:

* This sequence was not a continuous narrative but was repeatedly broken up and spliced onto footage of other scenes from the demonstration

* Although the France  2 cameraman had told a German film-maker, Esther Shapira, that he had filmed six minutes of the al Durah father and son under continuous Israeli fire, the footage of them lasted for less than one minute There was a camera tripod next to them

* There was no evidence of the boy actually being hit

* At one point, people in the crowd dried out that the boy was dead, while he was sitting up large as life clinging onto his father with his mouth wide open

* After he was said to be dead, he moved his arm (the sequence I have already reported which has been available on the web for years).

Appeal Court

is not due to give its verdict in this case until next February. As of today, such are the fresh contradictions and questions thrown up by the showing of this footage it would seem that France 2 has painted itself into a corner from which it will find it increasingly hard to escape.

But this scandal goes far beyond

France 2. Soon after it transmitted the 55 seconds which showed the ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah, it helpfully sent various news agencies three minutes of the footage of this incident – including the frames in which the ‘dead’ child is seen moving, but which of course it had not broadcast. For reasons which invite speculation, not one of these agencies broadcast it either. Had they done so, there would have been no ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah and untold numbers of subsequent deaths would have been avoided.

It is therefore not surprising, but no less shocking, that with a couple of heroic exceptions the mainstream media has until very recently ignored the evidence suggesting that a monumental and deadly fraud was perpetrated here, indicators which have been around for years. As of today, the Karsenty case has been totally ignored by the mainstream French media. It is also deeply troubling that the Israel government ignored this evidence for seven years, that it is only very recently that its press spokesman Danny Seaman said the incident was staged, and that even now certain representatives of the Israel government are playing a most ambiguous role in defending their country against this modern blood libel.

The ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah was swallowed uncritically by the western media, despite the manifold unlikeliness and contradictions which were apparent from the start, because it accorded with the murderous prejudice against Israel which is the prism through which the Middle East conflict is habitually refracted. This scandal has the most profound implications not just for the media, not just for the Middle East  conflict but for the western world’s relationship to reason, which seems to grow more tenuous by the day.

UPDATE: Landes reports from the courtroom: Gambling with a Lie: Enderlin pulls a Rosemary Woods

I must admit, many people told me that Enderlin would doctor the tapes, and I didn’t believe them. “No,” I thought, “it’s one thing to lie to me and others in his office, but to the court, where he would surely get caught? He would not be that reckless…” Not.

Today Charles Enderlin presented in court the “rushes” of Talal abu Rahmah which the Judge had requested from him. And he presented an edited version in which he took out at least three minutes, and several scenes that I distinctly remember seeing. In the United States that’s called tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, and perjury. In France, we’ll find out what it’s called.

Most of the material was inconclusive or boring, and I patiently waited for the material I’d seen. Then, at about 15 minutes on the time code, Enderlin announces that there will be a break and we will see the final scenes. That’s when I knew he had cut the scenes. Sure enough, the screen went blank, and then began the final three minutes.

Now there are at least two scenes that I remember specifically, one of which we have documented by Reuters. One scene that wasn’t there I described as follows:

At another point, a boy faked a leg injury, but instead of drawing big kids who could pick him up and rush him past the cameramen to an ambulance, he only attracted little kids. He shooed them away, looked around, and, seeing that no one was coming to evacuate him, straightened up and walked away without a limp.

Indeed this scene provoked a snort from the Israeli cameraman working for France2 who was watching the film with me and Enderlin at the time.

When I asked him why, he said, “because it looks so fake.”
“That’s my impression as well,” I responded.
Enderlin commented, “Oh, they do that all the time. It’s their cultural style. They exaggerate.”
“But if they do it all the time, why couldn’t they have staged Al Durah?” I asked.
“Oh, they’re not good enough.”

Now ultimately, this is my word (and possibly, if they remember and have the courage to come forward, those of Denis Jeambar and Daniel Leconte), against Enderlin.

But the second piece I remember is actually documented by Reuters (video sequence). In a scene we’ve dubbed Molotov Cocktail Kid, a youth lopes comfortably down the road, showing no sign of injury. He hands of a Molotov Cocktail to another kid and enters a crowd. We see red on his forehead, but no indication that he’s injured.

Handing off the bottle. Note the red on his forehead.

Once in the crowd, he is picked up by others.

Note that his left leg is bent as the crowd sets to carry him.

Past photographers, among whom we find Talal abu Rahmah, with his France2 equipment.

Talal is in close, for maximum effect. Note the fellow on the far left who’s in for the ride. He’s seen smiling in the video.

And then run back right in front of the Israeli position (where he was presumably shot) and loaded on the ambulance right in front of the Israelis.

Israeli position in the background. No one is afraid of being hit by them.

When I went to see the rushes at France2, I was specifically looking for this scene, and remember seeing it. It was jumpy and out of focus, and looked considerably more realistic (cinéma vérité) than the Reuters footage which, shot at a distance, is obviously staged.

This footage was not part of Enderlin’s 18 minutes.

There's more more more.

 

50% Crime Drop in Iraq Big yawn

How is it that the dinosaur media can ignore this shamelessly? SHAMELESSLY. This is a HUGE story. GINORMOUS. For years all we, the poor, beleaguered American people, have been subjected to is big media hang wringing over the violence in Iraq. Pounding us. Clubbing us like baby seals. And now, deafening silence. I have seen the enemy, they's us!

Concerned Iraqi Citizens Help 'Sledgehammer' Brigade Smash Crime Crime dropped by 50 percent in an area just outside Baghdad, thanks to Iraqi citizens who are giving more help than ever to the coalition soldiers who live among them, an American commander said. Story : Audio File | Transcript(pdf) | Bio(pdf) Additional Resources:HammerSlogger

The Real News

As one NCTC analyst told me, the intelligence community, "is like an incredible hockey goalie. We've stopped every shot taken against us since 9/11."

The real news the mainstream media refuses to report;

PROVING A NEGATIVE (hat tip Jim)

Honoring Those Who Prevented Another 9/11
By Jonathan Schanzer New York Post

The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack

If you like Michael Moore movies, don't buy Ronald Kessler's newest book. It does not heap scorn upon President George W. Bush. It does not inspire panic over "spy programs" that trample Americans' civil liberties. Nor does it sneer at American patriotism.

Kessler's book celebrates the intelligence community's successes. It is a series of vignettes (27 short chapters) praising the "unsung heroes" who have not allowed an attack on American soil since September 11, 2001. "Those who are fighting the silent battle against terrorism have produced an American success story," Kessler concludes, despite the legions of critics alleging failures or abuse of power.

Drawing from interviews with intelligence professionals and administration officials, Kessler notes that by the end of 2002, the intelligence community had thwarted "about a hundred" terrorist attacks. By 2003, the CIA had "rolled up 3,000 terrorists" in dozens of countries. Highlights include: the capture of Abu Zubayda in 2002, the raid that yielded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on March 1, 2003, and the neutralizing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006.

[...]

So, why do many Americans treat this branch of the government like a redheaded stepchild?

The mainstream media is a big part of the problem. The Washington Post's exaggerated 2005 headline, "FBI Examines Records of Ordinary Americans," misled many to believe that the FBI willfully violates civil liberties, instead of protecting them. The New York Times, for its part, all but ignored Osama bin Laden before 9/11, but "quickly became experts on how flawed" the intelligence community was in responding to al Qaeda.

Congress also got into the act. Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.) attacked the CIA's inability to prevent 9/11 as "inexcusable" and "outrageous." Never mind that Congress had slashed the CIA budget, leading to a 16 percent decline in employees, and a 25 percent decline in covert officers.

Kessler aptly notes 9/11 was not an "intelligence failure." That would imply faulty intelligence. The problem was that the government - particularly in the 1990s - did not take terrorism seriously enough. CIA employees joked that when a small Cessna plane crashed into the White House in 1994, it was Director of Central Intelligence Jim Woolsey just trying to get President Bill Clinton's attention.

[...] The ACLU, for its part, claims that Bush exploited 9/11 to gain wider powers. This is akin, Kessler writes, to saying that FDR "exploited the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor" to enter World War II. The Patriot Act simply provides the FBI "the same powers in terrorism cases that it already had in cases targeting drug traffickers, spies and mafia figures."

Please read it all.

What took so long?

Finally. I can tell you when Iwas in Israel covering the war, watching CNN (the only cable news channel available)  was like watching a different war from what I was actually seeing on the ground, real time. The Qana lie running on CNN on an endless loop best  illustrated what I thought was pure masochism on Israel's part,  subjecting themselves to the mendacious Pali/Arab narrative 24/7/365.

CNN DUMPED IN ISRAEL Jammie Weating Fool hat tip Larwyn

I love it when a neo-con plot comes to fruition.

CNN OUT OF HOLY LAND

THE largest cable system in Israel has dropped CNN.

HOT yanked CNN off the air early yesterday in a dispute over how much CNN was charging to carry the news channel.

The cable system replaced CNN with Fox News Channel when it could not come to an agreement.

The cable operator, which covers more than half of Israeli homes, will effectively bar CNN from much of the country.

What a pity.

Now the Israelis won't have to suffer through the relentless anti-Semitic drivel of that hag Christiane Amanpour.

UPDATE: But but but Atlas Shrugs: CNN or Al Jizz

NY Times Leaking like a Sieve

Read TK rites, "nothing like letting Iran know we're going to freeze their assets so they can start moving them ASAP...who in the govt is continually leaking shit to the enemy? and why no investigations - actually how hard can it be to figure out who leaked what only a few have access to? un-fing-real.:

U.S. to Impose New Sanctions Against Iran - Helene Cooper
The Bush administration will announce new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, accusing the elite Quds division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of supporting terrorism, administration officials said Wednesday. The administration also plans to accuse the entire Revolutionary Guard Corps of proliferating weapons of mass destruction. Both designations will put into play unilateral sanctions intended to impede the Revolutionary Guard and those who do business with it. Administration officials said the designation will also be used to persuade foreign governments and financial institutions to cut ties with Iranian businesses and individuals. (New York Times)

Rice and Paulson were ready to outline sanctions that would be the toughest the United States has levied against Tehran since the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy there, said one official. The story was reported by The Washington Post in its Thursday editions. More here.

The New York Times quoted a senior government official as saying the United States "will be freezing assets and there will be ripple effects of where we can go from there. This is going to be a broad and wide-ranging effort."

All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity in advance of formal announcement of the new sanctions.

But of course.

Queen honors "Most Excellent" Jihad Imamwhore

In another stupefying act of appeasement, the jihad journalist is honored with Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, by the Queen. Paging Claudia Rosset.

Queen Honors Journalist Amanpour AOL News hat tip Helen

LONDON (Oct. 23) -- She has reported from the front lines of conflicts around the world, interviewed world leaders, and investigated the important issues of our time. And on Tuesday, CNN's Christiane Amanpour received an honor from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of her work.

Amanpour received a CBE, or Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, "for services to journalism." The queen bestowed the honor on Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent, at a ceremony in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace in London.

Wearing a white skirt suit and formal brown hat with a bow, Amanpour approached the queen and bowed. The queen, dressed in a bright blue dress, then pinned the medal on Amanpour's lapel.

"I'm incredibly thrilled and very proud," Amanpour told CNN afterwards.

Tool.

Liberal Media and Communism

NewsBusters senior editor Rich Noyes is starting a new series this week looking at some of the worst instances of bias over the 20 years MRC has been in existence.

Please enjoy today's installment here

The liberal media and communism. Probably the most sickening display of pro-communist propaganda to air on an American network was the seven-hour series ‘Portrait of the Soviet Union,’ produced by (you guessed it) Ted Turner. It aired back in March 1988 on Turner’s TBS, and was narrated by ‘Jaws’ actor Roy Scheider. Here are a few excerpts from the first night’s installment:

Video (0:43): Windows (1.36 MB), plus MP3 audio (213 kB).

“The Soviet Union, draped in history, born of bloody revolution, bound together by a dream that is still being dreamt. It is the dream of a socialist nation marching towards the first communist state. The Soviet Union, a mighty union.”
“Once, the Kremlin was the home of czars. Today, it belongs to the people.”
“Atheist though the state may be, freedom to worship as you please is enshrined in the Soviet constitution.”

Some of the other quotes that show the liberal media’s soft spot for totalitarian dictators:

“A Gulag Breeds Rage, Yes, but Also Serenity”
—New York Times headline over article on last Soviet political prisoners being released, February 12, 1992.

“Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall.”
—CBS’s Bob Simon, March 16, 1990 Evening News.

“[Fidel] Castro has delivered the most to those who had the least....Education was once available to the rich and the well-connected. It is now free to all....Medical care was once for the privileged few. Today it is available to every Cuban and it is free....Health and education are the revolution’s great success stories.”
—Peter Jennings, ABC’s World News Tonight, April 3, 1989.

“Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.”
—Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group, April 8, 2000.

“For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.”
—Barbara Walters on ABC’s 20/20, October 11, 2002.

Phillips on Phillipe

Melanie knows history when she sees it.

Al Dura: Karsenty Press Conference

**UPDATED: NEW VIDEO: SEE BELOW**

What if you exposed a great lie, a lie so big that it set off a war - and you held a press conference to expose that lie and no one came? The worst blood libel of this young century.

Welcome to the 21st century.

The incitement for the violent second intifada and The justification of the cold blooded beheading of Daniel Pearl, the explosive allegations and detailed evidence blows the Pali ruse right out of the water.

The left wing jihad loving media covered the lie, perpetrated the charade - incited the jihad but scurry like rats when called to account.

And so today, Phillip Karsenty ,the journalist sued by France 2 for revealing their complicity, held a press conference and practically no one show. Yann Battefort , PR for the French Embassy showed (but of course,  France 2 is owned by the state.) Damage control - or at least a mole to check out the outing of state manipulated news.

Photo: Karsenty and Battefort

I arrived, with much difficulty.  Security in the area was excruciating. The Columbus Day parade was marching down Fifth Avenue and law enforcement was not allowing anyone onto 5th unless you had paperwork, press creds, or a really good story (yeah, my category.) But hey - no worries, right?

We waited for some media to show. CBS and FOX 5 sent video guys but no journalists. Clearly, this is not a story the media wants to cover - their complicity to incite war - but in that, there is a story.

A pretty French journalist was there from a French online site (not sure if it was Le Monde) and me.

Despite all this,  Karsenty's remarks are wildly compelling. Watch the video. And yes that's me asking all the questions, covering the real news the media chooses to deliberately hide. Power without accountability.

What's a camera without a journalist?

CAMERA: France 2 vs. Philippe Karsenty: The Appeal

Al Dura:Judge Rules Turn over the Tape

Atlas Shrugs: SHOCKER! Judgement against Al Dura Journalist Karsentyt

Atlas Shrugs: Sharansky on Al Dura Blood Libel

Atlas Shrugs: It's Official: Al Dura Staged

(more on The Dreyfus Affair here.
 
So much more here.

UPDATE: Carl in Jerusalem has a great post on this here.

UPDATE: EXPLAINING THE EVIDENCE

UPDATE: OT but related: The Top 101 Media Frauds

Arabuse

UPDATE: US appears guilty of torture: Pelosi AFP via Yahoo! News

The United States appears to be illegally torturing terror suspects contrary to denials by President George W. Bush, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday.

New words are required as the left has successfully changed the meaning of important terms  to obfuscate the truth.   Ben writes;

he media has dropped the standard for torture so low that every college fraternity in the nation is now in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

When a word ceases to distinguish between things, it is no longer useful.  Since "torture" can now mean "Made to wear underwear on the head" or "fed into a wood chipper, alive" it is now a useless word. 

As a solution, I humbly suggest we create a new word, that captures the meaning of true bodily harm and suffering inflicted on a person and excludes by definition minor embarrassment and discomfort.  We can call it "Arabuse".  Then we can say, fine, we torture, they torture, everyone tortures, it's no big deal, but we do NOT engage in arabuse, because THAT is evil.

Al Qaeda Behind Haditha

Medua, Murtha et al were Al Qaeda's Bitches. Doing the devils bidding. Over at Stop the ACLU;

If this exclusive is completely accurate then it is a bombshell story that the media completely ignored or overlooked. It probably didn’t line up with their narrative for the war. According to the report, the Time reporter that broke this story played the fool to an al Qaeda operative. Others were quick to echo, overlooking facts as the MSM does so well, from the New York Times to Congressman John Murtha.

Nathaniel R. Helms has the story:

Buried in the mountain of exhibits attached to the once secret Haditha, Iraq murder inquiry prepared by US Army Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell is an obscure Marine Corps intelligence summary (see pdf) that says the deadly encounter was an intentional propaganda ploy planned and paid for by Al Qaeda foreign fighters.
Veteran military defense attorney Gary Meyers said he never understood why the Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agents leading the Haditha criminal investigation didn’t “examine the linkage” between Al Qaeda, the local insurgency and the events at Haditha. Meyers was an attorney on the defense team that successfully defended Justin Sharratt, a Marine infantryman accused of multiple murders at Haditha.

The report – apparently overlooked by a Washington press corps awash in leaked Bargewell documents and secret Naval Criminal Investigative Service reports – shows that Marine Corps intelligence operatives were advised of the scheme to demonize the Marines by an informant named Muhannad Hassan Hamadi. The informant was snared by 3/1 Marines on December 11 2005 and decided to cooperate.

The attack was carried out by multiple cells of local Wahabi extremists and well-paid local gunmen from Al Asa’ib al-Iraq [the Clans of the People of Iraq] that were led by Al Qaeda foreign fighters, the summary claims. Their case was bolstered by Marine signal intercepts revealing that the al Qaeda fighters planned to videotape the attacks and exploit the resulting carnage for propaganda purposes.

Eleven insurgents involved in the attack are identified by name and affiliation in the details of the summary. All of them were killed or captured in the days immediately following the Haditha incident.

During the November Haditha battle, the insurgents secreted themselves among local civilians to guarantee pursuing Marines would catch innocent civilians in the ensuing crossfire. On January 6, 2006 six insurgents who tried to do the same thing at another location in Haditha were turned in to Coalition authorities before they could mount a similar assault, the report says.

Paris in NY: Karsenty, Man of the Hour

Glorious evening spent with the  fearless champion of truth and accuracy, Philippe Karsenty. He unveiled the staged blood libel, Al Dura, against the Jews and would not give up until those responsible gave themselves up. But they didn't, of course. The jihad loving media went the opposite way, even going so far as to sue Philippe. The Drefyus Affair redux. He became the object of scorn and derision, professionally and personally.

He has been vindicated. He brought the French media to its knees and set off a series of events that strips the media of its unearned respect, its objectivity. In this Karsenty is an historical figure. He changed the dynamic of assumed media credibility. No longer will the good folks think that what they are seeing or reading is actually accurate. The more that's revealed, the more revolted and shocked the folks will be upon seeing the rotting under belly of the jihad loving media machine.

It is increasingly clear, that this diabolical staging was contrived, deliberate - an incitement to war by French media. I expect such evil from the Palis, but such complicity by the media is unfathomable.

I am working on a presentation with him to run on Atlas. The evidence is staggering.

But before I get to my series of interviews with Philippe take a moment to listen his remarks to the Heritage Foundation here.

A European Moment: Will Europe Go Its Own Way? October 02, 2007 Watch | Streaming MP3 | Save MP3 | Details Featuring: Gerard Baker U.S. Editor, The Times, United Kingdom Dr. Jackson Janes Executive Director, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Philippe Karsenty President, Media Ratings, France

Jerry Gordon over at Israpundit writes,

Phillipe Karsenty, the French ‘hero’ of the current France2 TV libel trial involving the al Dura video ‘rushes’ called ’staged’ by the Israel Government Press Office last week and ordered by the French court to be shown in November is currently in America. He has been interviewed on nationally syndicated talk radio programs by Laura Ingraham and Dennis Prager.

Listen to the interview with Prager, here.

He will holding a press conference on Monday in Manhattan. organized in part by Rabbi Avi Weiss’s Amcha-The Coalition for Jewish Concerns. We trust that before he leaves for France that national cable news and commentary TV programs like Hannity & Colmes, O’Reilly Factor and CNN’s Glen Beck might have him in front of a national audience together with clips of the Reuters stringer still pictures and corroborating Israeli reports.

CAMERA: France 2 vs. Philippe Karsenty: The Appeal

Al Dura:Judge Rules Turn over the Tape

Atlas Shrugs: SHOCKER! Judgement against Al Dura Journalist Karsentyt

Atlas Shrugs: Sharansky on Al Dura Blood Libel

Atlas Shrugs: It's Official: Al Dura Staged

(more on The Dreyfus Affair here.
 

So much more here.
 

Get rid of Chris

No, I won't be watching that blowhard, Chris Matthews "moderate" the Republican debate. How he got that job is beyond me. We want a debate, not another lamestream media opportunity to spew leftarded rhetoric. NBC must replace him immediately.

Another glowing example of why the mainstream media is going down, down, down.

AN IMMODERATE MODERATOR NY Post hat tip Mara

October 6, 2007 -- So, should viewers of Tuesday's Re publican presidential debate expect an exchange of views between the candidates - or between the candidates and one of the event's moderators?

It's a fair question, given the jaw-dropping comments Thursday evening from MSNBC blowhard - and scheduled debate moderator - Chris Matthews.

Matthews was celebrating the 10th anniversary of his "Hardball" program at a Washington event, when he let loose a broadside at the White House.

Bush & Co., he declared, had "finally been caught in their criminality."

He compared this White House's behavior with another one, saying, "Spiro Agnew was not an American hero."

Of the vice president, Matthews said, "God help us if we had Cheney during the Cuban missile crisis. We'd all be under a parking lot."

Russia put nuclear missiles in Cuba you asshat. They were the aggressors. Is he suggesting we should have laid down and let them nuke us? Putz en tuchas!

Now, "Hardball" is an opinion show, and Matthews is certainly entitled to his opinions - however offensively he chooses to express them.

But why should any Republican candidate expect fairness from Matthews now?

More to the point, why should potential voters expect Matthews to treat the candidates' views fairly?

By engaging in this sort of intemperate rhetoric, Matthews has effectively disqualified himself as an "honest broker" for this coming debate.

NBC needs to replace him as a debate moderator immediately. The job - by definition - requires an attempt to display objectivity going into an event.

Yes, the distinction between "objective journalist" and "opinion-maker" in recent years has been blurred to the point where they're nearly indistinguishable. But Matthews' comments obliterated any possible distinction.

Earlier this year, the Democratic presidential candidates refused to participate in a debate on Fox News on the grounds that the channel was "biased." That's baloney, of course - certainly the debate wasn't going to be moderated by Fox's prime-time opinion hosts.

Democrats, the pussified party.

That is, the Fox network's Chris Matthews analogues.

NY Times:'Subliminal Editorialising'

More from the New York Crimes, Al Qaeda's favorite newspaper - all the jihad thats fit to print. From Monkey boy here;

The NYT: Making sure you get the message Monkey Tennis Centre

The above image is from a promo at the New York Times online, and shows a page from the Times displayed on a handheld device. You probably can't make out the headline on the left, but if you see the original ad it reads 'Afghans say NATO bombs kill 25 civilians'. To the right is a photo of coffins draped with the American flag, presumably those of fallen service personnel from Iraq or Afghanistan, although I can't make out the accompanying text.

The image is a link to the Times' technology pages, where you'll find stories about mobile phones, computers and internet companies, but very little about the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Great capture Monkey man, read it all - here

Sharansky on Al Dura Blood Libel

“It's Official: Al Dura Staged” Sharansky's oped in Wall Street Journal is a must read. Israel should have gotten involved long ago. They can not abdicate their responsibility for accountability and truth when the world is working feverishly to delegitimize and ultimately destroy them. The media is aligned with terror force. The rhetorical question remains as to how many news agencies will make this front page news and apologise for jumping upon the anti-semitic bandwagon? (/sarc tag off)

hat tip Philippe Karsenty

Palestinian Propaganda Coup By NATAN SHARANSKY

Last month, a French court heard an appeals case whose forthcoming verdict will have far-reaching ramifications for all who value truth and accuracy in Middle East news reporting. The case involves Philippe Karsenty, a French journalist and media commentator, who was found guilty of defamation after he called for the firing of two France 2 Television journalists responsible for the Sept. 30, 2000, news report on the alleged killing of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammed al-Dura, by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

It has been seven years since France 2 Television broadcast the excruciating footage of Mohammed and his father Jamal crouching in terror behind a barrel in Gaza's Netzarim Junction while, according to the report, under relentless fire from IDF soldiers. The 59-second clip, which ends with the boy apparently shot dead, was presented around the world as an unambiguous case of Israeli savagery.

The tape fanned the flames of what became known as the second intifada. The boy Mohammed was the iconic martyr, his name and face gracing streets, parks and postage stamps across the Arab world. His memory was invoked by Osama bin Laden in a jihadist screed against America, and in the ghastly video of the beheading of American Jewish journalist, Daniel Pearl.

Shortly following the al-Dura incident, however, a series of inquiries cast grave doubt on the accuracy of the original France 2 report. The official IDF investigation concluded that, based on the position of IDF forces vis-à-vis the Duras, it was highly improbable, if not impossible, that an Israeli bullet hit the boy. Research by the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic and Commentary magazine concurred. Then a German documentary revealed inconsistencies and probable manipulations in the account of France 2's lone journalist on the scene that day, Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu Rahmeh.

And yet France 2 refused to release Abu Rahmeh's full 27 minutes of raw footage. It did, however, agree to let three prominent French journalists view the footage. All three concluded that it comprised blatantly staged scenes of Palestinians being shot by Israeli forces, and that France 2's Jerusalem Bureau Chief Charles Enderlin had lied to conceal that fact.

Subsequently, alleging gross malfeasance, Mr. Karsenty called for the firings of Mr. Enderlin and France 2 News Director Arlette Chabot. But France 2 stood defiant, suing Mr. Karsenty for defamation.

The defamation trial passed almost unnoticed in Israel, to the apparent detriment of Mr. Karsenty's case. In his ruling in favor of France 2, judge Joël Boyer five times cited the absence of any official Israeli support for Mr. Karsenty's claims as indication of their speciousness.

Shame on the Israelis.

Israel's decision to stay on the sidelines was unfortunate because the truth always matters. The al-Dura incident wasn't the only media report to inflame passions against Israel in recent years, but it was the one with the highest profile. Moreover, if, as Mr. Karsenty and others have claimed persuasively, the al-Dura incident is part of the insidious trend in which Western media outlets allow themselves to be manipulated by dishonest and politically motivated sources (recall the Jenin "massacre" that never was, or the doctored Reuters photos from Israel's war against Hezbollah in 2006), then France 2 must be held accountable.

It is important to note that the al-Dura news report profoundly influenced Western public opinion. When I served in the Israeli government as minister of Diaspora Affairs from 2003 to 2005, I traveled frequently to North American college campuses. I heard first hand how Mohammed al-Dura had shaped the perceptions of young people just beginning to follow events in the Middle East. For many Jewish students, the incident was a stain of dishonor that called into question their support for Israel. For anti-Israel students, the story reaffirmed their sense of Zionism's innately "racist" nature and became a tool for recruiting campus peers to the cause.

To its credit, Israel has come to recognize that it must play an active role in uncovering the truth. The IDF recently sent a letter to France 2 demanding the release of Talal Abu Rahmeh's 27 minutes of raw footage, asserting the implausibility of IDF guilt for the death of Mohammad al-Dura, and raising the possibility that the entire affair may have been staged.

Tragically, there is no way to repair the damage inflicted on Israel's international image by the France 2 report, much less restore the Israeli and Jewish victims whose lives were exacted as vengeance. It is possible, however, to deter slanderous news reporting -- and the violence that often accompanies it -- by setting a precedent for media accountability via the handover of Talal Abu Rahmeh's full 27 minutes of raw footage. Encouragingly, the judge presiding over Mr. Karsenty's appeal has now requested the tapes. France 2 must make a full public disclosure. If there is nothing to hide, why should it refuse?

Read it all.

It's Official: Al Dura Staged

VINDICATED! Karsenty, Landes all the truth tellers vindicated. Philippe Karsenty was tried and found guilty in France eerily echoing the  Dreyfus affair -- found guilty by a Jew hating kangaroo French court. Guilty for revealing, exposing  the truth - the staging of Al Dura. So much innocent blood on the hands of the French, a culpable,  Jew hating world press and Islamazis (well, no surprise there, they live and die for it) and of course the handmaidens of Islamic jihad, The New York Crimes Times.

Philippe Karsenty called me today and will be in town this week. Perhaps I will coax him into a video interview. His story is one for the books.

I met Philippe Karsenty at AIPAC 2005 when he approached me, implored me,  a total newbie blogger (at the time Atlas was not even one month old),  to view his incriminating presentation of the facts of Al Dura. Here's what I wrote back in March 2005 (check out the pic below from 3/2005 - he is showing me the Al Dura sequence on his laptop);

Next up as I was departing for a breather, Philippe Karsenty grabbed my ear. Karsenty is the President of Premeier Agence de Notation des Medias (Media-Ratings_. A French Jew --Hooha!. Mr. Karsenty was responsible for exposing the hoax of the Al Dura. The depth and breadth of the scandal of Al Dura is frightening. He gave me all the paperwork and then ran upstairs to get the DVD to actually show me how the whole shooting of the the Pali father and the son by the Israeli soldiers were staged and manufactured. It was sickening. Maybe someone will be able to instruct me as to how throw this DVD online once I get back to New York. YOU MUST SEE THIS TO UNDERSTAND HOW FAR THE ENEMY WILL GO TO ADVANCE THEIR JEW HATING AGENDA.  It is beyond.
Mr Karsenty's story needs to be told...............on the front pages of world newspapers.

Driven by the pursuit of the truth Richard Landes, the man behind Pallywood, saw the tapes, worked tirelessly along with Karentsy to expose the Jew hate behind the Pali lie and their pimps,  France 2.

You remember Pallywood? If you haven't seen it - go now and click on Pallywood in the post. Al Dura and its enduring icon of hatred.

The IDF finally called for the truth when they demanded the uncut al-Dura tape: Army cites claims that the 2000 shooting was staged.

State: Al-Dura Death Video was Staged INN

IsraelNN.com) Seven years after Arab 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura was allegedly killed in Gaza, the Prime Minister’s Office has released a statement saying that a video supposedly showing al-Dura’s death was staged.  The announcement, the first of its kind from a government agency, confirmed what many activists and media watchdogs have been saying for years.

“The creation of the Mohammed al-Dura myth did great damage to the state of Israel,” said Government Press Office head Daniel Siman.  “It was a blood libel against the state... it caused damage and dozens of deaths.”  The government decided the video was staged based on several factors, he said, including the fact that soldiers could not possibly have shot al-Dura from the angle at which they were standing, and the fact that crucial parts of the scene are missing from the video footage provided to major media outlets.

Stamp image: Tunisian stamp, which says in French and Arabic "The Palestinian Martyr Child, Mahamed Doura."

Imamwhore gets Stiffed

Christian Amanpour gets the shaft. Larwyn advised me that  Mahmoud cancels AMANPOUR'S CNN HOUR -
Only answers ONE QUESTION. Imamwhore just announced this. She must be heartbroken.

The New York Slime

The picture of moral equivalence.
I have the displeasure of finding a free copy of the New York Times in front of my door every morning  - some kind of promotion (they can't give the damn thing away) and this front page hit me like a ton of bricks.

There is Bush scowling, seemingly unable to think for himself, relying heavily on dhimmi Condi and then there's the  Poison dwarf - all happy and smiling, laughing, "dialoguing." Bush and Ahmadinejad  certainly do not deserve the same credence or importance. Bush, the leader of the most successful, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of man, the unprecedented liberating nation of countless millions, on equal footing with that tin pot despot, whose people are starving, oppressed, and living under sharia. The world's leading proliferater of nuclear weapons, sponsor of Iranian terror proxies, Hezbolllah, Hamas, Syria et al, a dictator who promises "Death to America," "Death to Israel" and plans a second holocaust. The Times heralds him on the front page as the most important world leader next to the President of the United  States?

I bet there was a might battle in the editorial meeting as to whose pic should get top billing.

OT but related, Bush ought to stop listening so much to Condi. She is not the one who ought to be whispering in his ear.

UPDATE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Promises to Continue Nuclear Activities Following "Death to America" Chants

MEMRI has the Following are excerpts from an address by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on Channel 1, Iranian TV, on February 11, 2007.

Crowd: The cry of all people on Earth is:

Speaker: Death to the filthy and accursed America

UPDATE:  Great new video from PJM on the midget's big day in the home of Ground Zero. Lots of great coverage and commentary from Claudia Rosett, Desiree, dhimmis, and Atlas. Yeah baby.

On Drudge: Jealousy thy Name is Diller

omg, what a big pussy. Barry Diller. First in giving the HuffPo credit for stuff she so didn't do. She came to the party super late and jumped on the tail end of the blog train. "Huffingtonpost has done a very good piece of original work, in being early at organizing the dread word blogs, and it’s expanded from there." Original, my ass. Blog original is Powerline and Rathergate, Little Green footballs and the smoking memo, Zombietime and the anti-Israel ambulance fraud, not to mention Qana and stuff like this :)

Her, uh, "brilliance" is getting celebrity idiots to write posts and drive traffic. The back of Britney's thighs drives millions of hits ......uh, so what? The huffpo is not even a blogger.

But Diller only mentions her. He is loathe to throw any other blog a Barry bone. Mentioning other sites, "I mean, there have been the attempts we all know about, but nobody really has pulled that one off," an obvious swipe at Pajamas media - the first in corralling the disparate voices of the blogs. But he never mentions, afraid he might drive some traffic to their site.

Wait it gets ........... worse. His jealousy of Drudge is palpable. Diller's sites can't touch Drudge. The Drudge Report wipes the floor with him but he has the chutzpah to say, "He [Drudge] doesn’t have much more traffic than the Washington Post. He has huge traffic. I don’t know what his uniques are a month." uh, what? You just said you don't know what his numbers are, so how would you know? Hellooooooooo.

Here in the Executive Column of Portfolio - Conde Nast, The World according ....., Lloyd Grove lobs the softest of balls and unabashedly kisses ass in an interview with Velvet Mafioso, Barry Diller, in his "sun dappled" office. Diller, overrated for his brilliance in acquiring QVC - which, in the interest of full disclosure, I lost a fair piece of change on when Diller alleges the going was good, over 10 years ago - uh, it wasn't.

L.G.: —wrote recently that he pitched you on his Newser.com site and you didn’t bite. Do you think any of these are viable? I mean, obviously, you’re involved with Huffingtonpost.com, but what’s your interest in these sites?

  B.D.: Well I think everybody’s interest—and probably I have a little more interest because I think maybe we can participate, but our chances of figuring it out are probably slim—is somebody is going to figure it out at some point. Huffingtonpost has done a very good piece of original work, in being early at organizing the dread word blogs, and it’s expanded from there. But someone is going to figure out between aggregating news, and adding to the aggregation of news, editing, and making a product that uses the tools of the internet, uses the resources of what the internet does, to deliver a news product that is compelling for people. I mean, there have been the attempts we all know about, but nobody really has pulled that one off. I think it’s inevitable. And no newspaper has done it, I don’t think any newspaper website. Some are far better than others. Washingtonpost.com is one of them, but the I’m biased because I’m on the board. No newspaper, I think, has done an interesting job online.

L.G.: Of course, Matt Drudge will claim that his news site is the sixth most visited.

B.D.: Matt Drudge is purely an aggregator—an aggregator and quasieditor. It’s certainly edited. But Drudgereport.com is a great resource for lots of people. It doesn’t really use the internet—I mean, it uses the internet as a distribution mechanism, it doesn’t really use the internet tools...

L.G.: He has more traffic than People.com. He has much more traffic than the Washington Post.

B.D.: He doesn’t have much more traffic than the Washington Post. He has huge traffic. I don’t know what his uniques are a month, but look, I take Drudgereport as a very important Web resource.

L.G.: What news sites do you visit?

B.D.: Oh my god, too many. A lot. I’m a scavenger.

Why does Grove let him get away with that? G-d forbid Diller drives any traffic to any other site. He would not mention  even one. Yech.

Diller plays so coy in the interview like a ninth grade girl on a first date. It's exhausting and boring. Vanity Fair = vanity press.

  L.G.: Let’s talk about the future of newspapers. You’re on the board of the Washington Post, as you’ve mentioned. It’s been losing circulation for, what, 15 years now solidly?

B.D.: Not solidly. I think that you have to say “solid” is in the last period, when for every newspaper it’s been particularly tough, it’s very difficult. I don’t think there are easy solutions. It’s hard when you use the word newspaper. If you mean news-gathering, or just news, take the paper off, then I’m very hopeful. But the current print system is going to continue to decline.

I'll say bud, you don't know the half of it. Keep lunching with those self deluded schmucks at the NY Times and keep telling each other that you are the kings!

L.G.: But they’re also losing revenue sources. Classified advertising is dropping, with Craigslist and suburban newspapers.

B.D.: Sure, all of those things. It’s part of the creative destruction of the internet.

lol! Check that out. The creative destruction! Next we'll be hearing the Islamists describing terror attacks like that!

And read how he made [Dreamworks CEO] Stacey Snider cry! The leftards said Bolton was a meanie [which btw, never happened - leftist propaganda] This Diller guy is really cruel! Where is the leftarded moral outrage?!?

There's more but I wouldn't waste my time. It is all spin. All stock propping and dismissal of what's really relevant. Barry Diller is so .............. 80s.
 

NY TImes has "Hitler for Lunch"UPDATED: UH........Nevermind

The New York Crimes continues to dredge the depths of depravity. This, of course, is hardly surprising considering their culpability in covering for the Nazis during the Holocaust.  Who better to host  a holocaust denier than holocaust deniers. The NY Slime, aligned with the terror force I tell ya.

The Monday afternoon speech is on - and has been cleverely scheduled to correspond with the main anti-Ahmadinejad demonstration at UN Plaza in New York organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations.

Newt Gingrich revealed on FoxNews this morning that the New York Times editorial board will host Ahmadinejad for lunch at the Four Seasons hotel on Monday. "That is like hosting Adolf Hitler to lunch in 1940," said Dave Bossie of Citizens United.

hat tip ShrinkWrapped

UPDATE: Great Americans, MONDAY YOUR ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED:

Kevin McCullough is  staging a rally at Ground Zero:

MONDAY - 9:30am - Liberty Street/Broadway @ GROUND ZERO...

Then head uptown to the National Rally to End the Threat Now:

12:00 noon, rain or shine

Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
2nd Avenue at 47th Street
(across from the United Nations) New York City

Concurrently (and deliberately I'm sure) at Columbia University there is a demonstration:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is NOT WELCOME at Columbia University!  

1:30–2:30 p.m.
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall,
2920 Broadway
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Co-sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs

A keynote address followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

Check out the Columbia Spectator and this.

(Under development) Four Seasons Hotel, during the honorary lunch sponsored by the NY Times.

UPDATED:  This is not happening. It was a joke! By Laura Ingraham, reported wrongly as fact by Newt Gingrich. But sadly, very believable.

Al Dura:Judge Rules Turn over the Tape!

Get up to speed and read my Al Dura post earlier this week here. The IDF is calling for the truth, demanding the uncut version. All I can say is, what took so long?

Judge Orders France2 to Show the Rushes to the Court Augean Stables

A French judge ordered the release of video footage that could reopen the controversy surrounding the 2000 shooting of Mohammed al-Dura.

The appeals court judge in Paris ordered France 2 TV to show the court about 25 minutes of raw video footage shot on Sept. 30, 2000 at the Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip, when the 12-year-old Palestinian boy apparently was shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants.

Al-Dura’s shooting death became an instant icon for Palestinian suffering at the hands of Israeli brutality, but the Israeli army, after initially apologizing for the death, concluded after an investigation that the boy could not possibly have been hit by Israeli bullets.

When Philippe Karsenty, director of the media watchdog group Media-Ratings, called France 2’s exclusive video of the incident “a hoax,” he was found guilty of slander. He appealed the decision, and on Wednesday the appeals judge ordered that the video be released. Karsenty called the court’s decision a victory. “This is only the first step in a victory,” his lawyer, Marc Levy, corrected him.
France 2, whose cameraman in Gaza, Talal Abu Rahma, shot the exclusive footage that was considered a major scoop at the time, was given until Nov. 14 to hand over the video to the court.
Several French and U.S. journalists who have seen the raw footage have indicated the shooting might have been staged by Palestinians.

A decision on Karsenty’s case is expected in February.

Al Dura: UNCUT VERSION NOW!

Al Dura - the catalyst for the second intifada. Al Dura - the blood libel Pali marketing tool used  for incitement to murder. Al Dura - resulting in countless deaths of Jews. Innocent civilians. Phillip Karsenty was tried and found guilty in France eerily echoing the  Dreyfus affair -- found guilty by a Jew hating kangaroo French court. Guilty for revealing, exposing  the truth - the staging of Al Dura. So much innocent blood on the hands of the French, a culpable,  Jew hating world press and Islamazis (well, no surprise there, they live and die for it) and of course the handmaidens of Islamic jihad, The New York Crimes Times.

I met Phillip Karentsy at AIPAC 2005 when he approached me to implore me,  even a newbie blogger (at the time Atlas was not even one month old),  to view his incrimination presentation of the facts of Al Dura. Here's what I wrote back in March 2005;

Next up as I was departing for a breather, Philippe Karsenty grabbed my ear. Karsenty is the President of Premeier Agence de Notation des Medias (Media-Ratings_. A French Jew --Hooha!. Mr. Karsenty was responsible for exposing the hoax of the Al Dura. The depth and breadth of the scandal of Al Dura is frightening. He gave me all the paperwork and then ran upstairs to get the DVD to actually show me how the whole shooting of the the Pali father and the son by the Israeli soldiers were staged and manufactured. It was sickening. Maybe someone will be able to instruct me as to how throw this DVD online once I get back to New York. YOU MUST SEE THIS TO UNDERSTAND HOW FAR THE ENEMY WILL GO TO ADVANCE THEIR JEW HATING AGENDA.  It is beyond.
Mr Karsenty's story needs to be told...............on the front pages of world newspapers.

Image: Tunisian stamp, which says in French and Arabic "The Palestinian Martyr Child, Mahamed Doura."

You remember Pallywood? If you haven't seen it - go now and click on Pallywood in the post. Al Dura and its enduring icon of hatred.

Apparently and finally the IDF is calling for the truth. All I can say is, what took so long?

IDF demands uncut al-Dura tape: Army cites claims that the 2000 shooting was staged

The IDF has abandoned its official silence in a seven-year-old case that has been characterized as a "blood libel" against the IDF and the State of Israel.

On September 10, the deputy commander of the IDF's Spokesman's Office, Col. Shlomi Am-Shalom, submitted a letter to the France 2 television network's permanent correspondent in Israel, Charles Enderlin, regarding Enderlin's story from September 30, 2000, in which he televised 55 seconds of edited footage from the Netzarim junction in the central Gaza Strip purporting to show IDF forces shooting and killing 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura.

After its exclusive broadcast that day, France 2 offered the edited film free of charge to all media outlets. The footage, and the story of the purported IDF killing of al-Dura, was quickly rebroadcast around the world.

Within days, al-Dura became a symbol of the Palestinian war against Israel. His name has been repeatedly invoked by terrorists and their supporters as a justification for killing Israelis, Jews and their Western supporters. 

In his letter, Am-Shalom asked for the entire unedited 27-minute film that was shot by France 2's Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu-Rahma that day, as well as the footage filmed by Abu-Rahma on October 1, 2000. Am-Shalom requested that the broadcast-quality films be sent to his office no later than September 15. France 2 has yet to hand over the requested film.

The IDF's move came against the backdrop of French media watchdog Philippe Karsenty's legal battle with France 2 regarding the network's coverage of the al-Dura affair.

Last year, France 2 and Enderlin sued Karsenty, who runs the Internet media watchdog Web site Media Ratings, for defamation for a letter he sent out in 2004 accusing France 2 of staging the al-Dura story.

Read it all.

UPDATE: Soccer Dad  reminds us that a few years ago James Fallows, writing in the Atlantic, pointed out many of the inconsistencies with the accepted narrative

He  emphasizes the following paragraph:

What is known about the rest of the day is fragmentary and additionally confusing. A report from a nearby hospital says that a dead boy was admitted on September 30, with two gun wounds to the left side of his torso. But according to the photocopy I saw, the report also says that the boy was admitted at 1:00 P.M.; the tape shows that Mohammed was shot later in the afternoon. The doctor's report also notes, without further explanation, that the dead boy had a cut down his belly about eight inches long. A boy's body, wrapped in a Palestinian flag but with his face exposed, was later carried through the streets to a burial site (the exact timing is in dispute). The face looks very much like Mohammed's in the video footage. Thousands of mourners lined the route. A BBC TV report on the funeral began, "A Palestinian boy has been martyred." Many of the major U.S. news organizations reported that the funeral was held on the evening of September 30, a few hours after the shooting. Oddly, on film the procession appears to take place in full sunlight, with shadows indicative of midday.

Fallows seizes on a number of time discrepancies. Given that only 55 seconds was made available, it's clear (especially with the above observations) that the exact narrative can't be known until the complete footage is viewed.

UPDATE: Sign the "Free The (al Durah) Rushes Petition"

This Israeli letter is a critical break that Richard Landes and Yaacov have been working on. we need Maximize the impact with signatures!

TREASON: NY Times Traitor Discount:Greasing the Wheels of Evil

No shocka here but The  New York Crimes has to answer to their shareholders don't they? Their diminishing returns and now this (which will have severe economic repercussions)  should propel shareholders to bring a derivative action against the times managers and editorial board for "giving the company" away (at least my friend John thinks so.)

The NYT gave Move on a huge discount on the full page Betray Us ad.

The NYT is losing money and readers daily, but can still give away the farm for some Bush Bashing. hat tip mdd

MoveOn.org Gets Discount Rate for `Betray Us' Advocacy Ad By Terry Trippany | September 11, 2007 - 09:12 ET

Jake Tapper at ABC News reported that MoveOn.org paid $65,000 for its full page anti-war advocacy sliming of General David Petraeus. This figure raised the suspicions of attentive blogger Confederate Yankee whose intuition appears to be correct. (h/t Michelle Malkin) While looking up the current New York Times rate book he discovered that MoveOn.org received a $102,000 discount on the standard political advocacy rate that is advertised at $167,157.

General Petraeus Discusses Moveon.Org's Recent "General Betray Us" Ad 

General Petraeus: “I Disagree With The Message Of Those Who Are Exercising The First Amendment Right That Generations Of Soldiers Have Sought To Preserve For Americans” 

General David Petraeus, Commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq

Press Conference at the National Press Club

September 12, 2007

QUESTION:  “There's the sense that the emotions of the politics around Iraq are heightening, and some of it was very personally to you, General Petraeus. I wonder if you can comment on the MoveOn.org ad. ...”

PETRAEUS:  “...Needless to say, to state the obvious, I disagree with the message of those who are exercising the First Amendment right that generations of soldiers have sought to preserve for Americans.  Some of it was just flat completely wrong, and the rest is at least more than arguable.”

Watch Gen. Petraeus’s Response

UPDATE: Rudy is right!

Crescent News Network:Dhimmi Imamwhore's Lies

CAMERA's must see video on the Imamwhore;

"If you repeat a lie often enough ..."

CAMERA's article comparing CNN's "God's Jewish Warriors" and "God's Muslim Warriors" programs points out that, even though the number of Jewish religious extremists is miniscule relative to Islamist extremists, Christiane Amanpour repeats the phrase "God's Jewish Warriors" 22 times in the segment about Jews, but links "Muslim" and "Warriors" only five times in the segment about Muslims. The following video shows this disturbing discrepancy with clips from the CNN documentary.

Check back later for additional video revealing the bias and distortions in CNN's series.

 

Technical note — if you are using the Firefox or Netscape 8+ browser, you will probably have to install the updated plugin for those browsers to work properly with Windows Media Player. The plugin is available here at Microsoft's Port 25 website.

Atlas Shrugs: Christiane Amanwhore's Hit Piece on the Jews

Atlas Shrugs: Christiane Imamwhore Unveiled

BBS: Propeller Beanie Be Upon Them

If you thought you'd seen all the dhimmitude the mainstream media could serve up, the BBC lowers the bar and themselves even further  in servitude to Islam. This is not scrappleface, this is not parody. The BBC lhas completely lost it.

PEACE BE UPON HIM BBC hat tip Ralph

Throughout the BBC's section on Islam you will see peace be upon him or (pbuh) after the name Muhammad.

Muslims say peace be upon him after every mention of Muhammad's name, as a mark of respect. Muslims do the same when they write the Prophet's name, adding pbuh.

WTF?

The Arabic translation of peace be upon him is sallallahu alayhi wa sallam which is usually abbreviated as saw.

TMI, asshats.

Use of pbuh on bbc.co.uk/religion

The BBC uses pbuh in the Islam section out of courtesy, and we would do the same for any other religion if they had a similar phrase that was universally used as a sign of respect.

Shame on you. Fools.

When the site refers to the Prophet on pages that are not in the Islam section, we do not use the phrase. The phrase is only used on the first occurrence of the Prophet's name, and not throughout each article.

We chose this position after much debate over what would be a truly impartial way to write about different faiths. The problem we faced was that religions can be so different in their underlying philosophy and world view that it could be impossible to understand them properly if we approached them from a single consistent point of view.

We decided that a less biased and more consistently fair approach would be to write about each faith from the point of view of that faith - so that our explanatory pages were in essence, a particular religion explaining itself to the reader. From that position it made sense to use pbuh on pages explaining Islam.

Less biased? The BBC defines bias.

 

Dr. Paul Williams: Media Alters Bin Laden's Message

When I read the transcript, I thought this is a call to war. Bin Laden said in no uncertain words, convert or die. And I wasn't the only one in the blogosphere. The media is talking about bad dye jobs but there is a serious message here. Here is an Atlas exclusive written by Dr. Paul Williams outlining the media deceit, taqiya.

For those 'doubters' of the tape, here's the truth from the enemy... (hat tip Wolf)

REAL WARNING RECEIVES NO AIRING ON MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS

LEADING PAKISTANI BROADCASTER CHARGES AMERICAN MEDIA WITH ALTERING BIN LADEN'S LATEST MESSAGE

By Paul L.Williams, Ph.D., Hugh Cort, M.D., and Michael Travis

Photo: Dr. Paul Williams and Mr.Hamid Mir of GEO TV

The American media missed the most important part of Osama bin Laden's videotape message, according to Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir.[http://hamidmir.com]

Mr. Mir, the only reporter to interview bin Laden in the wake of 9/11, said that the text of bin Laden's address may have been redacted by government sources since a significant portion of it was not aired by major American news outlets.

In the unaltered message, according to Mr. Mir, bin Laden says: "We must sacrifice our lives to attack the enemy." This statement, Mr. Mir points out, is a call for suicide attacks to take place throughout the United States - - a call that was erased from official transcripts of the videotape.

These suicide attacks, Mr. Mir believes, may involve the use of radiological devices and/or tactical nuclear weapons.

Mr. Mir said that he had been informed by leaders of the Taliban in Afghanistan that al Qaeda's long-planned American Hiroshima - - a nuclear attack on seven to ten U.S. cities - - will occur in 2008 but could come sooner.

In June, ABC News reported that large teams of al Qaeda suicide bombers had been sent to the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Germany to launch attacks at strategic sites. The report contained videos of hundreds of recruits for these missions at a graduation ceremony in Pakistan. Some of the recruits were as young as 12.

In August, four Islamic terrorists were arrested in Germany for planning to strike German airports and US bases in commemoration of the sixth anniversary of 9/11. It is important to note that those arrested were blonde, German born converts, whose appearance allowed them to operate "under the radar" of traditional profiling techniques and counter-terrorism protocols.

Mr. Mir has long sounded the alarm of al Qaeda's plan to launch an American Hiroshima.

"As far as I know, they smuggled three suitcase nukes from Russia to Europe," Mr. Mir maintained last year. "They smuggled many kilos of enriched uranium inside America for their dirty bomb projects. They said in 1999 that they must have material for more than six dirty bombs in America. They tested at least one dirty bomb in the Kunar province of Afghanistan in 2000. They have planned an attack bigger than 9-11, even before the attacks on the World Trade Centre.9-11 took place. Osama bin Laden trained 42 fighters to destroy the American economy and military might. Nineteen were used on 9-11, 23 are still 'sleeping' inside America waiting for a call from bin Laden."

Mr. Mir said al-Qaeda operatives told him that tactical nuclear weapons were smuggled over the Mexican border before Sept. 11, 2001.

Asked why al-Qaeda hasn't used nuclear weapons it already possesses, Mir said: "They are waiting for the proper time. They want the U.S. to be involved in a mass killing of Muslims, so that they will have some justification. That is what I was told by a top al-Qaeda leader in the Kunar Mountains of Afghanistan."

Mr. Mir, whose biography of bin Laden is expected to appear before Christmas, says that the al Qaeda chieftain is no longer in Pakistan but has relocated to a remote mountainous area within the Khost and Paktia provinces of eastern Afghanistan.

These and ten other Afghani provinces, Mir maintains, are now under the rule of the Taliban.

The pipeline for jihadi supply troops, he insists, now runs from the United Arab Emirates through Iran and into southern Afghanistan.

The Iranian-Taliban alliance is a new, unique and disturbing development in the war on terror. When the Taliban came to power in 1996, Mullah Omar and his army were decried by the Shiite mullahs in Iran for the massacre of thousands of Shiite Hazaras and Panjshiri Tajiks. Iran began to send money and arms to Ahmed Shah Massoud and his opposition army of Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras that became known as the "United Front" or "Northern Alliance." The Russians also came to the support Massoud's army to protect the interests of Uzbekistan.

The Northern Alliance continued to receive support from Iran and Russia until the launching of Operation Enduring Freedom (the codename for the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan) Oct. 7, 2001. Overnight, the Iranian and Russian advisers to Massoud became replaced by CIA operatives and Green Beret A team members.

A major setback in the war on terror, according to Mir, is that Iran and Russia are now allied in Afghanistan on the side of their old enemy.

The first major indication of Iran's change of heart toward the Taliban came in the wake of the bombing of Tora Bora in December 2001, when Mullah Omar and hundreds of his soldiers and al-Qaida agents, scaled the mountains between the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, cut through the southern provinces of Afghanistan and headed west to Iran, where they found safe refuge, thanks to the intervention of Imad Mugniyah and the other leaders of Hezbollah. The newly arrived guests included such luminaries as Saad bin Laden, Osama's eldest son; Yaaz bin Sifat and Saif al-Adel, al-Qaida military planners; and Mohammed Islam Haani, the mayor of Kabul under the Taliban. Within Iran, they were placed in luxurious safehouses under the protection of SAVAMA, the Iranian intelligence service.

When the war on terror moved to Iraq, Iran came to serve as a base of operations for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other al-Qaida field commanders to mount attacks on the occupying armies.

This monumental event – the union between Sunni and Shiite – remained largely ignored by Western observers.

While the war dragged on in Iraq, Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders returned to Pakistan, gained thousands of new recruits, secured control of much of the tribal areas, and launched the re-conquest of Afghanistan.

The Taliban soldiers are now accompanied by advisers and regulars from the Iranian army and, according to Mir, within Afghanistan, Mullah Omar has received visits from his old friend and fellow jihadi, Osama bin Laden.

Because of this newly forged alliance, Mr. Mir speculates that the American Hiroshima may occur as soon as the Bush Administration launches an offensive against Iran to prevent the Shiite country from becoming a member of the nuclear club.

UPDATE: On the eve of 9/11, Bin Laden is not done. he has a "final message" for us. When the video will be replaced is anyone's guess. He is not done.

Second Bin Laden Tape Expected

Brian Ross Reports: A second tape from Osama bin Laden was recorded in the same location as the video released last week. People in the intelligence community who have seen the tape feel it is directly related to the 9/11 anniversary since the al Qaeda leader introduces the prerecorded video of one of the 9/11 hijackers, Waleed al Shehri. More to come...

BUSHCHIMPHITLER in BBC newsroom

I have echoed Bat Yeor in my interview with me when she said "the Western media is aligned with the terror force." Check this out.

Bush as Hitler poster in BBC newsroom   18 Doughty Street hat tip Rona

Robin Aitken, author of Can We Trust the BBC?, talks about the fact that a depiction of George W Bush as Adolf Hitler was posted in the main current affairs office of the BBC and noone objected.  Mr Aitken, a BBC journalist for 25 years, discusses the contrasting BBC treatment of George W Bush and Bill Clinton. Full programme here.

Discuss this story at BritainAndAmerica.com

Related newslink: The BBC refuses to interview Robin Aitken about his book

UPDATE: Rust never sleeps. Liam sent me this gem;

 

Follow this link to the BBC Radio show "Beyond Belief". Today's show 
will be downloadable later. However, in summary:

Israel traffics women
Iran is compassionate
mo' is "the Prophet"

and loads of other gems

Today's "Beyond Belief" show is not yet on. Although you can get at it by looking under the B's ( for Beyond Belief  at this link

 

Crescent News Network (CNN) September 11th Homage to Bin Laden

It is an abomination that the Cresent News Network would run that jihad propaganda series, God's Warriors on September 11th. The evil that men do. It is not the jihad that worries me, it is the left. It is not the jihad that will defeat America, it is the left. And Islamic jihad knows it.

The perpetuation of the Arab myth and Islamic lies, the propaganda, is the single most destructive element to this terrible war we are in.

Reader Jane writes;

I saw on the news this morning that CNN is running an encore presentation of God’s Warriors – the Muslim segment on September 11th.  It is a disgrace to the memory of the lives lost on that horrific day, and to the sensitivities of the surviving family members.  It is an obscenity to choose that important date to run propaganda in favor of Islam, and is apparent that the feelings of Muslims carry more weight at CNN then those of their fellow Americans. I have already sent my letter of protest to the Crescent News Network, and I hope others do the same.

Atlas Shrugs: Shoebat Clubs

Atlas Shrugs: Christiane Imamwhore Unveiled

Atlas Shrugs: Christiane Amanwhore's Hit Piece on the Jews

Fake and Inaccurate: MSM Faux News

The MSM media would have to resort to faux reporting, outright lies to hurt America in light of the increasing flwo of good news out of Iraq. They would have to make up ugly propaganda against our delicious boys and girls. The media aint fit to lick the military's boots.  The hatred of the good for being good. Summabitches.

More Fake Photography in Service to the Anti-War Crowd Rick Moran, American Thinker hat tip eretz

The wire service AFP has been one of the more anti-war media entities covering the conflict in Iraq. And if more proof of that is needed, take a look at this picture of an old woman who claims US soldiers fired on her house:

The caption reads:

An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded when four suicide truck bombs targeted people from an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq, officials said.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)

Those two bullets that supposedly hit the poor old woman's house had never even been fired from a gun! What's more, the caliber of the ammunition does not match any in the US arsenal.

This story was ferreted out by several bloggers including Bob Owens of Confederate Yankee and the milbloggers at Blackfive. And apparently, the photographer has not been above staging his photographs in the past in order to elicit an emotional response about the horrors of war.

AFP has issued a correction - but without saying anything about the old woman (or the photographer) lying that the bullets hit her house. One more example of what blogs can do to keep the MSM honest. And one more example (if any is needed) of the inherent bias of many in the media.

Democrats: Commie Islamazi Party

The Democrats have become the "opposite of America" party. Whatever is good for America, they are opposed to. Listening to Hillary on the campaign trail was like listening to a European socialist promise the masses to see to their every need from cradle to grave. Freakin' frightening. "We live in a yo-yo society."  WTF does that mean? She did everything but promise to wipe their collective asses (that's tomorrow's speech.) The earmarks of the great American experiment are held in contempt - the Individudal, self reliance, fortitude, small government, Judeo-Christian values ............ all of it will be relegated to the dustbin of history if the dhimmicraps have their way.

Speaking of the abandonment of Judeo-Christian values in favor of sharia, the leftist/Islamic alliance grows stronger every day. Over at LGF

DNC Chairman Howard Dean spoke at the Islamic Society of North America conference yesterday; ISNA, of course, is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror trial, and is a front group of the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood, who make no secret that their goal is to establish Islamic rule over the world.

Dean told the audience that Muslims need to run for political office, because it’s the only way to achieve their goal. Dean tells Muslims: Run for political office.

Yeah that's the ticket. Don't blow up buildings, take over the legal way.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told American Muslims gathered in Rosemont to think beyond voter registration drives.

“You need to run for political office,” Dean said Saturday. “The only way you can achieve your goals is to stand up and say who you are and be proud of it.”

Those in the packed house rose to their feet and applauded.

Dean was one of several prominent Democrats on Saturday to address the nation’s largest gathering of American Muslims. Republicans declined invitations, organizers said. ...

“Be heard. Don’t be silent. Tell it like it is,” said Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress. “If you don’t tell your story, someone else will. And you may be the villain in their story,” the Minnesota Democrat said.

Ellison, too, received a standing ovation. ..

UPDATE: Excellent read: The American Roots of Fascism hat tip Larwyn

Muslim's Bombs Closes Canada Highways

"There's absolutely no pattern as far as any religion, ideology, or nationality." stated Deputy Chief Warr of the Toronto police.

Let me understand this, they closed down two of Toronto's busiest highways to move LIVE bombs. It wasn't till the seventh paragraph that the Post mentions that the  bomber was a landed immigrant from Lebanon. They were careful not to mention his middle name... Mohamed.

Norman sent this - haven't heard a word of it in the American press. The dhimmitude defies all logic and the most basic  instinct - the will to live.

BOMBS CONVOY CLOSES STREET

Torontonians were transfixed yesterday by the spectacle of police gingerly transporting three live bombs through their city, shutting down two of Toronto's busiest roadways for more than an hour after a man was arrested for a series of August letter bombings.

As news helicopters buzzed overhead, a 17-car police convoy crept slowly down the Don Valley Parkway and under the Gardiner Expressway to the waterfront Leslie Street Spit, carefully towing a trailer containing the three explosive devices seized earlier from a rental car.

Bridges over the busy parkway were sealed off and pedestrians and other vehicles kept hundreds of metres away until the bombs were carefully deposited on a deserted section of the spit, and blown up in a controlled explosion that could be heard kilo-metres away.

Check out "a weary looking"

Adel Arnaout, 37, a landed immigrant from Lebanon, was charged yesterday with three counts of attempted murder, three counts of delivering and setting off a bomb and one of illegal possession of explosives. He was also charged with criminal harassment.

A weary-looking Mr. Arnaout, handcuffed and clad in a prison-issue orange jumpsuit, made a brief appearance in an east-end court, staring sullenly at the justice of the peace as a bail hearing was set for next Wednesday. He lives in a small

Major Toronto highway closed as police dispose of explosive devices CBC

UPDATE: Check out the Dust my Broom here: hat tip Hal

The Bombay Bunker: Home of Adel Mohamed Arnaout

The rooming house that Adel Mohamed Arnaout lived in had been nicknamed the Bombay Bunker by neighbours because of its double steel doors and has been described to house as many as thirty people at a time. The nickname may have a little more resonance now.

The police stated yesterday that Adel Mohamed Arnaout was known to them and today it is noted that he has been under investigation since June because of prior harassment complaints (by Toronto resident Steven Scott). He now stands accused of sending letter bombs to three people in southern Ontario and faces three counts of attempted murder. After his arrest on Thursday night, three more bombs were found in his car. The Toronto Star provides this court image:

 

Adel Mohamed Arnaout, suspected of sending three letter bombs, appeared in Eglinton Ave. E. court, Friday, August 31, 2007. - picture by Alex Tavshunsky

He delivered letter bombs to the following people:

August 11, 2007 - Abdelmagid Radi: Scarborough, Ontario.
August 19, 2007 - Terrence Reiber: Lawyer, Toronto, Ontario.
August 22, 2007 - John Becker: Home renovation contractor, Guelph, Ontario.

John Becker is on record as saying he doesn’t know the other recipients, Terrence Reiber had no comment and there is nothing about Abdelmagid Radi so their connection is up to speculation for now.

Quote of the day:

Mr. Arnaout’s landlord, Mohammad Raja, said the accused man has been living at the property for about three months.

“He told me he was going to look for a security job,” Mr. Raja said. (Globe and Mail)

As an aside, his name changed slightly from yesterday (was Adel Arnaut) and the media has silently corrected themselves without notice.

UPDATE: Director Blue follows up on my post: A North American city screeches to a halt 

Imagine one of North America's largest cities brought to its knees as two of its central roadways are shut down. A perimeter is established around a suspect site where a rental car is examined.

Ho-llywood: 8 Anti-War Movies Hit Screens

Hardcore commentary over at Flopping Aces. They way we like it.

Where are the Hollywood conservatives at a time when no less than 8 anti-war movies are coming out at this critical juncture?

Casualties of Peace by Wordsmith hat tip Larwyn

What about cutting off faces with piano wire? Blowtorching, eye-removal, drilling holes? Baking children and serving them up to the parents? What about the atrocity of insurgents strapping a suicide vest onto a child with Down's Syndrome, and then sending him off to explode? Using children as decoys to drive a car bomb through a checkpoint? Or perhaps using children as human shields? What does Brian De Palma's film have to say about these atrocities? That we're responsible for these as well, because we're "over there"? That al-Qaeda and insurgent atrocities are "isolated" cases, whereas the story about the rape of a 14 year old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers in his fictionalized account of it, is typical and representative of our military?

Leeches of society.

Dhimmi Headline of the Week

is running at the Jackson Sun.

Jihad is Not a Word to be Feared Dr. Gene Davenport

In and of itself, then, the word "jihad" is not a word to be feared. As with most words, the danger lies not in the word itself but in its interpretation and use by those who use it. But then, the same can be said of most words in our Western vocabulary.

Unbelievable.

 

Iraq: Devastating Indictment

Jeff over at Protein Wisdom did us an enormous service in producing this invaluable resource on the biased Iraq media myth. ht Judith

The Big Picture(s) [Karl] Protein Wisdom

In the midst of the still-lingering controversy over the truthiness of The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist,” more than a few people suggested that war supporters, unable to discredit the real bad news coming from Iraq, targeted the Scott Thomas Beauchamp stories as a weak link.  I cannot speak for everyone who supports the mission in Iraq, but I would submit that Beauchamp’s apparent fables and embellishments are not a “weak link” to be attacked, but simply an egregious example of the establishment media’s flawed coverage of the conflict.   Accordingly, what follows is an over view of the establishment media coverage of the conflict in Iraq.

Though public opinion polls consistently show that Americans consider Iraq to be the most important issue facing the country, establishment media has slashed the resources and time devoted to Iraq.  The number of embedded reporters plunged from somewhere between 570 and 750 when the invasion began in March 2003 to as few as nine by October 2006.  The result was the rise of what journalists themselves call “hotel journalism” and “journalism by remote control.”  Janet Reitman, reporting for Rolling Stone, described the state of the media in early 2004:

When I arrive in Baghdad in April, most American journalists are holed up in their rooms, reporting the war by remote: scanning the wires, working their cell phones, watching broadcasts of Al Jazeera. In many cases, they’ve been reduced to relying on sources available to anyone with an Internet connection…  While Arabic and European media such as The Guardian and Le Monde manage to cover the war on the ground, American reporters seldom interview actual Iraqis. Instead, they talk to U.S. officials who are every bit as isolated as they are, or rely on local stringers and fixers, several of whom have been killed while working for Americans. “We live in a bubble,” grumbles one AP reporter. “If we know one percent of what’s going on in Iraq, we’re lucky.”

There are exceptions of course, though the number of establishment embeds shows they are literally exceptions.  I do not discount the very real danger to Western journos in Iraq, though independent bloggers like Michael Yon, Bill Roggio, Bill Ardolino, and Michael J. Totten seem to have been able to embed outside Baghdad with nothing like the institutional support available to journalists from the establishment media… and that the number of such bloggers is growing.  Moreover, I cannot ignore the consequences of “journalism by remote control.”

Please read it all. Then download the weekly Iraq surge report: Download IraqWeekly26August.doc

Islam: THE Toon WaPO Too Afraid to Run

Pathetic capitulation to Islam. Staggering. The news does not run the news it makes the news. The cartoon jihad worked in ways little imagined last year.

Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won't Run 'Opus' Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam  FOX

A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists.

The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday's installment of Berkeley Breathed's "Opus," in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains to her boyfriend, Steve, why she wants to become a radical Islamist.

Sources told FOXNews.com that the strips were shown to Muslim staffers at The Washington Post to gauge their reaction, and they responded "emotionally" to the depiction of a woman dressed in traditional Muslim garb and espousing conservative Islamic views.

MSNBC, CNBC, ALIGNS ITSELF WITH TERROR FORCE

Aligning itself with the terror force, MSNBC and CNBC are refusing to run pro-war ads. Powerline has the whole disgusting story here.

Freedoms Watch has placed its ads on Fox and CNN, but CNBC and MSNBC have refused to run the ads. Ari Fleischer wrote this morning on behalf of Freedom's Watch to let us know that CNBC and MSNBC have stubbornly refused to air the pro-war ads, even though they have run issue ads on other controversial topics. Freedom's Watch has written to CNBC and MSNBC to protest their decision; here is the text of that letter here.

Youtube ought to be designated a terror org too but the US government lost its balls somewhere over the Fallujah.  :( I received this from a Unite for Victory.

The Anti-war YouTube.com users/bloggers viciously attack vets and their mothers

When I started two weeks ago, I could not imagine the out pouring of support you would give to this mission and how quickly everyone would unite - so thank you!

One of our partners, Freedoms Watch, recently began airing ads with Gold Star Mothers and Iraq War veterans. These people are real heroes who have sacrificed everything to defend our freedoms and they deserve our respect and honor.

Unfortunately, the anti-war bloggers on YouTube.com are now personally attacking these loving mothers and wounded vets with the vilest comments ever imaginable.

In response to Laura Youngblood, who lost an uncle in 9/11 and her husband in Iraq, a blogger who identifies himself as, "thewarden70" wrote this, "This lady, if she can be called a lady, is completely incapable of telling the truth, any use of simple logic, and devoid of a soul."

It gets worse! Another blogger naming himself as, "Thrashaero" penned this after watching vet John Kriesel who lost both legs in Iraq, "Aww poor thing. has no legs and still is too proud to figure out that he screwed himself over by joining to support a ridiculous war.your sacrifice is meaningless."

Thrashaero sure sounds like our Thrasher/Duncan/Goldie, eh? Small group, this fifth column.

The comment left on YouTube.com that makes me most sick is the one directed at Gold Star Mother, Vicki Strong. Ptboy90210 wrote this, "Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Vicki Strong is a terrible person. Her son is spinning in his grave."

PTboy sounds like those vile lowlives over at Patriot boy.

We cannot stand for this. These radical anti-war members need to know their comments are unacceptable!

Please, call 1-877-222-8001 today. An operator will connect you to your Member of Congress. Please tell them what the anti-war crowd is saying about our brave American troops and their mothers! Tell them they must distance themselves from these cruel anti-war people!

If you still haven't seen Freedom's Watch video, you can watch them by clicking on this link or visiting Freedoms Watch.

What's his name?

And what was his objective? Where's the reportage on this? hat tip Doug

Passenger Arrested After Trying to Open Door During Flight FOX

DENVER —  A passenger tried to open a plane door during a Frontier Airlines flight on Saturday morning but was subdued by airline staff and passengers, an airline spokesman said.

Police and Transportation Security Administration staff met Flight 514 after the plane landed in New York City and took the man into custody, said Frontier spokesman Joe Hodas.

Hodas said the man, whose name was not released, would not have been able to open the door even if he had not been subdued. "You need special training to open the door," he said.

There were 128 passengers and five crew members on the plane, Hodas said.

Passenger Bobby Vigil of Estes Park told KUSA-TV in Denver that the man had been acting strangely. Vigil said he and other passengers helped a flight attendant tie the man to his seat with duct tape.

"The whole rest of the flight, all the way in, he was yelling and trying to bite the tape, and they ended up restraining him with an extra lap belt," said Vigil.

WTF is a "militant"

I am so sick and tired of the parallel language the leftarded PC media has created for murderers and savages. Headline from the NY Times. The "militant" was an Islamic Jihad leader. Don't those jihadi tools at the Times make you sick? Think about it.

Israelis Kill 2 Palestinian Militants Who Attacked Army Post Near ...
New York Times - United States
The dead man was identified as a local leader of Islamic Jihad, Ala Abu Srour, 29. Two automatic rifles and ammunition were recovered. ...

Shoebat Clubs Imamwhore

SHOEBAT!  If you have time - listen. Hat tip urban infidel

Terrorist-turned-Zionist Exposes Deliberate Bias in CNN’s ‘God Warriors’
Former PLO member Walid Shoebat, author of a stunning new book “Why We Want to Kill You,” gives the listeners an inside view of how CNN’s chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, blatantly distorted facts in her recent series “God Warriors.”

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Leftards Eat Their Own

Note to Opus readers: The Opus strips for August 26 and September 2 have been withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus' host paper The Washington Post. M0re here

Now this is rich. Berkeley Breathed, Bush bashing leftist cartoonist is banned from the Western media aligned with the terror force. This ought to scare the begeezus out of them, but it won't. Smart, they are not.

Cartoon Cave-in secures self imposed shackles on the West

Christiane Imamwhore Unveiled

The brilliant feminist author, Phyllis Chesler, rips the mask off Imamwhore. Chesler is one of a courageous but small group of daring truth tellers what expose Islam for what it is. She tears Amanpour limb from mendacious limb here. BTW, Chesler will be my very special guest on Atlas on the Air on September 11th;

CNN'S Master Plan: Part One  Phyllis Chesler

Amanpour, whose father is a Muslim Iranian, her mother British, and who spent the first eleven years of her life in Teheran, set out to portray Jews as religiously driven terrorists, illegal land-grabbers, and fat-cat American lobbyists with duel loyalties. She interviewed  former President Carter and John Mearsheimer (but not anyone of stature who  can easily rebut what they say). Both men believe that Israel is an apartheid state and that the Zionist lobby controls American foreign policy.  (See CAMERA'S excellent point by point refutation of Amanpour).

Amanpour makes sure to track down Israelis who have advised the government that "settling an occupied land" violates the Geneva convention and international law (such as Theodore Meron); the Jewish Israeli lawyers who defend Palestinians and who ofteh successfully, challenge the israeli demolition of Palestinian homes. She has female settlers on camera who allegedly say that they believe Palestinians should be killed or expelled. She shows the security wall at its ugliest without context and she focuses on individual Palestinians who are indeed being seriously harmed by its creation. (No, she does not show the Jews being blown up, week after week, in a non-stop series of 9/11s that might explain the desperate need for such a tragic but strategic structure).

In my no doubt alarmist and paranoid view, she is trying to position American and world Jewish support for Israel as essentially equivalent to American and world Muslim support for Hamas and for other Muslim terorrist organizations who also engage in humanitarian aid and social service projects. Just as the leaders of the Holy Land foundation are being tried as supporters of terrorist organizations in America today, Amanpour's portryal of Jewish support for an allegedly "illegal," "racist," or "apartheid" Jewish "settler state" with a "handful of Jewish terrorists" may now lead to simiilar attempts to shut down American-based fundraising for Israel and to dampen Congressional support for military foreign aid to Israel.

UPDATE: Chesler fisks part II: The Christian Crusaders Also Want a Caliphate. The Gospel According to Christiane. "

UPDATE: Debbie Schlussel trumps everyone. Bostom writes,

DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL FOR THIS ONE....AS SHE CALLS IT :" CNN trilogy of prime-time special reports by pan-Islamist water-carrier Christiane Amanpour. Tuesday Night was "Vilify Jews" night. And tonight is "Vilify Christians" night. (Last night was "Understand Peaceful Islam" night.)....

Christiane Amanwhore's Hit Piece on the Jews

CNN, the Crescent News Network's star dhimmi reporter, Christiane Islamiane Amanpour six-hour €œtelevision event God's Jewish Warriors€ (to be following on successive nights by God'€™s Muslim Warriors and €œGod's Christian Warriors) aired this evening and it is hard to imagine but this unabashed Jew hater, outdid herself.

 Moral inversion packaged tres sophisticay. Jihadist translates into "God's Warrior." One sided would imply there might be another side and clearly in this useful idiot's world, there is only Islam.

It began with a lie, and went downhill from there. Who does Amanpour think she is? Who died and made her queen of antisemites?

Amanpour/Imamwhore speaks to the usual Jewicidal suspects ie Shimon Peres and world class Jew haters Jimmy Carter and Protocols of Zion devotee`John Mearsheimer." Prominent political scientist," my ass. Yes, that bad. 

Pearls like "Jewish settlers turned to terror" (without mentioning the Israeli government arrested Jewish Underground plotters and imprisoned them for long periods of time) thereby equating self defense to terror.

And Israel's "plot to destroy Islam's holiest sites" There are no people on earth that have gone to such extraordinary measures to preserve religious  and archaeological sites than the Jews. Islam, OTOH,  is notorious for destroying any and all non Muslim archaeological and religious artifacts and has gone so far as to issue a fatwa against religious statues.

"The major obstacle to peace is the settlements." "The Jewish settlements have inflamed much of the Muslim world."  Not Islamic jihad, not the legacy of Islamic antisemitism. Not Israel itself. The Arab narrative "OCCUPATION!"  

Six thousand miles away in New York, "defiance of international law comes dressed in diamonds"

Its all about the tricky, crafty, sneaky Jews defying their government, defying the US, defying international law by supporting settlements. INTERNATIONAL LAW aka the UN. Amanpour evokes the Islamized UN repeatedly.

"Why not withhold Israel's foreign aid?" she asks Jimmy Carter (of all people.)

Amanwhore goes on to say the building  AIPAC --the Zionist lobby,  is located in is "more powerful" than the Foggy Bottom.

"Some might say that this building became the most powerful arm of American foreign policy, more powerful than foggy bottom, State department."

If this is journalism, I'm the Pope.

I can already see the spate of lawsuits going after Jewish charities for supporting settlements that contravene US policy and international law. Ed Lasky, an email exchange added;

......the basic lie that it is the settlements that inflame the Arab world  (and not the existence of Israel) ; the canard about Jewish money and power in America, the ominous music on cue as the "documentary" then segues to the White House, the reliance on Jimmy Carter and Mearsheimer and then using criticism who merely label them as anti-Semitic and not the experts (like Rick Richman) who point out the lies in their work, no wherein the Koran is Jerusalem mentioned-the Shrine on the Temple Mount was placed their by a local Arab ruler envious of tourist dollars going to Mecca and Medina-he propagated the story that Jerusalem is the spot from which Mohammed rode the horse heavenwards.

Islamiane Amanpour pulls every Jew hating canard out of that shitty little bag of hers. The old dual loyalty is regurgitated. "I was never fully American, I was Jewish!"

One example of many of using a non-representative sample of people to represent a group. Same woman , when referring to Christian supporters-we have to take advantage of our friends. Wonderful quote--not. (Lasky)

The second hour gets worse. The Jews are to blame for everything. Israel displaced Palestinians from the Arab quarter in East Jerusalem and confined them to wretched refugee camps strewn with garbage and sewage, where they suffer still decades later despite billions in US and EU aid but no mention of that. She blames Israel yet again for Lebanese Christian massacre in Sabra and Shatila. No mention of how the Pali Arabs destroyed Lebanon and its Christian community.

Christian Zionists are depicted as foolish puppets manipulated by those crafty, sneaky Jews.  "Their [the Christian Zionists] money builds parks, childcare centers and music therapy centers. Projects that make Jewish life her more comfortable and more permanent."

Amnawhore equates Jews soliciting  support and donations for Israel with Muslims terror funding jihadists who murder Israelis while deliberately and willfully ignoring  the crucial difference between savages and civilized men,  between terrorists and sovereign nations.

Amnapour talks about Christian antisemitism and the Jew as Christ killers. The Jooooooooooos, every time she says it, it is dripping with contempt.

Amanwhore than spends twenty minutes on a some tiny fringe group that was going to target a Pali school years ago but was busted by Israeli police and went to jail without ever launching an attack. Even so Amanwhore devotes a whole segment to this. This group represents Israel much the way the Unibomber represents your typical American. Rockets rain on Jewish schools (kindergartens) in Sderot daily and not a peep from this ignoramus's mouth about that very real horror. 

Al Jizz is going to run this "special" on an endless loop.

Tomorrow night: Muslim Warriors
Just as she used a tiny fringe of Jews to represent the Jewish people, I am sure she will invert this on Muslim warriors. She will show the millions of jihadists worldwide as a "tiny fringe" of the religion of peace and the thousands of Islamic attacks since 9/11 as mere blip on the screen.

UPDATE: Fitzgerald: The point of CNN's religious fundamentalism series

UPDATE: Loved this from Lawyn;

I admit that the errie music accompanying the presentation of that DIABOLICAL PLOT of American DIAMOND MERCHANTS using their own money to BUY, DO YOU HEAR ME, BUY REAL ESTATE FROM PALESTINIANS is an outrage none should bear.  Sure that most of the ARABS selling are laughing up their sleeves, thinking...."Got over on you Jooooo, soon you will be in the sea and I will have my house/land back.  In the meantime I'll go visit with the widow of our great leader in Pareee"

UPDATE: Richard Baehr rips it to shreds. Hysterical.

UPDATE: And Director Blue: Christine Amanpour's exposé on religious killers 

CNN's Christine Amanpour is hosting a series of exposes on religious warriors . Each show in the series focuses on the aspects of a single religion:

* Yesterday: the Worldwide Jewish Cabal
* Tonight: Misunderstood Muslims
* Thursday: Christian Crusaders
* Friday: Killer Quakers
* Saturday: Antagonistic Amish
* Sunday: Bloodthirsty Buddhists
* Monday: Homicidal Hindus

Amanpour is certain to offer a detailed comparison of the number of terrorist attacks broken down by instigating religion. And the number of deaths associated with those attacks. As well as the number of slaves currently held by each religion. 

Jewhatred, Can you Digg it?

I love when al jizz is used as a "news" source. Sheer audacity to cite a captive 25,000 Jews living in dhimmitude in Iran. The idea that these subjugated Jews are happy Jews is vile . hat tip liam

Iran's Happy Jewish Population A Big Problem For Israel Digg
There is an interesting problem with selling Iran as "Nazi Germany". If Ahmadinejad really is Hitler, ready to commit genocide against Israel ’s Jews as soon as he can get his hands on a nuclear weapon, why are some 25,000 Jews living peacefully in Iran and more than reluctant to leave despite repeated enticements from Israel and American Jews?

The al Jizz pic is rich - peyas does not a Jew make.

TIME MAG'S Chickens Come Home to Roost

Time's total paid and verified weekly circulation during the six months ended June 30 stood at 3.4 million, down 17.1% from 4.1 million during the same period last year following a reduction in January in the magazine's rate base. Newsweek's circulation stood at 3.1 million, virtually unchanged from a year earlier. Forbes magazine here.

Time is reaping what it's sown.  It sowed dissent, plagiarism, lies, leftist agenda, etc. - and now it's reaping the smaller audience such garbage deserves.  17% smaller.  And getting smaller as we speak. hat tip Carolyn

Atlas Shrugs: TIME TERROR MAGAZINE: LEFTIST LIES & ALLIES

What hearts? What minds?

Left coast leftard media aligned with the terror force. Islam or the West? Clearly, they have chosen the side of Islamism. What is wrong with these pods?

Losing Muslim hearts and minds LA Times

Why the White House should worry about a new poll suggesting that even allied Muslim countries believe the U.S. wants to weaken and divide the Islamic world.

As opposed to what? Embolden? Empower? I prefer conquering my mortal enemy.

It has been a long and bloody spring in Iraq and Afghanistan, but on the battlefield of ideas, the news is even less encouraging. A survey released Tuesday by WorldPublic-Opinion.org suggests that the struggle for Muslim hearts and minds may already be lost.
[..]
The pollsters found two rays of hope relevant to Washington strategists. First, large majorities of the Muslims polled strongly disapprove of attacks on U.S. civilians. Second, probably due to the carnage that he has inflicted on fellow Muslims, Osama Bin Laden's ratings are falling.

Oh joy!

Many apparently rationalize their support for Al Qaeda by concluding that it wasn't behind 9/11. Despite Bin Laden's televised boasting, fewer than one in four surveyed — and just 2% of Pakistanis — say they think that Al Qaeda masterminded the attacks. This depressing landscape suggests a steep uphill climb for the United States. 

PHOTO: “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” with Dana Wynter and Kevin McCarthy.

NY Traffic and Weather: Dirty

UPDATED 8/11: NYPD ON THE ALERT FOR QAEDA 'BOMB':

TEAMS HIT STREETS AFTER 'NET 'CHATTER'

Just came back into town via the Holland Tunnel from a sweet, little fiesta. There was a lot of action at the tunnels. What up? Jerusalem.org has this story'

New York Dirty Bomb?

There are several reports tonight that New York City police are increasing activity in Mid-Town Manhattan and at bridges and tunnels in response to unconfirmed reports that there might be a nuclear device coming into the city.

Channel 11 news just reported that there is talk of extending police shifts. They showed film of police searching vehicles near Penn Station.

Channel 9 My News and CBS Radio also carried story. See myFoxNY here.

Previous NY traffic and weather here and here.

The NYPD has modified its counter-terrorism posture Friday because of unverified intelligence regarding a dirty bomb risk.

This change includes an increased deployment of radiological sensors -- including those mounted on vehicles, boats and helicopters as well as those carried by NYPD personnel.

In addition, vehicle checkpoints are being established in New York City, including lower Manhattan, and at certain approaches to the city from neighboring areas.

August 8th Video:

Just how insane are New Yorkers? Snapped this two minutes ago. You just can't make this stuff up

UPDATE: 6:48pm : uh ......never mind 

No worries :)

But I hasten to add , would law enforcement summon and employ all of their resources  based on one "unsubstantiated" report from a singular internet site? Helllllloooooooooooooo.

Blaming Debka is a joke.

ATTENTION BLOGGERS: CRUCIAL TOOL TO EXPOSE MSM

There is a very promising program that was presented at the recent Defcon hacker convention. It is a method of detecting doctored digital photos and video.

Here is the link for the PDF file at HackerFactor.com  Book it, save it, USE IT.

We will most certainly need it in the coming Islamic assault on the West  - Lebanon the sequel.

Reader JW sent it with this as well;

If you go to his website, HackerFactor.com and click on the "forensics" side button you can find a link to the source code. (You may not be interested in the source code, but I'll bet you have contacts who can use it). Also, the "In the News" button will bring you to news links about his Defcon presentation. I pasted some of the news links below in case that is easier for you (the links are kind of awkward, I'm not sure how they'll work for email... go here and here.

Not only will it help to expose fake images, but hopefully with enough publicity now it might encourage some in the MSM to be more responsible with their photos and check themselves in order to avoid global embarrassment on the internet when their use of fakes is revealed for the world to see. Well, we can only hope...Maybe it will help to reduce the amount of fauxtography when Lebanon War 3 breaks out.

The mainstream media more responsible? Let's not get crazy here JW, but at least we can expose them for what they are - aligned with the terrorist force.

Beauchump recants: Liar Liar Pants on Fire ...... and shirts and shoes and.........

First posted at Atlas here (and do check out the leftarded "tolerant" gaybashing in that comment thread - it's really  rich.)

Now the leftist liar has recanted all. The western media aligned with the terrorist force gobbles up the America hating lies and runs it as truth. What the media won't tell you, here. America, stand up damn it!

BEAUCHAMP RECANTS Weekly Standard hat tip Al

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp--author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous "Baghdad Diarist" columns--signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods--fabrications containing only "a smidgen of truth," in the words of our source.

Separately, we received this statement from Major Steven F. Lamb, the deputy Public Affairs Officer for Multi National Division-Baghdad:

An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by PVT Beauchamp were found to be false. His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims.

According to the military source, Beauchamp's recantation was volunteered on the first day of the military's investigation. So as Beauchamp was in Iraq signing an affidavit denying the truth of his stories, the New Republic was publishing a statement from him on its website on July 26, in which Beauchamp said, "I'm willing to stand by the entirety of my articles for the New Republic using my real name."

There's so much more here.

CBS MISLEADS, DECEIVES PUBLIC ON iSLAM

What CBS writes here is patently UNTRUE. Apostasy is not ambiguous or open for "interpretation" which according to the Muhammad is in itself a crime punishable by death.

Leaving Islam is punishable by death. No ifs, and or buts about it.

This sort of deceit, taqilay, does great harm in informing the public to the enemy we face. Thisnpropaganda plays right into the hands of the Islamists.

A Muslim is either "pious" or a "hypocrite." Muhammad's Islam, authentic Islam, true Islam, real Islam (Qur'an/Sunnah/Sira) defines 'moderate' Muslims as 'Hypocrites.' Hypocrites were loathed and despised by Muhammad.  Dr. Jeff explained;

Hypocrites were to experience a terrible fate in 'this life' and in the 'afterlife.' Hence, hypocrites were to be regarded and treated like other infidels. Islamic scripture cannot be changed, modified or reinterpreted if one adheres to a strict Qur'anic/Muhammaden tennet: namely, that the word of Allah is immutable! I always pose the following questions to 'moderate' Muslims: How would Muhammad and his companions regard your modifications of Islam? Do your changes and interpretation

LEAVING ISLAM SHOULDN'T BE A CRIME CBS News

(US News)

Does Islam say that believers who abandon the faith should be punished, even executed? The answer depends, of course, on whose interpretation of Islam you consult. Conservative literalists in many parts of the world choose texts from the Koran and the Hadith (accounts of the life and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad) to support the view that apostasy is to be punished severely. Reformists seeking a more enlightened reading emphasize texts that say there can be no coercion in matters of religion. Does either side have more authority or influence in the Islamic world?

The answer, if one is ever forthcoming, will go a long way in determining whether Islam is compatible with the regime of universal human rights set forth in important international charters and agreements. But recent and not-so-recent cases have been neither conclusive nor encouraging. Consider last year's famous Abdul Rahman case, which could have resulted in the Christian convert's execution.

Read it all. Can you spot the numerous  inaccuracies?

 

Islamic Sudan Blames the Jews while Victims escape to Israel

Just how confident is Islamic jihad of the Western media's allegiance to the terrorist force. This confident.

Sudan: Jews behind Darfur conflict Ynet News

Sudanese defense minister says '24 Jewish organizations fueling conflict in Darfur' Yaakov Lappin

Exposing mass murder is "fueling the conflict." What conflict? The Islamic government in Khartoum are slaughtering Christians, moderate Muslims. Genocide is not a conflict. It's mass murder.

Sudan's defense minister, Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, has accused "24 Jewish organizations" of "fueling the conflict in Darfur" last week in an interview with a Saudi newspaper.

Hussein was interviewed during an official state visit to the Saudi kingdom last week.

 

A journalist from Saudi Arabia's Okaz newspaper asked Hussein: "Some people are talking about the penetration of Jewish organizations in Darfur and that there is no conflict there?"

huh?

"The Darfur issue is being fueled by 24 Jewish organizations, who are making the largest amount of noise over the issue, and using the Holocaust in their campaigning," the Sudanese defense minister replied.

Those damn Jews. Let us commit genocide and murder without interference!

Hussein added that the Darfur conflict was driven by "friction between farmers and herders and shepherds. Among the biggest problems is that of water, which is used to exploit the differences and fuel the conflict."

"Are these Jewish groups supporting (the rebels) financially?," the interviewer from Okaz asked Hussein.

"Yes, they provide political and material support through their control over the media and across American and British circles," Hussein said, adding that Jewish groups were using "all means to fuel these conflicts."

He added that Western reports of 200,000 people dying in Sudan were false, and said: "We talk about 9,000 dead as a result of either government or rebel actions."

'We came to Israel to look for a better place'

Several days ago, Sudan's Interior Minister, Zubair Bashir Taha, lashed out at Sudanese refuees who had sought asylum in Israel, and accused "Isaeli authorities of encouraging the Sudanese refugees to come to their country."

He added that his ministry was "very confused" by Sudanese citizens who came to Israel."

Yes, of course, they are confused. They want to live. The nerve.

See my previous coverage on Sudan.

See my video interview with Simon Deng, ex slave, Sudan at the Freedom walk here. And Minute Bol here

UPDATE:  CUANAS has an excellent post on Jews behind the Sudan Genocide.

The New York Times "translates" Bush aka LIES, DISTORTIONS, and PROPAGANDA

Rick Richman, my blogbuddy in the Atlas  live coverage of the Israel/Islamic war last summer has exposes the mendacity and deceit of The New York Slimes, the Jihad's number one source for U.S. intel.

John added, " the blog article sets forth the reporters' characterizations of those remarks, (the Times' reporters' summary being patently false, as shown by their juxtaposition with the President's remarks) and then their refutation of the president's factual assertions, as the author of the blog piece so accurately puts it, by "ex cathedra" pronouncement.  in short, the times' position triumphs over all, including the facts of the matter.

"Your paper has fallen upon hard times, and will soon cease to exist in a short while, because you are failing financially in that no one reads you anymore.  it is no mystery to me why this is so: those people who believe you, or care to read you, are dwindling.  And, the numbers of such people who might have been capable of reading you in the first place are dwindling, because of the social policies and influence you have wielded."

The New York Times Reports and Distorts a Presidential Address
By Rick Richman The American Thinker 

"...it has almost ceased altogether to be a newspaper."
-- Renata Adler

On July 24, around noon, President Bush delivered an important speech at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina.  He discussed in considerable detail the links between Al Qaeda in Iraq and the central leadership of Al Qaeda, reflecting the conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community. 

About four hours later, the New York Times posted a news story by Times reporter Brian Knowlton about the speech.  It was a good example of straightforward journalism - not something one sees all the time at the Times.  Here are the first three paragraphs from Knowlton's report:

"President George W. Bush argued forcefully today that an Al Qaeda-affiliated group in Iraq is linked tightly to the central Al Qaeda leadership, and that for American forces to leave Iraq without defeating the terror group would be "dangerous for the world and disastrous for America."

"He made the remarks at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, at a time of fierce debate in Washington over Iraq policy.  Last week a major intelligence report concluded that the international Al Qaeda organization of Osama bin Laden had successfully regrouped, probably in rugged northwest Pakistan, and that it is once again as strong as it was before the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"In a half-hour speech clearly aimed at his Democratic critics, Mr. Bush said that those who argued that the affiliated group, called Al Qaeda in Iraq or AQI, was a local group with local objectives, and not a serious threat to Americans at home, were seriously misinformed."

Knowlton's report (which continued for an additional 17 paragraphs) was generally a fair summary of the President's principal points and the passion with which he had delivered his speech (a video is here).  But Knowlton's article didn't appear the next day in the paper version of the Times.  Instead a different article, by different reporters, was published.

The news story in the national edition of the Times was written by Jim Rutenberg and Mark Mazzetti.   Here are the first three paragraphs from their report:

Al Qaeda: "it's a Joy to Read The NY Times!"

From the "you just can't make this stuff up dept". Al Qaeda doesn't need spies, they got the The New York Times!

Terrorists and US Newspapers Cent Com hat tip Larwyn via Taranto

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisors, detained 13 suspected terrorists belonging  to Al Qa’ida during two operations July 23 near Baghdad.

In the first operation, Iraqi Security Forces detained eight individuals linked to an Al Qai’da cell involved in sniper operations and death squad activities near Hayy Aamel. The targeted individuals were detained without incident or resistance. Iraqi Security Forces seized four AK-47 rifles and ammunition, cellular telephones, U.S. newspapers and other documents during this operation.

These operations are aimed at disrupting Al Qai’da activities in the southern Baghdad area.

Good Fox, Bad Fox? Only the Shadow Knows

More bad news, eh? Can the free world take another Jew hating big media organization? Will the Wall Street Journal sink into the abyss too? Only the shadow knows. May Rupert have long years.

The Saudi purchase of 6% of FOX makes sense in light of this revelation.

Murdoch, Son Differ Sharply Over Israel By JOSH GERSTEIN, NY Sun

The pro-Israel outlook of the Wall Street Journal and many News Corp. outlets could waver if one of Rupert Murdoch's sons, James Murdoch, takes the helm of the publishing and broadcasting company, a new book suggests.

The just-published diaries of a communications director for Prime Minister Blair, Alastair Campbell, indicate that James Murdoch launched into a foul-mouthed tirade that suggested that the behavior of Palestinian Arabs was justified by their poor treatment by Israelis. The outburst occurred at a private dinner with his father, his brother, Lachlan, Mr. Blair, and others at no. 10 Downing St. in January 2002.

But but but, Israel left Hamastan? How does it correlate. What about Hamas vs Fatah. Money for munitions and warfare but no food, no sewer system, indiscriminate murder, jihad on jihad violence. Who speaks for these girls? Never mind, FACTS ARE IRRELEVANT WHEN BLAMING THE JOOOOOOOOOS.

The elder " Murdoch was at one point putting the traditional very right-wing view on Israel and the Middle East peace process and James said that he was Â'talking fÂ-- nonsense.' [Rupert] Murdoch said he didn't see what the Palestinians' problem was and James said that it was that they were kicked out of their fÂ-- homes and had nowhere to fÂ-- live," Mr. Campbell recorded, adding that the News Corp. chairman was "very pro- Israel, very pro-Reagan."

The prime minister's aide said James Murdoch's outburst drew a rebuke from his father, who said "he didn't think he should talk like that in the Prime Minister's house."

"James got very apologetic with [Mr. Blair], who said not to worry, I hear far worse all the time," Mr. Campbell wrote.

Al-Newsweek

I have been meaning to fisk this week's taqiya piece Newsweek did on Islam. The money quote was the headline, "Muslim Americans are one of this country's greatest strengths. But they're vulnerable as never before." WTF? Who is the ghostwriter here? CAIR? Deception of Islam to advance Islam. The whole thing is one ginormous deception, completely divorced from reality.

Islamophobic or informed?

Newsweek Sucks to Terrorists The Urban Grind

Thanks to the Koran Toilet-Gate, we all know where Al-Newsweek’s sympathies lie.

But now, in another effort to suck up to Islamists, they have put out a glowing puff piece on Islam in America. Naturally they glossed over or plainly ignored whatever went against their anti-America, pro Islam, pro Third World Immigration agenda. So here I am to break it all down for you, dear readers

First the authors start out by describing Muslim businessman Fareed Siddiq, who attended a speech given by President Bush to Muslim business people.

He was moved to ask his president a question: “What,” he asked, hauling his 6-foot-5, 245-pound frame to the microphone, “are we doing with public diplomacy to change the hearts and minds of a billion and a half Muslims around the world?” What should he tell his friends and relatives in Pakistan about why he continues to live in the United States?

Excuse me, but why does any grown man with a family and a good job have to justify where he chooses to live? Also, why does America have to change anyone’s hearts and minds? I’d rather we be not be hated and feared, but respected instead. At least that’s how things used to be until after World War II.

Ignoring the War (no not that one)

No no not the war on the jihad. We already knew the media and the Democrats have aligned themselves with the terrorist forces I am talking about IRAQ. They will run away from any good developments on Iraq. I guess it's gonna be health care 24/7 or some other non issue - oh yeah - the weather, that's it global weather.

THE SURGE SUCCEEDS The American Thinker, J.R. Dunn hat tip Bruce

God looks after children, drunkards, and the United States of America
- Otto von Bismarck

It's now quite clear how the results of the surge will be dealt with by domestic opponents of the Iraq war

They're going to be ignored.

They're being ignored now. Virtually no media source or Democratic politician (and not a few Republicans, led by Richard "I can always backtrack" Lugar) is willing to admit that the situation on the ground has changed dramatically over the past three months. Coalition efforts have undergone a remarkable reversal of fortune, a near-textbook example as to how an effective strategy can overcome what appear to be overwhelming drawbacks.

Read it all

Al-Qaeda faces rebellion from the ranks
Sickened by the group’s barbarity, Iraqi insurgents are giving information to coalition forces THE TIMESONLINE

UPDATE: Bush on the air now - explaining to the misinformed American people that al qaeda in Iraq is not any different than Al Qaeda anywhere, everywhere. Al Qaeda is run by Bin Laden in Iraq.
Revealed intel backing that up.

Leaving Iraq would be "dangerous and disastrous."

Kudos to Fox for running it.

"Flawed logic" - that's what Bush just called the liberal dogma that we have created the terrorists. He just rattled off  all the terror attacks in the past 20 years.

Great speech. "We Will defeat the enemy in Iraq."

UPDATE: Here are the money quotes;

We Are Fighting Bin Laden's Al Qaeda In Iraq … And Against This Enemy, America Can Accept Nothing Less Than Complete Victory" 

President Bush: "Al Qaeda is public enemy number one for the Iraqi people.  Al Qaeda is public enemy number one for the American people.  And that is why for the security of our country we will stay on the hunt, we'll deny them safe haven, and we will defeat them where they have made their stand."  (President George W. Bush, Remarks To Military Personnel At Charleston Air Force Base, Charleston, SC, 7/24/07)

·         "There's a good reason they are called al Qaeda in Iraq:  They are al Qaeda – in Iraq."

  "Al Qaeda in Iraq is a group founded by foreign terrorists, led largely by foreign terrorists, and loyal to a foreign terrorist leader – Osama bin Laden.  They know they're al Qaeda.  The Iraqi people know they are al Qaeda.  People across the Muslim world know they are al Qaeda."

·         "Yet despite all the evidence, some will tell you that al Qaeda in Iraq is not really al Qaeda and not really a threat to America."  "That's like watching a man walk into a bank with a mask and a gun and saying he's probably just there to cash a check."

"Our Intelligence Community Assesses That Al Qaeda In Iraq … [Is] A Full Member Of The Al Qaeda Terrorist Network" 

President Bush: "[M]ost important, for the people who wonder if the fight in Iraq is worth it, al Qaeda in Iraq shares Osama bin Laden's goal of making Iraq a base for its radical Islamic empire and using it as a safe haven for attacks on America."  "This is why our intelligence community reports – and I quote – 'compared with [other leading Sunni jihadist groups], al Qaeda in Iraq stands out for its extremism, unmatched operational strength, foreign leadership, and determination to take the jihad beyond Iraq's borders.'"

[uh, yeah - al qaeda is in Iran too President Bush. How should we handle them there? -Atlas]

Bush:·         "Al Qaeda in Iraq was founded by a Jordanian terrorist, not an Iraqi. His name was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi."  "Before 9/11, he ran a terrorist camp in Afghanistan.  He was not yet a member of al Qaeda, but our intelligence community reports that he had longstanding relations with senior al Qaeda leaders, that he had met with Osama bin Laden and his chief deputy, Zawahiri."

[The PLO was founded by a Tunisian - Yasser Arafat-. That's how they operate Atlas]

·         "In 2004, Zarqawi and his terrorist group [formally] joined al Qaeda, pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden, and … promised to 'follow his orders in jihad.'"  "It's hard to argue that al Qaeda in Iraq is separate from bin Laden's al Qaeda when the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq took an oath of allegiance to Osama bin Laden."

·         "According to our intelligence community, the Zarqawi-bin Laden merger gave Al Qaeda in Iraq, quote, 'prestige among potential recruits and financiers.'"  "The merger also gave al Qaeda's senior leadership, quote, 'a foothold in Iraq to extend its geographic presence, to plot external operations, and to tout the centrality of the jihad in Iraq to solicit direct monetary support elsewhere.'"

·         "Zarqawi was killed by U.S. forces in June 2006.  He was replaced by another foreigner, an Egyptian named Abu Ayyub al-Masri.  His ties to the al Qaeda senior leadership are deep and longstanding."  "He's collaborated with Zawahiri for more than two decades.  And before 9/11, he spent time with al Qaeda in Afghanistan, where he taught classes indoctrinating others in al Qaeda's radical ideology."

·         "According to our intelligence community, many of al Qaeda in Iraq's other senior leaders are also foreign terrorists."  "They include a Syrian who is al Qaeda in Iraq's emir in Baghdad, a Saudi who is al Qaeda in Iraq's top spiritual and legal adviser, an Egyptian who fought in Afghanistan in the 1990s and who has met with Osama bin Laden, a Tunisian who we believe plays a key role in managing foreign fighters."

"Our Action To Remove Saddam Hussein Did Not Start The Terrorist Violence – And American Withdrawal From Iraq Would Not End It"

President Bush: "Iraq's not the reason that the terrorists are at war with us."  "We were not in Iraq when the terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.  We were not in Iraq when they attacked our Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.  We were not in Iraq when they attacked the USS Cole in 2000.  And we were not in Iraq on September the 11th, 2001."

·         "If we were not fighting these al Qaeda extremists and terrorists in Iraq … Most would be trying to kill Americans and other civilians elsewhere."  "The al Qaeda terrorists now blowing themselves up in Iraq are dedicated extremists who have made killing the innocent the calling of their lives. … If we were not fighting these al Qaeda extremists and terrorists in Iraq, they would not be leading productive lives of service and charity."

"However Difficult The Fight Is In Iraq, We Must Win It.  And We Can Win It."

President Bush: "For the security of our citizens, and the peace of the world, we must give General Petraeus and his troops the time and the resources they need so they can defeat al Qaeda in Iraq."

·         "Surrendering the future of Iraq to al Qaeda would be a disaster for our country."  "We have already seen how al Qaeda used a failed state thousands of miles from our shores to bring death and destruction to the streets of our cities, and we must not allow them to do so again."

Busted: Fifth Column "Kilitary"

More of the leftwing media jihad. Unbeeeeeelievable. Apparently;

...Make it nearly certain that the articles in question at The New Republic are not accurate.
IT IS ALL A LEFTIST SHAM.

Gateway has been following it all here (hat tip the intrepid Larwyn);

The Weekly Standard Blog has been leading the efforts to find the truth behind the disgusting anti-military hit pieces at The New Republic.

Today, Multi-National Force Iraq responded to the horrific allegations of war crimes at the liberal magazine. It is more evidence that the writer who goes by the name "Scott Thomas" at The New Republic is slandering the troops in Iraq:

Sir,

Our Soldiers our held to the highest standards in all regards to include Standards of Conduct and Rules of War. There has been no operational reporting of the misconduct of Soldiers as reported in the article. We also cannot disclose the names and units of Soldiers that are serving in Iraq.

In addition, any misconduct by Soldiers is addressed by the unit commander through the uniform code of military justice. All violations of the law are investigated.

Very Respectfully
MAJ Alston

MAJ ANTON D. ALSTON
MNF-I Press Desk Operations Officer
anton.alston@iraq.centcom.mil

So, does this statement by MNF-I confirm that the stories are BS?
No, but this statement along with the other statements and mounds of evidence brought up this past weekend, here:

Check out  Charles Johnson, he has more on the Left's "Killitary."

Check out The American Thinker here;

The New Republic is running a sensational pseudonymously-authored article entitled Shock Troops, which TNR claims is written by a soldier currently serving in Iraq. The article provides candid portrayals of rough and ugly humor among the troops and hinges on the premise that those who have no experience with the military will believe that the "dehumanizing" aspects of the war have turned our young men and woman into barbarians parading around with a child's skull for a cap and insulting the war-wounded for their deformities. Many of us who do have experience with the military believe that these stories sound faked.

He names Clifton Hicks. Read it all

UPDATE: BTW,here's some good news on Iraw

Weapons Smugglers With Iran Links Nabbed in Iraq

American General seeks troop cut in northern Iraq

Italian police to train Iraqi National Police

Iraqi Army takes it to the people 

US Military Captures Top Iraqi Member of al-Qaida in Iraq

Iraqi troops lead joint medical effort in Hor Al Bosh 

U.S.: Major al-Qaeda figure killed in precision strike

Marine RCT 2 leads new Anbar offensive The Associated Press

US Forces launch new assaults on Al Qaeda BAGHDAD

US troops find Iranian rockets aimed at Iraq base

Colonel Charlton: Significant improvements in Ramadi

Massive Assault on Al Qaeda paying dividends July 18, 2007 Baghdad Briefing General Bergner:

U.S. attacks insurgent credibility

Fardh Al-Qanoon: Commanding General sees Progress

U.S. General in Iraq Speaks Strongly Against Troop Pullout By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD

Sunnis end parliament boycott in Iraq

Ubaidi, Anbakia tribes sign peace agreement in Diyala

General Pace Declares Iraq 'Sea Change' 

Hadley sees improved Iraq by September

Sheiks Meet in Reconciliation Effort at Camp Taji

UPDATE: Charles has more here: Islamists and Leftists Converge at The Nation

HBO Jihad: The Face of evil

Shame on them. Shame shame shame (hat tip Atlas readers)
And shame on Olmert. He will surely answer to a higher authority.

The film is produced by HBO. So it's presumably HBO's publicity department that was responsible for creating and distributing a glamor-style photograph of a smiling, contented-looking young woman in her twenties to promote the movie.

That female is our child's murderer. She was sentenced to sixteen life sentences or 320 years which she is serving in an Israeli jail. Fifteen people were killed and more than a hundred maimed and injured by the actions of this attractive person and her associates. The background is here.

Neither the New York Times nor HBO are likely to give even a moment's attention to the victims of the barbarians who destroyed the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem and the lives of so many victims. So we would be grateful if you would pass along this link to some pictures of our daughter whose name was Malki. She was unable to reach her twenties - Hamas saw to that.

Though she was only fifteen years old when her life was stolen from her and from us, we think Malki was a beautiful young woman, living a beautiful life. We ask your help so that other people - far fewer than the number who will see the New York Times, of course - can know about her. Please ask your friends to look at the pictures - some of the very few we have - of our murdered daughter.

They are at kerenmalki.org

And remind them of what the woman in the Israeli prison - the woman smiling so happily in the New York Times - said last year. "I'm not sorry for what I did. We'll become free from the occupation and then I will be free from prison."

With so many voices demanding that Israel release its terrorist prisoners, small wonder she's smiling.

With greetings from Jerusalem, Frimet and Arnold Roth On behalf of Keren Malki

BBC'S JEW HATRED EXPOSED

Lasky, defender of all that is good, writes;

The BBC, which made its reputation durring the dark days of WW2, allows anti-Semitism to flourish on its bulletin boards

Long known for its anti-Israel bias, the virus seems to have mutated into anti-Semitism. The near Royal "we have decided it does not contravene the House Rules and are going to leave it on the site" despiet a rule that states, "Posts that are removed include ones that are considered likely to disrupt, provoke attack or offend others or are considered racist, homophobic, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable."

The BBC is now considered to be a news source that an increasingly, and distressingly, growing number of people rely upon to form their views.

Ed Lasky
 

BBC won't remove anti-Semitic posting

The BBC is refusing to remove a provocative and anti-Semitic message posted on one of its message boards despite a barrage of complaints.

The message was posted on the BBC Radio Web site message board following a discussion about a television program on anti-Semitism that screened on the UK's Channel Four network last week.

The offensive message, left by someone using the alias "Iron Naz," reads: "Zionism is a racist ideology where jews [sic] are given supremacy over all other races and faiths. This is found in the Talmud. There is a law called Baba Mezia which allows jews to lie as long as its to non-jews. Many pro jewish supporters will cringe at this being exposed because they know it exists, yet they keep quiet about it, hey frip, jla and co [the aliases of other people taking part in the discussion]. The Law of Baba Mezia!! Tsk tsk tsk! It's in the Talmud."

A number of Jewish community members, including a community organization, appealed to the BBC to remove the posting.

Scumbuckets.

 

Total Victory? Or not?

Diaina West nails it (again)  today when she describes the Iraqi war strategy this way, "I'll tell you what's crazy. The current strategy: Surge till Iraqis merge."

Bottom line, we are living in an age where" terms disproportionate response" and mealy mouthed media harpies have rendered the war effort impotent and unwinnable. This must change. We must crush Islamism. In Iraq and everywhere else.

Al in Kandahar said (after hearing of the vote), "Bad guy is not going away, matter of fact our recalcitrance in dealing with him has enabled him to regroup in a sanctuary right next door."

TOTAL WAR, TOTAL VICTORY Diana West Washington Times hat tip Adrew Bostom

We may be stuck in an intellectual tidal cycle — tide in (surge), tide out (withdraw) — but there's a big wide ocean of answers out there. First, we need to ask new questions. For example: When will it become clear that even if everything goes as planned in Iraq (or doesn't), the United States will only have succeeded in securing a Hezbollah-supporting, Shi'ite-majority state that is a natural ally of Iran? And how great is that for America's national security?

Not so great. But it's a shockingly likely outcome. This realization should make us question whether securing Iraq, a potential client-state of Iran, is really key to American national security. In fact, it is Iran's terror exports to the entire Middle East and beyond, along with its genocidal nuclear ambitions, that threaten us, not Iraq's domestic violence. If we want to quell global jihad — and we must — it is Iran that should become the target for our military minds, not Iraq. Far from handing jihadists a win, this new course, which would likely rely more on Air Force and Navy than ground troops, would put them on the defensive.

At this point, my conservative friends will remind me that we must destroy al Qaeda in Iraq. And I couldn't agree more. So let's destroy al Qaeda in Iraq — a neat name for an amorphous network — and any other threats including Iranian-supported Iraqi Shi'ite forces. Sharon Behn of The Washington Times recently asked Command Sgt. Maj. Jeff Mellinger why the world's most powerful army hadn't yet accomplished this mission. He replied: "We could absolutely crush every one of them, but would you be happy with what is left?"

He's referring to the catastrophic destruction that is, and has always been, the price of total victory. It's something that never makes anyone "happy," but previous generations have found it necessary. Not ours. Postmodern man prefers a kind of limited warfare, fighting with one hand tied behind his back as a matter of choice — a moral choice that lends even a superpower the humanizing aura of victimhood.

Related: Success At Last And The GOP Turns To Jelly IBD

“The key to turning (Anbar) around was the shift in allegiance by tribal sheiks. But the sheiks turned only after a prolonged offensive by American and Iraqi forces, starting in November, that put al-Qaida groups on the run.”
New York Times, July 8

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

WATCH LIBERAL BIAS

REAL INTERNET STATS ARE IRRELEVANT!

John of I, INFIDEL points this out. HA! I guess the NY Times doesn't like accuracy -not one bit.

Remember I was in the newspaper biz a long time and I can tell you that all those circulation and readership numbers are fudged - bigtime. Papers unsold but not reported as such - are counted as paid. Put those papers on the street  (as many as you can) and do not take them back. ABC audits are wildy inaccurate. Worse yet, Scarborough Research  - the industry standard is used by all major newspapers  in their sales presentations and marketing data. Scarborough assigns a certain number of readers per copy assuming more than one person read a single newspaper. - hence the word readership.When I was at The New York Daily News,  Scarborough assigned 4 readers per copy of The News  and this is industry gospel. The Holy Grail.
The net is a whole other animal. It is pure science. Hits, clicks, uniques, page views. It's real baby and The Times is meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelting.
I see the NY Times in this development.

Nielsen scraps Web page view rankings J Post

A leading online measurement service will scrap rankings based on the longtime industry yardstick of page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites.

The move by Nielsen/NetRatings, expected to be announced Tuesday, comes as online video and new technologies increasingly make page views less meaningful.

Although Nielsen already measures average time spent and average number of sessions per visitor for each site, it will start reporting total time spent and sessions for all visitors to give advertisers, investors and analysts a broader picture of what sites are most popular.

Currently, sites and advertisers often use page views, a figure that reflects the number of Web pages a visitor pulls from a site.

Iraq: NY Times Declares its Irrelevance

The asshats release gas. It seems they have it backwards, The NY Slimes is the lost cause. Although it doesn't surprise me that those spineless, dickless wonders would call for premature withdrawal, sounds like their sex life.

I understand they have taken to working with a better class of Timesman: Those vermin at the New York Times

NY Times calls Iraq a 'lost cause' AFP
The New York Times on Sunday called for US troops to leave Iraq now, writing that President George W. Bush's plan to stabilize the country through military means is a lost cause.

It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit," the influential daily wrote in a rare, single-issue editorial taking up one-half of an entire news page.

"Like many Americans, we have put off that conclusion, waiting for a sign that President Bush was seriously trying to dig the United States out of the disaster he created by invading Iraq without sufficient cause, in the face of global opposition, and without a plan to stabilize the country afterward," the daily wrote.

But it has since emerged, the Times concluded, that Bush has "neither the vision nor the means to do that."

"It is frighteningly clear that Mr. Bush's plan is to stay the course as long as he is president and dump the mess on his successor. Whatever his cause was, it is lost," the daily opined.

The fact is Leave Iraq and Brace for a Bigger Bloodbath

By Natan Sharansky
Sunday, July 8, 2007; B03

Iraqis call Ali Hassan al-Majeed "Chemical Ali," and few wept when the notorious former general received five death sentences last month for ordering the use of nerve agents against his government's Kurdish citizens in the late 1980s. His trial came as a reckoning and a reminder -- summoning up the horrors of Saddam Hussein's rule even as it underscored the way today's heated Iraq debates in Washington have left the key issue of human rights on the sidelines. People of goodwill can certainly disagree over how to handle Iraq, but human rights should be part of any responsible calculus. Unfortunately, some leaders continue to play down the gross violations in Iraq under Hussein's republic of fear and ignore the potential for a human rights catastrophe should the United States withdraw.

As the hideous violence in Iraq continues, it has become increasingly common to hear people argue that the world was better off with Hussein in power and (even more remarkably) that Iraqis were better off under his fist. In his final interview as U.N. secretary general, Kofi Annan acknowledged that Iraq "had a dictator who was brutal" but said that Iraqis under the Baathist dictatorship "had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school."

Coffee Enema?

This line of argument began soon after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. By early 2004, some prominent political and intellectual leaders were arguing that women's rights, gay rights, health care and much else had suffered in post-Hussein Iraq.

Following in the footsteps of George Bernard Shaw, Walter Duranty and other Western liberals who served as willing dupes for Joseph Stalin, some members of the human rights community are whitewashing totalitarianism. A textbook example came last year from John Pace, who recently left his post as U.N. human rights chief in Iraq. "Under Saddam," he said, according to the Associated Press, "if you agreed to forgo your basic freedom of expression and thought, you were physically more or less OK."

The truth is that in totalitarian regimes, there are no human rights. Period. The media do not criticize the government. Parliaments do not check executive power. Courts do not uphold due process. And human rights groups don't file reports.

For most people, life under totalitarianism is slavery with no possibility of escape. That is why despite the carnage in Iraq, Iraqis are consistently less pessimistic about the present and more optimistic about the future of their country than Americans are. In a face-to-face national poll of 5,019 people conducted this spring by Opinion Research Business, a British market-research firm, only 27 percent of Iraqis said they believed that "that their country is actually in a state of civil war," and by nearly 2 to 1 (49 percent to 26 percent), the Iraqis surveyed said they preferred life under their new government to life under the old tyranny. That is why, at a time when many Americans are abandoning the vision of a democratic Iraq, most Iraqis still cling to the hope of a better future. They know that under Hussein, there was no hope.

Read it all.

Mainstreaming the Hatred of the JewsWho's Paying the Bribe $$$$$$$

First go here and read Part I. And then ask yourself who is funding, propagating, paying for the dissemination of Jew Hating propaganda?

My astute friend from Trexas writes;

It might interest you to know (if you don't already) that Saudi prince Al-Walid  here and  here
owns Rotana Audio Visual Company, which operates TV channels in the Middle East nd is NewsCorp’s (FOX News Network) fourth largest voting shareholder.  He recently gave $20 Mil each to Harvard and Georgetown universities  to promote "Islamic studies". 

Think that might have anything to do with anti-Jewish sentiment in the media lately?  (I won't call it "antisemitic" as the Arabs are Semites too.) More on this here and here.

Al-Walid's Kingdom Holding company (which he owns 100%)  also owns stock in  Fairmont Raffles Hotels International Inc., Time Warner Inc., Apple Inc., PepsiCo Inc., Walt Disney Co., the ART TV network (Arab Radio & Television) and other American corporations. More here.

Rupert  & Prince sheik it up More here.

Programming on ART's Iqra TV includes Islamic religious figures calling on Muslims to confront non-Muslims; calls for the entire world to follow Islam, and for Christians and Jews to burn in hell for being nonbelievers. Go here.

Al-Talwid offered Mayor Giuliani $10 Mil after 9-11if he would say that "...our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek,"

He donated $27 million to the Palestinian fund in a  Saudi telethon in 2002.    He also donated millions to the mujihadeen in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets in the 1980's.

Double Standard One for Good, one for Evil

That really just about sums it up. Doesn't it?  Evil, pure, savage diabolical aka Islamic jihad gets a free pass, every time. Every time.

Bat Yeor said it succinctly in my interview with her, "The Western media is aligned with Jihad forces." Josef sent this along and it pretty well nails it. First Hugh Hewitt posted this here.

The Difference Between Great Britain's Terrorists And Hamas?

Not much, according to Gerard Baker, the U.S. editor of the Times of London.

Except Hamas is the far superior propagandist.

Hamas won the propaganda war this week Times Online

Try as they may the nutters will never really win what Gordon Brown calls the battle for hearts and minds. True, they’ll get a good hearing from the assorted crowd of self-loathing media panjandrums and Labour MPs who will evenhandedly say: “It’s quite wrong to blow up women in London nightclubs, but we shouldn’t forget about the suffering of the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.” True, they’ll also get treated with kid gloves by the politically correct lobby, who will insist that, however else we describe them, we must never call them Muslims, since they’re not the face of that peaceable religion.

But fortunately most British people aren’t sophisticated enough to buy this sort of casuistry. They think they know a homicidal maniac when they see one. The philosophy they adhere to was best captured by the magnificent John Smeaton, the BAA baggage handler turned have-a-go hero in Scotland, who, when asked by a TV interviewer what message he had for the terrorists, said: “This is Glasgow – we’ll just set about you.”

More intellectual masturbatory exercizes from The Times (of London Blog) –

The statistics and strategy behind suicide bombings

…Chris Dillow draws attention to a rather different Paserman paper -

The mathematical relationship between suicide bombing and Israeli targeted killings.
Here's the paper's conclusion:

In this paper we assess the effectiveness of suicide attacks and targeted killings in the Second Intifada.

We find evidence that the targeted killings of Palestinian leaders by Israel reduce realized Palestinian violence. We find, however, that intended Palestinian violence is increasing at low levels of targeted killings, but decreasing at higher levels.

There is little evidence to suggest that suicide bombings against Israelis reduce the number of subsequent Palestinian fatalities. Rather, we find that suicide attacks that kill at least one Israeli lead to subsequent increased incidence and levels of Palestinian fatalities.

Our results do not support the notion that suicide attacks and targeted killings follow the “tit-for-tat” pattern that is commonly postulated in the literature.

Chris draws the conclusion from this that suicide bombing is a bad military strategy. But this is only true if the Palestinian leadership minds how many people die. The deaths may help put pressure on the Israeli government. Increasing the reprisal attacks may, perversely be part of the plan.

BURIED IN WASHINGTON POSTIRAQIS JOIN U.S. IN FIGHT

jan adds, and it is even more buried on their web site. What they don't want people to know. Why? Iraqis joining that fight against al qaeda - that's news folks.

Iraqis Join U.S. in Fight on Al-Qaeda Washington Post

The U.S. military is enlisting hundreds of fighters each day from tribal and insurgent groups in alliances aimed at countering al-Qaeda in Iraq, the top U.S. general in Baghdad said yesterday, calling it a "very positive development" but one that requires caution to ensure it works to promote security.

Maj Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr., commander of Multinational Division Baghdad, said U.S. and Iraqi troops control nearly half of the capital's neighborhoods, but that hard fighting remains as operations continue to clear out insurgents from the rest of the city. Overall attack levels in Baghdad remain constant, he said, but casualties have fallen among Iraqi civilians and Iraqi security forces and risen for U.S. troops as their operations and numbers intensify.

In the Abu Ghraib region outside Baghdad, about 1,500 fighters have agreed to renounce violence against U.S. and Iraqi government forces, and join the Iraqi police. About 300 are signing up each day, said Fil, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division. A similar program is underway in the western Baghdad district of Ghazaliyah, he said.

"Some of them, who have previously been fighting us, have come to us, . . . and they want to fight with us. They are tired of al-Qaeda and the influence of al-Qaeda in their tribes and in their neighborhoods, and they want them cleaned out," Fil said. "We're excited about it. But we are, frankly, being cautious."

Senior U.S. military and Pentagon officials have said negotiations with such groups have also progressed in Iraq's western province of Anbar as well as in northern Iraq, where they say a group of 130 tribal sheiks around the town of Tikrit have joined forces against the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. In some regions where such alliances exist, attacks have fallen and the number of roadside bombs discovered before they detonate has risen to as high as 80 percent -- about double the nationwide average, the officials said.

Fil said the U.S. military in Baghdad is not arming the tribes, former insurgents or militias, and that U.S. cooperation with them is "conditional" and required them first to take an oath of allegiance to Iraq and renounce violence. Next, they are organized into groups under the auspices of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense or interior, and "carefully vetted" by the tribal leadership, as well as the U.S. military, which takes their fingerprints and biometric data, he said.

"They must all serve to assist in the stability of Baghdad and be brought into the existing governmental security agencies," said Fil, who said he hopes to expand it to include Shiite groups in eastern and western Baghdad. "It's a deliberate program. I think it's got huge promise," he said.

As the U.S. military undertakes large-scale operations in Baghdad's outskirts to deny insurgents sanctuary, Fil said he sees "steady progress" inside the capital where U.S. and Iraqi troops have established a presence, adding that of Baghdad's 474 neighborhoods, 229 -- or 48 percent -- are under control. That is in contrast to April, he said, when about a quarter of the neighborhoods were under control.

Although large numbers of U.S. troops have been dispatched to the periphery of the city, rather than concentrated in Baghdad, Fil said he has not "seen a degradation" of U.S. capabilities in the capital. Still, Fil acknowledged that any U.S. commander would welcome additional troops. "I would be very pleased to take more," he said.

Attacks in Baghdad, such as car bombs, are less effective in killing and wounding Iraqi civilians, because U.S. and Iraqi forces have created walled neighborhoods and markets as well as roadblocks and checkpoints that make it harder for insurgents to strike in crowded streets, Fil said.

Nevertheless, casualties are up among U.S. troops as they push into Baghdad neighborhoods to conduct patrols, raids and other operations in greater numbers, Fil said, with about 10,000 more U.S. troops inside Baghdad proper than before the U.S. troop increase began in January.

"To be sure, the enemy is fighting back, hard, in some of these areas that we've taken away," Fil said, referring to al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters who remain entrenched in the districts of Rasheed, Doura and elsewhere.

Fil said the five U.S. soldiers killed and six wounded Thursday in Rasheed were struck by gunfire, rocket-propelled grenades and a large explosive device hidden underground. Such "deep-buried" bombs -- often composed of several artillery shells, large quantities of homemade explosives and mines -- are one factor in the rising U.S. death toll. To prevent the attacks, Fil said, the U.S. military is welding shut access covers on sewage systems and also watching carefully for drainage ditches that pass underneath roads and other avenues for emplacing the explosives.

FIGHTING OVER THE LEFTARD AUDIENCE

As if there weren't enough leftwing news networks - Crescent News Network (CNN) and the BBC face stiff competition:

COMING SOON: THE MULLAH NEWS NETWORK Jihadwatch

As if the BBC and CNN weren't enough for them already.

"Iran to vie with West by launching news channel," from Reuters, with thanks to Ur:

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's state broadcaster will launch a 24-hour English-language satellite news channel next week to rival dominant Western services, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Tehran-based PRESS TV starts broadcasting from Tehran on Monday staffed by both Iranians and foreigners, and will seek to compete against the likes of CNN and BBC World, Nader Rad, head of live programming, told Reuters.

"The news is mostly covered by the Western media. We would like to have a say in this," he said.

"They (Western outlets) don't usually cover the whole story ... The news about Iraq does not cover all perspectives. The news about Palestine and Beirut is also like this," he said.

I couldn't agree more.

NY Times and WaPo Hearts Hamas

ugh.

Hamas scores publicity coup in U.S. (Reuters) 
Shunned by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, the Islamist group Hamas scored a publicity coup this week by defending its policies in Gaza with opinion pieces in two of the country's most influential newspapers on the same day. The New York Times and The Washington Post gave space to Ahmed Yousef, a senior Hamas figure, on Wednesday to argue that the United States should not interfere in Gaza, where Hamas took control after six days of bloody fighting against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah fighters. Yousef is senior political adviser to Ismail Haniyeh, who became Palestinian prime minister after elections last year. He is now contesting his dismissal by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who formed a new government in the West Bank after Hamas took over Gaza. Hamas leaders rarely have access to major U.S. media to express their views unfiltered, and getting an opinion piece into the Times and the Post on the same day appeared unprecedented.

UPDATE: Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri voices support for Hamas

NY Times Digs Grave quicker faster

Ed Lasky rips The Times a new one. Their demise can happen soon enough.

THE NEW YORK TIMES OUTDOES ITSELF TODAY Ed Lasky, American Thinker

The New York Times outdoes itself: an essay by Noah Feldman on Israel and the Palestinians consigns some history to the Memory Hole.

Touting the charms of Syria, The Baathist enemy of democracy in Iraq, in the travel section was not enough for today's New York Times. The magazine section had this essay by their periodic contributor-foreign policy expert Noah Feldman (who is a professor of law, not diplomacy, at New York University).

Here he blames Israel and America for the failure of the Palestinians and the rise of Hamas. How does Israel in particular play into this dynamic? By

"bombing Gaza last summer (in retaliation for the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers), a move that further weakened Abbas and his Fatah party".

Feldman does not even deign to report the fact that Israel had completely removed itself from Gaza, turning it over to the Palestinians, lock, stock, and barrel. Nor does he mention that any bombing attacks against Gaza were not acts of "retaliation" ( a word with pejorative connotations), but were meant to suppress the thousands of missiles launched into Israel from the Gaza that were meant to terrorize, maim and kill Israelis. His wording makes it seem as if Israel were engaging in collective punishment and was indiscriminate in its targeting. In fact, Israel exposes its pilots to greater danger by trying to be very precise and deliberate in its targeting-only aiming to stop the terrorist and focusing on minimizing the damage while trying its utmost to minimize civilian casualties.

He did not even mention these endless rounds of rocket attacks; not a single word.

It gets better. Read it all here.

UPDATE: Ed Lasky continues,"Notably, this article which honestly addresses the issue of the extremism among Hamas leaders and members- was written by Joel Brinkley the former NYT reporter responsible for covering the Middle East  until he left the paper a short time ago to teach journalism at Stanford.. He clearly felt these views during that period, but refrained from expressing them in the New York Times. A matter of fact, Brinkley had been been harshly criticized for a range of stories that were very pro-Palestinian and were marked by journalistic failings when he wrote for the Times. 

The Times not only  has positively portrayed Hamas  many times in its news sections(the social service" angle that allowed the paper to whitewash Hamas) but has also allowed Hamas leaders and their supporters to publish op-eds that spin the image of Hamas; meanwhile, the paper all but ignored the extremism that was and is rife within Hamas.

What does this say about "free speech" at the Times, journalistic credibility, editorial  oversight and control, and the paper's ideologically driven agenda towards Israel?"

Getting up close and personal with Hamas
Joel Brinkley

Sunday, June 24, 2007

IN THE GAZA Strip last week, Hamas fighters grinned and preened as they drove around in new Jeep Cherokees seized from Fatah leaders in their successful coup. Hamas is now in undisputed control of Gaza, but calling that a pyrrhic victory may be too generous.

While President Bush and other Western leaders stumble over each other as they scramble to embrace Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah leader, the leaders of Hamas are locked away in their new Gaza kingdom. Within days, tens of millions of dollars in foreign aid will begin sluicing into Fatah bank accounts -- while little more than emergency assistance trickles into Gaza. Israel is still debating whether to resume deliveries of gasoline. The Saudi foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, said it best early last week: "'The Palestinians have come close to putting, by themselves, the last nail in the coffin of the Palestinian cause." That's a time-worn truism about the Palestinians, but the way events developed through the week, it seemed to fit Hamas best. Read it all.

Banned by PBS: Muslims Against Jihad

Banned by PBS: Muslims Against Jihad
Saturday, June 23 at 9 p.m. ET
Sunday, June 24 at 3 a.m. ET
Hosted by E.D. Hill

Tune in this weekend, as FOX News Channel presents the documentary the Public Broadcasting System didn't want you to see

set that DVR!

RELATED: SHUT AND RUN THE FILM

New York Times Death Spiral

Hooha! Long live free market forces!

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING NEW YORK TIMES Thomas Lifson American Thinker hat tip Irwin

Faced with rapidly waning print media revenue and internet revenues which are growing, but not even close to offsetting the decline of print, the strategic plan of Pinch Sulzberger is failing. He had hoped to replace print profits with skyrocketing electronic publishing revenues, but evidently lacked any concrete notion of how to get from here to there, and overpaid for a niche website in a business increasing ruled by ruthless giant players like Microsoft and Google.

Having last year sold off the highly profitable television broadcast properties that were a legacy of the previous generation of company management and the last of the crown jewels, there is no more cushion of ready profits to mitigate the failure of the print business to arrest its death spiral. The earnings reported last week demonstrated that financially, the company is composed of a large newspaper business decaying faster and faster, slightly offset by a medium-sized, nicely-but-not-spectacularly-growing internet publishing business, and a half interest in a Manhattan skyscraper under construction.

Yesterday, New York Times Company Chief Executive Janet Robinson told investors at a Newspaper Association of America conference in New York that the company would be raising the price of single copy newspapers and home delivery subscriptions. At the same time, the company has suddenly accelerated and apparently made more drastic a previously-announced plan to shrink the physical size of the paper and cut the amount of news provided to readers. It is also speeding the closing of a mammoth Edison, NJ printing plant that was one of Pinch Sulzberger's first strategic moves, opening in 1992, but which, after the decline of metropolitan circulation during the Pinch years, is now surplus capacity, its presses and skilled workers unnecessary burdens.

You must read it all, it takes a special kind of idiot to destroy the golden goose.

MILKING THE CASH COW
THE NEWS HOLE
THE ADVERTISING COLLAPSE

9 of 10 journalists $upport the Democrats.

Gunpowder...

MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. hat tip Jay

Two gave to both parties. 9 of 10 journalists support the Democrats.

Gubmint & Media Pimps and Hos for CAIR

First take a look at what Fred Thompson said about CAIR here;

I've talked before about the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- most recently because it filed that lawsuit against Americans who reported suspicious behavior by Muslims on a U.S. Airways flight. Better known just as CAIR, the lobbying group has come under a lot of scrutiny lately for its connections to terror-supporting groups. This time, though, The Washington Times has uncovered some very good news about the group.

For years, CAIR has claimed to represent millions of American Muslims. In fact, they claim to represent more Muslim in American than ... there are in America. This has alarmed Americans in general as the group often seems to be more aligned with our enemies than us -- which isn't surprising as it spun off from a group funded by Hamas. As you know, Hamas has been waging a terrorist war against Israel and calls for its total destruction. It also promises to see America destroyed. Nowadays, Hamas is busy murdering its Palestinian political rivals.

Even with this history, and CAIR's conspicuous failure to condemn Hamas by name, it has been treated as if represents Muslim Americans by our own government. The good news is that the financial support CAIR claims to have among American Muslims is a myth. We know this because The Washington Times got hold of the group's IRS tax records.

CAIR's dues-paying membership has shrunk 90 percent since 9/11 -- from 29,000 in 2000 to only 1,700 last year. CAIR's annual income from dues plunged from $733,000 to $59,000. Clearly, America's Muslims are not supporting this group -- and I'm happy to hear about it.

Of course, every silver lining seems to have a cloud; and this cloud is that CAIR's spending is running about $3 million a year. They’ve opened 25 new chapters in major cities across the country even as their dues shrank to a pittance. The question is; who’s funding CAIR?

CAIR's not saying. The New York Times earlier this year reported that the backing is from "wealthy Persian Gulf governments" including the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Obviously, we have a bigger problem here than the one with CAIR.

::Back::

Take the asshats to task! I love when I get cc'ed on letters like these. Mama always told me to share my treats so I am running it.

Jim, a concerned American, writes mainstream media reporter a letter at ldemeglio@delcotimes.com  and hammers her for supporting Ohio Governor Ted Strickland for kissing CAIR's ass.

Linda!

 

How are you?

You don't have to worry too much about giving both the leader of your own state, Governor Ed Rendell, and the Congressman in your own backyard, Joe Sestak a pass their association with the Council for American Islamic Relations.  You might remember CAIR as the group named recently by Federal Prosectuors as a terror-funding un-indicted co-conspirator.  Remember how Rendell and Sestak attending CAIR fund-raising activities, employed their "tireless" workers for errands, and in Sestak's case, hired full-time staffer Adeeba al-Zeman, and thereby supporting CAIR's stated goal to remove Israel from the map?

 

Ohio's governor Ted Strickland has recently received attention in Front Page Mag, (www DOT frontpagemag DOT com) for his comments at CAIR's Ohio annual fundraiser.  Gee, you have to wonder if Rendell was the matchmaker there...Ohio and Pennsylvania are contiguous, after all.  Oh, just a thought.

 

Back to the point, though, Linda.  It surely seems to me that no one gives a damn about anti-Semtism anymore. Right?  I'm pretty sure you don't, since you will not pursue this link of your Governor and your District Congressman's links to this terror-funding group.

 

Probably a small readership for you.

 

Say, I was wondering, do you think it is racial profiling for Hamas, the group federal prosecutors say CAIR has helped raise money for, to attack Jews in Israel every day?  Sorry, off topic.

 

Another question:  Did you ever get around to asking your county/coverage area Jews what they thought about Rendell's and Sestak's affiliation with an group named by federal prosecutors as un-indicted terror funding co-conspirators?

 

No, huh?

 

Well, thanks for your time.  Keep stroking Joe Sestak for his work on airplane noise.

GOOD SOLID LOCAL STORY.

 

Just another thought--doesn't it bother you a little that a member of CAIR--a group named as a terror-co-conspirator by Federal Prosecutors,  which organization is avowedly dedicated to the removal of Israel from the map, and is affiliated with Hamas--has access to FAA documentation regarding rerouting of airplane traffic?

 

Keep up the _____ work.

Hezb'Allah Used Cluster Bombs Crickets Chirping

When Israel was accused of using cluster bombs in Islam's war against the Jews last summer the world went had agrand mal seizure and bit clear through its collective tongue.
Not so when the Islamazis drop clusters to clusterfuck the Jews.  This from The Boston Globe aht tip to Jan P;

Hizbullah fired cluster bombs into civilian areas of northern Israel in the recent conflict, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

The Lebanese Shia militia used two Chinese-made rockets for cluster strikes that hit the village of Mghar in Galilee on July 25, according to evidence gathered by the US-based organisation.

Although Israel made extensive use of cluster weapons against Lebanon, this is the first independent confirmation that Hizbullah used the weapons.

Cluster weapons scatter hundreds of small "bomblets" as they land, and can cause death or injuries over a wide area. "We are disturbed to discover that not only Israel but also Hizbullah used cluster munitions in their recent conflict, at a time when many countries are turning away from this kind of weapon precisely because of its impact on civilians," said Steve Goose, director of Human Rights Watch's arms division.

The organisation cited statements from witnesses in Mghar, including some who had found "clearly identifiable pieces of submunitions and their casings".

Israeli police told Human Rights Watch they had documented 113 cluster rockets fired at Israel, causing one death and 12 injuries. In Lebanon the UN has identified 749 locations hit by cluster weapons. Many bomblets fail to explode and 20 deaths from cluster weapons have been reported in southern Lebanon since the ceasefire.

Human Rights Watch said: "The new findings raise serious concerns about the proliferation of these weapons to non-state armed groups, as well as states."

Pinch me. Is it possible Human Rights Watch is finding fault with the savages?

Creating News and Disinformaton

Mara sent this onto me, "thus is disinformation spread in the ME.  Thus are reports about the Mideast generated." Here at Haaretz;

The New Yorker published an article three months ago dealing with the Bush administration's attitude toward Sunnis and Shi'ites, written by investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh. In the article, Hersh wrote that the U.S. administration, embracing realpolitik, was siding with the Sunnis in their conflict with the Shi'ites. This led the administration to cooperate even with those who are hostile toward the United States, including groups linked to Al-Qaida. To back up his claim, Hersh wrote that the United States was transferring funds to the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, even though it knew some of the money was going to the Palestinian group Fatah al-Islam in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. (The article was published about two months before fighting broke out between Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese army.)

Sharp-eyed reporters in Beirut read the article in astonishment. Siniora, of the Lebanese Sunni establishment, was assisting allies of Al-Qaida who had split off from a pro-Syrian organization? And the United States was aware of this and might even be planning it, in order to strike at Hezbollah? And all this was in the context of aid to the Sunni forces in the Middle East in their conflict with Shi'ites backed, according to Hersh, by Iran? A world turned on its head. How could it be?

UPDATE: Melanie Phillips takes it on: APPEASERS OF EVIL hat tip Carolyn

Ethiopia: NY Times Shills for Islamazis

The NYT did a "support piece" on the Ogaden National Liberation Front  (ONLF) today portraying them as "rebels" and doing the good fight against the terrible Ethiopian government in Ogaden, a spindle-legged corner of Ethiopia, see map and connections to Somalia. hat tip Bill Warner

Regular Atlas readers know Ethiopia has been on the real frontlines in the war against the jihad so it is, of course, most disturbing but hardly surprising that The New York _jihad Times would launch it's missiles at Ethiopia and come out strongly for murdering Islamazis.

Just recently Ethiopia, with the assistance of the US Military, targeted al-Qaeda based "rebels" in Somalia and killed or captured hundreds of terrorists, see prior stories from.....

USA TODAY: Officials: U.S. airstrikes target suspected embassy bombers in Somalia  Monday's attack was the first overt military action by the U.S. in Somalia since it led a U.N. force in the 1990s that intervened in Somalia in an effort to fight famine. The mission led to clashes between U.N. forces and Somali warlords, including the "Black Hawk Down" battle that left 18 U.S. servicemen dead. 

Also see the Christian Science Monitor here;

US takes hunt for Al Qaeda to Somalia "Ethiopia is central to the ideology of the Islamists," says Medhane Tadesse, an Ethiopian historian in Addis Ababa and expert on the Islamist movement Al Ittihad.

"One of the issues that divide moderate Muslims from extremists is the position they take on whether Ethiopia should be Islamicized. The prophet Muhammad exempted Ethiopia from jihad, and now the extremists say that Muhammad was wrong.

"By making Ethiopia the enemy, they know they will attract Islamic NGOs (non-governmental organizations) from Saudi Arabia and Iran," Mr. Tadesse says.

Way to go NYT, pander to the terrorists and make them look like "freedom fighters", see the NYT story below and also see ONLF's links to terrorism at MIPT.

Bill Warner

Published: June 18, 2007 New York Times

THE OGADEN DESERT, Ethiopia — The rebels march 300 strong across the crunchy earth, young men with dreadlocks and AK-47s slung over their shoulders.

With the Rebels

uh, note "rebels"

Often when they pass through a village, the entire village lines up, one sunken cheekbone to the next, to squint at them.

“May God bring you victory,” one woman whispered.

This is the Ogaden, a spindle-legged corner of Ethiopia that the urbane officials in Addis Ababa, the capital, would rather outsiders never see. It is the epicenter of a separatist war pitting impoverished nomads against one of the biggest armies in Africa.

What goes on here seems to be starkly different from the carefully constructed up-and-coming image that Ethiopia — a country that the United States increasingly relies on to fight militant Islam in the Horn of Africa — tries to project.

The Ethiopian government calls the Ogaden rebels terrorists and says they are armed and trained by Eritrea, Ethiopia’s neighbor and bitter enemy. One of the reasons Ethiopia decided to invade Somalia was to prevent the rebels from using it as a base.

The government blames them for a string of recent bombings and assassinations and says they often single out rival clan members. Ethiopian officials have been pressuring the State Department to add the Ogaden National Liberation Front to its list of designated foreign terrorist organizations. Until recently, American officials refused, saying the rebels had not threatened civilians or American interests.

“But after the oil field attack in April,” said one American official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, “we are reassessing that.”

What American leftist lacky leaking official?

Leftist Mainstream Media Blames the Jooooos

It took five minutes longer than expected but you just knew that the leftards would blame the Jews for the savages engaging in their favorite recreational activity brutality, murder and terror.

Have you notice the lack of concern for the "innocent civilians" getting killed. ONLY THE JEWS KILL INNOCENT CIVILIANS - especially the murdering, killer innocent civilians. BTW, Israel ready to supply aid to Gaza (they are nuts.)

While all this murder, mayhem, coldblooded killing going on - the Washington Post is running with this bullshit Israeli army denies tank shelling at Gaza children. As if.........

Larwyn writes, "a CNN reporter spoke of Hamas taking Fatah members away, but said WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM They didn't report on the executions." 

Taranto in the Opinion Journal here

Palestinian Family Planning
The Boston Globe editorial board looks at the Gaza civil war, and finds it's the fault of the Jews:

The people of Gaza are the true victims of the civil war most of all because the fighting is destroying their future. With the military wing of Hamas poised to seize complete control of Gaza in what Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rightly called a "coup attempt," Gaza's residents stand to lose whatever hope remained of achieving independence and a decent life in a viable Palestinian state.

The Hamas campaign to eradicate Fatah from Gaza is certainly not the sole cause of Gazans' misery. They long suffered from Israel's suffocating occupation, and then from Ariel Sharon's foolishly unilateral withdrawal in 2005, a move that allowed Hamas to bid for power with the misleading claim that its rockets and suicide bombings had driven Israeli soldiers and settlers out of Gaza.

According to the Globe, Israel is to blame both for its "occupation" and for having ended it--the latter of which "allowed Hamas to bid for power." But "the people of Gaza" are innocent victims. It somehow escapes the Globe's notice that Hamas came to power because Palestinians voted for it. The Globe denies that Palestinians are responsible for their own actions, and thereby dehumanizes them under a pretense of compassion.

ICON OF HATRED

Richard Landes, of the Second Draft and Augean Stables, sent me this eye-opening, thoroughly researched account of the unholy alliance between the main stream media and the jihad. The proverbial road to hell.

If you want to understand the troubling relationship between the MSM and the success of Jihad in the 21st Century, this film is the place to start.

Second Draft releases the third in the series According to Palestinian Sources. Written, researched and produced by Richard Landes, a medieval historian turned media critic, Icon of Hatred explores how the media-created icon of Muhammad al Durah’s death, helped launch a new phase of global Jihad at the dawn of the 21st century.

 

To this day, most Westerners typically greet any effort to discuss the Al Durah MSM scandal with: “Fuggedaboudit! It’s over.  History.  Let sleeping dogs lie.” 

But such is not the way with blood libels.  They constantly emit their poison into the information bloodstream. So once the Al Durah “lethal narrative” entered the mainstream of public opinion worldwide, it exerted – and continues to exert -- an astonishingly noxious influence, blighting our young and global 21st century.

 

Icon of Hatred explores

1)    how PA TV took the footage of what was, at most, an Israeli error, most likely a work of Pallywood, and turned it into an accusation of cold-blooded murder, a proof of Israeli intentions to commit genocide.

2)    how this “blood martyr” became the icon not only of the “Al Aqsa Intifada,” but of global Jihad, catapulting Jihadism from the margins to the center of Muslim “street,” making suicide bombing the weapon of choice.

3)    how Al Durah became the symbol of outraged compassion in the West, fueling an anti-Zionist crusade that aligned the “human rights” and “anti-war” left with the most murderous theocrats on the globe. And how, in embracing the Muslim equation of Israel with Nazis, European intellectuals have encouraged the surge of Islamist triumphalism not only in the Middle East, but within their own countries.

(Place de la République, Paris, October 6, 2000, amidst cries of: “Death to Israel, Kill the Jews.”

In the history of psychological warfare, Al Durah is an atom bomb, perhaps the first. No single event stirred Global Jihad Warming more ardently.

 

Icon of Hatred offers a potent “red pill” for those who wish to awaken from the virtual reality that the MSM have spun around our understanding of the Middle East conflict with their “grand frame” of “Palestinian David vs. Israeli Goliath.” It sheds a stark light on the dynamics of war and mega-death that, hatched in the tragic crucible of the Arab Israeli conflict, now haunt this whole earth. The fate of the al-Durah Icon of Hatred offers that rare single narrative that unpeels multiple layers of the cultural folly that has placed the West in its current danger and disarray.

 

View Icon of Hatred in Streaming Video or download it in High Definition DVIX for free, or on YouTube I, and II

Icon of Hatred is Part III of According to Palestinian sources…  Viewing Parts I and II first is recommended.

Part I: Pallywood (Streaming) (High Definition) (Youtube)

Part II: Al Durah: The Making of an Icon (Streaming) (High Definition) (Youtube)

Part III: Icon of Hatred (Streaming) (Video)  (High Definition) (YouTube I, and II)

Part IV: Where to? Rebuking the Media (in production). 

Richard Landes is Professor of Medieval History at Boston University, the animator of The Second Draft, and blogger at The Augean Stables.  Having analyzed a major dossier of forgeries around the dawn of the second millennium, he has turned his attention to another, and far more dangerous constellation, that permeate our MSM at the dawn of the third millennium.

IRAN TO EXECUTE PORN STARS

While the American leftarded mainstream media keeps apologizing for the mad mullahs of Iran, the Muslims keep pushing the envelope on barbarism.
What is amazing to me is that the party and the platform proudly responsible for sex, drugs and promiscuity fronts for the animals that would execute them for it first.

IRAN MOVES TO EXECUTE PORN STARS CNN

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corruptors of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corruptors of the world."

The term, "corruptor of the world" is taken from the Quran, the Muslims' holy book, and ranks among the highest on the scale of an individual's criminal offenses. Under Iran's Islamic Penal Code, it carries a death penalty.

The "main elements" refered to in the draft include producers, directors, cameramen and actors involved in making a pornographic video.

Hey Follywood, you listening? You're next dhimwits.

The bill also envisages convictions ranging from one year imprisonment to a death sentence for the main distributors of the movies and also producers of Web sites in which the pornographic works would appear.

Besides videos, the bill covers all electronic visual material, such as DVD and CDs. Other material, such as porn magazines and books are already banned under Iranian law. More here.

Check out the leftist apologists for Islam. Left loving, America Hating TIME Magazine. The Weekly Standard Scrapbook here (PAID);

As Reuel Marc Gerecht wrote in last week's issue, Iran's clerical regime "has aided and abetted virulently anti-American, radical Iraqi groups, exported to Iraq sophisticated automatic explosive devices designed to kill American and British soldiers, pushed forward defiantly its construction of uranium-enriching centrifuges, and kidnapped at least five American citizens in Iran. . . .

"Utterly bogus espionage charges have been hurled at three, including Haleh Esfandiari, the director of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center in Washington. Like her boss, former congressman Lee Hamilton, a chairman of the Iraq Study Group, Ms. Esfandiari has been an advocate of reconciliation between the United States and her homeland."

As Gerecht noted, the espionage charges were a calculated outrage-a thumb in the eye of the U.S. government lodged the day after the May 28 talks in Baghdad between U.S. and Iranian officials. The accused Americans have "absolutely nothing to do with U.S. intelligence and would have recoiled from any advocacy of 'regime change.'"

Comes  now Time magazine to defend the Iranian government. "Did the U.S. Incite Iran's Crackdown?" asks Time in its headline, and as usual with such phony rhetorical questions, you know the answer is yes even before reading the story.

"Tehran's jailing of Haleh Esfandiari, a 67-year-old grandmother," Time's correspondent finds, is the fault of the Bush administration for having "trumpeted its $61.1 million democracy program" aimed at undermining the Iranian dictatorship. Esfandiari's jailers, you see, were provoked. "Akbar Ganji and Emaddeddin Baghi, two of Iran's most prominent pro-democracy activists, who have served long prison sentences for their activities, are among those who protested the U.S. democracy program. In a letter to international human rights organizations after Esfandiari's imprisonment, Baghi denounced the program as morally unjustifiable for effectively putting Iranian activists in harm's way."

But wait, there's more: "The pro-democracy program is not Tehran's only sore point with the U.S. Apart from the ongoing nuclear controversy, Iran is angry over the continuing detention of five of its diplomats, arrested during a U.S. raid in Iraq in January. There was some speculation that the arrest and interrogation of Esfandiari and other Iranian-Americans might be an attempt to set up a 'hostage exchange'-the U.S. citizens in return for the Iranian diplomats." Time fails to report the contention of the U.S. government that the "diplomats" are in fact members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which is providing assistance to our enemies in Iraq.

It used to be that dictators had to rely on the likes of Ramsey

Clark or Lord Haw-Haw  provide this quality of one-sided advocacy. Now they can just depend on the Bush-bashing predilections of the American press.

KAREN HUGHES - STEP DOWN!

Drudge reporting hatip Pastorius

Kudos to the most excellent Joel Mowbray for exposing terror TV, Al Hurra. The man deserves a Pulitzer (when it meant something.)

Ken Tomlinson, former head of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, who set up Al Hurra to be an alternative to Al Jazeera and a pro-America, voice of freedom in the Middle East calls on Karen Hughes to step down in interview set to air on SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME. 'Al Hurra has become an echo chamber for Al Jazeera'... Developing..

Powerline  is reporting here. Good news.  Larry Register has resigned from Al Hurra!  CAMERA has it all here.

Joel Mowbray reports: Anatomy of a "Resignation"

 

Joel Mowbray ( jdmowbra@erols.com ) follows up his series of reports on the government funded Al Hurra television network with analysis of the resignation of Larry Register:

In the long, sordid saga of the Larry Register era at Al Hurra, which ended Friday with the news director's "resignation," what was most troubling was not all that he had done, but rather what finally did him in.

Register's masters at the State Department and the network's oversight panel, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), demonstrated remarkable tolerance for his misdeeds.

Ordering an interview with an alleged al Qaeda operative who expressed joy that 9/11 "rubbed America's nose in the dust"? No problem. Airing live speeches from the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah? Not an issue. Providing fawning coverage of Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial conference? Forgivable. Insisting that Al-Hurra refer to the creation of Israel in 1948 as "the castatrophe"? Mistakes happen.

So what was it that finally caused State and the BBG to rescind its previously unwavering support of Register? It was the great green motivator: money.

A key Congressional panel last Tuesday sent an unmistakable signal that lawmakers weren't as enamored of Register as State and the BBG, zeroing out an expected $14 million increase in Al Hurra's funding for fiscal year 2008.

That sealed Register's fate.

In fact, because Al Hurra officials were confident that the network would receive most or all of the requested $14 million funding increase, several BBG members gave Register expressions of support Tuesday morning -- a day after my third Wall Street Journal column, and just hours before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations announced its FY 2008 spending bill.

Once State and the BBG figured out that they could not have both Register and the extra cash, three months' worth of solid support quickly crumbled.

It was a dramatic reversal. The day after my first Wall Street Journal column ran on March 12, the BBG voted 5-to-1 not to investigate. The subsequent letter to the editor of the Journal was simply puzzling, refusing to address any specific reported facts, instead writing their own simple review of the job they thought Register was doing: "BRAVO!"

For months afterward, the BBG catchphrase was that "mistakes were made." Even after I reported that e-mails and internal memos established Register's direct responsibility for most of the controversial broadcasts, board members stuck by him. Even when several BBG members learned on May 15 that he had hired Yasser Thabet, an Al-Jazeera veteran who had used his blog to express affection for terrorists, they were content merely to axe Thabet, sparing Register.

Almost as stalwart in her support of Register was Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes, who spearheads U.S. outreach to the Arab world. On May 9, just over a week after my second Journal column, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack -- almost certainly at the behest of Hughes -- said that Register was doing "a very good job." By last week, though, she pretended she had no connection to him. In a statement released to NBC News, Hughes said flatly, "We don't run [Al Hurra]."

Critics aren't buying it. "Hughes and the BBG are the only reason Register got to stick around as long as he did. They owe the American people an explanation why they stonewalled for him for almost three months," said Mark Broxmeyer, chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). Having spent considerable time getting contacts in his impressive Rolodex to look into the Al Hurra mess, Broxmeyer added that none of the folks with whom he raised the issue could believe that State and the BBG mounted such a furious defense with so little to stand on.

That the BBG waited almost three months to force out Register -- and even then, only after losing expected funding -- illustrates the sad state of the board.

 

Whores, Scoundrels, REAL Dogs of War

The good news? Carolyn sounds the death knell for the ashen Grey lady of the night, The New York Times;

The Grey Lady has already lost half her stock value in the last 5 years.  HALF!  And it's still plunging.  But to give you an insight into Pinch's fiscal cluelessness - in the midst of his company hemorrhaging money, he demands $1 billion for a new building!  Hello?  To come up with funds to pay for it, he sold the Times' radio and television stations - the only part of his empire that is actually making money!  In other words, he sold profit to pay for loss.  And, boy, is it losing.

It got so bad that last year, the shareholders sued in order to oust Pinch - twice.  They failed both times.  You see, though the shareholders own Times stock - they don't CONTROL it.  Pinch does with his and his family's special class of 'voting' stock.  And the family still votes to let Pinch ('I hope an American soldier dies instead of a Viet Cong') Sulzberger make all the decisions.  Pinch rinses his hands of responsibility for the plunging readership by saying readers are abandoning ALL print for the internet - but that's not true.  The New York Post just exceeded the Grey Lady in readership, and the Post is still growing.  The Grey Lady is going in the opposite direction.

We love the Post.

Ttrust me, however.  Within 2 years, the Grey Lady will reach critical mass and declare bankruptcy.  No, I don't think this is wishful thinking - I consider it truth.  You know - the kind that the Times doesn't see 'fit' to print. 

The bad news. It's still alive. This from Taranto at The WSJ Opinion Journal;

The Liberal Suicide Pact
It seems we weren't the only one to notice that the New York Times buried news of a foiled terror plot against John F. Kennedy International Airport on page 37. A pair of Times readers submitted questions about this to Suzanne Daley, the paper's national editor, who is doing a "Talk to the Newsroom" question-and-answer series this week. Here is Daley's explanation:

Here's the basic thinking on the J.F.K. story: In the years since 9/11, there have been quite a few interrupted terrorist plots. It now seems possible to exercise some judgment about their gravity. Not all plots are the same. In this case, law enforcement officials said that J.F.K. was never in immediate danger. The plotters had yet to lay out plans. They had no financing. Nor did they have any explosives. It is with all that in mind, that the editors in charge this weekend did not put this story on the front page.

In truth, the decision was widely debated even within this newsroom. At the front page meeting this morning, we took an informal poll and a few editors thought the story should have been more prominently played. Some argued it should have been fronted, regardless of the lameness of the plot, simply because it was what everyone was talking about.

Today, the Times has yet another editorial demanding that enemy combatants be afforded full rights under the U.S. Constitution:

Congress should shut down Guantánamo Bay, as called for in bills sponsored by two California Democrats, Representative Jane Harman in the House and Senator Dianne Feinstein in the Senate. Both lawmakers are intimately familiar with the camp and have concluded it is beyond salvaging.

Their bill would close Gitmo in a year and the detainees would be screened by real courts. Those who are truly illegal combatants would be sent to military or civilian jails in the United States, to be tried under time-tested American rules of justice, or sent to an international tribunal. Some would be returned to their native lands for trial, if warranted. The rest would be set free, as they should have been long ago.

The Guantánamo camp was created on a myth--that the American judicial system could not handle prisoners of "the war against terror."

The attitudes expressed by Daley and the Times editorial board are quite typical of elite liberal thought. They share a premise that the threat of terrorism has been greatly exaggerated. But on closer analysis, there is a contradiction, one that reveals why liberal thinking on terrorism is dangerous not only to American national security but also, in the long run, to liberal ideals.

Every time law-enforcement authorities announce that they have stopped a terror plan, we hear Daley-like pooh-poohing from the left: The plot wasn't really that serious, it was nowhere near being carried out, the suspects were just a bunch of losers, that sort of thing. (The battier Bush-haters add that the announcement is a publicity stunt to stoke public fear or serve some political purpose.)

If this is true, then the Times's blithe assurance that the criminal-justice system is sufficient for dealing with the terror threat is utterly fatuous, is it not?

Of course, newspaper editorialists don't make policy, so their fatuity is cost-free. But the Times's ideas are well within what passes for the mainstream of the Democratic Party. The Times carries a news story today titled "Democrats Hope to Expand Rights at Guantanamo." They are unlikely to succeed as long as George W. Bush wields the veto pen, but if a Democrat is elected president next year, all bets are off.

John Edwards has endorsed the view, which the Times expressed with those scare quotes above, that the war on terror isn't real. Barack Obama, in a CNN forum the other night, declared, "I believe Guantanamo, the decision to detain people without charges, is unjust"--never mind that under international law, even legitimate prisoners of war may be held without charge for the duration of hostilities.

If the Democrats hold their congressional majorities and one of them becomes president, then, it is quite possible that the Times's view will prevail.

What the Times is proposing is that all terrorists in U.S. custody be freed unless prosecutors can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they have committed a specific crime--and in making their case, prosecutors would be bound by all the restrictions on admissibility of evidence that protect ordinary criminal defendants in the civilian courts.

What if the U.S. adopts such an approach and it turns out to be inimical to national security? What if, that is, President Clinton or President Obama or President Edwards signs the Harmon-Feinstein legislation, Guantanamo is emptied, and a few years later we see another 9/11 or worse?

Would the American people accept the idea that serial mass murder on our own soil is just the price we have to pay to preserve some abstract concept of liberty--that is, that the Constitution is a suicide pact after all? We doubt it.

It is much more likely that the political system would find it impossible to resist public demands for much harsher antiterror measures, probably involving genuine curtailments of civil liberties. There is no reason to think that liberal politicians would resist such demands. After all, Woodrow Wilson restricted free speech during World War I, and Franklin D. Roosevelt interned tens of thousands of American citizens during World War II, cheered on by then-Gov. Earl Warren of California. In both cases the Supreme Court ratified the president's excesses.

By overreacting to imagined civil liberties threats today, American liberals may be setting the stage for future overreactions in the other direction. Guantanamo helps keep America free as well as safe.

Theater of the Absurd Run! You're on Pali Candid Camera

Do you believe this? I sure don't. Go over to My Pet Jawa -- they've got all of the photos and all the fauxtography. Why can't these folks pretend to be human?

Seattle Times ran this as their "photo of the day".  What's wrong with this picture? (Click for bigger pic)

Here is the caption from the Seattle Times:

Palestinians run as a rocket falls at them during an Israeli air strike on the Hamas Executive Force building in Nusseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza strip, Friday. Warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip for a ninth day as Palestinians continued to fire rockets into Israel despite a call from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas for a truce.

Er, pardon my skepticism here....but how fast does a "missile" travel anyway?  Because, unless you're both really lucky and have an ultra-fast shutter speed, I'm guessing you're not going to be able to click off a picture of a "missile" miliseconds before it impacts. 

I'm also guessing that the guy in the green soccer shirt wouldn't be able to follow said "missile" with his eyes. Notice how he appears to be looking right at the incoming "missile".

So, is this a case of a "doctored photo"?

Here's a close up of the "missile" from the largest version of the photo I could find, and which I've only blown up to about triple the original size.

There's much more. Go.

IRAN:ROMNEY REAMS JIHAD LOVIN MEDIA

Most excellent Governor Romney;

"First of all, I woke up this morning, and I was shocked to see the ABC News report regarding covert action in Iran.  I was not shocked because of the covert action.  I was shocked because a news organization with such a renowned reputation as ABC News would deem it appropriate to publish information about a covert action existing, and publish that not only to America but to the entire world.  The reporting has the potential of jeopardizing our national security.  Stated quite plainly, it has the potential of affecting human life. We may never know. 

"As you know, Iran is developing a nuclear bomb.  Iran sponsors terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.  Iran's President has denied the Holocaust.  Its leadership has incited to genocide.  Its leadership has suggested the use of nuclear weapons.  In fact, the spread of nuclear terror - nuclear proliferation - is certainly the most threatening of all the prospects on the planet today.  And Iran is the most noted perpetrator of this nuclear proliferation.  And Iran is supplying weapons and expertise that kill American soldiers in Iraq.

"And with all those things in mind and despite those factors, ABC News published classified information that warns Iran and that has the potential of putting Americans at risk.  Now no one wants in a country like ours any form of censorship, but the media has a responsibility to police itself.  And in the last little while, we've seen two examples of a failure in this responsibility.  One by The New York Times with regards to reporting on the electronic eavesdropping on potential terrorists and the other is this report by ABC News.  Responsible policing I just don't think happened on their part.  Responsible policy-making happened on their part.

"And I think it's important to recognize that we have a global war on terror which continues.  It's a global war against violent jihad.  We've seen six years of this.  It's not about to disappear anytime soon.  With that in mind, I think it's time for leadership in the media to consider and adopt voluntary rules of responsible reporting with regards to matters of national security.  Of course, we have a First Amendment which we cherish and value.  It provides for freedom of the press but with this freedom goes the responsibility of the press.  I'm not looking, as I said, for government censorship.  I'm looking for corporate responsibility."

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U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDS MIDEAST TERROR TV

Expanding upon Joel Mowbray's explosive column MAD TV, exposing Al-Hurra the taxpayer financed Arab TV network  that provided a platform to Islamic terrorists,  ABC News is now reporting that the US government gave terrorists unfettered airtime.

Testifying under oath recently, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled Congress in her strong defense of Al-Hurra, the taxpayer financed Arab TV network. This is the person running the entire foreign policy show. This the dhimmi with extraordinary power who is dealing with merciless, bloodthirsty Islamists who intend to install a worldwide caliphate.

U.S. Government Gave Airtime to Terrorists, Official Admits ABC News

Al Hurra television, the U.S. government's $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program.

That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hour-long tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces.

Facing tough questions before a congressional panel last week, Broadcasting Board of Governors member Joaquin Blaya admitted none of the senior news managers at the network spoke Arabic when the terrorist messages made it onto the air courtesy of U.S. taxpayer funds. Nor did Blaya himself or any of the other officials at the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the network.

G-d forbid the State department would ever employ Israeli translators who know this language down cold. Ask Itamar Marcus for G-ds's sake, uh make that for our sake. No Israeli translators working for State. Think their Arabist?

"How does it happen that the terrorists take over?" asked Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, D-N.Y., at a hearing last Wednesday of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee he chairs. "Is there no adult supervision?"

Blaya conceded that the top officials in the network's chain of command could not understand what was being said on al Hurra broadcasts.

Very bad. Although the way Karen Hughes is being used as such a tool, I wouldn't be surprsied if she sanctioned in in the interest of "getting along with others." Kumbaya baby.

Also, the network's news division also had no assignment desk, he said. That left decisions over al Hurra's content in the hands of its reporters and producers, who are, according to Blaya, hastily-hired Arabic-speaking journalists with insufficient understanding of Western journalistic practices or the network's pro-Western mission.

Blaya's comments were first reported by Congressional Quarterly.

It has never been al Hurra's policy to "provide an open, live microphone to terrorists," Blaya assured lawmakers. "It should not have happened."

d'oh.

A Complicit Jihad Loving Media

The media is as guilty as the throat slashers. Their place in history will be so noted. The media never  miss an opportunity to do page one coverage of Israel's responses to attacks that they always fail to cover on any page (except perhaps for quotes such as "Some senior Hamas officials, on condition of anonymity, claim that the Mossad itself is carrying out the Qassam rocket attacks.") hat tip Bruce

Can you imagine the  world outcry if it was Israel "pounding" the Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Think about it.

Brian over at Snapped Shot points out here that "we sure are seeing a lot of these "metal shops" popping up in IDF strikes in the Gaza Strip.  Of course, our unquestioning dunces in the press never fail to FORGET to tell us that these "metal bars" that are always present in these "metal shops" are USED TO BUILD "HOME-MADE" QASSAM ROCKETS. The press is as complicit in the destruction we're seeing in the Middle East as the Palestinians are--If it weren't for the ever-present media eye, these "bullies" would die from lack of attention."

A Palestinian man removes a metal bar from a broken window at his family home after an Israeli missile hit a nearby Hamas militants' camp in Gaza City, Tuesday, May 22, 2007. Israeli air strikes Tuesday targeted two camps used by the Islamic militant group Hamas, Palestinian security officials said. After Monday night's deadly rocket strike that killed an Israeli woman, Israeli defense officials said the army would step up its attacks on Palestinian militants, warning that Hamas' top leaders, including Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, could be in danger.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UPDATE: Ben's random thoughts on this MSNBC article; 

"If the military moves into Nahr el-Bared in force, it could trigger widespread anger around the Arab world..."  

Flattening the place with artillery, on the other hand, produces no anger at all, as long as the finger on the trigger isn't Jewish.  

"We’re under siege. There is a shortage of bread.."  

After one day?  What, does shooting give you guys the munchies?  

"medicine and electricity."  

But not ammunition.  That's something you never hear.  At least its clear they have their priorities set.  

“It is a life-or-death battle."  

As opposed to the Just for Fun kind so popular with these people.  

"Lebanese officials cannot enter the camps under a 1969 agreement that gave the Palestine Liberation Organization authority over them."

These guys should explain, then, why they still consider the land "Lebanon" and not "Palestinistan".

UPDATE:  Judith Klinghoffer expands on this here;

MSM IGNORES IRAN'S TERRORIZING ITS PEOPLE

Ahmadinejad and company do not only export terror, they also uses it to terrorize their own people. Indeed, they are equal opportunity terrorizers. They terrorize their own children, women and men. Of course, they have a carte blanch to do it because MSM refuses to cover the atrocities. This is nothing new. After all, MSM covered up the atrocities of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, China during the Cultural Revolution, the Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and the Palestinian Authority. The Pulitzer Prize committee still refuses to rescind the Pulitzer it gave New York Times reporter, Walter Duranty, for carrying out one of the cover ups. Media vigilence stops at Western democracies edge with the price, of course, being paid by the "people of color." At this moment it the Iranians who are left to the tender mercies of their "elected" madmen. Here are some of the latest examples:

 

There are few more peaceful religions than the Bahai who are celebrating the anniversary of their faith in Israel. Why Israel? Because that is where the Bahai buried the remains of their prophet who was executed in Tabriz. There are a mere 300,000 Bahai in Iran but they are mercilessly persecuted and so are their children. A video posted on Youtube entitled A hope and a prayer reveals (they disabled the embed, but do watch it) that a study done earlier this year documented 150 instances of harassment, insults and physical violence inflicted on their children within a period of a single month

My God, They are beating their women to a bloody pulp.

 

 

It's all about clothing and there are many more such bloody pictures of men as well as women. Note that the picture bellow is part of a series published by the official Iranian news agency. It is part of a series of such photos clearly designed to terrorize the population into submission.

 

Iran also tries to terrorize emigres who got used to visiting Iran regularly. They chose Haleh Esfandiari, a high profile scholar, to issue this warning. They charged her with trying to ferment a "soft revolution." They know MSM will help them along by publicizing Haleh's case but keeping the rest of their atrocities under wraps. Objectively, if not intentionally, MSM continues to be the best friend "evil doers" have. They ignore the evil they direct towards their own people while publicizing the evil they direct towards their enemies.

Will they ever learn?

Palis SHOOT 15 Human Shields Mainstream media crickets chirping

This is how you can determine just how antisemitic and jihad loving the media really is. Can you imagine if a Jew killed a human shield (even accidentally - can you say Rachel Corrie?) But the blood lusty barbarians are given every courtesy. Hell in a hand basket, folks, hell in a hand basket.

Palestinians Shoot 15 Human Shields IRIS Blog

200 Gaza residents decided their "human shield" tactics worked so well against the Israelis, they would try it to stop the shooting between rival terrorists in Gaza:

"Just as we used to protect you from the occupation by acting as human shields, we have come to protect you from yourselves," one protester shouted at gunmen, referring to instances when Palestinian civilians positioned themselves between militants and Israeli forces.

The gunmen used it as an opportunity to refine their technical skills, injuring approximately 15 of them.

See also: Gaza City: "A City of Corpses and Ghosts"

"Even during the Israeli occupation the situation wasn't this terrible," says Um Mohammed, praying for an end to the lethal Palestinian infighting raging outside her Gaza City home. Fear reigns throughout the city, deserted but for prowling groups of armed men, loyal to rivals Hamas or Fatah, living on a daily diet of ambushes, kidnappings and assassinations. Dozens of snipers on the rooftops of the tallest buildings open fire seemingly on anything that moves. "We can't go near the window, let alone on the balcony. We have all become targets," says Um Mohammed. "This is a city of corpses and ghosts."

See also: AP Reporter in Gaza: "This Is the Worst It's Been"

On Wednesday, I saw several people shot in front of my building, I heard the screams of terrified women and children in a burning building, and I argued with gunmen who tried to take over my home. I have seen a lot in my years as a journalist in Gaza, but this is the worst it's been.

CRESCENT NEWS NETWORK: BUSH RESIGNS!

CNN, the jihad channel has really lost it. Check it out over ast Media Bistro hat tip kor

Following up on this post, it did happen. Here's a screen grab from CNN International around midnight ET:

Apparently, it appeared on the screen for 12 seconds. BDS has rendered them insane.

CNN SPINS HEINOUS HAMOUSE HATE

Something is really rotten at CNN. Stinking, decayed and rotten. Smells like death. Capt Diggs sends this along

In this CNN clip video, they challenge the Memri translation of what is said, based  upon CNN "translators"  

Here is the full clip from Memri  

The context doesn't fit the CNN "translation". Mickey Hamouse asks the girl on the phone : "what do we want to do?"...and her answer is "annihilate the Jews"...which fits the context of the question.  

"Mickey" asks "What do we want to do (to liberate Al Aqsa)  

Girl on camera says: ahna bidna...  we want to)

and the girl on the phone (off camera) answers: harad al yahood (annihilate the Jews)

I got this translation from an Arabic speaking Israeli.
And as I said, CNN's translation doesn't fit the context of the question asked of the girl on the phone.

Per CNN (who does not dispute the question "Mickey" asks);

"Mickey" : What do we want to do...?
Girl on phone: "Jews are killing us" ( CNN "translation")

That makes no sense.

Odds are the CNN "translators" are Arab or Muslim who thought they could fix things by changing what was said. I wish this could be addressed directly to CNN.

UPDATE: Glenn Beck got taken in too. LGF has it;

 

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UPDATE: The mouse lives!

Hamas TV airs anti-Israel kids' show despite protest

Link fixed thanks to Gink

Fisking Ellis Henican, Newsday The Broken Left on the Jersey Jihad

This sad crew was doomed from start
Ellis Henican Newsday (of course)

The would be Islamic murderers are a sad crew. Conjuring images of sad,  pathetic, welfare recipients.

The 7-Eleven clerk did it.

Well isn't that funny? Minimizing the terror by pointing to the low level position of one of jihadis.  Global warming is lethal but keystone clerks - not a problem. The leftard narrative.

That's what the feds say anyway. The 7-Eleven clerk and the Shop-Rite shelf-stocker and the Philly cabbie and three immigrant brothers who had a company called Colonial Roofing or National Roofing or, well, you know how many different names these roofing companies will have the minute a customer starts complaining that the work was shoddy or that the roof still leaks even after a high-priced repair job.

huh?

It's another crew of local palookas, playing terrorist.

"palookas." Palookas with AK47s, explosives, mines etc. Are you getting this"narrative" And FOX News has this tool a a contributor.

Going out for paintball weekends in the Poconos. Getting tripped up at the local video store. Allowing their plot to be infiltrated by the feds, almost from day one.

Does this asshat even know what paintball jihad is?

Judging from the court documents on this harebrained terror scheme, there wasn't a single deep thinker in the bunch.

The 7-Eleven clerk, Serdar Tatar, used to work for his dad's pizzeria, which is called Super Mario's and is just outside Fort Dix, N.J. According to the criminal complaint, he got hold of a map of the Army base from the pizza-delivery guys, and that is what was going to guide the terror attacks.

Mighty bright if you ask me.

UPDATE: Friend Ben weighs in, Years ago, at Fort Lewis, the Pizza guys were renowned for their intimate knowledge of the base.  Not even the MP's knew the place, who was where and when, like the Dominos drivers did.  We joked that they would even be able to find units deployed in the field on training exercises- but then they did.  Once, they arranged a rendevous with a jeep somewhere in the godawful middle of nowhere Yakima Firing Center, to deliver pizza.  They were legendary. "

According to the complaint, Tatar "described a place at Fort Dix they could target that would cause a power outage and allow for an easier attack on the military personnel there."

Could this crew really have pulled that off? Attacking the U.S. Army with a pizza map? At court in Camden yesterday, they certainly came off as half-baked jihadists.

It was brilliant. Soldiers love pizza. Deliver the pizza and massacre. Henican, you fookin maroon.

Let's just stop a moment and thank Allah that all our terrorists don't arrive with genius-level intelligence.

RACIST.  Where's CAIR?!?!

Clearly, Osama bin Laden wasn't running this Jersey operation. This one didn't hold a candle to Mohamed Atta, the crafty operational chief of the 9/11 crew. It was more in the tradition of Richard Reid, the hapless shoe bomber whose airborne plot was foiled when he couldn't figure out how to strike a match.

Sounds like Henican is wishing Richard Reid had a lighter. What Henican is missing is that these men will commit suicide to cause as much bloodshed and death as possible. This is what Islamism indoctrinates its followers to do. Wicked but smart.

These new six stumbled from beginning to end. They had grand illusions and half-baked plans. They wanted rocket launchers that could kill a hundred in a single blast. They spoke in movie dialogue. They hoped, in the words of U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, to "light the whole place up."

That doesn't sound like Hollywood, it sounds like mass death.

And whom did they know? Who were their big terror contacts? No one it seems.

Al-Muhajiroun

"We do not have any evidence at this time that they are connected directly to any other international terrorist movement around the world," Christie said yesterday. And he isn't likely to get any. They'd been on the Internet, scooping up threatening material. But if Osama has a cell phone in that cave of his, the number is strictly unlisted as far as these yokels are concerned.

You don't know that. Do your homework Henicon. You're a journalist for G-d's sake.

The beginning of their end came almost from the beginning, when they couldn't figure out how to transfer a VHS tape to a DVD.

Yeah, they could. They took it to the store. They figured that the leftards laws of privacy protected them. Certainly they new the New York Times and the ACLU would protect their right to privacy.

Yes, it's always the little things.

The unnamed clerk at the video place saw weapons and training and some scary militant stuff on the video. He dropped a dime to the local police. The video showed 10 men in their early 20s, "shooting assault weapons at a firing range ... while calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic 'Allah Akbar' (God is great)," the criminal complaint said.

Six of those 10 were arrested yesterday. The other four? We can only assume at least a couple are the federal informants.

Notice no mention of the three illegal aliens that in all likely hood, snuck across the border (paper trail is insufficient.)

They want to kill Americans, but they don't go to a shopping mall. Or an office building. Or a college campus. Or a sporting event. Or any one of a thousand other unsecured places where unarmed Americans gather in large numbers every day.

These six palookas decided to assault an Army base. With guards at every entrance. Vehicle searches and X-ray machines. And thousands of men and women with guns.

Yeah, because it's war stupid.

After 9/11, we came to expect a level of organizational competence from the crazed jihadists who mean us such harm.

Thank God we were wrong.

Ugh .................

Strib cans Lileks column

Powerline's take

Lileks' take
 
Hugh Hewitt's take hat tip irwin

KUHNER: Liberal Totalitariansim

Talk radio is overwhelmingly right-leaning because it satisfies the public's growing appetite for alternative news and commentary to the liberal media establishment. If the Democrats don't like the opinions of Savage, Limbaugh or Hannity, then all they need to do is go to CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times or The Washington Post. There are countless outlets peddling the anti-war, anti-Bush mantras of the left.
Kuhner, Insight Magazine

You must read Kuhner's seminal piece. Understand what these legislative moves like the ridiculously named "Fairness Doctrine" are really all about. Frightening times my friends. Insight magazine (PAID)

Kuhner: Liberal totalitarianism
Commentary by Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Insight

Liberal Democrats are attempting to muzzle conservative talk radio: they are assaulting free speech. Like the communists in the former Soviet Union, America's liberals seek to crush dissent by consolidating control over the media-especially talk radio, which has emerged as the dominant medium for conservative opinion.

Allies close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are promoting legislation, which if passed, will take off the air prominent conservative radio hosts such as Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly-along with thousands of smaller conservative broadcasters. The bill, entitled the "Media Ownership Reform Act," is sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a leftist Democrat from New York. The legislation aims to revive the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" of the 1940's: "all views" are to be given equal time on radio. In particular, the Federal Communications Commission would have the power to oversee and change radio and television content. The goal is to tilt the ideological balance of power away from the right on the nation's air waves.

The real force behind the effort to censor conservative talk radio is the progressive-philanthropist, George Soros. The radical leftist billionaire has made no secret of his hatred for conservatives. He says President Bush has transformed America into a militaristic, "fascist" empire. Moreover, Soros champions many of liberalism's chic causes: abortion on demand, legalization of drugs, homosexual marriage, euthanasia, unlimited Third World immigration, open borders, and one-world government anchored in the United Nations. He advocates all the issues that are anathema to popular radio talk-show hosts like Savage, Limbaugh and Hannity. Hence, he wants these commentators to be exiled to the political wilderness.

At a recent National Conference for Media Reform, sponsored by Free Press, a Massachusetts-based group heavily subsidized by Soros, Hinchey laid bare his plan to silence conservative voices on television and radio. The anti-war McGovernite attacked Savage, Limbaugh and other conservative radio hosts, saying they were "responsible" for leading the U.S. into the Iraq war, as well as for preparing the ground for future military invasions of Iran and Syria. According to Hinchey, these men pose a "threat" to American national security. Hence, under his bill, they would be fired.

"All of that stuff will end," Hinchey said.

Pali Terror Bust in US Heartland"Arming for War"

In the original documents charging Abuelawi, Sumad is quoted in a meeting with Abuelawi and a government informer as saying that "he wants to buy as many explosives as possible because, 'we're going to war.'"

The Post-Dhimmispatch took the Palestinian immigrants word for it and reported it as weapons for a gang turf war.

Explaning away the comment "we're going to war" made by a suspect? "It may have been a joke." The article makes no mention of Islamic terrorism. And you'll also notice that "Palestinian immigrant" has been expunged from all the media stories. Had to search for confirmation. Deceiving the American people yet again. Thank G-d for the blogs.

8 INDICTED ON WEAPONS CONSPIRACY St. Louis Today

Eight men have been indicted on charges that they were involved in two conspiracies to buy and sell fully automatic weapons, a Claymore anti-personnel mine and other explosives, the U.S. Attorney's office said today.

SEVEN MORE ARRESTED IN GUN SCHEME

Seven more people have been charged in a case involving the buying, selling or hiding of automatic weapons, an anti-personnel mine and other explosives.

The charges, unsealed in a federal indictment Tuesday, say it was a crime for profit but do not specify who the ultimate customers would have been. One of the newly accused men told a Post-Dispatch reporter in an interview three months ago that it had been part of a plan to sell weapons to local street gangs.

The first person implicated in the case, Mousa M. Abuelawi, 22, was originally arrested Dec. 29 and charged with three counts of illegal possession or distribution of a machine gun, and conspiracy to violate machine-gun statutes. He has since moved to Creve Coeur from St. Charles.

The superseding indictment in U.S. District Court in St. Louis names Abuelawi and seven others on charges including machine-gun violations, conspiracy, lying to the FBI and other firearms charges.

Infidelsrus first posted on this disturbing story back in February here.

I found this article about a palestinian in St. Louis who was buying machine guns, Claymore mines and hand grenades.

Mousa M. Abuelawi, 22, of Franjoe Court, was arrested Dec. 29 and charged on complaints accusing him of three counts of illegal possession or distribution of a machine gun and conspiracy to violate machine gun statutes.

Yeah, I heard St. Louis was a dangerous city, but mines and hand grenades?

Abuelawi told the informer, “this is not my first time dealing with this (expletive),” according to the affidavit.

I bet.

The Intelligence  Summit reported on it here back in February;

A St. Charles man obtained fully automatic weapons and tried to buy as many explosives as possible in preparation for what an associate called "war," the FBI says in court documents.

He bought three rifles and a Claymore anti-personnel mine and negotiated for a case of hand grenades, documents obtained by the Post-Dispatch show.

Mousa M. Abuelawi, 22, of Franjoe Court, was arrested Dec. 29 and charged on complaints accusing him of three counts of illegal possession or distribution of a machine gun and conspiracy to violate machine gun statutes.

Abuelawi, a Palestinian immigrant free on $50,000 bond, could not be reached. His brother declined to comment on his behalf. His lawyers, Scott Rosenblum and Gil Sison, did not return calls.

A Jewish lawyer, ugh I am definitely gonna be sick.

Sumad suggested that he and Abuelawi attracted special attention because of the sound of their names and their Arab ethnicity.

Abuelawi's lawyers have said he is a Palestinian immigrant.

Sumad is of Palestinian descent but was born in Indiana and raised in St. Louis, he said.

The FBI thinks it's a "terrorist thing," Sumad said, "especially after 9/11. They're trying to make it bigger than what it is."

Sumad said Abuelawi was "trying to make a few extra bucks."

An affidavit filed with the court by FBI Special Agent Stephen M. Smith, based in part on video and audio recordings, described these circumstances:

The informer used a cell phone to call Abuelawi on Nov. 8 and said he had a fully automatic rifle and a bomb or grenade for sale. Abuelawi and Sumad met with the informer at the gas station where they worked, in the 5700 block of West Florissant Road.

Abuelawi said he hoped the informer had brought the weapons and could sell them right away. He also said he would buy "whatever" the informer had to sell.

The affidavit goes on to say:

On Nov. 21, the informer delivered a fully automatic M-16 rifle and a Claymore mine, or so Abuelawi was told. They had been rigged not to work.

That night, Abuelawi took the M-16 inside another gas station where he also worked, in the 6000 block of West Florissant Road, then put it back in his car.

The next day Abuelawi met a man who "appears to be Middle Eastern" at the station in the 5700 block and showed him the M-16 and the Claymore.

On Nov. 23, three St. Louis police officers entered the station and said they had a report of someone seen there with a gun. Sumad denied knowing anything about a firearm. Officers found the M-16, seized it and left.

On Nov. 29, the informer offered Abuelawi a chance to buy 30 hand grenades for $15,000, or $500 per grenade. Abuelawi haggled the price down to $400 per grenade and asked the informer to get him more M-16s and some AK-47 assault rifles.

Abuelawi wanted four grenades immediately but the informer had only pictures.

Abuelawi told the informer, "this is not my first time dealing with this (expletive)," according to the affidavit.

The informer and Abuelawi met again Dec. 5. Abuelawi was nervous and said "he and his people" didn't want the hand grenades at the time because he thought the police were in the cemetery across the street.

In fact, they were.

The affidavit quotes Abuelawi as saying "if me and my people get caught with that (expletive) it is all over." It says, "He expressed that, if caught, he and others could be deported."

But Abuelawi still said he wanted any guns the informer could get, "big or small."

 

Mass Rabbi Arrest: Anti-Iran UN Protest

Yesterday  Avi Weiss and the Jewish activist organization he founded, AMCHA: the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, coordinated a civil disobedience protest at the United Nations. You know what happened? Of course you don't, no mention in the media about it. They were arrested. G-d forbid you protest Ahmadinehitler  and his promise of annihilation. No mention in the mainstream media of this mast arrest of rabbis. Could you imagine if it was imams they arrested? Holy shia! Why you can't report six belligerent imams screaming "allah akbar"  on a US Airways jet without getting sued. I could just see the media wringing their hands had they been Muslims.

To see the teflin and hear the singing (or is that praying?) is to break the heart. The Goblin has got it all here via LGF;

Over 20 Rabbis getting arrested in an act of civil disobedience at the Isaiah wall across from the United Nations. They were protesting the UN's continuing ignorance of Iran's nuclear weapons programs and threats against Israel and the entire world.

I have been to enough protests in NYC to know what an outrage is this.

 

The worst, most disgusting, antiwar, America haters are giving tremendous respect and space (any dissenters must stay on the opposite side of the street) then you could imagine.

 

UPDATE: Steg over at The Goblin wrote describing  the arrest;

The reason the rabbis were arrested is because it was *pre-planned* that way.  getting arrested makes any protest more dramatic, and what they were looking for is publicity.  read my description carefully -- the whole thing was pre-orchestrated and agreed-upon by the protesters and the police long before it took place.  it was ritualized.  nothing sketchy or confrontational about it.

Never mind ........ heh.

Who or What Taught Ismail Ax to Kill?

I know everyone is dismissing the glaring Ismail Ax angle of the massacre and calling the depraved murderer Cho, but it seems to me that if this savage wrote (or tattooed, still unclear) Ismail Ax on his arm, signed his suicide note Ismail Ax , sent an overnight package from A Ishmail, made sure he had no other ID on his person after he martyred himself ,  you can be damn sure he wanted to be remembered as Ismail Ax. Shaving his head and from what I can see in his pictures and martyr video- his body,  must have added to law enforcement's suspicions which is why it so curious that they would say so early on that horrible day that "it was not tied to terrorism."

It also seems pretty obvious that law enforcement delayed releasing his name because they did not want to release "Ismail" even though that was all they had for the better part of the day and that was their very first clue . But they wouldn't release it. They waited a full day, an entire day,  to release his name.

Everyone is quick to jump on the connection to James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Prairie "  where Ishmael Bush is known as an outcast and outlawed warrior. It's the drug of choice and most everyone is comfortable with that link. Moby Dick has been bantered about  as well. But mentioning the third rail,  the Quran or Islam, and they'll cut your throat (metaphorically.)  If you saw the level of vitriol and hate directed at me when I merely asked what Ismail Ax meant, it would stun you - hence the  comment moderation.

It reminds me of CAIR's lawsuit against the Jane and John Does in the Flying Imam debacle. It's not the lawsuit. The objective is to shut people up. CAIR has been noticeably quiet in the Ismail Ax affair.

There is much we don't know and won't know. I would love to hear what Ismail Cho was about to say when he declared "brothers and sisters!" before NBC edited that tape ................ and while I don't think he had serious affiliations, there is clearly a sort of punk jihad thing happening. The title of his file were telling;

Their titles are varied and hard to match with their content: “all of You”, “am al qaeda”, “anti terror”, “as time appr”, “blood of inno”, “congrad”, “could b victim”. The rambling comments are those of an angry young man who felt persecuted, who felt that the world is against him, who felt he was a victim of personal terrorism. More here.

The Islamists are already claiming him as one of their own.

James Lewis has an excellent source of Ismail angst over at The American Thinker: "Was Cho taught to hate?"

And Charles had this;

VT Killer: A Neo-Nazi Connection

One of the pictures received by NBC News from the Virginia Tech mass murderer suggests a neo-Nazi connection; with the heading, “The number of the Anti-Terrorist,” Cho drew the number “88”—a well-known neo-Nazi reference to the phrase “Heil Hitler.” (H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.)

Cho’s manifesto, page 11.

Cho also used the number 88 as the return address for the package he sent to NBC News.

Very little attention has been paid to how terribly close we come to a jihadis wet dream;

Prosecutors add charges in alleged terror plot (Houston Chronicle)

Federal prosecutors have added charges against a Houston-raised college student charged in connection with an alleged terrorist plot to aid the Taliban.  Syed Maaz Shah, 19, was indicted last year on two counts of being an alien in possession of a firearm.

UPDATE: Gateway Pundit reveals an extraordinary detail here;

I was also sent an email today that Cho's father worked in Saudi Arabia but it looks like that was back in the 1980's when Cho was a very young boy.

The article says they came to America in '92 .......... that makes Ismail Cho 7 years old when he came here. What was it the bible said about the first seven years?

UPDATE: Check out a leftard grand mal seizure.

UPDATE: The left in America: beyond morally ill.  The ultimate decay of  their indiscriminateness. They have no souls.

CAIR; "Removal of Israel" is "a legitmate aim"

It makes me sick that Governor Rendell has suffered no blowback for attending that CAIR FUNDRAISER a couple of weeks. This Jew is working for the  executioner. I implore every Atlas reader to write to this jewicidal schmuck and explain carefully the incredible stupidity and danger of his actions.  To e-mail the Governor click here or write governor@state.pa.us

To write a letter to the Governor send to:
Governor Edward G. Rendell's Office
225 Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120

To telephone the Governor call:
(717) 787-2500.

Meanwhile check this out at the great new website, CAIR HATES ISRAEL, here.

CAIR--"Removal of Israel" is "a legitmate aim"

In fact, CAIR calls the removal of Israel as one of its "legitimate" aims.

CAIR can say all they want about renouncing violence. They can blow smoke at journalists when they are asked about their ties to Hamas. Yes, they were indeed founded by the current directors of Hamas.

But CAIR's own website claims that the "removal" of Israel is a "legitimate aim," and I want to know why none of you--apparently--knew about it or wrote about it. Not the New York Times; not the Boston Globe; not the Philadelphia Inquirer, not the Washington Post, nor the L.A. Times, nor the San Francisco Herald: Not one of you has done so.

Because if you had known about this, you might have felt the need to ask this "civil rights" group how one can "remove" a country while renouncing violence as an "illegitimate" aim and not denying that country its own "civil rights." There must be a little something extra brewing in the CAIR hookah, because you don't need a crystal ball to see that Israel isn't going anywhere without some violence going on. [By the way, that line starts right here with me--and I'm not even Jewish.]

CAIR issued this statement in 2002, but you journalists ignored it. Pennsylvania Governor Rendell meets with CAIR and praises them. The Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania's 7th District, Admiral Joseph Sestak, lauds their "good work" against racial profiling. (Friends, really, you can't make this up.) Congressman Sestak lauds the work against racial profiling of a group that is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. He hired that group's marketing specialist, Adeeba al-Zaman, as a full-time staffer. He attended a fundraising event for CAIR on April 7, 2007...sort of. When outraged constituents and activists complained, he decided to show up at the Philadelphia Hilton after the money was raised.

Five minutes after.

You journalists had the chance to ask U.S. Congressman Joe Sestak D-Pa, 7th, why he hired that CAIR employee, and why he supports an organization that is committed to the destruction of Israel. But you didn't. None of you asked that question. Why not? Why didn't you ask Adeeba al-Zaman about the "civil rights" of Israeli people to live in peace? Why have you not asked her that question?

Read it all and check out the whole site.

Soros Knifes the Jews again

"America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain deNazification process." More here TNR

This man has done as much to undermine the survival of the Jews than the avowed enemies of Israel. He is a lowlife. Beware the Shadow party.

Soros attacks US pro-Israel lobby Ed Pilkington in New York, The Guardian

Group accused of helping to suppress debate
Financier criticises Bush policy on Palestinians

The financier and philanthropist George Soros has entered the debate about US policy on Israel, accusing the Bush administration of adopting a hopeless strategy towards the Palestinians partly because of the influence wielded in Washington by a pro-Israel lobby.

No Jew should speak up for Israel. No President should stand with Israel. That is the position of this self loathing Jew who turned fellow Jews into the Nazis during the Holocaust. Demon seed.

In an article in the New York Review of Books, he accuses the Washington-based American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) of being "remarkably successful" in suppressing criticism of US-Israeli policy towards the Palestinians.

Really where? The Palis narrative is center stage. Soros is a pimp for savages. And who would give him such a platform? The Soros owned left. That's who.

On Israel, America and AIPAC NY REVIEW OF BOOKS
By George Soros

The Bush administration is once again in the process of committing a major policy blunder in the Middle East, one that is liable to have disastrous consequences and is not receiving the attention it should. This time it concerns the Israeli–Palestinian relationship. The Bush administration is actively supporting the Israeli government in its refusal to recognize a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas, which the US State Department considers a terrorist organization. This precludes any progress toward a peace settlement at a time when progress on the Palestinian problem could help avert a conflagration in the greater Middle East.

Pimping for Hamas. Soros is a degenerate criminal. Over at The Soros Monitor read the piece,  THE SOROS INFILTRATION on his depraved agenda to legalize drugs  and prostitution. He's got Grover Norquist,  his mole in the White House,  helping him out on that one. What is little known is his  ill gotten gains, "Daddy Weedbucks" is getting rich off growing the stuff in Latin America. Why do you think he  buys all that undervalued land.

While economic speculators like George Soros amass profits at ever-increasing rates, the damage caused by their actions can be seen around the globe. In Latin America, the disparity in income and living conditions between the rich to grow.

More at Townhall here;

Soros is the biggest land owner in South America. He owns millions of acres of prime drug land, and thus it is no surprise that he is the money manager for some of the biggest drug lords in South America (due to the fact that his fund, Soros Fund Management LLC, is incorporated in, I think, Bermuda, he can't be touched by American legal authorities). It is also unsurprising that he is also one of the biggest supporters of legalizing drugs because he hopes to make billions off of getting children addicted to them.

Like I said  -- degenerate but back to his article at the Leftarded New York Review of Books. Soros spews the following  Jew hating invective;

The United States and Israel seek to deal only with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in the hope that new elections would deny Hamas the majority it now has in the Palestinian Legislative Council. This is a hopeless strategy because Hamas has said it would boycott early elections, and even if their outcome would result in Hamas's exclusion from the government, no peace agreement would hold without Hamas's support.

Shilling for Hamas. Perfect.

In the meantime Saudi Arabia is pursuing a different path.

Shilling for the Saudis. A differerent path? Same old Jew hating path, the destruction of the State and the people of Israel. ISRAEL WAS NOT EVEN INVITED TO THAT PEACE CONSPIRATORS CONFERENCE - what's different about that?

In a February summit in Mecca between Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, the Saudi government worked out an agreement between Hamas and Fatah, which have been clashing violently, to form a national unity government. According to the Mecca accord, Hamas has agreed "to respect international resolutions and the agreements [with Israel] signed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization," including the Oslo Accords.

Hamas is going to respect an agreement made with civilized men? Yeah I got it and you'll respect me in the morning, the check is in the mail, you're  from your government, and you're  here to help me, your  wife doesn't understand you, he never inhaled,  it's not the money, it's the principle of the thing......but we can still be good friends, no problem, you can go another 20 miles when the gauge is on "empty," I gave at the office,  don't worry, he's never bitten anyone and  it's totally  OK -- I'm sterile.

[..]The Saudi government views this accord as the prelude to the offer of a peace settlement with Israel, along the lines of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, [my new favorite oxymoron- Atlas]a settlement to be guaranteed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, based on the 1967 borders and full recognition of Israel.

The Saudis and the terror sponsoring countries are going to GUARANTEE ISRAEL'S SECURITY? That's like Sollozzo telling Sonny in the Godafther that the Tattaglias  guarantee the Corleone investment.

Sauudi King Abdullah at the Arab League meeting to be hosted by Saudi Arabia at the end of March. But no progress is possible as long as the Bush administration and the Ehud Olmert government persist in their current position of refusing to recognize a unity government that includes Hamas. The recent meeting between Condoleezza Rice, Abbas, and Olmert turned into an empty formality.

Blame Bush! Blame the Jooooooooooos. Cool with the murderers.

Then came the blunder I am talking about. Israel, with the strong backing of the United States, refused to recognize the democratically elected Hamas government and withheld payment of the millions in taxes collected by the Israelis on its behalf. This caused great economic hardship and undermined the ability of the government to function. But it did not reduce popular support for Hamas among Palestinians, and it reinforced the position of Islamic and other extremists who oppose negotiations with Israel. The situation deteriorated to the point where Palestine no longer had an authority with whom it would have been possible for Israel to negotiate.

Blame the Joooooos. Plenty of money for guns, kassams, and TVs (don't forget TVs, that all important weapon on the war on propaganda.) They refuse Israeli medicines, demand cash, have been busted  with 111 truckloads of TVs but no money for food and basic supplies.

Defenders of the current policy would argue that Israel cannot afford to negotiate from a position of weakness. But Israel's position is unlikelyto improve as long as it pursues its present course of military escalation.

Huh? Who is escalating? Who has Iran rearmed to the teeth in Lebanon? Soros is a cancer on the world. It goes on and on like this here, plenty for the KosKids and the anti-semitic strain of the Democratic party to inject in their veins.

The case against those who disagree with Israel's current policy is spelled out in detail by Alvin H. Rosenfeld in a pamphlet published by the American Jewish Committee.^[3] After reviewing the rise of new anti-Semitic currents, particularly in the Muslim world and Europe, Rosenfeld equates anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism and asserts that Jewish critics of Israeli policies reinforce both. He acknowledges that criticism by itself is not anti-Semitic; indeed, he writes, "the biblical prophets stood on the side of justice and were never hesitant to denounce their people's behavior when they saw it deviating from the standards of justice." But, he contends, "to condemn Israeli actions and, at the same time, to forego any realistic historical and political frameworks that might account for such actions" is not acceptable. The use of "exaggerated and defamatory terms," he writes, renders Israel indistinguishable from the "despised country regularly denounced by the most impassioned anti-Semites."

To call Israel a Nazi state...or to accuse it of South African–style apartheid rule or engaging in ethnic cleansing or wholesale genocide goes well beyond legitimate criticism.

To talk about victims turning into aggressors falls in his view in the same category.

Rosenfeld states the case too gently, IMAO. Forgive me for not running the Anti-Christ's response.

On December 20, 1998, there appeared this exchange between Soros and Steve Kroft on "60 Minutes":

Kroft: "You're a Hungarian Jew ..."
Soros: "Mm-hmm."

Kroft: "... who escaped the Holocaust ..."

Soros: "Mm-hmm." 

Kroft: "... by posing as a Christian."

Soros: "Right."

Kroft: "And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps."
Soros: "Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that's when my character was made."

Kroft: "In what way?"

Soros: "That one should think ahead. One should understand that--and anticipate events and when, when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a-- a very personal threat of evil."

Kroft: "My understanding is that you went ... went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews."

Soros: "Yes, that's right. Yes."

Kroft: "I mean, that's--that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?"

Soros: "Not, not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't ... you don't see the connection. But it was--it created no--no problem at all."

Kroft: "No feeling of guilt?"

Soros: "No."

Kroft: "For example, that, 'I'm Jewish, and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be these, I should be there.' None of that?"

Soros: "Well, of course, ... I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was--well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in the markets--that is I weren't there--of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would--would--would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the--whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the--I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt."

Related:
Atlas Shrugs: Soros Stealing America  
Atlas Shrugs: Soros is the Anti-Christ
 Atlas Shrugs: SOROS AND THE NAZIS UNDERMINING THE JEWISH PEOPLE
Atlas Shrugs: The Judenrat Soros

DEAD SILENCE ON ISMAIL AX

I cannot help be struck dumb by the complete media blackout on the ISMAIL AX development in the Virginia Tech mass murder. They are on a 27/7 news loop talking about every anal detail but not one mention of the 800 lb gorilla in the room.

This is shocking and disturbing and ought to give the American people great pause. At what cost political correctness? Cassandra weighs in here. The media are removing this vital clue to the story. Who can believe anything they report when they abdicate their role as public servant.

UPDATE: Somebody gets it. Jerry Bowyer over at TCS Daily here

Ismail Ax: The Shooter Was Another 'Son of Sacrifice'  hat tip Diana W

First it was Johnny Muhammad, now it was Cho Sueng Hui aka Ismail Ax. Precisely how many mass shooters have to turn out to have adopted Muslim names before we get it? Islam has become the tribe of choice of those who hate American society. I'm not talking about people who grew up as Muslims, confident and secure in their faith, good fathers, sons and neighbors. I'm talking about the angry, malignant, narcissist loners who want to reject their community utterly, to throw off their 'slave name' and represent the downtrodden of the earth by shooting their friends and neighbors.

This morning I read that the Virginia Tech shooter died with the name Ismail Ax written in red ink on his arm. The mainstream press doesn't seem to have a clue as to what this might mean. To quote Indiana Jones, "Didn't any of you guys go to Sunday School?"

The story starts with a man named Abraham. He is the father of the Jews, the Muslims and the Christians. He was born in Iraq, the son of a wealthy idol manufacturer. He came to believe that there was only one true God and, according to tradition, took up his ax and destroyed his father's idols.

Read it all here. And other posts here.

Pali Arabs Kill UK JournalistUK Journalists Boycott Israel

It goes beyond comprehension, it's willful stupidity and suicide. Just yesterday I reported here that UK journalists voted to boycott Israel right? Now this............ the Pali savges are emboldened. The British reaction to the taken of the 15 marines spoke volumes. British timidity is deadly. The Palis know the Brits will do nothing.

We killed BBC reporter', Palestinian group says:
Palestinian Jihad and Tawheed Brigades say Alan Johnston has been executed, blame British, Palestinian governments

Yaakov Lappin Israel News  hat tip Haruv

BBC reporter Alan Johnston has been killed by an al-Qaeda affilated Palestinian organization, according to an internet statement obtained by Ynetnews.

The statement was signed by the Palestinian Jihad and Tawheed Brigades, an organization named after an Iraqi al-Qaeda group.

Responding to the statement, the BBC said it is "aware of these reports -- but we have no independent verification of them. We are deeply concerned about what we are hearing -- but we stress, at this stage, it is rumour with no independent verification."

In the message, the group said the British and Palestinian governments were responsible for Johnston's killing, and vowed to release a video of the execution.

"The whole world knows of our just cause in demanding the release of our prisoners, who are waiting under the fire of the occupation," the statement began. "Our demand was that all of those who are responsible for the journalist... release our prisoners who are being held in the prisons of the occupation," it continued.

Read it all. Of course they blame the Jooooooooooos.

STFU already

We know what you are and we know whose side you're on. So just shut up already.

Marines’ Actions in Afghanistan Called Excessive
NEW YORK TIMES By CARLOTTA GALL
American marines shot at bystanders in a rampage after a bomb ambush last month, a report released today said.

Al Reuters Strikes Again

Check out this dishonest denial. Al Reuters can't bring themselves to call a terrorist a terrorist or report the news in a factual manner. This is insane. Hat tip Capt Digg who writes;

You have to wonder what more they could do...besides detonating suicide bomb belts, to convince the media that they REALLY were suicide bombers.

Four suspected bombers killed in Casablanca
[suspected??????????]

By Tom Pfeiffer 2 hours, 49 minutes ago CASABLANCA (Reuters) - Three suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up on Tuesday following a police raid on a house in a Casablanca slum in which a fourth man was shot dead, police sources said. Two of the men had been on the run since the dawn raid in Fida neighborhood in which one suspected Islamist militant was killed by police and an accomplice blew himself up after he was trapped on a roof terrace, the sources and witnesses said.

Read it here. For real.

Vanity Press: Wolcott The other Queen of the Pig people

Over at Vanity Fair, more leftarded yellow journalism from the queen here.

Pathetic, really.

That overgrown tyke Dennis the Peasant, who has been trying to flag my attention in a most undignified manner, has certainly snagged my interest with reports of a rumored divorce between Pammycakes of Atlas Shrugs and Pajamas Media; it would be tragic indeed if this once-beautiful relationship, this marriage made in bedlam, had gone south, splitsville, over the falls, off the rails. But painful clues emerge. Her clubhouse no longer proudly boasts the Pajamas Media Network Blogger insignia (though with all that ugly crud running the lengths of her site columns, it's like scouring a flea market to find anything), and, as D the P observes, she's been verbally snuggling up to those poindexters over at Powerline--i.e., the competition. Perhaps she was flirting with defection to make Roger L. Simon so red-hot with jealousy that he could fry an egg on his head and then serve it to Michael Ledeen for brunch. I don't profess to know. But if Pammy and PJM have met a sad parting of the ways, whose decision was it to file for divorce? It's hard for me to believe Pajamas Media would want to deprive itself of classic stellar Pamela posts such as (actual titles) "Jihadis Behead Baby and Roast It" and "Rosie: Queen of the Pig People."

Bottom line, I left Pajama so that I could sell advertising. Make a couple of bucks. Hellloooooo. GUILTY OF CAPITALISM. I can't sell ads under my agreement with PJM but don't let the facts get in the way of your cheap little obsession. That washer woman just can't keep out of my drawers. The best was  Big Pussy accusing me of  snuggling up to the Powerline boys. Huh? They are a blog, they are not competition. They are bloggers not a portal of various blogs. And we were on a panel together addressing the Young America's Foundation.

I love that about Wolcott, he pretends to be in the thick of things in the blogosphere, jumping on that train as his quasi has been star fades. He doesn't know jack about the blogs. But he has the temerity to comment  so  authoritatively.

The pajama story is a non story. But don't tell the Queen, he/she might have to actually write about something substantial.

Hey Big Pussy, get  a clue. Start writing about the beheadings, slavery, misogyny, oppression, hangings in the name of the global jihad. Believe me woman, your fat neck will be one of the first to go.

Keepin it real baby, from your substancialious blogger.

 

Cropped British Soldiers

Not sure if you notice how al Reuters, AP and the tools of the jihad cropped the shiny, happy British soldiers return picture. One uncropped photo made it ............ check out the guy on the right. Hat tip Beryl (listen to our show tonight on 940 AM - The World at War.)
Uncropped

Cropped. SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE, sheeple!!

Uh, can she take the misogynistic head scarf off yet?

Mainstream Media Serving up Taqiya

The spin is spinning out of control. I expect the New Times and their satellites to provide their executioners  with the crude, rusty knife to sever their heads. Of course you expect the enmy to concoct their propaganda a la Goebbels but the American press should be flogged for selling it so willfully.

The Muslim Brotherhood's  Propaganda Offensive
Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa Lappen, American Thinker

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is heightening its U.S.  propaganda offensive in advance of the 2008 presidential elections, taking  advantage of the political uncertainty and opposition to the current  Administration's defense policies against radical Muslim terrorist  organizations and states.

Incredibly, "Hear  Out the Muslim Brotherhood," an op-ed in the Boston Globe on  Sunday March 25, portrayed the outlawed Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood as a  reforming tool to promote democracy and stability there and throughout the  Middle East, and praised the MB for "surviving" decades of oppression by  previous Egyptian regimes.

[...]

Meanwhile, The New York Times is busy  whitewashing one of the MB's most corrosive European leaders, Tariq Ramadan, who was barred last September from the  U.S. because he funded Hamas. Ramadan's protest was  published last October in The Washington  Post. In his op-ed,  Ramadan declared that unlike the  enlightened Europeans who allow criticism, especially regarding the war on  terrorism, "the U.S. government's paranoia has evolved far beyond a fear of particular individuals and taken on a much more insidious form: the fear of ideas." But Ramadan's "ideas" and influence among Muslims are nothing to sneeze at. Indeed, his association with and direct involvement with al-Qaeda operatives in Europe, Africa and the Middle East is well documented by Spanish and French courts.

That information, however, seem to have escaped the attention of U.S. media outlets that keep singing Ramadan praises. Lately, The New York Times seems to be serving as Ramadan's mouthpiece.

A lengthy favorable profile of Ramadan's appeared in the February 4, 2007, NYTSunday Magazine. At the end of the 5,181 word article, "Tariq Ramadan Has an Identity Issue," I an Burama concluded: "Ramadan offers a  different way... values that are as universal as those of the European  Enlightenment... these values are neither secular, nor always liberal, but  they are not part of a holy war against Western democracy either. His politics  offer an alternative to violence, which, in the end, is reason enough to  engage with him, critically, but without fear." Further arguments on  Ramadan's behalf were made in the April 1, 2007 New York Times Book Review, by Stephanie Giry. Praising  Ramadan's latest book -- tellingly titled "In the Footsteps of the Prophet" --  Giry recommends,

"Taking him [Ramadan] literally could be one way to  get beyond his critics' accusations, as well as the paranoid legalism of the  State Department."
Moreover, she finds "Ramadan's universalist, apolitical  view of Islam" as the "the pragmatic resolution of social  frictions."

This willful blindness to Ramadan's agenda to globalize the  Shari'a and establish the Caliphate is so prevalent that the media apparently  chose to ignore his arrest on March 13, 2007, at Charles de Gaulle  International Airport, for "insulting a public agent."

UPDATE: Miluimnik reminds me in the comment section of the litigation jihad against Rachel Ehrenfeld (I've discussed here.)

Ehrenfeld is one of the daring truth tellers that the Islamists want to shut up and shut down. She is the preeminent scholar on the tracking of Islamic terror funding. Like CAIR, the Saudis use the legal system to bankrupt and harass scholars, journalists etc. Steve Emerson is being sued as well (along with Charles Jacobs of the David Project) by the Islamic Society of Boston here and here

CRITICAL 1st AMENDMENT CASE HEADED TO APPEAL

New York, N.Y.--On November 8, 2006, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will hear oral argument in Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld's appeal of a lower court's dismissal of her critical lawsuit against Saudi financier Sheikh Khalid Salim bin Mahfouz.

If successful, Dr. Ehrenfeld's case could establish an effective wall against frivolous and malicious libel litigation targeting American freedom of the press from foreign shores. A free and informative press is a key pillar of democracy. American national security is in danger when outsiders are allowed to inhibit U.S. news institutions and journalists  from abroad.

Mahfouz is a prominent libel tourist, having sued or threatened to sue dozens of authors in England, including Dr. Ehrenfeld. A recent decision by the House of Lords in England, Jameel v. Wall Street Journal Europe, suggests that English law may provide future protections for authors. However, there is no guarantee that lower English courts will follow it. Moreover, other countries remain attractive to libel tourists. The success of Dr. Ehrenfeld’s lawsuit is therefore critical both for her -- who cannot relitigate against Mahfouz in England to benefit from the Jameel decision -- and for future libel tourist targets.

In 2004, England's High Court granted Mahfouz a default libel judgment against Dr. Ehrenfeld, based on statements in her book, Funding Evil, which investigates international terror funding.  Dr. Ehrenfeld did not defend herself in England, where she neither lives nor works, and where the book was not published. Instead, she sued Mahfouz in New York federal court, seeking a declaratory judgment to rule the British decision unenforceable in the U.S.  In April 2006, the lower court dismissed Dr. Ehrenfeld's lawsuit on a technical ground.

Dr. Ehrenfeld’s New York action seeks federal court protection of U.S. First Amendment rights -- for herself and other U.S. investigative reporters who cover national security issues, including terror financing. The libel tourist phenomenon has to date successfully silenced many American authors and newspaper and book publishers. Dr. Ehrenfeld's action could set a vital legal precedent, to protect U.S. writers from them once and for all.

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Trans-National Libel Chill

 

NY Times: "Breaking the Ethical Backbone" of the Spineless

Power without accountability. The New York Crimes indeed.

Glad They Cleared That Up

This "Editor's Note" appeared in yesterday's New York Times:

The cover article in The Times Magazine on March 18 reported on women who served in Iraq, the sexual abuse that some of them endured and the struggle for all of them to reclaim their prewar lives. One of the servicewomen, Amorita Randall, a former naval construction worker, told The Times that she was in combat in Iraq in 2004 and that in one incident an explosive device blew up a Humvee she was riding in, killing the driver and leaving her with a brain injury. She also said she was raped twice while she was in the Navy.

On March 6, three days before the article went to press, a Times researcher contacted the Navy to confirm Ms. Randall's account. There was preliminary back and forth but no detailed reply until hours before the deadline. At that time, a Navy spokesman confirmed to the researcher that Ms. Randall had won a Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal with Marine Corps insignia, which was designated for those who served in a combat area, including Iraq, or in direct support of troops deployed in one. But the spokesman said there was no report of the Humvee incident or a record of Ms. Randall's having suffered an injury in Iraq. The spokesman also said that Ms. Randall's commander, who served in Iraq, remembered her but said that her unit was never involved in combat while it was in Iraq. Both of these statements from the Navy were included in the article. The article also reported that the Navy had no record of a sexual-assault report involving Ms. Randall.

After The Times researcher spoke with the Navy, the reporter called Ms. Randall to ask about the discrepancies. She stood by her account.

On March 12, three days after the article had gone to press, the Navy called The Times to say that it had found that Ms. Randall had never received imminent-danger pay or a combat-zone tax exemption, indicating that she was never in Iraq. Only part of her unit was sent there; Ms. Randall served with another part of it in Guam. The Navy also said that Ms. Randall was given the medal with the insignia because of a clerical error.

Based on the information that came to light after the article was printed, it is now clear that Ms. Randall did not serve in Iraq, but may have become convinced she did. Since the article appeared, Ms. Randall herself has questioned another member of her unit, who told Ms. Randall that she was not deployed to Iraq. If The Times had learned these facts before publication, it would not have included Ms. Randall in the article.

Taranto finishes with this;

Otherwise, though, the story was accurate. And check out this passage from a Saturday Times op-ed: "We are in the middle of a process of moral corruption: those in power are literally trying to break a part of our ethical backbone." We'd like to see a photo of that.

Best of the Web Today - March 26, 2007

NY Times Pimps for CAIR "Unfit Print"

Please read this important article about the dishonesty of the New York Times' reporting on the radical Islamic front group CAIR.

One Muslim Advocacy Group's Not-So-Secret Terrorist Ties.
Unfit Print
By Steven Emerson
The New Republic Online March 28, 2007

This year has been a rocky one for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the self-professed "prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy" group. First, Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer rescinded an award her office had issued a CAIR official, stating that she was uncomfortable with many of the organization's positions. Then, two weeks ago, the GOP House Conference objected to the use of a Capitol facility--provided by Democratic Representative Bill Pascrell to host a CAIR forum, labeling the group "terror apologists" (based on CAIR's long track record of extremism and anti-Semitism).

Yet, just as people began to realize this and to ostracize CAIR accordingly, The New York Times arrived with a life raft. Earlier this month, Neil MacFarquhar wrotean incredibly generous profile called "Scrutiny Increases for a Group Advocating for Muslims in U.S." MacFarquhar's piece is so fraught with errors--of commission and omission--that it is a coup of CAIR propaganda.

MacFarquhar gets off on the right foot, noting, "Several federal officials said CAIR's Washington office frequently issued controversial statements that made it hard for senior government figures to be associated with the group." But he cites none of these "controversial statements." Nor does he mention the CAIR-sponsored fund-raisers and conferences featuring  former neo-Nazi leader William Bakerand jihadist cleric Wagdy Ghoneim. (At a 1998 CAIR event, Ghoneim sang, "No to the Jews, descendants of the apes." And, after he was deported in 2004 for overstaying his visa, Hussam Ayloush, CAIR's Southern California director, called Ghoneim's removal from the U.S. "a dent in our civil rights struggle.")

Readers of the Times wouldn't know, for example, that Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin alleged CAIR's links to terrorists; nor that Steven Pomerantz, former counterterrorism chief of the FBI, has written, "Any objective assessment of the material ... leads to the conclusion that CAIR, its leaders, and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups."

In airing critics' complaints about the group, MacFarquhar cites its refusal to "endorse the American government's blanket condemnations of Hezbollah and Hamas." Actually, that's only half the story. At a 2001 rally in front of the State Department, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad actually defended Hamas's murderous tactics: "The Palestinians are using legitimate means of resistance. We should not be shy about it, and we should not be apologetic about it."

There's much more. Read it all

Australian Reporter: "Islam not a threat to world peace," reveals identity of anti-jihad blogger, calls his blog a "hate site"

Sheik Yer'mami, operator of the Winds of Jihad site, whose frequent comments in the Atlas Sphere I love,  has had his identity and location revealed -- opening him to risk of being killed by jihadists -- by reporter Gavin King, who is no doubt convinced that Sheik has nothing to worry about anyway, since it's a religion of peace. Gavin King is not just an idiot, he is an evil idiot. Because while he wants to believe that he is right, somewhere in the back of his mind he knows he could be wrong and if he is wrong, he is setting up Sheik Yer'Mami. Over at Dhimmiwatch here;

Australian reporter says Islam "not a threat to world peace," reveals identity of anti-jihad blogger, calls his blog a "hate site"

Sheik Yer'mami explains the controversy here.

And here is Sheik's letter to the Australian press council:

Thank you for getting back to me on this matter.

You say:

‘I note your concern but, as a general rule, identification of an individual who is involved publicly in a campaign does not necessarily constitute an invasion of privacy.’

Please note:

I am not involved nor have I ever involved myself in a public campaign. I am a co-contributor of a website that exposes Islamic terror and atrocities, educates about Islamic jihad and the doctrine of Islam, which is a socio-political system in the guise of religion. I (like many others) provide news-feeds and comments. That’s all.

The article on the blog ‘winds of jihad’ never called for ‘holy war’ nor did it incite anyone to commit unlawful acts. The article ‘Stop the Mosque in Cairns’ was a simple reaction to many Cairns residents' objections. What was written in the blog reflected the sentiments of Cairns residents who would not get their objections heard otherwise.

‘Sheik Yer’mami’ is of course a fictitious character (just like Harry Potter) and anyone who takes more than a superficial interest in the subject matter would realize that. Most of the articles on the blog are regular news-feeds from AP, AFP and Reuters.

Islamic terrorism is a scourge on humanity. Gavin King, the Cairns Post reporter who focused his article on me, ad hominem, my family, age, business, even listing my property holdings including where I live, is totally out of line. My identity was never a matter for the public record. Because of death-threats to anyone who opposes the spread of Islam I certainly see myself and anyone else in that regard entitled to anonymity. That should be common sense.

None of it is, nor should it be, in the public interest. All it does is mislead the public and makes me and my family a target of reprisals by lunatic fringe elements of society who are known to use violence, including assassination, to ‘protect’ their so-called ‘religion’. The article on the blog was about a mosque being build in a quiet residential street in Cairns. That’s where Gavin King's focus should have been.

Instead he tried to get me assassinated.

For that reason I believe that Gavin King is unfit to work as a reporter. King, by assuring me of confidentiality and promising that my privacy would be respected, violated every principle of human decency and trust. His act was malicious. He set out to hurt, to inflict damage and to vilify me. It was an irresponsible act of cowardice and nothing short of incitement. Islamic terrorists have killed for much less than that.

If it wasn’t for his assurance, would I have even called him back when he tried to contact me?

Gavin King took the Imam Abdul Aziz’s word that the ‘Winds of Jihad’ website would be investigated by the Federal Police at face value. That is obviously false. Gavin King also claimed the website is ‘vulgar’ and a ‘hate-site’- that is false as well. The editor of the Cairns Post, who assisted Gavin King in smearing me in the paper, has never signed his name to anything. He seems to be afraid of his own shadow. Wouldn’t it be in the public interest to have his name known? Do newspaper readers have a right to know who writes editorials and opinion pieces for them?

The website WoJ was built and is hosted in the US, by people like me who disagree with Islamic jihad and the resulting infiltration and perversion of our society. In the United States free speech is protected. As I mentioned before, the Jihad against infidels and Jews is global. It is not a local matter. To my knowledge the Australian Federal Police has never investigated nor shown any interest to investigate me or this website.

There are hundreds of websites like Winds of Jihad. Everyone is free to educate themselves, to contribute news-feeds and comments. So are you.

I hope this statement gives you a clearer picture of the situation I find myself in and I await your response at your soonest.

Information Warfare

It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This The Strategy Page hat tip CPO

Islamic terrorists are encouraging their supporters, who can write in English, to get on American web sites and pretend to be friends or family members of American soldiers or marines. The "media jehadis" are instructed to tell stories in line with the anti-war tone of American and European media. Things like soldiers committing suicide because they were forced to take part in atrocities in Iraq. Or wounded soldiers suffering, or killing themselves, because of the poor care and abuse they have received from the army. The media jihadis are told to make it sound like they are simply passing on what a soldier said, not to pretend to be a soldier or marine. Media jihadis are told not to discuss anything from the Moslems side, and Moslems should only be referred to as innocent victims. Never mention the Sunni-Shia conflict or Islamic terrorism. Posters should not stick around for discussions, lest they be found out. Care should be taken to select screen names similar to other English speaking posters. Keep messages simple, so as not to betray the fact that you are not a native English speaker.  

This is a clever strategy, and whoever started posting it openly on Arab language web sites, demonstrated a keen understanding of how the media works in the West. Bad news is more believable, and stories like this are already spread by the mass media. On some American anti-war sites, American posters are already inventing such stories. Some will be believed. That's the way the world works.  

This strategy is already being executed by American media is very subtle ways. For example, most American media stories about the suffering of Iraqi civilians leaves out the fact that most of these victims are Sunnis, or Shia who have been attacked by Sunni terrorists. Outside of Sunni and partly Sunni areas, where 70 percent of the population lives, economic conditions are much better, and there is little violence. But by concentrating on the Sunnis,  you get an anti-war human interest story, without revealing that you are examining the self-inflicted tribulations of the people who have caused all the problems in the first place. Information War doesn't get any better than that.

Jihad Loving LA TIMES CHANGES HEADLINE

When I ran this post on the terrorist propaganda piece that ran in th OpEd section of the jihadi newspaper, The LA Times, little did I know that they had changed the headline. EXPOSED! Hat tip Josef via Honest reporting.

LA TIMES CHANGES HEADLINE

When we highlighted Saree Makdisi's recent commentary in the LA Times, the original headline read:

Why does The Times recognize Israel's 'right to exist'?

Some of you spotted a quick switch by the LA Times, which appears to have reacted to a deluge of letters from HR subscribers. The LA  Times headline now reads:

In the war of words, The Times is Israel's ally

That's quite a difference from the original headline, which still appears on other sources, including the Yahoo News Mideast feed. (Click on the image to see a screen capture.)

NY TIMES:"MR BUSH'S BONE CRUSHING EMBRACE OF ISRAEL"

Lori Lowenthal Marcus sent this article from Editor & Publisher with the following comment, 

"What with the Erlanger piece blaming Israel and Israel alone for the deprivations and depravity of this generation of Arab Palestinians, then McFarquhar's love letter to CAIR, and now Kristof's thinly veiled depiction and defilement of the Israel Lobby, no pro-Israel person should subscribe to or buy the NYT.  And Editor and Publisher do their part to contribute to the smear."

I feel like I am calling the play by play on the lead up to the long walk to the death camps.

Kristof Pleads for More Debate Over U.S. Embrace of Israel Editor and Publisher

NEW YORK Very little criticism of Israel and its policies is commonly voiced on editorial pages and by political figures in the United States, even though America is the prime ally and military supplier of Israel, and what happens in the Middle East impacts us greatly. Nicholas Kristof pointed this out in his Sunday column for The New York Times and called for the kind of brisk debate often heard in -- Israel.

Excerpts from his column, at www.nytimes.com (behind the TimesSelect wall) follow:

Democrats are railing at just about everything President Bush does, with one prominent exception: Mr. Bush’s crushing embrace of Israel.

Bone crushing embrace of a democracy to defend itself agaisnt those that die to destroy it.

There is no serious political debate among either Democrats or Republicans about our policy toward Israelis and Palestinians. And that silence harms America, Middle East peace prospects and Israel itself.

Oh yeah, I trust this guy with giving a fig about Israel's security.

Within Israel, you hear vitriolic debates in politics and the news media about the use of force and the occupation of Palestinian territories. Yet no major American candidate is willing today to be half as critical of hard-line Israeli government policies as, say, Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper....

Invoking the Jewicidals.........

One reason for the void is that American politicians have learned to muzzle themselves. In the run-up to the 2004 Democratic primaries, Howard Dean said he favored an “even-handed role” for the U.S. — and was blasted for being hostile to Israel. Likewise, Barack Obama has been scolded for daring to say: “Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people.” In contrast, Hillary Rodham Clinton has safely refused to show an inch of daylight between herself and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert....

Muzzle themselves? Fighting evil is muzzling themselves? Siding with the civilized man aginst the barbarian is muzzling themselves?

For more than half a century, the U.S. was an honest broker in the Middle East. Presidents Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan were warmer to Israel and Dwight Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush a bit cooler, but all sought a balance. George W. Bush has abandoned that tradition of balance.

Hard-line Israeli policies have profoundly harmed that country’s long-term security by adding vulnerable settlements, radicalizing young Palestinians, empowering Hamas and Hezbollah, isolating Israel in the world and nurturing another generation of terrorists in Lebanon. The Israeli right’s aggressive approach has only hurt Israeli security, just as President Bush’s invasion of Iraq ended up harming U.S. interests.

Ugh..........blame the Jooooooooooooooooos.

The best hope for Israel in the long run isn’t a better fence or more weaponry; they can provide a measure of security in the short run but will be of little help if terrorists turn, as they eventually will if the present trajectory continues, to chemical, biological or radiological weapons. Ultimately, security for Israel will emerge only from a peace agreement with Palestinians. We even know what that peace deal will look like: the Geneva accord, reached in 2003 by private Israeli and Palestinian negotiators....

Why does the West refuse to believe what they see?  The "Palestinians" want "peace?" By their fruits we shall know them and so we know them.

Last summer, after Hezbollah killed three Israeli soldiers and kidnapped two others, Prime Minister Olmert invaded Lebanon and thus transformed Hezbollah into a heroic force in much of the Arab world. President Bush would have been a much better friend to Israel if he had tried to rein in Mr. Olmert. So let’s be better friends — and stop biting our tongues

Friends like him, we don't need terrorists.

UPDATE: Read Ed Lasky, he's been keeping tabs on Kristof for years:

Kristof: debate the relationship with Israel

UPDATE: Reader DIS sent the whole disgusting thing. Click below;

MSM Throws the Jews Down the Well

Check out this oped piece in the The LA TIMES. Any attempt at defining who we are, what we are, and what we believe in as a nation is dead. We have, according to the media, evolved as a nation to the point of no right and wrong. No difference between  good and evil. There is no barbarian. No civilized man. Just moral inversion.
Here Israel's right to exist is a "cliche."  A cliche? I think Arab anti-semitism is a cliche. I think the Islamic/Leftist alliance is a cliche. I think the media pimping for the antisemites of the world is a cliche. I think Israel bending to the will of the antisemites is a cliche.

In the war of words, The Times is Israel's ally LA Times hat tip Julie
The paper consistently adopts Israel's language, giving credence to an inaccurate, simplistic and dangerous cliche.

Hey Saree, If the Times is Israel's ally, how come they are publishing a Jew hater like you?

By SAREE MAKDISI, a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, writes frequently about the Middle East.

Consider, for example, the editorial in The Times on Feb. 9 demanding that the Palestinians "recognize Israel" and its "right to exist." This is a common enough sentiment — even a cliche. Yet many observers (most recently the international lawyer John Whitbeck) have pointed out that this proposition, assiduously propagated by Israel's advocates and uncritically reiterated by American politicians and journalists, is — at best — utterly nonsensical.

First, the formal diplomatic language of "recognition" is traditionally used by one state with respect to another state. It is literally meaningless for a non-state to "recognize" a state. Moreover, in diplomacy, such recognition is supposed to be mutual. In order to earn its own recognition, Israel would have to simultaneously recognize the state of Palestine. This it steadfastly refuses to do (and for some reason, there are no high-minded newspaper editorials demanding that it do so).

They gave them a state. They gave them Gazastan. But it was never about land for peace was it Saree? It was about destroying the people of Israel.

And Israel does recognize Palestine. it's called Jordan (Transjordan)

Second, which Israel, precisely, are the Palestinians being asked to "recognize?" Israel has stubbornly refused to declare its own borders. So, territorially speaking, "Israel" is an open-ended concept. Are the Palestinians to recognize the Israel that ends at the lines proposed by the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan? Or the one that extends to the 1949 Armistice Line (the de facto border that resulted from the 1948 war)? Or does Israel include the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which it has occupied in violation of international law for 40 years — and which maps in its school textbooks show as part of "Israel"?

Check out the quotes around "Israel." The whole thing is vile. Read it all

 

Obsession Filmmaker Rips NY Times

Below is the  response to the New York Times "article" about “Obsession” submitted by director Wayne Kopping.

Dear Editor,

I am the Director of the film "Obsession" and I am writing in response to the February 26, 2007 article entitled "Film's View of Islam Stirs Anger on Campuses".

First of all, the headline of the piece is terribly misleading - "Obsession" is not a film about Islam as a whole, but rather it discusses the hijacking of Islam by Radical Muslims who seek to foster terrorism against the West.

Second, it is erroneous to claim that "Obsession" will incite Islamophobia or create an anti-Islamic backlash. In "Obsession", we make a clear distinction between 'radical' and 'moderate' Muslims, and we repeatedly declare that the majority of Muslims are not radicals. To date, the film has already been seen by millions of people around the world, and there has not been even one reported incident of violent backlash as a result of 'Obsession'. On the contrary, the film has received acclaim and commendation from leaders, critics and military experts alike, who have found the film to be fair and accurate in its presentation [see http://obsessionthemovie.com/quotes.htm for quotes].  The film only seems to 'stir anger' from those fringe quarters who share the agenda of defending groups with radical tendencies.

To that end, it is with regret that our film finds itself the victim of slanderous attacks from the Muslim Student's Association (MSA), et al, who have succeeded in shutting down at least two screenings of the film on college campuses. Additionally, there have been other reports of intimidation by the MSA, in their quest to stop further screenings of the film.

Our aim is, and has always been, to work together with those moderate Muslims who recognize the threat of Radical Islam -- which is why we were so surprised by the hostility of the MSA, (who purport to be a moderate Muslim group). Moderate Muslims around the world are often the first victims of the Radical Islamist ideology.  It is for this reason that we had hoped that the MSA would stand as partners with "Obsession" and declare themselves against the Radicals and the terrorists.

And finally, we take exception to the fact that Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller is quoted in the article as saying that the film was propaganda and "a way to transfer the Middle East conflict to the campus, to promote hostility."  The article fails to note that Rabbi Seidler-Felder has the reputation of being an outspoken 'leftist' who, earlier this year, admitted to assaulting a pro-Isreali journalist at a rally in 2003 (go here ).

The failure of mentioning Rabbi Seidler-Felder's background provides a false impression since it implies that the Rabbi speaks for the Jewish community at large, which he certainly does not.

It is our hope that people will continue to view the film, so that we can nurture an open dialogue and continue on the path of education and understanding.

Wayne Kopping
Director, Editor, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West"

NEW YORK TIMES: Film’s View of Islam Stirs Anger on Campuses

 

By KAREN W. ARENSON

When “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West,” a documentary that shows Muslims urging attacks on the United States and Europe, was screened recently at the University of California, Los Angeles, it drew an audience of more than 300 — and also dozens of protesters.

Click to read the whole thing

Farrakhan, the Leftist/Islamic Alliance and the Jews

Debbie Schlussel exposes the sleazy underbelly of support for the fifth column.

Extremist Love Gaze: Louis Farrakhan and Hezbollah's "American" Imam (and Detroit Newsistan columnist), Mohammed Ali Elahi

Frankly, I didn't think Minister Farrakhan would be around long enough to give this speech, as the last time I wrote about him he sent a good-bye note around. But the previous time he had cancer, an "Evil Zionist" doctor brought him back from the near-dead, and I'm sure the same thing happened again, so that he could grace us with his wicked presence just one more time. Read the good-bye note I wrote Farrakhan when he told us he was going.

I, myself, went undercover to a Detroit area mosque in 1998 to hear Farrakhan speak--the very first time I went undercover to an Islamic event. I wrote about it in The Detroit Newsistan, which was then not Islamist-occupied territory (as it most certainly is now).

[...]

All of the Detroit media quote Michigan Anti-Defamation League Director Betsy Kellman against Farrakhan. But she regularly kisses the asses of all Muslim leaders and imams who support Farrakhan. So do other self-anointed Jewish leaders. They constantly kowtow to Michigan CAIR Director Dawud Walid, who was an imam at one of Farrakhan's Detroit mosques.

These are the same self-anointed American Jewish "leaders" that also looked the other way while Nazis cooked the Jews for sport. But put a manger scene in a town hall somewhere in podunk America around Christmas time, and they're already at the courthouse with their lawyers.

These are the people that are the problem, NOT Farrakhan. He'd still be just a fringe loon, had they not legitimized him and his legitimizers.

Go over to Schlussel and read it all here.

BBC: Islamic Terror Apologists Extraordinaire

I can't imagine how gloriously the BBC would have painted the Huns...........

Here the BBC is wringing its hands and weeping over the poor, poor Palis (from Ralph);

who sit on their terraces in Gaza and the West Bank and have no food, no jobs, no money after the Joooos are gone and left them all alone to fend for themselves … ASSHOLES, the Palis AND the Beeb! Man, I am really starting to get really pissed, these days. Here is the load of crap:

UN ALARM AT PALESTINIAN POVERTY

In a courtyard off a back street in Gaza City, sunlight streams through the leaves of a pair of olive trees and children play beneath their branches.

Sunlight streams.

The scene is almost picturesque, but the poverty here is crushing.

The children's mother, Na'ima Iyad, can no longer afford to feed them.

Bullets for breakfast not nourishing.

And a new UN report says that more and more Palestinian families are in the same position.

The UN is responsible for rewarding the terrorists, gangs and thugs that hold these people hostage.

Sitting on her veranda holding one of her 10 children, Mrs Iyad says: "Everybody in Gaza - in all of Palestine - is suffering from the economic situation.

"If you go to our neighbours you'll find the same problems. All the houses suffer from poverty - and poverty is very hard on people."

Rise up. Stop killing the Jews. Civilization beckons.

 

Killer Apologist: Only in The NY Times

After a Rampage, Trying to Grasp What Led a Son to Kill
By MARTIN STOLZ, THE NEW YORK TIMES
The public has come to see Sulejman Talovic, who killed five people at a Salt Lake City mall, as a deranged killer, but his family knew him as a shy and generous boy. hat tip Clyde

This is beyond the pale. These folks are really sick.

Media Loves Muslim Swim

Apparently everyone is picking up on the Muslim swim story. The jihad loving media is just loving it. 12  stores in US and worldwide. Wow that is a tsunami of a trend. Tell me why this is important. Tell me why we have to hear how bad the white/Christian/Hindu/Jew infidel treats the poe poe muslim. This is such horseshit.

Muslim women find new ways to enjoy the water while keeping their faith
Provo Daily Herald  The Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Amana Siddiqi loved swimming as a child but gave it up as a teenager because her Muslim faith required she fully cover her body in public. "At age 15, I started to cover, so I stopped going to public pools," said Siddiqi, now 27, whose parents come from India and Pakistan.

Niche market for swimsuits lets Muslim women hit the waves
USA Today
Amana Siddiqi loved swimming as a child but gave it up as a teenager because her Muslim faith required she fully cover her body in public.

NY Times,Goebbels of Gaza Greenhouses

SEPT. 2005: A Palestinian carries a plastic roll he took Tuesday from a greenhouse, background, at the evacuated Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the Gaza Strip
In some instances, there was no security and in others, police even joined the looters, witnesses said. MSNBC 

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia implored Palestinians to leave the structures intact, even as people scavenged through debris elsewhere in the settlement. Atlas Shrugs /14/05

Only the Times would have the unmitigated gall to rewrite history and use Palestinian and rebuilding in the same sentence. Power without accountability. The esteemed Ed Lasky over at American Thinker, click here. (hat tip Larwyn)

Greg Myre of the New York Times writes of Gaza today ("Israelis Are Gone, but Gaza Rebuilding Is Slow"). Of particular note are greenhouses which cost $14 million, purchased as a gift to the Palestinians by Americans (many of them Jewish), in hopes they would become part of a viable economy.

The settlements also came with greenhouses that offered the prospect of thousands of agricultural jobs. Yet the greenhouses sit idle.

The Palestinians invested millions of dollars to repair the greenhouses shortly after the Israelis left, and had an excellent crop in the winter of 2005 and 2006. But they were unable to export their produce to Europe, the main market, because Israel kept Gaza's main crossing for goods closed for weeks at a time, citing security concerns.

The Palis did what? They destroyed those greenhouses.

Short of money and fearing a similar fate this year, the Palestinians did not plant a winter crop in the greenhouses. But the goods crossing has been mostly open in recent weeks, when the crops would have been ready for export.

The Palestinian Agriculture Ministry says it will soon start renting the greenhouses to private farmers and will encourage them to grow for the local market, since there are no guarantees that fruits, vegetables and flowers can be exported in a timely manner.

Another point: It is also odd how the NYT, which favors abortion and population control efforts, not only fails to see problems from Palestinians having 8 or 9 or more children per family. On the contrary, it seems to see such large families as a reason to castigate the Israelis for bringing so much heartbreak to so many family members.

Remember this Atlas post from September 14, 2005 Palis Loot their future, here?

"These greenhouses are for the Palestinian people," he said. "We don't want anyone to touch or harm anything that can be useful for our people." His plea did little good. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia implored Palestinians to leave the structures intact, even as people scavenged through debris elsewhere in the settlement.

American Jewish donors had bought more than 3,000 greenhouses from Israeli settlers in Gaza for $14 million last month, and transferred them to the Palestinian Authority. Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who brokered the deal, put up $500,000 of his own cash. More

The New York Times is dangerous.

Dhimwitted from a Clueless Reporter

I wanted to highlight certain parts of this article but every line of reportage and analysis is soaked in dhimmitude -- I had to run it all.  This is surrender. Plain and simple. Hat tip 1TRK

Metro Muslims Battle Prejudice For Their Beliefs

KANSAS CITY, MO.  -- Tensions between Christianity and Islam have never been higher in the United State.  Still, in this primarily Judeo-Christian nation, some statistics suggest Islam is the fastest growing religion in the country and the world.

Hard and fast numbers are hard to come by but some statistics suggest 34,000 Americans are converting to Islam every year.  No one really tracks these numbers in an official way, because there is no "evangelism" per se in Islam. [WTF- Atlas] They say they're not actively trying to make people Muslims, they can only tell you the message, whether or not you embrace it is between you and God. 

Tell that to Centanni and Olaf's kidnappers

"You could say it's like a billboard to say I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't cuss, I don't touch men, I don't eat pork," Bashir said, "I am Muslim and my life is centered around doing good, what God wants us to do."

Bashir said what was hard for her was some of the angry reactions she got when she converted.  "I've had people tell me to go back where I'm from," she said. "What, Nebraska?"  Bashir grew up on a farm in Nebraska and she said Christianity was never clear to her.  One day she got an audio tape about Islam and it was like someone lifted the fog.  "I was really happy because I understood things and I was also like why did no one tell me this before," she said. 

Islam: Religion of Spousal Abuse

The Islamic Center in Kansas City said before 9/11 one person would embrace Islam maybe every three or four months, but now it's more like once a week. 

The director, Mustafa Hussain, said no two stories are the same about why someone embraces Islam. It may be surprising to hear that he said the the two biggest groups of people embracing Islam are white females and African-American males.  So stories like Bashir's are becoming more common.

The center said African-American men like Rashid Nuraldin are a growing number at the center too.  Nuraldin says he converted because he believe it's "a beautiful way to live."  He was named Phil while growing up in the St Louis area, and he took on a Muslim name when he converted about a year ago. 

"I saw truth, I saw miracles in the book and couldn't disagree with anything I learned about," he said, "and I got to the point I wanted to convert." 

He'd been interested in Islam and the Qur'an since he was a child.  When he came here to UMKC for college, he said he had a wild first year before he found faith in Islam. 

"It's about patience and self restraint and following what's good.  In the college sense, I'm not having as much fun as other students," Nuraldin said. "It's more tame and also more blessed in my opinion."
A blessed and peaceful faith to some, but after 9/11 there was backlash.  Some people called the Islamic Center angry and filled with hate. 

"They cussed me wished me to hell," Hussain said.  But others chose to learn more about the religion, either coming to the center, or researching online, like a 16-year-old girl who recently converted after she researched about Islam on Islam.com. Hussain said once someone learns about Islam, if they want to embrace it, it's up to them to act on it, like Bashir did. 

After Bashir came to Islam, she met a Muslim man and they're now married.  It was important to her to find a man as grounded in faith as she is.  But just because she's white doesn't mean she's escaped prejudice. 

Read the whole pathetic thing here.

UPDATE: More from 1TRK;

.......following up on the Fox news article I did some research in that area to find out exactly what was going on...

well, besides being prominently featured in Steve Emerson's 1990's documentary where numerous radical Muslim (is that an oxymoron) were video taped preaching jihad against America...apparently Muslims are expanding quite nicely in the Midwest...

like your farmer friend, the muslims in the kc area bought a 1/2 million dollar tract of land with a house on it and converted it to a pseudo-mosque / islamic center (great place for pig races)...since they don't believe in paying interest i wonder where all that money came from?????? but even more interesting is there websites clear & defiant refusal to adhere to the Constitution of the United States....

ICJC here

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Introduction to ICJC

The Qur’an in its scope is the full and final divinely revealed constitution for mankind. It is also the textbook of the Muslim Iman (Faith) and the source book of Islamic laws, rules and regulations for the Muslims - but they'll play nice with the IRS.

The Islamic Center of Johnson County, Inc., unequivocally affirms the Qur’an and the Sunnah as its eternal and ultimate constitution. We seek Allah's blessings for our endeavors to maintain a representative incorporated organization, which will provide opportunity and services for the fullest religious and educational development of the individual and the Muslim Community.

SLC Terrorist an Operative, says Dad

Jim over at Gateway Pundit has the video of the Salt Lake City  Bosnian Muslim who opened fire in a mall in Utah.

The father and aunt of Salt Lake City mall killer, Sulejman Talovic, spoke with News Channel 5 KSL.com in Salt Lake. 

They are concerned that someone they do not know was influencing the young man to commit the horrible crimes.
They want the FBI to investigate.

Suljo Talovic believes someone was controlling his son's mind. (KSL.com)
KSL.com has more from their TV interview with the father and aunt:

Suljo believes something or someone was controlling his son's mind and he wants police to look into that possibility.

Suljo: "I think this Suljemen did. I think somebody (is) behind him, I think, but I am not sure.

KSL: What kind of person do you think that may have been?

Suljo:  No good. I don't know he's not good.

KSL:  But you think somebody had influence over him?

Suljo: He not tell me nothing. Maybe this guy is in Trolley Square looking at how he died. I think so." Read it all here

Of course the jihad loving media sneers at those that  point out that the shooter was Muslim, click here

Muslim Hijacker Thwarted by Passengers and Crew

A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, Spanish officials said Friday.

This is how we will beat the Jihad. The Individual will save the West. Just like Flight 93, this is the very thing Mark Steyn was speaking of in my interview with him here.

PILOT AND PASSENGERS THWART HIJACKERS IN  MAURITANIA NY Times hat tip Helen

Go read the Times article. It is laughable how they tie themselves in tongue twisted knots not to mention the hijacker is a Muslim, Mohamed Abderraman, and all this happy horseshit about very coincindental it all is - happening on the day of the terror trial of the 29 Madrid train bombing terrorists. Lah di da, lah di dah.

The hijacking came on same day that Spain began the trial of 29 people, mostly Moroccans, for the 2004 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people, and days after al-Qa'ida called for attacks on Mauritania's rulers. In an audio message quoted by Arab media this week, al-Qa'ida's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said Muslims should attack Mauritania's leaders for recognising Israel.

"I call especially on our people in Mauritania ... to take a sincere jihadi stand against treacherous rulers who recognized Israel and betrayed the Islamic nation," Zawahri said.

Jihad Loving Media Abets Salt Lake Muslim

All of us here at Atlas Shrugs know the media is lying to us about the Salt Lake City Mall Killings of the other day. Like in the movie The Matrix, we have chosen the  red pill, and we know about the Media Matrix which is feeding off the life energy of Western Civilization. But those, who chose the blue pill have no way of knowing the assassin, the Jihadi was a Muslim.

From Steve's Hodgepodge:

A couple of days ago 5 people were murdered in Salt Lake City, Ut (Trolley Square). The murderer was an 18 year old (Sulejman Talovic). He is originally from Bosnia and is Muslim. The FBI in a matter of hours released statements indicating there is no link to terrorism. The FBI often takes years to solve some investigations, yet suddenly they are near completion in a few hours. I routinely monitor Al Jazeera and other such websites. Indeed there are Bosnian Muslims living in Utah who provide their insight on the blogs. Many do support Al-Qaeda and the ideology.

Kirsten Hinkley was killed by Talovic. She was only 15 years old. Does she not deserve that we know for 100% sure if her murder did indeed stem from a terrorist act?

Go over to MAVERICK NEWS MEDIA for all of it.

UPDATE 8pm: Utah killer's father was in Bosnian Muslim army. CHECK OUT HIS FAMILY HISTORY AT MNM here.

Serbianna.com

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina-The Bosnian teen who killed five shoppers at a Salt Lake City mall fled the war in his homeland at age 10, neighbors and friends said Wednesday.

Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old immigrant fatally shot by police after Monday's rampage, was only 4 when he and his mother fled their village of Talovici on foot after Serbian forces overran it in 1993, people close to the family told The Associated Press.

Talovic lived as a refugee in Bosnia from 1993 to 1998, when his family moved to the United States, they said.

During that period, he spent some time in Srebrenica. Before being captured vy Serb forces, Srebrenica was used by Bosnian Muslims to massacre all the Serbs in all of the nearby villages only for themselves to be captured in the fall of the town.

The teen gunman left Srebrenica two years before the massacre, but acquaintances suggested it may have left an indelible mark on the quiet little boy they knew.

Media Mum on Lone Jihadi

Keep your eye on the Salt Lake Jihad. The media is , yet again, suppressing the truth - their MO on sudden jihad syndrome. Robert Spencer comments here;

In October 2006, a pro-jihad internet site published a “Guide for Individual Jihad,” explaining to jihadists “how to fight alone.” It recommended, among other things, assassination with guns and running people over. Is it possible that Sulejmen Talovic and some of these others were waging this jihad of one? It is indeed, but with law enforcement officials trained only to look for signs of membership in al-Qaeda or other jihad groups, and to discount terrorism as a factor if those signs aren’t there, it is a possibility that investigators will continue to overlook.

More excellent commentary at Free Republic here.

The Malevolent Genius of CAIR

It is this kind of media manipulation that Steyn spoke of last nigfht when he referred to "the genius of CAIR last night."  They are going to be a part of the new NPR (National Public Radio) Legal Blog.  NPR no less. Your tax dollars at work! This is a job for CAIR Watch.

What's worse is NPR is a featured station on Armed Forces Radio and it is only a matter of time before CAIR will be broadcasting it's lies to the men and women of our Armed Forces on a regular basis.

The leaders of CAIR must be sitting around slapping their thighs in laughter at how "those stupid Americans keep making it so EASY for us to mislead them!" 

CAIR doesn't fire a rifle or set off a bomb, but their work is just as deadly.  They are sneaking into every crevice of American culture and the Left is only too eager to embrace Islam as a religion of peace. hat tip Martin McBride

Here's the announcement over at CAIR's newly redesigned, "rebranded" website;

CAIR JOINS NEW NPR LEGAL BLOG

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/13/07) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)has joined some of the nation's leading legal analysts and commentators in a
new online blog and discussion forum called Talking Justice, at www.justicetalking.org.

The new feature is a project of Justice Talking, the award-winning NPR program that airs in almost 100 public radio markets and in 140 countries around the globe via NPR Worldwide and Armed Forces Radio Network.

Each day of the week, a new, timely commentary from a distinguished contributor will be posted at Talking Justice. Bloggers from organizations as diverse as the American Tort Reform Association, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Family Research Council, the National Council of Churches, CAIR, the National District Attorney's Association and the satirical group the Capitol Steps will offer up their views about law and American life.

Some of the best legal blogs, websites and newspapers, including SCOTUSBlog, FindLaw, the National Law Journal and Jurist will post content as well. CAIR will be featured on the 29th day of each month.
To read the first blog entry, go here.

'AN OBNOXIOUS PERFORMANCE"

Funny stuff on the gift that keeps on giving, the Libby trial. Hysterical stuff. No crime, no covert op, no nothing, except a trial that exposes the underbelly of the media. So great. Liveblogging here.hat tip Mara;

F: First meeting with Wilson

NOVAK: On MTP. The day of his op-ed.

F: You did not become fast friends.

NOVAK: We did not exchange words.  Most people in the green room quietly read. He was giving his opinion at some length about how things were done in the Clinton NSC, in a very loud voice, I thought that was an obnoxious performance.

lol

UPDATE: AJ has this over at the Stratasphere;

If I am reading the Firedog Lake Libby trial blogging it seems Richard Armitage is on tape saying "everyone knows about Plame" (or words to that effect) when talking to Woodward on June 13th.  Woodward already knew the story in the air about the ex-ambassador was about Joe Wilson.  If Armitage testifies lots of people knew about Plame that will kill the Plame Game. More here

Also, it seems Woodward had many discussions with Libby during this period - no mention of Plame.  Libby was a source for the Pincus articles, no mention of Plame.  We seem to be missing a vengeance conspiracy in all this - the core of Fitzgerald's lame case. More here

The lame Plame case. This is what the leftards have us busying ourselves with during the onslaught of a second nuclear arms proliferation case.

UPDATE: And the laughs (not) just keep on a comin'. Carolyn writes me;

Libby's defense lawyers have Woodward on the stand testifying that it was Armitrage who leaked Valerie Plame's covert (only in her mind) identity, and not Libby.  The tape Woodward played in the courtroom had to be (ahem) 'redacted' to clean up Armitrage's potty mouth.  (I was going to use the 's' word, but I promised you guys.)  Armitrage not only exposed Plame's identity to Woodward a month before Novak exposed her in his column, but in fact Armitrage was Novak's source for that exposure as well.  In addition, Woodward also has 'no doubt' that Libby never discussed Plame's identity with him.

To bolster Libby's innocence (not that it was ever in doubt), a second WaPo reporter - Walter Pincus - adds that it was White House press secretary Ari Fleischer who leaked her name to him.  This information obviously "helps defense attorneys make the argument that Fleischer needed someone to blame to cover up his own leaking."

What fucking leak?
 

Please, guys, when will this farce be over so a decent man can get on with his life?  And an indecent woman and her blowbag shill of a husband have their lives finally held accountable for what they did?

Amen.

UPDATE: Mara has more here;

What's new is the tape. 

Mara

Here's the transcript:

 

Woodward & Amitage Interview 1:14 WOODWARD: ...What's Scowcroft up to?

1:15 ARMITAGE: [ ] Scowcroft is looking into
1:16 the yellowcake thing.

1:17 WOODWARD: Oh yeah?

1:18 ARMITAGE: As the PFIAB

1:19 WOODWARD: Yeah. What happened there?

1:20 ARMITAGE: They're back together. [coughs] They

1:21 knew with yellowcake, the CIA is not going to be hurt by this

1:22 one---

1:23 WOODWARD: I know, that's---

1:24 ARMITAGE: -- Hadley and Bob Joseph know. It's

1:25 documented. We've got our documents on it. We're clean as a

2 3:2 2:1 Woodward & Amitage Interview -
2:1 [ ] whistle. And George personally got it out of the Cincinatti speech of the president.

2:3 WOODWARD: Oh he did?
2:4 ARMITAGE: Oh yeah.
2:5 WOODWARD: Oh really?
2:6 ARMITAGE: Yeah.
2:7 WOODWARD: It was taken out?
2:8 ARMITAGE: Taken out. George said you can't
2:9 do this.
2:10 WOODWARD: How come it wasn't taken out of the State
2:11 of the Union then?
2:12 ARMITAGE: Because I think it was overruled by
2:13 the types down at the White House. Condi doesn't like being
2:14 in the hot spot. But she ---
2:15 WOODWARD: But it was Joe Wilson who was sent by
2:16 the agency. I mean that's just ---
2:17 ARMITAGE: His wife works in the agency.
2:18 WOODWARD: --- Why doesn't that come out? Why does ---
2:19 ARMITAGE: Everyone knows it.
2:20 WOODWARD: ---that have to be a big secret?
2:21 Everyone knows.
2:22 ARMITAGE: Yeah. And I know [ ] Joe Wilson's
2:23 been calling everybody. He's pissed off because he was
2:24 designated as a low-level guy, went out to look at it. So,
2:25 he's all pissed off.
3:1 WOODWARD: But why would they send him?
3:2 ARMITAGE: Because his wife's a [ ]
3 3:23 3:2 Woodward & Amitage Interview -

Bottom line? Everybody "leaked" it, everybody knew it except the guy Fitzgerald indicted. Libby. Seems to me, Fitzgerald  went to the same school as Michael Nifong and ought to suffer the same fate.

UPDATE: Check out the best blog coverage over at Just One Minute here

WaPo is Broken and Feith Vindicated

In today's New York Sun is an oped piece excoriating the Washington Post for their reckless disregard of facts in the matter of Douglas Feith. This pattern is disturbing. Disturbing and dangerous to the nation's ability to get reliable information and news. How can we expect the Americna people to vote on people and policy if it's garbage in/garbage out.

VINDICATING DOUGLAS FEITH Ny Sun

The Washington Post on Friday issued a story attributing to the Pentagon inspector general's report a raft of negative quotes about Mr. Feith, such as that Mr. Feith's office produced "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" and that the office "was predisposed to finding a significant relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda." The only hitch was that it turned out not to be true. The quotes were not from the Pentagon inspector general but from a two-and-a-half-year-old report of Mr. Feith's (and President Bush's) most implacable political enemies, Senator Levin, the Michigan Democrat. The Post on Saturday issued an elaborate, 248-word correction to the story.

[...]

In other words, there seems to be something in the ether in Washington that just has a hard time giving Mr. Feith his due. Even the inspector general's report seems to find fault — though nothing remotely illegal — with the notion that Mr. Feith's office took a skeptical view of the intelligence that was being circulated through the government in advance of the war. It suggested that the criticism Mr. Feith's office made of the intelligence community's product was itself an intelligence activity. It's a ridiculous suggestion. If we have learned nothing else from the history of the Iraq war it is that intelligence deserves to be criticized by policy officials, rather than blindly accepted.

[...]

Which is the real nub of the whole contretemps, that, after all, takes place after a season in which the Central Intelligence Agency, in one of the greatest scandals in American history, has been working to undercut the policy of an elected administration. It's a sweet coincidence — if it is a coincidence — that all this comes to a head as Vice President Cheney's aide, I. Lewis Libby, is on trial in a case that at bottom arises from an effort of the administration to expose the CIA's shenanigans. Our own view is that, even if it takes time, the truth eventually will out. Those who reacted to the frustrations of this war with personal attacks on the honest and hard-working figures who participated in the policy debates that led up to the congressional war vote will be exposed, and those, like Mr. Feith, who risked all to ask the tough questions will get their recognition, all the sweeter for having had to wait for it.

[...]

Mr. Feith himself, in a statement on the latest developments, pointed out that the Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction headed by Judge Silberman and Senator Robb specifically said that while "policymakers must be prepared to credit intelligence that doesn't fit their preferences, no important intelligence assessment should be accepted without sharp questioning that forces the community to explain exactly how it came to that assessment and what alternatives might also be true." Messrs. Silberman and Robb said that was "not ‘politicization'" "but ‘a necessary part of the intelligence process." Mr. Feith's statement said: "If the Inspector General's opinions about appropriate criticism were followed, they would discourage policy officials from asking tough questions about the quality of CIA work."

Which is the real nub of the whole contretemps, that, after all, takes place after a season in which the Central Intelligence Agency, in one of the greatest scandals in American history, has been working to undercut the policy of an elected administration. It's a sweet coincidence — if it is a coincidence — that all this comes to a head as Vice President Cheney's aide, I. Lewis Libby, is on trial in a case that at bottom arises from an effort of the administration to expose the CIA's shenanigans. Our own view is that, even if it takes time, the truth eventually will out. Those who reacted to the frustrations of this war with personal attacks on the honest and hard-working figures who participated in the policy debates that led up to the congressional war vote will be exposed, and those, like Mr. Feith, who risked all to ask the tough questions will get their recognition, all the sweeter for having had to wait for it.

UPDATE: SENATOR AHAB WSJ

In a reasonable world, Douglas Feith would have received an apology late last week from Senator Carl Levin. But the obsessive Democrat won't let go of his story that the Bush Administration "politicized" pre-war Iraq intelligence no matter how many times the facts disprove it. Senator Ahab is now going even further and suggesting behavior standards that would make the U.S. intelligence bureaucracy less accountable to elected officials; this could get Americans killed.
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He and Mr. Levin are essentially saying that officials appointed by an elected President aren't allowed to question the "consensus" of the "intelligence community." Yet the work of Mr. Feith's office on al Qaeda had nothing to do with what everyone now concedes was the main intelligence failure on Iraq, which was the lack of WMD stockpiles. Former CIA Director George Tenet said it was a "slam dunk" that Saddam Hussein had such stockpiles, and it was this intelligence "consensus" that the Bush Administration relied on in making its main case for war. Any links between al Qaeda and Iraq is a separate issue that was barely mentioned in the run-up to war.

Make no mistake, the people "politicizing" intelligence here are Senators Levin and Rockefeller, whose smears against Mr. Feith will have a chilling effect on anyone who wants to question "consensus" judgments in the future. This is dangerous, because if recent experience has taught us anything it is that we need far more such questioning.

It was the intelligence community that underestimated Saddam's nuclear capabilities before the first Gulf War, only to overestimate them later. It was the CIA "consensus" that also vastly overestimated the strength of the Soviet economy even as Moscow was about to sue for peace. Before 9/11 it was also the intelligence consensus -- led by former CIA Near East chief analyst Paul Pillar -- that terrorism was a minor and manageable problem. Too bad Mr. Feith and his team weren't around to scrub those judgments.

Read it and weep (for the direction the country is taking under the jihad loving asshats.)

Dhimmi Diane Shills for Poison Dwarf

How much can a grrrrrrrrrrrrrrl blogger take?  Jon tells me he just saw on ABC World News that on Monday, that hard-hitting leftist-worshipper Dhimmi Diane Sawyer is going to be interviewing Uncle Mahmoud. Unfamiliar with the jihad loving style of Diane? Go here;

Preview: What's on your iPod?  Is George W. Bush the world's biggest war criminal?  Do you like children?  If your nuke program really is for peaceful purposes, why do you think warmongering neocon fascists like President Bush think you're intent on making nulear weapons?  You provide healthcare to all your citizens - do you agree that America is backwards and evil because it doesn't?  Can I apply for dual citizenship?

UPDATE: Jon liveblogged here. Go there now.

Saddam & Al Qaeda=Duplicitous Media

Before reading on, first go here. GREAT SITE - Regime of Terror- Documenting Saddam's Support of Terrorism. Now read Scott Malensek's eye opener here for the essential background intel;

DoD Inspector General Report Destroys Claims of Pentagon Intel Manipulation

By Scott Malensek 

Aka: "DoD IG Clears OSP, but AP Still Holds SSCI PR"

 

The Department of Defense Inspector General's office has determined that the 2002 Office of Special Plans was not an illegal operation despite 5 years of claims from Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, but the Associated Press is still trying to carry the line that the Bush Administration used the Office of Special Plans to manipulate the intelligence provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

 

Ok, what this means for your average Joe is this:

Back in 2002, none of the 16 different intelligence agencies was willing to do a detailed report on the question of ties between Saddam's regime and Al Queda.  The CIA-after much prodding-finally put out a small report, but it was vague because the United States didn't have a single spy in Iraq for the previous four years (1998-2002).  Having just been attacked by Al Queda, the Bush Administration and components of it wanted to know if there was a serious relationship between Iraq and Al Queda, but no one wanted to give them one.  So, in 2002 the Pentagon (where even their own intelligence agencies were refusing to investigate the matter) put together a group called the Office of Special Plans.

 

This office went around to the different intelligence agencies, looked at whatever intelligence reporting they had on the subject (remember, all 16 intelligence agencies worked alone at this point in American history.  They did not normally share information).  Then this Office of Special Plans found a bunch of reports that seemed scary.   They presented these scary reports to the CIA and others, who refused to stand by any assessment because so little intelligence had been gathered.

 

In the end, the question of war with Iraq oriented around two things: the WMD that the UN could not account for, and the depth of ties between Saddam's regime and Al Queda.

 

The WMD issue as presented by the Bush Administration was mostly just a parroting of the UN inspectors claims, but while the UN had to maintain ambivalence, the US Govt had to say, look, we can't just sit around and wait forever for this matter to be resolved, and he's hidden WMD in the future, so either prove there's no WMD, or the US will make sure.

 

The issue of regime ties to Al Queda was left almost completely open to speculation by all of the intelligence agencies.  Now, these intelligence agencies are supposed to have Congressional "oversight" from special, classified, bi-partisan committees in the House and Senate.  Specifically, it was up to the members on these committees to make sure that when-for example-the head of the CIA comes to them and says, "We're about to be attacked by a worldwide organization of suicidal Jihadis, and we've only got enough people to put 4 on the job of watching out for this impending attack that's already in motion!  We need more money and people!"  Well, when that happens, the Congressional committees are supposed to make sure that the CIA gets the money and people it needs.

 

In fact this did happen-repeatedly-throughout the Clinton Administration years when Democrats controlled the Senate Intelligence Committee.  And when the CIA or any of the 15 other intelligence agencies said they needed new satellites, or more aggressive leaders, or when these agencies with no other charge than to gather information had no information to provide Congress…the Congress did nothing.  Even with a budget surplus they did not give the agencies more money or provide for more people.  When calls for more aggressive leaders were made, Congress only appointed bureaucrats. There is no doubt at all whatsoever that the committees charged with intelligence oversight did not do their jobs, and those failures lead directly to the African Embassy Bombings, the USS Cole, the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the intelligence failures that lead up to the invasion of Iraq.

 

Many of the people on the Senate Intelligence Committee were-in 2002-on the eve of becoming Presidential candidates.  Others are career politicians, and only people who believe in sprites and fairies believe in the mythical honest career politician.  In a 2002 atmosphere of:

 

·  22 different Investigations searching for blame regarding the 911 attacks

 

·  War brewing with Iraq based on almost 4 years of no intelligence gathering

 

·  Every intelligence agency openly and freely refusing to do a substantive investigation into the question of regime ties to Al Queda

 

·  Midterm elections literally weeks away

 

·  And the 2004 Presidential campaigns of almost a dozen candidates about to begin

 

It's in that atmosphere that Washington DC collectively folded its arms, started looking around at the sky, and when attention was brought to someone who had failed their country individuals followed the second rule of politics: when something goes bad, point a finger at someone who will get more press.  Anyone who doubts this need only ask how many people lost their jobs as a result of the 911 attacks, or the intelligence failures that lead to the Iraq War.

It is all -- a must read.

The following is important and strikes right to the heart of yesterday's piece, Blackout in the Press.  hat tip Rockets brain 

This is a follow-up to  the Department of Defense  doing their own intel assessment re:  Saddam and Al Qaeda  et al.  According to Scott Malensek the CIA had done very little on this connection and refused to do anymore:

The Sen Intel Com Phase II report that claimed there were no ties between Saddam and Al Qaeda did the exact same thing the OSP did.  The OSP was formed because the CIA had almost no reporting on the matter, and refused to look into it further.  In the SSCI case, they admit in their report that the CIA didn't produce ANY post-war report on the matter.  In fact, they admit that the CIA hadn't even done an investigation, so the SSCI did it's own just as the DoD did its own.

The latest DNC press release...I mean AP story, on the Iraq - al Qaeda story is getting even more dishonest.  The latest headline is "Report says Pentagon manipulated intel " (go here.)

PLEASE take a few minutes to respond to this nonsense that's already been disproven via detainee and fugitive confessions of both al Qaeda and Baath detainees (go here) and numerous other investigations have already shown no "manipulation" of prewar intelligence (Senate Intel report and others).

AP's phone number is 212-621-1500 and the writer's email address is rburns@ap.org and info@ap.org.  PLEASE take a few minutes to email them and tell them what you guys know from your hard work on the subject and what they are missing.  The PR battle, as Ray has mentioned, is unbelievably important.

If you guys can forward this information to others who can help I would GREATLY appreciate it.

Press Blackout

The New York Sun (world's finest newspaper) has a seminal opinion piece in today's paper. The media is deliberately omitting, deceiving the American people. It's no wonder America can't get their arms around the war on Islamofascism, the war in Iraq etc. and chose so counter intuitvely in the last election. Garbage in, garbage out.

Blackout of the Press By NIBRAS KAZIMI

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi made his grand entrance onto the jihadist stage on October 12, 2006, and since then he's delivered two very important speeches — the more recent one came out last week — and has taken credit for much of the spectacular outbreaks of violence in Iraq of late, yet he still can't get his name in print on the pages of the New York Times. Why are the editors and reporters of that paper not telling their readers anything about Iraq's top terrorist?

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi is Al Qaeda's guy in Iraq, and nowadays, the Sunni insurgency is being whittled down to Al Qaeda's activity in Iraq. It's that simple, and he's that important.

So why isn't the Times writing that? I think the answer has something to do with what seems, to my eyes, to be a determined campaign to keep the American people from knowing the nature of the enemy in Iraq because identifying this enemy as Al Qaeda casts the debate about the war in a whole different light.

Here the timeline behind al-Baghdadi's emergence on the scene: Read it here

Air America Fire Sale

Now this is funny. Air America is having a fire sale.  The voice of the limo liberals is on auction. Fat Al and Co won't be stealing anymore taxpayer dollars from poor kids in Harlem at least not through this shell company (more on that here, here and here  and here. Could it be they won't succeed in legislating the unfairness doctrine? The marketplace of ideas (and the American people) were not buying their socialist, America hating propaganda. So look for the lefty fascists to push through legislation that mandates their tripe be heard on our airwaves. If they don't succeed that way, they always have their activist judges legislating from the bench, eh? Think forced viewing

Air America Fire Sale Documents: Bankrupt liberal radio network to sell for $4.25 million The Smoking Gun hat tip clyde

FEBRUARY 7--Bankrupt and about to lose Al Franken, its marquee star, Air America Radio is set to change hands for the bargain price of $4.25 million, according to new court documents. The sales figure was disclosed in a purchase agreement filed yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York. According to the agreement, the deal between Air America's owner, Piquant LLC, and a firm controlled by Stephen L. Green, a New York realtor, calls for Green's firm to repay up to $3.25 million in loans provided to Air America after the liberal radio network filed for Chapter 11 protection last October (the company listed debts of $20.2 million). Green's company will also give Piquant LLC $500,000 and pay off up to $500,000 in network debts (the bulk of which, $349,000, is owed to the network's Manhattan landlord). Green's bid topped by more than $1.25 million the nearest offer received by Air America, according to a motion filed along with the purchase agreement. An excerpt from that motion can be found below. Court documents do not specify how many bids were received for the network, though a filing notes that "more than ten interested parties" signed nondisclosure agreements and were allowed to review confidential network financial and corporate records. While Green controls the corporation purchasing Air America, two of the firms that were pre-bankruptcy investors in the radio network will "collectively own a minority interest" in the Green company. The Air America purchase is expected to be finalized at a court hearing in the next week. Franken, who is planning to run next year for a U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota, is scheduled to do his final Air America show on February 14

Russert gets Creamed

*****UPDATED SCROLL FOR UPDATES*****

Journalist Russert Contradicts Libby's Testimony
RUSSELL BERMANThe Sun
WASHINGTON — The reputation of one of America's most prominent journalists, Tim Russert of NBC News, came under fire yesterday as a lawyer for I. Lewis Libby Jr. sought to cast doubt on Mr. Russert's account of a conversation with the former vice...

As Mara said in a Big Tobacco email, " I heart Libby's lawyer.  He's a fucking national hero.  The press brought this case,  The press made it an issue.  And now they are all hoist by their own petard." 

"For those of you who are not Plame obsessives, Libby's attorney Wells has just skinned Tim Russert and his big fat narcissistic ego live and thrown him in the fire for a slow burn. The private hypocrisy of the Press here!!! Now public. "Mara, cavorting in delight. So much fun!!

Mara  wrote a brilliant blow by blow of the testimony yesterday at her blog Abracadabrah here. Read it all

Grilling Russert to a Fine Turn

Tim Russert walked into court today, a commanding presence, King of the Press. By the time he left, he might as well have skulked out. Or as Arianna Huffington puts it

Tim Russert hobbled into the courtroom this afternoon on crutches. When he left the stand at the end of the day (slated to return for more cross-examination tomorrow) his credibility had been so hobbled it needed a pair of crutches of its own.

Heh! Perfectly described. And by a certified despiser of the Bush Administration, which carries its own weight.

What was Arianna describing?

The highlight of the Libby trial so far, which was the dismantling of Tim Russert and his ego. But in this case, given that Timmy is King of the Press, his dismantling pointed to the hypocrisy of all those vaunted legal rights that the Press claims for its own.

Such as the desire not to be called to testify against a source - because to do so would impugn the public's free access to information. It turns out - in the hands of Russert, this precise "right" is no more than a public face he claims in order to permit himself a greater lattitude than ordinary mortals. In private, he's apparently happy to spill the beans to the FBI about conversations with his sources. Being a journalist - and having an ethical responsibility not to reveal what sources say - only comes into question when the matter of one's testimony becomes public.

Maine web report is one of two livebloggers at the scene. And here is his description of the final moments of Russert's testimony today.

Wells grilling Russert on his filing to squash the subpoena. Wells has brutally and effectively shown the hypocrisy of this filing. The filing, and NBC’s statement, says that testimony would create a chilling effect that would keep sources from talking to him, and thereby limit the access the general public has to information. This looks absurd now, since Russert just testified that he freely and unreservedly spoke to an FBI agent by phone about the entire contents of his Libby conversation, despite declaring emphatically that he understood the Libby call to be in confidence.
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Russert is trying to show a difference between the Libby call and what he was talking about in the filing. Not effective in any way.

Russert is saying now that the focus in the FBI call was a focus on his words, not Libby’s words. Wells already got him to say that they spoke about both sides of the conversation.

Russert is entangled like a peanut-butter coated cat in a yarn factory right now.
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Russert is at once trying to justify his discussion of Libby’s call with the FBI, while at the same time backing up his request to keep the same call in confidence in regards to the subpoena.

Wells now is making the allegation that Russert lied to a Federal judge in his filing.

And at this precise moment, just after Wells, Libby's defense attorney makes the allegation that Russert lied to a Federal judge in his filing to keep him from testifying, the judge calls it a day.

Therefore, the moment that will stay in the minds of the jurors overnight - the moment that will crystallize there, or fester perhaps - is Wells knocking Russert's credibility entirely off balance by suggesting that his lawyer's filing to squash the subpoena contains within it a self-serving falsehood, because the very position that he is claiming to "defend publicly" - that is the rights of the press - he has already in private abrogated iinsouciantly. And it is this hypocrisy between Russert's public and private faces that the jury will contemplate overnight. As Clarice Feldman, among several of the attorney's liveblogging the liveblogging at Just One Minute, pointed out to me, this was Wells strategy - to have the trial end tonight on such a memorable point. Both for the jury and the witness.

So Russert, too, will contemplate it, wondering, perhaps, what other measures Wells has in store for him and his credibility and his massive ego tomorrow. Though it may be he will regain his composure. Still, from Maine Web Report's description, he looked naked up there.  There's much more here.

Even the Puff Ho apparently has it in for Russert, so she's happy not to spin in this case and tell the unvarnished truth, which makes him look bad enough here.

UPDATE: More from Mara. Her money quote? "Russert is entangled like a peanut-butter coated cat in a yarn factory..."  Here's her interim post:

Libby's defense attorney continues to grill Russert. 

Russert, being a god, got special treatment and for his "grand jury" testimony, he got to testify in his office with two lawyers present, his own and NBC's.

Thus is the life of the media.

Now, hee!  Now they are discussing the letter Russert received detaiing these privileges in court.

Wells, the defense attorney is explicating the letter for Russert and the jury (Transwcript over the Maine Report)

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Letter outlines special consideration for Russert that allowed his attorney and NBC’s attorney would be in the room. Wells asks if he understands that to be out of ordinary, that normal procedure is no lawyer in grand jury.

Russert makes the ridiculous claim that he was not aware that this is normal practice. Wells is kind of incredulous, after reporting all these years you didn’t know that?

no

You’re an attorney correct?

Non practicing

Wells moves on. This was a dumb answer by Russert, he obviously knows this like the rest of the world.

And this from the NY SUN;

Russert on the Hot Seat in Libby Trial  
WASHINGTON (AP) - NBC's Tim Russert got the sort of "Meet the Press" interrogation he usually gives his guests as attorneys...

Mr. Russert seemed uncomfortable at times as Mr. Libby's attorneys asked him to explain why he willingly told an FBI agent about a July 2003 conversation with Mr. Libby, then gave a sworn statement saying he would not testify about that conversation because it was confidential.

"Did you disclose in the affidavit to the court that you had already disclosed the contents of your conversation with Mr. Libby," Mr. Libby's attorneys Theodore Wells asked.

"As I've said sir ... " Mr. Russert began.

"It's a yes or no question," Mr. Wells interrupted.

"I'd like to answer it to the best of my ability," Mr. Russert said.

"This is a very simple question. Either it's in the affidavit or it's not?" Mr. Wells asked. "Did you disclose to the court that you had already communicated to the FBI the fact that you had communicated with Mr. Libby?"

"No," Mr. Russert said.

Mr. Wells wants to cast Mr. Russert as someone who cannot be believed, who publicly championed the sanctity of off-the-record conversations but privately revealed that information to investigators. Mr. Russert said he viewed the FBI conversation and testimony to prosecutors differently.

Mr. Russert's credibility is under fire because he and Libby tell very different stories about a July 2003 phone call that is at the heart of the case. The question of which to believe could be a critical jury room issue.

The snake squirms .....................yeah bababababy

Mail from Iraq

A soldier lays it out for the American people. It's devastating. If it were up to me it would be  in every school room. Read it all at The New Media Journal and pass it along to your congressmen and members of the media. hat tip Daryl

HOPE RIDES ALONE

But even thousands of miles away, in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and screams and complaints of the ungrateful reach me. In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn't fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down the streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.

  I will watch the television and watch the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home. I use the word boys and girls, because that's what they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is nineteen years old. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.

People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war. In this war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease fires. Medics and Chaplains are not spared from the enemy's brutality because it's against the rules. I can only imagine the horrors a military Chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward’s war against us. It is effective though, as many men and women have died since the start of this war. And the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation's news outlets. And every day, the enemy changes...only now, the enemy is becoming something new. The enemy is transitioning from the Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And they do not realize it. But in denouncing our actions, denouncing our leaders, denouncing the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society...and they are becoming our enemy.

Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word "quagmire" around and compare this war to Vietnam. In a way they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam. Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military. America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war. Like it or not, we are here, some of us for our second, or third times; some even for their fourth and so on. Americans are so concerned now with politics, that it is interfering with our war. 

Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job.

It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed?  It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.

America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. It’s not like World War II, where people rationed food and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks. The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a servicemember, its life as usual...the war doesn't affect you.

But it affects us. And when it is over and the troops come home and they try to piece together what's left of them after their service...where will the detractors be then? Where will the Cindy Sheehans be to comfort and talk to soldiers and help them sort out the last couple years of their lives, most of which have been spent dodging death and wading through the deaths of their friends? They will be where they always are, somewhere far away, where the horrors of the world can't touch them. Somewhere where they can complain about things they will never experience in their lifetime; things that the young men and women of America have willingly taken upon their shoulders.

We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want what everyone else wants in life: safety, security, somewhere to call home. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped and murdered if they do not comply with the terrorists demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause and see it to its end. But the country must unite in this endeavor...we cannot place the burden on our military alone. We must all stand up and fight, whether in uniform or not. And supporting us is more than sticking yellow ribbon stickers on your cars. It's supporting our President, our troops and our cause.

Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides alone. But it can change, it must change. Because there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn't.

Let's stop all the political nonsense, let's stop all the bickering, let's stop all the bad news and let's stand and fight!

Isn't that what America is about anyway? Sergeant Eddie Jeffers is a US Army Infantryman serving in Ramadi, Iraq.

NY Times Poster Boy, Tariq Ramadan

There is no end to the liberals' fascination with radical elements of Islam.Ugh.  There is a lengthy, fallacious puff piece on the mouthpiece for  Muslim Brotherhood project Tariz Ramadan in The Sunday New York Times Magazine here.  Is there no lengths the dhimmis at the Times won't go to kiss the ass of the enemy?

Why Tariq Ramadan Was Denied a Visa and for additional info on his terror ties, go here.

The News York Times' spouts the taqiyya.

To his admirers, he is a courageous reformer who works hard to fill the chasm between Muslim orthodoxy and secular democracy. Young European Muslims flock to his talks, which are widely distributed on audiocassettes. A brilliant speaker, he inspires his audiences, rather like Black Power leaders did in the 1960s, by instilling a sense of pride. A friend of mine saw him last year in Rotterdam, talking to a hall packed with around 1,000 people, mostly Muslims. To them he had the aura of an Islamic superstar. Even my friend, an Iranian-born Dutchman with entirely secular views, was impressed by the eloquence of this Muslim thinker, who wishes to press his faith into the mainstream of European life. His critics see things differently: they accuse him of anti-Semitism, religious bigotry, promoting the oppression of women and waging a covert holy war on the liberal West.
[...]
Ramadan is much too smooth for sparks. Slim, handsome and dressed in a very elegant suit, he spoke softly in fluent English, with a slight French accent. His first languages were French and Arabic, but he heard English at home in Geneva, spoken mostly by visiting Pakistanis.
[...]
I asked Ramadan what it was like to grow up as an Egyptian Muslim in Geneva. And not just any Egyptian Muslim: his maternal grandfather was Hassan al-Banna, founder in 1928 of the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to resist what it regards as Western domination and create an Islamic state.

It goes on and on. Blathering, silly,  dangerous.

Even though Ramadan’s father represented the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe, promoting the cause of Islamic government, Ramadan went to a mainstream Swiss school, where he got a solid grounding in French literature and European philosophy.
[...]
In his book, “Western Muslims and the Future of Islam,” published in 2004, Ramadan lists various approaches to Islam, from “political literalist Salafism” — militant, anti-Western, in favor of the Islamic state — to “liberal reformism,” which sees faith as an entirely private affair. I asked him at the mosque where he placed himself. “A Salafi reformist,” he said, which might seem a contradiction but is explained in his book as follows: “The aim is to protect the Muslim identity and religious practice, to recognize the Western constitutional structure, to become involved as a citizen at the social level and to live with true loyalty to the country to which one belongs.”

But the Times has no problem with this and many, many other "contradictions."

Speaking about his grandfather, Ramadan observed: “People say that his ideas formed the basis of Al Qaeda. This is not true.” The spiritual father of revolutionary Islam, according to Ramadan and others, was another Egyptian Muslim Brother, Sayyid Qutb, who advocated a holy war against the idolatrous West. Ramadan pointed out that “Qutb actually joined the Muslim Brotherhood after my grandfather was killed. They didn’t even know each other. My position on Hassan al-Banna is that he was much closer to Muhammad Abduh. He was in favor of a British-style parliamentary system, which was not against Islam.”

This may or may not be an accurate representation of Hassan al-Banna, but it tells us a lot about the way Ramadan presents himself. Reconciling what seems hard to reconcile is what makes him an interesting and sometimes baffling figure.

Would the Times ever give Bush or anyone in his admininstration that benefit - ever? Sick.

 

 

NEW YORK TIMES REAL DOGS OF WAR

Is there any depth these bottom feeding America haters will not stoop to advance their defeatest agenda?  I ask you. These fucking pussies think nothing of running video of a dying soldier, a dying soldier! What is holier?  But NO  IMAGES OF 9/11! TOO GRAPHIC! HIDE THE FLYING BURNING BODIES BY THE HUNDREDS! Hide the horror of what the declared enemy wrought on innocent Americans. It will be me and others in the blogosphere raising our paddles when thsi and papers like them liquidate and go at auction. You'll see. Down 40% and falling.  Over at Chron.com hat tip Wolffman via Sweetness and Light

IMAGES OF DYING SOLDIER RENEW WAR COVERAGE DEBATE   

WASHINGTON — A photograph and videotape of a Texas soldier dying in Iraq published by the New York Times have triggered anger from his relatives and Army colleagues and revived a long-standing debate about which images of war are proper to show.

The journalists involved, Times reporter Damien Cave and Getty Images photographer Robert Nickelsberg, working for the Times, had their status as so-called embedded journalists suspended Tuesday by the Army corps in Baghdad, military officials said, because they violated a signed agreement not to publish photos or video of any wounded soldiers without official consent.

Too late! The military should suspend ALL TIMES SPIES AND LEAKERS!

New York Times foreign editor Susan Chira said Tuesday night that the newspaper initially did not contact the family of Army Staff Sgt. Hector Leija about the images because of a specific request from the Army to avoid such a direct contact.

You ignorant slut!

"The Times is extremely sensitive to the loss suffered by families when loved ones are killed in Iraq," Chira said. "We have tried to write about the inevitable loss with extreme compassion."

Ha!  Compassion? Words mean something you animal.

She said that after the newspaper account, with a photograph of the soldier, was published Monday, a Times reporter in Baghdad made indirect efforts to tell the family of the video release later that day. The video was still available for viewing on the Times' Web site Tuesday night, when the newspaper notified clients of its photo service that the photograph at issue was no longer available and should be eliminated from any archives.

Read it all

UPDATE: A gorgeous story over at Breibart;

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Times Co. posted a $648 million loss for the fourth quarter on Wednesday as it absorbed an $814.4 million charge to write down the value of its struggling New England properties, The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

The company said the non-cash charge reflected declines in current and projected results at the newspapers, which have been hit hard by the consolidations of key advertisers in the New England area as well as greater competition from online media.

The company originally paid $1.1 billion for the Globe in 1993 and $296 million for the Worcester paper in 2000.

The Times reported a loss amounting to $4.50 a share for the October- December period. It earned $63.1 million, or 43 cents a share, a year ago.

Let it be said: Fuck the AP!

The AP terror tools are so blatant in their bias there ought to be a law. I can just see them rubbing their cold sweaty plams together in glee at the thought of our beloved sons being kidnapped by savages. Think about it.  Me? I am sticking to the military's version until further notice, thank you very much.

The U.S. military, which has said that five U.S. soldiers were killed and three were wounded while repelling the attack, denied that two U.S. troops were kidnapped.

Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a military spokesman, said all American forces "were accounted for after the action."

AP Disputes Military Claims on Deaths of Americans in Iraq Editor and Publisher 

BAGHDAD Contrary to U.S. military statements, four U.S. soldiers did not die repelling a sneak attack at the governor's office in the Shiite holy city of Karbala last week. New information obtained by The Associated Press shows they were abducted and found dead or dying as far as 25 miles away.

The brazen assault 50 miles south of Baghdad was launched Jan. 20 by a group of nine to 12 militants. They traveled in black GMC Suburban vehicles - the type used by U.S. government convoys, had American weapons, wore new U.S. military combat fatigues and spoke English.

In a written statement, the U.S. command reported at the time that five soldiers were killed while "repelling the attack." Two senior U.S. military officials as well as Iraqi officials now say three of them were found dead and one mortally wounded in locations as far as 25 miles east of the governor's office. More here.

And then there is this over at LGF;

AP Forgets to Mention They're Quoting Terrorists

In an article on the President’s State of the Union speech, AP writer Melissa Eddy tosses off this final paragraph. (Hat tip: Paul.)

The comments also hit a nerve in Lebanon, where lawmaker Nawar Saheli told AP Television News that Bush should listen to the Lebanese people. “They do not want the U.S. government to interfere in the Lebanese internal affairs,” he said.

Ms Eddy forgets to mention that the person she quotes as speaking for “the Lebanese people,” Nawar Saheli, is a top political director for the terrorist group Hizballah. And since Hizballah has resigned from the Lebanon government, he’s not even a legitimate “lawmaker” any more.

Dhimmi Marie Claire:Burka Chic to Clitorectomies

Fausta transcribed some of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's remarks on Islam in this month's dhimmi Marie Claire (you rememeber Mecca Stars! click here).  Read it all at Fausta's blog here

Q: In Infidel, you write about your grandmother overseeing your genital mutilation in Somalia when you were 5. Was this typical for little girls there?
A: There are 6,000 girls mutilated very day, according to the UN., 135 million girls have been mutilated. Those who practice it see it as cleansing. I try to explain in the book how my grandmother believed she was doing us a big favor.

Q: In the Netherlands, as a refugee from a forced marriage, you gradually discarded Muslim attire and, at 22, bought your first pair of jeans. How did that feel?
A: Like jumping to the top of Mount Everest. On one hand, I thought I was sinning and would end up tortured in hell - if I put on jeans, or uncovered my hair or any part of my skin, I might drive strange men into a frenzy. On the other hand, I'd be able to ride a bicycle.

Q: What do you say to Muslim women who fight for the right to wear the head scarf?
A: I say that's fine - unless you impose your personal choice on others. If you wear the veil, the message you convey is that you're superior to women who do not, because you're saying they are whores. You're also saying men are incapable of sexual self-restraint, and that if they see women who are partly covered or not veiled, they will react like my grandmother's he-goat.

Terror TV and Trash Talk

It's pretty clear that the airing of Glenn Beck's EXPOSED: The Extremist Agenda and FOX's OBSESSION a few weeks back woke up the brass at cable news channels that America is acutely aware of  the mortal danger and tunes in big time when the  media does its job as public servant and attempts to explain and investigate the enemy we face.

Tonight there was an interesting juxtaposition at play on FOX and CNN. FOX ran a a superb piece, “Smokescreen: Herbal Inside America” hosted by the brave investigative reporter David Asman. It was brilliant. Terrific. It was an investigative piece - "an exhaustive FOX News report about a Hezbollah cell that was operating for several years in Charlotte, North Carolina. FOX followed the many tentacles of this cell, which extended far beyond Charlotte — to Michigan, to the West Coast, to Canada and to Beirut, Lebanon, where most of the members were from. FOX News spent months tracking this story to all these places and more."
I cover the jihad everyday and I found it fascinating, enlightening, and important. Charlotte, North Carolina was not on my radar screen and the expose of a wildly successful criminal infrastructure of terror funding here in the US was a real eye opener.

I am sure I was not the only Jew ashamed, embarrassed and disgusted by the jewicidal Stanley Cohen, infamous vile lawyer to Hamas and Hezbollah, invoking (in a thoroughly repulsive way) the Jewish struggle, the Holocaust,  to deceive Asman  and the American people into giving the poor "railroaded" terrorists a break (a pardon perhaps?) Yeah, right.  That notwithstanding, I hope this is the first in a series. As Louis Brandeis said, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Appearing on CNN, the Crescent News Network, we had Christiane Amanpour's "The War Within." What a pathetic excuse of apologist reporting.

What struck us most was how deeply the Iraq war has radicalized today's generation of young Muslims in Britain. Whether extreme or mainstream, they are angry about the war, angry that their country so devotedly follows U.S. foreign policy, angry at what they see as a worldwide war against Muslims and Islam.

Amanpour is a jihadi tool and the special was propaganda for the leftist/Islamic alliance. It was a crushing disappointment but typical of Amanpour and that sorry excuse of a news channel.
She does admit;

In our investigation, we found shocking evidence of the bigotry, intolerance and hatred preached by some Muslim fundamentalists in the UK. We met men like Anjem Choudary of the now-banned Al-Mahajiroon extremist group, who denounces democracy and predicts Britain will be ruled by Sharia, Islamic law.

SHOCKA! It's on tomorrow night. Check it out. It's pure Amanpour - America bashing at its finest.

Off topic but related: More fireworks are expected on CNN tomorrow morning when CNN's Reliable Sources (!10 am EST) has Dan Riehl from the blog Riehl World View and Mike Stark, king of the tin foil asshats, having at it.  This is MUST SEE TV. (hat tip LGF)

I wonder if they'll give Dan legit face time. You know how the left loves to scream over the conservative speech. Seems they are afraid that American might actually hear the truth.
Dan writes ;

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at this below from Mike Stark, it probably isn't the first time he's issued a threat upon which he doesn't have a prayer of delivering.

I don’t mean to be a dick, but the truth is by the time the 6-7 minute segment is over, CNN will want to hire me as a sanitation engineer because I will have mopped the floor with Mr. Riehl… Mike Stark

Hopefully I'll have a few minutes tomorrow courtesy of CNN's Reliable Sources to point out that from throwing pies at conservative lecturers and guests, to physically assaulting Jim Gilchrist of Minuteman fame, see Hot Air and Michelle Malkin for more on that - to trying to shut down The Path to 9/11 and now the KSFO incident while Dennis Kucinich talks about bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, this is all in fact part of the Left's on going effort to shut down conservative rhetoric whenever and wherever they can.

It appears that political hack Mike Stark, now allegedly offended at some conservative speech via KSFO in San Francisco displayed no such sensitivity as to what went out over the air in the case documented in this photo when he made sure some vulgarity made its way into a broadcast of Fox's Hannity and Colmes.

As you can see from the bragging about it later while still holding the sign, it wasn't an accident, but another planned political stunt lacking in the kind of principle which would allow a clown like Stark to be genuinely outraged over the issue at KSFO.

UPDATE January 21 11am: On my way to a basketball game so I can't fisk the damn thing but here's the money quote in the Riehl/Stark debate on CNN;

STARK: "I am the champion of the first amendment . Of free speech [huh? the point of his argument is to shut down conservative talk]

Stark continues...

The more their [the right] speech is heard by reasonable people like you and me the more they marginalize themselves..... I want their voices heard by everyone in America [ha!]

When challenged by Riehl about Stark's ability to make judgments about what's outrageous in media today ............

Stark:[...] I was on FOX, I stood behind Colmes during a viewing of Hannity and Colmes with a sign that said Hannity Sucks Ass . All I did was tell the truth.

Ah yes, the reasonable people of the left.

And here's a tip for CNN, give equal time to both speakers.

UPDATE: Hot Air has the video here.

Terror TVD

Must see TV this weekend. So put another log on the fire, light the BURN candle, put on your ugg slippers and curl up with someone you dig. Or not.

Saturday 8 pm EST:

Click here: FOXNews.com - Hezbollah Inside America: FOX News Tells All in Documentary - Local News | News Articles | National

8:00PM on FoxNews----this documentary about a large Hezbollah cell in Charlotte NC...sometimes numbering well over 2,000----the leader of the Hezbollah cell is currently in a US prison for 155 yrs but is up for re-sentencing in February 2007 in Charlotte------

Sunday:

Steven Emerson will be appearing LIVE on Sunday, January 21st on CSPAN2 Book TV at 4 :00 pm ET.

He will be discussing his latest book "Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the U.S." .

UPDATE: I TIVOed it. Watching it as we speak. The media should be doing this kind of investigation and expose every damn day. Kudo to FOX and David Asman. If you missed it, it is running again at midnight. MUST SEE - essential TV.

Somalia and the Jihad Loving Media

Ben points to the obvious bias in covering the dead in the continuing war on the global jihad. We know first hand how far AP and al-Reuters will go to advance their agenda here.

Here they are, right on cue. Four days after I write this:
But we're hearing very little about dead civilians. It's quiet. Too quiet. ... Every innocent death is a tragedy, it seems, but when the deaths can be tied to American or Israeli activities, it's both tragedy AND news. It seems that no one is really interested in the plight of a Somali family decimated by an errant Ethiopian artillery shell. Come on, BBC, statistically, it must happened at least ONCE in the last week or so!

An AP article includes:

"My 4-year-old boy was killed in the strike," Mohamed Mahmud Burale told the AP by telephone from the outskirts of Afmadow. "We also heard 14 massive explosions."

But of course, of course, it's in the aftermath of the US airstrike in Somalia, NOT the weeks of warfare involving the Ethiopian Army, whose shells and bullets we must presume somehow unerringly avoid harming civilians in the same room as the enemy.

There you have it: Civilian deaths, or claims thereof, are only of interest when they result from US or Israeli operations.

UPDATE: Ben adds; 

That quote appears frequently in articles about the airstrike.  It's in Forbes here. And I've seen it elsewhere.

Somehow, the Ethopians managed a two week war with not one media report of a child being killed.  We do one air strike, and here it comes.

UPDATE: Somali official: U.S. airstrike kills key al-Qaeda suspect - USATODAY.com hat tip Helen

Worldwide Taqiyyah baby

It is, at once, fascinating and pathetic. The media here and worldwide bends over and screams, please  mr. jihad, may I have another?  The dhimmitude is astounding. Ethiopia is fighting and beating the jihad in  Somalia and the LA Times is calling it "destabilizing." Think about that. Jerry calls the L.A. Times  the font of islamist taqqiya in our mainstream media. Although the New York Times gives them a real run for the jiyza. That just about sums it up.

It seems Dickinson is right when she said, people need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Ethiopia's intervention may destabilize region LA Times

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — By launching a war against Somalia's Islamists, Ethiopia says it was drawing a line in the sand against religious extremism in East Africa. But without quick diplomacy and international aid, analysts caution that the war could radicalize the region's traditionally moderate Muslims.

"This could bode ill for both Somalia and eastern Ethiopia, but perhaps even northern Kenya," said John Prendergast, Africa analyst at International Crisis Group, a conflict-resolution think tank based in Washington.

Folks down under have their hands full with their leftards;

Kevin Rudd Labor leader demands full government support for terror suspect in Iraq & explaines why Australians pay taxes.

Give terror suspect support, says Rudd News.com.au
AN Australian arrested in Iraq on suspicion of conspiring to commit terrorist acts should be given the full support of the Federal Government, Labor Leader Kevin Rudd says.

Labor and the loon left, always there for the terrorist but no where to be seen for the terrorized.

UPDATE: Argh! The Detainees' Continuing Jihad, Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
How Gitmo prisoners are receiving weapons training – and how our troops are adapting to it. More>

Today's Euphemism: Gaza Militants?

Oh man, what next? Gazan militants. Thats rich. Freedom fighters, the resistance ............. never what they are -- Palestinian terrorists.  AFP, AP, al-Reuters -all doing the jihad jig. Check out "sitting in a circle in a sandy garden" kumbaya mo kumbaya.  In their sandy kumbaya circle they plan their bloodthirsty wholesale slaughter of the Jews. Isn't that quaint? The jihad media loves it. I despise them.

Gazan militants vow to continue firing rockets at Israel
AFP via Yahoo! News
Sitting in a circle in a tent in a sandy garden in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian militants have said Israel's vow to renew strikes against them was no deterrent to firing more rockets.

Meanwhile the poor beseiged victims of Sderot (here) are taking matters into their own hands.

Fifty Sderot Residents Ask Court to Declare Them Exempt From Paying Taxes if IDF is Restrained From Responding to Missiles

SDEROT SUES FOR SECURITY INN News

A District Court petition filed by 50 Sderot residents on Monday challenged the government’s right to levy taxes on a population it has not effectively defended against rocket attacks.

The petition specifically targeted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s policy of restraint, which has prevented the Israel Defense Forces from responding with military force to the constant rocket attacks on the besieged western Negev city.

The petition, filed by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the director of the Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin), asked the court to declare Sderot residents exempt from having to pay taxes to the State. It explains this demand “in light of the government’s refusal to provide adequate military protection to their community.” More here

UPDATE: Even so, the Israelis make the desert bloom

 

Zombie Rips HRW a New One

Zombietime is the archetype blogger. The best. I am sure you recall how zombie blew the lid off another blood libel against Israel this past summer here.

If you are not already familiar with the claims and counter-claims concerning the July 23, 2006 "Red Cross Ambulance Incident" at Qana, Lebanon, then this article will likely make little sense to you. If you have not yet done so, first invest the time to read my original report that started this discussion:
The Red Cross Ambulance Incident, at zombietime.com.

Next, read the entirety of Human Rights Watch's rebuttal of that essay:
The "Hoax" That Wasn't: The July 23 Qana Ambulance Attack, by Human Rights Watch.

I respect enormously the time, effort and dedication that Zombie devotes to the work. I, too, am an individual blogger and it is a passion for truth that compels us to the work.

Also, just to be clear: zombietime is a one-person website. I work alone, in my spare time, and receive no funding or support from any group, individual, or government. I have no connections of any kind to Israel. HRW, on the other hand, is a huge international organization with hundreds of employees and an annual budget of over $30 million. They devoted an immense amount of time, energy, money and manpower to this investigation. I do not have the resources, free time or political stature to go to Lebanon to inspect the scene on-site myself. All I can do is forensically analyze the evidence presented by others. This puts me at a disadvantage, which HRW points out repeatedly, dismissing my analysis as "armchair conjectures." If you, the reader, agree with this characterization, then you may as well stop reading now. 

UPDATE to The Red Cross Ambulance Incident here:

The Human Rights Watch Report

A Point-by-Point Examination of the Document Titled "The 'Hoax' That Wasn't"

What follows is an extraordinary, meticulously researched document that must be read for two reasons. First and most obvious, it utterly destroys the HRW false allegation and shows them to be the antisemitic tool that they are. But secondly and more importantly, this kind of reportage, is the future of news. The death knell for old time agenda-driven media reporting is deafening.

More on the latter can be found here. Wretchard does an extraordinary analysis of the continuing of the  blogosphere in his essay, The Blogosphere at War. It must for read for myriad reasons but particularly because he manages to wrangle the wild randomity and individuality of the blogs into a controlled kind of chaos that works and works extremely well at doing the real work of news gathering and dissemination.

I wrote this paper as an attempt to describe how the blogosphere works; to situate it vis-a-vis the mainstream media and to indicate some of the ways it can be used as a weapon of information warfare. The reader may find many of the ideas half-baked, and the reader would be right. But perhaps this flawed little monograph can contribute in some small way to a discussion of what the blogosphere is and what it's future might be. I truly believe that "it is possible that in the long run the global public will come to rely on fellow Internet users to learn about the world more than it will from professional journalists."

[...]

The blogosphere will turn its energies with equal ferocity to every side. Populated as it is by people from all walks of the ideological spectrum, the blogosphere itself has no inherent political bias. Bloggers with Left wing, Right Wing, Arab, Israeli, European and American, religious and atheistic viewpoints will be simultaneously scrutinizing every scrap of information that raises its head above the Event Horizon. The blogosphere is no one's friend. But it will be unkindest to the side which relies the most on cant and propaganda to spread its message.

"The political side which tells the most lies and falsehoods is likely to suffer more at its hands than one which hews more closely to the observable truth."

Al Reuters: Fraud of the Year

If this doesn't beat it. The fauxtography scandal wins photo of the year. Brian is all of over this here. Media: power with no accountability.

Looks like one of the disputed Qana photographs has been recognized as one of the REUTERS Photos of the Year (2006) (yeesh, how did I miss that story?).

Mentions of the controversy surrounding the photograph? Not so much.

Is this the new accountability that Reuters is aiming for?

MEDIA: POWER WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY

If these stories tell us anything, it's that too much power is amassed in one largely agenda driven organization. Where are the Senate hearings? Flop broke the story, "More News from the Enemy", Brian follows up here;

Nope, we're not parading for the cameras. (Notice the guy in blue - Is he looking to someone for directions?)

I was offline when the inital story came out, but Flopping Aces has noticed that we might have a "new Qana" in Iraq.

According to reports coming across the wire, a U.S. airstrike has killed 20 people, amongst them women and children, and sparked "intense" protests against "imperial American forces."

To add to the story, this is not the first time that "atrocities" have been alleged at al-Ishaqi. March 2006 was before Snapped Shot's epoch, though, so I don't really have anything beyond that, yet.

Sound familiar? I thought so.

The left-o-sphere is up in arms about this event, accepting the press account of the story at face value. After all, everyone knows the United States is always the murderous bad guy, right?

On the other hand, the right-o-sphere is skeptical of the claims forwarded by already-suspect sources. They are bolstered by a CENTCOM press release which states uneqivocally that there is no indication that civilians were killed in the attack.

I believe CENTCOM.

Photo: Residents hold up weapons as they protest against an overnight U.S. raid and airstrike in Ishaqi, 90 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, December 9, 2006. REUTERS/Nuhad Hussin (IRAQ)

RELATED: Hezbollywood? Evidence mounts that Qana collapse and deaths were staged.

Kirkpatrick on the Leftwing Media's Unaccountable Power

Kirkpatrick .............. on the out of control media in a forward for the Media Research Center's 1990 book, And That's the Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media Bias - adapted from a speech sh had written back in 1983 (how prescient was Jeane)  hat tip Bruce H via Newsbusters;

FOREWORD by Jeane Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations

With regard to a good many fundamental principles of political philosophy, I am a liberal. We in the United States were founded in the 18th century on what are classically liberal assumptions. Almost all of the most fundamental assumptions that inspirit, not only the Declaration of Independence, but the Constitution as well, are liberal principles. The overriding concern that's reflected both in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution is with controlling arbitrary power.

After all, our national experience is grounded in the effort to control arbitrary power, which we thought King George was exercising over us in arbitrary, unreasonable, and unlawful ways. The Founding Fathers, in the Articles of Confederation and later in the Constitution, were concerned not only with establishing a government, but also with establishing a government that would be responsive to "the people" -- the American people -- and which would be able to be controlled collectively. One of the authors of The Federalist Papers wrote that we must first enable government to control the people and, second, it must be required to control itself.

This whole problem of controlling arbitrary power is, in short, one that has been with us throughout our national life. It inspirits all our basic documents and our political culture. We developed the whole notion of separation of power as the response to the desire to control arbitrary power over our lives and times and national affairs. Popular government itself is regarded by our Constitution and by democratic theory in general as the most effective means of controlling arbitrary power, on the grounds that if government can be kept responsive to citizens, and rulers can be forced to be accountable to the people whom they rule, then we will truly have government by the consent and control of the governed.

What's the point? Obviously, the point is that we have always sought to control (not to destroy, but to control) important, significant powers that small groups can exercise over ourselves and our society. Government structure is a monument to the proposition of the need to control arbitrary power. The application of our laws in the economic sphere, beginning in the late nineteenth century, from 1890 through the New Deal period, reflects the determination to bring the arbitrary power of "big business" under control.

New powers have arisen: among them, the power of the media. Some people believe, and I am among them, that the power of the media today constitutes the most significant exercise of unaccountable power in our society. It is unaccountable to anyone, except for those who exercise the power. I believe that the domain of culture is as important as the domain of government or the economy. My view is that the domain of culture is more important than that of economics or government. It conditions the economy and it conditions government. When we talk about what comes first, the chicken or the egg, I believe that it's the chicken. Whether economics controls ideology and culture, or whether ideology and culture control economics -- and I believe that it is ideology and culture.

Our ideas about what is true, what is good, what is important, what causes what, what's worth doing, what's legitimate -- those are the very essence of our culture, and they shape our behavior in the economic and the governmental sphere. No domain is more important than the domain in which the media operate.

I believe that it is terribly important that the same principles that concern limitations of arbitrary power apply to the media and in the domain of culture. It is very important to realize that the electronic media, which provide mass audiences, have made our culture much more manipulable than it ever was in the past. Typically, historically, cultures have been slow to change. Ideas about what's real, what's important, and what causes what, change very slowly in history. They are grounded in the experience of peoples, and respond only to additional, cumulative experiences of peoples.

With the rise of electronic media, the possibility of deliberate manipulation of culture has been magnified ten zillion fold. The first step in that direction was the printing press. The importance of the printed word as an instrument for the manipulation of culture is illustrated in the mass literacy campaigns that we see undertaken in societies where there is a desire to transform the culture.

Let me hasten to say that I am not against mass literacy campaigns -- but I am in favor of mass literacy campaigns that are used simply for the purpose of teaching people to read, not for the purpose of controlling and transforming their views. I don't know whether you have looked at any of the literacy materials from Cuba. When Fidel Castro came to power, he organized a mass literacy campaign and used it, as have his Nicaraguan friends, to transmit his new, radical Marxist/Leninist notions about the nature of the world. If you've looked at any of the literacy teaching materials out of the Nicaraguan campaign, or the Cuban or Chinese, or a lot of others before that, you would see how useful mass literacy can be as an instrument for cultural transformation.

The electronic media are many times more useful because they manipulate images as well as ideas. Images are very easily manipulated -- pictures speak a thousand words and all that. People are more readily manipulated through images than just with words.

Click below and read it all.

UPDATE: Norman Podhoretz returns to the pages of The Weekly Standard this week to remember the intellectual life of fellow neoconservative Jeane Kirkpatrick. Also writing on the life of Jeane Kirkpatrick is Claudia Anderson, who shares some personal recollections of her time with the former ambassador to the United Nations.

 

WAPO Throws the Jews Down the Well

Charles over at LGF, points to the "new dialogue" on Israel. This will become the new talking point now that the dhimmicrats have their election validation. Jews that voted Democrat deserve our scorn and contempt. Nothing less.

It’s an absolute disgrace that the Washington Post is publishing hateful garbage like this, by Palestinian “journalist” Daoud Kuttab: Israel is a Liability for US.

Disgusting. The Washington Post should be ashamed. But I know they are not.

AP Busted, Again. Shilling Faux the Jihad

The AP is so busted, again. The fauxtography scandal this past summer should have been the final nail in the coffin of the this jihad propaganda machine. More proof that the only place for real news is the blogs, alert the media. Reader Carolyn writes;

Jules Crittenden of the Boston Herald has just written a bombshell expose on the AP.  I had written earlier of how the AP was using a suspicious 'Captain Jamil Hussein' to report on 6 Sunnis burned alive in their mosque - a burning which the American military in Iraq swore never took place.  This incident prompted a blogger to begin investigating this 'Captain' (the only source for this 'burning Sunnis' story) to discover the 'Captain' was the only source for countless other atrocities the AP swore was the 'truth'.  When confronted with this, the AP stubbornly supported Captain Hussein.

Interesting because Crittenden now reports that Captain Jamil Hussein doesn't even EXIST! 

The AP is sniffing self-righteously that it doesn't have to prove Hussein is real.  Seems their hands are full defending another 'objective' reporter - Bilal Hussein.  Unfortunately, this Hussein's reporting is real and he has the grisly photos to prove it.  Photos of Iraqi terrorists shooting American soldiers and then whooping and hollering after they score a hit.  The AP was not upset publishing Bilal's dear little 'snuff' films for the world to see.  In fact, they only got upset when the Army arrested Bilal after he was found in a terrorist bomb factory, with a terrorist bomber and Bilal's hands covered in terrorist bomb explosives. 

Say No to AP's shoddy Work Jules Crittenden

Curt at Floppingaces , led the charge. He thought there was something strange about an AP report, and took a second look at it, then a third look. He and others blew the lid off it. The AP is making up war crimes. But the resulting stink in the blogosphere has barely wrinkled a nose in the mainstream press. The ethics-obsessed Poynter Institute seems to be oblivious to it.

It has to do with the AP’s Iraqi stringers and an oft-quoted Iraqi police captain named Jamil Hussein. Problem is, the Iraqi police say Capt. Hussein does not exist. The Iraqi police and U.S. military say an incident described in an AP report - Iraqi soldiers standing by as people were burned alive in a mosque - didn’t happen. Another AP-reported incident, U.S. soldiers shooting 11 civilians, also never happened, the military says.

When the AP was forced to acknowledge this situation, it did so in a story about a new Interior Ministry policy regarding false reports. The AP buried the fact that its own false report prompted this new policy.

The AP stands by its reporting.. The AP has cast “Capt. Jamil Hussein” simply as someone not authorized to speak, and AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll has sniffed morally: “Good reporting relies on more than government-approved sources.”

    The AP has another Iraqi stringer problem. Photographer Bilal Hussein is in U.S. custody, and the AP has been clamoring indignantly for his release. AP reports have buried the U.S. explanation that Hussein is being held without charge because - quite aside from producing photos that showed him to be overly intimate with terrorists in Fallujah - he was in an al-Qaeda bomb factory, with an al-Qaeda bombmaker, with traces of explosives on his person when he was arrested.

The AP, of course, has been delivering unbalanced reports about U.S. national politics for some time, as when President Bush, whom AP reporters despise, is barely allowed to state his case on an issue before his critics are given twice as much space to pummel him. The AP, once a just-the-facts news delivery service, has lost its rudder. It has become a partisan, anti-American news agency that seeks to undercut a wartime president and American soldiers in the field. It is providing fraudulent, shoddy goods. It doesn’t even recognize it has a problem.

This is the point at which, another big American industry learned, people start buying Japanese. But as an American newspaper, if you want to provide your readers with affordable regional, national and international news, you have to deal with the AP.

UPDATE: Not just AP, the jihad media has been subverting Bush and his message for years. Charles has the must read post here;

 

Communication professor examines media bias in president’s speeches.

BLACKSBURG, VA., November 30, 2006 — Jim A. Kuypers, assistant professor of communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, reveals a disturbing world of media bias in his new book Bush’s War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2006).

Convincingly and without resorting to partisan politics, Kuypers strongly illustrates in eight chapters “how the press failed America in its coverage on the War on Terror.” In each comparison, Kuypers “detected massive bias on the part of the press.” In fact, Kuypers calls the mainstream news media an “anti-democratic institution” in the conclusion.

“What has essentially happened since 9/11 has been that Bush has repeated the same themes, and framed those themes the same whenever discussing the War on Terror,” said Kuypers, who specializes in political communication and rhetoric. “Immediately following 9/11, the mainstream news media (represented by CBS, ABC, NBC, USA Today, New York Times, and Washington Post) did echo Bush, but within eight weeks it began to intentionally ignore certain information the president was sharing, and instead reframed the president’s themes or intentionally introduced new material to shift the focus.”

This goes beyond reporting alternate points of view. “In short,” Kupyers explained, “if someone were relying only on the mainstream media for information, they would have no idea what the president actually said. It was as if the press were reporting on a different speech.”

 

Jihad Media Loves Terrorists

Sick. The moral equivalence is blinding. Brian over at Snapped Shot has the story here, Cheerleading for Terrorists; (hat tip Larwyn)

The media, in all of its glory, wholeheartedly participating in the celebration of a new weapon designed to kill Jews:

Masked Palestinian militants of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' brigades display weapons to the media in the West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday Nov. 28, 2006. The millitants displayed in a news conference what they claim to be a new homemade rocket named in Arabic 'Jondallah 1', means 'Soldiers of God'. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Caroline Glick wries of Yaacov Yaacobov, who was hard at work at the poultry processing plant in Sderot on  when Palestinian Islamic terrorists murdered him with a Kassam rocket.

Wednesday an Arutz 7 reporter spoke to his young son, Hanan. The reporter asked the boy whether he wanted to move away from his hometown to get away from the rocket bombardment. Hanan said no, he wanted to stay.

When the reporter asked him why he wanted to stay, the orphaned child with moonbeam eyes replied, "I love Sderot very much, and I won't leave it because I love the State of Israel. If I leave Sderot, if all of Sderot were evacuated, then the country would fall apart. The Palestinians will see that they are succeeding in Sderot, and then they'll shoot Kassams at Ashkelon and Ashdod too, and do the same in the whole country until nothing is left."

Read it all here and ask yourself why Abu Dana Olmert has instituted a jewicidal ceasefire that only he is adhering to.

Hanan Yaacobov, who no longer has his father to guide him through childhood, has some very mature guidance for Israel's leaders, who may think it preferable to be applauded by foreigners than to defend their countrymen from our enemies.

"I, Yaacobov's son, am turning to you. Resign your positions! Resign. The defense minister and Olmert should admit that they can't do this, and vacate their places in the government to Bibi Netanyahu and to [Avigdor] Lieberman. If they can [defend us] I want to see their answer. If not, they should vacate their seats, quickly."  

An American Soldier Fisks the NY Times

It is a sorry day when a sergeant stationed in Iraq feels compelled to lay down his weapon and  pick up a pen to refute the ongoing deceptions and lies disseminated by  America's most influential newspaper, The New York Crimes Times.  Sick.
Sergeant Christopher Whitaker, Camp Striker, Iraq wrote me (unsolicited) the following email but it is plain we share the same sentiments, particularly concerning Secretary Rumsfeld;

Recently, my father sent me an editorial from the 17 November New York Times, called “The Army We Need.”  As a service member currently serving in Iraq, I found it to be little more than typical leftist pablum, restating of the obvious and, most glaringly, gloating over Secretary Rumsfeld’s “incompetence.”  I felt it was enough of an insult that I had to reply.  I have enclosed my submission in an attachment.  I apologize for the length, but if you want to really crush your enemies, you have to be thorough.

It's not long enough, Sergeant. Bless you and keep you safe. Here is his point by point;

Refutation of New York Times Editorial “The Army We Need” 19 November 2006

In their editorial entitled The Army We Need, the New York Times editorial staff displays their ignorance of both the nature and history of the United   States military both previous to and during the current Administration. In their zeal to portray the outgoing Secretary of Defense, Mr. Donald Rumsfeld, as the architect of the military’s supposed collapse, they neglect a number of facts. These facts show that, contrary to the Times’ editors’ opinions, it is the hangover from the Clinton administration’s Defense inadequacies that has led to the majority of the military’s training and equipment deficiencies.

It was during President Clinton’s presidency that the significant drawdown of the defense budget began. From 1992 to 1996, the defense budget was reduced from $339 billion to $277 billion. This slashing of the defense budget was the primary source of the “Peace Dividend” that the Clinton Administration touted as its “budget surplus.” In effect, the Clinton Administration was mortgaging the military’s future to achieve a false “savings.” It is important to understand the nature of military spending in order to truly understand why this draw down was so destructive to the military the United States found itself with prior to the events of September 11, 2001.

The need for military spending is determined not just by how many soldiers or tanks or airmen or aircraft the military purchases. All these wonderful systems and people require maintenance, training, modernization and replacement. The current generation of systems the military is using was originally purchased during the Reagan military build up of the Cold War. While many of these systems were designed to be updated, there is a limit to how much updating that can be done on a system more than 20 years old. At some point it becomes more expensive to repair and upgrade the weapons system than it does to procure a new, updated system. Given the glacial speed and unpredictable nature of the procurement process, it behooves the military to continually acquire new and improved systems. The greatest shortfall forced on the military by the Clinton era drawdown was the loss of research and development dollars that lead to the development of new systems. In addition, the loss of those dollars meant that fewer defense dollars were available for the upgrade of current systems and even the procurement of spare parts. Procurement of newer systems was also delayed, as systems tend to be acquired over several years, partly due to costs, but also because complicated systems, like F-22’s, or M-1A3 tanks cannot be bought in bulk as they take a fair amount of lead time to build and the contractor doesn’t exactly keep a bunch of stock sitting around. The funding shortfall is estimated to be upwards of $50 billion. That much money could go a long way towards providing much needed parts, equipment and training. In addition, much of the spending during the era went towards contingency operations and other readiness shortfalls; it did not pay for the deferred modernization that was has been so desperately.

The article claims that Secretary Rumsfeld refused to adapt, yet adaptation for a new type of conflict and style of engagement is exactly what the former Secretary was trying to achieve. The military had previously been configured for set-piece force-on-force battles with primarily heavy units in areas where maneuver was possible. However, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact there are few, if any, opponents that can even come close to matching the battlefield firepower of the US military. This means that the current force structure is dramatically unsuited to fighting the light, rapid conflicts of the new era. In addition, transitioning the force to a leaner, meaner, and more easily deployable one was the Secretary’s primary aim. It is not the Secretary of Defense that was slow and resistant to change, but the bureaucratic inertia of the United   States military. The purpose of this transition was to create a force that used the US’s singular advantages: speed, and the ability to apply overwhelming firepower with pinpoint accuracy, without the need for massive and unwieldy blocks of tanks and armored vehicles. The utter annihilation of the Republican Guard during the second Iraq War is evidence of the gradual evolution towards that end. Overwhelming force does not necessarily require massive numbers of troops and vehicles, which are unwieldy at best, but the author seems to have little awareness of military capability in this regard.

The author also states that Secretary Rumsfeld was opposed to the “...Clintonian notion of using the United States military to secure and rebuild broken states.” Apparently the author is not aware of the purpose of a military. It is not a kind of gigantic Peace Corps that is sent in to fix broken states. The purpose of the military is to defend the nation’s interests and it does that by obliterating the enemy’s ability to threaten those interests. The military is not equipped, trained, or interested in the kind of feel-good, half-hearted nation building of which the author is apparently enamored. In addition, it is apparent that this kind of thing simply does not work, as evidenced by the failure in Bosnia/Herzegovina. Admittedly, much of the failure was one of tactical and strategic failure by politicians, but it is also evidence that the military is ill-suited to the kind of mission the Clinton Administration had in mind. To make things simple, the military is very good at breaking things, but is not trained or designed to put them back together. The author refers to the “…need to renew the morale and confidence of America’s serving men and women…” As a current service member, currently serving in Iraq, I am not sure of what “morale problem” the author is referring to. The primary morale problem for most service-men and women is the continual uncertainty that the mission will end without completion. In addition, the ridiculously restrictive Rules of Engagement that US forces have to work under wear away at a force that is trained to be aggressive and to take initiative to find, fix, and destroy the enemy. As far as “…restoring the appeal of career military service for the brightest young officers…,” I wonder to what the author is referring. After all, it is those on his side of the argument, along with fools such as Senator Kerry and Representative Murtha that have consistently denigrated the military profession and attempted to make it an undesirable career for America’s best and brightest. Fortunately, their efforts have failed miserably.  The current force, at both the officer and enlisted levels, is the best educated and most capable military force in the history of the profession of arms. I would readily compare the level of education, intelligence and character of current commissioned officers to the rest of the “best and brightest” to which the author refers.

It is true that the rapid rotations back to Iraq for a number of units, the 10^th Mountain Division (my own unit) especially, has been a strain both on the unit as a whole and on the individuals. The reasons, however, have little to do with Secretary Rumsfeld’s machinations, but instead with the previous administration’s failure. As I have said previously, the Army has for a long time been designed to fight the Soviet threat, with set-piece force-on-force battles involving the crashing together of massive armored formations. However, the conflict in Iraq is exactly the opposite of this paradigm; it is a “light fight,” which demands speed, maneuver, and flexibility, all things that infantry units do well, but for which armored units are neither trained nor particularly capable. Operations in Iraq are COIN (Counter Insurgency) operations, with small groups of soldiers seeking out their insurgent counterparts. Heavy armor is not helpful in this regard as it is designed for a completely different form of combat, the crushing embrace of the tank battle, where weight and firepower, rather than rapid response and maneuver are more important. However, in the COIN operation, speed, response time, flexibility, creativity and the ability to move accurate firepower to where it is needed are much more important than sheer weight of metal, thus the introduction of the Stryker AFV, and the M1114 Up-armored, turreted Humvee. Unfortunately, change comes slowly to such a massive and bureaucratic organization like the Army. The entire thrust of Secretary Rumsfeld’s reforms was not to eliminate completely the armored forces, after all there will be conflicts where their strengths will be needed, but instead to make the Army’s forces more mobile, more easily and rapidly deployable. It is a logistical nightmare to move a heavy armored brigade, much less a division, anywhere and the dearth of transportation assets, which have been allowed to decay over the last 20 years, makes it even more difficult. This means that everything but the soldiers and their personal gear must go by sea, and makes deployment take weeks instead of mere days. The introduction of “leaner, meaner” forces, coupled with the increasingly “joint” capabilities of the services, would dramatically increase the ability of the military to project power. Joint operations, most recently exemplified by our campaign in Afghanistan increase exponentially the military’s ability to apply overwhelming firepower directly where it is needed with pinpoint accuracy. This enables the military to deploy fewer troops to achieve objectives that would before have required far larger forces and a much greater physical and logistical footprint. In addition, the ability to deploy smaller units would generate a significant cost savings. Of course, this requires a significant shift in emphasis away from overpriced and unnecessary weapons systems (the cancelled Crusader project) back towards a massive rebuilding of the military’s neglected organic transportation and logistical capabilities. The changes that the Secretary has advocated, and for which he has faced much stubborn resistance and unfair criticism, take time to bring to fruition. It is not simply a matter of saying, “Make it so,” but also requires tremendous disruption of units’ readiness while they change over to the new equipment, tactics, and force structure. The Secretary’s changes are not merely at the company and battalion level, but involve a fundamental change in the command structure. The Army has always done things from the Division and Corps level and has done things in division or corps strength. As a division is a very large unit, naturally it moves rather ponderously. The new paradigm involves the use of Brigade-sized elements that are modular in nature, much quicker to act and react, and substantially easier and quicker to deploy. With the joint-service nature of operations, where Army and Marine units are supported directly by Air Force and Navy air assets, smaller units with TOE’s tailored expressly for their particular mission are able to apply unheard of firepower to a target, while maintaining their flexibility and responsiveness. While there are valid disagreements over these reforms, the bottom line is that the military must shift its paradigms in response to changing geopolitical and economic realities in order to remain both capable and relevant. While honest individuals can differ on the right way to achieve these ends, the Secretary’s method certain makes sense to this soldier.

How fascinating that the author now decides that the ground-pounders should be allowed to recruit up to greater strength. Is this not what the Bush administration has been trying to do for the last five years, over the objections of his opponents and the New York Times? Has not the Times consistently bemoaned the recruitment failure, even as the services consistently report meeting or exceeding recruiting goals? The author seems not to understand that it is not simply a process of going out and shanghaiing 100,000 more people and stuffing them in uniforms. These individuals must be carefully screened, selected and trained properly before they can be a useful member of the service. This is not your minimum-wage job at the local fast-food joint. Recruiting and training a member of the armed services is a long, drawn out procedure that takes months, not merely days, to achieve. Some specialties require up to a year to fully train the service member. I find it strange that the author completely ignores the fact that this process has already been started by the current administration, and it is his party that has been obstructing attempts to achieve this end. Yet now it becomes essential, where previously he would have considered it unnecessary.

I would also ask what the author means by “…two new divisions for peacekeeping and stabilization missions…” No military in its right mind is going to dedicate up to 50,000 people for an essentially non-military mission that can be handled by other supposed “allied” militaries or contractors and security services, freeing up valuable combat troops for real combat missions, which is what the US Army, and the Marine Corps, is for. Why is the Army, because that’s who would end up footing the bill, going to spend colossal amounts of money on units that are completely antithetical to its primary mission? Of course, since the author plainly does not understand the military mission, it is no surprise that he makes this kind of asinine suggestion.

What exactly does the author mean by “…reordering priorities within the defense budget…?” While there has been a hefty increase in defense spending, it is barely back to pre-Clinton-era levels, and there is much “debt,” which I have discussed earlier, that still remains to be caught up. There is a tremendous amount of modernization, procurement, and R&D debt that was neglected during the rape of the defense budget during the Clinton administration in favor of the fictional “peace dividend.” There can be honest debate about the practicalities of F-22’s versus F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, or this weapon system versus that one, and such debates were the hallmark of Secretary Rumsfeld’s tenure. However, what the author fails to understand is that the “War on Terror,” really the war on Islamic extremism, is not going to be the last conflict in which the United States< is going to find itself involved. Not only must we adapt to the current conflict, but we must be prepared for future conflicts. Unfortunately, cutting-edge technologies are expensive, but in order for the United States military to remain the premier military power in the world, which will be necessary as Europe appeases itself into oblivion, those dollars must be spent. The current supremacy of the United States military is not an accident of fate, it is the result of deliberate investment in high-quality, high-technology, well-integrated systems that square and cube the effectiveness of our fighting men and women. Without these systems, and the capabilities they offer, we will fall rapidly behind developing countries like China and India who, while we are not in conflict at the moment, could become adversaries down the road.

There is another unfortunate fact that the author neglects. While he is correct that there is a tremendous and unnecessary quantity of Congressional and budgetary pork that is poured into the defense industry, the fact remains that these are very specialized industries with limited demand for their products. If the money does not continue to pour in to sustain these industries, they will atrophy and disappear as the extremely specialized engineers, researchers, and assembly-line workers leave for other employment as theirs dries up. A classic case is the sale of US-built M-1 Abrams tanks to close allies. There was much protest when this first came out, but the explanation was simple: the US military does not produce enough demand to keep the expensive production lines in business. These are such specialized production processes, that if they are kept active they will cease to exist, as they are much too expensive to keep around if they are not being used. Mothballing is also an impossibility as, again, it is prohibitively expensive to keep such single-use equipment around, not to mention the specialist personnel that are needed to design and build the systems. While optimizing the use of defense dollars is an essential and very desirable end, going back to the Clinton era of dumping R&D dollars, or “prioritizing” the defense budget the way the author would have it, is neither wise, nor reasonable.

The rest of the article is such typical self-evident leftist nonsense that it is not worth spending time to point out the obvious logical inconsistencies. It is obvious that the author’s understanding of military reality is limited at best and his understanding of the systems the military uses even more so. Perhaps he should spend a little time with persons from the military, getting a more complete and valid understanding of its workings before offering a prescription based on bias and ignorance that would be even more damaging to the military than his beloved President Clinton ever could.

Thank you Sergeant. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Click below for the  editorial Sargeant Whitaker is refuting;

SCOTUS Rules Against New York Times

Woo Hoo! A victory for the good guys. The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Crimes Slimes Traitors  Times. Ginsburg must have been suffering from sleep apnea. From STACLU Here;

The Supreme Court ruled against The New York Times on Monday, refusing to block the government from reviewing the phone records of two Times reporters in a leak investigation of a terrorism-funding probe.

The one-sentence order came in a First Amendment battle that involves stories written in 2001 by Times reporters Judith Miller and Philip Shenon revealing the government’s plans to freeze the assets of two Islamic charities, the Holy Land Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation.

Shenon and Miller called the two organizations for comment after being told by confidential sources of the government’s plans.

The Justice Department says the move tipped off the charities of planned government raids. The federal judge who ruled in the Times’ favor said there is no evidence in the case even suggesting that the reporters tipped off the charities about the raids or that the reporters even knew of the government’s plans to raid either charity.

The government says that the fact that the reporters relayed disclosures from a government source to “targets of an imminent law enforcement action substantially weakens any claim of freedom of the press.”

How to defeat the USA in future wars

Over at the Weekly Standard, a primer on how Islamists can beat America;

WHAT THE ISLAMISTS HAVE LEARNED Michael Novak

BY THE WILL OF ALLAH, in all wars to come, may it prepare our brave martyrs for combat operations!

Today, the purpose of war is sharply political, not military; psychological, not physical. The main purpose of war is to dominate the way the enemy imagines and thinks about the war. Warfare is not, these days, won on a grand field of battle. Nor is it won by the force that wins series after series of military victories. Nor is triumph assured by killing far higher numbers of the enemy. The physical side of warfare no longer holds precedence.

The primary battlefield today lies in the minds of opposing publics.

The main strategic aim of war today is to dominate the mind of the enemy's public, and then ultimately to dominate the mind of that public's leaders.

Let me offer three examples. At what moment did the war in Vietnam come to an end? At that precise moment when America's leaders decided that they could not resist the unrelenting storyline of the enemy, which had long prevailed in their own press. The press surrendered first, then the leaders of the nation.

Observe that the Cold War ended not in an explosion of unprecedented violence, but rather at the precise moment when the Soviet elites no longer no longer believed  their own storyline. Superior ideas cowed them, superior will, superior narratives. Quite suddenly, the invincible Soviet elites folded, accepted humiliation, allowed the Wall to come down, and watched in bitterness as hundreds of millions of formerly captive peoples chose new forms of government.

The endgame was psychological, not military. There was a military component--Star Wars--but nobody knew whether or not that would ever work. It was the idea of that weapon, and will or Reagan to proceed with it.

The weaker political will yielded to the stronger will.

Yet, as always, will followed storyline. First comes narrative, then the acts that give it flesh in history.

What we have discovered in Iraq is the weakest link in the ability of the United States to sustain military operations overseas. That link is the U.S. media. They are Islamists' best friends.

 

Read it all.

Jihad Media

What will it take to stop the Jihad media from promoting  Islam as a political ideology? They are DEADLY.

Notice first the use of the word "confront" on the cover. "The Pope Confronts Islam." The Pope confronts? Muslims are threatening the Pope's life, Muslims shot a a nun in the back because the Pope quoted historical text and the Pope confronts????  My soul sister Pim's Ghost over at at my sister blog, Infidel Bloggers Alliance here;

"The topic is extraordinarily fraught. There are, after all, a billion or so nonviolent Muslims on the globe, the Roman Catholic Church's own record in the religious-mayhem department is hardly pristine, and even the most naive of observers understands that the Vicar of Christ might harbor an institutional prejudice against one of Christianity's main global competitors."

That's right, it is all about that "nonviolent" percentage. Yeah, I keep picturing two bomb laden guys in Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder with only Obi-Wan's Jedi mind trick able to trick anyone into thinking "These are not the terrorists you are looking for, these are PEACEFUL MUSLIMS. We can go about our business". Just think, the media don't even have Jedi powers and they've been able to get people to parrot that garbage for five years while security officers search the underwear of old white ladies from rural Tennessee at airports. Please. And never forget to throw in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, which when discussing events as early as the Crusades, was actually the ancestral Church of all of our forbears if we are of Christian European heritage, whatever our beliefs now. Yes, unless one is adressing certain Orthodox Churches and sects, such as some that the Pope is in fact going to Turkey to visit, then discussing the Roman Catholic Church as just one piece of the larger picture is not accurate. And I seriously doubt that the Vatican or any other Christian lay or professional emissaries regard Islam as merely "one of Christianity's main global competitors".

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The timeline in question is simply pathetic. It is biased, it is poorly worded (to show perhaps the bias?), it skips several centuries, and is careful in its treatment of the beginning of Islam. This bothers me, all of it. The other thing that bothers me is that if you are going to write a "History of Interaction", you should add more than a handful of questionable views of historical fact. Maybe this is why I could not find this in the online version, only the print copy. Therefore, let me reproduce it for you here:

CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM: A HISTORY OF INTERACTION

589-632 Koran revealed to Muhammad; it shares stories with Judeo-Christian texts

711-718 Arabs conquer Spain, which becomes center of commerce and culture

1096-1291 Christian Europe launches the Crusades against Islam

1453 Ottoman Turks take Constantinople, capital of Orthodox Christianity

1492 King Ferdinand drives the Moors from Spain and next expels the Jews

1683 The Ottoman siege of Vienna fails, marking the end of its Islamic expansion

1965 The Vatican issues Nostra Aetate, which calls for interfaith discussion

2001 Pope John Paul II is first Pontiff to visit a mosque, in Damascus, Syria

Sept. 2006 Pope Benedict XVI links Islam to violence, igniting debate and protest

And that's it. That's the history of interaction. Never mind that it is merely belief that the Koran was "revealed" to Muhammad, a distinction usually not afforded to Christians or Jews, but instead given the common journalistic disclaimer "What Jews/Christians believe to be an event in their Faith in which.....". Note the conquest of Spain, simply put, but pleasantly wrapped up by the odd mention of the myth that it became a "center of commerce and culture" that somehow implies peace for the conquered. Then, oh heavens to Betsy, Christian Europe launches those darned Crusades! Why not mention the "interaction" that led to the call for the Crusades in the first place? Wouldn't want to anger guest writer Tariq Ramadan I suppose....
After some time of "European Christians" doing their Crusading against apparently placid Muslims, they somehow take Constantinople. No mention of how Turks come into Islam, nor of any Muslim activities that may have "ignited debate and protest" on the part of any non-Muslims. Skip to La Reqonquista, which was not glorious but involved "driving out", as of so much cattle. And note that the rotten Christian King also "next expels the Jews". Can't let that one slip, unlike the wholesale slaughter of the Jews of Granada in 1066. Am I being nit-picky? Pardon me, TIME. Skip quite a bit again to 1683, never mention the details of the Siege of Vienna, leave readers wondering just how anyone in Europe could have been hostile to the Ottomans while they've had a major city under siege and their failure brings "Islamic expansion to an end".

Now that they have the news end covered. They glamorize the oppression over at the Fashion Mags;

Fabulous Oppression

Debbie Schlussel via Dhimmi Watch:

Check it Out--They Eat At McDonald's (Halal), So They're Just Like Us. And, Oh, Yeah, "Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah Hu Akbar."

And now for the latest edition of "Reading Women's Mags So You Don't Have To--See What Your Wives/Daughters/Girlfriends Are Reading".

Trust me, my girls are not reading fashion mags. Another suicidal publishing move.

Al Reuters Stealing From the Jews

The fauxtography scandal wasn't bad enough? Over at Ace. Ugh. Hat tip Larwyn

Reuters Stringer Photographer Arrested... For Selling Good Stolen From Israelis

Hmmm... let's see.

Kill Jews? Check.

Want to exterminate Jews? Check.

Sell property stolen from Jews? Check.

The Nazis are alive and well, and Reuters is all too happy to hire them. The New Naziism is good and progressive, you see.

Police arrested a Reuters photographer from Qalqilya on suspicion that he possessed stolen goods.

According to suspicions, the man, 34, sells stolen electronic goods in his Qalqilya store, where 50 laptops, 8 digital cameras, 40 video camera and 15 palm pilots were seized. The goods were stolen from Israeli households in the Sharon area.

Reporters Without Borders immediately condemned Israel as oppressing the press' time-honored freedom to loot and fence stolen property as they see fit.

Israel Under Attack

While the world yawns .........

GUYSEN reporters were on the scene in Sderot after a kassam rocket hit the town.
CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO
DIAPORAMA 1: Funeral in Sderot
DIAPORAMA 2 : A kassam hit

Over at Israel Matzav;

I thought it rather odd yesterday when I heard that several Arab MK's showed up at Fatima Slutsker's funeral in Sderot yesterday. Slutsker was killed in the Kassam attack yesterday morning, and the likes of Ahmad Tibi and Taleb a-Sana (MK's from Arab parties) don't usually care enough about Israeli terror victims to show up at their funerals. But Fatima Slutsker was different: Fatima Slutsker was a Muslim who was married to a Jew:

At 7:18 a.m. on Wednesday morning, six Kassam rockets slammed into Sderot, killing Fatima Slutsker, 57, and seriously wounding Maor Peretz, 24, a security guard for Defense Minister Amir Peretz.

Slutsker was a Muslim woman who came from the Caucasus Mountains in the Former Soviet Union just three years ago with her Jewish husband.

An eyewitness in a store nearby said she had crossed the road seconds before the rocket landed, and had been waiting for her husband, who was still on the other side of the street.

The next part of this article is not for the squeamish, but it's part of our daily reality here:

Avichai Yosef and Benny Libranti from Zaka, the rescue organization that rushes to the scene after terrorist attacks, described the bloody scene as looking like a suicide bombing on a bus.

They said it took hours to gather body parts, which were scattered in a 50-meter, and bones and legs were found on the top of the trees and on car windshields.

Slutsker was laid to rest in the non-Jewish section of the Sderot cemetery on Wednesday afternoon. Of the approximately 150 people that attended her funeral, only 60 of Sderot's 20,000 residents showed up. Most of the others were members of the media.

Residents said that they were afraid to leave their homes to go to the cemetery, which is in the closest part of town to the Gaza Strip.

But a delegation of Moslem Knesset members showed up to pay their respects as Slutsker was laid to rest.

Another day of reality in Sderot....

SHOT OF THE DAY

WOMAN POWER: Indonesian Muslim rally against US President George W. Bush's planned visit in Surabaya, east Jaya on Wednesday. Reuters hat tip Daryl

Seems like al Reuters is working hard for enemy. How about all of those English signs --in Indonesia. Jihad media.

Nukes in USA: Only a Matter of Time

No matter how hard the left, the jihad loving media and the American people try to look away, the consequences are going to bite 'cha in the ass. You can choose to avoid reality, but you can not avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Hat tip Pam

Airport Arrest Turns Up Nuclear Info  Breitbart

A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide.

Sisayehiticha Dinssa, an unemployed U.S. citizen, was arrested Tuesday after a dog caught the scent of narcotics on cash he was carrying, according to an affidavit filed in court.

When agents asked him if he had any cash to declare, he said he had $18,000, authorities said. But when agents checked his luggage, they found an additional $59,000. When they scrolled through his laptop, they said they found the mysterious files.

At a court hearing Wednesday, Dinssa was ordered held in custody until at least until Monday at the request of prosecutors.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonid Feller argued Dinssa was a potential risk to the community and federal agents want to get a warrant to search his computer more thoroughly, The Detroit News reported Thursday. U.S. Magistrate Donald Scheer approved Feller's request to detain him.

Dinssa, who is from Dallas, arrived in Detroit from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam and was headed for Phoenix, Feller said. He is charged with concealing more than $10,000 in his luggage, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, the Detroit Free Press reported.

And the band plays on.

UPDATE: And don't forget those liquid explosives.

IRAQ: Austin Bay, Prophet

Sagacity is too small a word for Austin Bay. John Podhoretz calls him Austin Bay, Prophet.  Check it out here at NRO

Austin Bay is both a colonel in the Army Reserve and a Columbia Ph.D in English literature — a true Renaissance man and a supporter of the Iraq war before and after. (He was called to serve in Iraq in 2004.) He has an eye-opening column today about the stakes in Iraq during which he quotes a passage from a December 2002 piece he wrote for the Weekly Standard:

"Pity Gen. Tommy Franks or, for that matter, any American military commander tasked with overseeing a post-Saddam Baghdad. For in that amorphous, dicey phase the Pentagon calls 'war termination' ... U.S. and allied forces liberating Iraq will attempt — more or less simultaneously — to end combat operations, cork public passions, disarm Iraqi battalions, bury the dead, generate electricity, pump potable water, bring law out of embittering lawlessness, empty jails of political prisoners, pack jails with criminals, turn armed partisans into peaceful citizens, re-arm local cops who were once enemy infantry, shoot terrorists, thwart chiselers, carpetbaggers and black-marketeers, fix sewers, feed refugees, patch potholes and get trash trucks rolling, and accomplish all this under the lidless gaze of Peter Jennings and Al-Jazeera."

Wow.

Even Wow ain't big enough.

ISRAEL: Pali Arab Rocket Attacks Kill Jews

Echo, echo echo echo. Rocket attacks on Sderot kill and yet I haven't heard so much as a word in the lamestream media. Nothing. You could hear a damn pin drop.

Israel Radio just reported that one of the wounded has died and that the 'military wings' of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have accepted responsibility for the Kassams fired this morning.

According to an Israel Radio report, ten people have been wounded - two of them critically - in a barrage of six Kassam rockets that landed on Sderot and other towns in the western Negev a short while ago (The army no longer gives precise landing spots because the 'Palestinians' have been improving their aim. We do know that two of the rockets landed in Sderot). The rockets were shot from Beit Hanoun, which was the area in which the IDF was operating last week.
The person who was killed in this morning's Kassam attack is a 57-year old mother. The person who was seriously wounded was a 24-year old bodyguard for Defense Minister Amir Comrade Peretz. Sounds like they were shooting at Peretz's house again

When  Israel retaliates against unprovoked attacks on their civilians, radar guided artillery strike directly at the desired target -- rocket launchers, missile launchers, weaponry intend on killing innocent Jews. But the portrayal of this self defense is depicted in the media as blood thirsty Israeli aggression.

When the Pali Arabs launch their Qasams, OTOH, they are pure objects of terror. Hundreds of rockets aimed at cities,towns, civilian targets without rhyme or reason. Random raining rockets of indiscriminate death. The media largely ignores it.

You never get the distinction from the jihad loving media.

TODAY MORE KILLINGS IN ISRAEL. IN SDEROT, where there have been over 5,000 rocket attacks in six years. Larwyn writes me;

Verbal Caricature has posted an excellent article, in which he challenges the spineless wire services to present as many photographs of the latest grisly deaths in Sderot as they did of the completely preventable Beit Hanoun "massacre" in the Palestinian region.

Consider me to be waiting as well.

As I've documented in the past, the press is never interested in covering the suffering of Israelis, as it doesn't jibe with their pre-canned, completely idiotic "David vs. Goliath" storyline. Their simplistic presentation of the Arab/Israeli conflict doesn't contribute anything to resolving the issues between the two parties (not that I think it can be resolved peacefully at this point), but rather only contributes to inflaming the more radically violent elements in Arab societies.

Rusty is waiting, too. Any other bloggers out there waiting for impartial coverage? I do love his analysis, though:

It's only as you read the story that you realize that:
a) two terror organizations claim the attack
b) the attack deliberately targetted civilians, no apologies
c) one of the organizations is part of the ruling party of Palestine

When the Israelis hit civilians

a) it is usually on accident
b) sometimes it is because those civilians really aren't civilians, or they are acting as human shields for terrorists
c) in either case, the Israelis apologize

Equivocation.

Consider me waiting as well
Artwork of grade school students in Sderot

The onslaught of rocket attacks is called Red Dawn. Red Dawn breaks this child's heart

 

Rumsfeld: A Staggering Loss

The jihad loving media may have been instrumental in the Rumsfeld resignation but it is the American people that will pay. Like I said here. A great man.

Just received this from Joyce, mom of a son in the Air Force, and a son in ROTC here at UTA in Arlington, Texas ........... loving JOYCE! Gd bless you and your boys.

Did you hear Donald Rumsfeld's wonderful speech at the Landon Lecture/Kansas State event??  Wonderful ! 

Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is articulate, and witty, and encourages students to learn history, and the audience was attended by ROTC troops and guys from nearby Army bases.

What jumped out at me was when he started answering questions and revealed that China is experiencing lots of RIOTS and protests---and I have not heard anything about this in the MSM nor blogs, have you??

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO AND AUDIO

The lamestream media covering for a totalitarina darling like China. Hard to believe.

Insert sarc tag

Great post on Rumsfeld words presented as poetry.

Also magnificent is my soul sister and comrade-in-arms, Dymphna over at the wildly brilliant Gates of Vienna;

Bellwether Predictions and Rummy's Fine Hand

UPDATE: Al Qaeda celebrates Rumsfeld's resignation video here

The Donald Rumsfeld I Know hat tip Bruce

Much of what you know about Donald Rumsfeld is wrong.

I worked intimately with Rumsfeld for four years, from the summer of 2001 until I left the Pentagon in August 2005. Through countless meetings and private conversations, I came to learn his traits, frame of mind and principles -- characteristics wholly at odds with the standard public depiction of Rumsfeld, particularly now that he has stepped down after a long, turbulent tenure as defense secretary, a casualty of our toxic political climate.

I know that Don Rumsfeld is not an ideologue. He did not refuse to have his views challenged. He did not ignore the advice of his military advisers. And he did not push single-mindedly for war in Iraq. He was motivated to serve the national interest by transforming the military, though it irritated people throughout the Pentagon. Rumsfeld's drive to modernize created a revealing contrast between his Pentagon and the State Department, where Colin Powell was highly popular among the staff. After four years of Powell's tenure at State, the organization chart there would hardly tip anyone off that 9/11 had occurred -- or even that the Cold War was over.

Rumsfeld is a bundle of paradoxes, like a fascinating character in a work of epic literature

Damn well better read it all and weep.

Now sob.

Dancing in Eurabia

From the German magazine, "Spiegel Online International,"

The Middle East Reacts to US Elections: "A Reckless Government of Idiots"
The Middle East is largely pleased with the outcome of the US midterms on Tuesday. It's about time that this "stupid government of Republicans" got what they deserved. more...

And Parties Across the Middle East...........

Iran welcomed the big Democratic win today and are anxious for the withdrawal of US troops from the region

but the Aussies aint happy (love those boys)

Australian reactions to Democrat election victories

For God's Sake Somebody Say it aint so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who Needs to Vote? Leftwing Media declares Victory

We dont need no stinkin elections.

Democrats Appear Set for Election Gains Forbes

Republicans resigned to idea of big lossesInternational Herald Tribune

Expected Democrat tide in US midterms may have crested early ... Canada

Democratic win could change war in iraq LA Times

Republicans get no traction from strong economy [Al]Reuters

What it all means for America as voters veer to the Democrats Times Online

Polls back Democrats five days before US vote Daily News and Analysis 

ABC NEWS:
Democrats Appear Set for Election Gains
GOP Seeks to Motivate Lackluster Base

NewYork Times
Editorial: The Economy Cools huh? Just released figures show the lowest job rate -- 4.4%

MSNBC
NEWSWEEK Poll: GOP Losing More Ground

Military papers: ‘Rumsfeld must go’ All of the cited military papers are owned by the same leftoid media organization: Gannett

Poll: Voters 'opting for change'

Democrats, on Offensive, Could Gain Both Houses Washington Post

Van Hollen Helps Orchestrate Democratic House Takeover FOX

The New York Times and Jews: More Blood Libel

The New York Slimes, still on the cutting edge of evil. Leading propaganda tool of the Jihad. How could they accept such a disgusting ad full of Jew hate and lies? It speaks volumes to the NYT's true agenda. Hey Judenrat, keep reading the Times. You fools.

The Pali Arabs have no moneybut can run ginormous, wildly expensive,  New York Crimes advertising spreads, no money for food for their people though. Got it. (Click on photo to enlarge and read all of this incitement to kill.)

Epaminandos points out;

This is Walt - Mearsheimer's protocols of zion light baloney smear they are standing on.

They say in their summaries:

1)"The bottom line is that AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress." (page 19)

2) That power derives in part from the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections. Despite their small numbers in the population (less than 3 percent), they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates "depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 percent of the money."76 (page 19)

3) On the media. they just take a section in order to assert jews are successful ..Manipulating the Media (page 21)

And let's not forget Jimmah's new book on - Israel The Apartheid State

Such a Jew hater is dhimma Jimma. Keep voting-- Democrat Jews!

It is critical that the American people connnect " progressive forces with the anti liberty, anti freedom of these murderous racists until the public makes them all the one piece of reality they truly have become."

The left now = the new racism (among other stupidities)

We must relentlessly point out that behind these claims are the inner racist beliefs that Jews act against the USA for Israel's benefit in a conspiracy. That is where the left is going, and some of them are there. That is the message the public has to understand.

When in fact Israel shares the same Judeo-Christian ethic that America has. Our goals, our values, are one in the same. Ttruth, Justice.............. live free or die.

UPDATE: America and the Jews. My favorite Jewish contribution to the birth of our great nation is that of Haim Solomon here;

Interesting Facts about Haim Salomon and a Dollar Bill

A couple of years ago, at the West Point Jewish Chapel, there was a display about Haim Salomon and the Revolutionary War. He died penniless, having used all his resources to aid the newly formed and poorly supplied American "army".

This is a wonderful story sent to me by a friend: A Story about: George Washington and the first Jews in America. General Washington's financial advisor and assistant was a Jewish man by the name of Haim Salomon.

During the cold winter of Valley Forge when American soldiers were freezing and running out of food, it was Hyam who marshalled all the Jews in America and Europe to provide money in relief aid to these stranded American troops and turned the course of history.

Without this help, our "Army" would have perished before they could have defeated the British.

If you take a one dollar bill out of your pocket and look at the back at the Eagle, the stars above the Eagle's head are in the six point Star of David to honor Jews. If you turn the Eagle upside down you will see a configuration in the likeness of a Menorah....both at the insistence of George Washington who said we should never forget the Jewish people and what they have done in the interest of America.

UPDATE: From New Media Journal here. Animals and savages. Period.

Hamas Used Women, Children to Shield Gunmen
CNS News
At least a dozen Palestinian gunmen eluded Israeli capture in the Gaza Strip on Friday, first by taking refuge in a mosque and then by calling on women and children to shield them so they could escape. Palestinians reported at least one women killed and a second was in critical condition after they were shot during the fray. The Israeli Army said its soldiers had fired only at armed gunmen, who were firing at them from within the crowd. The standoff began on Thursday evening when some three dozen Palestinian gunmen -- fleeing Israeli forces -- took refuge in a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. Gunmen and Israeli troops exchanged fire during the night and part of the mosque's roof collapsed. On Friday morning, Hamas radio put out a call for women and children to come to the mosque - to form a human shield around the gunmen so they could escape. The Israeli Army said Hamas knows that Israeli troops would not shoot at women and children. About 3,000 protestors, most of them women, turned out to protect the gunmen -- and the ploy worked. When soldiers searched the mosque later, it was empty, the army said. This is not the first time that Palestinian gunmen have taken cover in religious buildings to escape Israeli forces. Four years ago, 200 armed Palestinians spent more than a month holed up in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. Israel has long accused Palestinian terrorist organizations of exploiting the civilian population by hiding weapons and launching rockets from within that population -- using women and children as shields, essentially.

A Frenchman Exposes French Media

That’s why, in France there is a strong repression against websites who speak, and are critical of muslims, suburbs, violence, and Islam too. They reject these ideas as “racists”......

One of the best thing  since the riots  is world medias (and specially US medias) are starting to look inside the French shit. And there are bloggers, foreigner journalists who are spreading a more objective point of view.

Michel D, our Frenchman on the streets of Paris, Marseille etc.  gives Americans a heads up on the imminent dnager of a dhimmi state controlled media in this eye opening piece. The translation is very French but I won't change his words. I love the translation. But his words are chilling. Exclusive to Atlas readers.

French Media: Lies by Omission

In France, most of us known than the medias are practicing self censorship, mainly about the patterns about islam, insecurity, street violence etc. And for a very  long time. But with the last years' riots, some sociologists and journalists rejected the journalists' part  of responsibility who were accused of encouraging the violence by showing pictures and videos of burning cars. The polemic rebounds this years with “the anniversary of 2005 riots”. This time it’s the politicians who are complaining about the media and their coverage of “ housing projects”.

In France, the function of journalists is not to inform, some of them think they have a kind of “mission” (I ve seen this answer from a French journalist), a political and educative mission. Last year Jean Claude Dassier, the boss of LCI (owned by TF1, first French TV network) said an extraordinary thing for a journalist:: "Politics in France is heading to the right and I don't want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television.”

Having satellites trained on towns across France 24 hours a day showing the violence would have been wrong and totally disproportionate ... Journalism is not simply a matter of switching on the cameras and letting them roll. You have to think about what you're broadcasting "

The news on the TV is preselected by someone who decides what is good or not for the people. Because they know if they tell the truth, people will stop voting for the mainstream political formations.

Another polemic hits the famous French newspaper, during the CPE strikes, there was some “anti white” razzias. “Le Monde” admitted then that they have intentionally ignored some news, and talk for the first time about “the anti white racism”.

Election Vlog V: Lurch lurches

*NYT Admits They Lied About Kerry's Speech (see update below)*

                THE DEFINING MOMENT ELECTION '06

This says it all .........hat tip Norm

Hey America, where do you stand?

This man might have been president - thats how you know there is a Gd.

Calling Rush doughy? What up wit dat? Nothing from the PC media on that one eh?

All previous Atlas Election Vlogs here

The Weekly Standard's "Dear John Letter" here 

Pajamas Media has a Lurch round up here. Go!

Arabs Rooting for Democrat Victory IRIS Blog

It seems that Arab governments are rooting for a Democrat win to weaken Bush's power to deal with a nuclear Iran, Syrian armament of Hezbollah, etc.:

UPDATE: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Dept: sKerry couldn't bring himself to verbally apologize (the elitest doesn't believe he has anything to be sorry for), so instead he ran this poor excuse for an apology on his little visited website.

I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform

"Misinterpreted"? That's not an apology. Coweird.

JIHAD AND TERROR LEADERS TO US: VOTE DEMOCRAT!

UPDATE November 3: In a soldier's own words here (hat tip Dave)

UPDATE: Third reprehensible New York crimes, slimes, Times story of the day. First story here, second story here, now this.

This from LGF here;

NYT Admits They Lied About Kerry's Speech

The New York Times has issued a correction for their article about John Kerry’s slam against the military, in which they did not even print his actual words: Corrections: For the Record - New York Times. (Hat tip: Ethel.)

A Political Memo article yesterday about the fallout for Senator John Kerry over what he called a “botched joke” referred incompletely to the differences between prepared remarks and what he actually said about the Iraq war to students at Pasadena City College in California on Monday. Mr. Kerry not only dropped the word “us,” but he also rephrased his opening sentence extensively and omitted a reference to President Bush. Mr. Kerry’s aides said that the prepared text read: “Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.” What he said: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

This is the Times’ time-honored modus operandi—publish a shockingly biased story leaving out important information, then a day or two later, a belated correction to give them cover.

UPDATE: Hitchens on Kerry's latst flub in the Wall Street Journal here.

 

LIVE DEATH FROM GAZA! It's Hamas TV!

Clifford May, right there in the pantheon of Atlas heros, warns of the dangerous propaganda arsenal that a Hamas TV station would wield.  Cliff posits;

Why is Hamas doing this now? One strong possibility is that Hamas expects soon to be at war -- with Israel, certainly, but also possibly with Fatah, the Palestinian organization it defeated at the polls early this year.

During the recent war in Lebanon, Al Manar proved an effective weapon for Hezbollah. Through its broadcasts -- and with the help of its Saudi and Egyptian satellite providers -- Hezbollah was able to drive its messages to the Arab world, into Europe and beyond.

Clifford D. May: Beware of Hamas' new satellite TV station

Hamas may not have funds to pay the salaries of civil servants and improve social services for Palestinians. But resources to fund its propaganda efforts? That, evidently, is not a problem. This month, the terrorist organization that governs Gaza and the West Bank launched a satellite television station.

The new station will be broadcast by Arabsat, majority-owned by the Saudi government. Arabsat, along with Nilesat, owned by the Egyptian government, already distribute the programming of Al Manar, the television station of Hezbollah.

Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Manar have all been officially designated by the U.S. government as terrorist entities. Meanwhile, the Saudi government runs commercials in the United States claiming to be America's "ally" in the war on terrorism. And the Egyptian government presents itself as our moderate Arab friend -- in exchange for billions of dollars in American aid.

The Hamas television station is called "The Light of Al Aqsa." Thanks to the Saudi government, its broadcasts will be available throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Europe as well. A senior Hamas official, Fathi Hammad, was candid enough to say that its mission would be to challenge "the Western culture that has invaded our territory."

If the model for Al Aqsa is Al Manar, it will feature a steady drumbeat of vilification and dehumanization of Americans, Israelis and Jews. It also will glorify suicide bombing, help recruit terrorists, raise funds for terrorist operations and directly incite terrorism.

Why is Hamas doing this now? One strong possibility is that Hamas expects soon to be at war -- with Israel, certainly, but also possibly with Fatah, the Palestinian organization it defeated at the polls early this year.

The Jihad's Most Powerful Weapon: The Media

I met Phillippe Karsenty a couple of years ago in DC. He was working so earnestly at the time on exposing  the Al Dura blood libel, trying to be heard, trying to get those that could get the truth out there to listen. Quickly upon our introduction he grabbed me, sat me down, and showed me the video explicating the impossibility of Israeli responsibilty in the death of the Palestinian father and/or son.  Honest Reporting had a great recap of the jihad loving media in Europe;

In a disappointing climax, the defamation case brought by France-2 against Philippe Karsenty, who claims the September 2000 footage showing the death of Mohammad Al-Durah is a hoax, ended with a win for the state-run TV station. Karsenty was convicted of libeling France-2 and its Israel correspondent Charles Enderlin, the court ordering him to pay a fine, legal fees and a symbolic 1 euro in damages to each of the plaintiffs. (See Nidra Poller's report from the Paris courtroom here.)

Commenting on the decision, Richard Landes questioned the MSM's [mainstream media's] lack of interest in the story until this point:

Why do the MSM media only feel comfortable weighing in on this case when they can put another nail in the coffin of Israeli responsibility for the Intifada? No rethinking, no picture of the scene Enderlin cut, and then lied about, but images of the icon, money pictures of the boy before he’s been "hit."

For more comment, see Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post.

Meanwhile, in another case involving the French media, the Supreme Court struck down a lower court's ruling that a commentary published by Le Monde in June 2003 defamed Israel. (See here for a translation of the original article.) In May 2005, a lower court ordered Le Monde to print a retraction and pay a symbolic fine of one euro. However, this was overturned, as reported by the Irish Times:

"The text in reality targeted the policy of the government of Israel against Palestinians, and not individuals or groups of individuals because of their national or ethnic origin, their race or religion..." the Supreme Court concluded.

BBC ADMITS BIAS?

Is the BBC finally acknowledging the bias that many believe is endemic within the organization? According to the Daily Mail:

It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.

A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror....

At the secret meeting in London last month, which was hosted by veteran broadcaster Sue Lawley, BBC executives admitted the corporation is ... anti-American, anti-countryside and more sensitive to the feelings of Muslims than Christians.

One veteran BBC executive said: 'There was widespread acknowledgement that we may have gone too far in the direction of political correctness.

'Unfortunately, much of it is so deeply embedded in the BBC's culture, that it is very hard to change it.'

Helen Boaden attempts to defend the BBC on its Editors' Blog.

Joke Shot of the Day

Have you seen this? This guy is still in political diapers and they are talking '08.
He just got elected, first time. No record, no resume, no nothing and the dhimmirats are talking the Presidency?

Anch check out TIME magazine.  Propaganda tool of the Democratic party.
Why this guy? Why this political ingenue? Because he's black and pretty? This would be hysterical if it wasn't true. This country is in the longest toughest most ruthless fight for its survival and the dhimmicrats are putting up all sizzle and no steak.

Would the mainstream media ever put up a strong Black Republican this way? Ever? NEVER!

VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON, BECAUSE IT DOES.

Glick: Media Incitement to Murder

Caroline Glick, one of the finest analytical minds our time, dissects the Al Dura affair and exposes the French jihad loving media dogs for what they are - and the quiet acquiescence of the Israeli government. The silence of the lambs.

PRIME TIME BLOOD LIBEL J Post

Last Thursday a French court found Philippe Karsenty guilty of libeling France 2 television network and its Jerusalem bureau chief Charles Enderlin. Karsenty, who runs a media watchdog Web site called Media Matters, called for Enderlin and his boss Arlette Chabot to be sacked for their September 30, 2000 televised report alleging that IDF forces had killed 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at Netzarim junction in Gaza that day.

Their lawsuit against Karsenty was the first of three lawsuits that Enderlin and France 2 filed against French Jews who accused them in various ways of manufacturing a blood libel against Israel by purposely distorting the events at Netzarim junction that day. The second trial, against Pierre Lurcat, is set to begin this week. Lurcat organized a mass demonstration against France 2 on October 2, 2002 after the broadcast of a German television documentary film by Esther Schapira called Three Bullets and a Dead Child: Who Shot Muhammad al-Dura? Schapira's film concludes that IDF bullets could not have killed Dura.

September 30, 2000 was the third day of the Palestinian jihad. That day an IDF position at Netzarim junction was attacked by Palestinian Authority security forces. A prolonged exchange of fire ensued. That afternoon, France 2's Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu Rahma submitted footage of a man and a boy at the junction cowering behind a barrel. The two were later identified as Jamal al-Dura and his 12-year-old son Muhammad. Enderlin, who had not been present at the scene, took Rahma's 27 minutes of raw footage and narrated a 50-second film in which he accused the IDF of having shot and killed the boy. Enderlin's film itself does not show the boy dying. There are no blood stains where the boy and his father were crouched. No ambulance came to evacuate them. No autopsy was performed on Muhammad's body.

FRANCE 2 distributed its film free of charge to anyone who wanted it - although not the full 27 minutes that Rahma filmed. The film was shown repeatedly worldwide and particularly on Arab television networks. The results of the footage were murderous. On October 12, two IDF reservists, Yosef Avrahami and Vadim Novesche, were lynched by a mob at a PA police station in Ramallah. The mob invoked Dura's death as a justification for its barbarism. The Orr Commission which investigated the violent rioting by Israeli Arabs in October 2000 stated in its final report that "Muhammad al-Dura's picture, which was distributed by the media, was one of the causes that led people in the Arab sector to take to the streets on October 1, 2000."

Countless suicide bombers and other Palestinian terrorists have cited Dura as a justification of their crimes. For the past six years PA television has continuously aired a film showing Dura in heaven beckoning other Palestinian children to "martyr" themselves by becoming terrorists and join him there.

The Palestinians are not the only ones who have used Dura as a terrorist recruitment tool. He is prominently featured in al-Qaida recruitment videos and on Hizbullah banners. Daniel Pearl's murderers interspersed their video of his beheading with the France 2 film. Throughout Europe, and particularly in France, Muslims have used Dura as a rallying cry in their attacks against Jews - attacks which broke out shortly after the Dura film was broadcast.

AT FIRST, Israel accepted responsibility for Dura's death without conducting an investigation. Yet, in the weeks that followed the event, engineers Nahum Shachaf and Yosef Doriel conducted investigations on behalf of the IDF's Southern Command.

Both men separately proved mathematically and physically that the IDF forces on the ground could not see the Duras from their position and that it was physically impossible for their bullets to have killed Muhammad. Then OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen.Yom Tov Samia held a news conference in late November based on their findings at which he said that the probability that the IDF had killed Dura was low.

Yet Samia was the only senior Israeli official to question the veracity of the film. Then chief of General Staff Shaul Mofaz disavowed Samia's investigation. Prime minister Ehud Barak never questioned the veracity of Enderlin's murderous accusation against the IDF.

In the intervening years, private researchers and media organizations have taken it upon themselves to investigate what happened that day. Their findings have shown that at a minimum, the probability that the IDF killed Dura is minuscule and more likely, the event was either staged or edited to engender the conclusion that Dura had been killed by Israel. The few people who have been allowed to watch Rahma's entire film have stated that it is impossible to conclude that Muhammad was killed because he raises his head and props himself up on his elbow after he was supposedly shot.

Respected media organizations like The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Atlantic Monthly and Commentary magazine have published detailed investigations that all conclude that the footage was either staged or simply edited to show something that didn't happen.

Yet, even as private individuals were dedicating their time and passion to proving that France 2 had purposely broadcast a blood libel against Israel that caused the death and injury of Israelis and Jews throughout the world and marred the honor of the IDF, official Israel remained silent.

Who Will be Deputy Secretary of State?

According to the Jihad loving media, it should be Nic Burns (shocka!) because Burns is a spineless, left wing dhimmi. He would be the worst candidate. The fact that he is whispering in Condi's ear and she listens keeps me up nights. The PuffHo loves the idea but there's no surprise there.

It is clear (crystal!) to me that anyone the PuffHo blog is recommending be removed from the short list. State needs a new world order. Needs change from the top down. In the same piece the PuffHo is contending;

P.S. I had confirmation today from a high level source in the Department of State that sees the Bolton Battle "as basically finished."

Really? When the fuck did that happen? There is no way Bush is throwing the towel in on on of the few real fighters of the great fight - Iwonder if Bolton wants Deputy Secretary of State? Lord knows we need someone on our side whispering in Queen Condi's ear.

JIHAD MEDIA: Off with their heads!

Canadians still do not understand the threat of Islam but Harper does. More proof of a dhimmi media leading their sheep to slaughter.hat tip Paul Belien

The editorial is from the Toronto Sun:

Imagine, then, the understandable unease of many Muslims, as a growing number of male politicians overseas have suddenly started advising religiously devout Muslim women against wearing a full veil over their face.  

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former foreign secretary Jack Straw and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, among others, have all come out in recent days arguing that if Muslim women want to fully adapt to their societies, they should ditch their veils. Our first question is why?

Most Muslim women don't wear these veils, which cover all but a small portion of the face around the eyes.

There are varying interpretations of whether the Koran actually requires it. Muslims hold different views on that issue, just as Christians, Sikhs, Jews and others disagree internally on the importance of wearing certain types of religious dress.

Save for a few specific situations where making a physical identification of someone is vital -- say, when applying for a passport or driver's licence, or when police need to confirm someone's identity by checking what they look like against their photo-ID -- no devout Muslim woman should ever be pressured by anyone to remove her veil against her will.

It's true that a Muslim woman who chooses to wear a full veil is choosing to set herself apart to some extent from the surrounding society -- but that's her right.

The rest of us should respect that choice, just as most of us would for a devout Christian, Jew, Sikh or anyone else.

New York running out of Time

Long overdue I'd say. Couldn't have happened to a more disgusting group of leftwing America haters.

NY Times Co. 3Q Profit Plunges 39%

CHICAGO The New York Times Co. reported Thursday that its third-quarter 2006 profit from continuing operations plunged 39.2% on costs related to its job cuts and a loss on its sale of its 50% stake in the Discovery Times Channel.

Meanwhile, Belo, publisher of The Dallas Morning News, said net income for the quarter fell to $19.2 million, or 19 cents per share, compared to $22.1 million, or 20 cents per share, during the same period last year.

At the New York Times Co., 3Q operating profit was down 48% from the same period in 2005 to $20.5 million on total revenues that slipped 2.4% to $739.6 million.

Screenshot: Screenshot of the NYT stock chart for 4 years hat tip Paul T

Lefty Pollster ZOGBY Joins Liberal

You can not trust polls. Bad dah bing. Bad dah boom.

With Air America On Ropes, Original Founders Start New Liberal Network, 'Nova M' hat tip Green

Check out the email below I just received from the Zogby polling group.  Anita Drobny and Sheldon Drobny, co-founders of the Air America Radio Network, along with a couple others, are starting a new liberal talk radio network to pick up where Air America is presumably about to leave off.  What does it say about the objectivity of Zogby's polling that John Zogby will be a regular contributor?

What does it say? I wrote of the obvious bias of Zogby here  back in March(so did Bruce here) and the left went nuts. I pointed out that brother Zogby was a notorious Jew hater.  Pro-Arab lobbyist James Zogby, head of the Arab-American Institute, has publicly urged the Arab nations to refrain from normalizing relations with Israel--thus further shattering the myth that Zogby is "moderate" or "seeks peace with Israel". The left and the new (well not so new) antisemitism.

And I pointed out in my first election VLOG that pollsters lean left. Nothing new,  nothing to see, move it along.

New Battlefield? Kill the Messenger

Daniel Pipes in today's NY Sun  elucidates on why America's war on politcal islam is Sisyphean and the hill is getting steeper.  But unlike Pipes, I do not think it is merely a PR campaign that needs to be waged, if the messengers (the mainstream media, world press, major news outlets, wires services -- AP, Reuters) have a very definite bias, a clear left wing liberal bent  - they will not co-operate with their perceived enemy. Never going to happen.

If I may posit an addendum to Pipes' piece, either we kill the messenger to we build an alternative information highway. Which, btw,  is exactly what the blogs and internet web sites are furiously working to do.

The West Must Learn The Public Relations War

Lopsided wars resemble police operations more than combat in earlier eras. As in crime fighting, the side enjoying a vast superiority in power operates under a dense array of constraints, while the weaker party freely breaks any law and taboo in its ruthless pursuit of power.
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"The notion of loyalty has fundamentally changed. Traditionally, a person was assumed faithful to his natal community. A Spaniard or Swede was loyal to his monarch, a Frenchman to his republic, an American to his constitution. That assumption is now obsolete, replaced by a loyalty to one's political community — socialism, liberalism, conservatism, or Islamism, to name some options. Geographical and social ties matter much less than of old."
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With loyalties now in play, wars are decided more on the Op-Ed pages and less on the battlefield. Good arguments, eloquent rhetoric, subtle spin doctoring, and strong poll numbers count more than taking a hill or crossing a river. Solidarity, morale, loyalty, and understanding are the new steel, rubber, oil, and ammunition. Opinion leaders are the new flag and general officers. Therefore, as I wrote in August, Western governments "need to see public relations as part of their strategy."

What Carl von Clausewitz called war's "center of gravity" has shifted to the hearts and minds of citizens from force of arms. Do Iranians accept the consequences of nuclear weapons? Do Iraqis welcome coalition troops as liberators? Do Palestinian Arabs willingly sacrifice their lives in suicide bombings? Do Europeans and Canadians want a credible military force? Do Americans see Islamism as presenting a lethal danger?

Non-Western strategists recognize the primacy of politics and focus on it. A string of triumphs — Algeria in 1962, Vietnam in 1975, and Afghanistan in 1989 — all relied on eroding political will. Al Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, codified this idea in a letter in July 2005, observing that more than half of the Islamists' battle "is taking place in the battlefield of the media."

The West is fortunate to predominate in the military and economic arenas, but these no longer suffice. Along with its enemies, it needs to give due attention to the public relations of war.

Kill the messenger...................

Jihadists and Jews

Andrew Bostom sent me this latest outrage from the jihad loving left. Bostom writes;

Look at the underpinnings of this "defense" by Susan Estrich et al... Le Trahison De Clercs of our time, Jihad Denial...A genocidal (and timeless) global Islamization campaign is deemed legally and morally equivalent to a localized self-defense effort against that hideous process by the vibrant, liberal democracy of Israel ! And of course it is a Jew, perversely, leading the legal team making this immoral equivalence. How utterly depressing. Maybe Estrich will suggest Hasan Nasrallah for the next Nobel Peace Prize for "orchestrating" the Lebanon Hudna, the way Gertrude Stein suggested Hitler be similarly rewarded after Munich.

Incredibly, the suspects' attorneys also argue that such charitable giving, to support the jihad and mujahideen, is rightfully tax-exempt under U.S. constitutional protection of religious freedom. Moreover, they compare their support of Islam's "holy war" to the Jewish National Fund (JNF) appeals for tax-deductible "donations to finance the purchase of bulletproof vests, helmets and firetrucks in connection with the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict."

Read the article carefully. The Democrats are have become the mouthpiece and apologists for the jihad. Their antisemitism is becoming more clear and their hate America/Israel a party platform.

JIHADISTS AND JEWS Washington Times
By Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen

Democratic strategist and former Michael Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich, and the former American Civil Liberties Union president in Massachusetts, Harvey Silvergate, recently joined the attorneys representing two alleged Boston al Qaeda funders.

Equating the supply of bulletproof vests to defend Israeli civilians from Hezbollah's jihad with the funding of weapons and martyrs (holy warriors) for the jihad is preposterous. The JNF does not promote religiosity. Rather, it was incorporated in the United States in 1926 to develop the ancient Jewish homeland and to maintain and encourage the connection of the Jewish people to it. In contrast, Care was established to promote and advance al Qaeda's version of Islam.
    Messrs. Muntasser and Mubayyid, the respective founder and treasurer of Care International, were indicted on May 11, 2005, for lying about the true nature of their organization and their charitable, tax-exempt activities. They now claim that their fund-raising from 1993 to 1996 conformed to the "teachings of an Abrahamic faith." Moreover, they claim, their activities correspond to those that "other 501(c)(3) religious groups conduct on a regular basis."
    Their own publications, according to an FBI affidavit, state that Care was established in 1993 in Boston by Mr. Azzam, and not by Mr. Muntasser, as he stated in Care's Articles of incorporation, and on Care's application for tax exemption as a "charity." Mr. Azzam was also a key leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
    According to the FBI affidavit, Care's publication "Al-Hussam" (the Sword in Arabic) actively advocated for "jihad" or holy war, involving "mujahideen" or Islamic holy warriors. In addition, the affidavit states that Care was "the outgrowth of and successor to the Al-Kifah Refugee Center branch in Boston." After September 11 the U.S. designated Al-Kifah -- Sheikh Abdul Rahman's outfit in Brooklyn -- as a terrorist organization for "its involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing."

Read it all and get out the vote. Vote like your life depends on it.Because it does.

Wafa Sultan: "... they want to kill me""Caliwho?"

Charles over at LGF points to a dhimmified, jihad enabling media  in a Newsweak article here. This kind of propaganda is dangerous. Mort Zuckerman should be publicly flogged. Asshat. [UPDATE - NEWSWEEK is owned by Katherine Graham, WaPo, Zuckerman owns US News World report. Graham is the asshat, my bad - Atlas]

This is cognitive dissonance. The American people better get their asses to the polls in November. The left will deliver this country right into the brutal hands of the enemy.

"An absolutely clueless Newsweek article mocks President Bush for being aware of the goal of the Islamic fascists: Caliwho ? Bush’s Favorite New Word: ‘Caliphate’.
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After asserting that there’s nothing negative about a “caliphate” (which is, of course, the Islamic domination of the world), the authors of this piece, amazingly, proceed to tell us that Osama bin Laden uses the term as a “weapon.”

Meanwhile, daring truth teller, Wafa Sultan,  lives with a death sentence over her head. For what? For the crime of opinion.

"I know they want to kill me"

WASHINGTON - Syrian-American psychologist Wafa Sultan defines herself as a leader who “lies on the fence” for the sake of future generations. She says she knows there are some who want to kill her – and may even succeed – but she is not scared. “I have my supporters, and I’m continuing my mission,” she told Ynet during an exclusive interview.

Wafa Sultan, who fled Syria for Los Angeles in 1989, has become the psychologist of the Muslim world. During her now famous debate with an Islamic cleric on al-Jazeera in March 2006, Sultan publicly criticized Islam and called for a serious transformation. She charged that the clash between Islam and the West was a clash between Islam, who is stuck in the 14th century, and the modern 21st century world.
In a special interview with Ynet, Dr. Sultan described her life in Syria as 32 years lived in fear, “32 years stolen from me by fanatic Islam.”

In the March TV debate, Sultan called on Muslims to learn from the example of the Jews, who endured the tragedy of the Holocaust and forced the world to respect them for their knowledge and not by terrorism.

“By their hard work – not with crying and shrieking,” she said. “Only Muslims defend their religion by burning churches, killing people and bombing embassies. The Muslims need to ask themselves what they can do for the human race before they demand the human race to respect them,” she added.

Since the televised interview, she has been barred from Arab television networks, but she manages to penetrate the Arab and Muslim world through her website and with daily emails she sends to her supporters.

“You may not see an immediate effect to what I do, but I believe it will be possible to see it in two to three generations. In 300 years, the Muslim world will remember the name Wafa Sultan,” she is convinced.

Amen.

Ahmadinejad Superstar

In a morally inverted world, Bush is a terrorist and Ahmadinejad is a "man of peace."

Ahmadinejad Superstar
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited New York, every word that this genocidal anti-American, anti-Western, and most of all anti-Semitic arch terrorist uttered was not only published in print, but was plastered all over the TV networks. CNN and Time Magazine outdid themselves by giving this well-known Holocaust denier a cover story glorifying him and turning him into a star of Hollywood proportions. The media went further than its usual apology for terrorists, giving the maniac from Teheran an even larger platform to express a new gem: that there are no Jews in the State of Israel - only Zionists.
    There is nothing strange about the press presenting different points of view, however abhorrent. What is inexcusable in this case is the moral relativism with which the issue was treated, as though blatant anti-Semitism on the part of a world leader is no different from a movie actress talking about her midlife crisis. The media, in its desperate search for new stars, becomes a very dangerous equalizer in times of the war on Islamic terrorism.
    Another example is the way Hamas is treated journalistically. Reportage using the term "National Unity Government" to describe a potential merger between Abu Mazen's Fatah party and the party that advocates in its charter the killing of every last Jew is a serious abuse of communications. The phrase "National Unity Government" is supposed to refer to the joining of political parties within a democracy. The confusing of language and images does enormous political and moral damage to freedom and democracy, precisely in a time when we are supposed to be defending these values with all our might.

Pali Arabs Violent [Now Fatal] Wilding Give 'em a State!

They are going berserk. Fatah party "militants" (aka animals) ransack the Palestinian cabinet building setting it on fire as we speak. The jihad media speaks little of it, if at all. Waiting for them to blame the Jooooooooooooooos.

The barbarians have been going wild for days. Charles notes;

Notice how AFP uses the passive voice for their headline on this story of Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence: Five Palestinians wounded by grenade at Gaza demo.

Very little coverage in the mainstream jihad enabling media.

Photo: A Palestinian Fatah militiaman gestures as he stands guard near temporary road blocks during a protest against the Hamas government in the West Bank city of Nablus October 1, 2006. Rival Palestinian security forces clashed across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing six and injuring 50 others, in the biggest outbreak of internal fighting in months over unpaid wages and stalled unity government talks. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK)

UPDATE: GAZA ERUPTS.  FOUR DEAD, 70 INJURED

More Than 70 Injured in Gaza Strip Demonstrations

Washington Post JERUSALEM, Oct. 1 -- The Palestinian security service controlled by Hamas moved forcefully in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to disperse demonstrators loyal to the rival Fatah movement who were demanding months of back pay from a nearly bankrupt government. At least four civilians were killed, including..

Who Killed Muslims?

Ma'ariv's senior journalist Ben-Dror Yemini published the first installment of a three part series about media representation of the Arab-Israeli conflict worldwide. The piece was entitled And the World is Silent. Gadi Taub reveals the obvious but hidden truth behind the blood libel here.

A central part of these attempts is the persistent myth about systematic "genocide" allegedly committed by Israel against Muslims in general and Palestinians in particular. Yemini did a simple thing: he collected the available numbers – they are staggering indeed – of Muslims murdered during the years of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Some 10,000,000 (ten million!) Muslims were murdered by the more conservative estimations. But only about 0.6% of these deaths were caused by the Arab-Israeli conflict itself. Read again: about half a percent. Here's one finding from the margins of Yemini's research: France is responsible for about ten times more Muslim deaths than Israel during the same years. Not something your average newspaper reader in Europe is likely to guess. Imshin, an Israeli blogger, has translated the whole piece, which you can now read in English here .

The numbers in a nutshell:

Israel is responsible for about 60,000 Muslim deaths (all its wars and the occupation included). The USA is responsible for about 70,000. France is responsible for about half a million (in the 1950s alone, by the most conservative estimate). Russia (along with the former Soviet Union) over one million. About 8.5 million Muslims were murdered by Muslim regimes, internal Arab civil wars, and Arab tribal ethnic cleansing.

The first thing that meets the eye when you read the piece, since that was the piece's intention, is the discrepancy between Israel's image in world public opinion, and the actual numbers. But the more profound result of reading this research is quite other. If Israel is responsible for some 60,000, how have the deaths of the other 10,000,000 been so effectively marginalized in public opinion? The numbers were never secret, after all. Yemini collected them from Human Rights Organizations, UN agencies, and the like. That those who have care fairly little about those who have not, we know. But that genocide on such a vast scale should slip under the radar and leave so small an impression is beyond pedestrian cynicism.

ATLAS ON THE AIR:Democrats lie, Smear Santorum

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Join me and Jerry Gordon of Israpundit on tonight's show at 9PM EST as we expose the politics of  destruction and lies against the esteemed Senator Santorum by Frank Lautenberg and the Jewish Democratic Council.

I have long been a supporter of Santorum. Please take a moment to listen to my interview with him here.

In my previous post Lautenberg's Lies and the Jewish Democratic Council, I described how Senator Lautenburg of New Jersey, with the help of the National Jewish Democratic Council, is distorting Senator Santorum's record on Iran and out right lied at a press conference on September 18. I could not be more ashamed of my Jewish brethern on the Democratic council. Their actions are nothing short of suicidal.

Those of you familiar with this blog know how vigorously I have railed against the the oppressive Islamic regime of Iran and there has been no better Senator on this than Rick Santorum. Remember my SANTORUM VLOG, here back in June 16th?

AP= Al Qaeda Propaganda

Jules Crittenden in the Boston Herald speaks to the vile propaganda the AP has been spewing in its coverage here. They have lost all credibility and we must demand the American press speak the truth to their powerful stranglehold on the dissemination of their poison to world news outlets

Does AP stand for Al-Qaeda Propaganda?

The Associated Press, the reliable just-the-facts news agency you and I once knew, no longer exists. Amoral propagandists have taken over.

It is not only in the disturbing matter of Bilal Hussein, AP photograher and al-Qaeda associate, being held without charge in U.S. custody in Iraq that this is evident. But also in the departure from balanced, nonpartisan coverage that has always been the AP’s promise to us, its customers.

The AP was, in fact, a pioneer in balanced coverage. The concept was born with the AP in 1848 and tempered in the Civil War. The AP served newspapers of different stripes and had to keep politics out of it.
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Last week, the AP gave us a lengthy series on the U.S. detention of terrorism suspects. The AP’s opinion was evident. Bilal Hussein was the poster boy. The salient fact that Hussein was captured with an al-Qaeda leader was buried. Al-Qaeda has killed and abducted dozens of journalists, Iraqi, American and European. Mainly Iraqi. I wonder: What’s so special about this particular Iraqi journalist that he could associate freely with al-Qaeda? 

I look at Hussein’s photos. Terrorists trying to kill Americans. Terrorists posing with dead civilians. Bilal Hussein knows things about these men, who they are, how they operate. I’m thinking, Bilal Hussein looks like an accessory to murder. I’m thinking, I hope the U.S. intelligence agents who have him are getting good information out of him. And I’m wondering, who does The Associated Press want to win this war?

Catholics Executed by MuslimsCrickets chirping

Based on the crime of the Catholics executed in Indonesia - can we expect death sentences on the New York Times, BBC, Guardian and the rest of the Jihad loving media in their culpability to incite Muslims to riot?

Indonesian Catholics put to death by firing squad amid doubts of guilt

PALU, Indonesia (BP)--Three Catholics accused of masterminding a 2000 riot between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia were executed by firing squad at an undisclosed location in the island nation’s Central Sulawesi province Sept. 22, the Jakarta Post reported.

[...]Indonesia’s former president, Abdurrahman Wahid, called for a stay of execution the day before the death sentences were carried out, the newspaper reported.

The men, called “Christian militants” by the paper, were the only individuals executed in a long-term conflict that ran from 1998 to 2002 between Muslims and Christians in the volatile Poso area of the Sulawesi province. Government sources previously cited the number of Muslim dead in the 2000 riot the men allegedly caused at near 1,000, but AsiaNews and the Jakarta Post put the number between 70 and 200.

In addition to claiming that Tibo, da Silva and Riwu did not organize the violence against Muslims, advocates for the men protested the fact that few Muslims were charged with any offenses during the fighting that took place between the two groups from '98-'02. More than 10,000 Christians in Indonesia died at the hands of Muslims during the conflict, according to International Christian Concern, a Christian human rights organization based in Washington, D.C.

Jeremy Sewell, a policy analyst with ICC, said “justice had once again been denied to Christians in Indonesia.” He said the Catholics had been executed to placate Muslim anger over the death sentences handed down to three members of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah who were involved in a terrorist bombing in Bali in October 2002.

Media Incited Muslims to Papal Jihad

The fourth estate has been infiltrated by the enemy, the fifth column. Who would want to set the Muslims off? Who owns these outlets and what is their objective? The line between liberalism and islamism is increasingly obscured by shared objectives. hat tip Dennis

BBC, NY Times and Guardian Appear to Have Stage-Managed Muslim Anti-Pope Hatred

Ratzinger, now Benedict, has been favorite Catholic target of liberal media for years by Hilary White

LONDON, September 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) ­ The international furor over the Pope¹s comments at Regensburg last week appears to have begun through a series of carefully stage-managed media reports

Tracing the media coverage from the day of the Pope¹s speech in Regensburg, Germany, a distinct shift in approach, what media analysts call a meme, of ³Islamic outrage², is clearly traceable starting with the BBC¹s coverage three days later.

The day after the speech, Wednesday the 13th, the Pope's lecture elicited little response from apparently bored secular journalists who had little interest in what was considered his obscure and academic points on the relationship between religious belief and the secular world.

Catholic news sources who reported the day after the lecture were also quiet. Pope spends quiet afternoon at home with brother, was the leading headline at Catholic World Report.

On Thursday the 14th, however, under the headline Pope's speech stirs Muslim anger,  the BBC began with a report that police in Kashmir had seized newspapers carrying coverage of the pope¹s speech in order ³to prevent tension. The BBC¹s coverage did not include any quote from the Indian-administered Kashmiri police force.

The BBC's September 14th report was transmitted around the world in Arabic, Turkish, Farsi (the language of Iran), Urdu, the official language of Pakistan; and Malay. The next day, the anticipated furor had became a reality.

Immediately after the appearance of the first BBC coverage, the Pakistani parliament issued a declaration condemning Benedict's speech and demanding an apology.

Later the same day, the BBC published, under the headline, Muslim anger grows at Pope speech a report on the Pakistan government's reaction. It quoted the head of the Islamic extremist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, saying ³the Pope's remarks Œaroused the anger of the whole Islamic world.

The same day, the Guardian, following the BBC¹s lead, ran the headline, ³Muslim anger builds over Pope's speech.  From that moment, the internet was flooded with reportage from around the world on the Pope's alleged attack on Islam and the predicted response from Islamic groups began.

On the 13th, the New York Times, focusing on the Pope's critique of Western secularism ran the headline, ³The Pope Assails Secularism, with a Note on Jihad. The report contained no hint of their later demands for papal apologies.

Ian Fisher wrote, Several experts on the Catholic Church and Islam agreed that the speech ‹ in which Benedict made clear he was quoting other sources on Islam ‹ did not appear to be a major statement on, or condemnation of, Islam.

By the weekend, however, the New York Times had dropped its examination of the content and intention of the pope¹s lecture, and joined the chorus of demands for apologies in its editorial. The BBC continued stirring the pot on the 15th, with commentary from their religious affairs correspondent, Rahul Tandon, who wrote darkly that the former Cardinal Ratzinger had ³appeared to be uncomfortable with Pope John Paul II's attempts to improve dialogue with the Islamic world.

Benedict¹s unpopularity with the secularist mainstream media is legendary. Since before his election as Pope, Joseph Ratzinger had been for years the secularist and leftist media's favorite Catholic target. Led by the BBC, the Guardian and the New York Times, media editorials had long since dubbed him ³The Rottweiler² and the Panzer Cardinal,for his defences of Catholic doctrine, particularly on abortion and contraception.

Thousands of stories and editorials are appearing online ­ with no sign of slowing ­ carrying headlines such as that from Australias The Age: ŒRottweiler¹ bares teeth. The Guardian today has issued an editorial headlined, An Insufficient Apology, featuring the familiar secularist accusations against the Catholic Church¹s past.

On Sunday, Toronto-based columnist, David Warren, wrote in the Ottawa Citizen on the media-instigated uproar that has led to retaliatory attacks in Israel against Christian churches and clergy and the murder of a nun in Somalia.

By manipulating the event, Warren says, the BBC was having a little mischief. The kind of mischief that is likely to end with Catholic priests and faithful butchered around the Muslim world. Warren wrote, The BBC appears to have been quickest off the mark, to send around the world in many languagesŠword that the Pope had insulted the Prophet of Islam, during an address in Bavaria. While the pope, Warren said, was not offering a crude anti-Islamic polemic, the content of the Pope¹s speech, and his key questions in the dialogue between religions and the secular world, will now be ignored.

Warren pointed to coverage by Rahul Tandon who implied that, since his election as Pope, though Benedict has surprised many with his attempts to improve dialogue with the Muslim worldŠ,there have been signs of his earlier views. These Tandon identified as theological conservatism.From now on,Warren writes, the reporting will be about the Muslim rage, and whether the Vatican has apologized yet. That is the drama the media will seek to capture -- the drama of the cockfight -- because they know no better kind.

Read Rahul Tandon¹s BBC commentary: Pope Benedict XVI and Islam

Read the New York Times coverage from Ian Fisher:

Read Commentary by David Warren:

Read the text of Pope Benedict¹s Regensburg speech

 

Lautenburg's Lies and the Democratic Jewish Council (ugh)

Senator Lautenburg of New Jersey, with the help of the National Jewish Democratic Council, is distorting Senator Santorum's record on Iran and is out right lying at a press conference at the Hub in Philadelphia earlier today.

Those of you familiar with this blog know how vigorously I have railed against the the oppressive Islamic regime of Iran and there has been no better Senator on this than Rick Santorum. Remember this VLOG back in June 16th?

 

 

Lautenberg is lying with the help the Jewish Democrats (my favorite new oxymoron.)

Having interviewed with Santorum last week here, I can state Santorum has been one of the few leaders in DC consistently displaying guts and moral clarity on Iran and the war on Islamofascsim.

In our conversation late last week, Santorum emphatically stated that he was not in support of administration's discussions with the  Iranians.

It was a bad decision. Sends a very mixed message.
It sounds a message to those in Iran with who we have enormous support and Muslims who are not fanatics.  There are many Iranians who support moderate Islam and a free and democratic government. They need to hear from us on a consistent basis that the regime that is oppressing them is corrupt and  needs to be changed so that they might have the freedom that they deserve. When we negotiate with these folks  we prop them up world stage.

I agree with you, that if I thought there was any positive result that would come from these negotiations but of course there won't be because the Iranians are clear that they want to develop these nuclear weapons and they are not going to do anything to be deterred except to try to drag us along in endless negotiations while they continue to develop this capability. We have to face this reality......... they are going to proceed. And we have to do something other than talk.

The UN is a feckless organization that is not going to be at all helpful [in regards to international security] in containing the Iranian nuclear threat .

More of our conversastion;

With respect to the State Department has been uniformly uncooperative in any efforts to recognize the threat that Iran poses.
Iran has not been a rational player in negotiating any kind of an acceptable outcome. That's just not a possibility. And the  State department comes with this incredible bias that everything is negotiable and believes that everyone will negotiate and that everyone thinks like they do well they don't. And they are being played for a song and will continue being to be played for a song.

Generally speaking when it comes to Iran if the State department feels one way, I am pretty convinced the other way is the way to go.

We need to be more aggressive promoting pro-Democracy groups in Iran. We need  to be much more effective. We need to stop sending bad messages in over the Voice of America.

I could not understand how New Jersey could replace the wildly corrupt Torricelli (and home of  McGreevy!) with another hopeless Democrat. But I have more faith in the common sense  of the folks in Pennsylvania.
Lautenberg is a liberal lowlife. Politics is one thing. Tooling for evil is another. Shame on you and the new antisemites, the far left Democratic party. Hey Frank, Ahmadinejad is calling for the annihilation of the Jews........what's wrong with you?

Here is a partial list of Santorum's enormous heavy lifting on Iran;

Here is a list of legislation sponsored and/or developed by Senator Santorum in the 109th Congress:
• S. 333 - Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2005.  Introduced on 2/9/05.  Referred to Committee on Foreign Relations. Sponsor

• S. 1737 - Iranian Nuclear Trade Prohibition Act of 2005. Introduced on 9/20/05. Referred to Committee on Foreign Relations. Sponsor

• S. Res. 349 – A resolution condemning the Government of Iran for violating the terms of the 2004 Paris Agreement, and expressing support for efforts to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council for its noncompliance with International Atomic Energy Agency obligations. Introduced 1/20/06. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Sponsor

• S.Con.Res. 78 – A Senate concurrent resolution condemning the Government of Iran for violating its international nuclear nonproliferation obligations and expressing support for efforts to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council. Introduced and passed1/27/06. Sponsor: Senator Bill Frist. Referred to the House Committee on International Relations. The resolution condemns the government of Iran's many failures to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations, including its obligations under the Safeguards Agreement, its suspension commitments under the Paris Agreement, and prior commitments to the EU-3 to suspend all enrichment- and reprocessing-related activities. Commends the efforts of the governments of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom to seek a credible suspension of Iran's enrichment- and reprocessing-related activities and to find a diplomatic means to address Iran's noncompliance with such obligations. Urges the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors at its February 2006 special meeting to order that Iran's noncompliance be reported to the U.N. Security Council. Calls on Security Council members, in particular the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, to consider any report of Iran's noncompliance in fulfillment of the Security Council's mandate to respond to situations bearing on international peace and security. Original cosponsor.

• S. 2657 - Iran Sanctions Extension Act of 2006. Introduced: 4/26/06. Referred to the Senate Committee on Banking. This bill reauthorizes the sanctions (contained in Public Law 104-172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note) against Iran for another five years. The bill is an ILSA reauthorization bill. Sponsor.

• SA 3640 to H.R. 4939 - To increase by $12,500,000 the amount appropriated for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, to increase by $12,500,000 the amount appropriated for the Department of State for the Democracy Fund, to provide that such funds shall be made available for democracy programs and activities in Iran, and to provide an offset. Sponsor: Senator Santorum. Status: Ruled out of order by the Chair. Sponsor.

• SA 4234 to S. 2766 - To authorize, with an offset, assistance for pro-democracy programs and activities inside and outside Iran, to make clear that the United States supports the ability of the people of Iran to exercise self-determination over their form of government, and to make enhancements to the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act of 1996. Sponsor: Senator Santorum. Status: Not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 45 - 54. Sponsor.

UPDATE: Santorum calls out the dhimmi Council on Foreign Relations to cancel meeting with US and Israel's mortal enemy, Ahmadinejad;

 

The Council on Foreign Relations is rebuffing a suggestion from the Senate's third-ranking Republican to call off its proposed meeting with the president of Iran.

Senator Santorum, a Republican of Pennsylvania, wrote a letter yesterday to the council's president, Richard Haass, saying the invitation to President Ahmadinejad demonstrates that the council "draws no distinction between world leaders who deserve respect and those that undermine the very values of the international system the United States seeks to uphold." NYSun here

UPDATE: Lautenberg is giving advice? The state of Lautenberg, John Fund WSJ, PAID only;

Residents of New Jersey are perhaps the most depressed of any voters this election season.

Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey has insisted on publishing his new book, "The Confession," this month. Its sordid revelations remind everyone of the corrupt administration he ran which ended in his resignation over a sex scandal in 2004. Last week, Mr. McGreevey's mentor, former State Senate President John Lynch, pleaded guilty to charges of fraud. This week, the Newark Star-Ledger reported that a federal monitor's probe has found that State Budget Chairman Wayne Bryant pressured state university officials to "create a no-show job for the senator that essentially allowed him to 'lobby himself' for taxpayer funds." U.S. Attorney Chris Christie's office has convicted 97 public officials of corruption in just the last four years.

Despite the fact that most of the revelations of corruption involve the state's Democratic machine, it's unclear if Republicans will benefit this fall. They have their own problems. State Senator Tom Kean Jr. narrowly leads appointed Democratic Senator Bob Menendez in the polls, but several GOP officials tell me they are worried about low turnout because of dissatisfaction with the Bush administration. Much of it is over Iraq, but not always for the reasons you'd suspect. "I've had several people tell me they're no longer going to be active in the campaign after Tom Kean Jr. called for Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld's resignation," one GOP officeholder told me. "They're angry he isn't sticking with the president."

Voter turnout may hit historic lows in New Jersey this November. Disaffected Republicans may stay home. African-American voters may resist turning out to vote for Mr. Menendez in part out of disappointment that a black wasn't appointed to the vacant seat. The only guaranteed voters may be those hacks whose very jobs in the political spoils system depend on their party continuing to win elections.
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Fourth Estate and Fifth Column

The Global Jihad appears to be playing us for fools. The media is the key most powerful weapon in their arsenal. Militant islam understands the power of jihad porn but more importantly, they are brilliant at propagandizing the reportage. The OIC (Organization of Islamic countries) has been urging rich Muslims to buy media organizations for good reason. How much they already own on the UK is anybody's guess.

It is no secret that in Europe the anti-American, anti-Israel propaganda machine is operating full tilt. How bad is it? Samizdata writes this report, concluding “I am not making this up.”

Over at The American Thinker hat tip Victoria

As I type these words, Britain’s Channel 4 is airing a major piece of breath-taking propoganda.

This two-hour prime-time ‘documentary’ is called ‘The Doomsday Code’ and purports to be a ciritical examination of the violent, apocolyptic, end-of-the-world ideology of (wait for it)...American Christians!

The story so far:

American Christians and Israelis are conspiring to bring about a global nuclear holocaust and this is why they are attacking Islam Americans are deliberately causing global warming as a part of their monstrous plot to realise ‘End Times’

The only hope for mankind lies with the UN but its effectiveness is being undermined by the “corrosive hostility” of the fundamentalist Christian Americans

I cannot find any specific programme website to which to link but there is a link to the website of the production company which is somehwat illuminating:

The Doomsday Code is produced by Fozia Khan and directed by James Quinn. It was commissioned by Aaquil Ahmed, Commissioning Editor for History, Science, Religion and Arts at Channel 4.

It is still broadcasting and has now moved on to Africa which, allegedly, is proving to be a fertile recruiting ground for the insanely violent American Evangelicals who are (among other things) doing their best to facilitate the spread of AIDS in accordance with the Book of Revelation.

And all of our  "tolerance" is the road to hell paved with good intentions.

 

New York Times, Jihad's Official Paper

All the news that fits the jihad, eh? Today's New York crimes, slimes, Times, has called for the Pope to submit to dhimmitude and apologize for the speech the Pope made last Tuesday in Germany.
Funny, when the speech first ran, The NY Hypocrites referred to the Pope's statement on Islam as an added footnote on jihad.

Now they are calling for the Pope to bow down to Islam? How dare they are? What part of murder and oppression is the NY Times in love with?  Militant members of Islam must stop killing people. They must stop killing or we will stop them.

It's obvious the violent reaction to the Pope's citingof a quote from a  14th century Christian emperor is validation of the Pope's comments. Effigys of the Pope burn as we speak.

Morocco has recalled its ambassador to the Vatican.

Five Churches have been attacked today  in Gaza and the Times is backing these animals? What is their motive? Unfettered access?

Seeing as that the Times has surrendered to Islam, it would be fitting that their female employees start wearing the chador, stop drinking and shtuping indiscriminately and move to an Islamic country. Clearly, they hate America and all that makes America great. They've taken sides and it's not ours. Convert or die, remember?

The pity here is I am sure there are Muslims that are happy the Pope has spoken out, because they can not. And here comes these big self important schmucks at the Times trying to shut up the Pope. I think it's time the Times shuts up. They can't go out of business soon enough for freedom loving peoples the world over.
Here is the Times opinion piece;

The Pope's Words, New York Times September 15th

There is more than enough religious anger in the world. So it is particularly disturbing that Pope Benedict XVI has insulted Muslims, quoting a 14th-century description of Islam as “evil and inhuman.”

He didn't "insult" Muslims, he spoke the truth. He was giving a speech to an academic audience and he said "and I quote"  discussing a  theological matter from the late 14th century.

In the most provocative part of a speech this week on “faith and reason,” the pontiff recounted a conversation between an “erudite” Byzantine Christian emperor and a “learned” Muslim Persian circa 1391. The pope quoted the emperor saying, “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

Let's ask Daniel Pearl, Nic Berg, Olag Wiig, Steve Centanni and the victims of these 5,8885 Islamic terror attacks since 9/11. All that jihad porn.

Muslim leaders the world over have demanded apologies and threatened to recall their ambassadors from the Vatican, warning that the pope’s words dangerously reinforce a false and biased view of Islam. For many Muslims, holy war — jihad — is a spiritual struggle, and not a call to violence. And they denounce its perversion by extremists, who use jihad to justify murder and terrorism.

Is that why Muslims the world over are rioting, burning churches, screaming jihad? There is not one hadith in the Quran that speaks to a spiritual jihad. Not one.

The Vatican issued a statement saying that Benedict meant no offense and in fact desired dialogue. But this is not the first time the pope has fomented discord between Christians and Muslims.

Good enough. Here is the statement.  But it's not enough. They want a retraction. They want the Pope to say he was wrong. Bottom line, either way it's a kill kill situation. Apologize and you will  absolve the angry Muslims of their mad rioting, burning, murder, mayhem.
No apology....reason enough to continue to riot, burn, yada yada yada

In 2004 when he was still the Vatican’s top theologian, he spoke out against Turkey’s joining the European Union, because Turkey, as a Muslim country was “in permanent contrast to Europe.”

True that. Until Europe has completely bent over that is.

A doctrinal conservative, his greatest fear appears to be the loss of a uniform Catholic identity, not exactly the best jumping-off point for tolerance or interfaith dialogue.

Neither is beheading anyone that disagrees with you.

The world listens carefully to the words of any pope. And it is tragic and dangerous when one sows pain, either deliberately or carelessly. He needs to offer a deep and persuasive apology, demonstrating that words can also heal.

The last thing the Pope should do is listen to these dhimmis! We need courageous leaders and truth tellers to face the barbarians.
Email your support to the Pope. Here is his email address: accreditamenti@pressva.va

UPDATE: And no I don't think the Pope should go to Turkey. Maybe this the time, a turkish Muslim will succeed; This from Judith at HNN

TURKISH BESTSELLER: WHO WILL KILL THE POPE ?

Concern for the safety of the Pope during his upcoming visit to Turkey was one of the immediate responses to the current fracas. But it preceeded it. This book, published in August, is number 16 on the best seller list in Turkey. It puts the Pope's speech in an entirely different context

The book is entitled Papa’ya suikast(Assassinating the Pope], with the subtitle "Who will kill the Pope in Istanbul?". It is written by Yücel Kaya, a crime-story writer, who is gaining some success with the book which has been climbing the bestseller list on the Internet.
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The disquieting aspect is in the real and circumstantial references to recent events of an anti-religious context, such as the murder of Don Andrea Santoro in Trebizond and the recent stabbing of Father Pierre Brunissen in Samsun. Both episodes have been explained away as isolated acts by fanatics, when actually, the climate of intimidation against Christians is very real.

For Al Qaeda plots to assassinate the Pope, click here.

Jerry at Israpundit speaks to the enablers and the truth tellers.

UPDATE: Somali cleric calls for pope's death - World - theage.com.au hat tip Bill

 

Montreal Shooting at "Jew Cafe" UPDATE: NOT ANTISEMITISM

Shooting at a Montreal college campus. The cafeteria where the shooting took place is known as "Jew cafe". I am sure there will be a media black out on the jew hate aspect of the shooting. hat tip Norman
UPDATE: It was not antisemitism.

SHOOTING AT MONTREAL'S DAWSON COLLEGE

Ambulance officials say six people have been injured in a shooting at Montreal's Dawson College, and three of them are in critical condition.

However, there are unconfirmed reports that four people are dead, and 16 injured.

There are also reports that two shooters are dead -- one by suicide and the other shot by police.

This, after one student says a man dressed in military fatigues stormed into the cafeteria of the college today and began shooting at approximately 12:45 this afternoon. More here

Update: Norman further writes

I don't know if you remember the massacre in Montreal seventeen years ago. On Nov. 21 1989 Marc Lepine entered a classroom in the École Polytechnique de Montréal. He told the men to leave and proceeded to kill the women - 14 women were killed, with an additional 12 men and women injured. This brought the gun control lobby to the forefront of Canadian consciousness. If we banned guns, things like this wouldn't happen.

What the media didn't tell us was that Marc Lepine's birth name was Gamil Gharbi, and that he was the son of an Algerian Muslim immigrant Liess Gharbi. His friends recounted that before the mass murder Marc Lepine became very religious (Islamic). He compiled a hit list of 19 high profile Quebec women he planned to kill. He hated "feminists".

Somehow I don't think the root cause of the Montreal massacre was Marc Lepine's access to guns.

UPDATE: Further evidence of the "Jewish" theory;

Someone called in to the Peter Sherman show on CFRB and said that this cafeteria - one of many, the school has 10,000 students, was called the "Jew Cafe" by the kids there. The feed was live, so I don't know if they've archived it. In Quebec they have "colleges" CJEPs where kids go after High School and before University. It's not a University, it's a High School.

Listen here to the call in show and more on the killings at the Free Republic. 

UPDATE: Thye are calling it random. I want to know the madman's motive.

UPDATE: The guy hates everybody it seems. Appears not to be a hate crime . This from Volokh here

Some news organizations have identified the gunman who walked into a Montreal school, opened fire, and then turned a school cafeteria into a "shooting gallery." According to reports on CNEWS, he is Canadian-born Kimveer Gill, age 25:

CNEWS: "Kimveer Gill, 25, of Laval poses for a photo posted on the goth website VampireFreaks.com in a long black coat toting a rifle —- a chilling look at the man Sun sources have identified as the gunman who opened fire on students at Montreal’s Dawson College yesterday, killing one woman and injuring 19."
hat tip tOmP

It seems that the murderer, Kimveer Gill, "fatality666", was not obsessed with Jews; he was a Goth obsessed with killing people in general. Apparently "Jew Cafe" was the nickname of that cafeteria - but he may not have even known that. The term "Jew Cafe" was mentioned by callers to CFRA and CFRB.

He also said that he hated President Bush, the American government, anyone supporting the American government and religious people - a long list. A real nihilist. Here are some links, here and here and here.

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San Fran Jihad: Allah Akbar Indeed

I may be in the minority of those that believe the San Francisco vehicular murder (and attempted murders) were a jihad here and here but I am not alone. Not by a long shot.

I received this nugget from marooned in Marin (you are not alone. Marooned maybe but not alone);

I  am glad to see that I'm not alone in believing this is a case of jihad.

I wanted to pass on to you what I found and wrote about this weekend that still makes me think this was jihad.  I found a link to a police website (which I linked in my blog post).  Apparently, a police source alleged Popal chanted Allah Akbar when taken into custody, plus that "member (or members) of a high ranking position, who directly or indirectly asked, suggested or ordered that this report not be written as a hate crime or as any sort of terrorist attempt."

It looks like Popal's going to enter a plea on Friday.  He was arraigned today and apparently is still undergoing psychiatric evaluations.

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Related: Atlas Shrugs: Jihad in San Fran?
Atlas Shrugs: Jihad in San Francisco Part II

 

NEWSWEAK

The 'Islamofascists'
Newsweek - USA
... Some preferred the conservative buzzword "Islamofascism," which was catchy and tied neatly into Bush's historical view of the struggle. ...

Conservative buzzword? WTF is wrong with these dhimmis?  What part of 9/11, 7/7, 3/11, 5727 (and counting) Islamic terror attacks since 9/11, convert or die videos, forced at gunpoint conversions, etc do these yellow bellied journies think of as cozy? The jihadis aren't after conservatives. They want your ass too. And it's not Bush's historical view of the struggle. It's not an historical fine point, it's everything we hold dear at stake.

The tone of the article, sophomoric at best, is particularly distressing coming up on the five year anniversary of September 11th. Painting the war as a political tool and how to market it indicates such a profound blindness.

The whole article is rife with inaccuracies;

Another option: jihadism. But to many Muslims, it's a positive word that doesn't necessarily evoke bloodshed.

Jihad means one thing.

Bush is not responsible for America's inability to grasp jihad. Author Walid Phares in his book Future Jihad,   said "academia's wahabi funding was behind the failure in warning America from al Qaida and other Jihadi threats."

Jihadists: The Two Forces

There are two major "trees" of Jihadism: The Salafists and the Khumeinists.

The Salafists, influenced by the radical Wahabis and the "Muslim Brotherhood" call for the removal of the current Arab and Muslim Governments and their replacement by a worldwide power they call "Caliphate."

The Salafist movement produced al Qaeda and its affiliates around the world and identifies itself as "The International Salafi Jihadi Movement." It is omnipresent in the Muslim world and has a significant presence inside democracies worldwide. The Salafi Jihadists established the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. This was the model they wished to multiply around the globe. The Khumeinists are the Jihadist followers of the teachings of Iranian Ayatollah Ruhallah Khumeini. They have established what they call an "Islamic Republic" in Iran and have funded organization, including Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Iranian Regime oppresses its own peoples and seeks regional and world expansion through Terrorism and Nuclear threat.

Axis of Jihadism

Each of the two "Jihadi" blocs has its own strategy and area of action: al Qaeda and the Salafists have infiltrated many countries and penetrated some government institutions in the Muslim world. They have also established cells within Western and other democracies. The Khumeinist Jihadists have full control of Iran's regime and created an axis of terror in the Middle East, including the Baathist regime of Syria and Hezbollah. Both powers aim at crumbling America, undermining democracies and repressing freedoms in the Arab and Muslim world. Although with different long-term goals, the Jihadi Salafists and Khumeinists have converging interests against common enemies: democracies. In many places and on different occasions the two blocs of Jihadism have established interim alliances: the regimes in Iran,

Syria and Sudan and the organizations of al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Jemaa Islamiya, and many others have cooperated: against democracies and civil societies, they have formed an axis of Jihadism. This is what the American public and civil societies around the world are up against since the 1990s. The victims of Jihadism belong to all ethnicities and religions: from the Muslim Sunni civilians in Algeria and Syria, the black Africans, Muslim and Christian, in Sudan, the Copts of Egypt, Shiites and Kurds of Iraq, moderate Muslims and Christian minorities in Indonesia, Lebanon, Iran, Nigeria, to the societies of Russia, Argentina, India, Europe and the United States. In short, humanity is under attack by Jihadism.

The American people must learn more about the ideological movement that is waging war against them. The American public must ask the U.S. Congress to investigate Jihadism as a modern Terror ideology. More here

BOMB IN CHICAGO TRAIN STATION

Like sheeps to slaughter right?  The jihad media strikes again (or should I say doesn't?)

Have you heard about this one? Nah, I didn't think so. A story like this and no one touches it? But every dukes of hazzard car chase is  given ample air time (except, of course,  cars driven by Muslims mowing down pedestrians in front of Synagogues.) I am telling you folks, we are fighting for the soul of America. Oh and BTW, heads up in Grand Central Station.

Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Detonates at Suburban Chicago Train Station

Bomb was planted to detonate at commuter waiting area minutes before a train was scheduled to arrive.

*Authorities: "The device was more elaborate than some—it had a timer that allowed a delayed detonation."

2 September 2006: A pipe bomb constructed with a timing device exploded at the Metra train station in Hinsdale, a western suburb of Chicago during Friday morning’s commute just minutes before a train was scheduled to arrive at the stop. The blast sent metal fragments and shrapnel flying and caused minimal property damage but no injuries, according to police. The bomb exploded inside a garbage can in the commuter waiting area of the station. Had it detonated near passengers, people would have definitely been injured. Remnants of the bomb are being transported to a lab in Maryland for analysis to see what components comprised the device.

At 6:53 a.m., a 911 call was received from a Metra employee who said someone had thrown a firecracker in the garbage of the main depot, 25 E. Hinsdale Ave., and shortly after that, the fire alarm for the depot activated, according to the release from Hinsdale police.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating, and agents remained at the scene in Hinsdale as of 4:30 p.m. yesterday. Local, county and federal authorities swept the station in search of other devices and notified other Metra stations to search their facilities, stated BATFE spokesman Tom Ahern. No other devices were found.

According Hinsdale police, Metra police held a suspect at Union Station, after he was seen putting an item into the garbage can. The suspect then boarded the 6:56 a.m. or 7:04 a.m. train to Chicago. The suspect, who was later released, was described as a "tall, thin black male," appearing to be in his earliy twenties. Ahern, however, said there were no suspects, only a few “people of interest” who authorities want to interview. They include people who were seen either on the platform or in the depot immediately prior to the explosion, he said.

[b]Hinsdale Police Chief Bradley Bloom stated: "We're a little concerned, because it was a somewhat sophisticated device," referring to the timer. "And it was just inside the door" of the station, he said. Police handed out fliers with a description of the incident at train stations Friday afternoon, asking anyone with information to contact authorities, Bloom said hat tip Andrew Bostom

More here at Canada (!) Press

 

UN NOT INVESTIGATING THE SAVAGES

 

 

Listen to the last line of this FOX broadcast.

Talk about the MONEY QUOTE.

FINALLY, INVESTIGATING THE NEW YORK CRIMES TIMES

It's about time, I can not for life of me, understand why it took so long. The leakers are as diabolical as airplane bombing hijackers, CAIR usurpers, etc. It's treason -- during war.

In a major development, a federal grand jury is investigating the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. A subpoena delivered to former NSA officer Russell Tice says the grand jury is looking at possible violations of the Espionage Act and other statutes. But it's not clear at this point whether the New York Times is being probed for receiving and publicizing illegal leaks of classified information. More at AIM

 

GLICK: News or Theah-Tuh? And BLOGS

What are we seeing when we watch events from the Middle East on our television screens? Is it news or is it terrorist theater?

Caroline Glick writes in her column today "Our World: Terrorist theater tricks" here:

As each day passes, the governments, formal and informal legal apparatuses, and media of free societies show themselves to be less and less capable of contending with the information operations conducted against their societies by subversive forces seeking their destruction.

The blogosphere, and particularly Little Green Footballs, Powerline, Zombietime, Michelle Malkin, and EU Referendum, have relentlessly exposed the systematic staging of news events, fabrication of attacks against relief workers, and doctoring of photographic images by Hizbullah with the active assistance of international organizations and the global media.
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As each day passes it becomes clear that the responsibility of protecting our nations and societies from internal disintegration has passed to the hands of individuals, often working alone, who refuse to accept the degradation of their societies and so fight with the innovative tools of liberty to protect our way of life. The vigilance of just a handful of bloggers brought us the knowledge of the corruption of our media and the network of global NGOs that we have come to rely on to tell us the "objective" truth.

It is up to all citizens of the free world, who value our freedom to recognize this corruption, applaud the bloggers and join them in refusing to allow these corrupt institutions to cloud our commitment to freedom

Glick describes the media as jihad tool;

AS IS the case with the Palestinian war against Israel, one of the most notable aspects of Hizbullah's latest campaign against Israel has been the active collaboration of news organizations and international NGO's in Hizbullah's information war against Israel. Like their rogue state sponsors, subversive sub-national groups like Hizbullah, Fatah and Hamas, see information operations as an integral part of their war for the annihilation of Israel and defeat of the West. And their information operations are more advanced than any the world has seen. As becomes more evident with each passing day, they have successfully corrupted both the world media and the community of NGOs that purportedly operate in a neutral manner in war zones READ IT ALL HERE

LGF roundup:

Fauxtography Scandal updates:
EU Referendum: The Corruption of the Media
About Those Israeli 'Chemical Weapons...'
All Your Fakes Are Belong To Us
Zombie: The Red Cross Ambulance Incident
BBC Admits Engaging in Staged Photos
Perlmutter: Photojournalism in Crisis
Green Helmet Admits Staging Photos
Still More Photo Staging Identified
Lebanese Autos Miraculously Survive Airstrikes
Photographer Alleges Unearthing of Bodies
LA Times: Take a Closer Look
CAIR's Fauxtography Scandal
AP Stands Behind Green Helmet Guy
LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?
Multi-Use Buildings
Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut?

Lefty Media Gets Ass Handed to Them

and it's fookin' beautiful.....watch it here now (link fixed) hat tip Celia

CAIR ALERT: American Women Convert to Islam

They are kidding right? Opening up my radical Islamic  CAIR alerts necessitates my squinting, turning my head sideways, and peeking as you would at something really vile. Radical Islamic CAIR and the jihad media (in this case PEOPLE swagazine) is exalting the conversion of Judeo-Christian American women to Islam? Just listen to Phyllis Chelser here in our interview, detailing life as an American woman in a Muslim country;

CAIR: CHOOSING ISLAM: MY LIFE AS A CONVERT - TOP
A growing number of American women find a safe haven by embracing an ancient faith
People, 9/4/06

Angela Collins was among the millions of travelers inconvenienced a few weeks ago when British authorities announced the breakup of a conspiracy to destroy U.S.-bound airliners. The ban on passengers carrying liquids made her trip from South America "gross," to say the least. "You can't wash your face, you can't brush your teeth," she says. The incident also brought her more important concerns.

As we speak another American Airlines flight is being diverted to Bangor Maine

At least two of those arrested in London were converted Muslims, like Collins herself. Yet their actions were so far removed from the religion she loves. "There are those converts who choose the extreme tract, which means they are angry about the way things are working in the world without Islamic law," she says. "It's the opposite of what drew me into Islam." What drew her in, says the 30-year-old school director with pale blue eyes, was a religion that made her feel cared for, something she felt she missed growing up as a latchkey child. The Council on American-Islamic Relations estimates that some 20,000 Americans convert to Islam each year, with women outnumbering men approximately four to one. According to Georgetown professor Yvonne Haddad, coauthor of Muslim Women in America, some, like Collins, are inspired by the rules of the Koran, which they find empowering. Some are seeking a community that endorses a woman's more traditional role as homemaker. Others are purely on a spiritual quest. "I think Americans should see them as women who have found themselves," says Haddad.

Timna Valore-Schulze, 24, a receptionist from Bothell, Wash., wanted to become a nun as a young girl. Instead, after trying Episcopalian, Baptist, Pentecostal, Buddhist and Hindu congregations, she converted to Islam in 2001, deciding "it was the most feminist religion I had ever seen" because of its support for women's rights. (MORE)

Want to know more about life for women in Islam? Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

UPDATE: MUSLIM DEMOGRAPHY RECAP: how widespread sociopathy arises from widespread  endogamous polygamy and misogyny - and what can be done about here

UPDATE: Europe's Delayed Response to Muslims

Murdering Liars and their Accomplices the Jihad Media

Zombietime, blogger nonparallel, exposes another hoax, another blood libel against the Jews here.

The Red Cross Ambulance Incident

How the Media Legitimized an Anti-Israel Hoax and Changed the Course of a War

• + Introduction
• + What Supposedly Happened: The Media Accuses Israel of War Crimes
• + The Ambulance With a Hole in Its Roof: Dismantling the Evidence
• + Possible Rebuttals and Explanations of the Apparent Fraud
• + Conclusion: How a Hoax Became News

Watch the video at Zombies and  look at each claim one by one, and see if any aspect of the story stands up to careful analysis of the evidence.

It's important to watch this entire video if you can, because it not only contains the fullest account of the incident -- with scenes of injured ambulance drivers, and videos of the ambulances -- but it conveys the typical inflammatory tone of the media coverage of this conflict. For those who can't view the video, here is a partial transcript of the noteworthy sections of the report:

ITV reporter Julian Manyon: ...Lebanese ambulance men, shocked and bleeding, brought in as casualties to a hospital in Tyre. They were hurt when Israeli aircraft rocketed two ambulance crews. ... On the face of it, it is difficult to understand just how the Israeli military could possibly have mistaken two clearly marked ambulances for a legitimate military target. ...
ITV host: Well we've seen it there, haven't we, Captain Delall? This can't go on, this indiscriminate slaughter of Lebanese civilians.
Captain Delall: "We have nothing against the Lebanese civilians. We never intentionally target civilians, and certainly not ambulances or aid workers.
ITV host: Excuse me, but with the greatest respect, we're talking about the Israeli army. Do you accept that hitting a Red Cross ambulance and a convoy of civilians fleeing are acts that are flagrant breaches of the rules of war?
Captain Delall: We never intentionally target civilians or ambulances. ...
Julian Manyon: ...I would say that those ambulances were strafed from the air by helicopter fire. ...
ITV host: ...The U.N. tells ITV News that Israel is breaking the rules of war.
Julian Manyon: The air attack on two Red Cross ambulances has increased the controversy surrounding the Israeli assault on Lebanon. ... It's noticeable that one burst of fire struck the exact center of the cross on the roof of one of the ambulances. ... Because of the extreme dangers of the roads, journalists have not visited the scene. These pictures were taken by a local amateur cameraman.
ITV host: Israel's enemies are saying attacks like that one are tantamount to war crimes.

This is endemic to the mainstream media. More examples over at EU Referendum hat tip tOm p

Corruption of the Media 

Our report on the media coverage of the "Qana" incident on 30 July 2006 is complete. Please see links below for access to the parts.

Part 1 - Introduction.
Part 2 - The "set".
Part 3 - Act 1: The dead baby.
Part 4 - Act 2: The Red Cross workers. Updated 24 August.
Part 5 - Act 3: The camera runs - Scene 1.
Part 6 - Act 3: The camera runs - Scene 2.
Part 7 – Act 4: Caught in the act! New Scene added, 24 August.
Part 8 - Discussion and conclusions.

And Charles of course, who broke the story.

Kofi, Hate Jews Much?

Mr. Annan refrained from issuing a statement condemning an exhibition initiated by Mr. Ahmadinejad in mid-August of cartoons depicting the dispute about the existence of the Holocaust. NY Sun

Mr. Annan was quick to issue a number of condemnatory statements on the publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons on Islamic terrorism but had no public response to the Tehran exhibition  until he was asked about it by The New York Sun.

The New York Sun reports today that Kofi Enema is winging it to the rogue Islamic Republic of Iran and

expects to confer with President Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust denier who has repeatedly made public pleas for the annihilation of a U.N. member state.     Mr. Annan’s trip will also include a stop in Damascus, Syria, a U.N. spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said. More here

At least two members of the jihad media will be joining Koffee, one representing the New York Crimes Times and another with Paris-based La Merde Monde, are expected to travel with Mr. Annan. How submissive, dhimmis on parade.

Israeli Foreign Minister Says Southern Lebanon Is ‘Explosive'

Syria Dismisses Direct Talks With Israel

Iranian Shipments to Hezbollah Strain Israeli-Turkish Relationship

Iran's Rejection of Nuclear Offer Sets Stage for New Sanctions Push

Iran's Supreme Leader Vows To Pursue Nuclear Technology

Iran After August 22

Iran Fires 10 Missiles

The New York Sun reports American officials last week attempted to deter Mr. Annan from traveling to either Iran or Syria.

Kofi's contempt for Israel is rivaled only by his disdain for the U.S. and the West, any successful meritocracy would alienate this abject failure of a man. He of no spine, no integrity, no moral compass. What a piece of merde.

ROTFLMAO

Even the jhad media and the leftards can provide a chuck chuck chuckle (painful as it may be) hat tip tip Dave

That face, that face, that Covergirl face

AP - Sat Aug 19, 3:00 PM ET (Photo 26 of 411)

Tom P gave me a heads up on this photo.

Lebanese Asma Srour walks on the rubble of her extended family's house, destroyed during the month-long Israeli forces' offensive in the southern border village of Aita al-Shaab, Lebanon, Saturday Aug. 19, 2006. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Is SHE  the Same Woman?    Notice SCAR on left cheek

What is most unnerving is how confident the jihadis are at passing off these unsophisticated, fraudulent images as genuine with no difficulty. The mainstream media is dead. Dead and dangerous. The have become the very thing they once held in great contempt - propaganda tool for barbarians, despots and dictators.

And it's not just the pictures that propagandize. Over at  Go Pundit Go;

Reuters Continues To Use Ex-Communist Reporter

Despite the revelation that a Havana-based correspondent was a former writer for the People’s Daily World, a Communist Party USA publication, Reuters is still using Marc Frank to cover Cuban news from Havana. Mr. Frank’s latest article comes two days after Go Pundit Go discovered and published the fact that he wrote over 1,000 articles for the communist daily as the Havana-based Latin America correspondent over a five year period during the 1980’s.

Marc Frank’s August 16th article, which was mysteriously pulled from the Reuters website the day after Frank’s communist sympathizing was revealed here, is still unavailable at reuters.com.

UPDATE: Jihad media bias, they make me sick

I love this blog, The Big Carnival, -- a 'career journalist' is using the Net to expose the abuses in the MSM. hat tip Jeremy

Jihad Tool, The New Yorker, Spreads 'Em

The New Yorker, home to the notoriously Bush hating Seymour Hersh, archtype jihad journalist, is spreading their BDS propaganda. It must be difficult for them. I can just see their editorial meetings. "Blame Bush! No NO!  Blame the Joooooooooooos. No No Blame Bush. No No Blame the Joooooooooos." Never would they blame the vicious killers, Hezb'Allah.

Report: US involved in planning Lebanon offensive

The New Yorker magazine reported that the United States was involved in the planning of Israel's Lebanon offensive, Israel Radio reported on Monday.

According to the magazine, even before the two IDF soldiers were kidnapped, Israeli sources presented the government with a plan for the massive bombing of Hizbullah the next time they provoked Israel.

The report said that US President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were convinced that Hizbullah's surrender to the IDF would serve Washington's purposes if the US were to attack Iran.

Israeli Ambassador to the US Danny Ayalon denied the claim.

Uh, so did Hezb'Allah. HIZBULLAH DECLARES VICTORY 

Who was Kookier?

Wallace or Ahmadinnerjacket?

UPDATE: Just for knowing. Wallace did not ask about August 22nd,  public hangings ( including 16 year old girls), imprisoning students, dissidents, Iran's infamous distinction of being the worst violator of human rights.
He let Ahmadinnerjacket get away with outrageous remarks and gave the little prick a soapbox to preach to the American people and calling out Bush to change his way (translation convert to Islam) Would Wallace have done the same for Pol Pot? Hitler? Stalin? Osama? In a word, yes.

Jim furnished me with a list of advertisers during the Ahmadinejad interview on CBS.  Know it won't matter but they will never get a dime of mine. Ever.

Maytag / Home Depot, Coreg, Lysol,  Flomax,  LensCrafters,  TIAA/CREF, Staples / Hewlett Packard,  Hyundai,  Amazon.com,  FreeStyle, , Glad Trashbags, Cheerios, LASIK / Bowden Associates

Wallace has a soft spot for dictators, especially anti-Israel ones. According to press reports, Wallace found the Iranian president quite charming and "dismissed the common perceptions" about him:

"He's actually, in a strange way, he's a rather attractive man, very smart, savvy, self-assured, good looking in a strange way," Wallace said. "He's very, very short but he's comfortable in his own skin." (Hollywood Reporter, Aug. 10, 2006)

And USA Today reported that Wallace said of Ahmadinejad:

"He's an impressive fellow, this guy. He really is. He's obviously smart as hell... You'll find him an interesting man. I expected more of a firebrand. I don't think he has the slightest doubt about how he feels ... about the American administration and the Zionist state. He comes across as more rational than I had expected." (emphasis added)

To read more, click here:
[If the link does not work, go to www.camera.org and click on article about Mike Wallace.]

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Even crazier? Charles reports that;

CBS News now allows reader comments on their web site, and the comments about Mike Wallace’s interview with Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are quite astounding: Iranian Leader Opens Up, Ahmadinejad Speaks Candidly With Mike Wallace About Israel, Nukes, Bush.

Over at Quixote: Real or faux

UPDATE: LGF reports that today at 8 pm Eastern, at the request of Iran, the entire unedited (and unhinged) version of Mike Wallace’s interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be broadcast on C-SPAN.
You can watch  C-SPAN over the web here: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE.

What The Times is Really Thinking

The NYT front page is from http://thepeoplescube.com.Hat tip RS

Green Helmut Guy Spotted!

Are you Fonda me? Over at the Green Helmut Guy Blog hat tip x-dhimmi
More on Green Helmut dreg here: Click here: Photo Fraud in Lebanon
ATLAS CONTEST: Who else is in the picture?

HANSON!

Victor Davis Hanson:  Surreal Rules

The difficulties of fighting in an absurdly complicated region.

1. Any death — enemy or friendly, accidental or deliberate, civilian or soldier — favors the terrorists. The Islamists have no claim on morality; Westerners do and show it hourly. So, in a strange way, images of the dead and dying are attributed only to our failing. If ours are killed, it is because those in power were not careful (inadequate body armor, unarmored humvees, etc), most likely due to some supposed conspiracy (Halliburton profiteering, blood for oil, wars for Israel, etc.). When Muslim enemies are killed, whether by intent or accidentally, the whole arsenal of Western postmodern thought comes into play. For the United States to have such power over life and death, the enemy appears to the world as weak, sympathetic, and victimized; we as strong and oppressive. Terrorists are still “constructed” as “the other” and thus are seen as suffering — doctored photos or not — through the grim prism of Western colonialism, racism, and imperialism.

In short, it is not just that Western public opinion won’t tolerate many losses; it won’t tolerate for very long killing the enemy either — unless the belligerents are something akin to the white, Christian Europeans of Milosevic’s Serbia, who, fortunately for NATO war planners in the Balkans, could not seek refuge behind any politically correct paradigm and so were bombed with impunity. Remember, multiculturalism always trumps fascism: the worst homophobe, the intolerant theocrat, and the woman-hating bigot is always sympathetic if he wears some third-world garb, mouths anti-Americanism, and looks most un-European. To win these wars, our soldiers must not die or kill.

2. All media coverage of fighting in the Middle East is ultimately hostile — and for a variety of reasons. Since the 1960s too many reporters have seen their mission as more than disinterested news gathering, but rather as near missionary: they seek to counter the advantages of the Western capitalist power structure by preparing the news in such a way as to show us the victims of profit-making and an affluent elite. Second, most fighting is far from home and dangerous. Trash the U.S. military and you might suffer a bad look at a well-stocked PX as the downside for winning the Pulitzer; trash Hezbollah or Hamas, and you might end up headless on the side of the road. Third, while in a southern Lebanon or the Green Zone, it is always safer to outsource a story and photos to local stringers, whose sympathies are usually with the enemy. A doctored photo that exaggerates Israeli “war crimes” causes a mini-controversy for a day or two back in the States; a doctored photo that exaggerates Hezbollah atrocities wins an RPG in your hotel window. To win these wars, there must be no news of them.

3. The opposition — whether an establishment figure like Howard Dean or an activist such as Cindy Sheehan — ultimately prefers the enemy to win. In their way of thinking, there is such a reservoir of American strength that no enemy can ever really defeat us at home and so take away our Starbucks’ lattes, iPods, Reeboks, or 401Ks. But being checked in “optional” wars in Iraq, or seeing Israel falter in Lebanon, has its advantages: a George Bush and his conservatives are humiliated; the military-industrial complex learns to be a little bit more humble; and guilt over living in a prosperous Western suburb is assuaged. When a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton — unlike a Nixon, Reagan, or Bush — sends helicopters or bombs into the Middle East desert, it is always as a last resort and with reluctance, and so can be grudgingly supported. To win these wars, a liberal Democrat must wage them.

4. Europeans have shown little morality, but plenty of influence, abroad and here at home during Middle East wars. Europeans, who helped to bomb Belgrade, now easily condemn Israel in the skies over Beirut. They sold Saddam his bunkers and reactor, and won in exchange sweetheart oil concessions. Iran could not build a bomb without Russian and European machine tools. Iran is not on any serious European embargo list; much of the off-the-shelf weaponry so critical to Hezbollah was purchased through European arms merchants. And if they are consistent in their willingness to do business with any tyrant, the Europeans also know how to spread enough aid or money around to the Middle East, to ensure some protection and a prominent role in any postwar conference. Had we allowed eager Europeans to get in on the postbellum contracts in Iraq, they would have muted their criticism considerably. To win these wars, we must win over the Europeans by ensuring they can always earn a profit.

5. To fight in the Middle East, the United States and Israel must enlist China, Russia, Europe, or any nation in the Arab world to fight its wars. China has killed tens of thousands in Tibet in a ruthless war leading to occupation and annexation. Russia leveled Grozny and obliterated Chechnyans. Europeans helped to bomb Belgrade, where hundreds of civilians were lost to “collateral damage.” Egyptians gassed Yemenis; Iraqis gassed Kurds; Iraqis gassed Iranians; Syrians murdered thousands of men, women, and children in Hama; Jordanians slaughtered thousands of Palestinians. None received much lasting, if any, global condemnation. In the sick moral calculus of the world’s attention span, a terrorist who commits suicide in Guantanamo Bay always merits at least 500 dead Kurds, 1,000 Chechnyans, or 10,000 Tibetans. To win these wars, we need to outsource the job to those who can fight them with impunity.

6. Time is always an enemy. Most Westerners are oblivious to criticism if they wake up in the morning and learn their military has bombed a Saddam or sent a missile into Afghanistan — and the war was begun and then ended all while they were sleeping. In contrast, 6-8 weeks — about the length of the Balkan or Afghanistan war — is the limit of our patience. After that, Americans become so sensitive to global criticism that they begin to hate themselves as much as others do. To win these wars, they should be over in 24 hours — but at all cost no more than 8 weeks.

Silly, you say, are such fanciful rules? Of course — but not as absurd as the wars now going on in the Middle East.

More Proof of Qanar Hoax

Where is Kofi Enema's outrage? Where is the jihad media's megaphone? hat tip MJPB

Germany`s NDR presents unpublished video footage from the qana events, demasking "Green Helmet" as a cynical movie director, staging photographs with a liitle boys body.

Michael Medved writes on Why the World hates the Jews;

Many of the bitter controversies in every corner of the globe inevitably raise the same ancient question: why does the world hate the Jews?

Whether it’s the angry international reaction to Israel’s efforts to defend itself in Lebanon, or Mel Gibson’s drunken rant in Malibu, the age-old specter of anti-Semitism refuses to disappear. With only 13 million Jews in the world – less than one fourth of one percent of the earth’s population – why does this tiny group inspire such bitter, widespread and often violent animosity?

The answer is obvious to anyone who monitors anti-Semitic propaganda from all its multifarious sources. People who express hatred, resentment or fear regarding the Jews almost always focus on charges of Jewish arrogance, elitism, aggressiveness and lust for power.

According to the logic of anti-Semites everywhere, Jews deserve harsher treatment than anyone else because they work harder than anyone else to enshrine their own superior status. This argument suggests that the only way to answer constant Jewish demands for special treatment and privilege is to impose special limitations and restrictions on their instinctive will to dominate.

According to such logic, the rest of the world must work together to cut Jews down to size; only then will they function on the same plane as everyone else

UPDATE: Richard at Augean Stables has an excellent essay on the meaning of Reutersgate: meditations on the MSM

....After Charles Neuters Reuters ..... The New York Crimes Hezbollywood

Goebbels style world media: a tsunami of jihad propaganda

After Charles exposed the jew hating media manipulation over at Reuters, the floodgates opened. The jihad media is out of control. Outta control. The New York Crimes. Gateway Pundit has it all here. DEAD MEN WALKING.

Bizzyblog forwarded the "Dead Guy w/ no dust" photo this morning thinking that this guy looked pretty clean for a bomb attack!

Here is the post from this morning:
The NY Times Hezbollah Photo Dust Up

An anonymous commenter put the pieces together on this Hezbollah photo fraud this afternoon:

This photo is part of a photo essay entitled "Turmoil in the Mideast" - Reports from Israel and Lebanon: Attack in Tyre" accessible through the NYT website. All of the photographs are attributed to Tyler Hicks/The New York Times. The photograph shown on your site is photo number 6 in the array.

Pandora's box. The Jihad media is busted, wide open. Malkin has great pics here. ZombieTime explains the four types of fraud.

Why Congress is not calling for a "special prosecutor" or at least an investigation is beyond me. An investigation on a broken pipeline in Alaska but not the deliberate manipulation of public opinion in a time of war? Broken.

Malkin has a great column of the Reuterization of War Journalism here.

Hat tip on headline: Danny, LGC

American Jihad Media's Blood Libel

When I was with Dore Gold in Jerusalem, I suggested that Israel sure mainstream media organizations for the blood libel of Al Dura, the Gaza Beach killings, Qanar --- all lies costing Jewish lives. He countered with suing the UN. OK, them too.

Now we have  the American jihad media accusing Israel of letting Jews die for PR purposes. They are seriously deranged, that's Hezb'Allah's MO. Following synopsis from Camera;

A few days ago a CNN anchor leveled the outrageous charge that Israel had the ability to shoot down the Katyusha rockets that have been killing scores of its citizens, but had chosen not to do so. Now the Pentagon reporter for the Washington Post, Thomas Ricks, has gone one step further. Appearing on CNN's media criticism program, Reliable Sources, Ricks told viewers , and the astounded host Howard Kurtz, that Israel had intentionally left some Hezbollah launchers intact to ensure that there would be continued attacks against Israel.   (To see the video clip, go to this article at the CAMERA website.)

KURTZ: Tom Ricks, you've covered a number of military conflicts, including Iraq, as I just mentioned. Is civilian casualties increasingly going to be a major media issue? In conflicts where you don't have two standing armies shooting at each other?

THOMAS RICKS, REPORTER, "THE WASHINGTON POST": I think it will be. But I think civilian casualties are also part of the battlefield play for both sides here. One of the things that is going on, according to some U.S. military analysts, is that Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long as they're being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral equivalency in their operations in Lebanon.

KURTZ: Hold on, you're suggesting that Israel has deliberately allowed Hezbollah to retain some of it's fire power, essentially for PR purposes, because having Israeli civilians killed helps them in the public relations war here?

RICKS: Yes, that's what military analysts have told me.

KURTZ: That's an extraordinary testament to the notion that having people on your own side killed actually works to your benefit in that nobody wants to see your own citizens killed but it works to your benefit in terms of the battle of perceptions here.

RICKS: Exactly. It helps you with the moral high ground problem, because you know your operations in Lebanon are going to be killing civilians as well. (August 6, 2007)

One wonders who these "military analysts" are and why they have apparently not gone on the record. And why has Ricks so far not written the story in the Post? Can it be that his claims are too much even for the Washington Post to publish?

Whatever the reason, the fact is that a reporter who thinks that Israel would intentionally allow Hezbollah's Katyushas to rain down on Israeli civilians would believe anything about Israel, no matter how monstrous or unfounded. And any reporter who believes that reserve Israeli soldiers would follow orders to not attack rockets that are aimed at their children and wives, and that these soldiers would not immediately go to the Israeli media with the story, is an idiot.  Furthermore, Israel encouraged its civilians to leave the danger zones, which is why thousands of Hezbollah rockets have killed relatively few civilians. If Israel cynically wants its civilians to die, why would Israel do all it could to get its civilians out of harm's way?

The fact is that Israeli soldiers are fighting and dying, going house to house in Lebanese villages that Hezbollah spent six years preparing as killing zones, to stop those rockets, while at the same time minimizing Lebanese civilian casualties. Hezbollah, in the other hand, has been reportedly forcing civilians to stay in the villages to create human shields. Mr. Ricks' charge is therefore nothing short of obscene, and he should put up or shut up. Let him name his so called "military analysts," and let him, as the Post's Pentagon correspondent, explain why their views are persuasive and credible. If he can't or won't, he should publicly retract his claim and apologize.

Israel Hospitals forced to go Underground

The cacophony of dispirit voices screaming "Lebanese Innocent civilians! Lebanese Innocent civilians"never speak to the real civilians being targeted..........it is the Jews being targeted.Innocent Jewish citizens.  You never hear the Jihad media speak of the innocent Jews against which this genocidal war is being waged.

Rambam hospital in which I visited on August 1st,  and extensively reported on here,  has been forced to go underground.
Rambam Hospital is suffering the distinction of being the first to confront  meeting an unprecendented challenge -providing lifesaving emergency treatments of civilian casualties of missile attacks, at the same time receiving IDF war wounded from South Lebanon (you know how the Hezb’Allah jihadis love shrapnel and ballbearings in their IEDs) and going into crisis mode while under missile attack. More than 20 missile have fallen with 500 meters are Rambam since the war began. One after another. Remember when hospitals and ambulances were off limits?

HAIFA HOSPITAL GOES UNDERGROUND From IRIS blog
Officials at Haifa's Rambam Hospital began Monday morning the process of transferring whole wings and patients to a large underground bomb shelter containing hundreds of beds.

The bomb shelter was prepared in recent weeks in the wake of the outbreak of hostilities in the North. The advanced facility includes air-conditioning and other systems required in order to perform the functions of a regular hospital.

Earlier in the war, the hospital in the northern town of Nahariya moved its operations underground.

Recently, sensitive departments at Rambam were moved to old quarters at the hospital located at the basement. The latest move follows the heavy rocket barrage that struck Haifa Sunday night, killing three people and wounding scores

Meanwhile, other hospitals are reviewing wartime procedures, while Hillel Yafe hospital in Hadera made special preparations over the weekend after rockets landed in the area.

Efraim Karsh in today's NY Sun describing what Haifa represents, in "Tragedy and Promise";

For Haifa isn't merely Israel's third largest city, the country's primary port, and a major industrial and tourist center. It is a model of multiethnic and multi-denominational coexistence, a city where Jews and Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Bahais and Druze live side by side in peace and harmony. They study together, share the same working places, belong to the same clubs, ride the same buses, shop in the same malls, and eat in the same restaurants. As starkly demonstrated by yesterday's attack, Hezbollah's salvos are as callously mindless of the wellbeing of the city's non-Jewish population as of its "Zionist" re sidents.

Pali Arabs Do Death Dance as Scores of Jews Die

The Israeli response to all out war being declared on its citizens is disportionate........... it's not nearly severe enough. Hezb'Allah's objective is to kill the people of Israel, to kill the Jews. Today they murdered 10 and the Pali Arabs are doing the dance of death. More here

At least 10 Israelis killed, [UPDATED 11 dead, UPDATE now 12 dead -Atlas] four others seriously wounded in massive rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona area kibbutz; Nablus Palestinians celebrate lethal attack
At least 10 Israelis killed, four others seriously wounded in massive rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona area kibbutz; Nablus Palestinians celebrate lethal attack Sharon Roffe-Ofir

VIDEO - In New York a ceasefire is being discussed, but in the north the fighting continues: Ten Israelis were killed and 11 others were injured, four of them seriously, during a rocket attack Sunday on Kibbutz Kfar Giladi in the Kiryat Shmona area.

There is something terribly wrong in this world when a terrorist group of bloodthirsty animals can fire thousands of rockets into a sovereign nation murdering scores of civilians and the dialogue is about "ceasefire" and land givebacks.

Biden wants to appoint a special envoy. Yeah that'll do it Joe.

The jihad media - Crescent News Network (CNN) - is reporting from South Beirut waiting for Israel response to the massacre of Jews. They think they see smoke. This is their story on this day.

Photo: They kill there won, striking Arab Israeli villages. A relative mourns yesterday after a rocket hit a house and killed three people in the Israeli Arab village of Arab al-Aramshe near the border with Lebanon.

When I was at a dinner for the IDF in Israel, a young student from a musical conservatory, played this piece for the valiant, the brave and the dead.

UPDATE: Rick from the must read blog, Jewish Current Issues elucidates;

The student in the video is Lior Kaminetsky of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He was playing the composition in front of the family of Gadi Musayev, killed on July 12, 2006 by Hizballah in Hisballah's initial strike against Israel. The moments of silence at the end of the video, before the applause begins, is the respectful silence that the tribute produced among the audience that was privileged to be there to stand with Gadi's family and the rest of Israel.

UPDATE: 20-30 wounded in massive rocket attack on Haifa Some 20-30 were wounded on Sunday evening when a barrage of some 6-7 rockets struck at least six sites in a crowded residential area of Haifa. Emergency workers labored to extract people from collapsed building.

Rescue workers pull people from collapsed building

Photo:Rockets shot from near Tyre into Israel.

Who will speak for the civilized man?

UPDATE: A dark day for Israel more deaths than ever caused by Hizbollah’s missiles. The count: 15 dead

UPDATE August 7th: Palestinians Learning Lessons from Lebanon, See Missiles as Answer to Israel's Security Fence

The heavy battles between Hizballah and the Israel Defense Forces have taught West Bank gunmen new lessons - in future battles between Israel and the Palestinians, like in Lebanon, the missile will be victorious. Long- and short-range rockets have aroused great interest among the gunmen, and advanced missiles are promising to be the next hit with the Palestinian terror organizations. Public opinion sees them as the means to change the face of the conflict. The eastern Jerusalem newspaper Al-Quds published a caricature a few days ago of a missile passing through Israel's separation fence.
    One of the founders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Khaled Shawish, says the Palestinian organizations are trying to buy sophisticated weapons. "I am talking particularly about RPG missiles that can be widely used in Gaza. The border with Egypt is open enough to bring in missiles, and 'the resistance' produces anti-tank missiles in Gaza," he said. A Palestinian journalist from Gaza noted, "The price of ammunition has dropped because of the large supply. A Kalashnikov bullet cost NIS 40-50 before the Israeli withdrawal, and now it's only NIS 5."

Jihad Media, Literally

The more the mainstream media is exposed as a left wing jihad tool, the more they dig in their heels and invariably dig their own long overdue graves. Bad enough al-Reuters uses Pali stringers and sympathizers, it now appears that they are photoshopping their pics.

Over at LGF, Charles runs an explosive expose on al-Reuters doctoring photos from Beirut. The implications of such deceit are staggering.

OK, now things are getting weird.

This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image. (Hat tip: Mike.)

It’s so incredibly obvious, it reminds me of the faked CBS memos. Smoke simply does not contain repeating symmetrical patterns like this, and you can see the repetition in both plumes of smoke. There’s really no question about it.

But it’s not only the plumes of smoke that were “enhanced.” There are also cloned buildings.

Little Green Footballs has the photo evidence here

UPDATE: Reuters admits altering Beirut photo

Reuters withdraws photograph of Beirut after Air Force attack after US blogs, photographers point out 'blatant evidence of manipulation.

[al]' Reuters' head of PR says in response, 'Reuters has suspended photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to photograph' Yaakov Lappin

A Reuters photograph of smoke rising from buildings in Beirut has been withdrawn after coming under attack by American web logs. The blogs accused Reuters of distorting the photograph to include more smoke and damage.

UPDATE: Over at LGF, Charles points out;

As of this writing, the doctored photo by Adnan Hajj is still available on Yahoo News: Mideast Conflict on Yahoo! News Photos.

It's all about the jihad, stupid. RoPMA*
*Religion of peace, my ass.

UPDATE: My Pet Jawa has more proof of the blood libel that al-Reuters exacts on the moral, humane Israeli government and people;

What was just a hunch earlier has now been proven beyond a resonable doubt. Another photo by Reuters reporter Hajj has been DEFINITIVELY debunked.
What is a passed as a photo showing an Israeli bombing raid against a "village" is actually of an F-16 taking defensive measures.

Read the whole post and check out the photos. Any Atlas readers have photoshop skills? Please help uncover this malevolent treachery. This is as much an act of war -- aiding and abetting the enemy, as picking up a gun and killing one of our soldiers or an Israeli soldier or anyone fighting the great fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;

The center "bomb" is also a fake. It is simply a copy of the first, only reduced in quality to make it appear "different"

Which raises a very interesting question? Were their any bombs in the original or are they all copied from another photo altogether?

Okay, so two Reuters photos from Adnan Hajj Ali have been debunked? Any more? Yes. Dan Riehl finds more evidence here

I believe we are seeing the tip of the iceberg. Here are a few other photos that appear to have been doctored. Scroll through them. If you have Photoshop skills, we could use your help.

UPDATE: Pandora's Box, it ain't just Reuters. AP and BBC ................ a real rat's nest here;

Either this woman is the unluckiest multiple home owner in Beirut, or something isn't quite right.

Reuters on the run.............they can run but they can't hide.

 

Israel Doing the World's Dirtiest Work

In what was Israel's deadliest day, Hizbullah Used Civilians, Mosques in Attack on IDF

Hizbullah refused to allow civilians to leave their village and used mosques in their ambush on IDF soldiers at Bint Jbeil Wednesday. Names of the nine fallen soldiers were released. Morale is high. more

Hezb'Allah jihadis are barbarians. And while the world sits in abject judgment of Israel, tsk tsk tsking - Israel cleans up the international community's abortion. Decades of appeasement and financing of this insane Islamic Jihad movement coming home to roost.

All this polite conversation of a "multi-national peacekeeping force" (what fraking peace?)  Bottom line is no one country has volunteered any troops, not one single country.Why? Because they are scared to death. Because they saw what happened to our 241 Marines back in 1982. Because if the Israelis can't cap these jihadis,  who can? What could an international keystone cops force accomplish?

The savages use women, children  to hide behind. The animals shoot from people's homes while the family still lives there, holding them hostage. That should be the "humanitarian crisis" the U.S. Sec'y of State Condi Rice is referring to when she says, Prevent Humanitarian Crisis in Lebanon. Nonsense. And why are the leftists, Islamists, internationalists, dictating the world dialogue? Humanitarian crisis is not the real issue of the day. The real humanitarian crisis is the thousands of indiscriminately fired katuyshas into civilian cities and towns all over Israel. 

And once again Israel has thankless task of cleaning up the rot and sickness that is a pox unto the world. General Halutz is in my prayers.

Syria Warns It Will Strike Israel Deeper

PHOTO: ISRAELI CASUALTIES: Three Israeli soldiers who were wounded in Lebanon yesterday are evacuated to Rambam hospital in the city of Haifa in northern Israel. Eight soldiers were killed and 22 injured during fighting with Hezb'Allah yesterday. Photo NY Sun

Devastation? What Devastation?

Check out Israpundit.

Click on the picture for a larger map. Notice how small the area is that the bombing focused on. About the size of three race tracks.

You wouldn’t know it from the televised images.

CNN: CRESCENT NEWS NETWORK

CNN Reporter Admits Being Hizballah Tool

CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson admitted on Sunday that his anti-Israel report on civilian casualties in Lebanon was stage-managed from start to finish by Hizballah terrorists: CNN's Robertson Now Admits: Hezbollah 'Had Control' of His Anti-Israel Piece.

Not surprising, but what is particularly satisfying are the ratings during this latest attempt to destroy Israel. FOX is pounding CNN into the dirt. CNN, MSNBC, all tanking.

FOX deserves our respect and thanks. Extraordinary coverage of the war. Their reporting has been the most balanced and fair.  Jennifer Griffin, Dana Lewis, Shepard Smith, David Lee Miller, Greg Palkot, Mike Tobin, Bill Hemmer ............ please write FOX and let them know how much you appeciate their responsible coverage.

News without Jew hate is surprisingly refreshing.

UPDATE: Anderson Cooper, Crescent News Network poster boy and member of the lucky sperm club Mama was Gloria Vanderbilt) weighs in with this pearl over at Kingston's blog ;

CNN Seeking Hezbollah Apologists. Any Takers? 

Recently we had some decent things to say about the blog of Anderson Cooper 360. But then they slipped back to their liberal ideology and prescribe the “softer” side of terrorists.

They note:

The United States and others clearly call Hezbollah a terrorist group: The source of countless raids, bombings and attacks on Israel; the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, which left 241 people dead; and the architects of all those displays in which young men cover their faces, strap mock bombs to their chests, and parade before the cameras pledging to kill any and all soldiers and civilians alike who oppose their cause.

Followed up by what other, perhaps by what a more enlightened, elitist journalist, might call Hezbollah:

But some people describe another part of Hezbollah. They talk about a group that is beloved in southern Lebanon for running schools, hospitals, social services, even clearing snow in the winter for some communities that the official government of Lebanon does not serve. They say these things make Hezbollah something other than a terrorist group: A quasi-government; a nation within a nation.

Hey schmendrick, the Nazis built schools too..........so what?

Jihad Media Hides Evil Savagery

You rarely (if ever) read about Islamic Iran's peculiar appetite for public hangings which I try to chronicle from time to time here, here,  here and here for example. Their record as the greatest violators of human rights (they beat China?), is hardly spoken of. When Iran installs the torturer and murderer of Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi  on the UN Human Rights council, little is made of it in the Jihad media.  Nor do you hear the unimaginable acts of barbarity perpetrated on the Christians in Lebanon, painfully described here  by Brigitte Gabriel. The Jihad media is the horrible accomplice in all this evil by their silence and their cover.

Woe to those that call evil good and good evil.

The BBC notoriously anti Jew, anti America - their news service becoming increasingly irrelevant. But not all of it. It seems if you want the the real news, you'll have to check the TV listings. Check this out from the BBC TV section (hat tip Pim's Ghost);

Execution of a Teenage Girl
27 Jul, 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm 50mins

On August 15th, 2004 a 16-year-old girl was hanged in a public square in Neka, Iran, a small industrial town by the Caspian Sea. Her death sentence was for crimes against chastity. Her name was Atefah Sahaaleh. The only evidence against Atefah was her own forced confession.

Atefah railed against her judge in court for its unfairness, but this was her undoing. Judge Haji Rezai, who was also the local mullah, prosecutor and head of the city administration, personally obtained permission from Iran's Supreme Court to execute her, and put the noose around her neck himself before she was hoisted on a crane jib arm to her death.

Using undercover footage, eyewitness accounts and drama recontruction, this film tells an unforgettable story of the life and tragic death of an ordinary teenage girl under Iran's mullahs. This programme contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. [S]

Don't know Atefeh's story? Read Siamack Baniameri's account here. Pim's Ghost wrote me;

Hanged by an insane judge? Literally, as in he was the one who put the noose on her neck and gave the signal for the crane to hoist her up? Left her hanging for 45 minutes "as an example"? Man , if you haven't put anything up about her yet do it. She ripped off her headscarf in court (it was her "sharp tongue" and "acts inconsistent with chastity" that got her death sentence, many say it was her rebuff of the judge's advances on her that landed her in court) and gave a fiery speech about how it was the men who forced women into these positions that should be punished, not the women who have no choice. If ever a real FEMINIST HERO, she's the one, and at only 16. But you won't hear about her from the left of course. Her lover got 100 lashes, and according to some reports he was an army guy forced on her by her brothers. Her mother died when she was young, Dad was a drug addict.

Pim writes more over at Infidel Blogger's Alliance here.

EXCLUSIVE: Nidra Poller: Lotus Eaters

EXCLUSIVE: Nidra Poller nails it (again) and eviserates The New York Crimes, WaPo, the editors all kinds of names: Leftwing traitors, deluded pacifists, jihad fellow travelers, pro-Palestinian fashion victims, whores wriggling for Arab money. In other worlds Nidra is on a roll. Tuck into it.

LOTUS EATERS
Paris 17 July 2006

Nidra Poller

We are at war.  We must fight to win.

No other description of the current state of the Western world can accommodate all pertinent concrete facts and integrate them into a coherent whole.  Then how can we explain the particular form of denial that flourishes in our nations, intensifying in rhythm with the worldwide conflict it refuses to recognize?  A telling example of this sublime irresponsibility is the recent publication in the Washington Post of an op-ed by Ismail Haniyeh, identified innocently as the Palestinian PM, in which the author compares Hamas to the patriots who fought for American independence.

It happens that Haniyeh’s apology for jihad terrorism in sheep’s clothing appeared on July 11th, just as Bombay was hit by multiple train attacks that killed over 190 civilians in an operation tragically similar to those perpetrated in Madrid and London…and coming soon to your local train station.  Haniyeh’s sinister taqqiya was published on the eve of an unprovoked Hizbullah attack on Israel’s northern border. While rockets fired from Lebanon and Gaza were wreaking havoc on civilian targets, Haniyeh was given prime space to denounce an Israeli “aggression under false pretenses.” According to the Hamas PM the June 25th Palestinian cross-border attack was in fact an Israeli ploy: “The ‘kidnapped’ Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit is only a pretext for a job scheduled months ago.”  Whereas the civilian casualties falsely attributed to Israel are proof of inhumanity: “Was Israel defending itself when it killed eight family members on a Gaza beach last month or three members of the Hajjaj family on Saturday, among them 6-year-old Rawan?” We can easily imagine what motivates a Hamas chief to twist the facts.  But what motivates Washington Post editors?  Why would they grant implicit legitimacy to dishonest arguments that justify unprovoked aggression against Israel, formulated by a leader of an organization dedicated to the extermination of Jews? 

We can call the editors all kinds of names: Leftwing traitors, deluded pacifists, jihad fellow travelers, pro-Palestinian fashion victims, whores wriggling for Arab money.  But it won’t satisfy the intellectual--and strategic—need to understand what motivates this inexcusable abuse of press freedom.  We have to understand why seemingly rational journalists could in all sincerity commit an unforgivable sin against the very foundations of our nation.

Rotting New York Times /UN Syndicate

UNITED NATIONS AN ACCOMPLICE in Hezbollah kidnapping? (hat tip Bruce via Glenn)

With Senate Republicans scheduling a confirmation hearing on John Bolton, who is serving as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on a presidential appointment, you knew it wouldn't be long for the snake head of the fifth column to begin its campaign of attrition.

The New York Slime, the greatest jihadi organ in the world, takes on the role of Charlie McCarthy's dummy, and parrots the UN whine. At a time when the world's most malevolent forces are converging into one perfect nuclear storm, The New York Times seems to stomp,  blow violently, and Grand Mal seize every time America pursues the greater good. Check out the New York Times lead;

Bolton’s Ways Foil Goals, U.N. Envoys Say
Many United Nations diplomats say they see John R. Bolton, the American ambassador, as a stand-in for the arrogance of the Bush administration itself.

Read the piece. It is hard to swallow the cred The New York Crimes gives to an organization guilty of such eggregious crimes, from the money grubbing top echelons to the raping, sexual abusing UN peacekeepers.

It is perfectly clear that the UN is useless and John Bolton is trying to save it. In order to do that you have to cut out the mismanagement, the graft, the corruption, the moral equivalency.

But diplomats focus particularly on an area with less evidence of instructions from Washington and more of Mr. Bolton’s personal touch, the mission that he has described as his priority: overhauling the institution’s discredited management. Envoys say he has in fact endangered that effort by alienating traditional allies. They say he combatively asserts American leadership, contests procedures at the mannerly, rules-bound United Nations and then shrugs off the organization when it does not follow his lead.

Awww. The pigs at the trough don't want an end to the gravy train? How dare Bolton distinguish betwen right and wrong? If Iran puts a torturing murder on the Human Rights Council, who are we to judge? So evolved are they.

The article, written by Warren Hoge no less, is pathetic. The bottom line is John Bolton is loved by the American people despite the left and the media's best efforts. His performance in these difficult months has been nothing short of spectacular. I suspect these pathetic attempts to undermine Bolton's upcoming nomination hearings will fall away much like water off a duck's back. Considering what's at stake at the UN, and the widepsread culture of corruption with no accountability, the worse thing would be a continuation of the status quo. But it gives you an indication of the Times hubris to attempt to smear Bolton when has has proved himself so exceptional in such a nefarious environment.
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The New York Times, jihadi tool.  I look forward to the next plant closing, the new smaller edition, and the continuing rapid fall in their circulation.

Go over to the Five Point blog. "Quagmire" Called Up As Media Masses Headlines On Newspaper Border  - best thing I read tonight. (hat tip Gerard)

PJM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: REPORTING FOR DUTY

Another marriage. How delish. I have decided to embrace my La Perla as a special correspondent for Pajama Media. THEY ARE PUMPING UP THE POLITICS OVER AT PJM. Have you checked out POLITICS CENTRAL, their new must see politics portal? You are gonna love it.

Spotlight: The Pamela Report: PJM Special Correspondent Pamela of Atlas Shrugs vblogs from New York City with a special message for Hezbollah’s leader Nasrallah — among others.

Tearing down the jihad media one blatant lie at a time. Here's a funny story. Newsweek always sends me the lead articles and yesterday they send me the Syria  propaganda piece -- here is the exchange. Newsweak writes;

Dear Pamela,
Just posted at 6 p.m. Wednesday:  In an interview today with U.S.News & World Report, Syria's ambassador rejected U.S. and Israeli claims that Syria has supplied rockets to Hezbollah used this week on northern Israel.  Read full story at the U.S. News & World Report Web site:

Atlas responds:

But it's a blatant lie. Why would you print such lies?  Jihad media.

Newsweek replies;

Pamela, Loved your response.  Always interesting to hear blogger reactions, and readers' as well!Shall I keep forwarding you articles I think might interest you (e.g., Middle East)?
Just let me know your preference.

Cindy

Atlas patiently replies;

Of course, just send my email on to editorial  and ask them to put down the bottle and listen to the clarion call. It galls me how the left wing media exploits the very freedoms the right fights for, dies for. Sickening. Don't they see whats happening? Cheers

I am not holding my breath but  doesn't  Mort Zuckerman own US New and World Report? Hasn't he been a fixture at all of these rallys here and here. Hey Mort,  make a real difference  or stay home.

ATLAS ON THE AIR- Today 12 noon. Carl in Jerusalem is today's special guest.
Here's the link for the livestream. Call in  1888- 407- 1776

BBC: Bringing Bout Caliphate

Judith of HNN is traveling and writes me this missive on the coverage in Europe from the BBC:

I skıpped Ephesus today to catch up wıth the coverage of the latest Israelı war. I wrıte latest because I, along wıth many Israelıs, can no longer delude myself that ıt wıll be the last.  In other words, I am reportıng from a hotel ın Turkey where the BBC ıs the only Englısh TV news statıon I can access. You may not be surprısed to learn that BBC's storylıne ıs sımple. The Lebanese suffer and you should see ıt. A BBC sent a reporter to Damascus to show how generously the Syrıans have been wıth the fleeıng Lebanese  though not to leave the ımpressıon that fleeıng to Syrıa may provıde Lebanese wıth a way to escape the bombs, the reporter explaıned that the camp he vısıted has reached ıts lımıt.  To cover hıs tracks, the reporter admıtted ın passıng that many of the refugees are famıly members of Hızbullah terrorısts!

Reports from Israel mentıon destructıon but downplay casualtıes.  Lebanese chıldren are terrıfıed but not Israelıs.  Lebanese are evacuatıng areas Israel suggests they evacuate.   Northern Israelıs are fındıng shelter ın the South where many volunteers opened theır homes to them but that ıs not reported by the BBC.  Haıfa ıs just as much a ghost town as Beırut but you would not know ıt from the BBC coverage.   My sıster, brother ın law, her son, daughter ın law and theır chıldren - 10 year old Enav and 7 years old Lıad and Shıran have been spendıng long hours ın a 5 by 10 secure room as dıd thousands of theır neıgbors but you wıll not hear about that.  Hızbullah Katyusha rockets hıt an Arab vıllage ın the Galılee, the Arab town of Nazereth and the Arab part of Haıfa but you wıll not hear about that. 

There are whole hours when no reporter from Israel got on the aır. When one fınally dıd, ıt was to show one destroyed house and move to the questıonıng of an offıcıal about Israelı cooperatıon wıth foreıgn governments tryıng to evacuate theır natıonals.  I cannot but wonder whether they are tryıng to compete wıth Al Jazeera or are merely arm chaır romantıc terrorısts lovers.

If you wonder about whether anybody ın Lebanon blames Hızbullah for the troubles, you can fınd the answer ın a BBC artıcle ARABIC MEDIA UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT. Sorry I cannot provide the lınk. There you wıll discover that Lebanese are complaining that Al Jazeera's pro-Hızbullah coverage.  Yes, BBC, lıke any enemy publication can be most useful.   And, yes, ıt ıs an enemy outlet to anyone who opposes terror.

I think this is the link Judith is referring to.

Terror enablers gone wild: BREAKING NEWS: UN: No sufficient data to include Hizbullah in terror organizations' list (hat tip test test)

New York Times and the Jews

A must read piece by Ed Lasky over at the American Thinker. Lasky was the other blogger who joined me, and Paul Mirengoff of Powerline at Olmert's historic speech to the joint session of Congress  a couple of months ago. Ed is a smart, brilliant writer. If you are unfamiliar wth his work, catch up.

The New York Times and the Jews (2)
July 19th, 2006

[Editor’s note: this is the second of a two part series. Part 1 is found here.]

The New York Times garners a strong measure of loyalty from American Jews. A large part of this loyalty clearly stems from a perception that the paper is an ally in their age-old quest to abolish prejudice. Indeed, the paper routinely marshals its considerable resources to not just defend minorities across the spectrum – blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and especially Muslims these days - but to embolden and empower them. However, the Times seems to have one large blind spot for the cares and concerns and feelings of one minority group that paradoxically forms a core part of their readership: Jews themselves.

While many groups and individuals (CAMERA, Honest Reporting, Jewish Current Issues, Times Watch) have long criticized the New York Times for its biased coverage of Israel, very few seem to have noticed that the Times’ treatment of Jews, both in America and elsewhere, also is problematic. Certainly the same consideration given to other minorities – a passion to cause no harm or offense – is not a courtesy extended to the Jewish community.

There is also an outstanding thread on this here at Free Republic.(hat tip Dave). 

And yeah I did cover the protest against the jihad tool, The New York Crimes.

Nidra Poller's Love Letter to Richard Cohen

Nidra sent me a copy of the letter she wrote to Richard Cohen.  Nidra, you're too good for him.

There is no limit to journalistic chuzpa!  You have a cushy spot on the Washington Post and the words just pour out of your computer and onto the page.  No need for fact checking.  It's modestly called "opinion" but when your reputation is secure, and the country you are bashing is getting attacked by thousands of rockets, with a promise of nuclear annihilation just being the thin veil that separates Nasrallah from Ahmadinejad,  opinion turns into historical expertise.

I suppose you think jihad is conspiracy theory.  I assume you do not know that your comfortable desk chair wherever it is is no less marked for conquest than the skinny little land of Israel.  And you, Roger Cohen, are no less a candidate for death or dhimmitude than any Israeli on any streetcorner anywhere in the world.  The force of opposition to Israeli presence in the Middle East, to Jewish existence in the world, does not ask for opinions, it acts on its own terms to take what rightfully belongs to it.  If you can still think that means Gaza, the "West Bank" and half of Jerusalem plus right of return,  then just stop listening to yourelf and listen to them.

Tell me, please explain to me how you can be so ignorant and so proud of yourself?   Not only do you not know where the Jews of Israel came from, you do not know where the Arabs who recently decided to call themselves Palestinians came from.

Hunker down?  Like Europe, perhaps?  Do you see where that is going?  There is no hunkering sufficiently humble to satisfy this enemy.  While Europeans, France in the lead, plead for surrender, the little homegrown Nasrallahs are preparing the next phase of their campaign.

My advice to you, my sincere and paradoxically respectful advice, expressed with no animosity, is to go to Iran, declare yourself as Jewish, sidle up to the nearest pasdaran, and hunker down.  Or try Pakistan.   Or Gaza.

Unfortunately, the absence of resolve so prevalent in certain circles and particularly pronounced in the Washington Post these days (cf. the taqqiya op-ed of Ismail Haniyeh published on July 11th) is drawing out this conflict and indirectly causing casualties and, even worse, preparing the way for ever more brutal attacks.

Read "The Legacy of Jihad," read "'Eurabia," read "From Time Immemorial."  It is time for the jihadis to hunker down, Mr. Cohen.  And if they don't, your comfortable column will go up in smoke.  There will be no room for opinion in the world they are preparing.   

The extermination of European Jewry did not just happen.  And talk about hunkering down...look what that did for our demographics!  We could not defend ourselves then because we had no place to go.  No arms, no army.  So of course those who prepare the next extermination attempt want to first eliminate the State of Israel.  And this small courageous State will not let it happen.  The longest war of the 20th century, Mr. Cohen, began in the 8th. 

If you owe nothing to your readers, you owe it to yourself to study the history of jihad conquest and understand how the so-called Arab-Israeli or Palestinian-Israeli conflict nestles into it.

You will undoubtedly receive many insulting letters.  It can't be helped.  So my advice to you is to hunker down.  If the pressure is strong enough, surrender.  Just to see what if feels like.

cordially,

Nidra Poller
Paris France

Fisking the Fools at WaPo

To the maroons at WaPo. Ben L has written  an educated refutation of the  poison
I referred to here,  otherwise known as elite journalism. Ben, thank you. But knowing the left, they won't let something silly like accuracy get in the way of how they feel. Because that's what's important.

Israel is not a mistake, but the correction of a mistake.

Richard Cohen's telling and deliberate omission- the Jews of the Middle East, from Morocco to Iran- points us towards the single most obvious reason why. Without any resort to biblical history, or recounting of the holocaust, the Jews of the Middle East provide Israel with an absolute, irrevocable raison d'etre which follows logically from basic principles. That is why people questioning Israel's existence never mention them

All people are deserving of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's the foundation of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. Any cultural group, deprived of rights, made into second class citizens, abused by a government and given no right or avenue for redress, is deserving of an independent, free nation.

This applies to Middle Eastern Jews. The very fact that the nations in which they lived called themselves "islamic" deprived Jewish residents of the most fundamental right of a free person- the right to be considered an equal under the law. Since, not being Muslim, no Jew could ever participate in the making of law in an Islamic nation- as an equal- he is by definition a second class citizen. Claims of fair treatment of Jews by Muslims are irrelevant- a well kept house slave is still a slave, and as long as a Jew cannot be a political equal by virtue of his religion, he is not a true citizen- IN HIS NATIVE LAND! Claims of fair treatment of Jews by Muslims are also false, as made evident by documented, repeated cases of mass violence perpetrated against them, for which the governments offered no protection, and no justice. Since there is no avenue for democratic redress, the Jews of the Middle East were entitled, as Human Beings, indigenous to the region, to independence- NO LESS than the people represented by the HUNDRED OTHER INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS the world has by and large supported over the past century.

So the Middle Eastern Jews have a HUMAN RIGHT to a free and independent state- OR the muslims can alter their governments to allow Jews to function as their political equals. Since the latter is not going to happen, the former is essential.

Since the Jews of the Middle East have a right to a free and independent state, IN THE MIDDLE EAST, it is only rational that it be located where, historically, their culture has been centered. Israel.

Since the Jews of the Middle East have a right to a free and independent state, sovereign and autonomous, it follows that they have the right to determine their own immigration policies.

Since they have the right to determine immigration policies, they have the right to invite on anyone they choose, be it an immigrant from Ethiopia or Russia. No nation has the right to tell another who is acceptable as an immigrant.

A naturalized citizen in a free nation has all the rights of a native citizen.

Since they have the same rights, the European immigrant citizens are JUST AS LEGITIMATE as the native Middle Eastern Jews.

So, Israel is not a mistake, not illegitimate, the European Jews have every right to be there, and this all flows from the existance of native Middle Eastern Jews and the refusal of the Muslims to grant them equal rights, coupled with the VERY SAME PRINCIPLES OUTLINED IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. And THAT is why no one attacking Israel's existence ever mentions them.

Some key passages of the Declaration of Independence that justify the existence of Israel:

1) When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 2) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

3) But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

This last one is the last of the specific claims of Tyranny given in the declaration; substitute "Terrorists" for "Indian Savages" and it's a really good fit.

4) He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

MARY JO KOPECHNE R.I.P.

July 18th, 1969 Ted Kennedy Murdered Mary Joe Kopechne

"Senator Kennedy killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger" - George Killen ~ State Police Detective-Lieutenant

Israel's Problem

Israel is infected with the same poisonous left wing lunatic media that  undermines its very existence, much the same way we here in America suffer at the hand of a left wing, America hating press. Haaretz is to Israel what The New York Crimes is to the US.

Here is an article published just days before the attack in praise of Nasrallah.  This is just another in a long line of ridiculous commentaries supported by Peace Process central. Hit tip Naomi Ragen

We need a Nasrallah
By Aluf Benn  Haaretz 6 July 2006
[IMRA: A week before the war]

[...]
It is enough to see what is happening in Lebanon. The moment Hezbollah took control over the south of the country and armed itself with thousands of Katyushas and other rockets, a stable balance of deterrence was created on both sides of the border. The withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces from Lebanon in 2000 was made possible not only because of the daring of then prime minister Ehud Barak, but also thanks to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who conducts a policy of "one law and one weapon" on the other side.

Nasrallah hates Israel and Zionism no less than do the Hamas leaders, Shalit's kidnappers and the Qassam squads. But as opposed to them - he has authority and responsibility, and therefore his behavior is rational and reasonably predictable. Under the present conditions, that's the best possible situation. Hezbollah is doing a better job of maintaining quiet in the Galilee than did the pro-Israeli South Lebanese Army.

In the territories there is no such Nasrallah today. PA Chair Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is opposed to terror and wants diplomatic negotiations, but he operates as a tortured intellectual and a commentator, rather than as an authoritative leader. The Hamas government, which at first showed promising signs of organization and discipline, has behaved like him and shrugged its shoulders during the kidnapping crisis. The weapons in Gaza are split among organizations, gangs and clans, which Israel has difficulty deterring.

[...]Negotiations with Abbas are not sufficient, nor is an agreement with him. It is more important that his statement about "one law and one weapon" be implemented on the ground. Even if it is implemented by a Palestinian Nasrallah.

Really pathetic.

What Global Jihad?

One day after bombings that have all the trademarks of al qaeda - synchronized bombings on the railway in the capital of country where free market thrive and the left wing TIME magazine exonerates al qaeda.  

Who's Behind the India Bombings?
Suspicion falls on Islamic terrorists — but not al-Qaeda — in the country's worst terrorist attack in more than a decade

Pathetic. Charles at LGF reports;

The Times of India quotes a “former activist” of the Students Islamic Movement of India, who reveals that the Kashmiri terror gang Lashkar-e-Toiba is receiving funds for jihad from our friends in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates: Attacks retaliation for Gujarat riots?

Pakistan rejects responsibility for Bombay blasts

Plame Down in Flames, Deficit too!

Plame goes down in flames. Novak reveals his source. Woe to be a dhimmicrat. Stop the ACLU has more. Plame Outed By Husband, Joe Wilson Matt Drudge reports

BOB NOVAK, My Leak Case Testimony: ‘I learned Valerie Plame’s name from Joe Wilson’s entry in ‘Who’s Who in America’… MORE Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue… MORE… My primary source has not come forward to identify himself… Bill Harlow, the CIA public information officer who was my CIA source for the column confirming Mrs. Wilson’s identity. I learned Valerie Plame’s name from Joe Wilson’s entry in ‘Who’s Who in America’… I answered questions using the names of Rove, Harlow and my primary source… I considered his wife’s role in initiating Wilson’s mission, later confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, to be a previously undisclosed part of an important news story. I reported it on that basis.

The deficit went down in flames too. Watch the left spin it.

Forecast of US budget deficit pared by a third
FT.com via Yahoo! News - Jul 11 10:55 AM
The US has cut its forecast for this year's budget deficit by a third after a surge in tax revenues.

The Bush tax cuts. The gift that keeps on giving. Watch the left convulse.

 

Plame Down in Flames, Deficit too!

Plame goes down in flames. Novak reveals his source. Woe to be a dhimmicrat. Stop the ACLU has more. Plame Outed By Husband, Joe Wilson Matt Drudge reports

BOB NOVAK, My Leak Case Testimony: ‘I learned Valerie Plame’s name from Joe Wilson’s entry in ‘Who’s Who in America’… MORE Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue… MORE… My primary source has not come forward to identify himself… Bill Harlow, the CIA public information officer who was my CIA source for the column confirming Mrs. Wilson’s identity. I learned Valerie Plame’s name from Joe Wilson’s entry in ‘Who’s Who in America’… I answered questions using the names of Rove, Harlow and my primary source… I considered his wife’s role in initiating Wilson’s mission, later confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, to be a previously undisclosed part of an important news story. I reported it on that basis.

The deficit went down in flames too. Watch the left spin it.

Forecast of US budget deficit pared by a third
FT.com via Yahoo! News - Jul 11 10:55 AM
The US has cut its forecast for this year's budget deficit by a third after a surge in tax revenues.

The Bush tax cuts. The gift that keeps on giving. Watch the left convulse.

 

More Pali Lies - Food, Medicine Aplenty

You won't see this in the terror loving media. But the Pali meme? The Pali blood libel, you will hear it over and over and over again.

Israel: PA Claims of Hunger are a Lie
Contrary to Palestinian Authority claims, the IDF is allowing food and medicines into Gaza, food supplies are ample, and some crossings are open. IDF: "PA terrorism is the source of the problem." The IDF opened the Erez Crossing into Gaza both yesterday and today (Tuesday), despite difficulties imposed by the Palestinian Authority itself. In addition, despite warnings of terrorist plans to commit an attack, the Karni Crossing has been opened for days at a time. Huge amounts of food supplies and medicines are being transported to Gaza.

Apparently, slanting articles in favour of the Palestinians is no longer enough for the Washington Post, so now they are publishing Op- Eds from Palestinian terrorist leaders (hat tip Isirota)

Aggression Under False Pretenses

al-Reuters Does Iran's Bidding

Check out this al-Reuters headline.

Iran pleads for time in nuclear talks with EU

"Pleads for time" translation Iranians refuse to respond to West's overly generous incentives package offered back on June 1st --until August. Clearly Iran is taking its cue from North Korea. Kim has completely defied the world community by launching those missiles. There is additional launch activity today picked by satellite. Iran is watching..............

Bring Back the Neocons

New York Sun Editorial

So look where President Bush's decision to sideline the neoconservatives has gotten him. Instead of worrying about America, Iran now holds the upper hand, choosing which U.N. officials will inspect it as America begs Tehran to accept an offer of negotiations and "incentives" that include civilian airline parts. North Korea is as belligerent as ever, test-firing medium range missiles. Iraq's capital is a bloodbath of sectarian violence. Israel is under fire from a Hamas state in Gaza. Russia and Communist China are blocking American action at the U.N. Security Council.

It's a CHOI to Protest The New York Crimes

So when did treason become patriotic? I don't know but the guys across the street spent the entire time trying to shout out, drown out our speakers. Free speech, my ass.

There were roughly 150- 200 people who showed to protest The Times, it should have been thousands. The other side had 25-50ish.

This was rich, the Rabbi who organized the rally and a "terrorist" lauding the Times.

Across the steeet, the small crowd wsas blowing whistles, screaming, trying to impair our freedom of speech.

 

 

 

What is it that they are fighting for?  The  right to aid the enemy? The right to be defeated?

Loved this guy with Coulter's book. Godless. Our crowd was passionate , funny, sincere...loved meeting reader Rick.

Richard Poe made a great speech about changing the name of  Times Sqare to Giuliani Square. It was priceless........will load it tomorrow.

Thought you guys would love a first look. I am going to to the Beacon theater to see Elvis Costello. I will finish the post tomorrow, but for now I am taking the night off.

Atlas VLOGS "It's a CHOI to read The New York Crimes"

UPDATE: Judith has more

UPDATE: Richard Poe's (FrontPage mag, Newsmax) excellent idea;

 

 

UPDATE: Pam over at Blogmeister has excellent coverage here - great blog too.

UPDATE: Use this hyperlink  to send your URGENT  messages to President George W. Bush, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the Members of the House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence. Tell them that the American people demand a criminal investigation to expose the leakers of this vital anti-terrorist tool.  Tell them the American people demand subpoenas of the New York Times.  Tell them the American people demand a trial and convictions for all guilty parties. 

 

NEW YORK: DEMONSTRATIONS FOR GILAD AND PROTEST NEW YORK TIMES

Didn't mean to be late to the party but this explosion in New York shut down my part of the city. Will be covering these two demonstrations in NYC on Monday, July10.

The Syrian Embassy, 620 2nd Avenue: To demand the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit - 12PM in front of the Syrian Mission (820 Second Avenue).

Te New York Times, Times Square: Treason is not patriotic
Speak ouyt against the anti-terror policies of the New York Times - 5PM across from the Times at 229 West 43rd Street. Sponsored the American Coptic Union, Americans for a Safe Israel, U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon and CORE.

NYC Bomber's PC Had Maps, Bomb Plans

More proof Bush is right and has been right alll along. We must fight this shadowy enemy here and abroad. The New York Times is doing  great harm to the American people. And they are not finished trying to destroy the tools we need to track the enemy. The are attempting to destroy the CIA's formally secret "rendition" program.

Plans found on NYC Plotters Computer

Lebanese authorities found maps and bombing plans on the personal computer of an al-Qaida suspect accused of plotting to attack New York train tunnels, a senior Lebanese official said.

Acting Interior Minister Ahmed Fatfat described the information found on Assem Hammoud's computer as "very important."

"It contained maps and bombing plans that were being prepared," Fatfat said in a local television interview.

Officials said Hammoud, 31, confessed to the plot, and to swearing allegiance to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Other suspects still at large include a Saudi, a Yemeni, a Jordanian, a Palestinian, an Iranian Kurd and a sixth whose nationality was unknown, As-Safir said.

Compromises in the investigation (translation: NY Times broadcasting of our top secret terror tactics) caused the authorities to close in early. Five would be bombers are still at large.

The suspect's family denied that he had any al-Qaida links. His mother, Nabila Qotob, said Hammoud was an outdoorsy person who drank alcohol, had girlfriends and bore none of the hallmarks of an Islamic extremist.

PROTEST THE CRIMES OF THE NEW YORK TIMES

Protest the New York Times Revealing of U.S. Secrets, Monday, July 10, 5 p.m.

We have a sound permit, and we will be across the street from the New York Times. They are at 229 West 43rd Street. The groups on board so far are Free Republic, Caucus for America, the Congress for Racial Equality, and Protest Warrior, NYC Chapter. We have reached out to several other groups as well, and are waiting to hear back from them.

Some high-visibility media people are interested in speaking at the protest. More information will be coming on this as we gather groups and speakers.

So hold the date! If you have been as sick about the Times's unconscionable blabbing of our classified information as the rest of those who care about the nation, now is your chance to do something to make your outrage heard.
Free Republic

FLOODING THE HOLLAND TUNNEL

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BOMB TUNNEL, FLOOD CITY

The FBI has uncovered what officials consider a serious plot by jihadists to bomb the Holland Tunnel in hopes of causing a torrent of water to deluge lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.

The terrorists sought to drown the Financial District as New Orleans was by Hurricane Katrina, sources said. They also wanted to attack subways and other tunnels.

Counterterrorism officials are alarmed by the "lone wolf" terror plot because they allegedly got a pledge of financial and tactical support from Jordanian associates of top terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before he was killed in Iraq, a counterterrorism source told The News.

The plan was to blow up the Holland Tunnel and flood lower Manhattan. Crippling the city and the US economy. And while it may not be feasible it gives a clear indication of how "big" the enemy is thinking. Strata is reporting that The New York Times hurt us, once again.

If one looks at the details coming to light one can see that the recent NY
Times story may have disrupted and ongoing investigation and caused the premature round up of those involved with the Holland Tunnel plot.  An
idea Rep Peter King seems to share.

Prosecutions for selling Coke secrets, but not America's? What is wrong with this country?
Why aren't we pursuing the leakers with the same intensity as we pursue the jihadis?

UPDATE: It's funny (not), but when I worked for The New York Daily News a couple of life times ago, whenever I went to industry functions where the Times was in attendance, they were treated like gods. They would walk into the room expecting the sea to part, and invariably it did. They thought they pee-ed ambrosia. They were so condescending and holier than thou it was to vomit.
What a difference 10 years make. Today, I would be embarrassed to say I worked there. I would hang my head in shame. Just sayin.

UPDATE: The American Thinker is confirming The New York Times leakage of classified data hurt this investigation. hat tip Strata

One DOJ source indicated that this case initially took off from monitoring of chat rooms that had been identified as havens for some of the plotters (that monitoring was undertaken in part by the NSA, and some of the monitoring required FISA court filings, something the New York Times doesn't support, either).

But another DOJ source added something interesting to the mix: "If you go back and look at some of our more successful anti-terrorism cases, they have focused on taking down entire networks. How do we do that? From the inside, peeling off a lead actor, turning him and using him to keep the plot moving forward so we can trace everyone else, the money, the accounts, the weapons dealers, everyone. I'll just note that we weren't able to do that with this case and leave it at that. We could have, but we weren't able to. You'll have to do the math for the Times."

BTW: another DOJ source said that in the past year, counter-terrorism officials have noted a marked downturn in the use of cell phone and landline communications. There are a number of reasons for this, but they readily point to the N.Y. Times story on NSA overseas terror-call monitoring as one reason.

I am listening to the FBI press conference right now and not one of  those thumb sucking reporters asked if the New York Times compromised their investigation. A zillion questions about homeland security cuts (from 225 million to 125 million.)

Listening to this group of enforcement chiefs talk about how they worked to tandem to protect the American people makes me hold the New York Slime in greater contempt for turning  on our nation.

This was an ongoing investigation for a year but had to be cut short because it has been exposed too early.

Strata live blogged .........

The plan has mostly been thwarted (sounds bad)

Number of actions around the world

Someone exposed this action too early to the media! Sounds like they may have this person identified. Another Benedict Arnold.

The Lebanese suspect was a key Al Qaeda operative with ties that cannot be dismissed as tenuous. We avoided another 9-11.

Lebanese? Hizbollah perhaps?

The second speaker (Port Authority) is listing all the processes and methods they use to protect these travel and commuter lines.

3rd speaker (NYC Police): plot in the planning stage and nowhere near being operational (which means it had plenty of intel to provide for some time).

This was an example of good intelligence (yet possibly crippled by the NY Times). It was also a warning that NY remains a top target.

There was perhaps a Canadian connection and it seems it was the PATH train was the main target. This was not the date the authorities had planned to go public,  but their investigation has been compromised.
It's a choi to read.......

USA TODAY GOT IT WRONG ON PHONE RECORDS?

Jumping the shark on exposing the much needed highly classified tools the US government used to track the conversations between our arch enemies;

USA Today coy on phone records

USA Today acknowledged on Friday it could not confirm that BellSouth or Verizon, two of the nation's biggest telecommunications carriers, contracted with the National Security Agency to provide the US security agency with customer calling records.

It reported in May that the NSA had compiled a database of domestic phone records in its anti-terrorism efforts and claimed that BellSouth and Verizon with AT&T, the largest US telecoms group, had co-operated with the NSA in compiling the database.

But hey why split hairs, run it anyway and destroy our terror tracking capabilties. First do harm.

The NY TImes Lies and the Liars That Tell Them

It's the Jihad, stupid.

 

The usual excuses about "the public's right to know" ring even more hollow than usual in this case. The public was not dying to know the methods by which their lives were being safeguarded. Only the terrorists were helped by these revelations.

Americans may in fact be dying literally now because of what the terrorists have been told -- and ultimately because a jerk inherited the New York Times.  Thomas Sowell

 

It's a CHOY!.....NOT

 

 

Belgium Launches Investigation of SWIFT: We're starting to see the consequences of Keller's bad call: Last month the New York Times broke the story that CIA agents and US treasury officials have been secretly monitoring financial transactions routed through Swift, . . . Go

More excellent commentary from Podhoretz in today's NY Post;

By their enemies shall ye know them, and among the enemies of American conservatism are, unmistakably, 1) a judiciary that insists on drafting legislation from the bench and 2) a body of smug elitist opinion that seeks to constrain the United States through the use of external bonds imposed by the United Nations and "international law."

[...]

They also forgot, as much of the nation seemed to forget, that there is still a War on Terror going on.

Last month was the moment that Circe's spell was lifted. The New York Times' revelation of a perfectly legal and vitally important financial instrument deployed in secret against al Qaeda - following pleas and entreaties from the administration and Congress not to do so - sent a stark message: We in the media establishment are openly and unambiguously part of the political opposition, and now we're all but admitting it.

Read it all.

UPDATE: The Greatest Ebay Auction Ever.

Leftists Gone Wild

The left has become the thing that it once held in contempt. Fascists. All you have to do is glimpse at the comments I get at you tube for a tiny glimpse of the modus operandi of the left. Smear women with the most vile sexual insults, Jew hating diatribes, misogyny. My favorite moniker - whore of Zion.
But it gets worse and it is not limited to the bottom feeders in the Democratic party. I reported yesterday that the Sunday Times ran the summer home  addresses of Cheney and Rumsfeld and where their wives shop. If that's not the greatest piece of Intel for a home grown jihadi - I don't know what is. Over at Puff Ho..........

It gets worse, Saberpoint reports;

Leftist posters at the Huffington Post posted a list of names, addresses and phone numbers of Swift Boat Veterans who took part in exposing the false and cowardly Vietnam career of John F. Kerry, failed Democrat candidate for President. This caused an outpouring of obscene and other harrassing phone calls to the vets, at all hours of the day and night. One call was a death threat.

This is the new left. Say something they don't like and your life is put in danger. Think about it.

A Leftist blogger calling himself "Jo Fish" runs a blog called Democratic Veteran. One of his readers posted the same list of Swift Boat Veterans at his blog, which is still up and viewable by the public. I have written to "Jo Fish" asking him to take down the post, but so far he has not responded.

However, a couple of hours doing searches on the web, newsgroups and blogosphere enabled me to find the real identity of "Jo Fish." I also have his home address and telephone number. I wonder how he would like his private information posted on the internet?

I am not going to post them here...yet. If "Jo Fish" does the responsible thing and removes the list of Swift Boat Vets, he will have no problems from me.

I believe in "Live and Let Live" in the blogosphere. We can argue with each other all we like, rebut and debate each other until the cows come home, even make insulting and belittling remarks to one another. But what should NOT BE ALLOWED is to post information that could lead to physical harm of a person's body or property or violate his personal peace and privacy.

These are dangerous times for truth tellers.

UPDATE: A number of readers have advised me that Rumsfeld gave his permission for the photos to be used. What else would he say. I am sure he was thrilled. IMAO, I think it stinks. David Horowitz explains here;

Finally, the fact that Rumsfeld responded to the Times request to take the pictures means what? What else could he say? He lives under conditions of danger that go with waging a war in behalf of this country, intensified by what magnitude one can only guess th the divisive and hate-filled propaganda of the left and antiwar liberals. Yes he is protected by the Secret Service so for him it’s just a marginally greater risk of the job. My point, however, wasn’t the magnitude of the increased risk, but the magnitude of the Times disregard for common decencies, and what should be common concerns. If Rumsfeld had said "no" to the Times' request, that would merely have confirmed their view of this administration as secretive and repressive (though by any objective standard the Clinton Administration, in peacetime was both far more secretive in regard to information and more aggressive in attacking its domestic enemies).

Media Will Lose Us the War

I can just see 'putz' Sulzberger jumping up and down in his New York Crimes office bleating "it's working! It's working!" Talk about the tail wagging the dog.

US could lose in Iraq due to negative media coverage: Commander

A US combat commander suggested the United States could lose the war in Iraq if public support for it at home is sapped by negative media coverage. 

My personal opinion is that the only way we will lose this war is if we pull out prematurely," said Colonel Jeffrey Snow, a brigade commander in Baghdad.

"I would hope we get the time and support we need to finish this mission," he said in a video conference from Iraq.

Did you see Vanderleun's column on the New York_{waste of} Times in The American Digest. Vanderleun is the very def of pith;

I know less about Keller, the more mannish of the two, than I do about Pinch. Indeed I know only what I read into Keller's mind and motives from his own mewling and damp "Letter" published last week in the paper. In it Keller is given to "justifying" his latest insult against the Republic that has given him stature, insulation and millions. In a way, seeing how he compulsively betrays the nation, that letter alone is enough to get the small measure of this man, and his "boss," and the entire "smart set" in which they circulate.

For both of them, their behavior is enough to illuminate the dark perversion of the soul that overtook many who came of age in the era of VietWaterNamGate. If there is an aspect of tragedy in their preening it is only that many have lived long enough to rise to positions of unelected power in the media establishment so that their particular perversion of intellect and morality now have the power to stain the soul and honor of the nation itself. But this is as far beyond their comprehension as the very notion of "a nation." For once you are in the bubble of private jets, the nation seems very far below and very faint. After all, in the one world to come there will be, we are assured, no borders or boundries at all.

The various elements that make up the perversion that drives men like Keller and boys like Pinch are too well known to dwell on at length here. In the most general terms the perversion presents as an emptiness of soul, an abiding cynicism about the good that lies at the foundation of the nation, a smug waft of amoral sanctimony, an obsessive concern with the primping and feathering of the body, an immense self-regard for one's privileged set that justifies the notion that a few men can know better than a majority of citizens what is good for all, and a kind of intellectual pouting that is unremitting when the majority ceases to respect, patronize, and admire the trappings and outer glitter of the perversion.

Wait, wait it gets better;

A more precise term for the feeling both the man Keller and the boy-man Pinch receive from their compulsive "news-making" activities is frisson, meaning "A moment of intense excitement; a shudder." A frisson has much to recommend it over an its more intense cousin. A frisson is more easily had than an orgasm and not nearly as messy. It can be shared in polite company and arrived at through writing or speech. To achieve a frisson does not absolutely require the couple disrobe, unless the two involved are also interested in frottage; which is properly described as " The act of rubbing against the body of another person, as in a crowd, to attain sexual gratification," or its secondary meaning, most interesting when applied to Keller and Pinch's means of attaining their gratification, that of " making a design by placing a piece of paper on top of an object and then rubbing over it." In any case, even a cursory examination of the actions of the Times over the past half-decade would confirm that there is a lot of rubbing of one thing against another in the highest editorial offices, even if it is limited to a frottage of sensibilities similarly malformed.

In any case, it can no longer be ignored that there is a whiff coming off the pages of the New York Times of late that carries with it all the mingled and cringe inducing odors of a miasma wafting out of a bar door flung open in New York's meatpacking district at four in the morning. All one can do when unexpectedly walking into such an arresting mist is to hurry one's pace, search for a cab and pray for rain before dawn. (hat tip Rick)

You know it - read it all.

NY Times Outta Control

Are they fookin nuts? Who do these people think they are? They are beneath contempt. How dare they print the summer homes of Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld?

"The New York Times points cranks, radicals, al-Qaida operatives and would-be assassins to the summer homes of [V.P. Dick] Cheney and [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld" writes FrontPage Magazine's David Horowitz, who sees the June 30 Times feature article as an apparent retaliation for administration "criticism of the Times' disclosure of classified intelligence to America's enemies."

In the "Escapes" section of the June 30 edition, the N.Y. Times printed huge color photos of the vacation residences of Cheney and Rumsfeld, "identifying the small Maryland town where they live, showing their front driveways and, in Rumsfeld's case, actually pointing out the hidden security camera in case any hostile intruders should get careless," Horowitz writes.

Times Travel section writer Peter Kilborn even makes sure enemies of the two men will know such details as where Mrs. Rumsfeld shops in the eastern shore town of St. Michaels, Md. where the two administration officials have weekend retreats.

He even lets the curious know what street the Cheneys and Rumsfelds have to use to get to their own road. Newsmax here.

UPDATE: Heres the New York Times link, pictures and all. The practically give you a map. It is disgusting.

Less than two miles from the Rumsfelds', past Southwind, where the late James A. Michener wrote much of his epic novel "Chesapeake," Church Neck Road dead-ends at private Fuller Road on the left. About a quarter-mile up, past grazing cattle and sheep and four other homes, is Vice President Cheney's nine-acre place, Ballintober.

High Powered St. Michaels has become a weekend-home haven for some influential Washingtonians; even Joyce Rumsfeld shops at Big Al's Market.

UPDATE: A number of readers have advised me that Rumsfeld gave his permission for the photos to be used. I am sure he was thrilled. IMAO, I think it stinks.

BBC Babbling Biased Bullshite

The left liberal media is at it gain. Justifying their Jew hating ,terror enabling screeds Great post on the BBC from Adloyada(hat tip Judith);

Oops! BBC News' ideological slip is showing...

Absolutely priceless. The BBC Newsblog, an offshoot of the BBC News website is running a self-righteous piece of self-justification by its World News editor Jon Williams, of its current selective vocabulary in reporting the stand-off between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and government over the kidnapping of Cpl Gilad Shalit:

As ever in reporting the Middle East, language - and the choice of words - is incredibly important. Was the soldier kidnapped or captured, were the Hamas politicians arrested or detained?

Our credibility is undermined by the careless use of words which carry value judgements. Our job is to remain objective. By doing so, I hope we allow our audiences on radio and television to make their own assessment of the story. So we try to stick to the facts - civilians are "kidnapped", Cpl Shalit was "captured"; since troops don't usually make "arrests", the politicians were "detained". Doubtless some will disagree. But that's, in essence, the heart of the story - two competing narratives.

Yes, but some smart commenters have spotted the glaring discrepancies in the BBC's practice...

Read it all, it's enough to make you vomit.

More cluelessness here.

Absolutely priceless. The BBC Newsblog, an offshoot of the BBC News website is running a self-righteous piece of self-justification by its World News editor Jon Williams, of its current selective vocabulary in reporting the stand-off between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and government over the kidnapping of Cpl Gilad Shalit:

As ever in reporting the Middle East, language - and the choice of words - is incredibly important. Was the soldier kidnapped or captured, were the Hamas politicians arrested or detained?

Our credibility is undermined by the careless use of words which carry value judgements. Our job is to remain objective. By doing so, I hope we allow our audiences on radio and television to make their own assessment of the story. So we try to stick to the facts - civilians are "kidnapped", Cpl Shalit was "captured"; since troops don't usually make "arrests", the politicians were "detained". Doubtless some will disagree. But that's, in essence, the heart of the story - two competing narratives.

Yes, but some smart commenters have spotted the glaring discrepancies in the BBC's practice...

Read it all, it's enough to make you vomit.

More cluelessness here.

ATLAS VLOGS THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

A fisking VLOG of the New York Crimes commericial -a FLOG? It's a a Joy to flog the New York Slime.

The New York Crimes believes it is the almighty. Godless, they have assumed the position.

Lamestream Media hypocrisy

UPDATE: MORE INFO OF THE NEW YORK TIMES PROTEST

Protest the New York Times Revealing of U.S. Secrets, Monday, July 10, 5 p.m.

The exact place is still to be decided, but it will almost certainly be in the Times Square area. The groups on board so far are Free Republic, Caucus for America, and the Congress for Racial Equality. High-visibility media people are interested in speaking at the protest. More information will be coming on this as we gather groups and speakers. So hold the date!
If you have been as sick about the Times's unconscionable act of treason - the release of our classified information  now is your chance to do something to make your outrage heard. (hat tip Hip Hop Republican)

ATLAS ON THE AIR debuts JULY 4th on  Wide Awakes Radio. My very special first guest is none other than the might- tay, might-tay Bostom. Andrew Bostom and I will be discussing;

America's First War on Terror

Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These future American presidents were attempting to negotiate a peace treaty which would spare the United States the ravages of jihad piracy—murder, enslavement (with ransoming for redemption), and expropriation of valuable commercial assets—emanating from the Barbary states (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, known collectively in Arabic as the Maghrib).

Read it all and get your questions ready ......heads are gonna roll.

UPDATE: After a cyberterrorist attack, My Pet Jawa is back! YAY!

UPDATE: The House passed a resolution against media outlets betraying secrets  during war. Allahpundit has it here. (hat tip Mara)
 

 

PROTEST THE NEW YORK TIMES THIS SATURDAY

Possible protest in front of the New York Times this Saturday at 2pm. Spread the word about this.

The Media is Out of the Closet

and running wild.............the fifth column celebrates its new icon;

PROFILE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad /
VOICE OF IRAN ECHOES THROUGH ARAB WORLD
San Francisco Chronicle
There's a new hero in the Arab world, and he doesn't even speak Arabic. With his persistent jabs at the United States and Israel, his apparent drive for a nuclear bomb and his workingman's wardrobe of suits that don't quite fit, Iran's President...

Did they do this with Hitler, Mussolini, Baby Doc, Pol Pot ...............?

Excellent sober analysis of the current jihad media from The Strategy Page;
Treason You Can Get Away With

June 25, 2006: Because the war on terror is fought in a peacetime atmosphere, treason can be presented as dissent, and you can get away with it. Case in point is the energetic pursuit, and publication, of  U.S. intelligence gathering techniques, by the American media. The latest one was the reporting of how the U.S. has been analyzing international bank wire transfers. This apparently led to the capture of several prominent terrorists, especially in Southeast Asia. But to opponents of the war, this is an assault on civil liberties, attacks they consider more dangerous than potential terrorist violence. Earlier scoops revealed to terrorists how the traffic analysis was being used to track terrorist activity.

The absurdity of this is that the intelligence programs that have been revealed involve techniques that have been used before to successfully track down criminals, and have not led to compromising anyone's civil liberties. Indeed, if any government program was misused to persecute an American, the uproar and blowback would be monumental. There are some examples of that, but far fewer of government exploitation of intelligence programs. Criminals benefit far more than citizens suffer. Moreover, many of these techniques were used successfully by the West German government in the 1970s, to deal with an outburst of domestic terrorism. Thus the track record has been that these techniques work, and don't do any damage to civil liberties.  Ironically, the German government then shut down the program in the late 1970s, after it had done its job. The reason given was that such powerful tools posed a threat to German liberties. In actuality, there were apparently plenty of politicians worried about their illegal activities being exposed (and many of them have since come to the surface, including links with the secret police in East Germany.) There may be similar fears in the United States, for it is known that many politicians and activists opposed to the war have crossed the line. Some have been caught and punished, and many others probably fear the same fate.

Trivializing the enemy is another dangerous journalistic tactic. Many of the Islamic terrorists are basically amateurs. The bunch rounded up in Miami recently are starting to be portrayed as victims, rather than threats. However, if one or two FBI supervisors had zigged instead of zagged back in early 2001, and the 19 or 20 911 terrorists would have been rounded up. It would have been very easy for enterprising journalists to portray this as an overreaction by the FBI. After all, who could take seriously this plan to simultaneously hijack four aircraft and crash them into buildings? It was all too absurd, and another example of the excessive police power of the government.

Treason aside, these tactics of destruction by revelation, and trivializing the threat, do provide substantial benefits to the enemy. While the most professional and experienced terrorists were always aware of things like traffic analysis and CIA access to international wire transfer data, most al Qaeda activists do not. But now they do, and the implications have been spelled out for them, in great deal, by helpful journalists. This influences future reporting, which will tend to avoid connecting the dots between these revelations and the success of some future terror attack. A sort of unconscious professional courtesy. There is one new element; net based journalists. That includes widely read bloggers and reports like this. But that only keeps the crimes visible, it doesn't do much to punish the guilty, or stop the assistance these traitors are giving to those who would kill them, and us.

These traitors will continue to get away with it. Unless their activities are shown to assist terrorists in a particularly direct and obvious way, scary stories about potential perils will continue to protect those attacking the counter-terrorism effort. By blurring the line between legitimate dissent and active assistance to the enemy, political opportunism has sunk to new lows.

 

NYT Communique to Al Qaeda

Hey, someone tell al qaeda their New York Times intel alert is in.

The U.S. government gained sweeping access to international banking records as part of a secret program to choke off financial support for terrorism, officials confirmed Thursday.

Treasury Department officials said they used broad subpoenas to collect the financial records from an international system known as Swift.

“Since immediately following 9-11, the American government has taken every legal measure to prevent another attack on our country,” Dana Perino, deputy White House press secretary, said Thursday evening. “One of the most important tools in the fight against terror is our ability to choke off funds for the terrorists.” “Our subpoena of terrorist-related records from Swift has provided us with a unique and powerful window into the operations of terrorist networks,” Levey said.

U.S. Officials Pleaded for Silence On Enemy Banking Transactions

 

“We know the terrorists pay attention to our strategy to fight them, and now have another piece of the puzzle of how we are fighting them,” Perino said. “We also know they adapt their methods, which increases the challenge to our intelligence and law enforcement officials.”

Perino added: “The president is concerned that once again The New York Times has chosen to expose a classified program that is working to protect our citizens.” Full story here.(hat tip Jay)

Can I make a citizen's arrest for treason and/or spying? This is ridiculous and dangerous.

New York Subway Plot and al-Qaeda's WMD Strategy

This week's issue of Time Magazine has caused a spike in U.S. and Western worries over al-Qaeda's intentions and capability to use weapons of mass destruction against the United States. Prompting the concern is Time's excerpt of journalist Ron Suskind's new book, The One Percent Doctrine, which describes al-Qaeda's apparently successful development of a portable device that can be used to disperse cyanide gas. The gas kills upon inhalation, and Suskind claims that a cyanide gas attack on New York City's subway system was within 45 days of occurring when al-Qaeda's deputy commander, called it off. hat tip daryl

MOre here from todays Sun;

A fresh barrage of criticism is erupting over the decision of The New York Times to disclose last night another classified surveillance program aimed at gathering information about terrorist plots.

    “The president is concerned that, once again, the New York Times has chosen to expose a classified program that is protecting the American people,” a White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino, said last night. “W

    The Times report, which appears in today’s editions and was posted last evening on the paper’s Web site, details the federal government’s use of subpoenas to gather large troves of data from a Belgium-based consortium that handles international bank transfers, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, known as Swift.

    The Times quoted an unnamed former government official describing Swift as “the mother lode, the Rosetta stone” of data on global banking operations.

    The newspaper said the surveillance effort helped lead to the capture in Thailand in 2003 of a top Al Qaeda operative, Riduan Isamuddin, who also went by the name Hambali.

UPDATE: French imam suspected of terror financing

RUSH LIMBAUGH HOSTs TERROR PANEL

Friday morning at 10:00 AM  Eastern, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh will moderate a Heritage Foundation discussion about the public perception of the war against terrorism.  Heritage's national security experts will be joined by Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and the cast and producers of the hit television show 24.

Watch this event live online on MyHeritage.org tomorrow morning at 10:00 Eastern More here

UPDATE:WATCH IT RUSH AT THE HERITAGE HERE

Saw this and could not resist.The media and the war. Go E.D.

Afghan Children Don't Count

Where is the media? Where is the UN? Where are the America bashers? Where are the Israel bashers? Where are the Abu Ghraib wailers? Haditha bemoaners? Where is the outrage? Where are the human rights groups? Where is the UN? Where is Mr and Mrs Corrie?

Taleban use children as shields to fight British

TALEBAN fighters used women and children as human shields as they tried to escape into the mountains of Afghanistan, British troops claimed yesterday.

The tactics were revealed in the first account by those who fought in one of the main battles faced by the men of 3 Para and the Royal Gurkha Rifles in Helmand province, where 3,300 British troops are stationed. (hat tip Bruce)

UPDATE" Christians Don't Count Either

ARRESTED: FOUR CHRISTIANS PRAYING IN THEIR HOME

All the Christians come from eastern African. The arrest was carried out by the muttawa during a prayer service in a private residence.

Jeddah (AsiaNews) – The notorious Muttawa (religious police) have struck Christians in Saudi Arabia once again. According to the Compass Direct agency, on 9 June, 10 police armed with wooden clubs broke into a private residence in Jeddah, arresting four Christians of African origin who were conducting a prayer service. The two Ethiopians and two Eritreans are reportedly still detained in a prison for immigrants in Jeddah. (hat tip Daryl)

Where is the media? Where is the UN? Where are the America bashers? Where are the Israel bashers? Where are the Abu Ghraib wailers? Haditha bemoaners? Where is the outrage? Where are the human rights groups? Where is the UN? Where is Mr and Mrs Corrie?

I Predit Predictive Blogging has No Future

When the Weekly Standard does funny, they are really funny. Apparently they covered yearly Kos in Vegas. In a word, ha! I can just see  Barnes and Kristol dispatching their crack staff to this most prestigious conference of great American thinkers (hat tip part time pundit)

"We are hungry," she wrote, "hungry for each other in person." Easy, SusanG, the World's Fare Buffet is just down past the Capri rooms. (Sorry, we netroots types like to kid each other.) She went on to call it "pure magic," saying, "We are here. We are at the gates. We will no longer remain passive and meek in order to court favor. We, the people, are coming to power slowly and indefatigably, here in Vegas, and here on the blog. We have arrived."

KOS considers itself once passive? oyish.

And they have, too, as evidenced by the massive media turnout. There were tons of them. You couldn't tell where the netroots ended and the media began. Sometimes, if you were a journalist, and you were trying to interview someone in the hall, you'd have to first give them the once over to see if their netroots were showing. Otherwise, you might end up accidentally interviewing Maureen Dowd. It's like SusanG wrote: "It seems like every fourth person you run into is here covering the phenomenon of . . . us. We're worth it, too. We are something else."

I hear ya.

You tell them, SusanG. You tell them why the politicians from Barbara Boxer to Wes Clark are turning the Riviera into a giant kissing booth. You tell them why prospective Democratic presidential candidate Mark Warner rented out the observation tower of the Stratosphere Hotel to toast you with sushi and "Kosmopolitans" and chocolate fountains and Blues Brothers and Elvis impersonators and laptop-shaped ice sculptures. You tell them why the New York Times sent six people and TheWeekly Standard sent two (flood the zone!). Never mind SusanG, I'll tell them. I'll tell them that it's because the Kossacks, as they call themselves, are happening now. They are so of the moment that a moment ago, when I wrote that they were happening now, I was sort of predictive blogging. But that was then, this is now. So don't blink or you'll miss it, because it's happening.

You think Blogging man 2007 wil get the media elites? Me neither.

I mean, sure, almost everyone at the conference was white. But they were different shades of white. Some were conference-room clammy white. Others were liquid-crystal-display blue-ish white. But there were both white men, and white women. Loads of 'em. And they weren't all 19 years old and wearing pajamas and fresh from Dungeons and Dragons matches in their mothers' basements. The average age looked to be about 40-45. These are people with lives and families and jobs, even if some of those jobs have titles like "pro bono philosopher."

Excellent

Take Pontificator. I don't know him, but I've read his work online. He recently did a predictive blog about a subject I know a little something about--me. He wrote about my piece, this piece, a week before it came out. His diary was entitled "Prepare for the Matt Labash YearlyKos Hatchet Job Article."

That hurts, Pontificator. Why do you have to prejudge? Hear me now, Pontificator, if that's your real name: WORDS CAN WOUND. He and the 69 commenters on his post purported to know everything about my piece, along with my comings and goings at the convention, without knowing much of anything. They didn't know that I get it. That I understand it. That I plug into People Power. That I, too, am People and have Power within me.

But how would Pontificator know that? He just posts from his digital echo chamber. He called me "that scowling unshaven frat boy some of you may have seen skulking around the convention grounds." Not true, you lying sack of pontification. I wasn't skulking, I was practically skipping, as you would if you were headed to the "Hot Topic of the Day featuring a panel of top bloggers" discussion. Plus, I was never in a frat. Plus, I shaved every single morning with my Schick Quattro, which is designed "for the guy who wants everything . . . except irritation."

The commenters were even worse. Circle said that I "smelled like judgment." No I didn't, I smelled like Acqua Di Parma, a symbol of Italian elegance favored by Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant. Shayera said that I was sitting at her table at the Valerie Plame panel, that I got up in the middle and left for 20 minutes, returning with a USA Today that I read for the rest of the panel. "I saw that too," wrote Buzzer. "What a f--ing jerk," said Sally in SF. Except for one problem: I was only at that panel for about 5 minutes, left, and never came back inside. Nor did I ever have a USA Today. Must've been a different Matt Labash from The Weekly Standard. Hey, Shayera, good thing the blogosphere is here to check our facts.

Then there were the buttercups from my Abortion Roundtable. They practically stoned me after forcing me to admit I was pro-life. Some were rude enough that other people at the roundtable later apologized to me on their behalf. But somehow, I was the jerk for answering their questions. In a comment, Elise called me a "jackass" and said I "coughed rudely throughout the discussion (without covering his mouth!)."

Terror Talking Points:"The Enemy is Helpless, Defeated, and Begging to Pull Out of the Iraqi Quagmire"

I see Zarqawi's suc[k]cessor, Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir, has received the Dhimmicrat's talking points;

"The Decisive Stage has Arrived - The Enemy is Helpless, Defeated, and Begging to Pull Out of the Iraqi Quagmire" (MEMRI)

Abu Hamza promises the Islamic nation that the decisive stage has arrived and that the jihad fighters' victory is assured. Abu Hamza threatens to slit the throats of Sunnis who cooperate with the Iraqi government and with the Americans, and says that he will continue fighting the government, which is comprised mainly of Shi'ites, until the Sunnis get the upper hand. As for the West, Abu Hamza assures it that Al-Zarqawi's death will not stop the jihad fighters.

"Every day, for the last three years, [our enemies] have been claiming that the war is almost over, causing their people to hope that it is so, [but] then the blows come and the world witnesses the victorious raids of the jihad fighters, which show that the jihad fighters are advancing, one step every day, and that the camp of unbelief is in [a state of] constant retreat and ongoing collapse...

"My dear [Islamic] nation, you have seen how your Crusader enemy has begun to beg its allies not to retreat and leave it alone on the battlefield, and has begun to ask the European countries and the tyrants [i.e. rulers] of the Arab states to help it and pull it out of what has come to be known as 'the Iraqi quagmire.'"

Read it all, indistinguishable from Murtha, Feingold, Feinstein, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy and co.

 

Lefty Lying liars aka Mainstream Media

I received this excellent snapshot from Daryl of the leftwing media psyop.

It's everyday. Day in, day out, clubbing the American psyche into submission.And yeah it works.

If Bush were a Democrat, there is no doubt in my mind his poll rankings would be in the 70s. Navigating the country through the morass of a war with an undefinable, barbaric enemy after the largest and most gruesome attack on the US, shepharding the economy through the ill effects of 9/11 and those lost  years of Democratic numbskullery (cutting military, intel agencies, yada yada yada  all the while being bouyed by dot.com madness.)
Bush empowered this country. Bush gave us back our center, our spine. Bush put us back in control of our destiny after Clinton had handed it over to the international communi-tay.

But its release provides a good case study of memetic warfare as being conducted by the Copperhead Media in its efforts to demoralize the American public.

The initial impression made by headlines are the most important aspect of slanting (conditioning) technique. It sets up the emotive context through which the reader views the rest of the story.

Armed Forces Information Services News Release: Detainee Abuse Investigation Report Released

This is carefully neutral and does not set up the reader's expectations one way or the other. Good example of ethical journalism.

New York Times: Pentagon Study Describes Abuse by Units in Iraq.

Good PsychOps set-up. No doubt approvable by the anti-war movement. The first paragraph mentions "harsh, unauthorized interrogation techniques."

From being formerly a Zen practitioner who still fasts regularly, I found the prominent example within the story of punishing a non-cooperative prisoner with 17 days of bread-and-water kind of amusing. Maybe the entree was stale? I don't know why the story writers chose to highlight this 'severe' punishment.

TRUTHOUT ( a DEMOCRAT base newsletter): Pentagon Denies Widespread Mistreatment of Detainees 

This headline has to be understood in the context of its recipients, who have been conditioned by a steady stream of anti-military and anti-patriotic messages into expecting lies from the militarist agents of globalization and environmental abuse.
This is the lead-in summary paragraph that accompanies the headline:

Murky procedures, lack of oversight and inadequate resources led to mistakes in the way U.S. troops treated Iraq and Afghanistan detainees. But two Pentagon reports, made public Friday, found no widespread mistreatment or illegal actions by the military. A human rights group* called the reports a whitewash that ignored countless documented accounts of detainee abuse.

This paragraph is masterful in its delivery of mis-impression.  By lumping this report in with generalized references to the others, the writers, without actually lying, reinforce the perception of the Democrat-base reader that the Fascistic American military habitually whitewashes its war crimes.
*Apparently the ACLU, although this is not made clear in the accompanying story.

Good on ya Daryl, thanks

CNN Still Spreading Blood Libel

CNN: Palestinians: Israelis kill 7 on Gaza beach when in fact Probe: Hamas Bomb, Not IDF Shell, Caused Gaza Deaths

PA TV falsified Mohammed Al Dura    

Palestinian Media Watch said that ''the Palestinian Authority television has repeatedly broadcast a falsified video of the events linked to the death of seven members of a Palestinian family on a Gaza beach, the 9 June. (Guysen.News)

In order to make the Israeli Navy responsible for these deaths, this Television has interposed video images of an Israeli ship firing towards Gaza earlier in the day between scenes of the dead, creating the impression that Israel was responsible for these deaths. The scene filmed by the Palestinians on the beach rules out the hypothesis of an Israeli missile, because an Israeli missile would have made a giant crater and spread sand on the sea and the victims. There is no crater in the scenes from the Palestinian TV.

Read it all here. I reported this back on Friday. Friday, the 9th. CNN, terror tool.

UPDATE: Over at No Pasaran (yummy);

A shell, or something explodes on the beach in Gaza.
The Arabs removed all evidence of shrapnel that could prove whose shell was to blame:

Seven Arab Muslim Palestinians were killed. One dramatic picture on the cover of the NYT, page 3 of the Chicago Trib, etc. showed a beautiful young girl screaming in agony over the death of her father lying next to her. This is the lasting image and the entire story to be told. By Monday the NYT headline is: "Errant Shell Turns Girl Into Palestinian Icon".

One commentator wondered how the camera got there so fast or was the scene re-enacted?

I don’t wonder how. I don’t even wonder why. I wonder why so few are so skeptical of it.
The Arabs removed all the wounded and dead with the shrapnel in them also removed to eliminate any evidence. They refused to have the bodies examined for forensic evidence of what actually killed the seven. Two are being treated in Israeli hospitals.

Bush in Baghdad

How very cool. Here  we are thinking Bush is straatgerizing regime change in Iran when in fact he is kickin'ass, takin' names in Baghdad. Very cool indeed. A Democratic commentator on Fox news says "it's not newsworthy."
What it is, what it shall be.

Bruce writes:

When Bush does shit like this, he's ABSOLUTELY PRESIDENTIAL.

Let's see how the fucking impotent stupid fucks of the MSM spin this. (MSNBC headline: Bush tries to bolster support for troubled war.
Fuck you, MSNBC! Fuck you.)

What he said.

Check out how the MSM is giving the terrorists the coordinates of where Bush is, how he gets to and from, and where he's going. Think they are buying the bullets too?

Best anecdote of the day (I know the day is still young). The White House Press corp were put on bus to meet with the President at Camp David about an hour ago only to be told he was in Iraq. Ha! At least we can rest assured that the White House knows who our enemies really are.

Over at Puff Ho;

Camp David Iraq Retreat: "As Much A Media Event As...A High Level Strategy Session"...

UPDATE: Also 'not newsworthy,' 70,000 coalition forces, most of them Iraqi, to begin crackdown on insurgents in Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi PM's office says.

Major strikes by Afghan and coalition troops killed up to 37 Taliban fighters, including a man believed to be related to the movement's leader, the military said.

Kofi Jumps the Jew hating Shark

Once again we can count on Kofi Annan to pounce on the latest Jew hating device to alienate Israel from the rest of the world while empowering savages, murderers --  in other words like-minded kindred Kofi anti-spirits. And jump on it he did, even though the ruse was exposed almost immediately.

The secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, was "deeply disturbed," he said in an official statement on Friday, at the killing of women and children picnicking on a Gaza beach, committed "reportedly by Israeli forces."

Eyeless in Gaza, Mr. Annan carelessly relies on heart-wrenching press photographs juxtaposing Israeli shelling with a child crying over her dead mother's body. Israel, meanwhile, fears inflaming the region where myths about the supposed Jewish thirst for innocent Arab blood quickly translates into a war cry for billions of Muslims around the world. More here

This story was suspect from the first. I revealed to all the malevolent, diabolical charade that the Jew killers were perpetrating back on Friday here. But let's be honest, does Kofi care if it's a lie. No way. Kofi reports to these savages. He pays the jiyza. He and his flying monkeys.

UPDATE: More ugly UN  news: ANNE BAYEFSKY: SPREADING HATE, DESTRUCTION AND TERRORISM

UPDATE: Probe: Hamas Bomb, Not IDF Shell, Caused Gaza Deaths

Terror in Queens, NY, USA

Wake-up call editorial from The New York Post - The Fifth Column. The Post may have been referring to home grown terror but if you read carefully, it's the terror enablers (the media, leftists,  Muslim advocacy groups) we really have to beware of;

"He had a really good heart," an official from an Islamic center in Jamaica said. "He cared about people."

Well, apparently not his fellow Americans. Hashmi was indicted for conspiring to send money and military gear to al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan to use against U.S. troops. (Some "good heart.")

And he wasn't even the first former Queens kid to be charged with helping al Qaeda. Muhammad Junaid Babar, an associate of Hashmi, has pleaded guilty to terror-linked charges.

But Babar stated openly that he considered himself Muslim first, American second. And that, in fact, he sided with the Taliban against the United States.

"I'm willing to kill Americans," he said.

And how does the fifth column, The New York Times and syncophants, CAIR, et al react to such news?

Meanwhile, news reports of busted terror plots always seem to include someone excusing the plotters, doubting the story or questioning the tactics of law-enforcement agents.

When Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant, was convicted last month of plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station, The New York Times ran long reports on the NYPD's intensive surveillance of the Muslim community.

Which only serves to propel the enablers into action.           CAIR-LA: FBI Tries to Reassure Muslims

All of which only helps feed a sense of isolation, victimization and resentment among American Muslim youth.

Add to that the lure of waging a valiant jihad against Western "oppressors." And the Islamic-supremacist brainwashing by Saudi-funded madrasas, mosques and cultural centers. Pretty soon, it's easy to imagine numerous cells, like the Al Muhajiroun group that Hashmi and Babar belonged to, festering throughout the nation?

Hashmi's pals, who call themselves the Islamic Thinkers, set up a sidewalk table each week and display anti-U.S. material. They're also fond of defacing the American flag in public, in hopes of provoking a confrontation (and occasionally succeeding).

The NY Times on Iran: Severe dysentery

The Jihadis' hometown newspaper.

Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel?
New York Times
Did President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran callIsrael to be wiped off the map? And if so, was it a threat of war?

No it means lets make love you fcking maroooooons. Who reads this insanity? It is irrational.

"Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian," remarked Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the University of Michigan and critic of American policy who has argued that the Iranian president was misquoted. "He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse." [translation: wipe Israel off the map, d'oh - Atlas]

Ischabibble, ischabobble.

"The Iranian president was quoting an ancient statement by Iran's first Islamist leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, that 'this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,' just as the Shah's regime in Iran had vanished.

Hmmm, could it be this statement of Ayatollah Khomeini that this evil mouthpiece is quoting? Read; more about the Ayatollah's bookat LGFAyatollah Khomeini, Circa 1942: RoPMA,

From the book Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East (a collection of source documents and statements from key militant Islamic figures), the late unlamented Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (subject of a recent gushing photographic tribute at the BBC) answers the question, “Is Islam a religion of peace?”

Islam is Not a Religion of Pacifists
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 1942

Islam’s jihad is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviation, plunder, repression, and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Islamic] conquerors, however, aims at promoting lust and animal pleasures. They care not if whole countries are wiped out and many families left homeless. But those who study jihad will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [God’s law]. ...

Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does that mean that Muslim should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill the [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only for holy warriors!

There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and hadiths [sayings of the prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.

It gets sicker and sicker. Check out this logic.

Mr. Steele added that neither Khomeini nor Mr. Ahmadinejad suggested that Israel's "vanishing" was imminent or that Iran would be involved in bringing it about. "But the propaganda damage was done," he wrote, "and Western hawks bracket the Iranian president with Hitler as though he wants to exterminate Jews."

If Mr. Steele and Mr. Cole [yes that's the nototrious Juan Cole. It's always the same usual suspects - isn't it? -- Atlas] are right, not one word of the quotation — Israel should be wiped off the map — is accurate.

Huh? The craven little nazi midget is standing in from of a ginormous poster saying a world without Zionism and a graphic showing a broken America on the ground with Israel soon to follow.

The second translation issue concerns the word "map." Khomeini's words were abstract: "Sahneh roozgar." Sahneh means scene or stage, and roozgar means time. The phrase was widely interpreted as "map," and for years, no one objected.

It reads like an unpublished work of Beckett.

The final translation issue is Mr. Ahmadinejad's use of "occupying regime of Jerusalem" rather than "Israel."

Huh? Pure garbage, the finest crap you can buy. The Sunday New York Times *SPIT*

So did Iran's president call for Israel to be wiped off the map? It certainly seems so. Did that amount to a call for war? That remains an open question.

Oh I get it now, 2 + 2 = 5

UPDATE: Richard Weltz over at American Thinker rips this propaganda apart here. And this guy can translate.

UPDATE: More love from Ahmadinejad. Let's see how the Times mangles this translation. Lowlife Jew Haters. I saw this over at From Hot air here

Iran leader's aide: Jews are filthy

Senior aide to Iranian president says Jews have been accused of spreading deadly plagues throughout history because they are filthy; states that as long as Israel exists, 'there will never be peace and security in Middle East'

Haditha:The Plot Thickens

Don't expect a full court press on this. Don't look for TIME magazine covers or big network pieces on the morning or evening news shows blaring these new details but one can hope it drives home the point to the American people. The left wants us to lose this war. Bloody fools. (hat tip Mike)

A Reuters eye-witness report from Haditha the 20th November 2005
No mention of a US Marine massacre - but a bloody firefight!

Note also that the article is based on a mixture of eye-witness account and info from the US forces - according to other sources on the net I've read there was an immediate retraction and correction regarding the fact that civilians had been killed by the IED.

However, the important point to note - the photographer  notes "bodies had been left lying in the street for hours after the attack".

UPDATE: This blog is all Haditha, all the time. (hat tip Bruce)

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Democrat Rangel On Castro'$ Dole

Culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption.

Rangel and Castro (NY Post)
Rep. Charles Rangel has 'fessed up to having violated congressional ethics rules by taking his son to Cuba in 2002 on a trip paid for by Fidel Castro's government and New York grocery titan John Castimatidis.

Under House rules, private sponsors can foot only the travel bill for a lawmaker and one relative, in this case Rangel's wife, Alma.

On the Castro dole, whoa. Imagine a Republican sleeping with a despot.  So dirty it's disgusting. WTF is a New York Representative going to Cuba for? Isn't there an embargo? Rangel is particularly gross because he is always trotted out like some great elder statesman, when he is nothing short of a demagogue.

This is the same Charles Rangel that said of the president: "George Bush is our Bull Connor" here.

Mr. Rangel's metaphoric linkage of Mr. Bush to the late Theophilus "Bull" Connor - who in 1963 turned fire hoses and attack dogs on blacks, including Martin Luther King Jr., demonstrating in favor of equal rights here. Joining Rangel at the infamous gathering was none other than Hillary (shocka!)

This is the same Charles Rangel that tried, during the last Presidential election,  to scare the American people into believing there was going to be draft - all the while it was he who clandestinely tried to introduce a bill to reinstate the draft here. It was he who belittled the 'success' of the Iraq vote here and said we "don't want our children to die for other people's freedom." How about dying for our freedom, Chuck? Oh and btw, he'a at it again. Castro puppet is trying to reinstate the draft, again, now - here.

And so invariably you get worldwide headlines like these;

United States Poised To Implement Mandatory Draft?

Looks ominous doesn't it? And it doesn't look like it's coming from an extreme far left Rangel, the headline looks like it's the government, it's Bush, it's UNITED STATES. Rangel is a snake.

Cheney is on to him ......... said it straight back in October.

UPDATE: CULTURE OF CORRUPTION UPDATE;

Southpaw McKinney is cutting a deal  on the cop beating and he has written a song about.

Check in the icebox for the William Jefferson corruption case. 

Illegal Immigration:Democrats Advocate Anarchy

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:
Today's race in California to replace crooked Cunningham should be an interesting one with ginormous implications for upcoming races. In today's Political diary (WSJ PAID Only), John Fund writes;

A split is taking place in last-minute media coverage of today's special election for the California House seat vacated by disgraced former Congressman Duke Cunningham. Major media outlets have completely ignored the controversy over Democratic candidate Francine Busby's answer to a question from a Spanish-speaking man who wanted to know how he could aid her campaign. "You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help," Ms. Busby told the man. She now claims she misspoke and intended to say that those under 18 years of age could still volunteer for the campaign.

Misspoke? You don't need to be a registered voter? That is very,  painfully clear.

Even though virtually unreported by mainstream outlets, the comment has created a firestorm in the district because it was caught on tape. The Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and local talk radio have all played the audio clip of the incident.

Chuck Todd, editor of the Hotline, thinks the comment will have a major impact in a race that polls late last week showed effectively tied. "Francine Busby really stepped in it," he says. "Apparently having someone trail a candidate with a video recorder isn't a waste of time after all."

Should Republican candidate Brian Bilbray win by a larger than expected margin, many will speculate that the Busby booboo was a big factor. Southern California talk show host Hugh Hewitt says the statement wasn't "a gaffe so much as a stunning bit of clarity about Democratic indifference to the rules." He notes that it was only ten days ago that every Democratic U.S. Senator voted against an amendment by GOP Senator Mitch McConnell to require photo ID at the polls in federal elections, despite polls showing 80% of American support the concept. Expect a lot more discussion about voter fraud as a campaign issue regardless of the outcome of today's vote.

I wouldn't call it indifference as much as anarchy. Rule of law is what separates us from the savages. What kind of party is that?What's next canvassing at prisons? Electioneering in crack houses?  We need a second party. The Democrats are done.

UPDATE June 7: Bilbray Maintains Lead Over Busby For 50th District Seat

Danish Cartoon Editor Attacks Media

Joern Mikkelsen, the editor in chief of Jyllands Posten, the Danish newspaper that sparked the Muhammad cartoons furore, today attacked misreporting over the incident. Speaking before the 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow, Mr Mikkelsen used the bulk of his address to correct mistakes made by other media in reporting the affair. Article here

"I must conclude, alas, that real reality and published reality were rather far apart. In many instances it was a rather disappointing experience for us," Mr Mikkelsen said.

He said the newspaper's objectives in publishing the cartoons - an examination of self-censorship among Danish cartoonists - had been overtaken.

"The affair was swiftly politicised and forces with different agendas took over."

Mr Mikkelsen said the consquence of the affair was that the 12 cartoonists whose cartoons had been published received death threats and were still under police protection.

"Would we do it again?, I have been asked time and time again. It is very hard to tell, I have said that we wouldn't do it if we had known the consequences."

Publication of the cartoons led to several deaths in widespread rioting and attacks on embassies around the world.

"No responsible editor would risk such consequences again," he said.

Mr Mikkelsen said he wanted to correct "appalling allegations" levelled at the paper.

"Allow me to get a few fundamental things straight. No, Jyllands Posten is not owned by the Danish government. No, it is not an ultra-right pamplet, it is a liberal newspaper wholly independent of outside influences.

"No, we did not have a cynical, mean ambition to upset Muslims around the world. No we did not have a cynical, mean ambition to upset Muslims in Denmark. No, we were not an accomplice of extreme anti-Muslim sentiment around the world

"No we did not seek to force a clash of civilisations."

The paper apologised for hurting the feelings of Muslims but did not apologise for publishing the cartoons.

Mr Mikkelsen said all newspapers, whether they published the cartoons or not, had been forced to think about issues of free speech.

"Each player has learned a lesson from this," he said.

9/11 Whack Jobs Convene

FRONT PAGE NEWS ON AOL- FRONT PAGE NEWS ON AOL

500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet to Seek the Truth of 9/11

Whatever one thinks of the claim that the state would plan, then execute, a scheme to murder thousands of its own, there was something to the fact that more than 500 people — from Italy to Northern California — gathered for the weekend at a major chain hotel near the runways of O'Hare International.

Whatever one thinks? Whatever one thinks? Thisis seriously stupid and dangerous. Could the leftards spend anymore valuable time on hating America? It's Islamic terror maroons.

It was, in tone, half trade show, half political convention. There were talks on the Reichstag fire and the sinking of the Battleship Maine as precedents for 9/11. There were speeches by the lawyer for James Earl Ray, who claimed that a military conspiracy killed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, and by a former operative for the British secret service, MI5. "We feel at this point we've done a lot of solid research, but the American public still is not informed," said Michael Berger, press director for 911Truth.org, which sponsored the event. "

Not informed? The American people are clubbed liked baby seals everyday with a liberal lunatic left (LLL) media's agenda.

We had to come up with a disciplined approach to get it out."     Mr. Berger, 40, is typical of 9/11 Truthers — a group that, in its rank and file, includes professors, chain-saw operators, mothers, engineers, activists, used-book sellers, pizza deliverymen, college students, a former fringe candidate for United States Senate and a long-haired fellow named hummux (pronounced who-mook) who, on and off, lived in a cave for 15 years.

There you go. I didn't see the convention in Virginia on the global war on Islamic terror covered in anyway by the media, let alone AOL. And those in attendance were some of the finest minds of our day. And that is the real enemy (Islamic terror and their Goebbels, the media.)

UPDATE: Cinnamon Stillwell nails it Of 9/11 and Political Transformation.

 

Haditha Reverbs

IRAQI GOVERNMENT NOT SATISFIED WITH U.S. INVESTIGATIONS OF CIVILIAN DEATHS Radio Free Europe: Radio Library

Of course they are not satisfied. If they said they were satisfied the leftarded media would paint the Iraqi government even more harshly as clowns, puppets and jackasses for aligning themselves with their liberators.

Shakes head, takes Dagny for a run

UPDATE: Taranto in today's Opinion Journal. Time Magazine's star blogger, Andrew Sullivan, is excitable--but only, it seems, at America's expense.

Selectively Excitable

 

"A reader captures what has been in my mind and gut for the last few days: 'The BBC just released a video alleging yet another covered-up massacre of civilians by American personel [sic] in Iraq. 5 women, 4 children, and 2 men in Ishaqi in March. Just when I think I'm totally numb, I find out a fellow American may have executed a 6 month-old baby in the name of protecting me, and I can't hold back tears. What country are we in?' The same country that now practices torture. Cheney country."--Time magazine's Andrew Sullivan, June 2, 2:55 p.m.

 

"Raw Story has now posted some photos of the corpses of children murdered in Ishaqi. Don't go there if you are squeamish, or believe that possible war crimes should not be covered by the media. Investigations continue, and exactly what happened has not been established. But the omens are grim. And these pictures of infants with bullet holes in their skulls simply defy my comprehension of what has happened to this country."--Time magazine's Andrew Sullivan, June 2, 3:49 p.m.

 

"The conclusions about Ishaqi also seem to me to be provisional. More evidence may yet emerge. We should be cautious about drawing any firm conclusions yet."--Time magazine's Andrew Sullivan, June 2, 7:54 p.m., responding to the news that an investigation has cleared U.S. troops of wrongdoing at Ishaqi

 

A Real "Haditha"

But you won't see any of the media elite (what an oxymoroon) -- not The NY Times, LA TIMES or alphabet news networks -- all over this story  like maggots on dead flesh. No you won't.

BAGHDAD, Iraq --  Gunmen dragged passengers off a buses northeast of Baghdad and killed 21 people, including a dozen high school students. The attackers spared four Sunni Arabs in one the worst sectarian atrocities in recent weeks.

Serwan Shokir, the mayor of Qara Tappah, said one other person was wounded in the early morning attack. He said there were 26 people on three mini headed from his town to Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. The 12 slain students were apparently headed for Baqouba to take exams.  article here

What U been saying here. (hat tip Bruce H)

 

Haditha

BASTA! Leave our boys alone. Innocent until proven otherwise. That's the American way, right leftards?

Sounds like Pantano right? Love him.....he's been running on my sidebar under True Heroes column for as long as I have been  blogging .
Haditha?   In September  '05, 14 Marines were killed instantly by a massive IED in Haditha (worst one ever) and during the same month 6 more were blown to smithereens.   This history is not known by the public. Reader Rich listened to WPHT 1210AM and Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) was telling host Dom Giordano all about it.   It puts things in context.  Which is what Weldon was stressing - CONTEXT...

  The Marines were trying their best to get this area under control, but the townspeople were pretty much in cohoots with the terrorists. 

Nothing in the human experience is more physically exhausting, mentally challenging, and emotionally rattling than ground combat, particularly that which is fought in tooth-to-eyeball proximity to the enemy. It does things to soldiers that people who have never experienced it will never truly comprehend. Though the facts are not yet known, the killings are alleged to be the result of an emotionally charged retaliation for the ambush killing of Marine Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, who was driving a Humvee on patrol when the vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED).

According to preliminary reports, after Terrazas was killed, his fellow Marines raided two or three houses suspected of harboring insurgents. There was shooting, and people died.

Today, it seems most anyone on either side of the political fence—whether supportive of our efforts in Iraq or not—would agree that someone is probably going to be charged. Whether or not they will be convicted, and of what, is another matter entirely.

Now, I’m not excusing what may—with “may” being the optimum word here—prove to be a shameful day in the history of our Marine Corps. But it benefits no one if we do not attempt to understand the men involved and the dynamics of the system, and how it all could have temporarily broken down, if it did. Nor is there any justifiable reason to publicly convict the Marines—as we have seen in the rhetoric of Congressman John Murtha (D., Penn)—before those Marines have had their day in court. More here (hat tip Bruce )

No matter what this investigation reveals - "civilians" can be and are collaborators. Haditha will become the buzzword to club America (Abu Ghraib), but in this case will they use it to tie our b0ys hands, make it an even more dangerous war? Now they are getting mandatory "sensitivity" and "rules of war - civilian rights" training..... oy.   The media made the assinine actions of a couple of losers at Abu Ghraib the face of the Iraq war. This will be a hundred times worse.

The outcome of the insurgents’ war will hinge on whether we assess our own strengths and weaknesses in this sort of fighting far better than does our canny enemy. And that answer in turn will determine whether Iraq and Afghanistan shatter the aspirations of our enemies—or turn out to be colossal Mogadishus. Victor Davis Hanson here (hat tip Bruce h)

More of my thoughts on Haditha here on my VLOG

UPDATE The Haditha our Media woen't tell you about here (hat tip Bruce H)

The executions are carried out at dawn on Haqlania bridge, the entrance to Haditha. A small crowd usually turns up to watch even though the killings are filmed and made available on DVD in the market the same afternoon.

One of last week’s victims was a young man in a black tracksuit. Like the others he was left on his belly by the blue iron railings at the bridge’s southern end. His severed head rested on his back, facing Baghdad. Children cheered when they heard that the next day’s spectacle would be a double bill: two decapitations. A man named Watban and his brother had been found guilty of spying.

With so many alleged American agents dying here Haqlania bridge was renamed Agents’ bridge. Then a local wag dubbed it Agents’ fridge, evoking a mortuary, and that name has stuck.

A three-day visit by a reporter working for the Guardian last week established what neither the Iraqi government nor the US military has admitted: Haditha, a farming town of 90,000 people by the Euphrates river, is an insurgent citadel. Read it all

UPDATE: More troubling Haditha developments form Little Green Footballs

Haditha Reporter Jailed by US

 

Sweetness & Light has an interesting look at the history of Reuters journalist Ali al-Mashhadani, responsible for some of the first reports on the Haditha incident, upon which he stumbled shortly after being released from five months in a US military prison. (And he was released today after another two week stay in military custody.)

Many of the descriptions and phrases from al-Mashhadani’s initial report are still being parroted in current wire stories. And in a curious coincidence, al-Mashhadani shares a surname with his main source.

UPDATE at 6/1/06 6:11:52 pm:

Allahpundit has more: Pushback: Marine Capt. James Kimber says he’s being scapegoated.

Atlas Poll: Bush Greatest President since 1945

cBS Poll: Bush Worst President Since 1945
President: Poll Worst Bush Since 1945

(CBS) President Bush has been named  the greatest  president since the end of the World War II in a new Atlas Shrugs poll.

Mr. Bush was chosen by 34 percent of the Atlas voters who participated in the the Caipinniuq Unversity survey. Richard Nixon finished second with 17 percent -- just ahead of Bill Clinton's  negative 16 percent.

Ronald Reagan was tied for top choice as best president, with 28 percent.  (poll hat tip: er yup Steverino)

Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot
Jimmy Carter has been called everything from a humanitarian, to a crack pot, to the ultimate pacifist. But a look into his past reveals a shoe that fits better than all of these.

UPDATE: And speaking of Presidential politics and leftwing lies, the Ugly American has the post right here

90Gs in the Icebox and All Is Well

Looks like the deme (Democrat meme) in the  Democrap's playbook -- culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption -- endlessly spouted from the top of the food chain (Harry "where are my free tickets" Reid) to the pods that make their way onto cable and network news.

Abramoff may have been a half story (half the $$$ going to the Dems) but they were going to get their pound of flesh out of it anyway,
And then came with man with the frozen cash. 90 Gs in his ice box. Smmmmmmmmmmokin'
Members of the vicious party were muted, but only for a moment. They trounced on the Feds for investigating - with members of the stooopid party joining in. Where is the damn outrage?

he New York Times has a cover story today highlighting the great divide between House GOPers and the Bush White House over the FBI’s search of Democrat Rep. William Jefferson’s (La.) Capitol Hill office last weekend.

Nevermind that the search found cash wrapped in foil and hidden in the congressman’s freezer. Nevermind that at least two associates of the Democrat lawmaker have pled guilty to bribing the congressman. Nevermind that the FBI had a warrant.

Where is the outrage?

I understand the Republicans’ being upset over the search of a congressional office by the Justice Department. There are plausible arguments, on "separation of powers" grounds, to be made, but, seriously, people ought to be a little more ticked that it is looking increasingly likely that Jefferson was at least influenced inappropriately.

The New York Times doesn’t seem to think so. In their 1,000+ word cover story, there was no actual condemnation of the actions for which Jefferson is being investigated. More at Human Events here

What is it about the Republicans? Why are they incapable of grabbing the ball and running with it? Could you imagine the roar of gunfire if it was a Republican Frigidaire? The mind reels.

William Jefferson is a major story, a terrible story of enormous proportions. Why aren't the Republicans making hay with it? Wallpapering the capital and the nation with it?
Now the Democrats are back to the 'BIG OIL IN THE WHITE HOUSE" deme, and gas prices are killing the nation.

The Republicans just don't get it. Who took down Kerry during the Presidential election? The Republicans? No sir. It was the little guy! It was he Swifties. And now there is a concerted effort to take down those very heroes (heroes in Vietnam, and heroes in 2004 - they saved the nation.) Emmett Tyrrell Jr. in today's New York Sun Paid Only;

Consider the ongoing controversy over Senator Jean-Francois Kerry's military service in the faraway Vietnam War. You doubt that the controversy is ongoing? Just last Sunday a front-page story in the New York Times reported that some of Senator Kerry's supporters during his ill-fated 2004 presidential campaign are endeavoring to prove him a war hero with an unblemished record of heroism. Their targets are the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. These Swifties, as they are called, are the Vietnam vets who claimed that when they served with Mr. Kerry they found him to be a self-aggrandizing, self-indulgent showoff. All insist he exaggerated his feats of heroism, and some testify that he lied about his wounds and heroics. Many American voters were persuaded.

The following paragraph ought to be framed and hung;

Now why is this debate being launched? Any innocent observer who watched the showboating senator from Massachusetts bungle his 2004 presidential campaign must know that he is today a self-aggrandizing, self-indulgent showoff. Why would he not have been one as a youth, back in the late 1960s when he brought camera equipment into the jungles to film himself at war? After an early exit from military service, he proceeded to follow the fashion of the times and oppose the war, appearing before a Senate committee in 1971 to accuse the American military of systematically committing war crimes. Then just over three decades later this strange man chose to make his Vietnam experience a major theme of his presidential candidacy. This is a matter for a seasoned psychiatrist to explain. To the rest of us it appears as egotism at the outer reaches of sanity.

    Yet this attack on the Swift Boat Veterans is not contained to Mr. Kerry’s supporters. The senator himself has been obsessive about the Swifties since their ads against him did his campaign so much damage. As David Holman reported in the May issue of The American Spectator, “A year and a half after he lost the 2004 presidential election John Kerry can’t get enough of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. No matter the occasion, he [Kerry] doesn’t miss an opportunity to parade his campaign wounds however incoherently and obsessively.”

    Mr. Kerry has complained of the “Swift Boat–style Republican attack ads” in fundraising appeals on behalf of other candidates. He invoked the Swifties in opposing the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito. When asked if he had received contributions from the disgraced Washington lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, Mr. Kerry snapped, “That’s another of their Swift Boat–style tactics where they throw up the mud and stick it.” Mr. Holman reports that Mr. Kerry has resorted to these slurs on the Swifties in eight other fund raising appeals. Moreover, in the asylum that is the Democratic Party’s angry left, “Swift Boat” has become a verb and an adjective.The left-wing magazine Mother Jones writes of the Bush administration “Swiftboating their enemies.” Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton admonishes against the dread Republicans’ employment of “swift boat tactics.” In the Kultursmog’s parlance of hate terms, Swiftboat is about to join such terms as McCarthyism and McCarthyite.

    Now we read that the campaign against the Swifties is going to gain momentum.The sorehead Kerry supporters have joined together in a group called the Patriot Project. It will seek out the Swifties and scrutinize their complaints against Mr. Kerry. It will also support opponents of the war in Iraq and visit editorial offices to make the case for such veterans as the Honorable John P. Murtha, a Vietnam War vet who now opposes the Iraq War. All of this sounds like political harassment to me, but as the shrinks are wont to say, “If it is true for you, it is true for you.” For a certitude, the left wing of the Democratic Party believes that whatever it believes is true.

Now this is truly a culture of corruption, dirty dirty pool. and I am warning,  strongly advising the Republicans to get in the game and stop being such dandys. This is war and our lives depend on it. Dolts.

We can not lose in November, the repercussions would be disastrous.

UPDATE June 2nd : Earth to Republicans, BREAKING NEWS HERE: culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption, culture of corruption

Breaking: FBI ARREST Two Aides of Democrat State Senator Fumo Two Aides of DEMOCRAT Sen. Vincent J. Fumo (D- Philadelphia) was arrested today by the FBI. The Democrat's Culture of Corruption is getting deeeeeep, get out the boots better yet the waders.

Senator's staffers charged with obstruction Philadelphia Business Journal

Two computer-services employees on Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's staff were arrested Wednesday morning and charged with obstructing a federal investigation into his dealings involving a nonprofit organization.

According to the 65-page affidavit unsealed Wednesday, Leonard Luchko, 49, of Collingdale, Pa., and Mark Eister, 36, of Camp Hill, Pa., systematically destroyed e-mail and other electronic evidence to keep it from FBI scrutiny.

An ongoing investigation by the FBI and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division is exploring whether Fumo, D-Phila., used his authority and position to extort money from corporations for a nonprofit associated with his South Philadelphia district office. The investigation is also examining whether he benefited personally and politically from expenditures made by the nonprofit.

According to the affidavit, upon learning of the investigation, Luchko instructed the senator's Philadelphia staff to delete all e-mails regarding Fumo, and Eister took similar steps in Harrisburg, the state capital. Staffers were also instructed not to save e-mails to or from the senator and computers and Blackberrys pertaining to the investigation were "wiped clean," U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan and Acting FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Brian W. Lynch said.

Of about 84,000 e-mails recovered by the FBI from all of the computer equipment, fewer than 125 pertain to the nonprofit organization and even fewer are pertinent to any of the issues relevant to the criminal investigation.

"This was a deliberate, systematic, and ultimately successful effort to interfere with a federal investigation," Meehan said..

CBS News Berates the American People

So it is not enough that the mainstream media has become the propaganda tool for the Islamists and the enemies of America. Not satisfied with the results of their daily brain washing (or should I say brain clubbing) now they intend to shame the American people for having the courage of their convictions.

Over at CBS News, they want to know "Why So Little Protest On Iraq? (hat tip Steverino)

Why? Because we are at war you little shit you! Because we are fighting an enemy so insidious, so dangerous, so shadowy -- it will take the whole of the nation, all hearts and minds to defeat it.

To hear Dotty Lynch, who is rather dotty, tell it, she is confounded by our will to live.

They say, for example, that 400 of the 750 members of the Princeton class of 1956 joined the military, compared to only nine members of the class of 2004. Speaking on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Rep. John Murtha pointed out that only 1 percent of the people in the United States are involved in the war and many of them go back over and over again.

Is that the reason for the lack of protest? Is it because so few Americans are personally impacted that the outcry isn't louder?

No, no it is because war has been declared on America and we are trying to preserve our way of life. We are all impacted.  We want to live, dotty Dotty, a full life .... pursuing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But if it's a chador you are looking for, I am certain it can be arranged.

Where are the new Tom Haydens and Sam Browns and where are the Noam Chomskys, William Sloane Coffins and Daniel Berrigans?

Meeting with Hizbollah, asshat.

Murtha said Sunday that actions like the alleged massacre by the Marines in Haditha "erodes - this is the kind of war you have to win the hearts and minds of the people. We can't win this militarily.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Murtha. John Murtha is a My Lai-R. Another traitor whose name no one knew until he came out against America and became a media darling. He and Cindy Sheehan - the only mother America is familiar with on a first name basis that lost a child in Iraq - the only mother America knows. Why is that?
And why aren't our Marines given the benefit of the doubt until all the facts are out and the military releases its findings. What, only OJ gets that -- do not "rush to judgment" -- free pass?

Or is it that Americans have become desensitized to gruesome pictures of the dark side of soldiers in war? The atrocities at Abu Ghraib and Haditha have shocked people for a few days but the images of My Lai are still seared in our brains. Will the words Abu Ghraib and Haditha bring back horror in 30 years?

No, you loon, we've become sensitized to the gruesome images of beheadings of people merely because they are infidels, we have become sensitized to hundreds of our brethren throwing themselves out of tall buildings to escape the fires of an attack on our great nation, we have become sensitized by the tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands murdered at the hands of Islamic terrorists here.

Abu Ghraib, my ass. A couple of losers doing stupid things and you define our efforts in that context?  Shame on you - go. Go live under shariah. Go on now.

Analyzing data from 91,000 interviews in fifty nations and the Palestinian Authority from 2002 to 2005, the authors conclude that "America's reputation was badly soiled in Iraq."

Palestinian data? WTF? You, my dear, are what is badly soiling this nation. You, my dear, are the embarrassment of our nation because your premises are false and you stand for nothing. You are nothing.

People at CBS News were touched personally and deeply by the Iraq war on Monday. But must it take a direct a hit for all Americans to get engaged and demand a serious re-examination from those in power whose policies have caused so much bloodshed and damaged America's reputation around the globe?

Hey dotty Dotty, every loss is huge, every death is enormous. We are all on the front lines now. Shut up and fight or get out of the way.

UPDATE: Profoundly disgusting. This could have been written by al qaeda.

Death Threat from Reuters

Can someone tell me why the newswires aren't all over this story? And where are the news networks?

A Death Threat from Reuters (Bumped) and Reuters Death Threat Update 7

Do not ask for whom the head rolls, it rolls for you.

Noam Chomsky, Terror Tool

New York Times bedmate Noam Chomsky lovefest with Hizbollah - video here

Chomsky: "The United States considers Hizbullah a terrorist organization, but the term terrorism is used by the great powers simply to refer to forms of violence of which they disapprove. So the U.S. was of course supporting the Israeli invasions and occupation of southern Lebanon. Hizbullah was instrumental in driving them out, so for that reason they are a terrorist organization."

There is no way this complete shit should be allowed back into this country.

Back here in the United States of Islam

C-SPAN PROMOTES CHOMSKY, BURIES BOSTOM

Do not get me wrong. I like and watch C-span especially in ungodly hours. No, that is not merely because I am a night owl but also because that is the time when the less conventional offerings of C-Span can be found.

Observe this week-end programming. If I want to watch for the umpteen time Noam Chomsky's anti-American pro-Hizbullah diatribe I can watch it on Saturday night on Saturday, May 27 at 7:00 pm and Monday, May 29 at 10:30 pm.

But if I want to watch Andrew Bostom lay out The Legacy of Jihad for the first time, I can only do it on Sunday, May 28 at 4:30 am or Tuesday, May 30 at 2:00 am.

ED KOCH: THE NEW YORK TIMES' ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS

Iran Rapes and Tortures Dissident Women

Do you think the jihadi organ, The New York Times,  had rape and torture in mind in their Sunday puff piece where they repeatedly trumpeted Ahmadinejad as “a proponent of women’s rights,” and claimed Ahmadinejad “challenged high-ranking clerics on the treatment of women,”or that he has “defended women in a way that put him outside the mainstream of conservative Islamic discourse.”  Of course, the “mainstream of conservative Islamic discourse” takes a rather dim view of “women’s rights.”

The jihadi New York Times  painted Ahmadinejad as an “ideologically flexible” leader who seeks a “dialogue.”  and also described Ahmadinejad’s “consistent theme” as “the concept of seeking justice.” More here

Iran Rapes and Tortures Dissident Women From the Telegraph:

A leading Iranian pro-democracy and women's activist, who was jailed on trumped-up charges last year, has revealed how the clerical regime cynically deploys systemic sexual violence against female dissidents in the name of Islam.

Roya Tolouee, 40, was beaten up by Iranian intelligence agents and subjected to a horrific sexual assault when she refused to sign forced confessions. It was only when they threatened to burn her two children to death in front of her that she agreed to put her name to the documents.

Perhaps just as shocking as the physical abuse were the chilling words of the man who led the attack. "When I asked how he could do this to me, he said that he believed in only two things - Islam and the rule of the clerics," Miss Tolouee told The Sunday Telegraph last week in an interview in Washington after she fled Iran.

"But I know of no religious morality that can justify what they did to me, or other women. For these people, religion is only a tool for dictatorship and abuse. It is a regime of prejudice against women, against other regimes, against other ethnic groups, against anybody who thinks differently from them."

Miss Tolouee's account of her ordeal confirms recent reports from opposition groups that Iranian intelligence officials use sexual abuse against female prisoners as an interrogation technique and even rape young women before execution so that they cannot reach heaven as virgins.

Few women from the Islamic world are willing to discuss such matters, even with each other, but Miss Tolouee said that the regime routinely committed sexual attacks against female detainees....

"Four armed men and three armed women barged into my house at night and took me away," she said. "My kids were terrified and crying. I was questioned all night by different interrogators and then thrown alone into a cell."

She was held in solitary confinement in the prison of the feared internal intelligence service, with only a blanket and a cup that often had to serve as a lavatory.

For the first six nights, she was taken to a basement where interrogators demanded that she admit to organising the protests, and also that she identify co-conspirators on a list of names they put to her.

"When I wouldn't do what they wanted, they slapped me. But after the sixth night, the routine changed. I was left alone in a small dark room with two men. One was the assistant prosecutor and called himself Amiri. The other had a filthy mouth and said terrible things. They started slapping me again. For the rest of the night they did to me what no woman should ever experience. Amiri said, 'I'm going to hang you, but before I hang you, I will make an example of you so that no woman will dare to open her mouth here again'." He then sexually assaulted her.

When she asked Amiri how he could act like that, he told her that only Islam and clerical rule were important to him. The attack left her badly bruised and bleeding internally, but she refused to sign the papers they put before her. To her assailants' fury, she demanded to see a lawyer and cited international treaties on human rights.

The following night they did not sexually molest her again as she was still bleeding - and hence "unclean". Instead, they told her that they would kill her children by setting them on fire before her eyes.

Meanwhile, the world may be saved from a nuclear holocaust by a popular uprising now occuring across Iran and essentially unreported in the mainstream news media. More over at The IRIS blog

These women, these heroes, take their life in their own hands when they dissent by speaking out, by marching, by talking to other women  but they do it anyway. During a conversation I had with Phyllis Chesler, she told me of the phone calls she had gotten back in March from women in the international community and from Iran asking what Phyllis thought should they go to the annual march -- Women of Iran for the commemoration of International Women's Day in Tehran to fight for our freedom from under the rule of the misogynist Mullahs Date: March 8th, 2006 Time: 16:30 p.m. Place: Laleh Park, Tehran -- Phyllis said NO, they shouldn't go. And while Chesler is a  huge proponent of freeing women of the brutality of Islamic life, she advised them not to go because she feared for their lives. And Phyllis is a warrior in the a war on Islam - she is in the pantheon of truth tellers, along with Bat Ye'or, Nidra Poller, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Melanie Phillips, Brigitte Gabriel ......

Despite the danger, despite the threats, the women in Iran went. . They went and got beaten, stomped, harassed. "We have reached a level where women on the streets are being killed," Amiri said. That story here 

Nuclear Iran? NY Times Blames Bush

Only the New York Slime could blame Bush for a Nuclear Iran. They are just disgusting. What happened to Kumbaya, international community, multi-lateralism, the IAEA - these guys are so full of shit they can't keep up with their own

Iran Wants to Talk
New York Times
Unless the Bush administration eases its stubborn opposition to direct talks, it is hard to see what is going to stop the eventual emergence of a nuclear-armed Iran.

This is not surprising after this past Sunday's Times kiss ass piece on Ahmadinejad. The worst thing Bush could do is agree to bilateral talks. It only empowers Ahmadinejiahdman

Iran, meanwhile, is pushing hard to have the U.S. engage in bilateral talks, excluding others. Doing so would be quite fruitful. It would let Iran play the "America as bully" card, claiming the U.S. is being too tough on a "developing" nation. More here

UPDATE: More aiding and abetting the enemy. FDD.: AL-QAEDA'S MEDIA STRATEGY: On Friday, The New York Times reported on its front pages that President Bush and British PM Tony Blair have been "badly weakened by the continuing violence in Iraq."

Could al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Saddam loyalists have hoped for better spin than that? Once again, the Times -- like other major media outlets -- have made clear that they do not seriously fault those who murder innocent civilians. On the contrary, they see such massacres less as atrocities than as defeats for Western leaders.

The implicit message to al-Qaeda: "Keep up the carnage. It does not discredit you when you murder women and children -- it discredits your enemies because they proved too feeble to stop you. Your strategy is working just as you planned."

New York Times Puff Piece on Ahmadinejad

Did anyone else see the puff piece the New York slime Times, the jihadis' paper of record,  did on Ahmadinejad? Truth is stranger than fiction (and this piece is all fiction). If the Times had its way,  it would be the death of us all. The American Thinker wrote a great piece on it here, read it all.

The New York Times Sunday offered a disgustingly sympathetic portrait of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (hat tip:  Dinocrat). While the article acknowledges (in the words of an anonymous political science professor in Tehran) that “being against Jews and Zionists is an essential part” of Ahmadinejad’s political identity, the focus of the article is on Ahmadinejad’s “speed and aggression” in accumulating power and in “reshaping” the nature of Iran’s government.

For what ends? Here the article is curiously silent about Ahmadinejad’s threats to destroy Israel and Iran’s support for international Islamic terrorism.

While the New York Times cannot quite bring itself to call Ahmadinejad a “reformer,” that is clearly the thrust of the article.  For example, the article repeatedly trumpets that Ahmadinejad is “a proponent of women’s rights,” has “challenged high-ranking clerics on the treatment of women,” and has “defended women in a way that put him outside the mainstream of conservative Islamic discourse.”  Of course, the “mainstream of conservative Islamic discourse” takes a rather dim view of “women’s rights”—certainly as westerners have understood that term for the past several hundred years.  Moreover, the only specific example of Ahmadinejad’s alleged support for women was his proposal to allow women into sports stadiums—which was promptly rejected by the Supreme Ayatollah Khamenei.  So much for Ahmadinejad as Iran’s Susan B. Anthony.

Another aspect of Ahmadinejad’s leadership style that appeals to the New York Times is his economic populism.  The article quotes Ahmadinejad as saying that “parliament and government should fight against wealthy officials,” who “should not have influence over senior officials” and who “should not impose their demands on the needs of the poor people.” As for the poor people, Ahmadinejad “promises to improve the lives of the poor” by forcing banks to lower interest rates, offering inexpensive housing loans, promoting “development projects” throughout the country, and trying to inject oil revenue into the economy.

Although the Times acknowledges that the Iranian economy is “almost entirely in the hands of the government” and that Ahmadinejad lacks “a strong grasp of economics,” nowhere does it suggest that greater freedom and deregulation might be the keys to a stronger economy.

Goebbels redux;

Ah, freedom.  Something the New York Times interprets most expansively at home (e.g., the alleged First Amendment right to expose national security secrets), but cares rather little about abroad, at least in countries not allied with the United States.

[..]  the Times article paints Ahmadinejad as an “ideologically flexible” leader who seeks a “dialogue” with the United States.

The Times also describes Ahmadinejad’s “consistent theme” as “the concept of seeking justice.” Again, a term that has very different meaning to westerners than to Ahmadinejad and his supporters.  The point of these word games, and blatant misrepresentations, is to suggest that Ahmadinejad is not the warmongering Islamic fanatic that he, in fact, has shown himself to be time and time again.  Quite obviously, this is part of the Times broader strategy of opposing U.S. military intervention in Iran.

The Times once again takes the side of America’s enemies.

The Goddess Fallaci and Lefty Loser New Yorker

The brain damaged New Yorker (the once great, venerable, brilliantly written instittution turned lefty terror enabling tool) has an nterview with Orianna Fallaci here. It is unworthy of Fallaci and her work, and while Maragret Talbot tempered her contempt, Fallaci's much needed message was marginalized  and dishonestly portrayed. I hated it. Talbot's pull quotes from Fallaci's work were the ones that sounded worst out of context. It kicks off with

“Yesterday, I was hysterical,” the Italian journalist and novelist Oriana Fallaci said. She was telling me a story about a local dog owner and the liberties he’d allowed his animal to take in front of Fallaci’s town house, on the Upper East Side. Big mistake. “I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to,” she added. It called to mind what the journalist Robert Scheer said about Fallaci after interviewing her for Playboy, in 1981: “For the first time in my life, I found myself feeling sorry for the likes of Khomeini, Qaddafi, the Shah of Iran, and Kissinger—all of whom had been the objects of her wrath—the people she described as interviewing ‘with a thousand feelings of rage.’ ”

So you get the flavuh of how they paint her.

I reqeusted an intervew with Fallaci months ago but I am not ginormous enough.  But thes mainstream media  pieces do Fallaci little good to advance the  cause of exposing Islam and the gravity their intentions.

Read her books and make up your own mind:
The Rage and The Pride
The Force of Reason

Media Twisting in Knots for Iran

Look at the following headlines. The left wing slant of "blaming America" notwithstanding, why is Iran, an outlaw brutal Islamic regime, dictating the terms? Why has the UN, the IAEA, the European Union, the EU3, the Perm 5 suddenly become irrelevant?

U.S. keeps refusing direct talks with Iran AP

US vows no direct talks unless Iran suspends nuclear activities AFP
 
Iran ready for nuclear talks with United States without preconditions

Preconditons meaning stop enriching uranium.

Iran to U.S.: Stop bluster, let's talk CNN.com (CNN is just disgusting, they'd sell their mother into sex slavery for access)

Where aret all the lefties who screamed for Bush to work "with the international community" on Iraq? Why aren't they caterwauling for the same playbook on Iran? Snakes.

AP Follows WaPO and Mugs the Blogs

Oh great, first Pali stringers, now Pali jihad  blogs. Bruce over at the Democracy project reports here.

AP Follows WP To Recognize Blogs

The Associated Press’ hosted newswire will follow the Washington Post and Newsweek’s linking of blogs that discuss its reports. This is both a major event in recognition by AP of blogs as an important source of additional information and comment and may be an important spur to blogs to add value.

Danny Glover’s Beltway Blogroll buzz column, “Old Media and New Media Converge,” tips us to the linked PR Newswire and the AP’s Technology Writer pieces.

Many of us bloggers run segments or posts that are just links to MSM articles we deem of interest. The AP, as the WP, uses Technorati to locate blog linkages, so many of the links displayed on their online webpages are merely circular references back to the article. That may serve some buzz value to the AP or WP about what they’ve served up is of blogger interest.

But, it does not serve as much of an adjunct or critical function as may be needed to improve MSM reporting.

Oh puhleeze, this is their way of pushing the LLL voices. This is their way of co-opting the blogs as more people find their way to the blogosphere. Ignoring us to death didn't work so now they will define what and which blogs are legit. I think not.I am sure LGF, Infidel Bloggers Alliance or  No Pasaran won't be on the top of their feed. More diversionary tactics to steer news consumers away from the truth tellers.

UPDATE: Bruce writes

"Technorati determines, not the AP, or WP"

to which I replied;

Bruce! Technorati is leftarded as well! Do you know I have NEVER EVER gotten a visit from technorati and I ping them every post!

And BTW I have written Technorati asking them about this very thing at least 25 times and they have never, ever responded. I even tagged posts at one point and it made no difference. Just for knowing.

Media Won't Identify the Enemy that Dares not Speak its Name

Malvo Says Muhammad Planned Bombings

Malvo: Muhammad Wanted to 'Terrorize' the Nation

The sniper shootings in D.C. - media negates the most glaring, obvious motive. Debbie Schlussel reports;

Sniper Trial Media Whitewash: Are you Traveling Along "Allah 1"?

The trial of John Allen Muhammad, the Muslim D.C. sniper murderer, is ongoing, with Muslim partner-in-crime Lee Malvo among the last witnesses testifying.

Is this the religion of peace? Their actions said otherwise. But we note that not only do none of the news reports of the trial mention Islam (or call the snipers what they are: Islamic Terrorists), more glaring is that they do not mention one key point in FBI expert testimony, which our astute readers caught:

The name the snipers chose for their route of killing, marked with skulls and crossbones to denote good potential kills, was called "ALLAH ONE."

Yet, another pair of hijackers of their religion. Right? More like the other way around. Here's what the the "whitewashing press DID report: Case against Muhammad builds".

Ignoring the glaring truth in these terror attacks makes developments like these all the more dangerous;

German court bans data trawl for Qaeda "sleepers"

A Moroccan man won a landmark legal victory on Tuesday when Germany's highest court set strict limits on the ability of police to trawl electronic databases at random in search of possible terrorists.

The Constitutional Court said such data trawling, for example to identify foreign male Muslim students, was only lawful if there was a concrete threat to Germany or one of its regions, or a danger to human life or freedom. hat tip Bill

 

Amnesty International Blames the Victims of Terror

These guys are sick, mentally ill. What are they suggesting? That we don't fight back? Idiots that live off the freedom our military strength provides. BTW, this is the lead story on Google.

Amnesty says brutal terrorism on rise as "war on terror" fails

London (dpa) - Terrorism by armed groups reached a "new level of brutality and intensity in 2005" amid clear signs that the so-called war on terror was failing, Amnesty International said in its annual report published in London Wednesday.

"Terrorism by armed groups is inexcusable and unacceptable. Sadly, the increasing brutality of such incidents throughout the world last year is a further bitter reminder that the 'war on terror' is failing and will continue to fail until human rights and human security are given precedence over narrow national security interests", said Irene Khan, secretary-general of Amnesty, at a press conference.

Someone, get Irene a chador and a circumsion.

The annual human rights report accuses the world's most powerful governments of playing a "dangerous game with human rights" by paralysing international institutions assigned to safeguard global security. (hat tip Steve)

Safeguard global security? Is that what oil-for-food, UN pedophiles, terror enablers, and ineffectual UN/IAEA workers do?

This is the lead story on Google. The lead story. Somebody tell them they ain't William Randolph Hearst. See my previous post, 'by their acts ye shall know Google' here.
From the Reliapundit here

IS LEFT-WING DOMINATED GOOGLE CENSORING NON-LEFT NEWS/COMMENTARY?

Maybe. At least according to these SEVEN (7) reports I got from GOOGLING "google censoring" at GOOGLE NEWS.

BLOG SEARCH at GOOGLE and put the same words in, and got 4.254 hits.

IS IT PROOF THAT GOOGLE CENSORING NON-LEFTIST NEWS AND COMMENTARY AND TRYING TO COVER IT UP?!

I'm very suspicious because history is replete with Leftist states which have done the same thing. And are doing it today: North Korea; Cuba; Vietnam; Syria; Iran and Zimbabwe. And the like. All ruled by Leftist regimes. Like GOOGLE.

UPDATE: Flight delays! Should arrive in DC just in time for rush hour traffic.

NO Amnesty International report would not be complete wihtout a good does of Jew hate and moral equivalency....some things never change here;

Israel continued to build a "separation wall/fence" in occupied Palestinian land, restrict Palestinian movement in the West Bank which contributed to high unemployment and poverty, and conduct unlawful attacks routinely using excessive force against peaceful demonstrators, Amnesty International charged in its annual report for 2006 released Tuesday.

The report also referred to Palestinian suicide bombings, shootings and mortar attacks "that were part of a pattern of war crimes and crimes against humanity" perpetrated by both sides.

Lie.

 

Rupert & Prince sheik it up

More bad news us. More whitewashed news and lies by omission. Remember when Saudi Arabia purchased 5 -6% of News Corp last year. It changed the way your news was reported. Yes it did. When satcaster Fox News described unrest in France last year as "Muslim riots," one phone call to Murdoch saw the banner changed to "civil riots" within a half half hour.
Considering the limited sources the average American has to actual news (as opposed to the agenda driven drivel spewed by the propaganda arm of the Democratic party - the mainstream media) this latest development is most discouraging. Viva la blogs! The only place to get the news. More bad news here

Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal is expanding his media ventures, but instead of investing in the West, the West is now investing in him.

Rupert Murdoch is set to acquire a stake in Bin Talal's Mideast media titan Rotana. The size of the stake and the coin have yet to be announced.

Rotana is the dominant media force in the Mideast with six TV channels, the region's most powerful music label and a film production arm. Despite having lauched within the last two years, it already accounts for 50% of all Arab film production, with 22 pics produced in 2005.

Rotana execs are in Cannes to world preem the first Saudi feature, "Keif al hal," in the market.

Al-Waleed is the third-biggest shareholder in Murdoch's News Corp., and also has sizeable stakes in Time Warner and Disney. He hopes to use the media to bridge gaps between East and West.

"It's part of an overall strategy to put Saudi Arabia on the radar and show the real face of Islam and Arabs to the West," he said. "We cannot accept or tolerate being stigmatized as terrorists forever. Culture has a big role in bridging this gap. It can show the West we are human beings like them."

Murdoch is in negotiations with Bin Talal, reputedly the world's eighth-richest man, to buy into Rotana before it goes public sometime next year.

Noam Chomsky: U.S. A Terrorist Country

Bottom line? Chomsky should not be allowed back into this country. He is an enemy, a traitor. Let his live in Syria, where he belongs and where he would clearly find like minded animals

(IsraelNN.com) American Professor Noam Chomsky recently visited Hizbullah headquarters in Lebanon and said that United States is a terrorist country under its own definitions, according to the terrorist organization Al Manar television network.

Chomsky met with Hizbullah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah and justified its possession of weapons as a deterrent to possible aggression, according to Al Manar and reported by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). He added, "If the U.S. were to stick to the clear and precise definition of terrorism in its code of laws, it would be the leading terrorist state."

Nothing more abhorrent than an American-hating-American or a Jew-hating-Jew.

More Proof the Left is the Fifth Column

Newbusters reports the USA reporter, Leslie Cauley,who "broke" the fallacious "domestic spy" story is a  rather large donor to the Democrats. A Democrat Donor. Think about that and the implications of this traitor's actions.These actions are the work of the enemy, the fifth column. We are at war for our very lives and these people have taken sides against us, against America.

Consider the timing of the article, the emphatic  denials by the phone companies, all of those "anonymous" sources, and now her outing as a Democrat donor – this wreaks of conspiracy.

$2,000 donoted to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, according to a search of The Center for Responsive Politics Web site, www.opensecrets.org

-- USA Today Reporter a Democratic Donor; Phone Company Demands Retraction

Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely to further cloud the credibility of her story. Two of the three phone companies Cauley fingered, BellSouth and Verizon, have since denied the accuracy of the May 11 USA Today story, and BellSouth yesterday went so far as to demand the newspaper “retract the false and unsubstantiated statements” made by Cauley in her piece.

There have also been questions about the timing of the story, which was given huge play on USA Today’s front-pages shortly before the former head of the National Security Agency, General Michael Hayden, was due to face confirmation hearings to be the next CIA director, and given the fact that many of the key points of the story were actually reported last December by the New York Times.

Friday’s USA Today carries BellSouth’s demand of a retraction on page 4A, below a more prominent story headlined “Senators challenge Hayden on surveillance,” with partial transcripts of General Hayden being asked yesterday about the claimed NSA database program. According to today’s USA Today:

“BellSouth asked USA Today on Thursday to ‘retract the false and unsubstantiated statements’ about the company that it contends were in a May 11 story about a database of domestic calling records maintained by the National Security Agency.

In a letter to the newspaper's publisher, Craig Moon, the company noted that the story said BellSouth is ‘working under contract with the NSA’ to provide ‘phone call records of tens of millions of Americans’ that have been incorporated into the database.

‘No such proof was offered by your newspaper because no such contracts exist,’ stated the letter, portions of which were read by spokesman Jeff Battcher. ‘You have offered no proof that BellSouth provided massive calling data to the NSA as part of a warrantless program because it simply did not happen.’ Read it all

The Real Iraq

You'd better read it all. Amir Taheri in Commentary

Spending time in the United States after a tour of Iraq can be a disorienting experience these days. Within hours of arriving here, as I can attest from a recent visit, one is confronted with an image of Iraq that is unrecognizable. It is created in several overlapping ways: through television footage showing the charred remains of vehicles used in suicide attacks, surrounded by wailing women in black and grim-looking men carrying coffins; by armchair strategists and political gurus predicting further doom or pontificating about how the war should have been fought in the first place; by authors of instant-history books making their rounds to dissect the various fundamental mistakes committed by the Bush administration; and by reporters, cocooned in hotels in Baghdad, explaining the carnage and chaos in the streets as signs of the countrys impending or undeclared civil war. Add to all this the days alleged scandal or revelationan outed CIA operative, a reportedly doctored intelligence report, a leaked pessimistic assessmentand it is no wonder the American public registers disillusion with Iraq and everyone who embroiled the U.S. in its troubles. It would be hard indeed for the average interested citizen to find out on his own just how grossly this image distorts the realities of present-day Iraq. Part of the problem, faced by even the most well-meaning news organizations, is the difficulty of covering so large and complex a subject; naturally, in such circumstances, sensational items rise to the top. But even ostensibly more objective efforts, like the Brookings Institutions much-cited Iraq Index with its constantly updated array of security, economic, and public-opinion indicators, tell us little about the actual feel of the country on the ground.

To make matters worse, many of the newsmen, pundits, and commentators on whom American viewers and readers rely to describe the situation have been contaminated by the increasing bitterness of American politics. Clearly there are those in the media and the think tanks who wish the Iraq enterprise to end in tragedy, as a just comeuppance for George W. Bush. Others, prompted by noble sentiment, so abhor the idea of war that they would banish it from human discourse before admitting that, in some circumstances, military power can be used in support of a good cause. But whatever the reason, the half-truths and outright misinformation that now function as conventional wisdom have gravely disserved the American people. The rest here. hat tip Steve

Oxymoron: Senate Intelligence Committee

LIVEBLOGGING HAYDEN CONFIRMATION HEARINGS.

Money quote of the day (so far) from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan.:

"I am a strong supporter of civil liberties. But you have no civil liberties if you are dead,"  "I have been to the NSA and seen how the Terrorist Surveillance Program works. I have never seen a program more tightly run and closely scrutinized."

Roberts said surveillance programs have stopped terrorist attacks.He also pointed out that he  had been to the NSA for briefings on the program.

The Air Force general also complained at his Senate confirmation hearing that U.S. intelligence-gathering has gotten caught up in politics. Hayden was emphatic in his insistence that administration's warrantless surveillance program was legal when it was commenced after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and remains so today.

Hayden told panel: "Senators, I believe that the intelligence business has too much become the football in American political discourse."

Watching the Senate Intelligence Committee question Hayden I am embarrassed but  grateful that double agent , West Virginia Sen. Jay  Rockefeller is having surgery. "I was actually delighted when you were appointed," the Intelligence Committee's top Democrat Rockefeller, told Hayden in April 2005.

This time, Rockefeller wrote Hayden on Wednesday to lay out concerns regarding the general's independence from the administration, given his aggressive defense of the decision to conduct the warrantless monitoring.

The CIA is supposed to be a spook agency, an agency of secrets, whose objective is to keep America safe. They have become the very thing they are supposed to fight, expose, and  defeat. Their latest  role as covert spy, leaking fallacious stories  to America's enemies is "truth to power" (the latest buzz phrase of these hearings) that this agency is broken. Irretrievably? I can't say, I don't know enough.
Rotten it is. Worms leaking lies to a world press salivating for such lies undermine America's efforts to eradicate Islamic extremism is a story little told. That is the scandal. That is the failure (not Iraq's WMD.)

The harm done by these leaks is another story little told but what I can tell you is listening to Nidra Poller and Melanie Phillips speak recently, I better understood just how  large these stories played on the front pages of world newspapers 'BUSH'S SECRET PRISONS!" for weeks, months and how it shaped and twisted world opinion very much against the US.

The relentless pounding of Iraq's WMD and the acceptance of a "failure" is intellectually dishonesty, IMAO.  Marxist Carl Levin of Michigan complained about the CIA's recent past.
Levin suggested that in the run-up to Iraq, intelligence had been manipulated to support the administration's desire to overthrow Saddam Hussein.  Levin knows he's full of shit, Levin knows he is merely feeding the meme.
Hussein had them, Hussein was murdering his own people, Hussein was an enemy of America, Hussein had to go. Just as Ahmadinejad has to go.

Re Iraq........Hayden says intel "shrouded in ambiguity. If it was all known we wouldn't be here."

Will continue to update

Oy.....Lumbering Levin is back. He shoots these accusatory questions concerning "domestic spying" which btw never happened and doesn't listen to Hayden's answer. He is busy studying his sheets and preparing his follow up question. As my papa would say (may his soul rest in peace) he's a real full-of-shitnik.

Next dhimmicrat, Roy Wyden, Democrat Oregon, citing Newsweak when questioning Hayden on the left's latest canard, "domestic spying." His lisp suits him.

UPDATE: What is Olympia Snowe smoking? We are all on the same page? Whaaaaaaa? This is not "adversarial", this is "bipartisan." If only....... someone ought to tell that to the fifth column.

She speaks of future threats to this country. the future is now Olympia. Hayden responds "we are at war."

Uh oh, DiFi is on the mound

Iraqi Newspapers Reject Anti-US Ads from US Feminists

Imagine this,  the American far left running ads in Iraqi newspapers to undermine our effort to fight the jihad in Iraq and the Middle East.  CODEPINK and their feminist goons get the Iraqi sand kicked in their face;

Two major Iraqi newspapers refused to publish an advertisement from the feminist anti-war group called CODEPINK that called for the end of American “occupation” in Iraq.

The ad, printed in Arabic, said “We have seen poll after poll that the majority of Americans and Iraqis want US troops to return home. Even the majority of US troops (72%) think they should return by the end of the year. It is time for the politicians to listen to us, the people.”

The smaller papers did take the ad.

The advertisements were paid for by members of CODEPINK. Country singer Willie Nelson also helped buy the advertisements. More here from Human Events

This act of treason while Iraq's War Looms Over Everything

Spy LIE: CAIR, Democrats and Media- Shared Values and Goals

The Council of Islamic Relations (CAIR), has sent out the following directive to all of their foot soldiers in America. It seems that the CAIR, American arm of Islamic extremism doesn't like the US government knowing too much about their war plans. They share the same values and goals as the dhimmicrats Democrats;

ACTION: URGE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO PROBE NSA SURVEILLANCE, APPOINT SPECIAL COUNSEL - TOP

(WASHINGTON, DC, 5/16/06) - CAIR today joined a broad coalition* of groups [broad coalition my ass, THE AMERICAN LEFT -Atlas] in calling on American Muslims and other people of conscience to urge their elected officials to demand a full, public investigation of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program and the appointment of a special counsel to probe possible legal violations.

Legal violations? Lie. More here

The phone records monitoring program, reportedly authorized by the president shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks, permits the NSA to bypass a secret court set up to provide warrants for such surveillance.

Lie

The coalition is asking Congress to reject draft legislation that would give the executive branch new surveillance powers that are immune to oversight.

Last week, CAIR called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate revelations that the NSA has built a giant database of Americans' phone records.

Yes, that's just what we need an Islamic appointment of a special council to investigate our top secret defense mechanisms.

SEE: CAIR Calls for Special Counsel on NSA Phone Data Spy Program here

CAIR is also part of a legal challenge to the domestic wiretapping program:

SEE: CAIR Joins Legal Challenge to NSA Eavesdropping here

IMMEDIATE ACTIONS REQUESTED: (As always, please be POLITE.)

1) CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS and ask them to ensure that there is an immediate and unrestricted investigation by a special prosecutor into the NSA surveillance program, including a probe into the massive database of American phone calls.

GO HERE: 

2) PUT YOUR CELL PHONE TO GOOD USE. Call all of your friends and family members and ensure that they contact their elected officials. Act as a facilitator. You can enter their zip code into our website at here and get the names and contact information of their Senators.

All outlined in the Muslim Brotherhood Project

*Organizations supporting the call-in day (partial list) include the Alliance for Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Electronic Privacy Information Center, First Amendment Foundation, Friends Committee on National Legislation, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Coalition Against Oppressive Legislation, National Lawyers Guild, People For the American Way, and Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.

Look at the groups, all far left Anti-American orgs all

CONTACT: CAIR Government Affairs Director Corey P. Saylor
Phone: 202-488-8787 x3221
Cell: 571-278-4658
E-mail: csaylor@cair-net.org

Next I am sure we can expect a flurry of lawsuits. Lawsuits are another favored tool what seems to be CAIR's  policy of using the legal process to silence or chill critics.

UPDATE: May 18th Unmasking CAIR: Think Globally, Act Locally

Tony Snow Press Conference

Anybody watching this? Handling them deftly, like a ward of mental patients.
Seamless, even when he backpedals. Tony Snow rocks. FACT.

Marine's letter: "STABBED IN THE BACK BY THE MEDIA"

I just received this missive from a Marine Corporal. Here is a Marine's story (UNEDITED);

I am a 21 year old Marine and veteran of two tours in the Iraq War. I'm in the infantry and I fought in Fallujah when we stormed the city in November 2004. I just wanted to thank you for your blog and your reporting of the news. I come here when I want to see what's going on and I agree with all of your commentary.  I found your site through Bill Roggio's blog. I used to go there for all my news but now I'm finding myself visiting your site more and more.

It is a great relief to see that other people in other parts of the country think like I do. And it is a great relief to see that so many people come to your site for the TRUTH. Because I can't say enough how angry I am and how much hate and rancor I have for the mainstream news media. Mainly over Iraq. I feel that we (veterans) have been betrayed, STABBED IN THE BACK, by the news media for their inaccurate and objective driven "news" that they broadcast. I'm sure you know but I'll say it anyways that we are winning in Iraq. From what I saw the last time I was there (not even two months ago) and what I received from other truth driven blogs (namely Bill Roggio) the campaign in Iraq is pretty much over, or very close to it. But the news media is lying like hell and doing whatever they can to make it look like we are losing in the hopes that they can sway the American people into believing their lies and get the people against the war and against Bush. They are trying to influence elections. Sadly, I believe they are succeeding because Bush's approval ratings are in the 30's. If the American people knew the truth, if the American people knew what I know, had seen what I've seen, this would not be so. Bush would be up in the 80's. But they continue to spew their lies and average people believe it. If it gets to the point where the American people demand we pull out and we give up in Iraq then everything that we worked and fought so hard for will be for nothing. And then and only then will we lose this war. This is outright treason. They are actively rooting for the enemies of America. Whenever they show Jihadist videos of attacks they are providing free advertising and recruiting for anti American forces. They show dead Americans, but they don't show dead Jihadists. And so you see in my eyes the news media has betrayed the American fighting man, sold us out for their own special interests. This is a crime which I will never forgive them for. As long as I live, and I have a long life ahead of me.

I thank you for your website and for providing the world with the truth. You are doing a great service for everyone. We need more websites like this one and more people like you. [emphasis mine - Atlas]

By G-d we need more heroes like you. How can we thank you? You, my dear, sweet, courageous young man, are the American ideal. Our finest. We are forever in your debt.

Not running his name as he  is on active duty.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI: VOGUE’S VAPID VANISHING ACT

Today was a traveling day for me. Up and out by 5 am, shitty weather causing inordinate delays. So by the time I got on my second  flight at 2:30, I decided to pick up some brain candy. I needed a break. I had had enough of Fred Barnes, Ayn Rand,  Fallaci  and the latest bogus indictment in Durham.

There was a time I was a ferocious reader of all those long ago vestiges of fabulousness --  the fashion books,--Vogue, W, Elle, Paper etc. When they lost touch with reality, I lost touch with them and while I consider myself and my  closet the most glam, fab oasis of one of a kind fashion pieces, the lefty sucking up at those magazines drove me to feed my fashion fix elsewhere.

Anyway, I decided to pick it and look it over to see if Fall had anything clever, coy, or  sexy up her sleeve. Imagine my delight when I stumbled upon a  review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book (!)

Vogue Magazine, the largest selling women’s fashion magazine, in America deigned to review Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book. This is shocking considering the scant attention Vogue pays to the essential issues of the day, the war and any women of substance and particularly the black out on women center right.

Madison Avenue lives in the same alternative universe as Follywood. So what happens when they hit the brick wall of terrible reality? Cognitive dissonance. Imagine my dismay upon completing Megan O’Grady’s review below  (it was not on their online site so I transcribed it for you);

In the early nineties, Ayaan Hirsi Ali fled her native Somalia – and an arranged marriage to a man she barely knew – and made her way to the Netherlands, where she has since become an outspoken member of parliament and an author (it was the film of her screenplay, Submission, that resulted in director Theo van Gogh’s murder.) Her new work The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam (Free Press) is both an indictment of the repression she escaped and a call for democracies to address the subjugation of women within their growing immigrant communities. The examined life, we’re reminded, isn’t just worth living: It’s worth fighting for.

Huh? I think they are sucking down way too may antidepressants over there on Madison Avenue. Read it again. Not one mention of Islam, the brutality exacted on Muslim women or the barbaric practice of female clitorectomy. Hirsi Ali was a victim of this mutilation.

And notice the new leftoid buzzword. "immigrant". “Immigrant" is the new euphemism for Muslim. This holds for the European papers too, immigrant rioting, immigrant honor killings, France car burnings - immigrant.  You get the idea. The whole objective of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s work is whitewashed, completely ignored. The whole point of the book. “The examined life”?  This is what the free, thong twisting, stiletto wearing O'Grady thinks Hirsi Ali is doing? She is trying to expose the horrors of Islamic extremism.

Islamic extremism  declared war on America. Islamic extremism murdered 3,000 innocent Americans. The very war  that Europe, the fatherland of ffffffashion!,  is sinking under, Vogue does not mention once.

Hey Anna NuclearWintour , shame shame shame on you, bee-yatch.

Spy Lie: Can you trust these people?

In a word, no. Their take is fallacious, their agenda  is remarkably similar ro Osama's and they never speak of the real war, the current world war.

They never speak to the seige of Islamic extremism and TIME magazine is no better.

The bottom line on the four month old story is  here. for TRAFFIC ANALYSIS PART I.

Ben weighs in with TRAFFIC ANALYSIS II;

Saturday I listened to a couple of talking heads on AM radio utterly fail to comprehend the concept of Traffic Analysis.  This isn't surprising, as the word most often used in association with the field is "Arcane".  And this isn't surprising, given the field's origin.

Traffic Analysis is a response to the rise of electronically encrypted communications systems.  It is designed to produce intelligence when the content of the message is unavailable.  The current NSA usage is a twist- using traffic analysis on unsecure, un- encrypted messages because you DO NOT WISH to pry into the contents.  Because it is a powerful intelligence tool it is enveloped in secrecy.  Traffic Analysts all hold a "Top Secret" clearance with further access to what is called "Compartmented Information".  But by analogy, I can describe the sort of process it involves.

Let us imagine that rather than study a communications network, you are studying the vehicle traffic in New York City, and one Tuesday afternoon in mid winter the question comes up, why is there such a traffic jam in midtown? Now, in this analogy the individual vehicles involved are the messages.  You are forbidden from actually stopping a car and asking "What are you doing here?", because you cannot see the contents of the messages.  But you have access to the routing information.  Somewhere in your computer system is the data on where and when each car entered the highway system, where it was at the height of the traffic jam, what bridges it crossed, and where and when it left.  You don't have time to examine the routes of thousands of cars.  You leave it to the computer, which sorts the information to discover patterns in accordance with the techniques you and your team have devised. Sure enough, a pattern emerges, and it is centered on Madison Square Garden.  Not enough.  You could call the Garden and ask what's up, but again, actual access to information in this model is forbidden.  So you study the patterns- not the individual cars- and many cups of coffee later you hit upon the fact there if you subtract out the general, day to day statistical distribution of trip origins for cars in Midtown Manhattan, the "excess" traffic forms a  pattern of car origins that matches the demographics for the fan base of the New York Rangers.

You now know what is going on.  And what's important, you know what is going on even though you have no knowledge of the fact that Bob and Alice from Bensonhurst drove in to see the game.  Their trip contributed to the pattern you analyzed, but there is no leakage of their personal information.  This is a key point:  You know with certainty that there was a hockey game that night, but you cannot answer the question "What were Bob and Alice doing that night?" even though their actions were part of the pattern you studied. You have no clue what Bob and Alice did, or even if they exist at all.  Their data is buried, hidden somewhere in the machine, with the mountains of other data- all of it far too unimportant to warrant individual scrutiny.

A master traffic analyst would tell you something like "yeah, and I can also tell if the Rangers won that night".

Ben, you rock,. Newsweak/Time, you suck.

"Spying on our calls" is beyond a misleading lie, it is a deliberate attempt to mislead the American people. Yet again. These thumbsuckers are despicable.

And dangerous, and treasonous.

UPDATE: More excellent analysis from Taranto, Opinion Journal here

Steyn Steyn Steyn Steyn Steyn

It's not so much a template as the left's deliberate campaign to undermine America's efforts to fight the savage enemy, and render Bush impotent.

Calling All Jihadists

So there are now two basic templates in terrorism media coverage: Template A (note to editors: to be used after every terrorist atrocity): "Angry family members, experts and opposition politicians demand to know why complacent government didn't connect the dots."

Template B (note to editors: to be used in the run-up to the next terrorist atrocity): "Shocking new report leaked to New York Times for Pulitzer Prize Leak Of The Year Award nomination reveals that paranoid government officials are trying to connect the dots! See pages 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 13-37."

How do you connect the dots? To take one example of what we're up against, two days before 9/11, a very brave man, the anti-Taliban resistance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, was assassinated in Afghanistan by killers posing as journalists. His murderers were Algerians traveling on Belgian passports who'd arrived in that part of the world on visas issued by the Pakistani High Commission in the United Kingdom. That's three more countries than many Americans have visited. The jihadists are not "primitives". They're part of a sophisticated network: They travel the world, see interesting places, meet interesting people — and kill them. They're as globalized as McDonald's — but, on the whole, they fill in less paperwork. They're very good at compartmentalizing operations: They don't leave footprints, just a toeprint in Country A in Time Zone B and another toe in Country E in Time Zone K. You have to sift through millions of dots to discern two that might be worth connecting. Read it all here.

UPDATE: Link fixed

Dhimmi Google Supports Al Manar Hezbollah

From my Google news alerts. Al Manar *spit* - if al manar is hezbollah, a terrorist organization. Isn't there a law against spreading terror and incitement to kill innocents? Check out how they describe the vile Chomsky.........

Noam Chomsky: Hezbollah's insistence on keeping its arms is ...
Al-Manar - Lebanon
Noam Chomsky the famous US intellectual anti Israel and US foreign policies visits Hezbollah's Headquarters and meets Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in the South ...

GOOGLE: SHUT IT DOWN!~

Hezbollah: Honoring Bolton by Lebanese figures is a scandal Al-Manar - Lebanon
... Who is John Bolton so that they would rush to pay tribute to him? What has he offered to Lebanon? What we have read in the newspapers is a scandal and a shame. ...

Atlas Interviews ANDREW BOSTOM: "Muhhammad is the Prototype Jihadist"

First, view the video of Andrew Bostom on O'Reilly here going toe to toe against a member of the Muslim Council of Islamic Affairs on last night's show. Then listen to my interview with Andrew Bostom, author of The Legacy of Jihad, we just hung up the phone.

Much thanks to Brian. He just transferred file  to MP3- -- if anyone wants the digital version, write me.
Download AndrewBostominterviewedbyAtlasS.mp3

Here's lunch (and dinner) kids.................Bostom is wildly brilliant and yet,  very regular.  Rare.  Bolton has that quality too.
Interviewing Andrew  Bostom validates every diabolical concern I have with the RoPMA, and makes America's delusion and denial all the more devastating. Oh and BTW, Bostom hates that bullshit religion of peace nonsense too. Ridiculous.

Here is a man, a professor of medicine at Brown, that has made the study of Islam and Jihad a life's work. A life's work...........the depth and breadth of his knowledge makes ominous the prospect of a peaceful, diplomatic solution. In a word, impossible.

Bostom's book makes mincemeat out of the whole argument that Radical extremism is merely one interpretation of the Koran.  Jihad does come out of many verses of the Koran.

"Chapter 9 is a series of war proclamations. And those war proclamations are not against long extinct people. They are against Jews, Christians, Pagans (Hindus, Buddhists, Animists ie those in Sudan.)
Take Muhammad's behavior. Muhammad is the prototype Jihadist. Muhammad evolved from a proselytizer to a warrior. He is the "perfect Muslim man." He waged 70 odd Jihad campaigns. Almost all of them targeting specific populations on the Arabian peninsula.......Christians, Jews, Pagans........this became the normative model.

Many of today's leaders of Islam link  Muhhammad to terrorism ..........to Jihad. For example Sheikh Qaradawi who has with an enormous audience he reaches on al-Jizz, recently did a 2 hour sermon on  The Prophet Muhammad as a Jihad man.  The prophet Muhammad is the perfect Jihad model.

There is no "greater spiritual Jihad" as many point to as an alternative interpretation of jihad. Many have gone--  including Islamic scholar Reuben Firestone --  in search of such a reference - to a Spiritual Jihad - in the Koran and it is not to be found. There exists no such hadith. This supposed saying can not be found.

It gets worse........

We covered a lot of ground. From Bosnia to Bernard Lewis.Nor did he gloss over  Clinton's shallow understanding of the Serbian/Kosovo conflict. "The Serbs suffered 500 years under Muslim rule." We bombed the wrong people and they were shocked when we bombed them.
Bostom strongly advises we read the book Defeating Jihad:How the War on Terrorism Can Be Won - in Spite of Ourselves by Serge Trifkovoc. Trifkovic identifies with precision the existential threat to both Western and other modern democracies--global Islamic terrorism, as perpetrated by Muslims following the uniquely Islamic dogmas and historical practices of jihad.

Bostom reveres Wafa Sultan, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and holds these courageous heroes up as the antidote, the possible cure for the gangrene that infects the Muslim world. I hold no such hope.He calls Hirsi Ali;

"compelling, articulate and incredibly courageous. Charles Johnson was blogging just about every speech of hers. She has a new book* that I just grabbed yesterday. She makes very clear that the problem is Islam itself. That shouldn't be a terrible thing to say.  Islam needs to undo a lot of its institutions, you know the kind of thing that [CAIR and the Muslim Council of Islamic Relations] deny even exist ....like the Jihad, like the imposition of  Islamic law, like the brutalization of women, that's all sanctioned by sharia. Like the whole notion that no Muslim society can be ruled by anything other than sharia law".

We leave our children a terrible, awful world. We must stop buying into the hudnas-- temporary calm  until they get their act together to "kick the shit of us."

And Bostom thinks like me, we gotta take those nuclear installations in Iran. Bah dah bing, bad dah boom.

*Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new book: The Caged Virgin : An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

UPDATE Here is a powerful example of why ALL Americans must learn about jihad doctrine--:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Thursday that his letter to President George W. Bush did not concern the nuclear dossier, but rather was an invitation to Islam and the prophets culture. Article here.

NSA: It's the Intel Stupid!

I received the following from a retired spook;

I am SO SICK of hearing about the NSA!!  I worked for the NSA for 20 years as a Naval Cryptologist (1981-2001), and I worked at NSA for over 3 years!  It used to be a super secret agency that no one really knew anything about, and let me tell you - the intell gathered helped keep this country safe FOR DECADES!

  The thing that killed us was what Clinton did! Not being able to share info with the other agencies..

  Now, the fuckin liberals would rather put us all into GRAVE DANGER because they hate Bush, than keep America's secrets - SECRET. Like an idiot friend said, "why is the govt keeping 9-11 tapes secret?"  I told him - because we don't want the fuckin terrorists to know what we know!  (about them, their methods, lingo, etc) - but the asshole thinks the gov't is doing it to keep Americans in the dark.  What a dick!

For my 20 years, NSA was on the up-and-up and we don't / didn't listen to American's comms!  We collected data against enemy targets!!!!  The enemy is out there and we used to be able to listen to his shit, but the libs are ruining it - for political reasons - the ASSHOLES!

Like I said, I'm so mad - the liberals keep giving the enemy our intelligence, that took forever to get, I'm just so mad. SECRET.

Spoken like a true sailor (which I love) and a true America (which I adore and respect.) Thank you soldier.

More bad news for Americans from Stop the ACLU here;

In an attempt to rekindle the scaremongering of the paranoid left, USA today has taken upon itself to "declassify" more classified information about programs aimed at protecting us. Obviously they decided that there wasn't already enough damage done to national security.

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.

"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added.

You must read it all. Jay explains;

It isn't secret anymore, now is it? If you read the entire thing you could easily be left with the impression that the government has gathered all kinds of personal information on you, studied your calling habits, etc. These phone companies went along with the government's request for phone records. These are records that the phone companies keep anyway, that are often called upon in court cases. No one has been listening in on domestic phone calls, they are only collecting a database of what numbers called other numbers.

Since Quest is the only company that refused to work with the government on the matter without a FISA warrant, we should be seeing a mass flocking of the paranoid left over to this company. That might not be such a good idea however. This leak may have just tipped some terrorist to exactly what communications in America are more vulnerable.

This says is all here.

Today's Euphemism: Net Neutrality

If history has taught us anything, it's be careful of harmless terms.............."final solution", "United Nations", "MoveOn", "work is freedom"..................now "net neutrality," the latest piece of intellectual dishonesty to wrest control of a truly free net. More here from Jason Wright;

A free and unfettered Internet has changed the way we live and do business in just more than a decade. All without, in fact because of, the absence of extensive government interference. New government regulations would virtually assure that entrepreneurs and resourceful companies would be limited in how they could advance that progress. Americans no doubt would be losing out on important new technologies in education, health care and commerce if Congress decides to create laws and enforce regulations for problems that don’t yet, and may never, exist. As trite as the expression has become, Net Neutrality is the classic case of a solution in search of a problem.

Indeed, it is difficult to figure out exactly what the perceived “problem” is. The evidence presented by MoveOn to support their case is scant. Its Web site, the ridiculously misleading www.savetheinternet.com, is full of examples of what “could” happen if regulations aren’t enacted.

As this debate continues in the weeks ahead, lawmakers should remember that the Internet has thrived under free-market conditions and that small businesses and individuals are limited only by their own ideas as to how to use the Internet. The captains of the Internet industry, including Google, Yahoo and Amazon, those who have made billions on a largely regulation-free Internet, should know better than anyone the limitless possibilities the virtual free-market provides. They should be the last voices trying to restrict or control what customers do with the Internet. They and the many competing Internet service providers in the marketplace know that mistreatment of customers will lead only to one thing: Customers fleeing with their wallets to a more friendly reception from other players in the Internet game.

The beauty of the Internet is that anyone with a computer and passion can participate.

Amen, which is why they want to exert control.

 

Atlas Monday Rant Vlog

Dispatch from Iraq: "All this time I thought we were winning," said a sergeant first class sarcastically. "Seems folks back home have already run up the white flag."

More on the FOX hunt here

BTW, all my vlogs are on the Atlas VLOGS! page here.
 

The New York Times Continues To Ignore America's Economic Progress

The New York Times Says "Fixed Costs, Like Housing, Health Care And Gasoline" Are "Rapidly Outpacing" Paychecks And Benefits.   (Editorial, "Barely Staying Afloat," The New York Times, 5/10/06)

But Average Hourly Earnings Have Risen 3.8 Percent Over The Past 12 Months, Their Largest Increase In Nearly Five Years.  Hourly compensation rose at a 5.7 percent rate in the first quarter.  Personal income rose 0.5 percent in March. 

Real After-Tax Income Has Risen By 13.8 Percent Since January 2001. Real after-tax income has risen by $2,398 (8.2 percent) per person since January 2001.

Securities Prices Show The Market Believes That Inflation Is Expected To Remain In Check.

More Than 5.2 Million Jobs Have Been Created Since August 2003, And 138,000 Jobs Were Created In April.  The unemployment rate is 4.7 percent.

Yesterday, The Dow Jones Industrial Closed Within 83 Points Of An All-Time Record High.  The Dow is up 8.6 percent this year and closed yesterday at a six-year high.

GDP Grew At A Strong 4.8 Percent Annual Rate In The First Quarter.  This follows our economic growth of 3.5 percent in 2005 – the fastest rate of any major industrialized nation.

At $52 Trillion, Household Total Net Worth (Assets Minus Liabilities) Is At An All-Time High And Has Increased 8 Percent Over The Past Year And 33 Percent Over The Past Three Years.  The growth is due to both real estate and other financial investments (i.e. it's not just a result of rising housing prices).  Household financial net worth (which excludes housing and other tangible assets) is also at an all-time high.

The Conference Board Index Of Consumer Confidence Increased In April To Its Highest Level In Almost Four Years.

Productivity Increased At A Strong Annual Rate Of 3.2 %  in the First Quarter.

Real Consumer Spending (Which Adjusts For The Price Of Gasoline) Grew At A  5.5% Annual Rate In The First Quarter And 3.4 Percent Over The Past Four Quarters.

The President's Tax Relief Has Helped Spur America's Economic Momentum

The President Worked With Congress To Reduce Income Taxes For Every American Who Pays Income Taxes.  The Administration and Congress doubled the child tax credit, reduced the marriage penalty, cut taxes on capital gains and dividends, created incentives for small businesses to purchase new equipment and hire new workers, and put the death tax on the path to extinction.  Altogether, this tax relief left $880 billion in the hands of American workers and businesses.

The Wall Street Journal: President Bush's Tax Relief Is Responsible For Economic Growth.  "Critics continue to complain that President Bush's tax policies have only benefited the super-wealthy, but that would come as news to the five million Americans who were jobless before the 2003 tax cuts, and thus had no income, but now have a weekly paycheck." (Editorial, "Help [Very Much] Wanted," The Wall Street Journal, 4/10/06)

Yesterday, Congressional Leaders Agreed To A Tax Relief Extension Package That Will Help Millions Of Middle Class Families.  "Republican congressional leaders agreed Tuesday on a $70 billion measure to extend tax breaks for investors and prevent 15 million middle-income families from being hit by the alternative minimum tax, which was intended to affect only the wealthy."  (Jim Drinkard, "$70B Measure Would Extend Tax Breaks," USA Today, 5/10/06)

UPDATE: From Taranto today in WSJ;

[...] The breezy transition from a terrorist atrocity in Iraq to the president's approval rating is awfully crass, but it's also revealing. For many in the media and the Democratic Party, the Iraq war is merely a proxy for domestic politics. That is, "antiwar" passions are largely the result of anti-Republican, or anti-Bush, passions. Anger over Iraq today is barely distinguishable from anger over impeachment seven years ago or over Florida five years ago.

NPR: STOP TAXDOLLAR$ TO TERROR LOVERS AND LEFTISTS

I NOT WANT my taxpayer dollars going to terror organizations, I do not want my taxpayer dollars going to tools and propaganda arms of terror organizations like NPR.

Experts Question U.S. Policy on Hamas

by Mike Shuster

Morning Edition, May 9, 2006 · U.S. and Israeli policy toward the new Palestinian Authority, now led by Hamas, appears to be aimed at causing the government to fail. Some experts on the Mideast believe this is a flawed policy that will hurt both the United States and Israel.

"Experts" translation: Leftists, America haters, Jew haters, freedom haters.

Need more? NPR Still Skews the News and CAMERA has prompted corrections/revisions of 9 errors from PBS's "Frontline World" web site.  The errors were in an Additional Resources/Background Info section associated with the recent Frontline special on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, entitled "The Unexpected Candidate."

NO MORE TAX MONEY TO NPR -- STOP TERROR ENABLING! And frankly taxpayer dollars to media/PBS organizations are unnecessary and archaic. 800 plus channels renders PBS ,NPR et al redundant particularly with a leftarded lamestream media.

UPDATE: Pim has more here and a vlog too, we love that (her best yet)

UPDATE May 11th: They have no shame, no shame at all. PBS chief to run for chairman of Democratic Party . Now how pathetic and incestuous is that?

Mike McCartney, president and CEO of PBS-Hawaii, is running for chairman of the state Democratic Party.

McCartney says he has taken a leave of absence from the statewide public television operation and will step down next month.

The gloves most certainly are off. Hat tip Steve

SHOCKA! Newspaper Circs Fall

NEW YORK The spring FAS-FAX report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations shows that paid newspaper circulation is on a troubling decline.

It was hoped that the six-month period ending March 2006 would prove that the industry plugged the dam, but the Newspaper Association of America's semi-annual circ analysis said that daily circulation fell 2.5 percent—one of the industry's largest recorded drops.
The result was the same for the six-month period ending September 2005, during which daily circulation dropped 2.6 percent. In March 2005, which marked the first full period newspapers turned in numbers in the wake of several circulation misstatements, daily circ fell 1.9 percent. More here and here

Those with the steepest declines were far left tools - the Boston Globe,  San Francisco Chronicle,  Atlanta Journal Constitution, St Petersburg, Dayton  etc.
Average daily circulation fell to about 45.4 million readers, compared with about 46.6 million in the same six-month period ending March 31 2005. Sunday circulation at 610 newspapers fell 3.1% to 48.5 million

Funny $? More like Funny Paper

Funny money on Iraq
International Herald Tribune
If the Bush administration wants to start winning back its credibility, honest budgeting for the war in Iraq would be one good place to start.

Huh? Hey IHT, in the fog of war there is the unknowable. What about the United Nations oil for food robbery (off the oppressed backs of the Iraq poor) or Kofi's payola for influential jobs or the Hamas minister that lost 450,ooo? I never hear you talk about those disgusting crimes, you bloody hypocrites.

STFU, you dickless wonders. Liberty has no price,  freedom is priceless. This is the news out of Iraq;

al Qaeda Iraq weakness may reflect reality
Reuters
A purported al Qaeda document published by the U.S. military may or may not be authentic [the left wing media has to say that , it is al-reuters after all- Atlas] but its message that the Sunni Islamist guerrillas face problems in Iraq could reflect reality, security experts said on Tuesday. [aha!-Atas]

UPDATE: More media sickness over at AP. Swashbuckler writes here ;

AP changes phrase in headline from "Iranians" to "Experts"

I thought AP stood for Associated Press; not Agit Prop.

Iran's Latest,Best Supporter: The Left

Amir Taheri in today's Wall Street Journal here;

In 1979, soon after the mullahs seized power, Mr. Carter sent Ayatollah Khomeini a warm congratulatory letter. Mr. Carter's man at the U.N., a certain Andrew Young, praised Khomeini as "a 20th-century saint." Mr. Carter also tapped his closest legal advisor, the late Lloyd Cutler, as U.S. ambassador to the mullarchy.

A more dramatic show of U.S. support for the mullahs came when Mr. Brzezinski flew to Algiers to meet Khomeini's prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan. This was love at first sight--to the point where Mr. Carter approved the resumption of military supplies to Iran, even as the mullahs were executing Iranians by the thousands, including many whose only "crime" was friendship with the U.S. The Carter administration's behavior convinced the mullahs that the U.S. was a paper tiger and that it was time for the Islamic Revolution to highlight hatred of America. Mr. Carter reaped what he had sown when the mullahs sent "student" fanatics to seize the U.S. embassy compound, a clear act of war, and hold its diplomats hostage for 444 days. "The Carter administration's weakness was a direct encouragement to [anti-American] hard-liners," wrote Ibrahim Asgharzadeh, one of the hostage-takers, years later.

And still today, the left suffers from the same mental disorder;

The "engage Iran" coalition also has advocates in the U.S. Over the past few weeks they have hammered the "engagement" theme with op-eds, TV soundbites and speeches. Some have recommended John Kennedy's "sophisticated leadership" during the Cuban missile crisis as a model for George W. Bush. The incident has entered American folklore as an example of "brilliant diplomacy," but few bother to examine the small print.

JFK brilliant? More leftard fantasy. Bay of Pigs!

And of course TIME magazine is shilling for the mad mullahs here, Iran's Nuclear Program: The Way Out,. They refer to this as an "exclusive," notice how the title implies "an answer".

Three years of robust inspection of Iranian nuclear and non-nuclear facilities by the IAEA inspectors led Dr. El-Baradi to conclude and certify that to date there are no indications of any diversion of nuclear material and activities toward making a bomb.

Oh puhleeze, WTF does a really oil rich nation vowing to destroy neighboring democracies need nuke technology for?

What is, then, the motive for the rush to heighten the situation and create a crisis? Could it be that the extremists all around see their interests — however transient, domestic and short-sighted — in heightened tension and crisis? This situation, if not contained with cool head and if miscalculations continue, can easily turn into a crisis with potentially global ramifications for the rule of law under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and for the economic and security interests of all concerned in the region and beyond. It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice about where we are heading.

It gets worse.

A negotiated solution still can and must be found if we intend to strengthen the non-proliferation regime and avoid an unwise and unnecessary conflict. To this end, we must dare to leave the emotions aside and avoid polluting the atmosphere with the baggage of immediate and long-past history of Iran-U.S. relations.

BTW, make sure you check out the credentials of the author at the very end. (hat tip Steven)

Bush on Darfur

President Bush continuing to push the peace settlement (no thanks to the UN) and pledge new (and continuing) aid  and supplies to the suffering in Darfur. Much thanks to Charles Jacobs, Simon Deng and all who have been fighting for the starving and dying for years (and in my case a year.) 

President Bush says he is asking Congress for $225 million in emergency food aid for Sudan's devastated Darfur region.

The left liberal lunatic media crediting George Clooney with saving Darfur is  avaricious and disgustingly grabby.

Related:>Bush sends Rice to UN over Darfur Mail & Guardian Online
US food aid to offset Darfur cuts BBC News
Bush trying to build momentum for peace in Darfur Fox 12 Boise

Lame CNN Bends Over for Zarqawi

It sounds impossible but the dhimmi press continues to surprise me. The lamestream media, in this case CNN, is begging for Zarqawi's forgiveness. Yup. Check out the pathetic attempt by CNN to make excuses for Zarqawi's amateurishness and ineptitude. Yo CNN, he's the enemy, you putzes! (Much thanks Morton for the following):

Over at EXPOSE THE LEFT This is CNN's apology to Zarqawi's problem getting his, ah, gun to fire, as it were.  CNN singlehandedly accomplishes an incredible array of goals in a very few short minutes:

1)  Excuses Abigail's gun problem since the gun is "very heavy" and difficult to use (even though "exposetheleft" posts from military personnel deny that very notion);

2)  Points out that we were very close to him (and in parentheses failed to capture him);

4)  (By omission) To my recollection, fails to label the recent spate of terrorist videos as such, that is, as propaganda.

You can see the video by going to the link and downloading the topmost "DOWNLOAD."  It's slow, click away and get yerself a cuppa joe.

This sinks the stomach.  Whatever.  I continue to believe that this has great propaganda value for our side.  I had the time and skill I would launch a site dedicated to terrorist incompetence, for primarily muslim consumption. >

bbc: Next Time Leave the Newsroom

Blogs: To trust or not to trust?
BBC News
As a poll suggests only 25% of people trust blogs as a news source, Paul Reynolds says their role is actually to make a fuss and offer new perspectives.

We source everything.
Hey BBC in order to conduct an unbiased scientific poll you'll actually have to leave the building next time and speak to people outside of your area of dominant influence, if you can bring yourself to break bread with the great unwashed.

Expect the blogs denigrated for years to come by the lamestream press.

I wonder if the bbc will tout the same propaganda when Dan Rathernot starts his much ballyhooed new blog.

 

The Minutemen Make My Day

Here are men of integrity, character, guts, and reason. This resonates of Giuliani turning down the Saudi blood money. Girls, these are the type of men you want next to you. Trust me. They are all that and a bag a chips. hat tip to Michael over at over at  MEMRI

Minutemen Turn Down Al-Jazeera Interview Request Barbara Ferguson, Arab News

WASHINGTON, 2 May 2006 — The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, an anti-illegal immigration organization that patrols the border in Arizona, has refused another interview request by Al-Jazeera TV, calling it a “terrorist TV station.”

The Minutemen volunteers, many of them Vietnam, Korean and World War II veterans, said they would leave camp if the Arab news organization, which some described as “anti-American,” was given access to the site.

Al-Jazeera has attracted millions of viewers throughout the Arab world with its coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and its airing of tapes of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

But Al-Jazeera’s growing popularity also brought it greater scrutiny. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused the Qatar-based network of encouraging militants by airing hostage executions. And Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly branded it a “propaganda network...bent on encouraging violence and sympathetic to terrorists.”

The controversy between the Minutemen and Al-Jazeera started a year ago, when Nasreddine Hssaini, a Washington, D.C.-based Al-Jazeera reporter, said he wanted to interview leaders of the Minutemen and others in Arizona.

Hssaini said he was interested in covering the increase in apprehensions of illegal aliens known as OTMs — “Other Than Mexicans.” Reportedly, these foreigners increasingly include Arabs, Muslims and others from the Middle East.

At the time, the founder and president of MCDC, Chris Simcox, refused Al-Jazeera request to interview and film the Minuteman patrols on the border.

“I’ll have no part in aiding and abetting the enemy, and will continue to work to protect our country from terrorists who are clearly looking at our unsecured borders as the pathway to destroy America,” he said in a June 2005 interview.

“Would we allow Japanese or German television to film the unsecured border during World War II?” Minuteman spokeswoman Connie Hair added. “These people broadcast to the enemies of America. It’s not a news story, it’s recon.”

They got it down, cold.  G-d love you.

Rotten IntelligenCIA

Let me understand this, Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, arrived at a federal courthouse today to  testify for a fifth time before a grand jury in the CIA leak-that-never-happened investigation. Meanwhile, a cabal of fifth column traitors and spies are projectile vomiting their treasonous lies to an aiding and abetting  press, thereby undermining the war effort, our President (that we, the American people elected) while putting our soldiers in danger.Something is soooooo rotten in Amerabia.

In today's Wall Street Journal, Our Rotten IntelligenCIA, worth the read for the sharp title alone.

Fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy went on offense Monday, denying through her lawyer that she has done anything wrong. But the agency is standing by its claim that she was dismissed last week because she "knowingly and willfully shared classified intelligence." It has been reported that one of her media contacts was Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, who just won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the so-called "secret" prisons that the CIA allegedly used to house top level al Qaeda detainees in Eastern Europe.

We're as curious as anyone to see how Ms. McCarthy's case unfolds. But this would appear to be only the latest example of the unseemly symbiosis between elements of the press corps and a cabal of partisan bureaucrats at the CIA and elsewhere in the "intelligence community" who have been trying to undermine the Bush Presidency.

al-reuters: Terrorist Tool, Left Wing Tool

Paper calls for Dick Cheney's early retirement
Reuters A Los Angeles Times editorial on Sunday called for a "far more audacious" makeover of President George W. Bush's administration, saying he should send Vice President Dick Cheney into early retirement.

Who gives a shit what that leftist trash yellow bellied newspaper says? And why is al-reuters running it as a new story?
Bias? What bias?

American Left: New Face of Terror

This is the American left. This is the Democratic Party. This is fascism. This is Nazism. These are animals. These are terrorists. Of course, the left sides with the Islamic fundamentalists, after all,  they too are terrorists.
I implore every person to start talking to friends, neighbors, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, speak as if your life depends upon it, because it does. Come November, if the party of treason takes the House or Senate, impeachment proceedings will begin and Amerabia will not be far away.

From Michelle Malkin, "I am not afraid of you";

You know who you all are.

And if you think I'm going to stop blogging/writing/making a living because you've plastered my family's private home address, phone numbers, and photos and maps of my neighborhood all over the Internet to further your manufactured outrage and pathetic coddling of a bunch of lying, anti-troops punks at UC Santa Cruz...

...you better think again.

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Oh, and here's just a reminder of the kind of poor, "peaceful," innocent "children" at Santa Cruz engaged in throwing rocks, slashing tires, and running military recruiters off their campus:

Click here.

And here.

That's what this is all about--not me. Them.

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Previous:

The moonbats strike back
More thuggery at Santa Cruz
Cut off tax money for UC Santa Cruz!
Seditious Santa Cruz vs. America
UC Santa Cruz hates our troops

Gateway Pundit has more, much more here

Ray Nagin and the Chocolate Factory

Breaking News: NEW ORLEANS (AP) Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu are the top vote-getters in the city's mayoral election and are headed for a runoff.

I just want to say I have no empathy for New Orleans. NONE.How could they possibly consider electing this completely useless, affable, failure of a mayor to another term? I can't imagine anyone handling KKKatrina any worse than this impossibly incapable fool.

This is mind blowing and sad. Of course the liberal left media and the left wing Louisiana politicians blamed  Bush for KKKatrina but then again the boils on their asses are Bush's fault too.

How they could consider voting Democrat is pathetic. The juxta of how the  Republicans handled disasters in Texas (and Florida) spoke volumes to management, administration and controlled chaos. Like I said, I have no sympathy for these people. They are certifiably nuts.

Day is night and night is day. Nagin Illustration: People's Cube

UPDATE: Suburban Crusader sent this little gem:

Unsung Hero, U.S. Ally - JAPAN

Japan approves more support for US Afghan campaign

Japan's Cabinet approved on Friday a six-month extension of its non-combat support for the US-led campaign in Afghanistan against remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaida, the top government spokesman said.

Japan has sent vessels to the Indian Ocean to transport fuel and supplies to US craft during the invasion to oust the Taliban in November 2001.

Have you noticed how the mainstream media ignores or worse, holds in contempt, the countries that support our fight for freedom in the global war of Islamic terrorism.

Thank you Japan, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Molly, May Moussaoui Have His Way With You

Molly Ivins: Compare and contrast CNN.com
"Compare and contrast," read the directions for essay exams in the old college blue books. Compare and contrast the trials of Zacarias Moussaoui and Jeffrey Skilling.

Molly dear, I pray you get your wish and live under Islamic law. Skilling and Moussaoui in the same breath and you are defending Moussaoui?

Molly, Beware the mohel! I am sure Molly is a believer of one of these conspiracy theories.

More Cluelessness here

Iraq: Beware Murderers and Media

The dangerous, dishonest mainstream media is not reporting the straight dope. The savages,  terrorists, thugs, murderers in Iraq are  quaintly referred to  in their articles as "rebels," "insurgents", while giving no context, no detail to the realities of the struggle;

Iraq, US troops under fire as rebels exploit power vacuumAFP
Iraq rebels have staged fresh bomb attacks and battled US forces in a wave of violence.....

The more open and democratic a society is, the more it is exposed to terror. The more a country is free, the more vulnerable it is to massacres of terror.

This is what is happening in Iraq.This from Mohammed at Iraq the Model;

Last week our little and peaceful family was struck by the tragic loss of one of its members in a savage criminal act of assassination. The member we lost was my sister's husband who lived with their two little children in our house.
He was a brilliant young doctor with a whole future awaiting him, the couple were the top graduates in their branch of specialty. They had to travel abroad to get their degrees and the war started while they were there but months after Saddam fallen they decided to come back to help rebuild the country and serve their people.
We welcomed them with all love and care, we would sit and talk everyday about our hopes and dreams for a better future for the new generation and for their two little children. We realized that time is needed before they could have a secure and prosperous life and we were satisfied with the little we could make because we believed in the future.

He was not affiliated with any political party or movement and spent all his time working at the hospital or studying at home and he was dreaming of building a medical center for his specialty to serve the poor who cannot afford going to expensive private clinics.
We didn't know or anticipate that cruel times were waiting for a chance to assassinate the dream and kill the future.

It was the day he was celebrating the opening of a foundation that was going to offer essential services to the poor but the criminals were waiting for him to end his life with their evil bullets and to stab our family deep in the heart.

Grief and pain is killing me everyday as I hold my dear nephews, my sister is shocked beyond words while my parents are dead worried about the rest of us.
We are trying hard to close the wound, summon our patience and protect those still alive while we look forward to the future that we hope can bring peace for us.

The terrorists and criminals are targeting all elements of life and they target anyone who wants to do something good for this country…They think by assassinating one of us they could deter us from going forward but will never succeed, they can delay us for years but we will never go back and abandon our dream.
We have vowed to follow the steps of our true martyrs and we will raise the new generation to continue the march, these children of today are the hope and the future.

What a difference between those who work to preserve life and those who work to end it…it's terrorism and crime and there are no other words to describe these acts.
They will keep trying to steal life from us and we will keep fighting back and we will keep exposing them but not with bullets and swords, we never carried arms and we will never do because we are not afraid and because we are not weak unlike those cowards who know no language but that of treason.
April will always be there to remind us of the sacrifice and remind us of the dream we fight for.

My God keep safe the Iraqis and their friends who stand with them in their noble cause, peace and prosperity may seem far away but we will get there and I hope our sacrifices be a bridge to a better world.

I am so sorry. Your brother-in-law embodied all that was good and fine in lovers of freedom and individual rights.

UPDATE: Things are looking up, Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari Lets Shiites Consider Replacement

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, under intense pressure to give up plans for a second term, agreed Thursday to let Shiite lawmakers reconsider his nomination, a step that could mark a breakthrough in the months-long effort to form a new government.

UPDATE: Conaway -"The Iraqi people looked into the abyss of civil war and said that's not what we want.'" View article here

UPDATE: Rick, my favorite ugly American, has the inside 411 on the next Iraqi Prime Minister here

McCellan resigns

Can we get Ari Fleischer back now? I oft wondered if Scott was related to George McClellan. Both talented in their way, but tragically flawed. The White House needs a deft, sharp, wise guy in that position - a heckler handler - McClellan could never go for the kill, or toe to toe with the thumbsuckers.

The White House needs a star in that spot, Bush has a hard enough time getting his message out to an unwilling, hostile media elite.

Political Pit Bull (via NRO)has a walk down memory lane with Scott, video here, Click to Download (.wmv)

UPDATE: My readers like Tony Snow. I like Fred Barnes. Then this is this virtual candidate. Don't miss Helen Barking Thomas over at Gateway Pundit

Uh, could Rummy do double duty? I love how he handles those thumbsuckers.

Al Reuters is at it again, twisting and mangling the truth

WTF does this headline mean? What do you take away from it, if you were skimming the papers?

Libby won't argue Bush ordered leak of agent's name

Now here is the body copy;

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An indicted former White House aide does not contend that     President George W. Bush and Vice President     Dick Cheney ordered him to leak the name of a     CIA officer whose husband criticized the administration's     Iraq policies, the aide's lawyers said.

A court filing by Lewis "Scooter" Libby's defense team argues that CIA officer     Valerie Plame was not foremost on the minds of Bush administration officials as they sought to rebut charges by her husband, Joseph Wilson, that they manipulated intelligence to make a case for invading Iraq.

Nuff said.

Dhimmi CBS Bends Over in Religion of Peace Poll

Just when you think CBS could not subjugate itself any further to the left (the affable Eva Braun notwithstanding), they astound. First check out the flag they are running and the accompanying article here. hat tip x dhimmi Deb

(CBS) Although Americans believe they are better informed about Islam than they were five years ago, a new CBS News poll finds fewer than one in five say their impression of the religion is favorable.

What's with the "although"? Ben wrote, that one word implies that the writer is morally superior/smarter than 4 out of 5 Americans. Which, of course, the writer very much believes.

Forty-five percent of respondents queried April 6 - 9 said they have an unfavorable view of Islam, a rise from 36 percent in February. And the public’s impression of Islam has diminished even more compared with four years ago. In February 2002 – less than six months after the terrorist attacks of September 11 – the country was evenly divided in its impression of Islam.

Despite the media's reluctance to report on the Islamofascists war on the West, Americans can't help  being better informed on "Islam." I  don't give the lamestream media credit for Americans being better informed on "Islam." I credit the body count, the bombings, the cartoons, al qaeda, headless bodies, Eurabia, ...........you know, the usual.

There was a time Americans never thought about these atrocities or Islam for months, years at a time. Now, not  a day  goes by where they are not, for one reason or another, forced to think or hear  about, the  Religion of Peace. And frankly, they don't like  it.

Someone alert the thumbsucking media, this ain't Europe, and we ain't Europeans.

Female Students Disappear after Muslim Assault...
Christian Woman in Jail for Protesting Cross Desecration...
al-Qaeda Unites Behind Iraqi Terrorists...
Christians in Palestine Suffer Dhimmitude...
Arab Countries Hope to Keep Hamas Afloat...
Apostate and Father of 7 Shot Dead in Ethiopia... more war stories here.

Iran's A Bomb: The Brutal Truth

"Iran is not paying attention to what the Security Council said," John Bolton told The New York Sun. The Islamic Republic's clerics "show why we feel a real sense of urgency," he added. "Iran has to realize that it is clearly going down the wrong road."

Daniel Johnson in today's  New York Sun :
Which current head of state is the greater threat to world peace — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or George W. Bush? Even to ask this question is absurd and insulting. In Europe, however, far more attention is paid to what the United States might do about Iran’s nuclear ambitions than to what Iran is actually doing. Here, it is taken for granted in establishment circles that the real diplomatic imperative now is to stop the Bush administration bombing Iranian nuclear facilities rather than to stop Iran using those facilities to obliterate Israel.

Why is this? Knowing what we know, all subjectivity aside, purely on the facts, what does the world think this maniac is going to do with nukes? The choice is very clear.

    So what is going on in Iran? The news from Teheran this week is chilling. On Tuesday the Iranian president spoke in the holy city of Mashhad before crowds chanting “death to America” and Allahu akbar (“God is great”). As they raised their fists in the air, Mr. Ahmadinejad claimed that Iran had “joined the club of nuclear countries” because its scientists had succeeded in enriching uranium. He swore that, despite an ultimatum from the United Nations Security Council which expires at the end of April, Iran would not back down “one iota,” adding: “Enemies can’t dissuade the Iranian nation from the path of progress that it has chosen.”

    This, of course, is just the latest turn of the screw. Mr.Ahmadinejad is a former Revolutionary Guard who is dedicated to messianic aims, including the annihilation of Israel and the extension of the Iranian revolution to the entire Muslim world and beyond. But he speaks for the regime of the Islamic Republic, including its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.

And so the left sicced its toothless attack dogs to hissy fit and remonstrate so that to the military/nuclear option is removed from Bush's arsenal of choices.

Mr. Hersh is presented by the BBC as a paradigm of objectivity: The title “investigative reporter” is accorded the kind of reverential solemnity once reserved for popes and presidents. But in his interview, he abandoned any pretense of neutrality. His rambling article boils down to a simple, one-sided thesis: The Bush White House has refused to rule out the option of tactical nuclear strikes to destroy Iran’s underground nuclear facilities.

 It is, of course, very easy for the likes of the BBC to report from Washington, where information and access are freely available. Iran is another story, and a much more difficult one to report. Iranian dissidents, mainly students and academics who have protested against the regime, are being crushed by Mr.Ahmadinejad. In order to consolidate his totalitarian aims, the Iranian president is sending gangs of Islamist “volunteers” into campuses to intimidate opponents.They hold bizarre “martyr’s ceremonies” at which soldiers from the Iran-Iraq war are buried on campus as part of a systematic purge of the universities. Professors who do not show the requisite fanaticism are sacked; nonconformists are imprisoned, tortured or murdered.

The West Can't Let Iran Have the Bomb

    The thought of this incontestably evil regime wielding nuclear weapons is enough to make even Europeans feel uncomfortable. As this newspaper reported back in February, a poll in France, Britain, Germany, and Austria carried out by the European Foundation for Democracy found that majorities in these countries were worried about the prospect of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, did not believe Iranian denials and that between 46% in Germany and 74% in France supported “limited military action by NATO to destroy Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons.”

    The BBC is too busy interviewing critics of the Bush administration to report the Iranian purge, so eerily reminiscent of Hitler’s Germany. In Hitler’s Political Testament, the Nazi dictator charged his successors with “merciless resistance to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry.” Hitler’s rhetoric is echoed by Mr. Ahmadinejad every time he addresses his Nuremberg-style rallies. If, as Seymour Hersh alleges, Mr. Bush regards the Iranian president as another Hitler, he is not far from the mark. Mr. Ahmadinejad is, in effect, devoting the entire resources of the Iranian state to carrying out the terms of Hitler’s will. Only one country can stop him: the United States. That is why, if the worst comes to the worst, Mr. Blair will stand by Mr. Bush against Mr. Ahmadinejad, the man who wants to make himself Hitler’s heir.

Mind you, these are the same European governments that said Europe must shun the phrase "Islamic terrorism" in favour of "terrorists who abusively invoke Islam", say guidelines from EU officials. Huh?

An EU official said: "The basic idea behind it is to avoid the use of improper words that would cause frustration among Muslims and increase the risk of     radicalisation."

Along with civil servants from the Home Office, the officials have reviewed     the impact of such terms as Islamist, fundamentalist and jihad when describing     acts of terrorism and murder.

"Jihad means something for you and me; it means something else for a Muslim,"     EU officials at a Berlin conference on radicalisation said. "Jihad is a perfectly     positive concept of trying to fight evil within yourself."

These pussies wrote the book on dhimmi speak.
EU Removes 'Islamic Terrorism' Expression from its Dictionary huh?

'Sense of Urgency' Cited By Bolton on Iran A-bomb, now that I understand. What does everyone think is going to happen here?  Nothing? That it is all going to go away? How many 9/11s, Hitlers, Stalins, Maos, Pol Pots, Saddams, Baby Docs, Beslans, et al does any one person need? Are you going to sanction giving them access to nukes? The threat is imminent.  

The evil of the world is made possible by the sanction you give it, paraphrasing Galt.

Perhaps the most dubious cliche in American history is the one intoned over and again after terrorists killed 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. That was the cliche that claimed that now "America has changed forever." Well, forever lasted about two years, maybe three. Then American solidarity in the war against terror began to fissure, and, by the way, the president's favorable ratings began to sink.

Now in the press the war effort is assuming the vague dimensions of monstrosities of yesteryear: Watergate, Iran-Contra, both being cautionary tales from which liberals hope Americans will learn to be better people. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. here

Did I mention the Iran-made weapons caches discovered in Iraq? Or Iran's axis of Islam seeking Uranium and military aid?

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is seeking to deepen ties with Iran, with discussions on holding joint military exercises and obtaining uranium, according to Bush administration officials.     Hamas also is talking to Caracas about sending representatives to Venezuela to raise money for the militant group's newly elected Palestinian government

Anyone saying regime change in Iran isn't possible oght to read Ledeen here

The New York Slimes

It's easy to see why the Daily News is throwing everything it's got into the story of the scandal at Page Six of the New York Post. But what are New Yorkers to make of the New York Times? The Gray Lady fronted the topic for two days running and twice devoted a full broadsheet page of coverage inside the paper to the drama between billionaire Ronald Burkle and reporter Jared Paul Stern. By our count, at least 13 individual reporters have been named as contributing to the Times's coverage. By yesterday the Times had run more than 10,000 words about Page Six. Over the same period, so far as we can tell, the Times ran just two sentences about the genocide in Darfur, a passing reference in the Times's own gossip column. The Times ran but 4,000 words on the Israel election in a four-day period during which the vote took place. The German election last fall rated similar coverage, about 4,000 words over four days. While the Times had 13 reporters chasing a two-day-a-week freelancer for the Post it missed the news reported in yesterday's New York Sun by our Josh Gerstein that a California judge had dismissed Senator Clinton from a lawsuit that had been brought against President Clinton relating to campaign fundraising improprieties. The Times has yet to acknowledge the scandal over the anti-Israel paper coauthored by the academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Story here.

All the news they see fit to print. Paper of record my ass.

 

PROOF: Saddam's Terror Network and WMD

This is a no brainer. The media's war on America continues unabated but these facts are irrefutable. America, get yer head outta yer ass, this is a war we must win. This aint no Vietnam where you can turn tail and run. These barbarians are coming after you.

Saddam was undeniably involved in terrorism.

Iraqis had WMDs and did their utmost  to hide them here and here

1997 Document: Orders To Remove All Information Related To WMD From Computers (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website on Iraqi Pre-war documents

And over at Captains Quarters,  Saddam Targeted American Assets For Terrorism: Case Closed

this shows that Saddam had recruited suicide bombers to attack American interests -- showing that destroying Saddam's regime is an integral part of the war on terror, not a distraction. hat tip Mik

Where is the media....hellloooo. Echooooo. Screaming into the void.

UPDATE: Why Iraq was a mistake CNN.com. Hmmmm, sounds unbiased.

What are the odds on CNN doing a piece "WHY FREEING IRAQ WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO" ? (turning blue as we speak)

UPDATE APRIL 12: From Melanie Phillips

"In London yesterday, I met General Georges Sada....
...he raised eyebrows when he announced that he knew beyond any shadow of a doubt that Saddam had hidden his weapons of mass destruction in 2002-3 by transporting them to Syria. He was persuaded to set down his account in a book, Saddam’s Secrets, which was published in America earlier this year by a small Christian publisher, Integrity. This is what Sada says in his book about Saddam’s WMD...

On June 4 2002, a three-mile long dam collapsed in Syria, causing a disaster over 40 square miles. When Syria asked for help from Jordan and Iraq, Saddam seized his opportunity.

To keep all these transfers under wraps, the operators worked through a false company called SES........

In April 2004, a group of al Qaeda terrorists was caught in Jordan with 20 tons of Sarin gas. When Sada heard of this, he says, his blood ran cold. There was only one place which was capable of producing 20 tons of Sarin: Saddam’s Iraq. To his horror, he says, he realised at that moment that Saddam’s WMD had got into the hands of al Qaeda.......

Earlier this year, Sada was interrogated about his claims by the American House Intelligence committee, to whom he gave the names of the Iraqi pilots. Subsequently, he says, the Committee went to Iraq and spoke to the pilots. The result, he says, is that a major American investigative and diplomatic effort is now under way to finally locate the missing WMD. hat tip Tom P

WTF won't the media cover these critical developments? Only the Emperor's new clothes.

Al-Qaeda Responsible for Most Suicide Blasts in Iraq
More than 90% of the suicide attacks in Iraq are carried out by fighters recruited, trained, and equipped by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said Monday. (AP/Washington Post)

Update: April 12th: Over at the American Thinker, The Saddam files (continued)

UPDATE April 13th: SADDAM DID SEEK URANIUM ORE FROM NIGER - NRO here

Iraq Liberation Day

Sunday, April 9th,  is the three year anniversary of the day Saddam Hussein fled Baghdad and his atatue was toppled. It was a great day for Iraq and a great day for America.

We must not forget that we have achieved our objective in Iraq. We have liberated Iraq and removed a brutal dictator from a state that sponsored terrorism. Play it again Sam, One mo' time!

 

Iraq is but one front in the long, terrible eradication of Islamofascism.

Over at LGF there is a message from a Gold Star father;

My son LCPL Justin M. Ellsworth was killed on November 13, 2004 outside of Fallujah. He died believing in the mission on the War on Terror and the positive things that were happening in Iraq. Read more here.

In September of 2004, Justin had just arrived in Iraq when I asked him his opinion of the war. He said, “Dad, we have to be here, they want us here and we are making a difference in the lives of these people.”

So I must ask, if LCPL Justin Ellsworth U.S.M.C. can see the difference that the Coalition troops are making in the lives of Iraqis, why can’t we?

I have made it my goal to get the positive news in Iraq out to the media for Justin and the countless number of people who stand along side of him, and have joined with an organization to do just that. Learn more here.

So I’m asking you to send a message to the media.

Please go to this website: www.FamiliesUnitedMission.com/letter. Sign the letter, and forward it to your friends.

I hope you will join me in encouraging the national media to recognize that Iraqi Liberation Day is on April 9th. Don’t Ignore this Milestone!

Sincerely,

John Ellsworth
Gold Star Father
Wixom, Michigan

More messages from Gold Star families are posted at Iowa Voice and Ankle Biting Pundits.
Ed reports here -- 1000 reasons why removing Saddam was right: "Iraqis Find 8 Mass Graves Containing 1,000 Bodies, Kurds Say".

 

Google Pimps for Al Manar, Terror Org

Google can't help itself.  Just received my Google news alert citing Al Manar. These guys are bad news.  Bad news. US Designates Al-Manar as a Terror Entity

Google Alert
Shia Muslims in Iraq restrain themselves and farewell the Martyrs ...Al-Manar -
... Amid fears this may lead to civil war, the powerful Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim called upon the country's Sunnis to help "unify" Iraq. ...

I reported on this previously here so this will come as no surprise to Atlas readers. Google has been a terrorist sympathizer for sometime.  GOOGLE terrorist enabling policies here and hate America bias here. Last March Ynet, reported that Google had been running advertisements for the recruitment web site of the terrorist group Hamas, that show up when the word “Hamas” is entered in Arabic: Google advertises Hamas.Do no evil my ass, Google elevates evil to an art form.

UPDATE April 11: If the US government has designated Al Manar a terror organization, why would the evil doers at GOOGLE equivocate on this?  They are beneath contempt, they are aiding and abetting. Bring them up on charges. At least we know whose side they are on;

Google Alert  
Pressures mount on al-Jaafari to relinquish his candidacy for ...
Al-Manar - Lebanon 

Assafir Lebanese daily disclose a foiled attempt to assassinate ...
Al-Manar - Lebanon

 

Saddam Planned Pre 9/11 Attacks Nothing to see, keep Moving

Why this doesn't matter I'll never know. Why Bush had to fight to get the Iraqi war story told to  the American people is the great untold story of the "gotta fake a leak"  media  treachery (and it is still untold.) Nothing short of a complete distortion of the facts. The media is the de facto public relations arm of the Democratic party.

David Limbaugh asks, 

"If you choose to believe the Democratic mantra that Bush lied about Iraqi WMD to lead us into war against Iraq, feel free to allow your partisanship or gullibility to subsume your powers of discernment. But how about some of the other Democratic rhetorical excesses?

Do they give you the slightest pause, or do you consider gross hyperbole and distortion in furtherance of undermining a commander in chief you dislike a justifiable means to a preferred end?

More Damning Documents On Saddam

Origins Of War: The latest in a stream of eye-opening Iraqi documents shows Saddam Hussein's regime was planning suicide attacks on U.S. interests six months before 9-11. Why won't Washington get the word out?

Last month the Pentagon began releasing records captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Among the documents is a letter dated March 11, 2001, written by Abdel Magid Hammod Ali, one of Saddam's air force generals.

According to an unofficial translation, Page 6 of the letter asks for "the names of those who desire to volunteer for suicide mission to liberate Palestine and to strike American interests."

Assuming the document's accuracy, this shows that Saddam's regime was not only providing aid and support for terrorist organizations of other countries. It was also planning its own bombings directed at U.S. facilities and personnel.

As counterterrorism consultant Dan Darling wrote last week on the Weekly Standard's Web site, that would mean Russian intelligence services under Vladimir Putin were better informed about Iraq's terrorist abilities than the U.S. spy community.

Though little noticed by the press, during a July 2004 visit to Kazakhstan the Russian president said that between 9-11 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, "Russian special services and Russian intelligence several times received . . . information that official organs of Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist acts on the territory of the U.S. and beyond its borders, at U.S. military and civilian locations." hat tip daryl

Media bias against Bush? Nah

The Politiics of Confusion. The media, PR department for the Democratic Party, says what they want to believe.............when they explain later in the back of the book, no one will be paying attention.

The court documents released today are newsworthy for two reasons. The documents filed by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald don't allege the president authorized aides to divulge the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, and  don't suggest Bush violated any rule or law governing the handling of classified material.

"This was not a leak. This was an authorized disclosure," the ex-prosecutor said.

You'd never know it from these headlines huh?

Headlines on the new intel from Saddams 46,000 boxes. uh uh

Bush authorized leaks on Iraq: court documents AFP
President George W. Bush authorized Iraq intelligence leaks ahead of the war, indicted former top White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby said in court papers.

Libby said Bush cleared leak: filing Reuters
President George W. Bush authorized the leak to the media of classified material about Iraq, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney said according to court papers filed by prosecutors and made public on Thursday.

Bush Approved Iraq Intelligence Leak, Libby Testified (Update1) Bloomberg.com
April 6 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush authorized disclosure of classified information on Iraq's weapons program to rebut war critics, a former top administration aide told a grand jury, according to documents filed in federal court.

Bush said to have approved leak of Iraq data Reuters UK & Ireland News
A former senior White House official testified that President George W. Bush authorised the leaking of classified material on Iraq, according to court papers made public on Thursday that immediately ignited a political storm.

Bush 'authorised leak of classified intelligence' News Interactive
US President George W. Bush authorised the leak to the media of classified material about Iraq, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney said, according to court papers filed by prosecutors that have just been made public.

Bush authorised leaks on Iraq: court documents Channel NewsAsia
WASHINGTON : President George W. Bush authorised Iraq intelligence leaks ahead of the war, indicted former top White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby said, according to court papers released on Thursday.

As for Plame? One of my readers put it most succinctly;

The incident in question; regarding disclosure of a secret agent's identity is a farse. She bragged to everyone and anyone, that it was in the fix. Her affililiation with the Clintonistas has given her the ability to indulge in her favorite pastime. That is, discrediting Bush. I can't point it out enough, that a number of people in Pennsylvania were aware of her status, particularly in Huntingdon Valley.

Want an in depth non partisan take on this? Go here

Taranto here: In other words, this was an authorized disclosure of information, the opposite of a leak. Yet the Times, the Washington Post and even the New York Sun (albeit only in a headline) call it a "leak."

Photo: Josephine the Plumber

Iran, Iraq, Intel, Idjuts, Infinitum

Democrat: Intelligence on Iran Inadequate

It seems to me the intel coming out of Iran's mouth  on a daily basis is more than adequate. ....bah dah boom.
These savages are at war with us. This mental masturbation has to stop. And I like Jane Harmon but this is counter intuitive. War has been  declared on this great country and you can color me belligerent but I refuse to talk myself and my countrymen out of it. I'll be damned.  "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" - Rand, for the millionth time.

Iraq intel was lacking? (thank you Billyboy Clinton). Well then I guess we ought to fault Bush Senior, he should have gone against the wishes of the world in '91 and taken Saddam out then.  Saddam had invaded another country and  the mustard and sarin gases were about to be dropped on those poor Kurds and Shia, and any other poor soul the Stalin inspired Saddam felt like melting that day.

The whole intel argument is just plain dumb. The world is a better place without that fcuking killer running Iraq with crackpot dreams of Middle East domination. And so what if there are problems in Iraq? They are trying to get the damn thing right. War is messy. Life under despots, dictators and oppressors is tortured and deadly. Get off their backs and get on the peace through strength train, dammit.

Now you have Al Whore caterwauling here

Warning that Bush and the Republican Congress have displayed "a blinding lack of awareness" about "the worst catastrophe in the history of human civilization" — global warming [doesn't exist - Atlas]— Gore also blames the incumbent for ignoring the threat of 9/11

Yes you putz, we ignored the implicit threat made on February 26, 1993  -- the attack in the garage of the New York City World Trade Center.  Al-Qaeda bombed  Tower One. It killed six, injured over 1,000, and presaged the September 11, 2001 attacks on the same buildings. The goal of the attack was to devastate the foundation of the north tower in such a way in that it would collapse onto its twin. Hellooooooooooooooooooo, where were you then genius? STFU already.

Above photo: Cover of the May 2006 issue of Vanity Fair Robert F. Kennedy Jr., actor George Clooney, actress Julia [he's not my President] Roberts and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. in the "green" issue - oy They just keep shoving these moonbats down our throats no matter how much we dry heave or projectile vomit. I still don't know why of all the mothers that lost a child in Iraq, the only mother known to the American people is Cindy Sheehan. Think about that.

Did you see this brilliant screed here?

Movie-maker OLIVER STONE has blasted media groups who "slander" celebrities for their political comments - because intelligent stars have every right to question their leaders. The Vietnam veteran, who is a fierce opponent of the US leadership, is appalled every time a celebrity is rudely mocked for making his or her thoughts about PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH and the war in Iraq public, and he urges journalists to be more supportive.

If journalists were any more supportive you'd need a scalpel to separate the two. I mean c'mon.........

The NATURAL BORN KILLERS director says, "We're Hollywood wackos and all that stuff, left-wing... (It's) an easy and facile dismissal. "I'm still a citizen, I've served my country as a veteran, I've had many jobs before the film business. I know something of life, having lived to this age. "We have a right to speak and every time we speak: 'You're an actor, a showbusiness director,' we're making it up! "This is not a way of dealing with people. This is slander." hat tip Judith

Since when is that slander? This is slander Ollie. And this is your legacy.

Q&A: IRAN: Bush Administration 'Not Serious' About Dealing With Iran
New York Times

Q&A: Iran: New York Times 'Not Serious" About Delivering the News
AtlasShrugs.com

"the affable Eva Braun" of American liberalism gets CBS Top Job

How appropriate. Katie Couric, far left tool,  will be the new evening news anchor on SeeBS, the seat once occupied by Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather (cough, cough).

Isn't that special? These folks are primal. They are incapable of learning anything. I'll bet dollars to donuts the slide in ratings at CBS continue. The world is on fire and the elite media has its head up its ass. Cartoons anyone?

Couric: "You call me the 'Eva Braun' of liberalism--"    

"Affable," interjected Coulter.    

"Thanks...that makes me feel soooo much better," replied Couric, her trademark grin giving way to a scowl.    

Saturday Night Open Thread Chill

Mah boys............damn the were good.

Just in from a whine tasting. In attempting to engage in conversation about world events, the Danish cartoon jihad, the French intifada, I was met with blank stares and the ever popular "why don't you get yourself something to eat?" Now you know why I don't socialize very much, despite my most fabulous wardrobe.

I love humanity, but I hate people. Edna St. Vincent Millay

So I am reading Ayn Rand's Answers and Fallaci's  The Force of Reason, listening to these fellas on the left   (separately and together), and  Bette Davis is gesturing wildy with the sound off on my screen.

Life is good. Can you dig it?

I see WaPo is doing Iran's dirty work. Delivering their screeds without question;

Attacking Iran May Trigger Terrorism
Washington Post As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on its nuclear sites by deploying its intelligence operatives and Hezbollah teams to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide

Isn't Iran doing that already in Gaza, Iraq, Syria Lebanon? Are they not the force behind Hamas, hizbollah, Al Qaeda? WaPo - what a tool.

The Holzers' take on NYU and the Danish Cartoons

This was just sent to NYU President John Sexton. I strongly suggest you do the same.

My husband, Henry Mark Holzer, earned a BA from New York University and we both earned our Juris Doctor degrees at the law school in 1959.

We are ashamed of our connection with NYU because of your craven surrender regarding the Danish cartoons and the treatment accorded the Ayn Rand Institute panelists, as well as members of the public, all of whom courageously wished to discuss a serious and important issue like civilized human beings.

As it happens, my husband recently published a nationally syndicated column condemning the moral cowardice of the American press on this very subject, and now you have the “proud” distinction of being in the forefront of turning an institution of higher learning into a weapon of moral destruction—a renunciation of everything New York University purports to stand for.  (Professor Holzer’s article, “The Press Defaults on its Duty,” appears below in its entirety.)

Mirrors don’t lie, Mr. Sexton.  Every time you look in one, you will no longer see a man of principle.  Your capitulation on this matter is not some vague abstraction.  This is EVERY INDIVIDUAL’S constitutional right of free speech that you have helped undermine.  And in the name of what—or more precisely, whom?

Perhaps the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and the horrendous loss of life in your own city has become an abstraction too.

Erika Holzer

THE PRESS DEFAULTS ON ITS DUTY

Henry Mark Holzer

            Unfortunately, the recent spectacle of worldwide mindless Muslim riots—supposedly caused by a Danish newspaper’s publication of the Muhammad cartoons—has obscured a phenomenon even more dangerous to this nation than the rampages themselves: the capitulation of America’s free press, which almost universally has declined to publish any of the drawings.

            The issue is not that the press has a right to publish the cartoons.  That’s undeniable.  It’s Constitutional Law 101.

            No, the issue is the duty of the American press to publish the Muhammad cartoons.  It’s not a social or political duty, but rather a moral duty, rooted in the legacy of the Founders and the self-generated principle the press has wrapped itself in for over two hundred years: “the public’s right to know”—about such stories as the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, looting of Iraq’s museums, Abu Ghraib, NSA surveillance, alleged torture of terrorists, secret CIA prisons, and much more.

Indeed, it was the perceived moral duty of the press in service of the public’s right to know that brought us editorial cartoons like Joe McCarthy climbing out of a sewer carrying a bucket overflowing with slime, and of Richard Nixon dressed like a plumber.

            Now, in the matter of the Muhammad cartoons, virtually all of the American press has suddenly done an about face— in the name of “restraint,” “sensitivity,” “respect,” “tolerance,” and other out-of-context bromides.  Yet there was none of this, or any reluctance to “offend,” when the media showed a South Vietnamese policeman shooting a Vietcong killer in the head, or allowed Jews to be caricatured by making them look like Shylock, or depicted Christ immersed in urine, or in publishing other stories that were, certainly as to some members of the public, unrestrained, insensitive, disrespectful, intolerant, and, yes, even offensive.

            But then, the press had no reason to fear the South Vietnamese, the Jews, or the Catholics.  And therein lies the explanation of what has happened to the media in the United States.

The American press that has ignored the Muhammad cartoons—cognizant of the fatwas against Rushdie and others, the murder of van Gogh, the burning of diplomatic enclaves, and the rash of death threats—has cut and run for at least two reasons. 

One, much less important than the second, is that most journalists in America today believe, or at least purport to believe, in the “multiculturalism” gobbledygook that all cultures are equal, that they all deserve respect, etc. ad nauseam.

The more important reason is because they are cowards.  In capitulating to the irrational mob, the American press has done much worse than expose their hypocrisy, betray their European and domestic colleagues, and default on their moral duty as custodians of the First Amendment.  Much worse.

            The compliant American press has shamefully, and dangerously, reinforced the belief of Osama bin Laden and his minions that—like Nixon’s pullout from Vietnam, Reagan’s retreat from Beruit, Clinton’s flight from Somalia, and Bush 41’s failure of will in the Gulf War—Americans can’t take casualties.

            Now, despite the sagacity of the Founders and the many First Amendment battles to keep America’s press free, the guardians of that legacy have left the field—not because of atual harm to them (which, had it occurred, they should have proudly accepted and soldiered on), but because of the mere risk of danger.  They have capitulated to mere threats from political zealots who worship nihilism, and who in millennia have contributed little to the civilized world but hatred, destruction, and death.

                         Throughout American history, the principal enemy of a free press has been government.  Now, sadly, it is the press itself.

New York Times: Crack-Whore for Sudan

Sudan: Aid Worker Fears 'Disaster of Biblical Proportions' in Darfur

How disgusting is The New York Slimes? Beyond contempt I tell you.

N.Y. Times Probed on Sudan Ad Insert
The State Department is investigating to see whether The New York Times violated American sanctions against Sudan by publishing an advertising supplement touting investment in the country

How could they accept this money from a Radical Islamic government committing the most heinous genocide, human trafficking, rape, the list of evil is endless.

he Times has caught the attention of the State Department, but not in the way that the newspaper had hoped.

"We are currently examining the [8 page] advertising supplement," Erin Tariot, a spokeswoman for the State Department, told the Forward. "We are looking into it in regards to our own policies with respect to the U.S. sanctions regime against Sudan."

The issue was not the ad's content, but the financial transaction.

Unconscionable.

Rally for Darfur - Washington, D.C. - April 30, 2006
Tell President Bush to protect the people of Darfur I am writing to ask you to help stop genocide and save the people of Darfur. Send President Bush a clear message that American Jews will not stand idly by and watch the first genocide of the 21st century unfold. As a result of our work and the work of activists around the world, change is slowly starting to happen. President Bush, Congress and the UN have begun to make specific overtures to address the ongoing rape, murder and violence in Darfur. While this change in rhetoric is a step in the right direction, the fact remains that there is still no resolve and no commitment from the United States to send troops to the area, no timetable for action and no mandate for civilian protection. In short, although words are encouraging, they are useless without substantive action. That's where you come in. Together, we can help turn words into action. Here's how: Sign the Million Voices for Darfur Postcard: Join the national campaign to send one million postcards to President Bush, urging him to support a stronger multinational force to protect the people of Darfur. Come to the April 30 Rally in Washington: Be part of the national rally against the genocide in Darfur. Pledge to be there. Tell your friends: Please ask three friends and family members to sign the postcard and attend the rally. We must stop genocide - because we can.

Media Most Septic and Desperate

Rocky Mountain News ran this dishonest, Jew Hating piece of yellow journalism today;

MEMRI's systematic distortions

MEMRI claims to be an independent nonpartisan research institution. One of the co-founders of the organization, Yigal Carmon, is a retired Israeli military intelligence Colonel. Checking the MEMRI website, I found it served up blatant, unbalanced propaganda and was littered with inflammatory articles aimed to incite hate and bigotry toward any person whom MEMRI considers anti-Israeli or anti-Zionist.

Oh how they despise the truth tellers.

Academics as well as professional journalists have repeatedly censured the organization's quality and integrity. Brian Whitaker of the Guardian questioned the honesty of some "translations" posted by MEMRI. Whitaker, specifically, referred to an interview with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Ekrima Sabri by Al-Ahram Al-Arabi in Oct. 2000 - the same interview quoted by the ADL, the AJC and Carroll.

Whoa. I thought I was reading Al Jyzra.

Ekrima Sabri, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League sprang into action to disrupt the visit. Both groups immediately sent letters accusing the Grand Mufti of being anti-Semitic and asking co-sponsors to withdraw their support. A press release was sent to the media denouncing the visit. The finishing touches were in News columns by Vincent Carroll (March 7) and Dave Kopel (March 11) that simply seconded the pro-Israeli lobby sentiment. All of their "evidence" seemed to be a regurgitation of the same quotes and accusations. This leads me to suppose that the critics either carbon-copied each other's statements or that they acquired most of their "translation" from one special source: The Middle East Media Research Institute.

Sabri's actions are well documented here. The following excerpts from the weekly Friday sermon delivered by Palestinian Authority [PA] appointed "Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine" Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, at the Al-Aqsa  Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on July 11, 1997. The sermon was broadcast on the PA's official radio station, Voice of Palestine.

"Oh Allah, destroy America, for she is ruled by Zionist Jews...

"Allah will paint the White House black!  Clinton is fulfilling his father's will to identify with Israel...

"The Muslims say to Britain, to France and to all the infidel nations that Jerusalem is Arab.  We shall not respect anyone else's wishes regarding her.  The only relevant party is the Islamic nation, which will not allow infidel nations to interfere...

"The homes the Jews are building will become Arab property, with Allah's help...

"Allah shall take revenge on behalf of his prophet against the colonialist settlers who are sons of monkeys and pigs....Forgive us, Muhamad, for the acts of these sons of monkeys and pigs, who sought to harm your sanctity."

Let's take a look at the Muslim "author" of this piece of trash run by the  Rocky Mountain News (hometown paper of  Ward Churchill). Rima Barakat,  a Palestinian Muslim has said of the Danish  Cartoons here,

The cartoons were very offensive, but we have to rise above this and recognize we have challenges as Muslims that are greater than cartoons.'

Challenges? Like what? Barakat  has done 'workshops' on the "Palestinian Right to Return" aka a ruse for the elimination of Israel.  This workshop, btw, was part of  the same two day conference  as the Cindy and Craig Corrie performance workshop, parents of Rachel Corrie.

Clearly Rima would like to discredit MEMRI, arguably the most significant,  critical sourcea of intel to the lay West. MEMRI pulls back the curtain. We finally have access to what is being broadcast in Arabic to the often cited Arab Street in the MIddle East.

Apparently The Rocky Mountain News is a willing tool to the evil propagandists. Shame on you, dogs. They take their cues from the big boys eh?

The Iraqi War: Saddam and Al Qaeda

We went into Iraq for a great many reasons. You won't hear about the damning  new evidence breaking daily in the mainstream media. This is only the beginning;

The "Iraqi Perspectives Project" study, which ignited the public discussion of Russia and Iraq, also reveals that beginning in 1998 Saddam Hussein's intelligence services began training "non-Iraqi Arab volunteers" at camps in Iraq.

Another captured document details the plan of the Iraqi Intelligence Service to invigorate its relations with Saudi opposition groups, including one headed by Osama bin Laden. According to that document, which a Pentagon task force determined "appears authentic," bin Laden requested assistance from the Iraqi regime on its anti-Saudi propaganda efforts and with attacks on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. The documents indicate that Iraq agreed to rebroadcast al Qaeda propaganda and left open the possibility of working with al Qaeda on attacks.

Speaking about under reported news from Iraq;

The Other Side of the Story
A third update on good news from Iraq.

Welcome to another dose of good news about Iraq. (See here and here for more.) After my last report, I received an avalanche of positive feedback about the story of the bullet-proof cross, requesting more stories like that. So I've done that, and at the end of this update there are several more stories about the wonderful men and women in our armed forces. Hat tip JL

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

 

Evil Speaks in many tongues, Who whispers in your ear?

When evil speaks pay close attention. Ignore at your peril......... "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." Rand

Sudan, the next Iraq?
Al Jazeera
Darfur Province had always suffered the brutal conflict and its impacts, but this was never genocide.

Al Jyza has no shame. Millions of muslims slaughtered, and the genocide continues,  and they write garbage like this. They are frantically trying to go on the air here in the good ole US of A , the english version of Goebbels modus operandi 2006. These pigs. Here is the dhimmi New York Slime take on that;

HOW you see something," said Nigel Parsons, the managing director of Al Jazeera International, "depends very much on where you're sitting."

Those words could well serve as the manifesto for the channel, the English-language offspring of the polarizing pan-Arab network, which will make its debut in more than 40 million households in late May.

"We're not going to be another CNN, BBC or Sky," he told the attendees on the last day of January. "If we were, there'd be no point." But, he added, "It's not our position to tell viewers what to think."

That's exactly what they do. Terror's own network is coming to a TV screen near you. And the New York Slime is only happy to step and fetch.
Nuff said. Now check out this beauty from The Washingon Post;

Anti-Bush Cries Get Louder
Washington Post[...]Window cleaner Ira Clemons put down his squeegee in the lobby of a city mall and stroked his goatee as he considered the question [of impeachment]

"Why not? The man's been lying from Jump Street on the war in Iraq," Clemons said. "Bush says there were weapons of mass destruction, but there wasn't. Says we had enough soldiers, but we didn't. Says it's not a civil war -- but it is." He added: "I was really upset about 9/11 -- so don't lie to me."

It gets worse, really much worse and this is The Washington Post

"The value of a powerful idea, like impeachment of the president for criminal acts, is that it has a long shelf life and opens a debate," said Bill Goodman of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Hitching a ride on Osama Bin Laden's wagon eh?

A Zogby International poll showed that 51 percent of respondents agreed that Bush should be impeached if he lied about Iraq, a far greater percentage than believed President Bill Clinton should be impeached during the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal.

Oh no, not that old left wing, antisemetic, on the take tool -  Zogby - ack!

"Bush is saying 'I'm the president' and, on a range of issues -- from war to torture to illegal surveillance -- 'I can do as I like,' " said Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights. "This administration needs to be slapped down and held accountable for actions that could change the shape of our democracy."

No I am not making this trash up, WaPo is. How can a venerable institution, holder of the public trust run such utter tripe. It's pure shit.

[...] dismissing Bush's defense of warrantless surveillance as "poppycock."

Cockpoppy! Moving boxes in leased space at the ports was COCKPOPPY! Listening in on al qaeda is mad serious.

UPDATE: Hat tip Tom P, mensch at large

heh.........

UPDATE: Speaking of Al Jizz

Al Jazeera broadcasts an audiotape calling for Arab leaders planning to meet in Sudan to boycott the Iraqi government

Mainstream Media: Trumpeting Bogus Polls, Silence on Iraq, Al Qaeda, Cartoons, .....

Oy, the season of mendacity is upon us. TIME,  leftard magazine, has a poll was SHOCKING results;

Democrats preferred in November US elections: poll AFP 
Opposition Democrats are favored by a nine-point margin over the ruling Republican party of President George W. Bush in the upcoming November elections, according to a Time magazine poll.

Win every poll (exit polls too), lose every election. Do I spot a pattern? And so it begins.

And speaking of big media, am I the only one whose has noticed that FOX has been running a lot more soft news IE car chases, rural crime, human interest than hard news - since the Saudis bought 5.46% of FOX. No mention of the real news dramatically affecting our lives -- Muslims rioting, cartoons, riots in France. Just asking.

And speaking of big media, Iraq and Al Qaeda, where is the mainstream media?

Forty-eight thousand boxes containing thousands upon thousands of documents from the Saddam Hussein regime are slowly revealing a relationship between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. This link has been reported by bloggers and a few magazines but … where is the Mainstream Media when we need it?

Further proof the 9/11 commission was an impotent leftard tool.

The Information War

Washington Post conservative Blogger quits - Hey guys, next time get a guy with a thicker skin. If you are going to blog to the right at the leftiest of yellow journie papers, you better get someone with a spine o'steel..........d'oh.
Is it plagiarizing if you link?

No I didn't make this up, the Mainstream Media did -ACk!

From the MSM, the Washington Post no less;

Babies, Bigotry and 9/11
The ugly wave of anti-Arab feelings immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, may have been responsible for a sharp increase in the incidence of premature and low-birth-weight babies born to women of Arab descent in the United States in the months that followed the terrorist attacks

And they wonder why they are becoming increasingly irrelevant?

And this lefty wing counter intuituve jewel from Larry Elder here;

In February, our economy created 243,000 new jobs.

Yet one of our major newspapers tells us almost half of Americans consider the economy in a recession. American Research Group's latest monthly survey found 59 percent of Americans rate the economy as bad, very bad, or terrible. Why are Americans so negative?

Because the Mainstream media is clubbing the American people to death with that lie for years now.

Compare the first few paragraphs of this particular story by Investors Business Daily to the way the New York Times  [shocka!- Atlas] reported the story.

Investors Business Daily, paragraph 1: "U.S. companies in nearly every sector increased hiring last month, lifting job growth to better than forecast levels and enticing more people into the labor market."

New York Times, paragraph 1: "American employers added 243,000 jobs in February and workers posted their highest salary gains in more than four years, the government reported yesterday, igniting concerns among many Wall Street economists that higher wages could fuel inflation and increase expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates further." [Emphasis added.]

Note the New York Times felt compelled to add a "but" or a "cautionary note" to the economic expansion. Someone made a decision to add a cautionary note, not that the proviso is wrong, or necessarily inappropriate, but it absolutely changes the tone of the story. But couldn't one also accuse Investors Business Daily of failing to provide balance by omitting this cautionary note?

No, for America's economy, by virtually any standard, remains an incredible economic powerhouse. Read it all Hat tip Paul T

hat tip jay and he adds;

As Canadians under the Liberals didn't accept to go to war, we have to count on other countries to free our own hostages today.

In case you missed it, the Lefist-Media is distorting the truth again. The hostages were not released, nor freed.

They were rescued. Big difference. The media refuses to report any good the US military does. The US captured an insurgent and forced him to say where the captives were. US and Brits raided the place. The insurgents did not have guards at the time, so the Allies rescued the prisoners without a shot being fired.

One of the ironies the media won't report is that these anti-war Leftists were freed by the very people who they were protesting against.

UPDATE: TWO STORIES DEMONSTRATE MSM'S ANTI POST- SADDAM IRAQ BIAS

New York waste of Times Free Fall

But but but, do you think they get it yet? One a word, no nor do they care. Their agenda first - cognitive dissonance.

NEW YORK New York Times Co., the third-largest U.S. newspaper publisher, warned Wednesday that its first-quarter profit would fall short of analysts' expectations and said it may have to write down the value of an investment.

First-quarter earnings are expected to fall to a range of 22 cents to 24 cents a share, the company said, below expectations of 25 cents. The forecast is also sharply below the 76 cents a share earned a year ago, thanks to the sale of real estate assets.

The owner of The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune also said it may reduce the value of an unnamed joint-venture equity holding, which could pare first-quarter earnings further. (Bloomberg, Reuters)

Former NY Times Reporter: '93 Pulitzer Should Be Revoked and lest we not forget Walter Duranty. This is a long and grand uninterrupted tradition at the New York Slime. Why just this weekend, New York Times forced to apologise aftert they indentified the Abu Ghraib prisoner standing on a box, his head covered and wires attached to his outstretched arms as Ali Shalal Qaissi - the New York Times said this was the Iraqi who had suffered so at the hands of US troops.Qaissi - who has that image emblazoned on his business card - told how his wounds were still raw. But one week later the New York Times has again suffered the embarrassment of getting it spectacularly wrong. The New York Times favorite story Abu Ghraib -New York Times Streak of Page One Stories on Abu Ghraib ends at 32

Money quote from the President today;

“One of the things that we have to value is that that we do have a media… there’s blogs, there’s Internet, there’s all kinds of way to communicate which is literally changing the way people get their information and so if you’re concerned I would suggest that you reach out to some of the groups that are supporting the troops, that got internet sites and just keep the word moving.”

Responding to a woman whose husband had just served 13 months in Iraq. She complained that  he had come home with positive stories and footage of the progress being made and no one in the MSM would run it or touch it and what could she do? How could she get the word out? BTW, he question was met with wild thunderous applause from audience.

Expose The Left has the video here. Oh and BTW, props to FOX for running the whole of these Presidential chats everyday, whole unedited and live. Thank you FOX.

UPDATE: Sorry about the font size screw up.......quasi-computer -language-illiterate. Thanks for the tip Elvis, Low & Bjorn.....mwah -

Congresswoman Ileanna Ros-Lehtinen 2008

If you are unfamiliar with Congresswoman Ileanna Ros-Lehtinen, it's time to get up to speed. I think she is presidential material.
An interesting exchange between another Hollywood, uneducated leftard and a bright, knowledgeable Congresswoman. If you missed Congresswoman Ileanna Ros-Lehtinen stint in Iraq on CSPAN consider yourself deprived.

In the mood for a Sunday morning chuckle? Go over to Newsbusters here

Belzer Proclaims He Knows Better About Iraq than Uneducated Soldiers in Iraq

[Be advised that this item includes accurate quotations of vulgarities.] When Congresswoman Ileanna Ros-Lehtinen contended Friday night, on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, that servicemen she's met in Iraq are “saying 'we're proud of our mission, we know what we're doing over here. We don't want you guys in Washington to lose it over there,'” actor/comedian Richard Belzer condescendingly fired back, claiming that to “ask them” is “bullshit” since, apparently unlike him, “they don't read twenty newspapers a day.” Ros-Lehtinen cited the knowledge of her Marine officer stepson, but Belzer, who plays “Detective John Munch” on NBC's Law & Order: SVU, retorted: “Doesn't mean he's a brilliant scholar about the war because he's there.” A quite agitated Ros-Lehtinen sputtered: "Oh, you are though! You are though? Okay." To which Belzer affirmed: "Well I have more time...” Host Bill Maher interjected that Belzer's point was that a 19-year-old is in the army “because he probably couldn't find other employment." The Republican Congresswoman from Florida countered that her stepson is a college graduate, leading Belzer to snidely denigrate the military: "You think everyone over there is a college graduate? They're 19 and 20-year-old kids who couldn't get a job.”

Ros-Lehtinen mocked him: "Yeah, you know because you've been there." Belzer rudely lashed back: "What, I don't fucking read!? Don't do that!" He went on to argue: "It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts." That was too much for host Bill Maher: "You're going to lose even me...”

Video excerpt (2:12): Real (3.7 MB) or Windows Media (4.3 MB). Plus MP3 audio (500 KB)

It never ceases to amaze me how Hollywood kisses that pothead Maher's ass while Dennis Miller can't get arrested. And Miller is smart and funny.

Danish Cartoons: Dhimmitude in America

A sad day for this country, a sad day indeed. Little by little, step by step - these are the real freedoms we as Americans are losing. Not the Patriot Act, not listening to Al Qaeda's conversations. This is the real loss of freedom. Think about it.

An editor who chose to publish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad in the University of Illinois' student-run newspaper last month has been fired, the paper's publisher announced Tuesday.

Acton H. Gorton was suspended, with pay, from The Daily Illini days after the Feb. 9 publication of the cartoons, which sparked Muslim protests around the world after they first appeared in a Danish newspaper.More here

UPDATE: It gets worse. Jenette Sturges, acting opinions editor (Acton Gorton's replacement) at the Daily Illini writes here

"I can¹t help but to think that this has something to do with my job. For once, I really feel almost important, an indispensible part of a team, all that crap. I may or may not find out about the fate of my two bosses tonight, by the way.

"Last night, the editorial board met with three Muslim professors on campus. They were super nice and very smart, and very good at explaining their side of the whole thing. It looks as though I might get my chance to implement Ethics and Sensitivity training for the reporters and editors. The editorial board is also going to visit the Masjid Mosque and Islamic Center for a forum this Friday night. (We¹ve all agreed to drink green beer in the morning, sober up, go to the mosque, and then drink later.)" hat tip Irwin

oyish

Cash and a car for the blood of Danish cartoonists

LLL WaPo:Propping up their Puppets

FRONT PAGE WASHINGTON POST ONLINE

David Gregory, Retorting From the White House
NBC correspondent outside the White House, where Bush administration officials know him as an aggressive questioner. (Susan Biddle/Post) story here

Can someone tell me why he is news, front online page no less?

Newsworthy Gregory  here.

IRAQ: BUSH, REID, PELOSI & Margo

US Fatalities down since mendacious mainstream media declared "civil war". hat tip: Phil

Bush ties Iran to deadly Iraq bombs

Click BELOW LINK to play. Hee Hee

University Newspaper "JEWS ARE BLOODSUCKERS"

Uni newspaper calls Jews 'bloodsuckers'

THE University of Western Sydney has been enveloped in a race row over a student newspaper article which refers to Jewish people as "bloodsuckers".

An outraged Jewish community has demanded an apology for the "anti-semitic" comments published by student and UWS board member Luke Fomiatti.

Vice Chancellor Janice Reid has been forced to write to almost 40,000 students and staff stating the article - in the university newspaper The Western Onion - was unacceptable.

The front page spread includes anti-Jewish drawings and refers to "a vampire with a Star of David tattoo drinking the blood of a young boy labelled Europe".

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Knoll has written to Mr Fomiatti saying the article sought to "dehumanise Jews by resorting to the offensive language and disgusting illustrations which were a tool of Nazi Germany".

"To say that the Jewish community is appalled by the racist material that appeared on the front page ... is an understatement," Mr Knoll said.

Where are the worldwide protests? Where are the demonstrations? Where are the marching Jews setting fires to embassies and government buildings? Where are the murdered? Where are the dead? Where are the apologies? Where is the moral indignation? Where is the outrage? *SPIT*

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World Media Enables Iran

UPDATE MARCH 12TH: BREAKING STORY; IRAN ABANDONS TALKS WITH RUSSIA. SAYS THEY WILL ENRICH LARGE QUANTITIES  IN IRAN

A.P.: IRAN: WE WON'T CONSIDER RUSSIAN PROPOSAL

VIDEO AT THE UN - CLICK BOTTOM LINK (transcript follows)

Palkot, Fox News: "Why do you call the United States  warmongers?"

Iran Ambassador to the UN: [sardonically] "I am surprised this question's asked from FOX news" (laughing and the whole of the press corp starts laughing with him. They are in cahoots? They are on the same side? WTF?)

Palkot: Undeterred "Isn't it true that your country has participated in your own wars and supported terror activities throughout the region?"

Iran Ambassador to UN: Iran is the victim of terrorists........supported by United States [nobody laughed, nobody]

Good on ya Palkott.

Tehran's Nuclear Duplicity

Iranian officials openly brag to one another about their success in fooling European Union negotiators into believing they had stopped their efforts to produce nuclear fuel, according to Hassan Rowhani, who until last last year headed talks with the European Union 3 -- Britain, France and Germany.
    "When we were negotiating with the Europeans in Tehran, we were still installing some of the equipment at the Isfahan site," where Iran was installing equipment to process yellowcake -- a key stage in the nuclear-fuel process, Mr. Rowhani said in a recent speech.
    Mr. Rowhani noted that U.S. officials repeatedly warned their European colleagues of Iranian cheating, but the Europeans refused to listen. "From the outset, the Americans kept telling the Europeans, 'The Iranians are lying and deceiving you, and they have not told you everything.' The Europeans used to respond, 'We trust them,' "
    In September 2003, Mr. Rowhani said, Tehran faced a difficult decision when the International Atomic Energy Agency demanded a full picture of its nuclear activities. "The dilemma was if he offered a complete picture, the picture itself could lead us to the Security Council," Mr. Rowhani said. "And not providing a complete picture would also be a violation...and we could have been referred to the Security Council." Read it all hat tip phil

This is just so Hitleresque - Bunker style

Steinmeier warns US of making military threats against Iran

Germany-Iran-Steinmeier
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on America to back away from making military threats against Iran over its nuclear program, the press reported Saturday. Hat tip MarcH

"We must not allow ourselves to be dragged into saber-rattling.

Nuclear rattling, that's OK. But no saber rattling!

Complete videos-  click link below

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Islamic Lies and the Dhimmis that tell them

One of the great services the blogosphere performs is debunking mainstream media revisionist history, keeping them honest as it were.  Tigerhawk has a dissection  here on an article in the Independent on "islamic inventiveness". He takes it down fact by fact,distortion by distortion, omission by omission;

article yesterday that tells us "How Islamic inventors changed the world." It is publicity for an exhibition called "1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World" that is beginning a tour of the United Kingdom, starting at the Science Museum in Manchester. Website here.

Of the twenty putative inventions that "changed the world," all but one occurred during the Middle Ages, from roughly the 9th to the 11th centuries (Western calendar). The only "invention" that is even arguably modern is "shampoo,"

The Independent's story is an interesting tour of the history of medieval Muslim science. We learn that Muslims invented the bank check ("In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad"), the windmill, the fountain pen, and the brewing of coffee. On closer reading, however, The Independent's coverage is damnation by faint praise.;
Oriana Fallaci offers spicier fare, but truer:

Islam has always persecuted and silenced its intelligent men. I remind you of Averroes who for his distinction between Faith and Reason was ' of heterodoxy by the caliphs and forced to flee. Then, imprisoned like a criminal. Then, confined to his home and humiliated to such a degree that when rehabilitated he no longer had any desire to live and died within a few months. Not without good reason, in his famous lecture held in 1883 at the Sorbonne, Ernest Renan said that attributed the merits of Averroes to Islam would be like attributing the merits of Galileo to the Inquisition.

Tigerhawk goes on;

The dirty little secret of the Renaissance is that it and all that followed might not have happened without Muslim scholars such as Averroes. The much dirtier secret of Islam is that it never learned to reconcile faith and reason. It persecuted its geniuses. Christianity did too, but the Inquisition was a losing rearguard action against the Age of Reason, which had already been ratified by Saint Thomas Aquinas and other theologians. Islam's own inquisition persists to this day.

This brings us back to The Independent's conception of Islamic inventiveness. Along with shampoo, bank drafts, the three-course meal, the pointed arch, gardens as places of "beauty and meditation," surgical instruments, early discoveries about human anatomy, and the transmission to the West of various inventions from points east -- virtually all of which happened roughly a thousand years ago -- The Independent might have mentioned, but did not, the recovery and translation of the great works of Greek antiquity. Without them, the West might not have risen to the cultural, scientific and military pre-eminance it has enjoyed for more than 400 years.

Fausta over at BadHair Blog does some debunking of her own here

Revisionist history is dangerous. The propping up of "islamic inventiveness" is innocuous enough - part of a larger campaign. Bullshit glorification, media jizz as it were,  but in the case of Israel, antisemetic revisionist history becomes de facto, accepted  dogma and currency for the murder of Jews/Israelis. David Meir-Levi's pamphlet, "Big Lies" is the best one -stop compedium answering lies about Israel. hat tip MarcH

BIG LIES: DEMOLISHING THE MYTHS  OF THE PROPAGANDA WAR AGAINST ISRAEL HERE

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Bush=Hitler Teacher OK, Cartoons NOT

So Jay Bennish, the outrageous demogogue molding the minds of high school students -guilty of intellectual child abuse-,

During the 20-minute recording, Mr. Bennish said there were "eerie similarities" between "things that Adolf Hitler used to say" and Mr. Bush's statements during his Jan. 31 State of the Union address.
    Mr. Bennish also said that capitalism was "at odds with human rights," and that the United States was "probably the most violent nation on planet Earth." Here

is back in school on Monday "FREEDOM OF SPEECH!" here, but the media won't publish those ridiculous Danish cartoons.

No double standard here, keep moving, nothing to see.

Child abuse

Toon: Best Photo toonman in the biz: ihillary

Traitors, Treason and WMD

WNYC had a program on To the Point this afternoon discussing the recent leakage in the Times and WaPo.  Byron York, Jed Babbin were on and agreed that some journalists are likely to get caught up in Libby type prosecutions (process crimes like perjury rather than for printing secrets).  The show was "Truth, Treason and the War on Terror" here .

This morning on The Brian Lehrer Show he interviewed General Georges Sada, whose English is not great.  Lehrer was typically noxious but Sada was insistent that the WMD are there and under water in some flooded bunkers.  You can listen here and make of it what you will. hat tip ShrinkWrapped

Hate Mail and Threats

I get a great deal of hate mail and threats as you can well imagine. Can anyone out there track down this IP address for me? I want to report "Karl"  to the authorities for threatening me. Oh yeah, and btw "Karl" I am expert shot.........and I carry.

Dear Pamela:

A new comment has been submitted to your weblog "Atlas Shrugs," on the post "Cartoon Jihad: Ayn Rand Institute Fights for Free Speech."

Comment from:

Name: Karl IP: 71.241.108.11

Comment:

Hello my little piglet. Anybody buy you your trashy looking Cartier watch yet? Didn't think so.

I decided to perform an experiment that I hope will prove to you that Muslims aren't as bad as you say. I will be sending a screenshot of the cartoons you posted, and link to your site to the five most extreme Muslim websites I can Google up. If you're still alive in April, then you will know you were wrong about the Muslims.

"PUBLISH OR PERISH" THE MUHAMMAD CARTOONS

The New York waste of Times Mudslings Wal-Mart

Talk about the pot calling the kettle out. The New York Slime Times, mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, did a puffy piece on Wal-Mart sending press releases to bloggers - article in the New York Times. The Instapundit explains press releases here.

I have been very vocal in my support of Wal-Mart. Unprompted. Unsolicited here and here.
Sam Walton was the quintessential Horatio Alger story and Wal-Mart is a great American institution.

Just so that we are clear, I take nothing, nada from any group, company, political party -- I am an unpaid blogger. My opinions are my own. Blog readers, newspaper readers, online news readers consider their sources.You know who is credible and who isn't. If anybody's cred should be seriously questioned it ought to be the Times.

The Times is attempting to discredit both the blogs and Wal-Mart with one bullet. Part of the left's ongoing campaign to bring Wal-Mart down.

The anti Wal-mart movements are evil in nature. Big union backed, this represents the tendency to move toward dictatorship policy and collectivism, and away from freedom. The Wal-Mart movement is a political fraud, Wal-mart has saved towns (all the way back to Bentonville, Arkansas).

In a fully free economy, all development is controlled by individuals.
An economy of abundance works. Not an economy of scarcity.......this assault on Wal-Mart must end.

Wal-Mart pays above minimum wage, has an excellent pay plan, always promotes from within and has an excellent benefits package. And WTF is wrong with the lowest prices in town?

Wal-Mart makes it possible for lower wage earners to purchase items the could never afford at regular store prices. Wal-mart enhances the quality of life for ALL AMERICANS.

These limo libs (and their propaganda moles at The Times) speak for who? Not for average hard working joes and janes. The libs don't shop at Wal-Mart, believe me. They speak for the little guy? HA! The little guy needs Wal-Mart.

In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged the productive, inventive minds of the world are constantly belittled and attacked by the envious and agenda-driven in a society whose squeaky wheel gets the most grease. Sound familiar? R. Galloway

UPDATE: WaPo weighs in and surprisingly we are very much in sync on this here;

"I get a ton of email from a bunch of different sources. If I run a post specifically using information contained within an email, I will say so (you can see numerous instances of this being the case). Likewise, if I quote somebody or something, it's in a quote box. That's how blogs work (apparently, he didn't understand that). . . .

"Notice the part in question is in a . . . quote box. That means that I didn't write it. As for who sent it, I don't recall. . . . I knew that Michael Barbaro was going to write this piece of dung called a news article. I was reluctant to even talk to him, given the history of the NYTs and blogs/bloggers. I see I was correct in my reluctance. Never again, brother."

On the other hand, Pickrell, who attributed one item from a Wal-Mart flack to a "reader," was quoted by the Times as saying: "I probably cut and paste a little bit and I should not have."

Bob Beller at Crazy Politico's Rantings was also involved:

"When the article was in the works I pointed out to Mr. Barbaro that just like newspaper sources, Wal-Mart was going to a place they felt they'd get a sympathetic ear. . . . The WalMartWatch.Com folks didn't send the info the Washington Times because it probably wasn't going to be sympathetic to their cause.

d'oh

"The portion of my story that didn't make it into print, and I feel is relevant, is that though I shop at Wal-Mart regularly, I don't blog about them because I agree with them on everything. I blog about them because I disagree with groups like Wal-Mart Watch, and the unions who fund them. I don't think the mainstream media, in any form, has taken to exposing who's behind them as hard as they should."

I strongly recommend you read the whole thing, particularly for CEO Richard Edelman's take on the blogs. This Washington Post article is the piece the New York Slimes Times should have written.

Wolcott's Obsession Continues

Wolcott, little girl that he is, can't keep his word. SHOCKA! The man that made Ellsworth Toohey look honest ran away with his tail between his legs when I called him out on his fallacious posts here.
So he picked up the two marbles he's got rolling around in the void of a skull of his and went home crying to mama and swore never ever ever to speak of me again here. Well the woman can't help himself. Once again he can not divert his eyes from the power of truth and he has had at it again.

I bring this up because I wish to apologize for the dreck that he sends over here. He knows who or I should say what animals his readers are -- the most base vulgarians and their misogyny knows no bounds.

So let me first apologize for the profane, obscene comments left by his vile followers -- me? I don't care. Wolcott's stalking is amusing but my readers should not be subjected to that disgusting profanity.  And my second apology is for turning on comment moderation. I will not publish any comments that are profane. As always, dissenting views are cool.

Back to AIPAC...........

Pathetic. Thieving Air America Loses Flagship

WORST CASE REALITY, The Radio Equalizer

"In a development sure to rip the heart right out of the [Air America] network's already ailing body, it appears extremely likely their leased New York City flagship station WLIB-AM will soon abandon Air America programming." Hat tip : Irwin

I guess they couldn't steal enough from the taxpayers and the Gloria Wise foundation to keep it afloat, even with Soros and the megalomaniac gang. Imagine if this was a Republican scandal.....public hangings wouldn't be stringent enough.

Meanwhile all quiet on the MSM front.

Al Franken is a Big Fat Liar here..................Corruption? You can't imagine. Get all the filth on Air America and how the left operates in this country.Read it all here
Worse than Pravda and Crooked.
 

Zogby: "Fake and Inaccurate"

Like I said here, Zogby has a clear agenda and his polls are agenda driven. Bruce over at Democracy Project has been providing insightful analysis here and here. Today Polipundit weighs in

Click here: PoliPundit.com » The Sad Case of John Zogby

By now, a lot of people have read Zogby’s latest poll, which purports to support the claim that most servicemen in Iraq want to call it quits and go home. A lot of bloggers have weighed in, on both sides of the aisle, the best in my opinion coming from Bruce Kessler at Democracy Project and Hugh Hewitt. My own opinion on Zogby should already be obvious.

Read it all.

Totally partisan. More evidence of prejudice from The Democracy Project.

Expert: Zogby “poll” needs “big ‘grains of salt’ “

Proof Zogby poll is BS

In entirety is the post at Media Lies blog. I know the blogger, and he is a reliable source.

Others might be cautious, but I'm not........I'm calling the Zogby poll bullshit. Here's why.

Source: Faces From The Front blog:

The Media's latest Production: The Katrina Rewrite

Who is editing the manistrream media news nowadays - George Clooney? The latest media swoon uh I mean swarm is all over that video released by AP of pre-Katrina briefings, using just little snips that pieced together appear to make  the President more knowledgeable of what was ahead

But the  LA Times today admits that the AP selectively edited the video. MONEY QUOTE:

“The AP video does not include footage of Chertoff asking Brown whether he needs any other help or of Chertoff asking whether Brown wants him to approach the Department of Defense. Transcripts show that to both questions, Brown indicated that no additional assistance was needed.”

Also, Newsbusters points out the sharp and telling difference between the levees being only “topped” – which was widely discussed before Katrina – and the levee breach 24 hours after the storm: Go over to Newsbusters, they have the dirty lowdown here.

Wake up people, you are being seriously played with. Stand up and say;

"I am Mad as Hell and I am Not Going to Take it Anymore!"

Bottom line on Katrina, the state and local governments failed their people miserably. Miserably. At no time in our nation's history have first responders failed to act so completely. Blame the Feds all you want, but they are the back up boys. They made mistakes, but considering what and who they were dealing with, it would have been impossible to do otherwise.

Dick David Gregory Drunk On Air VIDEO Audio

Yes concerned citizens of the world, this is what passes for elite journalism these days.

Dick David Gregory's performances in the White House press briefings and on talk radio are as good as any indication of the quality of news you can expect to get from the mainstream media.

Video Clip Here

GREGORY'S GIGGLES: NBC NEWS WHITE HOUSE REPORTER CALLS SHOW WHILE 'DRUNK'

NBC White House correspondent David Gregory, who apologized last week for calling White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan a "jerk," called into MSNBC's IMUS Thursday morning -- drunk as a skunk!

[CLICK FOR AUDIO SNIP]

Gregory is traveling with the president in India.

IMUS: Let's go to the White House correspondent David Gregory.

DAVID GREGORY: I'm OK.

IMUS: You can calls us later if you want.

GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]

IMUS: Are you drunk?

GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter]

IMUS: Are you all right David?

GREGORY: India is a wonderful language and i've been learning, where's my little sheet here. I've been learning some new phrases to come home. But any way, that being one of them and i just think it's nice.

IMUS: It is.

GREGORY: Thank you.

IMUS: Having a lot of fun there. What's wrong with you?

GREGORY: I just think it's funny. [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]

CHARLES: He's drunk.

IMUS: He is drunk!

CHARLES: Oh god.

IMUS: Why don't you compose yourself and get back to us. You want to?

GREGORY: [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter]

IMUS: What are you in some harem?

IMUS: What? David?

GREGORY: No, i'm fine.

IMUS: We need a camera, Oh my lord.

IMUS: Somebody's got --

GREGORY: i was -- remember that movie "Arthur" with Dudley Moore where he just thinks funny things and that's what was going on. If i could find this sheet, actually i just found it. Anyway.

IMUS: You have any news? [Laughter]

IMUS: we got to go, we'll get back to you.

GREGORY: I'm sorry.

IMUS: That's all right.

IMUS: Well, call us back will you?

GREGORY: Anyway. There are serious things going on here which i know you're very interested in.

IMUS: We don't have any time for them now. Quickly.

GREGORY: Big deal between India and the United States. The upshot is we're going to provide nuclear know-how and fuel to india which they need for their economy to grow. But since they never signed the nonproliferation treaty it's a real turn around and critics worry that it sends the wrong message to other parts of the world.

IMUS: Ok.

GREGORY: I would add, i would add that this is how you say thank you.

IMUS: What is it again?

[Speaking foreign language]

IMUS: Well that's great. But we have to go. It's always nice to hear from you.

GREGORY: I'll call you after dinner. IMUS: NBC Chief White House Correspondant from New Delhi, India. Clearly drunk.

Now my fellow Americans, is this where you choose to get your news? Think about it.

And Gregory, stay out of the woods, the hunting might be a tad more unforgiving over there -Atlas. [shakes, head, walks away] What a loser.

Terrorist Sue NSA, Thank the Left

TERRORIST CHARITY CHALLENGES NSA LISTENING PROGRAM

The Jurist reports:

An Oregon chapter of the defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation . . . claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday that the National Security Agency had illegally wiretapping several conversations between the charity and its attorneys. . . . The chapter of the Saudi-based charity was indicted on tax fraud charges . . . in February 2005 after having been labeled a "specially designated global terrorist" . . . in September 2004 by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control following accusations that it laundering $150,000 in donations to assist al-Qaeda in 2000.

Without the NSA program the government would not have known of the charity's terrorist connections, the lawyers complain.

Can you imagine a better reason to keep it going? Deja vu -- Judith Apter Klinghoffer

Have you thanked The New York _{waste of} Times today? If you still read it, shame on you.

Mainstream Media Pimps for Hamas

Typical mainstream media editorial bias. Ramming killer down our throats

Here's a headline from USA today

U.N.: Israel, West may cause Palestinian financial crisis
USA Today
The United Nations warned Tuesday that Israel and the West could unleash a crisis in Palestinian territories by withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and transfers. The cutoff could bring the Palestinian government to the brink of collapse by limiting its ability to provide basic services.

uh..........A terrorist gang of thugs whose mission it is  to annihilate a people by driving their country into the sea "may cause Palestinian financial crisis". Do they really expect the very people they intend to murder to keep them support them and keep them afloat?

USA Today --guilty of moral inversion and taking their talking points from the corrupt, thieving, sexual abuse enabling, criminal UN? Pinch me, I want to wake up in the parallel, rational universe.

And as for this latest report;

IMRA: MENL: U.S. EASES POLICY ON HAMAS
WASHINGTON--The Bush administration has significantly eased its opposition to Hamas and no longer sees the Islamic movement as an intractable obstacle to an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement.

 

it was never about "the Islamic movement" it was always about the destruction of Israel- Atlas

Officials said the administration has agreed to an international effort to help a Palestinian government controlled by Hamas. They said the administration has set guidelines to ensure continued U.S. financial and other support to a Hamas government that accepts democratic principles and renounces violence.

I see no change in the US position here....here is the money quote -Atlas;

"We accept Islamist parties if Islamist parties accept the rules of the game," William Jordan, head of the State Department's North Africa bureau, said. "It's up to Hamas to decide whether to accept the rules of the game."

Officials acknowledged that the new administration policy departed from the State Department ban on Hamas as a terrorist organization. Under federal law, the United States and its citizens are banned from supporting or engaging a group deemed terrorist.

even Chirac told  Annan here  Hamas must recognize Israel.... and renounce violence. Tom and I don't think he means it. He just wants to  say "see, I tried. Oh well," while giving Sarkozy a run for his rhetoric.

LGF points out New York Times boot licking here;

Today the New York Times has another installment in their long-running series of glowing portraits of Palestinian terrorists: Hamas Member Returns From an Israeli Jail, Head Held High.

His daughter, Hanin, 12, was in tears, burying her face in his waist; he lifted his son Basel, 5, a serious boy in a crew cut who stared around him. He hugged his wife, Fadia, brushing his lips along the embroidered brown scarf that covered her hair.

Yup, it's that bad.

UPDATE March 2: Did AP see the same Afghanistan Press conference that I saw? These guys are sick.

Osama Haunts Bush in Afghanistan AP
What should have been a triumphant moment for President Bush in Afghanistan also served as a vivid reminder of setbacks in his war against terrorism. His visit came at a time of increasing violence and drug trafficking in the country. And Osama bin Laden remains at large, more than four years after Bush demanded his capture, "dead or alive."

Every MSM headline was the same too, Osama still at large. Do all these elite journies sit at a bar and decide how to stick it to Bush (aka as the American people, he was our choice after all.) They all chant the same mendacious talking point. That's the MO, day in, day out, week in week out, yada yada yada.

 

Iraq, Zogby, Polls, GWoT, and the Truth

Bruce asks How reliable is Zogby poll of military in Iraq? Bruce that is not the question.

The question is how reliable is Zogby period.

Jason over at Generation why weighs in with  Democrats Get Paralysis of Analysis

Zogby is wildly anti-Bush, anti-Israel, anti-Republican. I have written of Zogby's bias numerous times..........what foll lows are remarks from a comment thread October 16th before the Presidential election here;

Zogby has accused Israel of abusing human rights and acting like a colonizer, similar to the "genocidal treatment of the Native Americans and enslavement of African-Americans."'

He is a known Anti-Semite and hater of Israel.

Zogby has a history of supporting extreme terror organizations. Zogby's anti-Semitism is well documented here;

NEW YORK-   Pro-Arab lobbyist James Zogby, head of the Arab-American Institute, has publicly urged the Arab nations to refrain from normalizing relations with Israel--thus further shattering the myth that Zogby is "moderate" or "seeks peace with Israel".

The web site ArabicNews.Com reports that Zogby told the Moroccan daily Al-Alam that "a drive towards normalization of relations with Israel" would be "dangerous." here

The following is from a pre-election Zogby poll I fisked;

His polls are always notoriously skewed;
Bush job performance rating drops to 69%; [emphasis mine]
Democrats take lead in  race for Congress; [another lie]
58% say Israel should leave occupied Palestinian territories;
83% believe Mideast bloodshed will spread to other nations,
Zogby America Poll reveals

Moreover, in Zogby's account, Israel pursued a policy of `ethnic cleansing,'

more skewed Zogby results;
Zogby poll released today indicates that Americans – by large majorities – oppose the United States militarily defending several key allies, including Taiwan, Israel and South Korea.

The Zogbys clearly have an agenda. James Zogby Justifies Palestinian Terrorism. "Palestinian organizations are refusing to accept U.S. foreign aid this year, rather than sign a pledge promising that the money will not be used to support terrorism." as reported in The Washington Times.

The paper then paraphrases James Zogby of the Arab American Institute saying that this refusal by Palestinian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to sign the pledge "should not be seen as support for terrorism, rather that in Palestinian society it is politically expedient to reject the funds than endure the tremendous political pressure they will face for signing the pledge. Zogby continues, in his own words: "This is not clearly understood in the United States. The idea of providing no ‘material support is such a broad brush stroke, it compromises the ability of the humanitarian organizations to function." The reporter then paraphrases Zogby saying that "making Palestinian organizations judge who is and who is not a terrorist is a prescription for creating civil war in the Gaza Strip and West Bank."

In addition James Zogby became apoplectic when President Bush nominated the eminent scholar Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of United States Institute for Peace. Mr. Pipes brilliance of is some note and matched only by Hanson.

Zogby spit out the following:

"Daniel Pipes has a problem - his obsessive hatred of all things Muslim," writes James Zogby of the Arab American Institute. "Pipes is to Muslims what David Duke is to African-Americans."

BTW,this patently untrue.But these are gross and vicious libels, as anyone who reads or listens to Pipes' own words will quickly discover at his site here. His hundreds of essays on terrorism, Islam, and the Middle East have appeared in scores of publications, from the Atlantic Monthly to The Jerusalem Post to Foreign Affairs. He has written countless book reviews. He is the author or editor of 13 books, he lectures nationwide, and he is a frequent guest on news and public-affairs TV shows. In short, he has compiled a vast public record.  If he were the hater Zogby decries, it would be pretty hard to disguise.
Daniel Pipes has been a huge supporter of moderate Muslims and believes America must support Moderate Islam in our war on Radical Islamofascism

more Zogby quotes;

James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, said that because of the "disproportionate number of Jews," the State Department should hire more Arab Americans.

Zogby's "extremist, anti-Israel views" disqualified him from being involved with U.S. policy in the Middle East.

Radical organization and known supporter of terror groups, James Zogby – president, Arab American Institute.

Zogby said that Israel's "invasion of occupied territories is seared into the Arab psyche the way the Holocaust defines 20th century history for Jews".

*SPIT*

Case closed.  So much for Zogby objectivity.

As for Iraq. It is painfully clear to me that the Iranian sponsored terror in Iraq is very much a part of the global war on terror. And the war on terror is (and always was) a global war.  The Cartoon Jihad is empirical evidence of that. Iraq is and was very much a part of the terror network. Twelve years flouting sanctions alone would have legitimized the war, but Saddam was paying off families of suicide bombers. He was bankrolling the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine through the UN oil-for-food program. The oil for food crimes!

Saddam used our taxpayer money to bomb innocents. He gave Abu Nidal, infamous Palestinian terrorist responsible for the deaths of hundreds, safe harbor for decades protecting the grisly executioner of wheelchair-bound American Leon Klinghoffer. WTF was going on at Salmon Pac? Al-queda trained their pilots in that full sized passenger airliner fuselage. It didn't fly, but they "trained" for missions using this fuselage.

Saddam had WMD. The developing story of Saddam secreting his WMD  into Syria is the icing on the cake. More on that here.

The ongoing fight on the ground in Iraq is part of the global war on Radical Islamic terror.

The left's contention that "Iraq was a mistake, not part of al qaeda, 9/11, the war on terror" is blatantly irrational, and illogical. It is a fallacy. And for those of you who claim Bush and his administration are secretive, non communicative - I counter that the mainstream media gives the man no time, no platform, no opportunity to air his strategy. They hate him. They will sell this country and our national security down the river to undo him. They will aid and abet the enemy to give their own arguments validation.

Please read Max Friedman's Betrayal of America --   most excellent, brilliant,  hard hitting piece here.(thanks to Chas)

I see Iraq as a great success. Not because of the stories you rarely see or hear for example here and here. The success in Iraq is a country of 50 million people liberated from a despot and centuries of totalitarianism, of living under the boot of dictators. That can't be easy. The wonder of our accomplishments in tandem with our accomplishments in Afghanistan are very much the reason Iran has undertaken a campaign of terror, fear,  and propaganda in that country in an attempt  to return it to the dark ages here and here. here.

This is not a sugarcoat. Expect a great deal more bloodshed, infighting, foreign fighters and outside influences to plague Iraq for the foreseeable future. That does not make failure de facto. Our objectives are noble. And what would be the alternative. In my mind, there is no alternative. The American people are not paying attention here.

I met a Yemen Muslim woman who lived in the United States for 20 years (her husband married her at 13 and brought to the US, then summarily dumped her 10 years later) . This woman still lived in fear of Radical Islam - 20 years later - in America.

SO THIS CAN BE  NO EASY TASK. If you don't have the stomach for it, get out of the way. Our world, our way of life must be saved. But the left can not be the monkey on our backs.

We elected George Bush, we elected him to do the job. Why won't they let this man do the job we elected him to do? I know, I know the polls say this, the polls say that, but at the end of  the day the only poll that means anything is the elections. Respect that.

UPDATE:  Victor Davis Hanson apparently sees things as I do, READ IT A-L-L;

AT WAR WITH OURSELVES,
We're winning in Iraq. Let's not lose at home.

The second-guessing of 2003 still daily obsesses us: We should have had better intelligence; we could have kept the Iraqi military intact; we would have been better off deploying more troops. Had our forefathers embraced such a suicidal and reactionary wartime mentality, Americans would have still torn each other apart over Valley Forge years later on the eve of Yorktown--or refought Pearl Harbor even as they steamed out to Okinawa.

There is a more disturbing element to these self-serving, always evolving pronouncements of the "my perfect war, but your disastrous peace" syndrome. Conservatives who insisted that we needed more initial troops are often the same ones who now decry that too much money has been spent in Iraq. Liberals who chant "no blood for oil" lament that we unnecessarily ratcheted up the global price of petroleum. Progressives who charge that we are imperialists also indict us for being naively idealistic in thinking democracy could take root in post-Baathist Iraq and providing aid of a magnitude not seen since the Marshall Plan. For many, Iraq is no longer a war whose prognosis is to be judged empirically. It has instead transmogrified into a powerful symbol that apparently must serve deeply held, but preconceived, beliefs--the deceptions of Mr. Bush, the folly of a neoconservative cabal, the necessary comeuppance of the American imperium, or the greed of an oil-hungry U.S.

If many are determined to see the Iraqi war as lost without a plan, it hardly seems so to 130,000 U.S. soldiers still over there. They explain to visitors that they have always had a design: defeat the Islamic terrorists; train a competent Iraqi military; and provide requisite time for a democratic Iraqi government to garner public support away from the Islamists.

UPDATE: Totally partisan. Check out the knee jerks on the comment section of this thread;

Expert: Zogby “poll” needs “big ‘grains of salt’ “

More evidence of prejudice from The Democracy Project.

Proof Zogby poll is BS

In entirety is the post at Media Lies blog. I know the blogger, and he is a reliable source.

Others might be cautious, but I'm not....
....I'm calling the Zogby poll bullshit. Here's why.

Source: Faces From The Front blog:

This line from the Press Release:
"Four in five said they oppose the use of such internationally banned weapons as napalm and white phosphorous."
of Zogby's new poll of military personnel in Iraq struck me as odd.

What is odd about it is that 80% of infantrymen carry white phosphorous grenades on missions.

So, ethier most of resondents are not currently aware of what infantrymen strap to their flak vests when they go outside the wire, or disapprove of their infantry bretheren carrying WP grenades or the question was poorly worded, or some combination.

Media Lies blog continues:
First of all, white phosphorus isn't an internationally banned weapon, and every infantryman, Marine, grunt and ne'er-do-well knows that. Secondly, the troops carry the weapon on them on missions. This poll was rigged and is worthless, plain and simple. I don't need to see any of the other questions to know that.

Obviously Zogby's "pollsters" have never heard "Pop smoke". I question if anyone was polled, or if someone sat down and made up this poll out of thin air. I'm voting for the latter.

Zogby won't reveal the questions, won't reveal the interviewees and won't reveal the pollsters. Now why do you think that is?

 

Mad Hot off the Presses Net ~ Bush White House Reads the Blogs

The White House has acknowledged the power of the blogs as I have here, here and here - it's been one Gutenberg moment after another. I am not surprised by this. The blogs have become the tail wagging the dog. Apparently the White House agrees. How lovely to see Presidential acknowledgment -- mad hot, eh?

Drudge reports here on comments made by President Bush and his top advisers on the importance of blogs, and what the CBS memo scandal showed about mainstream media. President Bush said, “the amazing thing about this world we live in is that there’s a kind of free-flowing, kind of bulletin board of ideas and thoughts out there in the ether space, sometimes landing on somebody’s desk and sometimes not, but always available. It’s a very interesting period.“ 

BUSH CHEERS DECLINE OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA, RISE OF ALTERNATIVE PRESS

ROVE SLAMS DAN RATHER: NOT A 'SERIOUS' REPORTER

President Bush, for the first time, is hailing the rise of the alternative media and the decline of the mainstream media, which he now says “conspired” to harm him with forged documents.

“I find it interesting that the old way of gathering the news is slowly but surely losing market share,” Bush said in an exclusive interview for the new book STRATEGERY. “It’s interesting to watch these media conglomerates try to deal with the realities of a new kind of world.”

[STRATEGERY was ranked #5 on AMAZON.COM's sales chart early Tuesday morning.]

For example, journalist Dan Rather left the anchor chair at CBS News after Internet reporters revealed he had used forged documents to criticize Bush’s military record in September 2004. The forgeries, which Bush now calls a conspiracy, ended up helping his reelection campaign, he acknowledged in the Oval Office interview.

“It looks like somebody conspired to float false documents,” the president tells author Bill Sammon. “And I was amazed about it. I just couldn’t believe that would be happening [and] then it would become the basis of a fairly substantial series of news stories.”

He added: “Then there was a backlash to it. I mean, a lot of people were angry that this could have happened. A lot of Americans are fair people and they viewed this as patently unfair. So in a funny way, I guess it inured to our benefit, when it was all said and done.”

The episode, known as “Memogate,” inoculated Bush against further scrutiny of his National Guard record for the duration of the presidential campaign.

Developing...

Rove said Rather’s eagerness to broadcast obviously forged documents proves he is “no serious reporter.” As for Rather’s insistence, to this day, that the documents are real, Rove said: “That’s really bias.”

Memogate has helped accelerate the decline of the mainstream media, generally defined as CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times and other establishment news outlets. “I think what’s healthy is that there’s no monopoly on the news,” Bush said. “There’s competition. There’s competition for the attention of, you know, 290 million people, or whatever it is.

Having long been pilloried by the mainstream media, Bush now finds the rise of the alternative media nothing less than revolutionary.

“It’s the beginning of the twenty-first century; it also happens to be the beginning of—or near the beginning—of a revolution in newsgathering and dissemination,” he said. “Not in news making—that tends to be pretty consistent.”

Rove considers Memogate a watershed in the rise of the alternative media.

“The whole incident in the fall of 2004 showed really the power of the 'blogosphere',” he said in his West Wing office.

“Because in essence you had now, an army of self-appointed experts looking over the shoulder of the mainstream media and bringing to bear enormously sophisticated skills,” he added.

Still, Rove cautioned that the Internet’s political potential has a darker side.

“There is so much ugliness and viciousness and fundamental untruths that the blogosphere transmits,” he lamented. “It also is a vehicle for ugly rumors, for scurrilous personal attacks, an avenue for the creation of urban legends which are deeply corrosive of the political system and of people’s faith in it.”

Yes Mr. Rove but the Army of Davids stand at the ready to correct and address those very inaccuracies. KOS, Kos kidz, DU will always spew their invective but at least there is an immediate counter balance. They may have George Soros and his Air America slush fund, but we have right. We have fact, truth and now we have an important means of communication to get the word out there. We are the messengers, think Paul Revere.

The trend is undeniable...According to a new study released from Outsell today, the research and advisory firm based in Burlingame, Calif., found that  newspapers are lagging as the dominant source for national information.  28% of those surveyed said they get their national news from online sites (and this is just the beginning of the revolution -- just the beginning.) 71% of those surveyed said they get their national news from broadcast news shows and cable TV, while only 33% said they get it from newspapers.

It's nothing you don't already know if you are here in the Atlas sphere but it is still a  delicious read never the less.

Uh, can I get my White House Press credentials now?  I wanna sit next to Helen Thomas and whisper sweet objectivist musings in her good ear.

UPDATE: Speaking of power blogging, my partner in crime , Confederate Yankee is  guestblogging over at the Washington Post here - you go Bob

More Powerblogging - stuff you just won't see in the MSM- Poland Introduces "Martyrs of Our Time" Ad Campaign  here

Hillary's "Jihad" Is Union Payback$$

Remember this?

Hillary Clinton going jihad over school vouchers over at Malkin

Download and watch the video (Windows Media file).

Money quote:

 

"First family that comes and says 'I want to send my daughter to St. Peter's Catholic ' and you say 'Great, wonderful school, here's your voucher,’… Next parent that comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the school of the Church of the White Supremacist ...' The parent says, 'The way that I read Genesis, Cain was marked, therefore I believe in white supremacy. ... You gave it to a Catholic parent, you gave it to a Jewish parent, under the Constitution, you can't discriminate against me….So what if the next parent comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the School of the Jihad? ... I won't stand for it." The whole story here

John Fund's "Swillary";

The former First Lady went on to speculate about "what [happens] if the next parent comes and says, 'I want to send my child to the School of the Jihad?'" Declared Mrs. Clinton: "I won't stand for it."

This is absurdist demagoguery. Federal law prohibits the transfer of any funds to organizations that advocate hatred or violence against any group. Beyond that, federal Pell grants have long financed college students at many private and religious schools with little controversy. Last time anyone checked, none of the money had gone to colleges advocating white supremacy, though admittedly some schools do harbor some incredibly narrow-minded liberal faculty.

 

Now remember this:

Politics Is the Labor They Love

[...]Now new government data show just how skewed its priorities have been.

Last year, unions were for the first time required to file more detailed reports on their expenditures and internal operations to comply with the 1959 Landrum-Griffin Act, which until recently had been largely ignored or circumvented. The new data are eye-opening. They showed that in 2005, the AFL-CIO spent $49 million on direct political activity, a whopping 27% of its budget. At the same time, it spent only $30 million, or 16.5% of its budget, to represent workers in contract negotiations and to protect their collective bargaining rights.

Don't expect these revelations to embarrass the giant labor federation into changing its priorities. Rather than pledge to reorient its activities more towards the daily needs of members, the AFL-CIO is announcing at its annual convention in San Diego this week that it will become a partner with the National Education Association, the most politicized union of all. The NEA is set to allow its local affiliates to join the AFL-CIO, although a merger at the national level isn't in the cards yet.

The AFL-CIO's John Sweeney, who called the deal the group's most important step "since the merger of the AFL and CIO in 1955," is obviously trying to combat the impression of a union in decline. Despite the loss of dues income from the departing affiliates, the AFL-CIO announced plans to spend $40 million on the mid-term elections this year, all but a small pittance of which will go to Democratic candidates.

Given the rate at which it's abandoning the traditional role of organized labor in favor of political activism, the AFL-CIO might as well drop the pretense and merge with the Democrats to form an honest-to-goodness Labor Party. At least that would represent truth in advertising. Wall Street Journal Political Diary, Paid Sub Only

MSM Paints Osama Bin Laden like a Big Ole Fuzzy Teddy! Awww

The mainstream media speaks of Osama Bin Laden with respect, affection and deference. The Washington Post attribute great military victories to Dracula in his cave and assigns him near great statesman status.

This mass murdering pig gets fabulous worldwide press and our President Bush, working his ass off to fight Radical Islamic extremism, making the hard choices to keep America free, and enacting foreign policy to liberate oppressed peoples living under the boot of totalitarianism for centuries is treated like a pariah. Tearing into his gut at every bump in the road. Teaching political freedom to peoples that have never tasted it, who only know the power of fear, is an enormous challenge. But, what, I ask is the alternative?

You tell me, what is wrong with this picture? And before your answer,  imagine it was your mother (or lover, or sister)  flinging herself out of the World Trade Center, trading the lesser of horrible deaths.

Outlook: On Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda Washington Post

Osama bin Laden 's plan -- to use terrorism to trigger an Islamic reawakening that will challenge Western dominance of world events and assure the ascendancy of Sunni extremists -- is moving forward, at at an alarming rate. Hiding out somewhere on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, bin Laden is surely watching with satisfaction at events unrolling across the world --  from violent protests over published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad to Hamas's rise to political legitimacy in the Palestinian territories.

Bin Laden 'likes hugs not kisses 'BBC News 
Australia's "Jihad Jack", convicted of receiving al-Qaeda funds, says Osama Bin Laden prefers hugs to kisses.

Bin Laden compares U.S. tactics to Iraq's Contra Costa Times
Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the United States had resorted to the same "repressive" tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaida leader that was posted Monday on a militant Web site.

Osama a "polite, humble" man The Hindu News
SYDNEY: Osama bin Laden is a polite, humble and shy man who doesn't mind being hugged.

Bin Laden a man with a soft side, says Thomas Sydney Morning Herald
THE former Melbourne taxi driver convicted this week of receiving cash from al-Qaeda has told of his meetings with Osama bin Laden and how the world's most-wanted man had a softer side. -

Australian terror convict says Osama loves beer, Islam Reuters Osama bin Laden does not like to be kissed and described himself as a reluctant Muslim who loved beer.

Hamas....what you don't know can kill you

Hamas, bought and paid for by Iran.  A product of the West's propensity to turn the other cheek.

Nicole Sadighi, an Iranian journalist and an advocate of non-violent movement for democracy in Iran, speaks of the Islamist culture of death here:

Islamic radicalism hails martyrs and jihadists as champions of Islam. They celebrate death and have no respect for life. Ultimately, do they not proclaim the role of martyrdom and jihad as the epitome of Islam? They rejoice in the deaths of their sons and daughters in suicide escapades more than they do when they were born to them. Death is their motivation, inspiration and salvation. Without it they have no meaning; they have no reason; no purpose.

From Honest Reporting; Much has been written about Hamas following its victory in recent Palestinian elections. Some have attempted to sanitize the organization's murderous past and its clearly stated ideological intentions. But how much do you know about the Hamas? Try this quiz by clicking on the graphic below, forward it to relatives and friends and be prepared to challenge the media if it fails to acknowledge the real nature of Hamas - a deadly terrorist organization.

Berlusconi to explain Russia's Hamas policy to Bush AFP
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will try, during a meeting this week with US President George W. Bush, to shed light on Russia's policy toward the radical Palestinian group Hamas, a US magazine reported. 

Huh?

February 26, A day that will Live in Infamy

It is barely noted in the media, but war was declared on this country on this very day.

Today in history - Feb. 26
Sunday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2006. On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

Thank you President Clinton. Thank you for responding so forthrightly and preparing this country and our military for the war of the worlds.

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice stated, “For 60 years my country has pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this [Middle East] region...by trying to purchase stability at the price of liberty, we achieved neither and we saw the result of that on a fine September morning.”

Iran Just Outside Tel Aviv, Next Stop New York

Do not  for one second,  think I am exaggerating. Iraq, Iran, Syria, France, Denmark, .....these incidents are not separate or disconnected. They are all part of the Radical Islamists' attempt to take over the world. Sit by and you are  a willing dhimmi.

Mofaz: PA Under Hamas Puts Iran Just Outside Tel Aviv

Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz told U.S. envoy David Welch on Sunday that the Hamas and its sponsor in Iran were attempting to create “an axis of evil, here,” on Israel’s doorstep.

Mofaz said, “The latest contacts between the Hamas and Iran, and Khaled Mashal’s trip to Teheran to obtain Iranian support and to create an alliance, brings the axis of evil of Iran, Syria, Hizbullah, and Hamas, right here.”

Mofaz told Welch that the Hamas had specific plans to intensify its relationship with Iran and Hizbullah. “We know about their intentions,” said Mofaz, “and Israel cannot agree to that.”

Despite veiled hints that Hamas might accept Israel de facto within its pre-1967 borders, Mofaz said Israel would not be amenable to any negotiations with the terror group which won a landslide victory against the Fatah in Palestinian Authority elections last month. He called the Hamas approach, “sweet talk.”

ZOA: HAMAS VIDEO: 'WE ARE A NATION THAT DRINKS JEWISH BLOOD,' PROMISES TO KILL JEWS 'UNTIL WE HAVE QUENCHED OUR THIRST WITH YOUR BLOOD'

ZE'EV SCHIFF: LEBANON ADMITS LETTING SYRIAN ARMS CONVOY REACH HEZBOLLAH

Teddy 'SPLASH' Kennedy and his Thugs Silence Student

Freedom of Speech, but only if you are a shill for the left .....

Student under fire for shout:
'Remember Chappaquiddick!'

Self-described liberal hollers phrase as Kennedy begins on-campus speech

A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Paul Trost, 20, a student at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Mass., says he was upset by an introduction of Kennedy given by Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in which the congressman noted how the long-time senator overcame hardship in life on his way to success.

"Lynch said Kennedy had overcome such adversity to get to the place he was, and that's a bunch of bull," Trost said of the introduction, which occurred in the school's student center Tuesday morning.

Just as Kennedy began speaking, Trost was walking out of the room when he shouted, "Remember Chappaquiddick!"

"Most of the crowd gasped," Trost said. "Then I walked out of the student center."

The student says a campus police officer went outside and stopped him. He also saw some state troopers go outside, the type who accompany Kennedy around the state to provide security.

"One of my teachers called me ignorant and told me this was an embarrassment to the school," Trost told WND. "She said to me, 'Can't you forgive him after all these years?' And I said, 'No, he killed somebody.'

"If it had been me or any other person, we'd be in jail," Trost says he told his instructor.

Referring to his two-word shout, Trost said, "I did it because I know about Kennedy's past. I know what happened at Chappaquiddick.

"I wanted to send a message to him that my generation still knows about it. We haven't forgotten about it."

Trost said he was satisfied to know that students on campus were talking about the Chappaquiddick incident later in the day – some of whom, in fact, were not familiar with it.

In 1969, Kennedy was driving a car that went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned after the car landed upside down in the water. From World Net Daily

"Senator Kennedy killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger" - George Killen ~ State Police Detective - Lieutenant on the scene 

Left's Latest Straw Man:Port Security

This is rich, really rich.

Sen. Charles Schumer, who's been a leading critic of the Bush administration's decision to approve a takeover of U.S. ports by a company based in the United Arab Emirates, said Monday that he'd rather give Halliburton the contract.

"I'd take Halliburton over U.A.E. at this point, if I had to take a choice right now," Schumer told Fox News Channel's John Gibson.

The New York Democrat endorsed a Halliburton port takeover - an idea first floated by radio host Rush Limbaugh - even though his party has spent years vilifying the company because of its ties to Vice President Dick Cheney.

In a word HA!. Schumer pushing Halliburton? The left does not know which  way to twist into the wind. They are tied up in knots. Now they want racial profiling. Wow, I never thought I'd live to see the day.

Kahn, lib hawk writes: [...]but does anyone else see the irony in the left's criticizing Bush for supporting the deal that allows the U.A.E. company to manage major eastern seabord ports?  These are the same people who get outraged at the notion that security screeners at airports or police at subway stations might scrutinize Muslims or Arabs a bit more closely than, say, 80-year-old grandmothers.  But they are happy to abandon such high mindedness for an opportunity to criticize Bush and denounce a deal solely because it involves an Arab corporation.

or as Jay points out;

Yup, I know how the Dems are now OK with “profiling” on this one despite their record:

-It was Dems who tried to block Bush administration efforts to impose citizenship requirements on airport security workers in the after the 9/11 attacks.

-It was Dems who attacked the Bush Justice Department after the September 11 attacks for fingerprinting young male temporary visa holders traveling from terror-sponsoring and terror-friendly nations; temporarily detaining asylum seekers from high-risk countries for background screening; and sending undercover agents to investigate mosques suspected of supporting terrorism.

-It was Dems who secretly attempted to remove funding for the National Security Exit-Entry Registration System -- the Justice Department program that helped nab at least 330 known foreign criminals, 15 illegal-alien felons and three known terrorists who attempted to enter the country.

-And a week ago, Gore who was in Saudi  Arabia attacking the Bush administration's profiling and immigration enforcement against illegal aliens from terror-friendly countries as "terrible abuses." -Will the UAE be hiring Gore to condemn the "abusive" practices now being championed by his Dem colleagues?

Sorry guys I am not with the opposition on this one [re:Dubai takeover]. This is a knee jerk reaction and a bad one. There are the moderates in the MUslim world working with us and we can't fight  the global war on terror without them.

We need to build our relationships with moderate Muslim states, and frankly we are not talking about the security of the ports here. The United Arab Emirates-owned company would be taking control of port operations, NOT SECURITY.

P&O hires the terminal work force and ensures that cargo is delivered or shipped at ports. Port operators “just make sure every ship and every truck is unloaded,” said Mike Bowden, president of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1459 in Mobile, Ala. Some of the work involves scheduling trains or trucks to pick up and deliver shipments. The operator also allocates storage space for cargo at the ports.

“Security” is still handled by the Coast Guard and other government entities. But, port operations companies handle facilities, scheduling, storage, and more. To me, the legislators are right in seeking a “go slow” approach to the changing ownership over this critical hub of American commerce and security vulnerability. So take the 45 day review and assuage all.

 

Fighting the war on terror requires allies in that part of the world. We need to go after the  terrorists. The left cries about abuses against terrorists housed at Guantanamo Bay, that we ought to close Gitmo. Those guys are killers and would take up arms immediately upon release. But the left wants to reward them yet punish those Arabs working with us?

 

The left  will screw this country at any cost, just to get back into power. I don't see the harm in Dubai taking over from a different foreign country - the English - a country that has a huge radical Islamic population here (recently voting to live under Shariah -- 40%!) . C'mon get real.

 

President Bush said yesterday that he would veto any legislative effort to derail the transfer of operations to Dubai Ports World. President Bush added:

The company is from a country that has been cooperative in the war on terror, been an ally in the war on terror. The company operates ports in different countries around the world, ports from which cargo has been sent to the United States on a regular basis.

My friend Irwin shares my thinking on this here;

Bush has proven his bona fides on national security. Harry Reid, who boasted, "We killed the Patriot Act," has not. It's a no-brainer. If Bush says the UAE arrangement is no big deal, I believe him.

What are the Dems (and some opportunistic Republicans) implying -- that any organization or nation with "Arab" in the name can't be trusted? Perish the thought.

On matters of NS, today's left has turned me into a reactionary.  If they're against it, I'm for it. The Dems have become what someone termed the "Opposite Party." The truth is inversely proportional to what they (with a few exceptions) allege

This is a straw man. We must prioritize in the War on Terror. All of our efforts must be go after the savages and kill them, not drop a ton of pork$ on first responders as Hillary would have us do..........that is after the fact. That is after we have been attacked. I say we must be proactive not reactive. Offensive not defensive. Get the barbarians before they attack.The left will never get it.

There is now way I would punish an Arab state working with us on the War on Terror. It would do tremendous harm to our efforts to recruit moderate Muslims in our war on terror.

It's a straw man Foreign companies have been doing this kind of work for us for years

The workers are American.

There has been no real analysis on this, it is a sound bite story albeit a dangerous one. Killing this deal will do great harm to the war on terror and I don't see the downside, it's the PR that sounds bad.

If we are that concerned, let's screen but bear in mind we are not handing over security to this company.

Rich Galen, publisher of Mullings hits the nail on the head by stating;

This port deal is not a national security issue. It is an issue of this administration having a continuing problem with understanding how these things will play in the public’s mind and not taking steps to set the stage so these things don’t come as a shock and are presented in their worst possible light.

Reader Shawn writes with a fabi idea;

A.P. Moller-Maersk (a Danish company) is a port handling company. Let's let them do it.

Ha!  But have they boycotted Israel? Do the homework.

UPDATE: Bush knew of ports deal after completion: White House

President George W. Bush did not know about a deal to hand over operations at major U.S. ports to an Arab company until after his administration approved it, the White House said on Wednesday.

Bush still staunchly supports the decision. I support it too, unpopular as this may be.

Update: New York Sun: Aha! The ulterior  motive here!

Nor do we recall any protest from Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Schumer or Ms. Boxer when President Clinton and Vice President Gore announced in May 1998 that America was selling 80 F-16 fighters to the UAE. Nor did these politicians protest back in December 1996, when the Clinton administration's assistant state secretary, Robert Pelletreau, went on UAE television to announce: "On the international stage, the UAE is universally respected for its generosity and commitment to regional security and fair-dealing. These qualities reflect the exceptional character of Shaykh Zayid, who is truly the father of his country, and a respected statesman." Mr. Pelletreau went on, "We were pleased that the U.S. could offer His Highness Shaykh Zayid medical treatment earlier this year while he was here. President Clinton telephoned him to welcome him and placed the White House at his disposal to make his stay comfortable and productive."

So what, one wonders, accounts for the sudden turnabout and interest of all these politicians in the UAE as a potential terrorist threat? The answer got a lot clearer yesterday afternoon when the International Longshoremen's Association, the AFL-CIO-affiliated union that represents workers at the six ports that would be affected by the Dubai deal, issued a statement praising the politicians complaining about the deal. The union's statement expressed "great concern" about the transaction. From there, it's easy to just follow the money - documented by The New York Sun's examination of Federal Election Commission records - from the political action committee of the International Longshoremen's Association into the pockets of the protesting politicians.

Mr. Schumer, the first to raise the alarm about the deal? He's collected $4,500 in campaign contributions from the trough of the Longshoremen. Rep. Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who was one of the first big-name Republicans to break ranks with the administration over the deal? The Longshoremen's political committee donated $5,500 to the King campaign. It turns out that nearly every politician who has been at the forefront of the opposition to the Dubai deal is on the receiving end of some Longshoreman largesse.

Senator Clinton's campaign took $4,500. Senator Dodd, $2,500. Congressman Fossella, $9,500. Senator Boxer, $6,000. Senator Lautenberg, $9,000. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York who is another outspoken critic of the Dubai deal, has accepted $22,500 from the Longshoremen since March of 2000. Senator Menendez, a leader of the opposition to the Dubai deal, has taken in fully $39,500 in campaign contributions from the Longshoremen's political action committee. It puts a different spin on the statement yesterday from the president of the International Longshoremen's Association, John Bowers, who said, "We echo United States Senator Robert Menendez who correctly notes that our ports are the front lines of the war on terrorism." It raises the question, for example, of whether the Longshoremen are echoing Mr. Menendez, or whether Mr. Menendez is echoing Mr. Bowers, who has been so generous to his campaign.

UPDATE: DUBAI IS SAID TO HAVE LONG AIDED THE U.S.

By ELI LAKE Staff Reporter of the Sun

CAIRO, Egypt — With the president and Congress banging heads over the safety of American ports, opponents of the United Arab Emirates deal will soon discover that America and the UAE are far closer than ever was suspected.

   For at least a decade, intelligence officials in Dubai have quietly shared detailed banking records of suspected terrorists, and even neighboring officials in Iran, with American intelligence agencies.    The financial intelligence from Dubai, a principality known as the Switzerland of the Middle East for its closed banking system, has been particularly useful in tracking down much of the money to Saudi charities that have been in league with Al Qaeda, former CIA officials said.

   Despite the long-standing security ties between the Emirate and Washington, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey yesterday decided to file a legal action in a New Jersey federal court to have the deal stopped without delay.

There is much more here than meets the eye and maybe Dubai would rather not  publicize its cooperation with the US. Why stoke the radicals? Just look what a couple of lousy cartoons can incite.

 

There Was a Muhammad Before Those Cwazy Cartoons!

All this hollerin' about NO RENDERINGS OF MUHAMMAD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES as it is written in the Koran. But but but but..........
There are plenty of depictions of Muhammad before the infamous "Danish incident" here at Zombie as well as historical and modern depictions of Mohammed. There are some good quality paintings, sketches, and lithographs there. It's worth looking at.

 

Here are some depictions from circa 1315, 1425, 1514 and more. For example:

 

This Iranian site contains a photograph of a mural which appears to depict Mohammed (sixth picture down) on a contemporary building in Iran. The mural shows Buraq (the animal that carried Mohammed on his Night Voyage, described as being white and having the face of a woman and the tail of a peacock, which this creature is and does) carrying a figure who could therefore only be Mohammed. A word-for-word transliteration of the Farsi caption to that picture is (according to this automated translation site), "The Messenger mounted mainland shiny door village (yzdlaan) (kvyry) village blinds to ascension wine river," which obviously doesn't translate well but which does make mention of "The Messenger," a traditional epithet for Mohammed (as the messenger of Allah). Note: this image is hosted on the Web site of the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, which is sponsoring a contest of cartoons about the Holocaust as an outraged reponse to the publication of the Mohammed cartoons in the West. Yet the newspaper itself is currently displaying this depiction of Mohammed. (This image also on the newspaper's site appears to be a contemporary image of Mohammed as well.)
(Hat tip: Kilgore Trout.)

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This one shows Mohammed as a pig, apparently (?) being inspired by the Devil.

 

 

This stencilled graffiti version of one of the cartoons on a wall was photographed by a reader in Hamburg, Germany on February 16, 2006. The words under the image say, "Hallo Mittelalter '06" -- "Hello Middle Ages '06".
(Hat tip: Tim.)

 

 

This Czech Web site featured an artist's three responses to the controversy. This one shows Mohammed as a nude suicide bomber, with his six-year-old bride Aisha on the right.

The "Jesus and Mo" comic strip showed one of Mohammed's testicles.

 

 

 

 

The Crybaby Mohammed.
(Hat tip: Buck.)

 

A few from pretmetmohammed

 

Farting Muhammed

Translation:Muhammed says;A good Muslim always farts in the direction of the West.
Man;That's why the houses are so cheap in Mekka-West.

 
And over at Fat Steve's Archives here --

The Other Muhammad Cartoons

 

        Originally at weekendavisen here, and finally found here.

The Weekend avisen page, complete


Muhammad as bearded women, or possibly in drag


Muhammad as empty chair (top), plus Santa Muhammad


Allegedly, the Prophet Roaring by a Forest Lake


The Prophet's Foot (top), plus Muhammad as a Dane (the person pictured is one of the paper's editors).


Allegedly, the Prophet as He Saw Himself (top), plus allegedly The Prophet With Mom.


The Mona Lisa is revealed to actually be a painting of the Mona Lisa.


The Prophet's Insides

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The Phony Cartoons


Supposed to be Muhammad as half pig, but actually an altered photograph of a guy at a French pig-squealing contest


Muhammad depicted as a Demonic Pedophile, allegedly sent to a Muslim by a Dane, but more likely drawn by a Muslim provacateur


Praying Muslim Being Screwed by a Dog, allegedly sent to a Muslim by a Dane, authenticity undetermined 

The Mohammad Cartoon Death Toll Rising

Every damn day I receive the daily military death toll in Iraq. Everyday. and yes it breaks my heart but we are at war. Soldiers die, fine men and women die fighting for the most precious gift, freedom.

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
As of Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006, at least 2,273 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes six military civilians. At least 1,781 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

So where is the daily toll on innocent women and children as a result of an islamic world gone mad over a bunch of amateur cartoons? The media's hypocrisy is too much to bear.

45 die as Nigeria protests against cartoons
As the death toll from the riots in Nigeria about the Prophet Mohammed cartoons
rises to 45, the Danish newspaper in which they first appeared has placed full-page apologies in Saudi Arabian newspapers.

Arab daily prints Danish apology, apology, my ass. WHERE ARE THE RADICAL ISLAMIC APOLOGIES FOR MURDER!?! More media inversion here.

I can't even find the total number dead............can you believe it?

But I could not help but stumble upon the inevitable "it was Bush's fault." Geez, they think he is G-d.

Bush blasted in cartoon furore
TERRORIST group Hizbollah has slammed US President George W. Bush for comments he made on the violence that has erupted over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, after hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims marched through Beirut.

With Christians Burnt Alive for Prophet Muhammad Cartoons, my preliminary results from scouring the wires, Libya - 11 dead,

Cartoon Protests KBCI Boise PESHAWAR, Pakistan Nearly 20 people have died this month during violent protests over Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Three deaths in Pakistan today bring the total to 19

Plus the 45 in Nigeria? And what about the 11.5 million dollar bounty on the head of the cartoonists? And the media has nothing to say? They are culpable here. They are empowering these savages. This makes them just as savage.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

Russia is shutting down newspapers for running the toons. This after Beslan. Gluttons for islamic punishment .

2nd Russian Paper Shut in Cartoon Furor New York Times; A small Russian weekly that printed a composite of the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad will close.

FATWA ON CARTOON TEE SHIRT

I first wrote of the tee shirt brouhahahahaha here. Shocka! It gets worse.

Hate Mail and Death Threats Target Seller of Mohammed Cartoon T-shirts

Conservative t-shirt maker MetroSpy set off a firestorm when their newest design depicted a caricature of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb wrapped in his turban. According to Islamic tradition, graphic depictions of the Prophet Mohammed are forbidden. MetroSpy's apparent disregard for this tradition has outraged many in the Muslim world, prompting some to voice their displeasure by sending the company hate-filled email, online viruses and even death threats.

Johnathan Alexander, MetroSpy's production manager, says he's never seen anything like it. “It's a silly little cartoon. We've sold designs far more offensive than this for years”, referring to a t shirt which reads, “My Jesus can beat up your Allah.”

“For people to become so enraged over a drawing that they resort to burning down buildings and threatening to kill people is something I'll never understand,” Alexander said. 

In one email the person writes, “We kill you and burn your shop. I am Muslim with forces in the U.S.A.” hat tip Judith

Our Freeedom of Speech is under attack and the left wing dhimmi media is as silent as they are complicit *SPIT*

Daily Illini editors suspended after publishing Danish cartoons
Two editors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Daily Illini student newspaper have been suspended after “breaking ranks” to republish the controversial Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, without the knowledge of the editorial board, in the February 9 edition of...

Unbelievable.......check out the editor's thought here, hope for our next generation

Denmark to play Israel in soccer despite cartoon uproar

In the middle of Eurabia, Denmark stands tall. You gotta love, respect and admire Denmark. Planning my next vacation there. With so many dhimmi countries refusing to engage in any sporting activity with Israel here, this takes balls. I really dig that.

I have Seen the Enemy, They's Us!

  FISA Risking American Lives here at Pajama Media Toon: NYSun

Iraq: But but but, there were no WMD --Do Nukes Count?

No WMD, just nukes. Where is the media on this, the same place they are on the toons. In denial

Tape recordings released over the weekend show that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons program at least as recently as 2000 - but the press has decided the bombshell development isn't newsworthy.

Speaking at the Intelligence Group Summit in Arlington, Va., Saddam tapes translator Bill Tierney revealed that in one recorded conversation, the Iraqi dictator can be heard discussing a plan to enrich uranium using a technique known as plasma separation.

Though U.S. weapons inspectors found that 1.8 tons of Saddam's 500 ton uranium stockpile had been partially enriched, they failed to turn up any evidence of an ongoing enrichment program. More here hat tip Angry American

Saddam was a savage. And Iran is just as savage. You could not go after Iran until Iraq was freed.

Want the backstory on WMD? AtlasWMD search here and go over to Pajama Media here.

In other WMD developmentsJeff from Protein Wisdom reports;

… After watching the “Nightline” report, I noted that what we learned — from Saddam’s own lips — was that the inspections weren‘t working, regardless of whether or one concludes Hussein was stockpiling biological and chemical weapons: again and again, we heard Saddam and his aides discoursing on how they were able to fool inspectors with subterfuge and misdirection. Read it all here

 

The Muhammad Cartoons: Another Gutenberg Moment

The Loony toon Danish cartoon controversy is proving to be among other things a "Gutenberg" moment for the blogs. Just as Dan Rather's fake but accurate false document story altered the news information super highway and changed the course of American history (and the Presidential election), the publication or non-publication of the Danish cartoons in the MSM is proving to be just as significant.

By now everyone knows that big media will not print the toons. Despite the fact that  it is the obligation of the press to do just that, they succumbed to dhimmitude and refused to run them.It could not have been lost on you that the Danish editor in charge of publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, has said they were printed in response to self-censorship on issues regarding Islam and that giving in to pressure not to run them would have been "incompatible with a secular democracy".

The blogs (myself among them here) have been running them, in my case all the back to October, without so much as even thinking if it was the right or wrong thing to do. How could you not run them? It is the public's right to know.

And the blogs felt it. What political blog did not see a tsunami of traffic from a world hungry for a look at those damn  cartoons? Where did the people go? They came to us, by the millions.They were forced to come to us by the very entity that would love to see us wither and die. Ironic. My blog alone quadrupled its numbers at the height of the search.

The immediate, short term effect can be seen in Britain, here.

[...]"They [the Radical Islamists] think they have won the debate," he says with a sigh. "They believe that the British Government has capitulated to them, because it feared the consequences if it did not.

    "The cartoons, you see, have not been published in this country, and the Government has been very critical of those countries in which they were published. To many of the Islamic clerics, that's a clear victory.

"It's confirmation of what they believe to be a familiar pattern: if spokesmen for British Muslims threaten what they call adverse consequences - violence to the rest of us - then the British Government will cave in. I think it is a very dangerous precedent."

Media enabling only served to further advance the day when British Muslims formed a 'state within a state .'

There are important lessons Americans can learn from the decay of British sovereignty over its own people, Eurabian dhimmitude,  and not enforcing rule of law. And there are valuable lessons to be learned from the damage a complicit, seditious media can and will do by tearing at the extraordinary fabric of the great American experiment with left wing platitudes and group think.

Rumsfeld is right, to win we must find an alternative to the mainstream media. Well we have, you're looking at it.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has a Cartoon Jihad round up here.

UPDATE: The most fabulous Egyptian Sandmonkey in the desert reports on the inevitable "BLAME THE JOOOOS" here;

Apparently in order for Arla Foods - the producer of Lurpak and lots of danish chesse- to resume their markets and operations in the Middle East, they have to promise not to do any business with Israel - not trade goods with them, and not use their ports or anything of that nature. How messed up is that?

What does trading with Israel have to do with anything? I thought Arla was having problems over the fact that it happend to be danish when a danish paper made a cartoon that drove the muslim world insane. Why do they have to forsake trading with Israel to resume relations with the middle-east? What did they have to do with the cartoons? And why are they in the middle of this again? WTF is this bullshit?

Yeah Sandbaby, WTF?
BUY DANISH BUT ONLY FROM NON DHIMMI COMPANIES, more click here: History News Network

Hodja blog reports and it is JP's lead story today:
To gain contracts in Middle-East countries Danish firms have signed contracts not to trade with Israel for several years. If Danish firms have done so - which other firms from EU and the US? Arla - the Danish dairy firm - says today - that such contracts are pure routine.

Maybe the time has come to check who you are dealing with - and who you are not dealing with.My Danish friends are embarrassed. To be honest, our Israeli readers have already provided us with some inkling about this. So, I am glad it is out in the open and, hopefully, will lead to a major rethinking on the part of the companies.

It should also give impetus to a "Buy Israel" campaign in Denmark. This link may be useful.

UPDATE: The Million Dollar Bounty on the head of cartoonists upped to 11.5 million here. More here Hat tip Michael G

A minister in India’s Uttar Pradesh state government has offered a reward of $11.5 million to anyone who would kill any of the cartoonists who drew the images of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

Imagine that 11. 5 million and climbing, and their people starve. Poverty the likes of which we can not know.

UPDATE February 20th: I am sure this is Iran's doing here, part of their new Afghan media campaign

Students burn flags, shout 'Long Live Osama' at protest over cartoons KABUL, Afghanistan Students burned Danish and American flags and pictures of President Bush during a demonstration today at a college in Afghanistan. About two-thousand students took part in the latest protest over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

The  media takes the military to task here for trying to counter this battle but I say bring it on. They say the hunchback can't see his own hump.

UPDATE:  Hope springs eternal with the next generation here, appropriate on President's Day

Blogs To Rummy: We Are Building it, They Will Come

Ever feel like you are screaming into the void, echoooooooooo chamber.

Last night Rumsfeld  gave voice to what we in the blogosphere have known all along. And what I have been contending (or shrieking as those lefties that loathe me like to say) on this blog for a year. Read my banner. It's the war of the worlds and the hearts and minds of the American people is at the core of victory. WE MUST BUILD ANOTHER SUPER HIGHWAY OF INFORMATION, OF FACT, TRUTH.

It's why me and most of the other bloggers I know do what we are doing. Believe me I'd rather be dancing.

RUMSFELD: TO WIN WE MUST FIND AN ALTERNATIVE TO MSM
Judith Apter Klinghoffer

Last night Donald Rumsfeld went on Charlie Rose show and told him in as straight forward a manner as he could that Al Qaeda, with its highly coordinated and sophisticated media apparatus, has been successful in getting MSM to help them fight their war against the West. As the current war on Islamism is asymmetric, Rumsfeld further argued, it cannot be won on the ground by soldiers, but must be won in the hearts and minds of the soldiers' homeland. Hence, unless the US government and its allies find an effective way to counter Al Qaeda's successful use MSM, the West will lose the war with Islamism.

Rose retorted that there was nothing new in Al Qaeda's attempt to use MSM. The Nazis did the same thing. Nor was he concerned by the prospect of Islamist victory or by the possibility that the media may be helping make such a victory possible. What caught his attention was Rumsfeld's argument that to secure victory the American government must find a way to compete, if not totally supplant, MSM as a source of public information.

"Do you believe the American media is doing a bad job?" he asked waxing lyrical about reporters risking their lives to tell the story. "Isn't this simply a case, as Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam argues, of shooting the messenger?" After all, how could a mere American Secretary of Defense have a gall to argue with a Pulitzer prize winner?!

Trying to deliver a message while doing as little to antagonize as possible, Rumsfeld did not bother to remind him that Walter Duranty also won a Pulitzer for misreporting on both the Moscow Trials and the Ukrainian famine. Nor did Rumsfeld remind him of the less than glorious media record in exposing Nazi atrocities or its role in stalking the fires of isolationism in the US. Instead, Rumsfeld reminded Rose of the more recent CNN admission of its deliberate decision not to reports the truth about the vile nature of Saddam's regime. That was wrong, Rose admitted but, he added, Jordan has since left CNN. Of course, Jordan was no exception and the recent CNN failure to show the controversial Muhammad cartoons for fear of endangering its reporters in the Muslim world demonstrates just how easy it is to terrorize the media. Of course, CNN is far from unique. Just read the open letter sent by the Malaysian investigative reporter to the Australian SBS TV which chose to add fuel to the ongoing Islamist stalked fire by airing additional photos of the old Abu Ghraib atrocity but failed to show the Muhammad cartoons. Terrorism, as Rumsfeld explained, aims at getting one to change his/her behavior.

But can you point to an actual military harm done by MSM, Charlie asked. Yes. Rumsfeld retorted. The recent publication of the American ability to monitor Al Qaeda communications with its American contact caused real damage. This Rose tried to dismiss with a knowing smile: "Surely, they knew we were listening?" Not really, Rumsfeld replied, the reporting led Al Qaeda operatives to change their behavior. You mean in the manner the reporting about our ability to listen in on Bin Laden's satellite phone did? Rose asked. Precisely, Rumsfeld answered. Rose Quickly changed the subject.

Do I believe this interview will alter Rose's reporting or the behavior of the MSM? Not a chance. Still, this interview is important. Along with Socrates and Rumsfeld, I believe that questions are more important than answers. Once posed, answers are invariably found. Rumsfeld asks how can Western governments bypass MSM and thereby secure victory in the war with Islamists. I trust somebody will come up with the appropriate answer. Clearly the sooner its done, the shorter this 'long war" will be. In the meantime, we, members of the alternative media, must double our efforts. Luckily, we have Jihadists own mistakes to help us hold the line.

UPDATE: Speaking of which. The New York _{waste of}  Times masochistically masturbates here;

That Which We Call a Blog...
New York Times 
Blogs versus the "MSM"? As it becomes harder to differentiate between blogs and the mainstream media, look for the real confrontation to be journalism versus armchair yammering.

Wow, I didn't know the New York SLIME Times had armchairs in their offices.......

THANK FOX NEWS NOW

Please thank FOX NEWS here for running the whole of the Bush Q&A in Tampa sans commercials. The MSM ignores his vital message and his mission. They are running all of it, as we speak. The American people need to know. Let them know.

They are doing the responsible thing.

Thanks FOX, I'll lay off you for awhile.......the audience is wildly informed. I LOVE THAT! Bush talking Darfur right now, expressed his surprise [more than once] at having been asked that question.Happy to have been asked it.  The woman that asked it  must be a blog reader. Right? For sure.

UPDATE: Bush Calls For More Muscle In Darfur
President Bush on Friday called for doubling the number of international troops in the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan and a bigger role for NATO in the peacekeeping effort.

Hallelujah!

How many Cartoonists Will They Kill?

A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country. Story here at Stop the ACLU
Can we expect a fatwa on these cartoonists as well?

And if I may express my sadness and distress at the American media's recent bout of dhimmitude in not publishing these silly cartoons while expressing outrage and shock at VP Dick Cheney's decent, admirable and correct behavior in handling the unfortunate hunting accident. What is wrong with these people? C'mon, don't they embarrass you? I cringe.

Speaking of dhimmis; Clinton says cartoons 'a mistake'
                           Atlas says Clinton 'a mistake'

Contributing Cartoonists: Cartoon by Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune, February 10, 2006 Cartoon by Robert Ariail, The State, February 10, 2006 Cartoon by John Branch, The San Antonio Express-News, February 10, 2006 Cartoon by John Cole, The Scranton Times, February 8, 2006 Cartoon by John Darkow, The Columbia Daily Tribune, February 10, 2006 Cartoon by Eric Devericks, The Seattle Times, February 10, 2006 Cartoon by Bob Gorrell, AOL News, February 8, 2006 Cartoon by Mike Graston, The Windsor Star, February 10, 2006 Cartoon by Steve Greenberg, The Ventura County Star, February 9, 2006 Cartoon by Bruce Plante, Chattanooga Times Free Press, February 10, 2006 Cartoon by John Sherffius, February 8, 2006
hat tipMarcH

SHOCKED! OFFENSIVE CARTOONS FAIL TO INCITE

What we have here is a failure to communicate. I , for one, call out anyone who spits in my face and tells me it's raining. It's not the cartoons stupid. It's about power. The power to submit.
The power Radical Islam is attempting to exert over the West.

Honest Reporting reveals ugly truths here

"The publication of cartoons that incite religious or ethnic hatreds is unacceptable."

--U.S. Department of State

The decision of several European newspapers to publish cartoons portraying the Islamic Prophet Mohamed has led to deaths and rioting around the world. While many in Europe are standing firm, the cartoons' publication has also produced strong apologies by international leaders and some of the media. The managing director of France Soir (one of the papers that published the cartoons) was even fired "as a powerful sign of respect for the intimate beliefs and convictions of every individual for allowing them to be published."

Jyllands-Posten, the original Dutch paper that published the cartoons, had this to say: "They (The cartoons) were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims for which we apologize."

We wonder why no similar outcry and apologies have come after viciously anti-Semitic and anti-Israel cartoons are published on an almost daily basis throughout the Arab world. The following cartoon (as reported by Palestinian Media Watch) was published in Al-Hayat, the official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority, last month. Perhaps the reason that it did not provoke an outrage is that by the standards of the Arab press, it is hardly exceptional. 

"Offensive" Cartoons in the Arab World  

As documented by Palestinian Media Watch, the Arab Press exercises almost no self-censorship in the publications of cartoons which involve gross stereotypes of Jews.

Not a week goes by in the Arab world without a "political" cartoon portraying Jews as either blood-suckers, Nazis, or the indiscriminate killers of Palestinian children. 

 

 

The Anti-Defamation League points out that: The U.N. designation of January 27 as a Holocaust memorial day was an occasion for many newspapers to run cartoons and columns that denied or downplayed the horrors of the Holocaust. Additionally, many newspaper articles accused Jews of using the Holocaust to justify the persecution of others 

The Nazi Swastika superimposed on the Star of David. From Al-Yawm (Saudi Arabia).

 

In an interview with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, analyst Joe Kotek, writes that "The main recurrent motif in Arab cartoons concerning Israel is 'the devilish Jew.' This image conveys the idea that Jews behave like Nazis, kill children and love blood."

"A major theme in Arab cartoons is the blood-loving or blood-thirsty Jew. This originates in Christian anti-Semitism. The Christian anti-Semitic libel alleged the Jews needed Christian blood for their Passover service. Its claim is that the Jew is evil, as his religion forces him to drink blood. In today's Arab world this image of unbridled hatred has mutated into the alleged quest for Palestinian blood.

Blood-drinking Jews are frequently shown by Al Ahram, one of Egypt's leading dailies. On 21 April 2001, it printed a cartoon showing an Arab being put into a flatting mill by two soldiers wearing helmets with Stars of David. The Arab's blood pours out and two Jews with kippot and Stars of David on their shirts drink the blood laughingly."

Yet, we find very little condemnation and apologies from the international community when these cartoons are published. In response to the offending cartoons of Muhammad, many like The Vatican said that "the drawings amounted to an "unacceptable provocation" and the right to freedom of expression "cannot entail the right to offend the sentiment of believers." One wonders why the same standards have not been used in reacting to the above cartoons.

On the other hand, Die Welt, one of the German papers to print the cartoons, got it right when they noted (as quoted in CNSNews.com):

"The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they came across as less hypocritical," the Hamburg-based daily said, noting that no protests greeted the depiction by Syrian television of rabbis as cannibals."

Not Just in the Arab World 

Unfortunately it is not just the Arab world that seems comfortable publishing blatantly anti-Semitic slurs in the guise of "political" cartoons. As previously documented by Honest Reporting, media in Europe and the United States have published cartoons that go beyond offensive.

A political cartoon published in The Independent in 2003 depicted Ariel Sharon biting into the flesh of a Palestinian baby. The background shows Apache attack helicopters firing missiles, and blaring the message "Vote Likud." Sharon is saying, 'What's wrong, you never seen a politician kissing babies before?"

The government of Israel lodged an official protest to the cartoon by Dave Brown. Yet no apology similar to the many we are hearing from around the world today was forthcoming.

Not only were no apologies forthcoming, but the UK's Political Cartoon Society awarded it first prize in its 2003 "Cartoon of the Year" competition, choosing it over 34 other entries. When Honest Reporting wrote to protest the award, the reply we received was:

"You have all taken this award completely out of perspective and context. Shame on you! We do so much good."

For an eye-opening selection of more cartoons of this nature, go to Tom Gross Media.com. With the lack of remorse that we hear from publications of these cartoons one has to conclude that the threat of violence is the only reason that most of the media are so concerned with offending Muslim sensibilities.

Ad depicting greedy Jew airs in Slovakia despite protest

UPDATE: From Shrinkwrapped here;

Anti-Semitism is an ancient scourge that has destroyed all who have become infected with it throughout history. It is a deadly illness of the mind which contains the nidus of self-destruction within its genetic code. Read it all

 

SINESE RISKS LEFT COAST HOLLYWOOD CAREER

If his series is canceled, I would not expect to see Sinese in any starring roles anytime soon. Don't lose your day job;

The U.S. media presents a "completely opposite" view of what is really happening with American troops in Iraq, highlighting the negative and ignoring the positive, Emmy Award-winning actor Gary Sinise tells NewsMax in an exclusive interview with James Hirsen. Read the full interview - Go Here Now.  Love him.

Reminds me of Denzel Washington here and Bruce Willis here, a small but very elite group of fine, decent men

 

Sowell!

Read it all here Consider it Another Valentine's Day Gift.......

This nation is facing two crises -- one phony and one real. Both in the media and in politics, the phony crisis is getting virtually all the attention.

Like the French official in "Casablanca," politicians and much of the media are shocked, shocked, to discover that the government has been listening in on calls involving international terrorist networks. Congressional leaders of both parties have in fact known this for years without saying a word.

Only after the New York Times published the news and made a big noise about it have politicians begun to declare their shock.

That is not the only thing that makes this big uproar phony. The same people who are going ballistic over what they spin as "domestic spying" never went ballistic over one of the most gross examples of genuine domestic spying during the Clinton years.

Hundreds of raw FBI files on Republicans were sent to the Clinton White House, in violation of laws and for no higher purpose than having enough dirt on enough people to intimidate political opponents. But domestic spying against Republicans did not shock nearly as many people as intercepting phone calls from terrorists.

The current hue and cry that is being whipped up into a media crisis is part of a whole pattern of short-sighted political obstruction and a futile venting of spleen.

What could have been more short-sighted and petty than the Congressional Democrats holding up the official electoral college vote last year confirming the re-election of President Bush? It was the first time such a challenge was made since 1877.

UPDATE: In other news, Vadkins in live blogging the Able Danger hearings here...... you won't hear the Dems ever mentioning the Able Danger smoking gun of 9/11.

Never Underestimate the American People

Over at Vital Perspectives here:

According to a new Gallup Poll following the election of Hamas as the Palestinian Authority's ruling party, Americans have grown more pessimistic that peace will ever be achieved in the Middle East, and increasingly sympathetic toward the Israelis. By a 2-1 margin, Americans now say there will never come a time when Israel and the Arab nations will live in peace. The 65% to 32% split compares with a roughly 50-50 split last year.

On foreign aid, the poll also found that 57% of Americans oppose giving any financial aid to the Palestinians while Hamas is in power, while 30% would give aid if the Palestinians recognize Israel. A mere 5% say the U.S. should give aid even if the Palestinians do not recognize Israel.

The poll concluded that as a whole, Americans are much more likely to sympathize with the Israelis (59%) than with the Palestinians (15%).

By party affiliation, Republicans (77%) are significantly more likely to sympathize with Israelis than are Democrats (50%) or independents (50%).

Over at Vital Perspectives here:

According to a new Gallup Poll following the election of Hamas as the Palestinian Authority's ruling party, Americans have grown more pessimistic that peace will ever be achieved in the Middle East, and increasingly sympathetic toward the Israelis. By a 2-1 margin, Americans now say there will never come a time when Israel and the Arab nations will live in peace. The 65% to 32% split compares with a roughly 50-50 split last year.

On foreign aid, the poll also found that 57% of Americans oppose giving any financial aid to the Palestinians while Hamas is in power, while 30% would give aid if the Palestinians recognize Israel. A mere 5% say the U.S. should give aid even if the Palestinians do not recognize Israel.

The poll concluded that as a whole, Americans are much more likely to sympathize with the Israelis (59%) than with the Palestinians (15%).

By party affiliation, Republicans (77%) are significantly more likely to sympathize with Israelis than are Democrats (50%) or independents (50%).

Cartoon Dhimmitude In America

Please support these students here, MUST READ -- believe me you, this is America's best shot at winning the war on Radical Islam. This is our future - I am proud of them

-There have been times in our nation when groups have been told to back down from their positions and accept the status quo. The anti-slavery, women's rights and anti-segregation movements are such examples. But despite climates of unfavorable opinion, their leaders persisted and changed our country for the better.

We are proud not to take the route of the New York Times, Washington Post or other major newspapers which have not published the cartoons. Their decision to leave their readership uninformed on an issue causing riots, death and damage is irresponsible.

Free speech is all about more speech. We will not allow a hastily written, knee-jerk editorial to undo the work we have done for our readers or intimidate us from carrying that mission out from here.

We will not resign. We will not issue an apology.

Fellow Atlases, I implore you to voice your support. Today. NOW. Here:

Letters to the editor:
Contributions may be sent to: Opinions, The Daily Illini, 57 E. Green St., Champaign, IL 61820 or e-mail opinions@dailyillini.com with the subject ³Letter to the Editor.² Letters must be limited to 300 words. Contributions must be typed and include the author¹s name, address and phone number. University students must include their year in school and their college. The Daily Illini reserves the right to edit or reject any contributions. Hat tip Irwin

Meanwhile the dhimmi leftists  at The Boston Globe;

" As the Boston Globe refuses to publish any of the recent cartoons that have Islamist panties in a wad, I took it upon myself to send the globe editors the following note: 'I find ALL of your editorial cartoons deeply offensive—morally, religiously, philosophically and spiritually. In fact, I don't like your editorials, either. And the editorializing in your news coverage, that is offensive as well. In keeping with your policy to not offend any ethnic or religious group, kindly cease publication at once.' I will let you know when they close shop!" —Dover, Massachusetts

More on the fatal buffoonery:

Denmark must apologize for cartoons: Syria

SYRIA MUST APOLOGIZE FOR MURDER OF PRIME MINISTER  HARIRI: ATLAS
 

Gore: Diary of a Mad House Dhimmi

If mankind is ever to achieve peace, it will only be when people realize that today's peace movement are not advocates for peace.

Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, these movements keep screaming that nuclear weapons have made war too horrible to contemplate, that armed force and violence should be abolished as a means of settling disputes among nations, and that war should be outlawed in the name of humanity. Yet these same peace movements do not oppose dictatorships, the political views of their members range through all shades of the statist spectrum, from "welfare statism" to socialism to communism. This means that these peace movements are opposed to the use of coercion by one nation against another, but not by the government of a nation against its own citizens, it means that they are opposed to the use of force and violence against armed adversaries but not against the disarmed.

--Ayn Rand June 24, 1962

Perfect example of this pathology or as my grandma would say, a real putz-en-tuchas;

Gore Laments U.S. 'Abuses' Against Arabs

[...] U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.

  Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications. Hat tip: x---dhimmi

To think Gore came within a hairs breath of POTUS and didn't is evidence of a G-d.

photo:RightWingNews

In related news; Gore's intellectual twin,

GEORGE GALLOWAY BOOED AT MUSLIM PROTEST

CONTROVERSIAL MP George Galloway was booed as he attempted to speak at a Muslim rally in London's Trafalgar Square yesterday. As he spoke the peaceful crowd, estimated at about 40,000, yelled "Big Brother fake

That's rich, really rich

"BLOGGERS BEWARE!" How Dumb Does the Media think we are? PLENTY!

Reading this article here , the left wing media (in this case the venerable BBC) would have us shaking in our boots at the the thought of a Pentagon attempting to stay ahead of or I should say getting  their arms around the electronic opportunities and information explosion made possible by by the net. Lord knows THE TERRORISTS HAVE!

But nooooooooooooo, BLOGGERS BEWARE they warn, thought control, psyops, and whatever inane bogeyman they can muster up. I don't think it's the bloggers the Pentagon is concerned with. T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T, can you spell stupid?
What does the MSM have to fear? Positive military stories? What difference would that make? The media won't run it anyway. They wouldn't run a positive military story if their life depended on it (and the ironic is? Their life does depend on it. ) Read it and weep or have a good laugh here; I fisk in lilac italics

US plans to 'fight the net' revealed

A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.

so far so good.

The document says information is "critical to military success"

Bloggers beware.

Beware? Beware of who?  Beware of the BBC, beware the media.

As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer.

Thank goodness they are preparing the defense of the US for the 21st century, and not being stuck in old war technology.
It's the media that is stuck on stupid.

From influencing public opinion through new media to designing "computer network attack" weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war.

hOO-ah! Long time coming I'd say.

The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act.

Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it.

Rummy's thoughts are best understood here. Love that man.

The "roadmap" calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare. And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare.

The document says that information is "critical to military success". Computer and telecommunications networks are of vital operational importance.

It is. CRUCIAL to victory.

Propaganda

And what exactly does the BBC call its brand of coloured news?

The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks.

Who better understands the power of propaganda then the media, it's their product line. If the media were accurate and balanced the military wouldn't have to engage in such distractions. This aint your grandma's media, that's for sure. Back in the day, the media helped win the great war (and lose the small one).

All these are engaged in information operations.

Just like the media eh?

Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.

Shocked shocked. What I find shocking is that any media outlet runs it.

"Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads.

Public diplomacy is good.

"Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public," it goes on.

The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. "Specific boundaries should be established," they write. But they don't seem to explain how.

Bwhahahahahahaha. The more they write, the worse the BBC looks and the better the military looks -- no matter how they paint it black. Were the World War II newsreels broadcast  in movie theaters prior psyops too?

Credibility problem

Public awareness of the US military's information operations is low, but it's growing - thanks to some operational clumsiness.

If the military has a "credibility problem", we have the media to thank for that. Lord knows our military is nothing short of spectacular.

Late last year, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers. The stories - all supportive of US policy - were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications.

So what? The media does it everyday. They plant their stories with negative distortions while are kids our fighting the great war of freedom. The thumbsuckers never have a good word to say about the extraordinary work we are doing. WE NEED A PR ARM FOR THE MILITARY.

And websites that appeared to be information sites on the politics of Africa and the Balkans were found to be run by the Pentagon.

Excellent news.

But the true extent of the Pentagon's information operations, how they work, who they're aimed at, and at what point they turn from informing the public to influencing populations, is far from clear.

Thank Gd  they appreciate that the ultimate  battle is for  the hearts and mind of the American people and free peoples the world over. And in this the MSM is very much an enemy of America. Someone has to counterbalance a media that considers the murdering savage Che Guevara a "hero". Think a bout it.

The roadmap, however, gives a flavour of what the US military is up to - and the grand scale on which it's thinking.

It reveals that Psyops personnel "support" the American government's international broadcasting. It singles out TV Marti - a station which broadcasts to Cuba - as receiving such support.

So what? The media does it everyday, everyday

It recommends that a global website be established that supports America's strategic objectives. But no American diplomats here, thank you. The website would use content from "third parties with greater credibility to foreign audiences than US officials".

It also recommends that Psyops personnel should consider a range of technologies to disseminate propaganda in enemy territory: unmanned aerial vehicles, "miniaturized, scatterable public address systems", wireless devices, cellular phones and the internet.

'Fight the net'

If I had written it, it would have read Fight the media, because they are the real problem, fight media propaganda with facts.

When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone.

"extraordinary" indeed.

It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.

It can be, have you seen that network of radical Islamic websites? They recruit, share info, bomb technology, sensitive site logistics .........

"Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads.

The slogan "fight the net" appears several times throughout the roadmap.

yes, network, as in terror network. As opposed to the "cooking network", I am sure

The authors warn that US networks are very vulnerable to attack by hackers, enemies seeking to disable them, or spies looking for intelligence.

"Networks are growing faster than we can defend them... Attack sophistication is increasing... Number of events is increasing."

US digital ambition

US digital ambition? It is ours. Al Gore invented it for keyrist's sake

And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum".

check out "grand finale"

US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".

Consider that for a moment.

I am considering it, I LOVE IT. Better us than them.

The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.

How reassuring, I want them to have that capability. Who should have it? Osama?

The fact that the "Information Operations Roadmap" is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.

Geez I should hope so.

And that the scale and grandeur of the digital revolution is matched only by the US military's ambitions for it.

Their agenda is mighty frightening (the media, not the Pentagon - I hope the Pentagon has Grand ambitions)

A blogger's work is never done - Atlas
military toon:ihillary

The BBC's work is never done;, hat tip Drew

From the BBC today:

Malaysia's prime minister says a huge chasm has opened between the
West and Islam, fuelled by Muslim frustrations over Western foreign
policy.

Abdullah Badawi, seen as promoting a moderate form of Islam in
largely Muslim Malaysia, said many Westerners saw Muslims as
congenital terrorists.

huh?

As he spoke at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, thousands protested outside at cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

[snip]

"Long live Islam. Destroy Denmark. Destroy Israel. Destroy George Bush. Destroy America," protesters shouted as they marched to the
Danish embassy in the rain from a nearby mosque.
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Hmmm. Why "many Westerners" see Muslims as "congenital terrorists" is beyond me.

Just as irony seems beyond those Malaysian protestors.

(Forget for a moment that some Muslims practice female genital mutilation, which would make them "genital terrorists" as well.)

For those offended by that preceding sentence, I'm sorry. Those Danish cartoons must have led me to indulge my worst impulses as a  tacky, tasteless, disrespectful infidel. But they warned us about the  cesspool into which democracy and free speech inevitably leads, didn't they? hat tip Drew

The War against Global Terrorism

Understanding how the enemy thinks is the first step to conquering them.

Anti-Terror Conflict War of Wills, Rumsfeld

The war against global terrorism is a war of wills and ideas that's being fought across newspaper front pages and the Internet, as well as on the battlefield, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told a National Press Club audience here yesterday.

Terrorists are no match for one-on-one action against the U.S. military, Rumsfeld said, so they employ irregular means -- such as improvised explosive devices -- to fight American troops in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.

Rumsfeld said terrorists also seek to shape public opinion. "They get up in the morning, have committee meetings and think about how they're going to manipulate the world's press to their advantage," he said.

"They have repeatedly proven to be highly successful at manipulating the world's media here in this country as well as elsewhere," the secretary continued, "and they carefully plan attacks to garner headlines in their effort to try to break our will."

American global might ensures that the terrorists cannot win a military victory, Rumsfeld said.

"The United States is not going to lose wars or battles with our (military) capabilities out across the globe," Rumsfeld said. "The battle - the true battle - is a test of will and with the battleground -- the battlespace -- is less Iraq and less Afghanistan and more here in the United States and the capitals of Western nations."

The terrorists secretly operate across the Internet and in schools to spread radical Islamic thought and teachings, Rumsfeld said. They also endorse charities that front phony companies to gather funds, he said, and employ false counterfeit passports and false identities to facilitate travel.

And "because they lurk in shadows without visible armies and are willing to wait long periods between attacks, there's a tendency to underestimate the threat they pose," the secretary said.

The terrorists' goal is to establish global domination, Rumsfeld said.

"They seek to take over governments from North Africa to South Asia to re-establish a caliphate they hope one day will include every continent," Rumsfeld said. "They have designed and distributed a map where national borders are erased and replaced by a global extremist Islamic empire."

Click to Read it All..hat tip DFS

Google Gags America, Tosses China's Salad

Google is getting into this play-like-China-big-brother-thing by pre-emptively putting on "Content Warning" labels **without reviewing** the blogsite's contents first but rely on readers' complaints instead. Check it out here.

The stench of censorship and blog content manipulation here. WTF do these people think they are? But kiss China's human violating ass, right?

RE: Blog: ANARCHANGEL

On 2/8/06, Google AdSense <adsense-support@google.com > wrote:

Hello Christopher,

Our specialists have found that your account is not in compliance with
AdSense program policies. As a result, we have disabled your account.

We continually review all publishers according to our Terms and Conditions and program policies, and we reserve the right to disable publishers or sites that are not in compliance with our policies.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

Sirs,

Can you tell me how my account is not in compliance with your policies?

I sent that one question to you initially, and recieved no response. Now I am expanding my question.

I have reviewed your ad-sense policies, and I cannot find any point at which I am in violation, unless a subjective reviewer of the site found my content disagreeable politically.

If my account has been suspended because I present a different political view point than the reviewer of my site... well then you might have a small problem.

If you say that I am a hate site, a violent site, or a racist site, I can refute that conclusively; and will do so for anyone who asks. If you say that I have inappropriate content, I can refute that and will do so as well.

I will also point to many sites that present anti-semitic, anti-american, and in general vile and disgusting propaganda; and yet they have ad-sense ads. I can show you sites that depict burning of american flags, and bibles, that have ad-sense ads. I can show you sites that are unapologetically pronographic, and have ad-sense ads.

I can only conclude that this action is motivated by political bias. It is my hope that suspending accounts that are politically opposed to a reviewers viewpoint is the action of a single employee and not general corporate policy.

You are of course a private company, and you may choose to allow your political biases to determine who you do business with; but if you do, be prepared to have all of your conservative and libertarian customers do the same.

If you cannot provide me with a legitimate reason for this account suspension, that is not motivated by a bias against my libertarian politics, my staunch advocacy of free speech regardless of it's potential for offensiveness, or the right to keep and bear arms, then I will be going to the blogosphere and the media with this.

Finally, if you insist on closing my account, please forward the remaining outstanding balance due me. As I cannot log in to my account I can't confirm how much it is, but when I checked yesterday it was only about $40.

Thank you,

Christopher XXXXXX [I blocked his name - Atlas]

The Patriot Act

"[I]t is frankly shocking that there is anyone in Washington who would politicize the Patriot Act. It is an insult to those who died to tell the American people that the organization posing the greatest threat to their liberty is not al-Qa'ida but the FBI. Hearing any member of Congress actually crow about 'killing' or 'playing chicken' with this critical legislation is as disturbing today as it would have been when Ground Zero was still smoldering." —Debra Burlingame

[Ms. Burlingame is the sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.]

Muhammad Muslim Cartoon Crisis Grows more Widespread, Violent

Great Radio Interview here  hat tip MK

"Muslim Opinion" Be Damned" America's attempts to appease "Muslim opinion" are depraved and suicidal.

Rice Accuses Iran, Syria in Muslim Violence As forthe  timing of the protests? I find the timing rather nuclear as in Iran  (considering I had them these toons up on my blog back in October here).............Keshertalk has a take on the timing as well here.

Supporters of the Islamic militant group Hamas burn a Danish flag in the West Bank town of Nablus  in response to the cartoons of  of the Prophet Muhammad that were published in European newspapers. Photo tip: lilrepgirl

While the  toothless, spineless, Media draw the line on running cartoons , The
Danish prime minister called protests over the  cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad  "a growing global crisis." Anders Fogh Rasmussen urged calm, and said the problem is now about more than just the drawings,[clearly, it always was - Atlas] which were first published in a Danish newspaper and later reprinted around the world. Cartoons and the prior articles here.

Meanwhile, Denmark Battles Muslim Backlash over CartoonsThe Danish government has not condemned their publication. [For this I respect ad admire the Danes for not caving into dhimmitude]. As protest continues around the world, Copenhagen is demanding protection for its diplomats and citizens.  Danish lawyer shot in Moscow  as protests against the publication of cartoons showing the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world yesterday. The lawyer was wounded in an incident in a Moscow

In 1945, the anti-Nazi German pastor Martin Niemoller wrote the following:

"First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."

This famous statement can be updated for Europeans:More here from Prager

 

Global crisis" over Muhammad cartoons
The world is facing "a global crisis" over the prophet Muhammad cartoons, according to Danish leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The Danish daily Jyllands-Posten first published the dozen cartoons last September, causing uproar in Muslim states.

Iranians stage new violent protest against Mohammad cartoons Angry Iranian demonstrators stormed Danish and Norwegian embassies in Tehran for the second consecutive day on Tuesday in protest against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad published in the two countries. Iran Bans Imports of Danish Products Commerce Minister Massoud Mir-Kazemi  said here Monday that Iran has decided not to purchase Danish products beginning Tuesday.

Nigerian state cancels $27m Danish contract
Nigerian state lawmakers burned Danish and Norwegian flags yesterday and canceled a 23-million-euro ($27 million) contract to import buses in protest at blasphemous cartoons and a  Professor sacked over cartoons.A professor of English at Zayed University has been dismissed for distributing copies of cartoons from a Danish newspaper insulting to Islam while asking students to respect freedom of expression, reported Emirates Today. Nigerian state assembly members burned Danish flags Feb. 7 in Kano, Nigeria, to protest cartoons published that depict the Prophet Mohammad. They said they will impose a boycott of Danish goods and firms. Chechnya Expels Danish Aid Agency One of the largest aid organizations working in Chechnya was expelled Tuesday when the country said that all Danish social organizations must leave. Filipino Muslims burn Danish flag in protest over cartoons. Filipino Muslims enraged by caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad burned a Danish flag in a rally in the southern Philippines on Tuesday. 5,000 in Pakistan protest prophet cartoons and burned effigies of the Danish prime minister in a northern Pakistan city in a protest against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Western newspapers, police said.Malaysian PM against boycott of Danish goods over cartoons Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Tuesday there was no need to boycott Danish products over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, just days after he condemned the controversial images.

POINT OF NO RETURN  by Thomas Sowell

Looking back at the history of tragic times often reveals that many -- or most -- of the people of those times were often preoccupied with things that look trivial, or even pathetic, in view of the catastrophe looming over them. Will later generations looking back at our times see a similar blindness, and even frivolousness, in the face of mortal dangers?

Terrorists and terrorist governments are giving us almost daily evidence of their fanatical hatred and violent sadism, as the clock ticks away toward their gaining possession of nuclear weapons. They not only hold a harmless young woman hostage in Iraq, they parade her in tears on television, just as they have paraded not only the terrorizing, but even the beheading, of others on television.

Moreover, there is a large and gleeful audience in the Arab world for these gross brutalities, just as there was glee and cheering among the Palestinians when the televised destruction of the World Trade center was broadcast in the Middle East.

Yet what are we preoccupied with or outraged about? Whether the American government should intercept the phone calls of these cutthroats to people in the United States. Read it all here. Sowell is one of the finest minds of our time.

UPDATE: Cartoon Unrest Continues

By JASON FRY, WSJ

The furor over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad continued today, with police in Afghanistan killing four protesters outside a U.S. military base even as a host of leaders and organizations tried to stop the riots that have spread across the Muslim world.

The latest deaths came as hundreds rioted outside a U.S. military base in Qalat in southern Afghanistan. According to a provincial police chief, Afghan police tried to clear the protesters by firing shots in the air, but were then forced to fire into the crowd. The police chief said at least 20 people were wounded. Eleven people have been killed in Afghanistan in protests over the cartoons, which first appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September.

Islamic organizations are trying to calm the unrest. A member of the Ulama Council, Afghanistan's top Islamic organization, condemned the cartoons but also deplored the violence, saying that "these rioters are defaming the name of Islam." Meanwhile, Iraq's top Shiite political leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakin, criticized attacks on foreign embassies. President Bush also weighed in today, calling on governments around the world to stop the violence. He added that Americans believe in a free press, but "with freedom comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." And France's president, Jacques Chirac, asked media to avoid offending religious belief -- even as a satirical French weekly reprinted the cartoons alongside some new ones, including one showing a despairing Muhammad mourning that "it's hard to be loved by idiots."

The drawings have angered Muslims, particularly those who believe illustrations of Muhammad are forbidden -- a point of view one Islamic scholar writing an opinion piece for this newspaper says isn't supported by the Quran.

Jyllands-Posten's culture editor, Flemming Rose, said his paper was trying to contact Hamshahri, an Iranian newspaper that responded to the furor by announcing a contest for cartoons about the Holocaust. Mr. Rose said Jyllands-Posten wants to publish the cartoons in conjunction with Hamshahri.

This is the same Danish paper refused "offensive" Jesus cartoons.

Anyway, let me understand this, Jylland-Posten is going to bow down to the Radical Islamists by running the cartoons about the mass brutal slaughter of 10 million people (or is it just the 6 million dead Jews) in order to make up for  poorly drawn Mohammad cartoons. What does one thing have to do with the other?

They had to drag the Jews into it didn't they? Those bastards. And spit on the Jylland Posten for not having the courage of their convictions. It's not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must have the courage to stand up against the attacks of those very convictions.

UPDATE: Great balls of Fire, they done stood up!: The top editor of the Danish newspaper whose caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad sparked rage throughout the Islamic world said Wednesday the daily would not reprint Holocaust cartoons being solicited by an Iranian newspaper. More here hat tip: Yahoo

Danish paper refuses Holocaust cartoons

Carnival of the Clueless #32: The "What's My Jihad?" Edition.

Muslim Cartoon: SYRIA BEHIND TORCHING OF DANISH BUILDINGS

Accusation here :
Danish embassy in Damascus on fire 

Lebanese leader accuses Damascus of using undercover soldiers in cartoon-protest attacks Aaron Klein, WorldNetDaily

The burning this past weekend of Danish government offices in Damascus and Beirut in protest of newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were directed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad in part using undercover soldiers acting as rioters, Lebanese  leader Walid Jumblatt charged today during an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview.

"Syria is stirring trouble in the region. Regarding the burnings and protests in Damascus, it is very bizarre that a so-called secular totalitarian regime that controls everything was not able to control these demonstrations," said Jumblatt, Druze leader and head of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party.

"The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes."

On Sunday, thousands of Muslim demonstrators in Beirut clashed with police, storming the city's Danish consulate and setting it ablaze in protest over cartoons in Danish and other European newspapers that mocked Muhammad. A nearby Maronite Catholic church was also attacked, prompting fears the protests could turn into a sectarian clash.

Syria is Iran's proxy.............do I believe this violent rioting spreading across the globe over 6 month old cartoons to be a premeditated tactical act of war. In a word - yes.

Is it a dry run for the really big shoooooooo? In a word -- yes. Should we be planning accordingly? In a word - yes.

Is this a world wide conflict, truly a clash of civilizations? YOU TELL ME. Why isn't this on the very top of our national dialog? YOU TELL ME>

Reason has all been but lost, Passion and Prejudice governs the world

Saddam ordered WMD strike on Israel [transferred to Syria]

he former deputy of the Iraqi air force, General Georges Sada, revealed on Saturday that that former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, ordered him during the first Gulf War to bomb Israeli population centers with chemical weapons.

Sada said he convinced Saddam to abort the mission by telling him that the Iraqi pilots could not complete the mission with the equipment at their disposal, and that the Israelis had radar that could detect them before they reached their target.

In his book, which was written four years ago, Sada also claims that Iraq's chemical weapons were taken to Syria aboard civilian Iraqi "Boeing" airplanes just prior to the US invasion.

The 65-year-old Sada said that 56 flights of this type took place, but went largely unnoticed because they were flying under the guise of humanitarian aid.

Prior to the second Iraq war Israel warned that Iraq was moving chemical weapons from its territory into Syria.

Why isn't this splashed across frontpages and TV screens everywhere? Sada is being ignored. You can't tell me a diabolcial agenda is not at work here.

Courage readers courage. All things beautiful has a great post up, read it here

Excellent extensive analysis from Rockets Brain here and Ground State here, read them both.

DIVEST of GOOGLE STOCK

In light of  alarming events inhibiting the free flow of news and information in China, the most egregious violaters of human rights, Roger Simon calls for divestment. Hear hear

    What to do about the new Axis of Evil?

I'm talking about Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, of course, those three Internet mega-corporations who are actively cooperating with totalitarianism in China.

Google is the latest to prostrate itself before the new emperors.  Timesonline sums it up

go over to Roger's blog here and leave suggestions on how to mount this campaign

... a Google stock divestment campaign.

Everyone who cares about the free-flow of information, about democracy in China, in fact about democracy anywhere, should start selling their Google stock. This should begin most especially with those vast university endowments because academic institutions, of all places, should be most concerned with the censorship of ideas and information. Union pension plans as well should seek to divest as their members should be particularly appalled by the company's restrictive behavior.

I despise GOOGLE for it's terrorist enabling policies here and hate America bias here. Last March Ynet, reported that Google had been running advertisements for the recruitment web site of the terrorist group Hamas, that show up when the word “Hamas” is entered in Arabic: Google advertises Hamas.

And this terror love seems to be endemic to Google, they will include  a Jew-hating site that meets their criteria for being a “news source,” featuring the work of the Jew hating  lunatic Kurt Nimmo: Peace, Earth & Justice News but not one of the best news sources available on the net, LGF? Evil twin google logo from a Typical Joe, here

And YAHOO! was responsible for the Jailing of a Chinese Journalist here. Need I say more?

otay otay, here's more--hold your nose. This from Silicon beat back in October

Google bows to Chinese hegemonic designs

This is really too bad. Google succumbs to Chinese pressure, and lists Taiwan, the less powerful independent country across the Taiwan Strait, as a "province of China" in Google Maps.

As Jeff says, makes you wonder what else Google is doing to win favor with the Chinese.

Taipei Times - archives.

Update: We've read the comments that say Google is doing only the same as the U.S. and many other governments. But hang on. The U.S. State Department's online information on Taiwan at least gives the island its own separate country page. Other online maps simply list the island as ``Taiwan,'' and don't wade into the politics. Taiwan separated from China in 1949 after a civil war, has since been self-governed, and evolved into a stable democracy. So why should Google revert and call Taiwan a province of China? Anyway, here's a good piece (free registration) that runs in the Merc.

I am sure you've noticed I have not and will not carry Google ads..........once they ran ads for Hamas, they were dead.

Google has as its motto "Don't Be Evil" - now that's pathetic.

Over at the Democracy Project, Bruce has an excellent piece Lipscomb: It Didn't Begin With Google ,  “The Real Cost of Google’s Sell-Out To China” in journalism’s main trade paper Editor & Publisher. Read it

“ Isn’t it time Americans and their elected representatives pay more attention to their own cherished freedoms? Aren’t the giant keiretsu companies that control American media too willing to suspend them wherever they interfere with their pursuit of profit?”

Malkin's revised Google logo here, love it

UPDATE JANUARY 27TH; The good news, the rats at Google appear to be suffering;

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)

Shares of the top search engine have fallen nearly 10 percent in the past week and a half.

Two analysts downgraded Google (Research) to "sell" in the past week, citing valuation.

Some investors are worried about the potential impact of a recent squabble between the federal government and Google. The government has sought information from search engines as part of its attempts to reenact a law to protect minors from online pornography.

The Justice Department has said that several of Google's competitors have cooperated with its request for records. But Google has so far refused to hand over any information, citing privacy concerns. As a result, the Justice Department filed a motion in a U.S. District Court last week demanding that Google turn over random search results.

Finally, Google has also come under fire for launching a version of its site in China which allows the Chinese government to censor search results about topics such as human rights.

All I can say is it couldn't have happened to a shittier group of guys. Keep it up fellas.

DIVEST DIVEST DIVEST! You can't help but notice that Google had no trouble cooperating with the Chi-coms, but refuse to work us (as in  United States)

Want to know more? Go over Pajama Media here.

UPDATE: This is rich

Matt of STUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET  sent me their jam of Google's logo to reflect the meaning of their partnership with the Chinese government to censor people's access to information inside China.

"Please see Student's for a Free Tibet's blog, Tibet Will Be Free, for some of our criticism and analysis of Google's partnership to spread Chinese propaganda.

We've also launched a campaign calling for Google to end its censorship of searches made through google.cn. Our Action Campaign webpage is here. Please click this link to tell the Google corporate leadership what you think about their hypocritical disdain for the free flow of information inside China."

You go Matt.....kick ass, get names!

 

STFU! Stop the Bullshit!

Bush defends anti-terrorism tactics
Embattled US President George W. Bush, under fire for ordering unprecedented spying on US citizens, defended the program as limited, legal and critical to thwarting terrorist plots.

Basta!
I am tired of the nonsense.................this is not Clinton getting head while simultaneously deploying our boys to Bosnia.

Sick Sick Sick and tired of the left playing  catch as catch can with our lives.

THIS IS WAR! Stop wasting our time. We do not have the time or mind for such mental masturbation. Stop the  2 year old toddler bullshit.  Spy scandal, my ass. These guys were talking to Al Qaida, need I say more? Stop fucking with me, my kids, my neighbors, their security. GO!

LEAVE! Iran sounds ripe for your nonsense. You are no longer relevant , even for "intellectual discourse".........................which BTW, you are incapable.

More discourse here.

The War for Freedom VS. the Enemy, the Left in America

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq As of Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006, at least 2,224 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,741 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include six military civilians

You know I get these inane notifications everyday. Those pussies over at YAHOO  must understand that this is what happens during  war - soldiers die, not people going to work in the WTC, Pentagon etc.............soldiers die during war. But what about the real news? YAHOO, Google and their leftard media warlords wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.Quel Bastards!

A crowd of Iraqis parade through the streets waving Iraqi flags and pictures of their candidates after voting in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 15, 2005. Elections set Milestones for Iraqis

By SPC Dan Balda – 4th Brigade Combat Team – US Army

BAGHDAD — The day seemed downright festive: children marched in impromptu parades, men wore suits (on their day off no less), entire families took long walks from their homes to polling sites. The Iraqi parliamentary elections Dec. 15 gave Iraqis a chance to showcase the pride they have in their country and the hope they have for the future.

“Nationalism is defined by the actions of the people,” said Maj. Ross Coffman, 4th Brigade Combat Team executive officer. “It only takes a moment to see their faces as they vote, to see their pride, not only because they are voting but because they are part of something bigger. That is promising; not only for the efforts we’ve made, but also for the future of the country.” Read more…

New Transformer Means More Reliable Power for Baghdad

By Jenna Bisenius – Project and Contracting Office – Gulf Region Division
Baghdad, Iraq – The new transformer added alongside two existing transformers at a west Baghdad substation serves a dual purpose: to convert 132-kilovolt (kV) power down to 33-kV power and to act as a backup unit when workers take one of the other transformers off-line for maintenance. This addition ensures electricity that is more dependable for Iraqis living in the Baghdad area and helps to increase their hours of uninterrupted electrical service.

The Gulf Region Division (GRD) Electricity Sector provided management oversight of the $1.1 million project. Work began in May 2005, and ended in November. Contractor Washington Group, International, managed the actual installation of the transformer; the GRD provided quality control through site visits conducted to checki instruction details.

The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity (ME) also was involved in the project, according to David Millson, GRD Electricity Sector Program Manager for Washington International. Read more…

Photo by Gulf Region Division

An Iraqi engineer calls in transformer readings as part of the transformer testing process.

By Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Curt Cooper – US Navy
A landing craft air cushion (LCAC) from Assault Craft Unit 5 (ACU 5), returning from Kuwait Naval Base, makes its approach to USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52). Pearl Harbor and ACU 5 are currently conducting maritime security operations (MSO) in the North Arabian Gulf. MSO set the conditions for security and stability in the maritime environment as well as complement the counter-terrorism and security efforts of regional nations. MSO deny international terrorists use of the maritime environment as a venue for attack or to transport personnel, weapons, or other material. USS Pearl Harbor VBSS Team Builds Bridges in Arabian Gulf

By Cryptologic Technician 3rd Class Karen Moore – Expeditionary Strike Group One Public Affairs

AT SEA ABOARD USS PEARL HARBOR IN THE ARABIAN GULF— The amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) conducted maritime security operations (MSO) in the Arabian Gulf Nov. 20 - Dec. 26.

Pearl Harbor, assigned to Expeditionary Strike Group One (ESG-1), is on a regularly scheduled deployment to the 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting MSO.  MSO set the conditions for security and stability in the maritime environment, as well as deny international terrorists use of the oceans as a venue for attack or to transport personnel, weapons or other material.  A key component of 5th Fleet MSO is the querying and boarding of vessels or Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS). 

Pearl Harbor’s 17-man VBSS team has spent much of this deployment training on or conducting these vital operations.  When Pearl Harbor locates a vessel of interest, the ship’s bridge team will query the contact.  Depending on the response, the ship will launch the VBSS team.  The team approaches the vessel in a rigid-hull inflatable boat (RHIB), and communicates with the vessel’s master.  Once consent from the master is granted, the Sailors board the vessel.

Read more…                 Engineers and Infantry:  Working Together on Landing Zone Operations in Afghanistan

                                                                         KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - In Sharona, Afghanistan, an unlikely team of Soldiers was put together, consisting of combat engineers and infantry, creating the smooth running machine responsible for the safe air transport of numerous Soldiers, supplies, and multi-million dollar aircraft.

Upon arriving at Forward Operating Base Sharona, several Soldiers from the 864th Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy), Task Force Pacemaker, 1st Battalion, 508th Infantry volunteered to assist in the air operations on the FOB.

The Soldiers sat down and hashed out how Task Force Pacemaker and Workhorse would coordinate the air assets on FOB Sharona. After a brief meeting and a quick and hardy hand shake, the Pacemaker/Workhorse Air Crew was one.

Engineers from the 864th EN BN, Task Force Pacemaker and 1/508th Infantry working together as the Helicopter Landing Zone Crew to off load passengers and holiday mail at FOB Sharona, Afghanistan. 20 December 2005

By SSgt Victoria Meyer – Office of Security Cooperation - Afghanistan An Afghan National Army NCO organizes a platoon of soldiers into ranks and gets them ready for their next drill.

Noncommissioned Officers Corps Provides Foundation for Afghan Army

By SSG Mason T Lowry – OSC-A Public Affairs – US Army

 

KABUL , Afghanistan – At the heart of every successful military organization is a group of professional leaders who embody the core and individual values that define that organization. 

They are called noncommissioned officers; the soldiers on the ground, making sure their officers’ orders are carried out, making sure soldiers are taken care of.

“We are the backbone of the Afghan National Army,” said ANA 3rd Brigade, 201st Corps Command Sgt. Maj. Shamshadin, describing the role of the ANA NCO.

“Officers make plans, we implement them.  We make the Army strong.  And as we make the Army strong, we make the country strong.  All strong countries have strong NCOs,” he said.

 

WaPo: Payback's a Bitch

I cannot lie, I loved this story. Notice how they leave out the why..........

Misbehavior forces Post to shut blog comments

The WashingtonPost.com said on Thursday that it had indefinitely shut off the ability for people to post comments on its blog Web site because of objectionable postings.

The company policy was to ban comments that were personal attacks or used profanity or hate speech.

"Because a significant number of folks who have posted in this blog have refused to follow any of those relatively simple rules, we've decided not to allow comments for the time being," Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, wrote in explaining the policy change on the Web site.

"It's a shame that it's come to this," he continued. "Transparency and reasoned debate are crucial parts of the Web culture, and it's a disappointment to us that we have not been able to maintain a civil conversation, especially about issues that people feel strongly (and differently) about."

Yes but why? What drove the leftards to eat  their own?

- The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans.

At the center of a congressional bribery investigation, Abramoff gave money to Republicans while he had his clients donate to both parties, though mostly to Republicans.

In her Sunday column, ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote that Abramoff "had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties," prompting a wave of nasty reader postings on post.blog.

There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not "keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff," and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com.

heh. Poetic Justice......Yakkity Yak, don't talk Jack We center right bloggers can instruct the Washington Post on how to deal with infestations, we deal with it everyday.

UPDATE: from Kokonut pundits;

I love this! File under great blog moments

"Psst!  Just when you thought Deborah Howell, Jim Brady, and WaPo who tried to erase all evidence of comments on the WaPo’s Blog as reported by the Drudge Report do you realize that those search engine bots worked faster than they did in trying to blink them out of existence.  Not to mention a couple of blog sites that got some of the earlier and later blog comments archived. I found the January 17th and 18th comments, WaPo Lies have the January 15th and 16th comments archived while Democratic Underground has the January 19th archived."

Clueless Nagin Must Go

This man should be fired. I mean, really.

Mayor Ray Nagin apologized Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Day speech in which he predicted that New Orleans would be a "chocolate" city once more and asserted that "God was mad at America."

"I said some things that were totally inappropriate. ... It shouldn't have happened," Nagin said. More here.

I magine if this putz was a Republican. He would have been tarred and feathered after KKKatrina. Imagine if Guiliani was Mayor of New Orleans when that catastrophic hurricane hit. You think  it would have gone done the way it did? Rudy would have pulled those refuseniks out of their homes. C'mon.  

Why are Democrats given such a pass? It's revolting.

Speaking of Clueless, my favortie Carnival is up here And always check out Basil's Blog

2006 Tarnished Halos: Elect the Best of the Worst!

The Center for Consumer Freedom has announced its 5th Annual Tarnished Halo Awards, in (dis)honor of lunatic activists, litigious lawyers, and loathsome politicians attacking your food choices. This year’s list includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr., People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, but they’re not done -- they need your help. Visit them at ConsumerFreedom.com and choose the winner of this year’s most Tarnished Halo

The Devil Made him do it

How appropriate. The following statements from Democrats on Martin Luther King Day

Why is it when a Republican speaks of Gd, the MSM paints him as a fundamentalist nut job, but when a Democrat invokes the Lord's name he is enlightened? Nagin sounds as idiotic as Robertson.

Just sayin.......

Hillary screams PLANTATION in a crowded theater Senator Likens House of represenatives to Slavery

Martin Luther King Jr. fought four decades ago to free black Americans from the legacy of slavery. Yesterday, Senator Clinton compared the Republican leadership of the current House of Representatives to the very idea the civil rights leader dedicated his life to fighting.

"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run - it has been run like a plantation," she said. "You know what I'm talking about."

wink wink
Shrillary also remarks "never have so many, done so much, for so few" VIDEO HERE a twisted sister take on Churchill's "never have so many, owed so much, to so few"

Does she mean this?

The Federal Reserve recently released data showing that the cumulative net worth of American households is the highest in US history. Since the 2003 tax cut (which included cuts in the income , dividend, and capital-gains rates) net worth has increased 16%. It is roughly 27% higher that it was in 1998, in the middle of the bubble.

Need a good d-i-v-o-r-c-e- lawywer? Bill Clinton Eligible, Once Again, To Practice Law

Oh yeah and not to be out done, the ground hog stepped out early. Powerlessness Corrupts

Al Gore used a Martin Luther King Day speech as an opportunity to rail against President Bush and particularly his authorization of National Security Agency wiretaps of suspected terrorists’ international calls and  and calling the war in Iraq a “colossal mistake.”

The problem is, since this is a top secret government program, outside pundits like Vice President Gore (or, for that matter, policy experts at The Heritage Foundation) are in no position to pass informed judgment on the NSA wiretapping program, as James Carafano, Todd Gaziano and Alane Kochems explained last month.  Hat tip: My Heritage Photo toon tip: Fish man

This Is Why We Don't Trust Democrats With National Security

From Ben, Liberal Hawk ;

The New York Times has done it  again.

I’m content to let others rail about  the massive editorial bias of the paper, I will continue to take aim at the  obvious disconnect from reality presented at the most basic  levels.

They don’t have a freakin clue, do  they?

Front page today- the NY Times  complains that the NSA surveillance operations loads the FBI up with leads, and  only a few produce actual terrorists. Forehead slap.  Dudes, that’s  the idea!  You sift through mounds and mounds of data, follow up,  investigate, investigate, investigate, and you find the needles in the  haystacks!  The Times is complaining because it’s actually working like  that?  What were they expecting, that the NSA would listen to 100,000  sources and 90,000 of them would be terrorists? (This begs the question- does  the Times have THAT bad of an opinion of the Moslem population in the  US?)

Apparently the NY Times has no one  versed in this stuff.  They seem to think intelligence work is a kind of  magic.  Blame it on Hollywood, I guess.  Remember Mission  Impossible, when Peter Graves started each week with a huge mass of information  on the bad guys, and they would know every detail of the villain’s psyche and  where the air ducts went?  No one ever wondered, how do they get that kind  of information? The writers always assumed it was magic, "we just know that  kind of stuff".   

Here’s the deal:  for the  Impossible Missions Force to get that one gem of information “Good morning  Jim!  Top international arms smuggler Azdullah Zatreestump will be arriving  at LAX in exactly 48 hours to pick up a wad of cash”, the NSA had to listen to  half a million conversations and patiently pick out the right ones.  In  general, the hard left AND the hard right both have the magical view of the CIA  and NSA  (always getting them confused), giving them credit for the most  incredible conspiracies while doubting their every day work.  The same  mindset beleives in orbital mind control lasers on the one hand, and the ability  to gain real information without slogging through the morass of dull valueless  stuff.

Remember the Hollywood cliche  where the character turns on the radio or TV and hears exactly and only the  pertinent news?  The Times thinks the NSA works that way.   They'll get some tip on a dark and foggy street corner, listen to ONE phone  call, and that will lead them to the terrorists, right?    The article never says the  information led to NO terrorists, just “few” terrorists.  Is the NY Times  depressed that so few in America have answered the call to  Jihad?  Would they like to see more?  One thing is certain, in this  nation, NO terrorist attacks have succeeded since 2001.  Why not describe  surveillance as one of the methods that have brought us that very happy  outcome? The Times/ACLU vision of  intelligence work is strangely circular:  Surveillance is okay, provided  its limited to absolutely known bad guys.  Finding those bad guys in the  first place cannot be done with surveillance; that must be done with  magic.   It’s sort of like limiting medical tests to conditions that  you know already exist. 

One wonders- would the New York  Times come out against breast and prostrate exams because in almost all exams no  cancer is found? 

One also wonders- would they be  opposed if the NSA said the purpose of the surveillance was not to catch  terrorists, but to uncover instances of Hate  Speech?

Ben

Wolcott: Rantings of an Aging Queen

The dreaded Wolcott thread. Sorry fellas, hate to sleaze up the blog but this asshat needs serious intervention.

James Wolcott's panties are all in a twist (the latest in his obsession with me). But I am getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the very beginning, here at the Pajama Media dinner, which leads to his pathetic plea for attention.... "A Touch of Class" [shakes head].

" In a scene sadly reminiscent of those titty-flashing Girls Gone Wild videos without which no bachelor's personal library is complete, a female blogger fondles her breast while rubbing up against "globally influential" content provider Glenn Reynolds in the orgy room of the OSM launch party. She's wasting her rubbing energy, I fear. He's hardly that influential."

Which of course was not the case. Hence,  my letter to Graydon Carter (former Editor to my Publishership at the soon to be sold New York Observer) Letter to the Editor.

Hating all things blogolicious, the rat goes after Roger Simon (I mean really) when once again his passion for all things Atlas slipped into The Right Side of history, the Wrong side of Roger  Here he uses the Jew hater's most favorite euphemism for Jew ~  NEOCON! A super-dee-duper neocon no less.

He'll [Roger] direct readers to the fruitbat screechings of this superneocon blogger without a wince.

This subsequently leads Seipp's (?) in a desperate attempt to ride the coattails of misogyny (out of her league perhaps?). But really, WTF was she thinking? Sistuhs, Seipp Style resulting in my proof of claim Thumbs up (evidence!)

This unhinges Wolcott. He really tears into the "nips" (yup as in nipple). And you and I both know how a Queen like Wolcunt delights in instigating a cat fight purrrrrrrrrrrrr. Nips Ahoy and Nips Ahoy II (yeah there is a part II - all based on something that never happened) Esteemed journalism at its finest.

Lopez at  The Corner at the National Review, had  a chuckle and Cliff May was rope-a-doped in  over at NRO (imagine, now May is involved, oyish)

Finally Woolrat's  Jew hating (IMO, the real catalyst for all of this haranguing) rears it's ugly head here Headhunters

Now look, Atlas Shrugs is a political site. NO SEX at all. You would think there was enough porn on the web to keep this misogynist happy. But noooooooooooo, he always resorts to objectifying and  demeaning women and Jews. For Wolcott, if you are a woman with an opinion that differs from his, you are tits and ass, chum for his pack of mindless dogs.

He has the temerity to call  Daniel Pipes “a patronizing little shit:” Daniel Pipes Loses Control of His Facilities. - Pipes.  Of all the ginormous brains on the global campus. Wolcott couldn't reach Pipes'  boots to lick them (and lick them we know is his secret fantasy).

Yesterday, Michael Fumento over at the American Spectator takes the  Wolrat out in a lovely dissection here, 

these are the people who compare forcing detainees at Guantanamo Bay to listen to loud rap music to the horrors of the German concentration camps and the Soviets Gulags. (In and of itself a form of Holocaust denial, to equate being gassed or starved to death with having to listen to bad tunes.)

So what are we to make of this Wolcott who makes war on alleged warmongers? He is offended that somebody might suggest he mentally put himself in the place of an Iraqi terrorist victim, yet he refuses to acknowledge there have been such victims. There was Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and that was the end of it.

So there's your look into the mind of the enemy on the home front. You might find those decapitation videos to be less nauseating.

Woolrunt responds with his own Noxious Fumes;

Sites like Little Green Footballs, Atlas Shrugs, and their ilk have a lynch-mob mentality that has gotten uglier as the situation in Iraq has worsened. They blame Cindy Sheehan (recently voted "Idiotarian of the Year" at LGF), Michael Moore, and liberal Democrats for how badly the war has gone because they don't have the courage and honesty to blame the real architects of failure:

First off, Wolcott and his yellow bellied wankers are the real war bloggers. Their platform of appeasement and anti-semitism is/was the flamestoking, terrorist supporting action plan that set the stage for Khobar, the Cole, 9/11, Madrid train, London tube, Bali bombings etc. His  policy of sponsoring terror by supporting the terrorists in every piece they write  is the very definition of the enemy in the other war on Radical Islamist terror - the hearts and minds of American people.

Oh and note his constant referral to me as neocon, Jew hate speak for Jew.

His disturbing obsession with Atlas Shrugs continues ... his latest Heavy Hangs the Thumb (no I am not kidding, he is still with the thumb);

Pamela at Atlas Shrugs lowers her thumb to half-mast to mourn the eclipse of one of America's noblest politicians, defender of family values, and corporate-lobby mack daddies--I mean, selfless statesmen. I speak, of course, of Tom DeLay. Some forgiving day when the nation truly appreciates what "the Hammer" has done to it (er, for it), it will erect a statue to DeLay in the state capitol extending the greased hand of friendship to Jack Abramoff.

But until then this misty-eyed tribute will have to do.

Mind you I did not write the post he is citing, it was guest authored by the brilliant erudite Dr Nancy here and the post kicks off with "Dr. Nancy's 02 cents" but that is irrelevant to esteemed "journalists" like Woolrot. Still and all I stand by what was written about DeLay because he has done  fine work and this is America , innocent until proved guilty or is that just for the Democrats?

What is most telling about the inside of Woolrot's brain as he describes here;

my head would be a delightful place to visit. So much going on, so many streaking comets of enlightment. I should charge admission so that everyone could enjoy my thoughts. [hmmmmmmmmm, is that what the gulags looked like?- Atlas]

or this pearl;

I don't do "fisking," because I refuse to take in vain the name of that brave, outspoken, iconoclastic journalist Robert Fisk. [OMG! rotflmao -Chomsky, Fisk, and Wolcott - soft porn in Hades, very soft]

The rot  is apologetically antisemitic. In the last sentence of this rant Wolrat writes;

Pamela's thumb will remain at half-mast until the next AIPAC conference, which promises to be a humdinger.

When you click on humdinger (uh why not thumbdinger?) the link takes you to AIPAC. Why? The piece was about DeLay, what does AIPAC or Israel or the Jews have to do with that? Woolrunt can not contain his anti-semitism. Jew hater. His vitriolic rantings against Charles (and LGF readers mind you)  are clearing an extension of his Jew hatred. While Charles is not Jewish, he is the closest thing to a "Righteous Gentile" as I have ever encountered.

My support of Israel is not religious. America and Israel share the same ideals. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Bah dah bing, Bah dah boom. All this vilifying of Israel is this year's model, the  modern argument of the age old hate - Judenrein.

Referring to me as ZESTIEST ZIONIST PARTY GIRL, says it all..........Hey Graydon, clean up on Aisle 5. He ought to be dropped into the middle of a pack of IDF soldierettes with big guns.

Iron Fist is right. He's just jealous that, "while he has bigger tits, his sag."

UPDATE: How wicked is this? The _{what a drag} queen  has the gall to make fun of the rather dashing Fumento's looks here

It was a war he could not win, given the egregiousness of his Boogie Nights mustache, and his paucity of sophistication

Guess who is who.................paucity of sophistication? Pot, call your kettle.

UPDATE: He can dish it out but he sure can't take it.

SCOTUS Alito Hearings: The Liberal Goatherd

What is it about the elections that the left does not understand. THEY LOST! STFU!
 
Click above for movie . Turn on FOX. Alito hearings with Brit Hume and Fred Barnes (heartthrobs all)

UPDATE: So far nothing has changed Arlen Specter is still a putz.... NEXT Leahy, oy.
UPDATEe: Nothing's changed, Leahy is still a blowhard. Hatch is eloquent. "Splash" Kennedy is up to bat......Need I say more? Another round!

 

Update: Sorry guys had to run out.  Schmucker Schumer is up now. As the Washington Post reported: 'Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and People for the American Way "rushed out statements blasting the nomination even before Bush announced it."' '
Watching him one must wince. He is so smug as to appear silly. Silly, smug and foolish. Who is going to tell him about 9/11, islamokazes, and that a nuclear free day is  good day?
Yes, Chuckie, tell me all about Sandra's "special shoes".

News Room Home to Fiction Writers

Brain freeze! Take back your brain  from the MSM. More news control aka news you wont see or hear

Expansion Continues

Weekly jobless claims plunge to lowest level in more than five years

The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level in more than five years last week, providing strong evidence that the labor market is shaking off the effects of a string of devastating hurricanes.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits dropped by 35,000 to 291,000, the smallest number since Sept. 23, 2000, when the economy was in the concluding months of the longest economic expansion in history.

In exchange for news they make up.m Where do you find the most polivic Fiction writes? Newsrooms of course;

Commentary: Fear and Loathing in Business NewsThanks to news reports, Americans are suffering from the fear of everything. Pick any letter of the alphabet and you’ll find something to make you run and hide – from avian flu to a bust in housing or cloning. This anxious hype is an avoidable man-made disaster.

CBS Conjures Recession Specter in New Year’s Newscast
Economic forecasts for 2006 are looking bright, but that didn’t stop the “CBS Evening News” from warning that recession might be in store.
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This week:  Strong U.S. economy; ABC weighed and found lacking on calorie-counting; IBD joins other media in snowing public on housing news. Media Research Center

Note term: "Militant" me? I would have leaned towards terrorist, barbarian but militant nah.

Afghan Principal Beheaded
Associated Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Militants broke into the home of an Afghan headmaster and beheaded him while forcing his wife and eight children to watch, the latest in a spate of

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Wal-Mart: Under Attack from the Left, Bank on it!

SHOCKA! Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts and a gang of other Capitol Hill liberals have cast a negative eye toward Wal-Mart's entry into banking. If they decide to regulate Wal-Mart out of the industry, the end result will be higher banking service costs for the poor constituents they claim to represent.

Once again, limousine liberals are keeping the poor down lest they lose their constituency.  My previous pieces on Wal-Mart here and here , the Wal-mart movement is a political fraud.

Great article over at the WSJ here (subscription necessary)

If the bankers succeed in this protectionist gambit, the biggest loser won't be Wal-Mart, but rather consumers, particularly those in lower-income neighborhoods where competition in retail banking is traditionally scarce. Wal-Mart banking services in these areas might even solve the longstanding problems of red-lining and discriminatory lending practices. Wal-Mart already performs many bank-like functions that are especially popular in poor areas -- including wire transfers, money orders, paycheck cashing, and express bill payment services.

The protest is all the more curious since Wal-Mart's immediate banking ambitions are quite modest. To head off the mounting opposition from the bankers, Wal-Mart insists that in the short term it merely wants to create an in-house banking affiliate so it can lower costs on credit card transactions at its stores. Traditionally, banks charge an interchange fee of roughly 2% on the cost of the retail credit/debit card transaction. Wal-Mart has determined that if it owns its own bank it can cut the transaction fee in half, and pass the cost-savings on to its customers who pay with Visa or MasterCard.

But why shouldn't Wal-Mart be permitted to engage in a whole range of banking services down the line, if it wishes to? That's the meaty policy issue at stake here: whether the traditional firewall between banks and commercial enterprises (i.e., the commercial lenders and the borrowers) should be officially torn down. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 effectively abandoned this traditional separation between commerce and banking when it allowed securities and insurance firms to engage in most banking activities. This has all been part of a 25-year-long deregulation of banking that has led to huge increases in efficiency in American financial markets as well as vastly improved consumer services. (Remember the quaint notion of "banker's hours?")

Studies have found, for example, that in neighborhoods where Wal-Mart has entered the grocery business, its prices range from 8% to 27% below those charged at the incumbent grocery chains. Moreover, if there were a repeat of the kind of bank failures we witnessed in the late 1980s, financially sturdy Wal-Mart would be far less susceptible to the risk of closure (and FDIC deposit insurance payments to depositors) than small and less capitalized community banks.

I make no secret of my support and position on Wal-mart. I own no stock in Wal-mart, do not shop at Wal-mart - as the city council stopped the proposed Wal-mart store in the NYC area and so I have no private agenda, only that as an American wishing to preserve the Declaration of Independence,  the greatest document in human history.

"We need not give in to the barbarians, but they are certainly waiting anxiously" Ayn Rand.

I expect the banking industry to be unhappy with the idea of a stealth competitor entering the arena but hey that's too bad.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will soon have to make a big decision: we can only hope that non-partisan free market heads will prevail.

UPDATE: More Commentary: Michael Barone of U.S. News and World Report argues that Wal-Mart succeeds where General Motors has failed: it continually adapts to the shifting demands of the marketplace and in doing so benefits its customers and employees alike.

UPDATE January 5th  MORE WAL-MART BASHING:

What is  it with union leaders?   Their duplicity never ceases to astound, eh?

An yet last summer, as millions of teachers saved money on their back-to-school supplies by shopping at Wal-Mart, the NEA called for a boycott.Today, Working Families for Wal-Mart released a poll that shows that even as union leaders continue their anti-Wal-Mart campaign, 96% of union households shop at Wal-Mart and 63 percent of union households think Wal-Mart is good for consumers. Poll here: .

Some more highlights:

A majority of union households (54 percent) say that unions should make protecting jobs at places like GM a higher priority than attacking Wal-Mart.

Overall, 71 percent of Americans believe Wal-Mart is good for consumers and 60 percent of Americans say the campaign against Wal-Mart is not a good use of union dues.

These lefties made me sick and do everything in their power to hurt the American working class and that my dear is a fact.

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The New York slime Times: Hard Hitting Reportage~The Vagina

The New York slime_{waste of} Times latest "domestic spying" ruse and it's reverbs, Al Qaeda calling. Maybe they should just stick with vaginas............

"Another vital step the President took in the days following 9/11 was to authorize the National Security Agency to intercept a certain category of terrorist-linked international communications. There are no communications more important to the safety of the United States than those related to al-Qaeda that have one end in the United States. If we'd been able to do this before 9/11, we might have been able to pick up on two of the hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon. They were in the United States, communicating with al-Qaeda associates overseas. But we didn't know they were here plotting until it was too late.

"If you'll recall, the report of the 9/11 Commission focused criticism on our inability to uncover links between terrorists at home and terrorists abroad. The authorization the President made after September 11th helped address that problem in a manner that is fully consistent with the Constitutional responsibilities and legal authority of the President and with the civil liberties of the American people. The activities conducted under this authorization have helped to detect and prevent possible terrorist attacks against the American people. As such, this program is critical to the national security of the United States.”

From David C;

Due to thee success of blogs, email groups and chat rooms, many are
coming to believe the NYT to be professionally & ethically
challenged when it comes to reporting the events in Iraq and
elsewhere; however, there seems to be ample column space in the Gray
Lady for a truly significant news topic, the vagina. (Due to
registration requirements, I have cut and pasted the first part of the article below).

And they wonder why circulation is abysmal and box office receipts
are down...

It never ceases to amaze me that these clowns are actually dictating the national dialog.

The Way We Live Now Our Vaginas, Ourselves DAPHNE MERKIN

These  are cruel times for vaginas. Lately, as if I don't have enough to worry about, with the deadline on various unkept 2005 resolutions fast upon me, I have begun obsessing about various aspects of my genital appearance. Take my labia minora, for instance. Tucked away as those intimate folds of flesh are - hidden in the underbrush, you might say - I have never given them much thought, except as they relate to experiences of sensual pleasure. Ditto my labia majora, which dutifully served their purpose in guarding the entryway to what the Victorians would have quaintly referred to as my maidenhead. As for the much vaunted hymen (named for the Greek god of marriage), mine remained intact longer than most thanks to my slow-blooming erotic life, until such time as a boyfriend's patient late-night exertions finally parted me from it at the age of 25. Needless to say, its absence - much less the idea that I might be harboring a deep sense of nostalgia for this tiny piece of overinvested membrane, might indeed be secretly yearning to reclaim it - hasn't so much as crossed my mind in the intervening years.

Ah, but how blithely backward-looking - and how wrong, as it turns out - I was. I have seen the future, and it is denuded. Pubic hair is out; the ubiquity of so-called Brazilian waxes, once the domain of porn stars and movie actresses, has ensured that this mossy covering is deemed no more than an aesthetic hindrance to the unfettered male gaze. Which leaves the one part of the female body formerly not available to harsh scrutiny now glaringly on display, held up to culturally defined aesthetic standards undreamed of by the smut-obsessed author of "My Secret Life," borrowed as they are from centerfolds and online pornography. Sagging groin skin and limp labia are going the way of crooked noses and post-nursing breasts, courtesy of new cosmetic surgeries focused on this once-neglected hinterland of female beauty. As recently noted in an article in The Wall Street Journal, vaginal plastic surgery is one of the field's fastest growing sectors, and its high priest, one Dr. David Matlock of - where else? - Los Angeles, claims that he has a five-month waiting list for women eager to get that Playboy look. But wait, there's more. The future as I see it is also - how to put this? - reforested. Hymen-reattachment surgery, once a desperate stratagem undertaken by young women from Muslim, Asian and Latin American cultures that demonized the loss of virginity before marriage, is now being hawked as a way to enjoy a second honeymoon. If it's unclear whom this procedure is meant for - aging women hoping to catch a flagging penis with the semblance of undeflowered innocence? - it's even more ontologically ungraspable how stitching a hymen back together vitiates the psychological experience of having already lost your virginity. But it is being advertised heavily in print as well as online, and one enterprising doctor who trained with Matlock says he performs about a dozen such operations a month and fields voluminous amounts of e-mail inquiries.

More media sickness here hat tip Becky

Post Calls Left-Wing Organization a ‘Consumer Group’
Latest story part of a trend with newspaper to depict leftist associations as neutral.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Technorati Tags: Iraq,media,war

What if?

To all my counterparts on the left, I have only one question.

WHAT IF YOU ARE WRONG?

If you are wrong, imagine the repercussions. A return to the dark ages.

If I am wrong, a country long oppressed was liberated, freedom revolutions were sparked worldwide, terrorists and islamokazes were targeted and taken out, the American people were spared a terror attack post 9/11.

What if you are wrong? Everything points to the obvious and the left points to the opposite.

CNN vs. The Truth: Jack Abramoff

Received this in my email CNN BREAKING NEWS

-- Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close associate of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, to plead guilty to corruption, other charges, source tells CNN.

Hmmmmmmmm.......zat so? What about

Harry Reid Caught in Abrahamoff Scandal

Prosecutors probing Congress members who received favors from him

Sprint defends Ney in Foxcom controversy

just askin....................no media bias eh?

UPDATE: Just for knowing;  the dems have been given their talking point of the day/week

you'll be hearing the word GREEDY over and over and over , but they are walking on thin ice here.

Lobbyist's plea sets off scramble,  I'll bet there is plenty of sweating going on on both sides of the aisle. This is systemic

UPDATE January 5th: Abramoff in Perspective: Countertops, Union Dues and the Ghost of Walter Duranty

IRAN: Utopian Illusions, Sanctified by the Pathology of Anti-Semitism

               Iran tells IAEA atom research resumes January 9
Oh puhleeze..................they started back up months ago. They are pulling the MSM's pud (and the pud of the world press for that matter). They are doing 90 on their atomic weapons build up. Iran determined to resume nuclear fuel work: Ahmadinejad 

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran would not "step back" on its decision to resume nuclear fuel work

d'oh                    IT IS TIME TO TAKE IT OUT. 

It's the end of the world as we know, I feel fine.
US warns Iran against resuming nuclear research

 
I am talking into a fucking echo chamber here....hellooooooooo


     Fascism, Islamism, and Anti-Semitism

Hardly anything has infuriated certain critics of the Bush Administration more than the president's vocabulary to describe the war on terrorism. Bush warns of an "axis of evil," in which rogue nations collude with Muslim extremists to acquire nuclear weapons. He regards Osama bin Laden and his cadre of suicide bombers as "evildoers." He compares the theology of radical Islam to that of European fascism and "all the murderous ideologies" of the twentieth century. Intellectuals and others reject this talk as sophomoric and supremely arrogant-just another manifestation of Bush's cowboy diplomacy. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor in the Carter Administration, voices a typical note of contempt: "We have increasingly embraced at the highest official level what I think can fairly be called a paranoiac view of the world."

Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that these same critics remain mostly mute over the stunning remarks of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Two weeks ago the Iranian president shocked Western leaders when he claimed that the Holocaust was "a myth" created by Jews and "Zionist historians." This followed a previous slander against Israel as "a tumor" to be "wiped off the map"--or, at best, relocated to Europe. "Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury," Ahmadinejad told the Organization of the Islamic Conference. His anti-Semitic tirade comes as the Iranian leader continues to defy the United Nations to pursue a nuclear weapons program. "I thought, my God, he's a Nazi," a German resident told Knight Ridder "I couldn't believe that again the world was faced with a Nazi as a head of state. It's beyond comprehension."

 

The rise of Islamo-fascism in Tehran, in fact, is not at all beyond comprehension. Its emergence is perfectly predictable--given the political theology of radical Islam and the culture of victimization that sustains it. Like his mentor, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Ahmadinejad embraces an extremist Shiite view of purity, obedience, death, and redemption. Bush deserves much credit for recognizing this ideology for what it is: the totalitarian impulse, inspired by utopian illusions and sanctified by the pathology of anti-Semitism.

Read it all I tell you! hat tip Anthony J

Another despot jumps on the The  Ahmadinejad Doctrine. Just as President Bush declared a "Bush Doctrine" stating plainly that there would be  no distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them, Ahmadinejad is stating his judenrein plainly and telling the world you are either with him or against him. Basically, he is opening the door to all the jew hating closet dwellers to come out of the closet. Their day has come. No more shame. Just as Hitler did. And, if you recall, al large part of the  world embraced Hitler for it (including Teddy "not to worry I can swim" Kennedy's father - Ambassador to England at the time).

At Mideast Dispatch Archive, Tom Gross points out that Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez is joining ranks with Iranian “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and spewing antisemitism reminiscent of 1930s Germany: Venezuelan President Chavez: “The descendants of the Christ-killers” control the world.

Speaking at a rehabilitation center on December 24, the controversial left-wing president said “the descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.”

For Spanish speakers on this list, the full speech can be found here (PDF file). (The remarks about Jews are on page 18.)

hat tip Peter G via LGF here

UPDATE: Ahmadinejad criticizes Iran's past foreign policy

Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized the foreign policy of "detente" with the West of his predecessors.

Ahmadinejad "emphasized that in the past 16 years we implemented a policy of detente and tried to get closer to Europe and to trust them, but this policy achieved practically nothing for Iran", Kazem Jalali quoted the president as saying on Tuesday.

I am getting really tired of this mental patient.

UPDATE: Speaking of mental patients;

"I Am Willing to Sacrifice My Ten Sons"

This pearl of wisdom from Palestinian Legislative Council Candidate and Mother of Three Hamas Terrorists Umm Nidal Farhat: Israelis are Not Civilians and There are No Prohibitions on Killing Them; I Am Willing to Sacrifice My Ten Sons

The following are excerpts from an interview with Umm Nidal(1), Palestinian Legislative Council Candidate and the mother of three Hamas terrorists who were killed while taking part in "martyrdom" operations. Dream2 TV aired this interview on December 21, 2005.

VIEW THIS CLIP HERE 

Iran, Hizballah and Palestinians Gang up for a Second Front against Israel

Americans across the country get it

Technorati Tags: terror, Nuclear, Radical,  Islam, Iran, Israel, Iran

WE OWE MILITARY BLOGS BIGTIME

Congratulatons to my  esteemed militay blog collegue Blackfive. I can't say enough about the good the milblogs do.  They are doing the real reporting for us, a job the MSM abandoned long ago. The battle against disinformation that milblogs fight are as crucial as the battles on the ground. This from Blackfive

This year has been nothing but amazing.  Never thought that I'd be on TV or Radio talking about Military Bloggers.  Never thought that Blackfive would be where it is with over 4 million visits and two consecutive best MilBlog Awards.  Never thought that my Uncle Jimbo would be helping out (Hey!  What's that Green Bay Packers bumper sticker doing on the fridge?!).  Or Grim or Cassandra or Subsunk, too.  Never thought that I would be authoring and editing a book about MilBlogs and the war for Simon & Schuster (and it's going very well in case you were wondering).

Thanks.

Speaking of saying "Thanks", here's my inadequate attempt at thanking you all for supporting us.  I'm sure I'll leave someone out so I'll apologize right now. 

Thanks to Panera for the free WiFi for me to blog and to write the MilBlog book.  Oh yeah, and thanks for the ten extra @#$%ing pounds I've gained from spending hours and hours eating your food and drinking your delicioso coffee...hhhmmm, think I'll get an orange scone...back in a minute.......okay I'm back.  Sorry.

Of course, I owe a lot to the other MilBloggers out there.  You are the ones doing the hard work and making the sacrifices to keep us all safe. 

Thanks to Instapundit, Hugh Hewitt, Buzz Patterson and Michelle Malkin for supporting us and the troops.  Without the big-time media bloggers' help, we wouldn't have gotten very far.

Thanks to my partners at EasonGate.  I wish it had never been necessary for us to band together, but I'm glad that we did.  Thanks for protecting the honor of our troops. 

Thanks to my partners at NoEndButVictory for the same reasons.

Thanks to the lovely Pamela at Atlas Shrugs for modeling the Blackfive T-Shirt.  Thanks to everyone who bought one!  You helped put kelvar armor blankets in the hands of the troops that needed them! 

Thanks to Tony and the team at MSNBC's Connected for helping bring attention to Valour IT.  Thanks to Team Army for helping our wounded troops stay connected.  And thank you to Team Navy and Team Air Force.  You all ROCK!

Thanks to everyone who contributed to Soldiers' Angels.  You've helped thousands.  Thousands!  Your support means so much to our troops! 

Anytime you need me to model for you again, give a holler! Love how you are sold out in all the ginormous manly sizes! Love that. Keeping the boys in toasty  in kefvlar blankets............really loving that.

2005 Milbloggies: Winners Announced!
It’s been three months since Milblogging.com debuted. 1,067 military blogs, 22 countries, 1,072 registered members, a plug on Rush Limbaugh, one action movie, and four hundred cases of Red Bull Engery Drink later, today, I’m proud to announce the winners of the 2005 MILBLOGGIES --- winners of the best military blogs on the internet.
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So let me wish you life, love and wisdom.

All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
 
What can I say? Only those that frequent my salon know what I wish for all of us. I started blogging in February '05 and nothing has been the same. What a fight! A battle of words, of war, of right and wrong, good and evil.

And it's only the beginning.  
Enjoy your life and fight the Great fight.
Happy New Year 

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. -- John Adams in letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780

Go into the new year armed with this;
Gallup's Dec. 19-22 poll asked Americans to name, without prompting, the man and woman, living anywhere in the world, whom they admire most. Nineteen percent of Americans named Bush as the most admired man.

FrontPage Magazine's Woman of the Year: Oriana Fallaci

     “I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.” - Fallaci

The Top 10 Stories (and Non-Stories) of 2005  Ben Johnson

Every day, news organizations choose which stories to highlight in their news coverage and which to omit. In their coverage of hard news, the media inevitably trumpets meaningless, skewed, or false stories, while overlooking news items of vital importance – and this year was no exception.

TOP TEN OVERREPORTED STORIES OF 2005

10. The Passion of Mary Mapes

9. Tom DeLay's Indictment

8. Jimmy Carter’s Opinion (On Anything)

7. John Roberts’ Federalist Society Membership

6. Jane Fonda’s “Apology”

5. Koran Desecration and “Torture”

4. Wiretapping Terrorists

3. Two Words: Cindy Sheehan

2. Bush’s “Negligence” during Hurricane Katrina

1. The Libby Indictment

THE TOP TEN UNDERREPORTED STORIES

10. The Economy

9. Bush Gets it on the Border (Sort Of) 

8. Academic Freedom on the March

7. Hurricanes Don’t Discriminate by Race

” 6. Prominent Leftists’ Utter Hypocrisy

5. Able Danger

4. Muslim Rape Spree

3. The Left Throws in the Towel in Iraq

2. The CIA’s War on Bush

1. Shhh…We’re Winning in Iraq

Despite the media’s attempt to portray Iraq as an interminable struggle devoid of progress, facts on the ground prove two things:

American soldiers not only can win the war in Iraq; they are; and Sunni “insurgents” are now more committed to American victory in Iraq than the American Left.

Despite the Left’s claim that the war is “unwinnable,” Americans are winning the war militarily, politically, and economically. Militarily, U.S. GIs rounded up or killed hundreds of terrorist leaders over the past year, including significant leaders in al-Qaeda.

The Left greeted the news with its characteristic dismissal. Sen. John Kerry told Meet the Press the January election had “a kind of legitimacy – I mean, it's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can’t vote and doesn’t vote.” He added, “No one in the United States should try to overhype this election.”

Iraq has progressed on the military front, as well. President Bush has consistently said, “As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down” – and the day Americans may stand down may be on its way. As James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation recently pointed out:

The Iraqi Army and security forces grew from just 1 operational battalion in July 2004 to more than 120 today. Over 200,000 trained and equipped Iraqis are now playing an increasingly active role in rooting out insurgents.

Real GDP is expected to grow 3.7 percent in 2005 and 16 percent in 2006. Iraqi per-capita income has doubled since 2003, according to the World Bank.

Schools are being built; tens of thousands of Iraqi teachers are being trained.

Oh, and the children they teach no longer have to worry they will spend their recess watching their mother being gang raped before being fed into a plastic shredder.

This, too, could bear repeating on occasion.

Go to frontpagemag for the whole story it is as juicy as it gets

ABC's Access of Evil

Did you vote for Atlas today and everyday?

Now ABC's Woodruff is set to broadcast from Iran. What kind of deal did ABC - home of the notorious terror loving Peter Jennings- make to gain this kind of access in Iran?

Are they going to paint the largest state sponsor of terrorism as a big misunderstood teddy bear who only wants nukes for "peaceful"purposes while sitting on some of largest oil reserves in the Middle East. You and I both know how controlling and barbaric Iran is. ABC will report exactly what Iran wants them to report.

ABC will surely be aiding and abetting Nuclear Iran............and  What is the relationship between al-Jazeera, al Qaeda and America's TV networks?

You must remember the deal the networks made, particularly CNN, with Saddam to have access to Iraq under his totalitarian regime. They were complicit in his crimes against humanity by virtue of their silence. This disgusting story here in the Wall Street Journal and below

CNN admits that knowledge of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were suppressed in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau.

In a shocking New York Times opinion piece, CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan has admitted that for the past decade the network has systematically covered up stories of Iraqi atrocities. Reports of murder, torture, and planned assassinations were suppressed in order to maintain CNN's Baghdad bureau.

Read Jordan's op-ed at New York Times

Jordan has not always been so candid -- nor honest. Just six months ago on public radio, when challenged regarding the veracity of CNN's Baghdad reports, Jordan stated:

"CNN has demonstrated again and again that it has a spine; that it's prepared to be forthright... we work very hard to report forthrightly, to report fairly and to report accurately and if we ever determine we cannot do that, then we would not want to be there [in Iraq]." Here are the transcripts

The deal? Keep silent and you can stay...............and so they did while thousands died. How they sleep at night I'll never know. No Craig, Sorry if my point was obscured by the CNN horror story.
I reran the CNN piece to point out what lengths a network will go to to gain "access" to despotic regimes. CNN was an accessory to mass murder just so that they could maintain a presence in Iran.

Do you really think that the brutal America hating, Jew Hating, West hating regime is going to give ABC access to the Kurds, the dissidents, the jails, the oppressed, the nuclear enrichment facilities? I mean really.

A tale of two stories: Same story,  check out the spin.........

North Korea to Ban Food Aid
NPR Fri, 30 Dec 2005 5:39 AM PST
Officials in North Korea have announced that they are now prohibiting the foreign help sought during famine in the 1990s. The U.N. World Food Program is shutting down factories, preparing specially fortified biscuits, and closing down offices. Susan Stamberg talks to United Nations' Anthony Banbury.

North Korea In Depth
ABC Asia Pacific
The United States has announced the suspension of its food aid programme to North Korea.The UN World Food Program had been feeding up to 6.5 million North Koreans. [Reuters]

hmmm, ABC eh? Didn't they just sign to report their evening news from Iran? One can only begin to imagine the wonderful stories ABC will concoct to maintain access.

UPDATE: Media bias redux

I am sure you've seen the piece splashed all over the world about the teenage boy in Fort Lauderdale (hey that's where I am, I would have joined him but he didn't blog it!) - that flew to Iraq without his parents, or anyone knowing anything about it.

Reader C max points out;

Essay by U.S. Teen Who Went to Iraq - Yahoo! News

FOX News also published the essay.  But notice how the BBC carefully DISGUISES the reason why Hassan felt compelled to go to Iraq.  In fact, the sound byte from Hassan's dad makes it sound as if he went there as some sort of anti-war protest.  Most of the print articles I have seen have been jocked almost word for word from the BBC story linked below:

 

BBC News Player | International

 

The result?  Nobody seems to know that this kid went there to spread the word that America, and democracy are good.

When the lines are no longer blurred

Group Claims Rocket Strike on Israel

AP - Al-Qaida in Iraq said Thursday that it fired a barrage of rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel this week, in a rare claim by the group of a direct attack against the Jewish state. Full Story

First off, check out the AP headline.......the use of "group" instead of al-Qaida, wild, right? WTF are they protecting?

Al Qaida in Iraq huh! Al Qaida striking Israel huh!

Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, the head of Israeli army intelligence, said Thursday in an interview with Israel's Channel 10 TV, "Today al-Qaida is turning its focus to the heart of the Levant —     Syria, Egypt, Jordan, the     Palestinian Authority, the countries around us, and to Israel."

This is a turning point. Iran's declarations of Jewish genocide has the let the proverbial cat out of the bag. It is open season. For all those Jew haters that have long insisted that our policies in the Middle East are the cause for the barbarism and hate ("why do they hate us?") bear in mind that al qaida stuck America (the Big Satan) first. Osama was unhappy with our presence in Saudi Arabia remember? So are we to believe Israel is suffering because of her alliance with the US? The big Satan's little Satan? Of course not.  Radical Islamonazism's objective is word domination. Caliphate anyone?

 

Iran, Hizballah and Palestinians Gang up for a Second Front against Israel

 

Nothing happens for decades then decades happen in a day.

WHAT IT IS! TERROR!

TER-ROR-ISM
The unlawful use or threat of violence especially against the state or the public as a politically motivated means of attack or coercion
Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law

When the media starts using the word the 'terrorism" to define attacks against Israel Honest Reporting will stop needing your help.
hat tip Honest Reporting

The Spy Who Loved Me

Apparently the FISA court was  denying or modifying Bush's wiretapping requests at unprecedented  rate, and that is why he went around them. More here and here

Hmmmmmmmm, more MSM lies eh?
Secret court modified wiretap requests 
Intervention may have led Bush to bypass panel

 Government records show that the administration was encountering unprecedented second-guessing by the secret federal surveillance court when President Bush decided to bypass the panel and order surveillance of U.S.-based terror suspects without the court's approval.

FDD weighs in on purely rational position:

SPY GAMES: If an al-Qaeda operative in Karachi phones someone in Paris, France, obviously the President would have the authority to listen to that conversation without a warrant.

But if an al-Qaeda operative in Karachi phones someone in Paris, Texas -- the President would not have that authority to listen to that conversation without a warrant?

Gathering evidence for use in a criminal proceeding is one thing -- and that should require a warrant.

But intelligence gathering is different. Evidence concerns a crime that has been committed. Intelligence is the collecting of clues about crimes that can still be prevented.

We're living in a different world and fighting a different kind of war. Adults in the U.S. Senate -- there are at least a few -- should back off the polemics and begin crafting legislation that balances 21st century national security needs with adequate protection of civil liberties.

John Schmidt, who severed in the Clinton Justice Department, provides a cogent analysis of this issue here.

David Rivkin and Lee Casey analyze the relevant laws here.

UPDATE: FISA vs. the Constitution, Congress can't usurp the president's power to spy on America's enemies. Robert Turner, Wall Street Journal

In the continuing saga of the surveillance "scandal," ........... in order, it is important to step back and put things in historical context.

America is at war with a dangerous enemy. Since 9/11, the president, our intelligence services and our military forces have done a truly extraordinary job--taking the war to our enemies and keeping them from conducting a single attack within this country (so far). But we are still very much at risk, and those who seek partisan political advantage by portraying efforts to monitor communications between suspected foreign terrorists and (often unknown) Americans as being akin to Nixon's "enemies lists" are serving neither their party nor their country.

Our Constitution is the supreme law, and it cannot be amended by a simple statute like the FISA law. Every modern president and every court of appeals that has considered this issue has upheld the independent power of the president to collect foreign intelligence without a warrant. The Supreme Court may ultimately clarify the competing claims; but until then, the president is right to continue monitoring the communications of our nation's declared enemies, even when they elect to communicate with people within our country.

Mr. Turner, co-founder of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, served as counsel to the President's Intelligence Oversight Board, 1982-84.

Read it all:  Here

THE DISHONEST REPORTER 'AWARD' 2005

Help Stop the Terrorist Media here

I am running the whole megillah from Honest Reporting because it's that important;

THE DISHONEST REPORTER 'AWARD' 2005 

Big media was clearly on the defensive in 2005. Dan Rather left the CBS News anchor desk under a heavy cloud while other executives were fired in the wake of Memogate. The use of anonymous sources put journalists like Judith Miller and the NY Times in an uncomfortable spotlight. Newsweek's erroneous report that US Marines desecrated a Koran touched off a firestorm of deadly protests around the world. CNN news chief Eason Jordan was forced to resign over comments at an international forum. And an Al-Jazeera reporter was even convicted for his links to Al-Qaida. In each controversy, bloggers successfully pressured the news services for accuracy and accountability.

Unfortunately, problematic coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continued. We couldn't address all the news services or journalists who were nominated by HonestReporting subscribers, but we thank readers for sharing their thoughts about 2005 and for making our fight for honest reporting your fight too. So without further ado, we proceed with our Dishonest Reporter of the Year Award. We begin with the runner-ups:

Reuters

Of all the coverage we saw of the Gaza pullout, nothing stood out more than this odious comment by Reuters in the lead-up days:

The [Gaza] closure will give about 8,500 settlers a taste of some of the military restrictions and bureaucracy endured by Palestinians living under occupation.

The wire service also remained consistent to its warped principles during the London terror attacks too, refusing to describe the bombings as "terror." To understand the logic behind Reuters' vocabulary gymnastics, see here.

Palestinian Stringers

Western news services rely on Palestinian stringers for reporting, photographs and video footage. They also rely on "fixers" who provide all kinds of other support: arranging interviews, navigating through difficult areas, translating and more. But how reliable and objective are these stringers? The Jerusalem Post exposed a number of AP and AFP stringers who were also on the Palestinian Authority payroll, including Majida al-Batsh, who was a candidate for PA president. (Nobody protested the use of AFP office supplies for her candidacy.) The revelations brought to mind a related special report on the influence of Palestinian organizations on foreign news. But unlike a similar scandal in the White House press corps, the stringers' conflict of interest met deafening silence.

C-Span

C-Span executives took the idea of "balanced coverage" to an illogical extreme in March, deciding that a talk by Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt needed to be balanced out with a talk by Holocaust denier David Irving. Lipstadt told HonestReporting:

The notion that there are 'two sides to every story' is simplistic, fuzzy thinking at best, and far more dangerous than that at worst.

Now jailed in Austria, where Holocaust denial is a crime, Irving awaits a February trial.

The Guardian

The Guardian found itself red-faced by what became known as Sassygate: As exposed by blogger Scott Burgess, the Manchester-based paper hired trainee journalist Dilpazier Aslam, whose coverage of July's London terror attacks included a commentary sympathizing with the bombers. It turned out that Aslam was a member of Hizb Ut Tahrir, an Islamist organization which calls for the destruction of Israel and the rule of a world-wide caliphate. When the dust settled, Aslam was fired and the paper's executive editor for news, Albert Scardino resigned. Aslam is now suing The Guardian for "racial and religious discrimination."

Eric Margolis

The February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri shocked even the most cynical Mideast experts. Syrian propaganda, predictably blaming Israel, was echoed by the North American syndicated columnist Eric Margolis. Ironically, the same week that the Mehlis report to the UN on Hariri's murder was released, Margolis gave a soapbox to unsubstantiated claims that Israel had a hand in the 1988 plane crash that killed Pakistani dictator Zia Ul-Haq.

 

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But one news service's skewed coverage stood out the most, "winning" the award in a landslide. From the first day votes came in, it wasn't close, which may explain the dearth of nominations for perennial runner-ups like the NY Times, Associated Press and The Independent. The 2005 Dishonest Reporter of the Year Award goes to the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The impact of BBC coverage cannot be understated. A Google study found that for breaking news, internet users around the world were more likely to turn to the BBC than CNN. More than 270 million TV viewers around the world watch BBC World. Even more people listen to BBC World Service, which broadcasts in 42 languages.

Readers provided a full laundry list of complaints and we found the most effective way to condense the biggest offenses was in a simple list form. The examples of bias from the year past indicates a pattern of naivete, dishonesty, forcing facts conform to a narrow worldview and, arguably, a desire to inappropriately influence events - all paid for by British television viewers through the TV License Fee, which costs the typical household 126.50 GB Pounds per year.

Here are the top 10 reasons (listed in chronological order) why the BBC is HonestReporting's Dishonest Reporter of the Year.

10. In January, Palestinian presidential candidate Dr. Mustafa Barghouti (not to be confused with his better-known distant relative, Marwan) tried to use Israel and the Western media to get some free publicity for his campaign by getting himself arrested at the Temple Mount. The Independent's Donald Macintyre saw straight through Barghouti's ploy, but the BBC's Martin Asser proved more gullible:

A large crowd of journalists has gathered at an East Jerusalem hotel to hear him, and there is some excitement because a rumour is going round he will go to the al-Aqsa mosque later for Friday prayers...

 

It is meant to be the photo-opportunity highlight of the day - but the Israeli security services have other ideas...

 

In truth, Mr Barghouti's programme was not unduly affected by the detention, because his next engagement was not scheduled until 1330.

 

I could be wrong, but that - rather conveniently - left ample time for his headline-grabbing brush with the Israelis before moving on to meet the voters.

9. Every morning, listeners can tune into BBC for an uplifting "Thought of the Day." One February morning, Rev. Dr. John Bell used the feature to describe an Arab-Israeli acquaintance only identified as "Adam." According to Rev. Dr. Bell, this acquaintance was "conscripted" into the Israeli army, where "he was also imprisoned for refusing to shoot unarmed schoolchildren." See the full transcript here.

After HonestReporting pointed out that Israeli-Arabs aren't required to serve in the IDF and that the allegations that soldiers have orders to shoot unarmed kids are wholly unfounded, the BBC apologized - but only for not fact-checking Adam's age and the issue of conscription. We still await a retraction about the non-existent orders to shoot kids.

8. In March, the BBC apologized to Israel for reporter Simon Wilson's handling of an interview with Mordechai Vanunu. A former technician at the Dimona nuclear plant, Vanunu is prohibited from talking to foreign reporters, but Wilson, in 2004, was caught trying to smuggle tapes of his interview out of the country. Although the apology - which paved the way for Wilson to return to Israel - was supposed to remain confidential, it was inexplicably posted on the BBC's own web site for several hours. The BBC once intended to rent out a luxury apartment for Vanunu paid for by British television viewers.

7. He retired from the BBC, but former Mideast correspondent Tim Llewellyn (now an executive member of the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding) makes this list for an interview he gave to Electronic Intifada. We are concerned Llewellyn's views are shared by colleagues within the BBC:

[BBC] are adopting what they see as an even handed attitude. To me this is a cowardly attitude, it is an attitude which confuses occupier with occupied...

6. In May, BBC correspondent Orla Guerin reported that construction linking Maale Adumim to Jerusalem would split the West Bank in two, destroying any possibility of a viable Palestinian state. HonestReporting noted that construction in the area known as E-1 doesn't take away territorial contiguity. A map produced by our colleagues at CAMERA highlights how the Palestinians would have continuous territory, which, at its narrowest, would be nine miles (or 15 km) wide - which also happens to be the width of Israel's "waistline" between the Green Line and the Mediterranean.

5. When members of the British Association of University Teachers considered a boycott of Israel's Bar-Ilan and Haifa universities, BBC radio tried to influence the vote with a report by correspondent John Reynolds from the College of Judea and Samaria. As Melanie Phillips wrote in May:

Not a word about the fact that more than 300 students at this college are Arabs, and that the Arab mayors of local towns have enthusiastically welcomed the opportunities it gives their students...

 

The BBC might as well have had a block vote at today's AUT conference. So much for its supposed objectivity, which once again stands exposed as a charade.

4. When terrorists linked to Al-Qaida struck the London transportation system in July, many thought the BBC would finally use the word "terror" to describe the wanton attacks on civilians. To their credit, a small handful of initial reports did. But appearances of the "t-word" in initial coverage were soon removed from the BBC's web site (but not before Tom Gross documented the inconsistencies). Yet Roger Mosey, the head of BBC's television news, contradicted BBC policy when he wrote in The Guardian that there was no ban in the first place!

Then there has been a controversy about our use of language - particularly the question of whether the BBC banned the word "terrorist". There is no ban. It's true the word is contentious in some contexts on our international services, hence the recommendation that it be employed with care. But we have used and will continue to use the words terror, terrorism and terrorist - as we did in all our flagship bulletins from Thursday.

Not surprisingly, subsequent coverage of the London bombings and their aftermath remained "terror free." At the end of the year, however, The Guardian reported that BBC journalists received new "guidance" discouraging - but not banning - the "t-word." Time will tell if this will have a positive impact in 2006.

3. Following the London terror attacks, the BBC admitted loading the studio audience with a disproportionate number of Muslims for Questions of Security: A BBC News Special. (See Biased BBC for links to video of the show.) Among the complaints, one viewer wrote angrily:

I do not pay my license fee to watch an unrepresentative Muslim audience like this.

The BBC's response?

In order to ensure a range of voices on these issues, the studio audience contained a higher proportion of Muslims in the audience than in the population as a whole - around 15% of the audience as opposed to 2.7% of the country as a whole...

This isn't the first time the BBC got in hot water for loading the audience. In 2001, anti-American invective from a Question Time audience discussing the 9/11 attacks got so out of hand that news director Greg Dyke had to apologize to US ambassador Philip Lader, who participated in the show.

Can anyone imagine a BBC program on Israel loaded with Israelis and Jews?

2. Within hours after Israel completed its pull-out from the Gaza Strip, Palestinians wasted no time desecrating synagogues and looting greenhouses. BBC's Orla Guerin was one of several journalists who actually justified the sad, senseless destruction:

Palestinians came streaming to the settlements that caused them so much pain, to sightsee and to loot. Israel stole thirty-eight years from them; today, many were ready to take back anything they could.

1. Whatever happened to Malcolm Balen, who was appointed to help improve the BBC's Mideast reporting? Back in November, 2003, the BBC hired him as a "senior editorial advisor," or, as some put it, "a Middle East policeman." Some HonestReporting readers were hopeful when Haaretz reported that Balen was supposed to present a "conclusive and comprehensive report" to BBC executives. Balen even told Haaretz:

What I do is a long-term editorial review, and by definition, the review is retrospective, rather than a look at day-to-day output. The truth is, in any editorial job, you are so tied up with your program and deadline, that you simply do not have the time to stand back and look at the coverage as a whole," says Balen.

"Nobody has the time in a journalistic job to trace the course of a single story in an organization as large as the BBC, which is what I was appointed to do. I can concentrate on a single story and look at all sorts of angles and aspects. I can join the dots together, [determine] what the coverage feels like, what the tone is like - crucially, what the content is like, what the balance is like."

Yet with all the resources of the BBC at his disposal, Balen, to our knowledge, has not presented any report. In contrast, Trevor Asserson, a British lawyer working on his own initiative, put together several exhaustive critiques. HonestReporting readers, who also chose the BBC as Dishonest Reporter of the Year in 2001, connected the dots.
Has Balen?
 

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By October, the deteriorating coverage reached a point where the Board of Governors requested Sir Quentin Thomas to lead an independent panel to investigate its Mideast reporting. (See here for more details.) The panel is supposed to release its findings in the spring. When the Board of Governors released its Programme Complaints: Appeals to the Governors, the forward by the chairman of the complaints committee noted that the majority of the complaints (20 out of 27 in fact) dealt with Mideast coverage. Only one - against Barbara Plett - was upheld.

Yet even in December, former director-general Greg Dyke, a casualty of the Hutton Report, insists that the network's Mideast reporting continues to be fair:

We investigated many of the complaints and most of the time found our reporting had been totally fair. Of course the pro-Israeli lobby didn't accept that but then they had a different agenda.

The stakes are certainly high. News services skewing reports from the Mideast are just as capable of warping other important areas of coverage. For the BBC, that's most notably Iraq. The BBC's royal charter expires at the end of 2006 - one year from now --  and officials must explain how it spends income from the TV License Fee. In 2003, this TV tax brought the BBC nearly 2.4 billion GB Pounds in income. Simply put, the British public is subsidizing lousy news.

As far as we're concerned, the excuses and apologies have worn thin. The BBC must be held accountable.

HonestReporting covered a lot of ground in 2005 and will continue monitoring the media in the coming year. We hope 2006 proves to be a better year of honest reporting.

Thank you for your ongoing involvement in the battle against media bias.

More widly Biased reporting;

MOSQUE AND STATE: Charles Jacobs, President of the David Society, in the Boston Globe, Dec. 25:

The story on the lawsuit filed against us by the Islamic Society of Boston ("Praised by beacon, mosque project stalls amid rancor," Page A1, Dec. 18) did mention that the society's founder, Abdurahman Alamoudi, raised money for Al Qaeda and is in jail (in connection with a plot to assassinate a Saudi prince). But the story omitted even more worrisome facts.
The society's leaders have praised suicide bombers and called for attacks on Americans. A website in Qatar associated with society trustee Yousef al-Qaradawi, an internationally known leader of extremists, calls for gays to be executed by either stoning or burning. Al-Qaradawi has been barred from the United States. The society website praises as "very good" a book that refers to the women's liberation movement as a "Jewish plot" to corrupt society and argues that wife-beating is at times necessary. The library of the society's current Cambridge mosque contains literature containing vitriol directed against Christians, Jews, and Americans. While mosque spokesmen speak of "dialogue" and tolerance, Qaradawi says "there is no dialogue between us [and the Jews] except by the sword and the rifle."

 Another interesting piece from Pipes "Winning the P ropaganda War"

Unlike the Soviet bloc, the Muslim world lacks not access to reliable information but interest in it. The reasons are many but perhaps the most salient of them are a disposition to believe in conspiracy theories and an attraction to totalitarian solutions. Rather than try to purvey information to Muslims, State (and its counterparts elsewhere) should instead assert the case for liberal, secular, and humane values. More than facts, the Muslim world needs to understand the basics of what makes the West thrive - and thereby be inspired to emulate it.

The Good, The Bad , and the media

Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist

While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.

These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.

"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."

The results appear in the latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which will become available in mid-December.

You can download a copy of the letter or the report here 

Wednesday, December 07, 2005
REPORT: On Iraq, Media Coverage Has Been Bias

Today I sent a letter to my GOP colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives highlighting the results of a recent study by the Media Research Center which found that over the past year, the media coverage in Iraq has been:

• Overwhelmingly pessimistic;
• Increasingly negative over time;
• Highlighting terrorist attacks as centerpieces of the nightly news;
• Downbeat on the Iraqi political process; and
• Included only eight stories fo heroism or valor by U.S. troops -- out of 1,388 news reports

If Inflation Falls in the Forest…
When no one reports good news, does that mean it didn’t happen? Of course not. And the biggest decline consumer prices have seen in 56 years is pretty big news. Unfortunately, the media paid a lot more attention when inflation rose back in September.

Commentary: Boo-Hoo Economics
The media found plenty to cry about in 2005. They just can't stop spinning economic positives as negatives.

The Media’s Top 10 Economic Myths of 2005
Don’t miss the list of the year’s greatest hits – exposed and debunked.

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly tracks the best and worst media coverage of business and economics. Readers are invited to submit suggestions or news tips to staff writer Ken Shepherd.
This week:  USA Today shows a town eager for a nuclear plant; ABC, NBC gun-shy on calling transit strike illegal; Lou Dobbs’s deficit of economic knowledge widens.

ABC, NBC Gloss over Transit Strike’s Illegality

Hit by a Clue-by-Four

U.S. Economy Again Defies Media Pessimism

Labor Unions

News: The Washington Post’s Stephen Barr reports on how Congress has scaled back a Bush administration program “that uses cost-comparison studies to determine whether ‘commercial’ activities performed by the government should be turned over to contractors.” The bottom line: as of November 30 of this year, it’s become harder to save taxpayers money and improve quality of service by contracting work to private companies.

Commentary: The December 20 New York Sun derides the Transit Workers Union for its “blatantly illegal act of economic sabotage” staged during “one of the most important business weeks in the city in a last-ditch attempt to preserve privilege.”

Media Research Center

April 23, 1943

April 23, 1943
SATIRE BY STEVEN PLAUT

Archeologists in Poland have just discovered an amazing document, uncovered from beneath rubble left over in what was once the Warsaw Ghetto.

A Letter and Call to Sanity for the Warsaw Ghetto zealots, from the Peace Now chapter of Warsaw, April 23, 1943.

Dear Deluded Brethren:

A few days ago some zealots from certain messianic settler organizations operating in Warsaw launched a series of acts of unprovoked violence against the legitimate German peace partners directing peace-seeking activities here in Warsaw. A number of German soldiers and officers have been viciously murdered, while others have been maimed and injured by these thoughtless religious fundamentalists.

Comrades, we must emphasize that these violent hoodlums are deluded and are making things much worse for everyone else here in the Warsaw Ghetto. You have to understand that there are no military solutions to the problems of deportations of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto by the Germans. Our problems can only be resolved through negotiations. We insist that, in spite of the claims of these messianic terrorists provoking the Germans, there IS a partner for negotiations amongst the Germans, and we Warsaw Jews DO have a moral responsibility to conduct good faith negotiations with the legitimate representatives of the Germans.

In addition, violent attacks by irresponsible Jewish settlers in the ghetto against Germans will only provoke a cycle of violence. There can be no winners in that.

Don't these people conducting the hooligan violence understand that if they attack the nazi troops and refuse to conduct negotiations with the agents sent to us by Adolf Hitler, Hitler will lose control of his forces and then some **really** violent anti-Semite could take over the Third Reich. Besides, Hitler is really trying his best to rein in the more violent of his stormtroopers; he simply cannot be everywhere at once. And besides, the Red Army and the eastern front have him so pre-occupied that he cannot act more effectively against the renegade SS terrorists mistreating Jews.

In addition, the Germans do have some legitimacy to their negotiating position. After all, Jews in Poland have been illegally occupying numerous Polish territories that really belong to Aryans! The Jews have established themselves in numerous Polish settlements where they just do not belong and their presence there has antagonized some of the local oppressed people. In addition, horrendous inequality has been created by Jewish racism, since the Jews in Poland are better educated than the gentiles there and Jews in Warsaw earned more than non-Jews before the war. This manifestation of anti-gentile apartheid must be redressed! We need some affirmative action to help the Polish non-Jews advance in society.

In addition, some Polish civilians were victims of Jewish pickpockets in Warsaw before the war! The Jews need to pay compensation for THAT.

Clearly the solution is two ghettos for two peoples! The Warsaw ghetto needs to be shared. The Jews in one half must agree to be deported peacefully from that half to other destinations, so that the Germans and the Poles can have equal rights in the New Middle Europe. The entire tragedy that we have experienced is because of the selfish inability of so many Jews to share their property and land.

We repeat, violence has never solved anything. Violence only foments more violence. The violent Warsaw settlers attacking the innocent Germans are guilty of disrespect towards The Other. They are bigots and racists. They have wounded innocent bystanders.

We need to speak out in defense of the human rights of Germans and Poles in the vicinity of the ghetto. We must denounce the racist Zionist hooligans and messianic zealots attacking those victims. Jewish terrorism against Germans must be stopped.

We must begin negotiations at once. Those claiming there is no peace partner on the German side are deluded. We simply have to give Hitler a chance. He just wants a homeland for his own people and his fair share of our territory!

So take a lesson from our rich and wonderful heritage. The Bible itself calls upon us to pursue peace!

Stop the shooting! Start the talking! Now!

Signed, Peace Now, Warsaw Chapter
hat tip Brigitte Gabriel

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO THE NATION

THE PRESIDENT: Good evening.  Three days ago, in large numbers, Iraqis went to the polls to choose their own leaders -- a landmark day in the history of liberty.  In the coming weeks, the ballots will be counted, a new government formed, and a people who suffered in tyranny for so long will become full members of the free world.

This election will not mean the end of violence.  But it is the beginning of something new:  constitutional democracy at the heart of the Middle East.  And this vote -- 6,000 miles away, in a vital region of the world -- means that America has an ally of growing strength in the fight against terror.

All who had a part in this achievement -- Iraqis, and Americans and our coalition partners -- can be proud.  Yet our work is not done. There is more testing and sacrifice before us.  I know many Americans have questions about the cost and direction of this war.  So tonight I want to talk to you about how far we have come in Iraq, and the path that lies ahead.

From this office, nearly three years ago, I announced the start of military operations in Iraq.  Our coalition confronted a regime that defied United Nations Security Council resolutions, violated a cease-fire agreement, sponsored terrorism, and possessed, we believed, weapons of mass destruction.  After the swift fall of Baghdad, we found mass graves filled by a dictator; we found some capacity to restart programs to produce weapons of mass destruction, but we did not find those weapons. [check Syria Mr President - Atlas]

It is true that Saddam Hussein had a history of pursuing and using weapons of mass destruction.  It is true that he systematically concealed those programs, and blocked the work of U.N. weapons inspectors.  It is true that many nations believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.  But much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong.  As your President, I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq.  Yet it was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

He was given an ultimatum -- and he made his choice for war.  And the result of that war was to rid a -- the world of a murderous dictator who menaced his people, invaded his neighbors, and declared America to be his enemy. Saddam Hussein, captured and jailed, is still the same raging tyrant -- only now without a throne.  His power to harm a single man, woman, or child is gone forever.  And the world is better for it.

Since the removal of Saddam, this war, like other wars in our history, has been difficult.  The mission of American troops in urban raids and desert patrols, fighting Saddam loyalists and foreign terrorists, has brought danger and suffering and loss. This loss has caused sorrow for our whole nation -- and it has led some to ask if we are creating more problems than we're solving.

That is an important question, and the answer depends on your view of the war on terror. If you think the terrorists would become peaceful if only America would stop provoking them, then it might make sense to leave them alone.

This is not the threat I see.  I see a global terrorist movement that exploits Islam in the service of radical political aims -- a vision in which books are burned, and women are oppressed, and all dissent is crushed.  Terrorist operatives conduct their campaign of murder with a set of declared and specific goals -- to de-moralize free nations, to drive us out of the Middle East, to spread an empire of fear across that region, and to wage a perpetual war against America and our friends.  These terrorists view the world as a giant battlefield -- and they seek to attack us wherever they can.  This has attracted al Qaeda to Iraq, where they are attempting to frighten and intimidate America into a policy of retreat.

The terrorists do not merely object to American actions in Iraq and elsewhere, they object to our deepest values and our way of life.  And if we were not fighting them in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Southeast Asia, and in other places, the terrorists would not be peaceful citizens, they would be on the offense, and headed our way.

September the 11th, 2001 required us to take every emerging threat to our country seriously, and it shattered the illusion that terrorists attack us only after we provoke them.  On that day, we were not in Iraq, we were not in Afghanistan, but the terrorists attacked us anyway -- and killed nearly 3,000 men, women, and children in our own country.  My conviction comes down to this:  We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists.  We invite terrorism by ignoring them.  And we will defeat the terrorists by capturing and killing them abroad, removing their safe havens, and strengthening new allies like Iraq and Afghanistan in the fight we share.

The work in Iraq has been especially difficult -- more difficult than we expected.  Reconstruction efforts and the training of Iraqi security forces started more slowly than we hoped.  We continue to see violence and suffering, caused by an enemy that is determined and brutal, unconstrained by conscience or the rules of war.

Some look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude that the war is lost, and not worth another dime or another day. I don't believe that. [me neither - Atlas] Our military commanders do not believe that.  Our troops in the field, who bear the burden and make the sacrifice, do not believe that America has lost.  And not even the terrorists believe it. We know from their own communications that they feel a tightening noose, and fear the rise of a democratic Iraq.

The terrorists will continue to have the coward's power to plant roadside bombs and recruit suicide bombers.  And you will continue to see the grim results on the evening news.  This proves that the war is difficult -- it doesn't mean that we are losing.  Behind the images of chaos that terrorists create for the cameras, we are making steady gains with a clear objective in view.

America, our coalition, and Iraqi leaders are working toward the same goal -- a democratic Iraq that can defend itself, that will never again be a safe haven for terrorists, and that will serve as a model of freedom for the Middle East.

We have put in place a strategy to achieve this goal -- a strategy I've been discussing in detail over the last few weeks.  This plan has three critical elements.

First, our coalition will remain on the offense -- finding and clearing out the enemy, transferring control of more territory to Iraqi units, and building up the Iraqi security forces so they can increasingly lead the fight. At this time last year, there were only a handful of Iraqi army and police battalions ready for combat.  Now, there are more than 125 Iraqi combat battalions fighting the enemy, more than 50 are taking the lead, and we have transferred more than a dozen military bases to Iraqi control.

Second, we're helping the Iraqi government establish the institutions of a unified and lasting democracy, in which all of Iraq's people are included and represented.  Here also, the news is encouraging.  Three days ago, more than 10 million Iraqis went to the polls -- including many Sunni Iraqis who had boycotted national elections last January. Iraqis of every background are recognizing that democracy is the future of the country they love -- and they want their voices heard. One Iraqi, after dipping his finger in the purple ink as he cast his ballot, stuck his finger in the air and said: "This is a thorn in the eyes of the terrorists."  Another voter was asked, "Are you Sunni or Shia?"  And he responded, "I am Iraqi."

Third, after a number of setbacks, our coalition is moving forward with a reconstruction plan to revive Iraq's economy and infrastructure -- and to give Iraqis confidence that a free life will be a better life. Today in Iraq, seven in 10 Iraqis say their lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve even more in the year ahead.  Despite the violence, Iraqis are optimistic -- and that optimism is justified.

In all three aspects of our strategy -- security, democracy, and reconstruction -- we have learned from our experiences, and fixed what has not worked.  We will continue to listen to honest criticism, and make every change that will help us complete the mission.
Yet there is a difference between honest critics who recognize what is wrong, and defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right.

Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. For every scene of destruction in Iraq, there are more scenes of rebuilding and hope.  For every life lost, there are countless more lives reclaimed.  And for every terrorist working to stop freedom in Iraq, there are many more Iraqis and Americans working to defeat them.  My fellow citizens:  Not only can we win the war in Iraq, we are winning the war in Iraq.

It is also important for every American to understand the consequences of pulling out of Iraq before our work is done.  We would abandon our Iraqi friends and signal to the world that America cannot be trusted to keep its word.  We would undermine the morale of our troops by betraying the cause for which they have sacrificed.  We would cause the tyrants in the Middle East to laugh at our failed resolve, and tighten their repressive grip.  We would hand Iraq over to enemies who have pledged to attack us and the global terrorist movement would be emboldened and more dangerous than ever before.  To retreat before victory would be an act of recklessness and dishonor, and I will not allow it. 
[Damn! I love that man -Atlas]

We're approaching a new year, and there are certain things all Americans can expect to see.  We will see more sacrifice -- from our military, their families, and the Iraqi people.  We will see a concerted effort to improve Iraqi police forces and fight corruption.  We will see the Iraqi military gaining strength and confidence, and the democratic process moving forward. As these achievements come, it should require fewer American troops to accomplish our mission.  I will make decisions on troop levels based on the progress we see on the ground and the advice of our military leaders -- not based on artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.  Our forces in Iraq are on the road to victory -- and that is the road that will take them home.

In the months ahead, all Americans will have a part in the success of this war.  Members of Congress will need to provide resources for our military. Our men and women in uniform, who have done so much already, will continue their brave and urgent work.  And tonight, I ask all of you listening to carefully consider the stakes of this war, to realize how far we have come and the good we are doing, and to have patience in this difficult, noble, and necessary cause.

I also want to speak to those of you who did not support my decision to send troops to Iraq:  I have heard your disagreement, and I know how deeply it is felt.  Yet now there are only two options before our country -- victory or defeat. And the need for victory is larger than any president or political party, because the security of our people is in the balance. I don't expect you to support everything I do, but tonight I have a request: Do not give in to despair, and do not give up on this fight for freedom.

Americans can expect some things of me, as well.  My most solemn responsibility is to protect our nation, and that requires me to make some tough decisions.  I see the consequences of those decisions when I meet wounded servicemen and women who cannot leave their hospital beds, but summon the strength to look me in the eye and say they would do it all over again. I see the consequences when I talk to parents who miss a child so much -- but tell me he loved being a soldier, he believed in his mission, and, Mr. President, finish the job.

I know that some of my decisions have led to terrible loss  -- and not one of those decisions has been taken lightly. [not near the loss had you not taken those actions Mr. President - Atlas] I know this war is controversial -- yet being your President requires doing what I believe is right and accepting the consequences.  And I have never been more certain that America's actions in Iraq are essential to the security of our citizens, and will lay the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren.

Next week, Americans will gather to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah.  Many families will be praying for loved ones spending this season far from home -- in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other dangerous places.  Our nation joins in those prayers. We pray for the safety and strength of our troops.  We trust, with them, in a love that conquers all fear, in a light that reaches the darkest corners of the Earth.  And we remember the words of the Christmas carol, written during the Civil War: "God is not dead, nor [does] He sleep; the Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, with peace on Earth, goodwill to men."

Thank you, and good night. [no no thank you, on behalf of myself, my four little Atlases, my leftarded countrymen and my fellow warriors, thank you Mr. President - Atlas]

The lefties cry no matter what. The President is doing a helluva job making sure they are free to whine, cry, commit treason, and undermine the country.

More pearls from those geniuses here

UPDATE December 19th: The blogosphere weighs in on the President's Speech at Pajama Media here 

Hitchens: Bush Crippled by Agency 'Fratricide'

PRESIDENT BUSH TO ADDRESS THE NATION TONIGHT 9 PM

    I have been enjoying the prospect of savoring the results of the Iraqi     election, of watching as our military men and women enjoy their     accomplishment with quiet pride, and our good leaders (and we have some of     the other kind too) get some long-overdue recognition, probably given     grudgingly, of their foresight and steadfastness.

    But almost before we could dare believe the 70% turnout and the pictures of     the joyous celebrations, our joy has been snatched away, and we have been     put on the defensive again.  Turns out the President has been authorizing     the tapping of phones in the US making overseas calls; US phones whose     numbers were found in the cell-phones of captured terrorists. Think about     that very carefully when you hear someone say this is a “scandal”.

    I just heard a US Senator try repeatedly to deny on television that he had     been briefed on this classified operation months ago, finally being forced     to admit it like an errant child caught in a lie.  This man, whose name I     shall not stoop to write, is the leader of the Democratic Party in the     Senate.  That is more than a scandal; that is an insult to the honor of the     Senate.

    And the clarifying moment?  It has become obvious to me that nobody is     really probing at the implications of this information, held for a year,     suddenly being revealed when it was.  Yes, there has been speculation that a     reporter’s book was imminent.  And I know that the Times has stated that     they came to the conclusion that US security would not be harmed (and bless     them in their wisdom).  But clearly these are not the REAL reasons why the     information was published on Friday, December 16.  The real reason was to     chagrin America and her soldiers, and humiliate her President, to ensure     that they could not enjoy the honor that they had so convincingly earned.

    Everyone knew that the elections were likely to demonstrate that what we     have been hearing from our troops and our President is true – that we are     winning alongside the Iraqis, and that the majority of Iraqis see that our     presence is essential and our motives are honorable.  And conversely, it     would demonstrate that what we have been hearing from the New York Times are     utter falsehoods.

    This story of the wiretaps was held in secret by the New York Times for many     months, not for a rainy day, but a sunny one.  It was self-evidently a     coldly calculated move on the part of the Times to destroy the morale and     cripple the good will of the United States, at just the time when it could     be most demoralizing (and when other efforts where failing).  What could     possibly motivate such behavior?  The simple explanation is the need to     humble a political foe, and break the spirit of a country before it could     rally to a cause that they scorn.

    But why stoop to using trickery instead of reasoned argument?  Simply     because they can.  They have no need to argue when they have access to the     much more efficacious power of deception.  And remember, these are the elite     who assert the right to decide when journalistic ethics trump those of mere     citizenship.

    Once again I am overcome with a wave of shame, but now it is not at my own     youthful superficiality, but at the naked face of others’ moral bankruptcy.     I wonder if there are any young men or women at the Times who will today     have the scales fall from their eyes as I once did.  I dearly hope there     will be some, for their sake.

    One thing is certain – it is no longer tolerable that the power of this     privately owned organ, driven by a small family of leftists, can compromise     the interests of the United States and its citizens.  They must purge the     childish narcissists they harbor and reacquire a taste for the truth, or     they must be economically destroyed.  If it requires the second to bring     about the first, then let it begin.    
part of a correspondance I received from Dave in  Seattle

Bush Video on New York Slimes Times Intel Leak

EVEN RICHER! Here is video on President Bush slamming the New York slimes Times on the Intel "eavesdropping" leak earlier today, sorry for the poor screen quality, be happy I caught it at all! Just click play.

 

 

 

 

The Revolution will be blogged (by Jeff Goldstein)

Goldstein references Charles Martin, who writes:

It would appear that the Times is admitting that they released this information, knowing it would damage national security.

see update:  Silent Running points to Executive Order12333, signed by Ronald Reagan, from which Bush is likely asserting his executive powers.

also

A reminder:  50 USC 1802:

(a)
(1) Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year[...]

Periodic review, we’re told, happened every 45 days.

The rapidity and forcefulness of the President’s response should frighten those who raced to find fault here.  But then, when there are no consequences for making accusations, why not just go ahead and see what sticks, right? (Jeff Goldstein)

Hat tip Tom P via Protein Wisdom

The FOX that Bit the MSM has died and is waiting on 72 Virgins

Saudi Arabia is attempting the same bloodless coup of the little media that is not Left/Liberal/Lunatic, that it successfully orchestrated on academia in America and abroad here, here here (the list is too long renumerate here).

Billionaire Saudi Prince al-Walid bin Talal, whose offer of $10 million after the 9/11 atrocities was rejected by Rudy Giuliani, has a very revealing and very troubling statement reported by Middle East Online. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

Al-Walid also criticised US media which he described as “in general ... pro-Israel.” But he also accused Arabs of not being pro-active in fighting the allegedly slanted media.

He said that during last month’s street protests in France, the US television network Fox — owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in which Al-Walid himself has shares — ran a banner saying: “Muslim riots.”

“I picked up the phone and called Murdoch... (and told him) these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty,” he said.

“Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots.”

I have bemoaned the early death of FOX for some time now here ,here, and here. I have noticed subtle changes in The New York Post, a must read for years is hardly on my radar screen anymore (The New York Sun picking up the lead, albeit with The Wall Street Journal - two must reads)

FOX has left a gaping hole in the cable news market. Vacuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum.

PUMP UP THE VOLUME ON IRAN!

Iran's constitutional watchdog on Saturday approved a bill to resume uranium enrichment and end snap U.N. checks of its nuclear sites if Tehran is referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

Iran's constitutional watchdog.........now there is something invisible to chew on- Atlas

Oh and btw Reuter's has the dhimmitude thing down pat with the headline of this article:

Iran Watchdog Approves Uranium Enrichment bill

WTF! Iran watchdog? What are they watching? Themselves enrich uranium? Who's on first?

UPDATE: December 4 Here is another classic dhimmi headline from Al Reuters

Iran's patience running out over nuclear issue
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Iran's patience regarding Western opposition to its nuclear program is wearing thin and Tehran will give the EU only a few months to settle the issue through talks, the country's chief nuclear negotiator said on Sunday.

Iran's patience is wearing thin? And then what? They drop the bomb?

STFU already. The Last Conversation about WMD

I am sick and tired of this conversation. The left has no right to be dictating the national dialog, and even if they did, it is pathetic that it would be about pre-war intel and WMD. The sheer ludicrous, make that lunacy, of the debate is embarassing. Not to put too fine a point on it but  the left ought to refrain from reminding of us of bad pre-war intel. Any failure of pre-war intel rests solely on the weak, slouched shoulders and spinelessness of the Clinton administration. Bush inherited 8 years of slashed intel and miliary budgets. That  ineptitude of the Clinton administration's decimation of the  intelligence community and the military cutbacks was devastating to national security. Gorelick and Able Danger notwithstanding.

There were WMD. Read this post from AIRFORCEGUY, the importance of what this man says actually lies not in the content, but in the speaker and the medium. 

....the blogosphere is a new phenomenon, and a new medium which allows common guys like me as wide a broadcasting net as the mainstream media (MSM). If you did not know this already you would not be reading this entry. The real reason you are reading this has to do with the fact that I am not a reporter, sending news filtered through desks and editors. I am a simple soldier, writing what I saw, what I deduced and what I know to be true. For those of you who don’t know, I was a member of the infamous Iraq Survey Group (ISG) in 2003 - 2004,

I’ll spare you the humiliating stories about interrogating Ba'athists and running them as sources. It’s not pretty, it never is. Those we interrogated were proud when they were on top, but they would do anything they needed to survive; including tell you what you wanted to hear, whether or not it was true. But we were professionals, and eventually separated lies from truth. So here is the truth. My Congressman told me there were no WMD in Iraq. But he was wrong, because it was and is still there. And we found some. Hat tip Gail C

You must read it all. WMD was a symptom, a symptom of the cancer of the Radical Islamofascism injecting and infecting itself onto whole societies. Gangrene.

The national debate must change. NOW. Wasn't 9/11 enough? What is wrong with America? How can they take the leftist debate seriously? How can they even consider it? It is opposite of logical.
The force of reason is stark, plain emphatic. War has been declared on America and the West. Choose your weapon. Pen, sword, what have you.

We have to fight the war here at home;

Boosters of the Palestinian cause routinely refer to Israelis and their supporters as Nazis. In January 2005, Iqbal Sacranie of the Muslim Council of Britain reached the apex of moral equivalence. He announced that his group would boycott a commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp: “we have now expressed our unwillingness to attend the ceremony because it excludes ongoing genocide and human rights abuses around the world and in the occupied territories of Palestine. Robert Spencer

And in overseas in the Center of Radical jihadism;

Ahmadinejad: I Am the Messiah

Iran’s madman “president” Ahmadinejad now seems to believe he is the Mahdi, the “divinely guided one” who will lead Islam to triumph over the infidel: Iran: President Says Light Surrounded Him During UN Speech. Hat tip Charles,  LGF

and while Iran, EU Agree To Future Nuclear Talks Tehran Space War. Iran, Britain, France and Germany have agreed to resume talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, but no time or venue for the discussions has yet been set, Huh? no timetable? WTF?
Even worse, regarding International Intelligence; The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has put off taking Iran to the U.N. Security Council to give time for a new Russian diplomatic initiative to work. Do they mean this Russina diplomatic initiative I wrote about back in February?

Russia just sold Iran a ton of Humanity exterminator.
Report: Russia to sell Iran 100 tons nuclear fuel

MOSCOW Russia will start supplying nuclear fuel to Iran, in the amount of roughly 100 tons, approximately six months before its atomic energy plant is commissioned late next year, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported, citing Russian Atomic Energy Minister Alexander Rumyantsev.

Rumyantsev and Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadehm, who is also the Iranian nuclear agency chief, signed a nuclear fuel agreement Sunday in Bushehr, Iran, site of the US$800 million Russian-built plant.

 

I don't understand how we can possibly be having any other conversation than what aggressive action we must take to conquer, yes eradicate the scourge of radical islamism. This is the only issue. Tick Tick Tick Tock.

Every other conversation is a luxury. Until we can stop politicizing the struggle between good and evil, right and wrong, life and death............we surely must lose.

Frank Rich,The New York waste of Times War

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Help support Congressman Curt Weldon's letter calling for public hearings on Able Danger.  Sign it here then spread theword. hat tip QT Monster Blog Home

              Frank Rich'sWar New York Sun editorial

Bush and Vice President Cheney with lying to get America involved in the war in Iraq, as the New York Times columnist Frank Rich did yesterday, have a special obligation to get the truth correct themselves. It's one thing for Mr. Rich to disagree with the decision to go to war in Iraq and to blame Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney for the decision. It's another for Mr. Rich to accuse our elected leaders of misleading the country while the columnist himself goes about misleading readers of The New York Times.

The Truth

Mr. Rich writes that the White House's record on the road to Iraq recalls the saying, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" Here is what Mr. Bush said in his 2003 State of the Union address, the one whose 16 words about Uranium in Africa caused such a storm. "The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages - leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions are obtained - by torturing children while their parents are made to watch. International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning."

That the president spoke the truth has been sadly confirmed in free Iraq. The Associated Press's Nadia Abou El-Magd interviewed Firas Adnan, whose tongue had been cut off with a box cutter by a Saddam loyalist. Mr. Adnan, "his slurred words barely comprehensible," said of Saddam, "He is a despot, the biggest despot, Iraq will be much better without him." Susan Sachs of Mr. Rich's own New York Times reported from the mass graves of Hilla: "On April 11, 1991, a few weeks into the Shiite rebellion, Iraqi helicopters dropped leaflets over Karbala ordering everyone to leave or be attacked with chemical weapons. Mr. Mohani piled his relatives into a pickup truck and a car and fled. About four miles south of the city, the escape route was blocked. There, he said, he saw Mr. Hussein's son-in-law, Hussein Kamal, executing people randomly at a checkpoint. 'He was telling people to get out of their cars and then he would shoot them, shoot them until his arm was too tired to do it anymore.'"

Does Mr. Rich think his own colleague and the Associated Press are also part of what he derides as "propaganda" and "the disinformation assembly line"? And when it comes time for a new generation to ask their elders what they did during the war to end the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, what are the editors of the Times going to have to say for themselves?

Read it all

And go over to American Future for The New York Times on Iraq, 1993-2005

Baghdad forfeits the protection of the U.N. cease-fire resolution every time it violates the cease-fire terms. [January 21, 1993 editorial]

This page remains persuaded of the vital need to disarm Iraq. But it is a process that should go through the United Nations. [March 17, 2003 editorial]

A war can be lost because public opinion turns against its continued prosecution. The New York Times – the self-described "newspaper of  record" – is among the world's most influential opinion leaders. As  shown by the cited quotations, the newspaper's stance on Iraq underwent a complete transformation during the decade separating 1993 and 2003. While its editors never lost their fear of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (WMD), their prescription for countering the threat posed by the weapons was altered beyond recognition. Hat ip x__dhimmi

More here..............Saddam, Al qaida and 9/11

NATO vs. Islamist Terror NATO is imperative to defend us against the threat of Islamist terror. By JOSE MARIA AZNAR

Worn-Out Reactionary Media (WORMs) Ignore Iraq $1 Million Katrina Donation

More news the mainstream media deliberately ignores from Tom at BizzyBlog;

The failure of the “Mainstream Media” (with very minor exceptions) to report the possibly record-breaking $1 million donation by the Iraqi Red Crescent (their equivalent of our Red Cross) to Hurrican Katrina relief is negligent and irresponsible. It proves, more than another individual story out of Iraq, that there is a dogged determination to ignore positive news from that country, and that those ignoring it deserve the new name (WORMs) that is in the title of this post.

___________________________

No matter where you stand on the Iraq War, by any reasonable, logical definition of what reportable news is, this story (”Positivity: Iraq’s Red Cross Equivalent Donates $1 Million for Katrina Relief”) fits that definition.

I believe that it may be, either in absolute dollars, as a percentage of the donor country’s output, or both, the largest single donation by a foreign non-governmental entity to a United States relief effort ever.

The Washington Times (”Iraqi Red Crescent thanks U.S. with $1 million for Katrina relief”) reported the donation on Friday, November 25 (noting, among other things, that the amount “represents 20% of the organization’s annual budget.” The underlying event happened Thursday, November 24.

Thanks Tom. Read it all here.
More interesting to me is how the above story was not reported but the following idiotic story was;

France offers relief Miami Herald

France has offered to fly over some of the city's musicians and provide them with rent-free residences and monthly stipends for up to three months, in hopes of compensating for concerts canceled after Hurricane Katrina.

''It's like a family story,'' said Pierre Lebovics, the French consul general in New Orleans. ``You love a person, and this person goes to the hospital and you discover that you really love that person. Such tragedy happens and you discover the reality and the depth of your feelings.

Uh, yeah, ok - what he just said - Atlas

Bombing Al Jareeza

Me? I think bombing the barbarians' mouthpiece was a brilliant strategy. Yup.....think how many lives could have been saved if that propaganda organ was stopped dead in its tracks. But that's just me and no matter, itl doesn't make the story true).

Video from YNC.com

Oh I know I know, it's so not PC, but then again neither is sawing off someone's head but Al Jizz seems to love that and no one calls them out on that or their al qaida connections. Notice how they always seem to be on the scene at exactly  the same time as a suicide/car/homicide bomb goes off. Hmmmmmmmm.

Go over to Tigerhawk, he's great the best coverage:

The Arab world, which will believe any depredation about the United States and has for forty years, is going wild. Here, via Sabbah, is but one delightful example of cartoonish blowback:

Various Al-Jazz staff members have started an English-language blog, "Don't Bomb Us - A blog by Al-Jazeera staff members". It is pulling down lots of comments, particularly from Western moonbats. The very first comment in the current top post comes from one "Richard":

To live with conscience in America during these days .. is to know what it was to live, as an appalled citizen under the Nazis in Germany during the holocaust.

America needs a psychiatrist and group therapy and the Bush Administration must be put on trial for war crimes.

Humanity is one family with one heart.

Next thing you know, Bush will be joking about bombing "Richard."

Live blogging: Fred Barnes interviews Thomas Sowell on FOX

Fred Barnes is interviewing Thomas Sowell on Fox News NOW....put it on!

Sowell rarely speaks publicly.   His contempt for talk shows and news interviews are a result of their lack of  real debate.

          ..

Live blogging it now : FB: Education

TS: "people that go into teaching are the lowest level of academic standing"

FB: What if you took charge of education under Reagan "what would you have done?"

TS:"break the NEA, make teaching non union. Step number 2 abolish educational
professors"

RE" Katrina

TS:"The problem with disaster relief is you encourage people to buy in dangerous places

The people were told to get out. The thing that got me was all those cars and buses under water."

FB: Bush charged with racism during Katrina.

TS:"Bush did not have much to do with it. The law is written that Bush could do little to intercede"

FB: Oil prices?

TS:"Prices are really a sympton. Prices are like a thermometer reading."

FB: "What  would do?"

TS:"Drill for gasoline, build refineries. Nothing ill get you more gasoline in the short run."

"Democrats are the only reson to vote for Republicans."

FB: PATRIOT ACT:

TS: "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BENEFITS W/O COST.

After 9/11 we were fearful of another attack, we were afraid. Every event, large and small, was another opportunity for the terrorists to attack and we lived in fear. And yet since 9/11, no attacks, that's a good track record. That's no accident

Things have not gotten better on there own. It wa a result of  thse actions."

People don't want to believe benefits have costs. Unfortunaltely thats is not the world we live in."

FB: You were against Vietnam.........

TS: "Yes because we werent going to do what it took to win.So why lose lives?"

FB: And do you believe in the was in Iraq?

TS: "Yes, every terrorist we kill is one less that can come here and kill us"

FB: You have written of the lack of heros in Iraq.

TS: "Oh yes! The media is so against this war, they will not relay the stories of what our men and women are doing over there. The great accomplishements. The successes..........Everything  I read and everyone I speak to that is in Iraq runs counter to what the media reports."

I transcribed the above to the best of my (limited) typing ability, not verbatim. Tune in tomorrow evening at 5:30 for the balance of the interview. This interview will be rebroadcast later this evening...........check your local listings. It's a must see.

Here's an excerpt from one of my favorite Sowell's columns from early June;

We may look back on some eras as heroic -- that of the founding fathers or "the greatest generation" that fought World War II -- but some eras we look back on in disbelief at the utter stupidity with which people ruined their economies or blundered into wars in which every country involved ended up worse off than before.

How will people a century from now look back on our era? Fortunately, most of us will be long gone by then, so we will be spared the embarrassment of seeing ourselves judged.

What will future generations say about how we behaved when confronted by international terrorist organizations that have repeatedly demonstrated their cut-throat ruthlessness and now had the prospect of getting nuclear weapons from rogue nations like Iran and North Korea?

What will future generations think when they see the front pages of our leading newspapers repeatedly preoccupied with whether we are treating captured cut-throats nicely enough? What will they think when they see the Geneva Convention invoked to protect people who are excluded from protection by the Geneva Convention?

During World War II, German soldiers who were captured not wearing the uniform of their own army were simply lined up against a wall and shot dead by American troops.

This was not a scandal. Far from being covered up by the military, movies were taken of the executions and have since been shown on the History Channel. We understood then that the Geneva Convention protected people who obeyed the Geneva Convention, not those who didn't -- as terrorists today certainly do not.

What will those who look back on these times think when they see that the American Civil Liberties Union, and others who have made excuses for all sorts of criminals, were pushing for the prosecution of our own troops for life-and-death decisions they had a split second to make in the heat of combat?

The frivolous demands made on our military -- that they protect museums while fighting for their lives, that they tiptoe around mosques from which people are shooting at them -- betray an irresponsibility made worse by ingratitude toward men who have put their lives on the line to protect us.

It is impossible to fight a war without heroism. Yet can you name a single American military hero acclaimed by the media for an act of courage in combat? Such courage is systematically ignored by most of the media.

If American troops kill a hundred terrorists in battle and lose ten of their own men doing it, the only headline will be: "Ten More Americans Killed in Iraq Today."

Those in the media who have carped at the military for years, and have repeatedly opposed military spending, are now claiming to be "honoring" our military by making a big production out of publishing the names of all those killed in Iraq. Will future generations see through this hypocrisy -- and wonder why we did not?

Read it all

Thanksgiving Brought to you By Yahoo

With all the wonderful news coming out of Iraq these days, leave it to the mainstream media to highlight this (day in, day out, here) no mention of the barbarism and death at the hands of radical islam;

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq AP via Yahoo!
As of Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005, at least 2,104 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,653 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

Yo Yahoo. It's the first democracy in the Arab world ever, you seditionists! Go ahead turn over another journalist to the Chinese you sniveling treasonsists!

Way more innocent American civilians died on 9/11. But that's not important.

Here is some news you'll never see;

	11.27.2005 Medics help local Iraqis; Aussie exchanges with U.S.; Soldiers see biblical site; It’s back to school time for Soldiers in the Ohio Guard; Task Force Thunder...		11.20.2005 254th stays flexible in Cedar; Bush: U.S. still supports Soldiers; Chaplain’s goal: improve lives; Going home? DCS has new location; Maj. Motes counts up the...
	11.13.2005 Arms shop keeps guns blazing; Know the alarm status; Comba Combat t str stress ess teams; The 360th safeguards fuel and trucks on route to Sykes; Soldier rec...		11.06.2005 3rd COSCOM takes the helm; 3rd COSCOM takes over; Twins get ready to redeploy; Sic Sick k call medics ba battle ttle the ‘cold’ war ar in Ir Iraq; Locals com...
	10.30.2005 Communications 'good to go'; Soldier visits sick and injured at hospital; New spiritual fitness center opens in Mosul; Soldiers set up, test communications; ...		10.23.2005 Soldiers keep blades turning; Navy trains Iraqi medics; Bush applauds Iraqis on their recent election; 360th delivers in Iraq; CG’s commentary: Be proud of t...
	10.16.2005 Iraqis plan their own missions; Command Sgt. Maj. reflects year in Iraq; Soldiers take home Iraqi culture; Hispanic American moves his way up DOD success lad...		10.09.2005 Kicking down doors in Rawah; Finance Special: Life insurance increases/Carpe Per Diem: seize the money, fill out a travel voucher; Flag football season start...

 

                           

NOVEMER 26TH UPDATE:

Daily Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq

They just can't help themselves those mainstream traitors. Hey MSM! How many people died in China today? Huh? How many ?

Schools closed and thousands of people were evacuated in southwest Chongqing after a blast at the Yingte Chemical Company.

This isn't rural China. These are big towns where these eco catastrophes are occurring. Harbin has 3-1/2 million people; Chongqing a mindboggling 30 million, give or take the population of Delaware.  Put another way, Chongqing by itself has considerably more people than Iraq and is catching up to California.  No wonder this isn't a simple situation. The Independent, a left-leaning publication, has a pretty detailed analysis of how the Chinese lied to their people about the Harbin spill.

More over at Roger's house

November 26th: They just can't stop. Sick sick sick. Report the good

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:22 pm PST
AP - As of Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005, at least 2,105 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,653 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians. Full Story

The Day The New York Times Died

                      WE ARE AT WAR YOU TREASONOUS SNAKES!

The New York Times died yesterday, officially.

The four above photos ran on the FRONT PAGE on The New York Times yesterday. All four, with the following caption. The online edition ran only one of the photos but if you click on it all four will pop up.

After meeting with reporters in Beijing, Mr. Bush tried to exit through a locked door. Realizing the mistake, he made a mock grimace, and an aide pointed the way. He joked: "I was trying to escape. It didn't work."

This is a new low, even for The New York Slimes.

The Times has never done a front page story on Oil For Food, the largest, most egregious international white collar crime in world history. Never made the front page. But the above four photos did. This  is beneath even The Globe and The Examiner,  they would never sink so low.
More here. The New York Times is dead.

Had to actually buy it to scan it.......yech.

UPDATE: Abu Ali found guilty of plotting to assassinate the President of the United States. Do you think the clowns over at the New York _{waste of} Times will bother to run it? Michael Isikoff over at Newsweak didn't think that would happen here.

Woodward aka Woooodwaaaard

This is the best commentary I have seen on the Woodward/Plame/Flame/Blame/Game Bush lied/People Died nonstory from Rich Galen's Mullings;

• Oh. My. God. Bob Woodward appears to have lied. By omission and commission.
• Bob Woodward. A name which is spoken by other reporters in the hushed tones generally reserved for recently deceased Popes by Catholic priests and nuns: Bob Woooodwaaaard.
• I'll bet 75 percent of senior writers, editors, and reporters working in Washington, DC today are doing what they do because of Bob Woodward. Because they wanted to be just like Bob Woodward.
• Woooodwaaaard. Watergate. Whew.
• For those of you who do not actually live in, and breathe the air of, your Nation's Capital let me review the bidding: In 2003 someone leaked the name Valerie Plame to Bob Novak who wrote a column about the fact that (a) she was Joe Wilson's wife and (b) worked at the CIA. It has never been clear that this was a crime.
• Since then, a federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, has been working to ferret out who might have said what to whom and when.
• Three weeks ago Your Nation's Capital had the city-wide vapors - complete with projectile sweat and fluttering eyelids - waiting to see who would be indicted.
• I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was it. And not for disclosing Valerie Plame's name, but for allegedly lying to investigators and the grand jury about whether he told reporters about her, or whether they had told him.
• During all this, a New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, had refused to testify about her discussions with Scooter Libby because she had promised him confidentiality as a source.
• She went to jail for 85 days for contempt of court and no one much cared, because no one actually LIKES Judith Miller. No one says "Juuuudith" if you know what I mean and I think you do.
• After realizing no one was going to bust her out, Libby released her from her pledge, she hied it over to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, and told all.
• The executive über editor of the NY Times wrote a memo to the staff wagging his editorial finger in Miller's face for not being forthcoming about, and for having "entanglements" with, Libby. (That word launched eyebrows so high and so fast that the streets around the National Press Building were fairly littered with bifocals.)
• Miller wrote that she had a conversation with the NY Times managing editor Jill Abramson about pursuing a story about Ms. Plame; a conversation which Abramson denies ever took place.
• Miller remembers it differently than Abramson.
• In the current matter, someone had told Woodward about Valerie Plame a month or so before someone (we don't know the identity of the someone or someones) had told Novak about her. But Woodward decided to hide that fact from everyone including his editor because, according to a Howard Kurtz piece in the Washington Post, "I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed."
• So, Woodward hid substantive facts from his editor at the Washington Post, just as Judith Miller had done at the NY Times.
• The Washington Post has a highly regarded national security affairs reporter named Walter Pincus who was subpoenaed to, and did, testify before the grand jury. Woodward allowed a colleague be dragged into the fray, but hid his own knowledge so his shoes didn't get muddied. What a guy.
• Woodward has also said that he "passed along a tip about Plame to … Pincus in June 2003, but Pincus says he has no recollection of such a conversation."
• Woodward remembers it differently than Pincus.
• If I were Scooter Libby's defense attorney, here's what I would do:

  I would call Judith Miller and ask her about her conversation with Jill Abramson. I would call Abramson and ask her if she remembered that conversation.

  I would call Bob Woodward and ask him about his conversation with Walter Pincus. I would call Pincus and ask him if he remembered that conversation.

• I would tell the jury, in my closing argument, that these four nationally recognized journalists - who are trained from birth to take care in remembering what they say and what they hear - disagree on whether or not these conversations ever happened.
• Scooter Libby, who has dozens of such conversations per day - thousands per month - should not be penalized for not remembering the details of discussions years after they took place.
• The defense rests

Well said Rich, meanwhile will someone please share with us WTF Sandy Berger was stuffing in his dirty underwear?

The Fifth Column at Work

Everyday, everyday, everyday the MSM reports the daily death count of our soldiers, and notice they always say "at least"

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! NewsAs of Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005, at least 2,079 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,625 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

A Daily Look at Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! As of Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005, at least 2,065 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,604 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

A Daily Look at Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! News As of Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005, at least 2,062 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,604 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! News
As of Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005, at least 2,071 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,614 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! News
As of Monday, Nov. 14, 2005, at least 2,067 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,613 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

The family of bus driver Kuldeep Singh.  Although not a hero by the standards of Michael Moore or Cindy Sheehan (since he isn't a homicidal 'freedom fighter') Kuldeep saved the lives of dozens in New Delhi.ReligionofPeace

Every single day, they club us like baby seals. These men and women fighting the war on radical jihad and these harpies never note the number of deaths due to islamic terror, never so much as inquire. NUMBER OF DEAD! What is that number?

I have posted on this a number of times and will continue to until this bias against the West, the Bush Doctrine, the American people, until the war is won.

Soldiers die. It is a horror. That's what soldiers do. That's what an army is for. That is the military's job, to defend and protect. Fighting al qaida in Iraq is a brilliant strategy. Taking down major buildings in NYC is an act of war. Khobar act of war. USS Cole act of war. You get my meaning.

WE NEED A DAILY TALLY OF MURDERS AT THE HANDS OF RADICAL JIHADI ISLAMOFASCIST TERRORISTS. NOT JUST THE NUMBER OF DEADLY HOMICIDE ATTACKS, THE NUMBER OF DEAD AND INJURED.  CAN SOMEONE HELP ME DETERMINE THIS NUMBER?

>Bill Clinton Calls Iraq 'Big Mistake',  Atlas Calls Bill Clinton 'Bigger Mistake'

[BTW, this snake] told Arab students Wednesday the United States made a "big mistake" when it invaded Iraq, stoking the partisan debate back home over the war.

"partisan debate" euphemism for low grade civil war  - Atlas

UPDATE: November 17

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
Thu, 17 Nov 2005
As of Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005, at least 2,083 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,628 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.   

UPDATE:

With all the wonderful news coming out of Iraq these days, leave it to the mainstream media to highlight this (day in, day out, here) no mention of the barbarism and death at the hands of radical islam;

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq AP via Yahoo!
As of Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005, at least 2,104 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,653 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

Yo Yahoo. It's the first democracy in the Arab world ever, you seditionists! Go ahead turn over another journalist to the Chinese you sniveling treasonsists!

Way more innocent American civilians died on 9/11. But that's not important.

November 26th: They just can't stop. Sick sick sick.

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:22 pm PST
AP - As of Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005, at least 2,105 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,653 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians. Full Story

 

The New York Slimes Times Cuts off It's Own Oxygen

The New York_{Waste of} Times in a move to support Michael Schiavo has cut off it's life support system. This is rich, really frank(ly) rich.

--> about 3/4 the way into the interview: Five Minutes With: Paul Krugman
Thursday, November 10, 2005

Q: [CAMPUS PROGRESS] How do you feel about Times select? We are a bit heart-broken about it.

A: [KRUGMAN] There's no question that for the columnists, Times Select was a really significant reduction in readership and it happened just as the dam is breaking on the indictments and all of that, and now people like Frank Rich and myself who would normally be emailed all over the place are suddenly behind a pay wall. On the  other hand, the Times is a business, and it has to pay its way. It  is encouraging that now columnists are a profit sector, because they  can see who generates revenue. I would certainly have had more
internet hits by a large multiple right now if they hadn't put in Times Select, but I'm living with it.

Hey Krugman...............you're an idiot.
Supply and demand.

I built it, they came.
You projectile spew, they flew......................

hat tip x_dhimmi, today's "Hawk of the day"

Wanna win the War on the Jihad? Kill the Messenger

It was the custom in Ancient Greece and later in Rome to employ messengers to carry the news throughout the city/state/empire. This news was not always to the liking of the recipients but the laws decreed that these messengers where to pass unharmed from place to place and city to city to deliver whatever message they were commanded to spread amongst the population.

Hence the expression 'Don't kill the messenger': or rather its Greek or Latin equivalent.

It was said that when Cleopatra received news that Antony has married   Octavia.  She flew into a rage and tried to kill the messenger (she only calms down when the messenger says that Octavia is nowhere near as pretty as Cleopatra - I sooooooo get Cleo).

A ridiculous solution ...........then.

An appropriate solution now. Now more than ever.

Watching the major news outlets spin the 11/9 bombings in Jordan, ignore the 800lb Radical Islamist gorilla in Paris,  I am convinced now more than ever we must kill the messenger. According to the mainstream media, the terror attacks in Jordan is Bush's fault. Yup, the Dems say it is the war in Iraq that is responsible for this and every other terror attack. And while they don't believe in the war  they want to send more troops in (!). They want it both ways but that's not my point. The left spews their propaganda unchallenged, intellectually unchallenged. One would think with all news, all the time 24/7/365, there would be great analysis of these wildly interesting times. But no car chases and propaganda.

"Liberalism isn't a political philosophy. It's a vile combination of sickness and evil." —Rabbi Mayer Schiller

Bush did not create these terrorists, the have been preparing for this for decades. We ignored it for decades (hey, it was Israel's problem right? So who really cared?) and then woke up to 9/11.

The drumbeat is constant, relentless and working. Americans hate the war. Look I hate war but WTF does that have to do with anything? The war in Iraq is one front, the main theater no doubt, but only one tenet to America's war on Radical Islamo-fascism. Human intelligence, alliances with states that share our values, those with us [as opposed to against us], the Bush Doctrine etc.

And even more interesting is the Right's self flagellation. I was listening to Fred Barnes and many others repeat the mantra that the Bush administration doesn't refute the charges enough. Constantly, it is said that the Bushies don't do the job of getting the good news out there. The best brains on the right say this. I counter, by saying how? If you've got a message, but no one to deliver how the f*ck are you going to get it out there? Seriously..........

The facts are;

• The news from Iraq is good, excellent in fact. Yes soldiers are dying but that is what soldiers are supposed to do. Protect us. They fight so that we are free to get up, get dressed and go to work without getting our asses blown off.

• The economy is robust, excellent in fact despite the war, the acts of G-d and the left. Someone explain to me why the Republicans dropped the oil drilling from the today's bill before Congress.  Republican moderates have forced House Republicans into removing a provision of the budget bill which would have opened up a portion of Alaskan wilderness to oil drilling. Gas prices? Blame the left. Blame the left for our lack of refineries, blame the left for locking us out of our own natural resources, blame the left for ANWR, blame the left for blocking energy reform. Everyone is angry at the oil companies. Why? It's the law of supply and demand. Why wasn't everyone mad at the tech companies when demand was high and they were making a ton of money? The subway used to be a nickel, houses could be bought for 10k.............who are we to expect the price of a gallon of gas to remain the same?  Why aren't the American people enraged at the left for the lack of refineries? What happens when you have the United States, China, India, Europe, and Japan all competing over the same oil? We are seeing today the beginning of a new era in which the Middle East will no longer be a unipolar arena. There will be other players, particularly China, that will move in and want to cut deals and alliances. Interruptions from the hurricanes tightened supply, but consumer demand stayed high, fueled by China and India – so gasoline prices went up. Oil companies profited from the situation, but they didn’t arbitrarily set their prices extra-high. Market forces determined prices. Did you see those hearings yesterday? Those clowns interogating the heafs of oil companies? Oy, what a joke. If they really cared they'd drop the ginormous gasline tax on each gallon (meanwhile gas prices have dropped 23 cents in the past 2 weeks)

  As Cuanas points out;

  "The other day, Rush was talking about the myth of price-gouging as it relates to the oil industry. He pointed out that the average oil company profit on a gallon is 11 cents. The average tax on a gallon of gas is 46 cents."

  The UN pressures Syria to turn over suspects in the Rafiq al-Hariri assassination,and the Lebanon Cedar revolution could topple the Arab world's Berlin Wall. Lebanese citizens are clearly no longer afraid of the Syrians and are moving quickly toward regaining their independence and becoming a truly democratic society. This phenomenon obviously poses a huge threat not only to Syria, but also to Islamists throughout the Middle East terrified of liberty in their midst. This first true pro-democratic revolution in the Arab world

  Thank George Bush for that. 

  Retail sales surged in October.

  Low unemployment.

  Low inflation.

• The left berates Bush on racism and yet the man has the most diverse and multicultural staff/cabinet in our nation's history.

• and finally WMD? Oy, I, for one, believe in the strategy of bringing democracy to the Middle East but even so, we know there were WMD. We just don't know who Saddam gave it to.
  

  I believe the missing WMD is in Iran or Syria but even so the following has been found;

  Did you know WMDs have been found in Iraq?
  * 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
  * 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents
  * 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas)
  * Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas
  * Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and “conventional” sarin gas, assembled in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency

  This is only a PARTIAL LIST of the horrific weapons verified to have been recovered in Iraq to date. Yet, Americans are consistently misled by the left and the mainstream media that U.S. and coalition forces found NO weapons of mass destruction. Iraq was a weapon of mass destruction

Bottom line, the news is great but you can't berate Bush or his people for not "talking it up enough" if no one is listening! Not only that but our Republican brethren has blinked in the face of media pressure. Congressional Republicans have completed balked, capitulated to the MSM, and squandered an historical opportunity.

Why can't we just get on the same goddamn page on this already. Doesn't the MSM realize the emergence of the blogosphere filled a ginormous void? An established void. Talk about grassroots...................

So finally the idea of killing the messenger comes into it's own. Because reports of the death of Old Media are greatly exaggerated, especially when all outlets decide to speak with one voice (see election results 11/08/2005)- Deconstructing the Media's Colorado Victory.

"Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them." —Harold Evans

It's time to kill the messenger..................looking forward to D-Day.

UPDATE: The British Messenger must go too
Hat tip: Tom P

Kristallnacht 2005

Today is Kristallnacht Remembrance Day

The burned-out synagogue of Aachen, Germany,
one of nearly 200 synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht 1938.

A fireman wipes his eyes as he walks through the rubble of a movie studio in Asnieres-sur-Seine after an overnight fire on the 11th night of violence in suburbs surrounding Paris, November 7, 2005.
Dutch news footage caught hooded thugs screaming “Allahu Akbar” -- “God is Great”

Arab amd Muslim reaction to the rioting from France - translated by MEMRI here 
(Visit MEMRITV.ORG to view recently translated segments from Arab and Iranian TV)

"Either the jihadists really are crazy or they apparently think that they have a shot at destabilizing, or at least winning concessions from, the United States, Europe, India, and Russia all at once." Victor Davis Hanson, read it all.

Click below for ongoing global war on the west,  from Global Jihad Monitor.

UPDATE: From The Wall Street Journal:
Three coordinated explosions killed at least 53 people and wounded another 120 at three hotels in Amman, Jordan, in an attack that bore hallmarks of an al Qaeda operation.

Grinning Pirates (he he) Euphemism attack Luxury Liner (VIDEO)

FYI: Pirates euphemism for Muslim .............shhhhhhhhhh (not allowed to say it!)

The Seabourn Spirit was 160 kilometres off Somalia when two speedboats closed in on the vessel and opened fire with machine-guns and a rocket-propelled grenade.

The Somali coast is known to be infested with pirates, who are becoming more and more brazen. Somalia has been without a functioning government since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Said Barre, and is now overrun by warlords. CTV.ca News Staff

The Seabourn Spirit was 160 kilometres off Somalia when two speedboats closed in on the vessel and opened fire with machine-guns and a rocket-propelled grenade.

A group of pirates that attacked a luxury cruise liner were likely responsible for seizing a UN vessel in June, a Kenyan official said Sunday.

Andrew Mwangura, head of the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Program, told The Associated Press that the pirates are likely responsible for hijacking a UN-chartered vessel on June 27.

The crew was held hostage for 100 days, until the ship ran out of fuel. It was on a humanitarian.

The Somali coast is known to be infested with pirates, who are becoming more and more brazen. Somalia has been without a functioning government since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Said Barre, and is now overrun by warlords.

and this from Newsbusters Org.;

The MSM has provided a fair amount of coverage today of the pirate attempt to hijack a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia. But most, if not all, of the MSM outlets have refused to identify the pirates [and their leader Mohamed]

PIRATE UPDATE NOVEMBER 8th

Passengers Describe Thwarted Pirate Attack

'I Could Tell the Guy Firing the Bazooka Was Smiling'

An unexploded rocket-propelled grenade lies on the deck of the ship, which was able to escape the pirates.
Watch Video:
Ship's Captain Outspeeds Pirates
Passengers Describe Brush With Pirates

 

What is the relationship between al-Jazeera, al Qaeda and America's TV networks?

The Enemy on Our Airwaves

BY DORRANCE SMITH
Friday, November 4, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST

(Editor's note: Sen. Carl Levin is opposing Mr. Smith's confirmation as assistant secretary of defense for public affairs because of the senator's objections to this article, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal, April 25. A related editorial appears here.)

On April 11, Jeffrey Ake, an American, was taken hostage in Iraq. Video of him in captivity was shown on al-Jazeera on April 13. A short time later six American networks--ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN and MSNBC--aired the same video, a vivid example of the ongoing relationship between terrorists, al-Jazeera and the networks. Last week, al-Jazeera showed video of a helicopter being shot, bursting into flames and trailing smoke as it fell to the ground. It also aired video of the lone survivor being forced to walk on a broken leg and then being shot by the terrorists, one of whom said, "We are applying God's law."

Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and al Qaeda have a partner in al-Jazeera and, by extension, most networks in the U.S. This partnership is a powerful tool for the terrorists in the war in Iraq. Figures show that 77% of Iraqis cite TV as their main source of information; 15% cite newspapers. Current estimates are that close to 100% of Iraqis have access to satellite TV, 18% to cell phones, and 8% to the Internet. The battle for Iraqi hearts and minds is being fought over satellite TV. It is a battle today that we are losing badly.

While I was in Iraq in 2004, Al-Jazeera was expelled from the country by the Iraqi Governing Council for violating international law. Numerous times they had advance knowledge of military actions against coalition forces. Instead of reporting to the authorities that it had been tipped off, Al-Jazeera would pre-position a crew at the event site and wait for the attack, record it and rush it on air. This happened time after time, to the point where Al-Jazeera was expelled from Iraq. The airing of the Ake video, however, demonstrates that it can still operate on behalf of the terrorists even from outside the country.

Al-Jazeera continues to broadcast because it reportedly receives $100 million a year from the government of Qatar. Without this subsidy it would be off the air, off the Internet and out of business. So, does Qatar's funding of Al-Jazeera constitute state sponsorship of terrorism? As long as Al-Jazeera continues to practice in cahoots with terrorists while we are at war, should the U.S. government maintain normal relations with Qatar?

In addition to being subsidized by Qatar, Al-Jazeera has very strong partners in the U.S.--ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN and MSNBC. Video aired by Al-Jazeera ends up on these networks, sometimes within minutes. The terrorists are aware of this access and use it--as in the Ake case--to further their aims. They want to reach the American audience and influence public opinion.

The arrangement between the U.S. networks and Al-Jazeera raises questions of journalistic ethics. Do the U.S. networks know the terms of the relationship that Al-Jazeera has with the terrorists? Do they want to know?

There has been no in-depth reporting about Al-Jazeera in the U.S. and virtually no scrutiny of Qatar and its relationship with the network. Why not? Is it that the American networks don't want to give up their tainted video?

 

The News from Iraq that's not Fit to Print

  That depends on what you consider ''important." Do you see the war against radical Islam and Ba'athist fascism as the most urgent conflict of our time? Do you believe that replacing tyranny with democratic self-government is ultimately the only antidote to the poison that has made the Middle East so dangerous and violent? If so, you'll have no trouble identifying the most significant development in Iraq: the landslide victory of the new Iraqi Constitution.

Read it all by Nov 3, 2005 by Jeff Jacoby

The New York Slimes [Waste of] Times has a fool for a lawyer: O'Reilly

Did you see  the clownish intelllectual antics of O'Reilly/O'RileMeUp last night making excuses for the New York Times to the mother of a dead soldier. The Times used her son as a  tool to promote it's anti war agenda by twisting the intent of the fallen soldier's last letter to his family by carefully editing it.

O'Riddler excusing  the New York Waste of Times to the mother of the dead soldier whose letter they carefully edited to make it seem like he was anti-war was disgusitng. O'Ego said "they didn't mean to do it" it wasn't deliberate". When he asked the mother to concur, the softspoken women was speechless. Uncomfortable pregnant pause and then she said "I don't know what to say"

Luigi said O'Reilly can't give up his moral relativism regarding liberals and everyone else. O'Reilly contends that the left is no worse than conservatives in smearing their opponents. Excuse me, but only a liberal would make that argument.

JammieWearingfool:

O'Ego only trashes the Times when they go after him. It's all about him.
Anytime any columnist anywhere goes after him, he goes apeshit.
The rest of the time, he pretends he has to be fair and balanced.

And if I might add, O'Reilly will wail on the Times for not reviewing his books. That really pisses him off.

I am really hating him, hated him last night

New York Times twisting words of Dead Hero Cpl Starr

An American Newspaper, while paying "tribute" to the 2000th fallen G.I. in Iraq, mischaracterized a letter from a dead Marine to his family, paraphrasing his words to support their anti-war agenda? This letter, found on the laptop of Corporal Jeffrey Starr, was intended to be read by members of his family in the event of his death. Here is the hack-job this Liberal Rag did to this brave Marine:

NY Times quoted just this: "Obviously if you are reading this then I have died in Iraq.I kind of predicted this, that is why I’m writing this in November. A third time just seemed like I’m pushing my chances." ((WHY DID THEY STOP THERE???))

The actual letter reads on: "I don't regret going, everybody dies but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq. it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark."

What an excellent, selfless and mature statement from this brave 22-year old man. What a heartless and transparently political travesty by this Newspaper, which has lost all credibility.

According to Jeffrey's Uncle, just before leaving for his third tour Jeffrey said this to him "If we (Americans) don't do this (free the Iraqi people from tyranny) who will? No one else can."

If you would like to show your concern about this nonsense, Byron Calame, the Public Editor for the New York Times, can be reached at Email: public@nytimes.com.

For other examples of the New York Times and their GLARING political agenda, visit Times Watch.

And according to his mother last night on O'Reilly said, if it wasn't for Emmaline (sp? - his wife?), he wanted to sign up for another mission to be with his marines.

THIRTY FIVE PERCENT, BEEE-YOTCH! WORST SINCE NIXON! HAHAHAH!

The above headline was from a commenter on the previous drinking thread.

And while I put as much stock in an a cBS poll as I do put in the therapeutic properties of snake oil, I do believe certain things must be said.
To the 35% I salute the mainstream media for so successfully and so relentlessly clubbing the America psyche into Bush bashed submission.

To the 65% I wish to submit to you the following:

There have been no terror attacks in the US since 9/11. Think about that. All through the Clinton years, US targets were fair game. Islamic Terrorists have carried out more than 3,192 deadly terror attacks since 9/11. We can thank George Bush for that.

He is fighting Radical Islamofascism in spite of a corrupt UN and international community. 

The Left says Bush used WMD to manipulate into war. I say 9/11 "manipulated" us into war with a shadowy enemy. Conventional thinking about war is obsolete and Bush was sagacious to see it. But here we are 5 years later and the left is still crying about it. Never decrying the dead at ground zero, but using the military dead as a tool.

Londonastan, Paris Burning, Theo Von Gogh................Europe is finished, dying. America was follwoing the same trajectory under Clinton. Clinton was the Champion of appeasement, the man entertained Yasser Arafat at the White House as frequently as Jfk had Marilyn in the White House swimming pool.

The following scenario is typical of America's response top terror under a Democratic leadership from Frontpage.mag;

What follows is an excerpt from My FBI by Louis Freeh, in which the former FBI director describes the reaction of the Clinton White House to evidence provided by the bureau that Iran was behind the Khobar Tower attacks of 1996, which killed 19 American servicemen:

…Remarkably (although that’s an insufficient word), Sandy’s people had prepared a script A and script B for spinning the story once it became public…Clearly, someone had been having a nightmare that featured a headline along the lines of “FBI Investigation Determines Iran Responsible for Khobar Attack…It seemed we were here to manage the issue, not do a damn thing about it."

"Wait a minute," I finally said, “are we going to talk about the fact that Iranians killed nineteen Americans?"

…At some point, I tried to catch George Tenet’s eye to give him one of those "What the hell is going on?" looks.  Instead, I had to wait to buttonhole him as we were walking out of the meeting.

"Do you believe that?" I asked.

"We have a lot of meetings like that around here," George answered.

The light shined by Louis Freeh on the backroom machinations of the Clinton administration confirms much of what most foreign policy observers already suspected: the Clinton White House was willing to sacrifice the security of the United States for the goal of better relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.  The Khobar Towers incident, while certainly one of the more graphic and disturbing outcomes of this Faustian bargain, is simply one example.  During the eight years of his presidency, President Bill Clinton oversaw one of the most damaging and foolish foreign policy initiatives in recent American history: the institutionalized appeasement of Iran.   

 

The unfolding of global events since 9/11 is the case for going into Iraq.  17 years of flouting sanctions, the tip of the iceberg.

I believe the missing WMD is in Iran or Syria but even so the following has been found;

Did you know WMDs have been found in Iraq?
* 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
* 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents
* 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas)
* Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas
* Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and “conventional” sarin gas, assembled in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency

This is only a PARTIAL LIST of the horrific weapons verified to have been recovered in Iraq to date. Yet, Americans are consistently misled by the left and the mainstream media that U.S. and coalition forces found NO weapons of mass destruction. Iraq was a weapon of mass destruction.

The UN pressures Syria to turn over suspects in the Rafiq al-Hariri assassination,and the Lebanon Cedar revolution could topple the Arab world's Berlin Wall. Lebanese citizens are clearly no longer afraid of the Syrians and are moving quickly toward regaining their independence and becoming a truly democratic society. This phenomenon obviously poses a huge threat not only to Syria, but also to Islamists throughout the Middle East terrified of liberty in their midst. This first true pro-democratic revolution in the Arab world

Thank George Bush for that. 

Despite the economic devastation of 9/11, dramatic spending increases on national security, the costs of war, KKKatrina, U.S. Government Action to Assist American Citizens Mexico/Hurricane Wilma , Rescuing Victims of Modern-Day Slavery, Tsunami aid etc. etc., Corporate Profits on a Tear.
Third-quarter corporate profits have extended one of the most robust winning streaks in recent history --The President is doing a brilliant job. Yes yes that is what I said. Stocks surged on the back of a strong GDP report, to cap off a week of big swings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 172.82, or 1.69%, to 10402.77. The Nasdaq Composite Index gained 1.26% and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 1.65%.

Private home ownership is at an all time high. Black home ownership the highest in our nation's history.

Retail sales surged in October.

Low unemployment.

Low inflation.

Gas prices? Blame the left. Blame the left for our lack of refineries, blame the left for locking us out of our own natural resources, blame the left for ANWR, blame the left for blocking energy reform. Everyone is angry at the oil companies. Why? It's the law of supply and demand. Why wasn't everyone mad at the tech companies when demand was high and they were making a ton of money? The subway used to be a nickel, houses could be bought for 10k.............who are we to expect the price of a gallon of gas to remain the same?  Why aren't the American people enraged at the left for the lack of refineries? What happens when you have the United States, China, India, Europe, and Japan all competing over the same oil? We are seeing today the beginning of a new era in which the Middle East will no longer be a unipolar arena. There will be other players, particularly China, that will move in and want to cut deals and alliances. Interruptions from the hurricanes tightened supply, but consumer demand stayed high, fueled by China and India – so gasoline prices went up. Oil companies profited from the situation, but they didn’t arbitrarily set their prices extra-high. Market forces determined prices.

The left berates Bush on racism and yet the man has the most diverse and multicultural staff/cabinet in our nation's history.

"Three of Maryland's top Democrats -- including the two leading candidates for governor next year -- declined to repudiate comments by black Democratic leaders who said racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele are fair because he is a black conservative Republican." hat tip Fred

My only issues with Bush stem from his placating the left with bloated spending programs (IE prescription drug benefit), lack of real tax reform (VIVA THE FLAT TAX), medicare fraud and misuse - IE slashed my finger and made my first trip to the emergency room and I can tell you it is basically a ginormous doctor's office for anyone and any malady large and small. People must pay. And I mean everyone, legal and illegal. Sorry. As soon as people have to pay for something they won't go running to the doctor or emergency room for every runny nose. Four hours for a stinking stitch. I know too may stories of immigrants overstaying their tourist visas, bringing in sick family members and getting free heart operations and follow up care. The hospitals actually encourage illegals to come for superfluous testing - because the taxpayer (you and me) are footing the bill.The only way to bring down health care costs is to consume less in terms of health care services. That will require a major cultural change.

Katrina was a bitchslap to the welfare state. A Rainbow in the Aftermath of Katrina: Realization that Overspending Must Stop - let us hope.

Social Security reform - that ponzi scheme has got to stop. The third rail of politics? Why? Because seniors are the largest voting bloc. Oh puhleeeeeeeze. Seniors had their whole life to make a living and squirrel away for their old age................lavish on the children to quote a long lost ghost. Lavish on the children.

Rant over for now. To be continued

Photo toon: Pete at IHILLARY

The Intellectual and Moral Bankurptc of Todays Left: Dr.Sanity
great piece, read it

 

The Week in Israel vs The Week in Iran

Update: 11/02/05

Regime Change Iran reports; "How Dangerous is Iran?" - Full text of the Cicero article on Iran

Winds of Change: Here is the full English text of the recent Cicero article on Iran as provided by the brave men and women of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) A few excerpts of this must read article:

The author of this article was able to look at a list of the holy killers who have found safe refuge in Iran. The list reads like the Who's Who of global jihad, with close to 25 high-ranking leadership cadres of Al-Qaida -- planners, organizers, and ideologues of the jihad from Egypt, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, North Africa, and Europe. Right at the top in the Al-Qaida hierarchy: three of Usama Bin Ladin's sons, Saad, Mohammad, and Othman. Al-Qaida spokesman Abu Ghaib enjoys Iranian protection, as does Abu Dagana al-Alemani (known as the German), who coordinates cooperation of the various jihadist networks throughout the world from Iran. They live in secure housing of the Revolutionary Guard in and around Tehran . "This is not prison or house arrest," is the conclusion of a high-ranking intelligence officer. "They are free to do as they please." ... For years, according to the findings of Middle Eastern and Western intelligence services, Iranian intelligence services have already worked together repeatedly with Sunni jihad organizations of Al-Qaida. "As an Islamist, I go to the Saudis to get money the Jordanian GID man outlines the current practice of Islamist holy warriors. "When I need weapons, logistical support, or military terrorist training and equipment, I go to the Iranians." ...

The practical consequences of this answer make Western intelligence services shudder: "If anyone, the United States or even Israel, gets the idea to bomb the Iranian nuclear weapons program back 10 years into the past, then God help us says a Western intelligence officer. "Then the Mullahs will unleash their guard dogs worldwide. They will equip and support all Shiite terrorist networks with the Sunni networks globally, that is, with everything that they have. For us it would be the ultimate worst-case scenario, one for which we are not prepared." READ MORE

 

This is the author and publication that was raided by the German authorities earlier this year for publishing classified German intelligence information. It is credible. A definite must read. It needs to be widely read.

 UPDATE: 11/02/05: "Shari'a Punishment" Photos Misattributed
hat tip LGF

According to my original source,

Note: There have been questions as to what exactly is occuring in these photos. I have attempted to contact the original source and will post all updates on Bareknucklepolitics.com..........

UPDATE: More here:

I have been investigating the photos of the Iranian boy and the truck.  I have confirmed it to be a performance, a stunt.  This information is directly from the the Peykeiran News service, the initial publisher of the picture.

 

links to orig pictures: http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22394, http://web.peykeiran.com/new/iran/iran_news_body.aspx?ID=22395

 

Here is the complete email exchange from yesterday and today.  It unequivocally states that it was photographed as a stunt, performed many times for bread.  Perhaps there was an early mistranslation of what was going on, converting the story to "stealing bread."  I tried for hours to translate the Farsi while waiting for a response from Iran. 

 

So this is what? A PSA for Vocational training? Although I was surprised, I was under the impression they cut off hands for stealing.

THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE A SOFTENING IN PUNISHMENTS.
Bottom line: Punishment, stunt, whatever. it's child abuse. Sorry fellas it's still a horror to me

Iran: Israel is a scar on the United Nations, a terrorist country

UPDATE 10/31/05: 8 Year Old Iranian Boy [previously thought to be -Atlas] caught stealing bread......

hat tip: Spider Boris     Bare Knuckle Politics

The Iran-al Qaeda Axis> Peter Brookes

The most immediate threat Iran poses to American national security isn't its nuclear (weapons) program. It's the safe haven Tehran is giving al Qaeda terrorists, who are planning and directing jihad across the globe.

If the United States and its allies in the War on Terror don't take firm action against Iranian support to al Qaeda, the price in blood and treasure attributable to Osama bin Laden's killers - in Iraq and elsewhere - will continue to soar.

Iran had a busy busy week

Tehran, Oct. 30 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the latest cabinet meeting in the Iranian capital that “if we were permitted to hang two or three persons, the problems with the stock exchange would be solved for ever”, according to a Tehran-based newspaper.

Dive desk.
Removed previous photo in question. Above photo is authentic here

Tehran "Bounty" for Rocket Attack on Israel from West Bank - Uzi Mahnaimi
Iran has promised a reward of $10,000 to Islamic Jihad if the militant group launches rockets from the West Bank towards Tel Aviv, a senior Palestinian intelligence official said last week. Speaking in his Ramallah office, the official produced a fat wad of $100 notes which he said had been confiscated from a pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad activist. The money was said to have gone from Iran to Damascus

High Tribunal of the regime sentences Shahla Jahed to death

 

According to a report from the regime-run newspaper IRAN, 5 judges from branch 15 of the Council of Assessment who investigated the murder charges in a unanimous vote found Shahla Jahed  guilty. In the last stages of the judicial process, the council of assessment confirmed that Jahed would be hung. BBC

hat tip: Iran Press News

The people of Mahaabad protest the execution sentence of a local youth

>The Society of Political Prisoners in Exile

 

Based on reports from the town of Mahaabad (Province of Kurdistan) thousands of locals starting from noon on Tuesday, Oct. 25th poured into the streets of this town, honking their car horns and shouting, expressed their rage at the execution sentence imposed on local youth, Mustafa Rasoulinia who was arrested in the summer clashes between the people of Kurdistan with the disciplinary forces of the regime. People rioted in Esteqlaal Square and the surrounding streets. People from other parts of town joined the crowd that had already gathered at Hasanzadeh School and took the protest from neighborhood to neighborhood.

The regime has blamed the murder of one of the regime's disciplinary officers on the Mahaabadi youth and therefore sentenced him to death. The young man rejected the charges during his trial and said that he had been severely tortured by his captors and was pressured into making a confession.

Hat tip Iran Press News

Female Iranian militia.

Iran won't return to nuclear freeze: Ahmadinejad<

Iranian President calls for death to Israel and America (see post below)

<What Iran desires is a nuclear weapon--the better to threaten and annihilate the impious in the West and in Iran's neighborhood. Iran declares its anti-Western ambitions stridently. At an official parade in 2004, Iran flaunted a missile draped with a banner declaring that: "We will crush America under our feet." (Its leaders, moreover, have for years repeated the demand that "Israel must be wiped off the map.")

IRAN FATWAH! Crackdown on  Store Mannequins

Israel had an even busier week;

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Bill Gates - Israel is a high tech superpower    During his lightning visit last week, legendary Microsoft chairman Bill Gates called Israel a major player in the high tech world, and praised the country's collective commitment to research and education. He even went one step further by meeting with 45 Israeli 'whiz kids' who have been participating in a Microsoft-sponsored advanced high school computer studies program, which prepares the high tech leaders of tomorrow. More...   Health | Scoping out a clearer future for AMD sufferers     The Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT), invented by Israeli doctor Isaac Lipshitz is offering hope to the eight million Americans who suffer vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration, known as AMD. In clinical trials, VisionCare's revolutionary device drastically improved the vision of almost 200 patients, with the results paving the way for its imminent FDA approval. More...   Technology | Israeli technology facilitates extensive clinical study in Mali    The Israeli-developed Hygiea software system has the potential to speed up the process of clinical trials for diagnostics, vaccines and drugs. The University of Maryland's Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) recently deployed the system in Mali, Africa where large scale epidemiological research is uncovering health trends and impact of new vaccines introduced to the impoverished country's infants. As a result of utilizing this exciting new tool, health care solutions could reach the market more quickly, benefiting millions of children and adults worldwide More...   Profiles | Israeli designer Yigal Azrouel follows his passion    Israeli born-and-bred designer Yigal Azrouel has been taking the fashion world by storm. Everyone from Natalie Portman to Sarah Jessica Parker to Lenny Kravitz has been spotted in his designs, which have been featured magazines like Vogue, Interview, and Harper's Bazaar and are showcased in his boutiques around the world. He has no formal training in fashion - his success is a product of his inborn talent and his upbringing, which fostered his sense of independence, confidence and willingness to follow his own unique vision. More...   Global Democracy | Women leaders gather in Israel to combat crime of trafficking    Israel was recently the meeting ground for more than 50 women leaders from around the world - including ministers, members of parliament, judges, representatives of the World Bank, and UN agency officials - who gathered to address a host of common concerns, including a problem that is becoming a world-wide plague: trafficking in human beings. They discussed their common struggle against the crime that Israel is fighting in an increasingly aggressive fashion. More...   Culture | Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian DJs create bridge for peace Health | Children with ADHD may need sleep, Israeli study finds Health | Pfizer puts funds behind team of Israeli all-star scientists to change traditional diabetes research Global Democracy | Israel's developmentally disabled receive a loving home Culture | The 'Chicago Bulls of Israel' invade North America Health | Israeli device increases rate of hip fracture recovery Culture | Israelis sing it in fluent English

more at ISRAEL21c

 

The Drum Beat Goes on............

Everyday, everyday, everyday, the same thing. The MSM reports on this everyday;

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! News As of Friday, Oct. 28, 2005, , at least 2,011 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,567 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! NewsThu, 27 Oct 2005 4:10 PM PDT
As of Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005, at least 2,004 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,559 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

Never a mention of the number of daily deaths of  innocent civilians at the bloody hands of Radical Jihadists.  Religion of Peace has a running list of the number of attacks (not deaths);

The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks Just  Since September 11th, 2001

 

 

This is the number of attacks since 9/11, not the number dead. The press NEVER EVER TALKS ABOUT THAT. And that is the crux of why we are at war.

I will continue unrelentingly to post on this until the MSM and America and the world for that matter acknowledges that 800lb dead gorilla in the room.

Soldiers die. It is a horror. That's what soldiers do. That's what an army is for. That is the military's job, to defend and protect. Fighting al qaida in Iraq is a brilliant strategy. Taking down major buildings in NYC is an act of war. Khobar act of war. USS Cole act of war. You get my meaning.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Date	Country	City	Killed	Injured	Description
10/29/05	Indonesia	Bukit Bambu	3	0	Three Christian 16-year-old girls on their way to school are attacked       and beheaded by six Muslim gentlemen, who leave the headless bodies in the       street and carry the heads to a different location.
10/28/05	Afghanistan	Helmand	3	0	The Taliban ambush a civilian vehicle, killing two brothers and one of       their sons.
10/28/05	Afghanistan	Paktia	3	0	Two men are dragged out a mosque and executed by Taliban extremists. A       tribal leader in nearby Khost is also shot to death.
10/27/05	Iraq	Baghdad	1	9	A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills a civilian and injured nine   others.
10/27/05	Pakistan	Kot Langarkhel	1	11	al-Qaeda-linked tribesmen target a military vehicle with a landmine,       killing one.
10/27/05	India	Ganethi	2	0	A Mujahideen ambush on a security patrol leaves two dead.
10/27/05	Iraq	Nahrawan	15	14	Sectarian violence in the form of a Sunni on Shia ambush claims the       lives of fifteen.
10/26/05	Israel	Hadera	5	30	A suicide bomber from Islamic Jihad murders five Israelis in front of       a food stand in a public area.

More here...............

Beheading Sweet Young Christian Girls on their Way Home from School

*** HORRIFIC MURDERS OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOL GIRLS IN INDONESIA BY ISLAMIC MILITANTS *** *** WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES AND REPORTS FOLLOW ***Hat tip Dog Pundit *** HELP TO ORGANIZE A CHURCH LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT FOR TOMORROW, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2005 ***

A terrible crime has been committed in Poso, in Central Sulawasi, Indonesia, which for several years has seen sectarian violence against the Christian minority. Thugs have beheaded 3 Christian 16 year old girls walking back from school. This Voice of America report tells how the anti-Christian violence has attracted Islamic militants to Sulawasi. WARNING: the following image from Reuters Alertnet is disturbing, but documents the absolutely inhuman and barbaric cruelty of the Islamic militants.The account of the attack is documented in this Reuters report, which describes National police spokesman Aryanto Budiharjo as saying up to 6 veiled men dressed in black used machetes to kill the girls from Bukit Bambu village. Two other victims are shown to the right (photo from Reuters Alertnet).

This report from The Star in Malaysia tells how the girls were found in their school uniforms, and that their heads were found 2 hours later some distance away, including one head found about 100 meters from a church. A fourth girl managed to hide and escaped with cuts. The sectarian violence must stop. There is absolutely no justification for killing defenseless, 16 year old girls on their way to school. If you would like to protest these outrageous murders, you can send a polite letter to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono His contact information is located here. Please try to organize church letter writing campaigns for tomorrow, Sunday, October 30, 2005. Here is the Indonesian President's website. This URL at the Indonesian Embassy in Washington DC gives the mailing addresses and phone numbers for the entire Indonesian cabinet.

Hat tip Dog Pundit

One Man's Grim Milestone is Reality's Miracle. 2,000 Warriors Freeing the Oppressed and Fighting the Enemy in Iraq

And while the PRAVDA aka the mainstream media speaks of the grim milestone in Iraq;

BBC: Another death, another grim milestone for US forces in Iraq.

First it was 100, then 1,000, now 2,000 killed in action for a goal still elusive two-and-a-half years after the invasion.

Whether a landmark or - as the Pentagon says - “an artificial mark on the wall”, the latest casualty count is a reminder of the hard road still ahead in Iraq - and at home. (hat tip: LGF)

yes the 2,000 men and women who died fighting for America, fighting for freedom, fighting Radical Islamofascism, fighting to bring democracy to to those living under the boot of despots, all the effing media talks about is the grim milestone.............meanwhile click here for the real story:

Forgive the poor repro but being out of the country leaves me tech limited. But go to the site and educate yourself. READ IT ALL!  See what's really happening in Iraq. It's a miracle and the group-think-Pravda-inspired-MSM is never gonna tell you. NEVER.

You can not stand idly by and think it is all going to work out. Fight to save our freedoms, our way of life.

Did you know WMDs have been found in Iraq?

• 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium

• 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents

• 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas)

• Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas

• Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and "conventional" sarin gas, assembled in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency

This is only a PARTIAL LIST of the horrific weapons verified to have been recovered in Iraq to date. Yet, Americans overwhelmingly believe U.S. and coalition forces found NO weapons of mass destruction.

The question is... WHY do they believe this lie?

BREAKING NEWS

How about this......log onto my computer and get hit with "BREAKING NEWS". Here it is:

Subject: Breaking News
Date: 10/25/2005 3:23:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: alerts@yahoo-inc.com

Reply To:	alerts-reply@yahoo-inc.com
To:	atlasshrugs2000@aol.com
CC:
BCC:
Sent on:

Sent from the Internet (Details)

Yahoo! Alerts

Yahoo! News - My Alerts - Edit Alert

Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 12:06 PM PDT

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The U.S. military has announced the death of an American soldier who was wounded in Iraq, bringing the U.S. death toll to 2,000. Visit Yahoo! News for more details or search for this story on Yahoo! News Search.

SOLDIERS DIE! SOLDIERS FIGHTING FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION DIE!

Where is the cold hearted bastard media  in recounting the thousands of deaths at the hands of Radical Jihadism. Soldiers are supposed to die. Innocent Kurds, women, dhimmis, Christians, Jews, Moderate Muslims are not supposed to die unspeakable deaths.

THE MEDIA IS THE GOEBBEL ARM OF RADICAL ISLAMOFASCISM.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of  tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, byerosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant  retreat on the other - until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology. ~ Ayn Rand

more here and here  and

Israel Bends Over

And please don't even think of telling me that Israel should have no say in what "political parties"  dance at the next Pali election. Hamas is not a political party, Hamas is a murdering bunch of thugs that want to take over the world. This "concession" is just another victory. And even if Israel has no choice, they don't have to sanction it.

Israel Says it Won't Oppose Hamas Role in Palestinian Vote
New York Times [of course the NYT, they love a story like this - Atlas]
Justice minister says Sharon's government will not intervene as Palestinian leader tries to bring militant group into democratic process.

unless of course they want them to win, so that they can blow their would be assassins to smithereens but do they really need an election to do that? 

The Damn UN: Child Crucifictions, Murders, Assasinations Sanctioned by the Evildoers

If a little boy on the cross  doesn't move the world to action, then we are doomed. What are we?

Damare, a small Sudanese boy, was taken as a slave and forced to tend camels after his village was attacked by radical Muslims. One day Damare, who had been raised in a Christian home, sneaked away from his master to attend a church service. When he returned, his Muslim master was waiting for him and accused of committing a deadly act, "meeting with infidels." The master then dragged Damare into a field where he nailed his feet and knees onto a large board while the boy cried out in agony.

Damare was miraculously rescued and has told The Voice of the Martyrs that just as Jesus was nailed and forgave, he forgives also. What bold faith from a simple Sudanese boy! More here. (hat tip Gail C)

WTF is the UN good for..........absolutely nuthin! US miffed by UN failure to stop Darfur violence

and Darfur agony goes on as the UN fails to act
Scotsman.com
FIFTEEN months after the United Nations' Security Council issued an ultimatum to the government of Sudan to clean up its act in Darfur or face action, shocking new evidence of atrocities is emerging. Various governments have labelled the campaign of...

Meanwhile this disgusting, decadent corrupt organizations is being charged and pleading guilty to numerous crimes.........Guilty Plea In United Nations Oil-For-Food Scandal

While the insane bullshit continues. The only one on trial in the court of international opinion is the US, the only one with spine, courage and the mettle to do the right thing.

OneWorld.net via Yahoo! News
SAN FRANCISCO, (OneWorld) - In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. government's failure to submit its own report.

Meanwhile, Syria is assassinating World Leaders and what does the UN say?

UN resists Hariri probe extension
BBC News PDT
UN chief Kofi Annan refuses to extend an inquiry into the death of ex-Lebanese PM Hariri before seeing a UN report.

 

President Bush is demanding that the United Nations convene a special session to deal with "deeply disturbing" allegations of high-level Syrian involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Bush Seeks Urgent U.N. Meeting on Syria Sanctions

This must end. The left is disgusting in pursuing its own agenda. They love ideas, despise people. Look at how they prop up the despots starving their people in Africa. FREE THE OPPRESSED. Stop giving Africa aid and start arming the people to fight for democracy......purple fingers for everyone of us!

UPDATE OCTOBER 24TH: MORE UN MALFEASANCE:

Right Wing Nuthouse:

UN BURIES A PALESTINIAN CONNECTION TO THE HARIRI ASSASINATION

Not content with redacting portions of the Mehlis report that named Syrian President Assad’s brother in law and other high ranking Syrian nationals as assassins of Lebanese nationalist Rafiq Hariri, the United Nations has also suppressed a report from the Lebanese Medical Examiner in the case that shows a “70% probability” that the driver of the Mitsubishi truck that exploded last February 14 killing Hariri and 21 others was a Palestinian:

Read it all

Hat tip: Superhawk

Everyday Iraqi Deaths, No mention of Deaths Due to RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR

UPDATE: Never ends................October 23rd, an old storu that never changes .......see here;

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! News Sun, 23 Oct 2005 3:19 PM PDT
As of Sunday, Oct. 23, 2005, at least 1,996 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,547 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

WE NEED A DAILY TALLY OF MURDERS AT THE HANDS OF RADICAL JIHADI ISLAMOFASCIST TERRORISTS. NOT JUST THE NUMBER OF DEADLY HOMICIDE ATTACKS, THE NUMBER OF DEAD AND INJURED. CAN SOMEONE HELP ME DETERMINE THIS NUMBER?

 

Here we go guys....everyday the same goddamn thing..........SICK SICK SICK . THIS IS THE ENEMY. I don't care if you think I am belaboring the point. You NEED to see how you are being manipulated.

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! News Sat, 22 Oct 2005 As of Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005, at least 1,996 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,547 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

What you never see is the death toll exacted on innocent civilians at the bloody hands of Radical Jihadists. Over at the Religion of Peace they have the running list of the number of attacks (not deaths);

The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks Just  Since September 11th, 2001

 

 

This is the number of attacks since 9/11, not the number dead. What would these leftard journalists prefer, having their thumbsucking asses blown up at their desks while dining on their sushi lunches?

Soldiers die. It is a horror. That's what soldiers do. That's what an army is for. That is the military's job, to defend and protect. Fighting al qaida in Iraq is a brilliant strategy. Taking down major buildings in NYC is an act of war. Khobar act of war. USS Cole act of war. You get my meaning.

More here...............

UPDATE OCTOBER 24TH

• Death toll hits 2000

Top White House image makers and Republican political operatives say the steadily rising Iraq death toll is a sobering reminder that an unpopular war not only threatens the remainder of President Bush's term, but also jeopardizes his legacy," The New York Daily News reports. In Chapter 57 of the Cato Handbook on Policy, Christopher Preble, Cato's director of foreign policy studies, writes: "The primary concern for U.S. policymakers should be defending Americans from known threats. An expeditious end of the military occupation of Iraq serves that end because a withdrawal would free crucial resources for fighting known terrorists and at the same time remove a source of grievance for future terrorists. CATO INSTITUTE

US death toll in Iraq nears 2,000
AFP via Yahoo! News Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:07 PM PDT
The US death toll in Iraq neared 2,000, two-and-a-half years after the war to oust Saddam Hussein, leaving President George W. Bush's administration scrambling to shore up support for its mission in the violence-wracked country.

emphasis mine, do you think they have an agenda or what? Their whole slant is a malevolent lie.

 

The Democrat Fifth Column Wages War against the American People

I hate giving the Dhimmicraps the attention they live for but I will make a couple of fast comments on their lies and the propaganda .
First, when will they stop telling us "what the American people want"? If they gave a rat's ass about what the American people wanted they would STFU and let the Republicans do the job we elected them to do. The White House, the Congress, the House , the Senate...........Republican all. We voted.  So sit down and shut up.
This DeLay/ Rove/ Rumsfeld/ Rice/ Libby destruction campaign is sickening. Who would ever want to run for office? I can tell you I would NEVER run for office and btw I'd be great. They would tear apart my previous marriage(s), torment my children, accuse me of cheating off Elise Goldman's sixth grade math test.

The DeLay judge is a donor to the Soros owned, radical left MoveOn.org.  And Ronnie Earle?  Ronnie Earle has tried to derail DeLay for years, and he has conducted himself in a most partisan fashion in doing it. Rather than investigate these charges in a clearheaded, direct, and nonpartisan manner, Earle has made no bones about his personal and political vendetta. He has openly used this investigation as a Democratic Party fundraising device, charging up Democratic rallies such as one last May that raised over $100,000, featuring Earle on the stump talking about the case and DeLayHa!
Need I say more. It's a joke. The charges are a joke but here is the head over at AOL TombTime Warner. Cut and pasted from their front page;

Will DeLay return to his leadership role?
No, he's going to prison   70%
Yes, after he beats the charges 30%

Look at the word usage "prison", 'beats the charges"............and look at the unscientific poll results. What they neglect to mention is the highly ethical Republicans are the only party that have their leadership step down while being investigated. The Dhimmicraps would never consider such a ridiculous notion.
Where is all the commotion on Hillary's rampant campaign irregularities and illegal transactions?

Hillary Campaign Finance Director indicted

Feds probe for Hillary Clinton 's Campaign Violation

DONOR SUES FEC TO FORCE ACTION AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGNFINANCE FRAUD

Hillary's Haunting Finance Scandal

I mean really. What are we talking about here. The DeLay indictment is a hoax and what pisses me off is it keeps the people we need running the country tied up in knots.
The whole Rove persecution as well. I predict? NO INDICTMENTS..............it's all bullshit.

Democrat leaders and editorialists accusing Karl Rove of treason for referring to CIA agent Valerie Plame in an off-the-record interview are ignorant of the law.

Plame's circumstances don't meet several of the criteria spelled out in a 1982 statute designed not only to protect the identity of intelligence agents but to maintain the media's ability to hold government accountable, Victoria Toensing.

Toensing – who drafted the legislation in her role as chief counsel for the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – says the Beltway frenzy surrounding Plame's alleged "outing" as a covert agent is a story arising out of the capital's "silly season."

They are succeeding at the objective -  tie the White House up in knots at when time is of the essence and the clock on the War against Radical Jihadism is tic, tic ticking. They secretly pray for another 9/11 for their next GOTCHA moment - "YOU WEREN'T DOING YOUR JOB!" - and if it's not a 9/11 then it's KKKatrina. That was Bush's fault too.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent, by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until the day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology. ~ Ayn Rand

loved this quote on the people's cube

Iraqi Deaths vs. Radical Islamic Murders

First posted 10/143/05: This is very typical and nothing new but I will continue to point it out.

There is not a day that goes by that the mainstream media doesn't run multiple pieces on the "deaths in Iraq".  Also huge is the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq.

A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
AP - As of Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005, at least 1,964 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,528 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians. Full Story

 

What you never see is the death toll exacted on innocent civilians at the bloody hands of Radical Jihadists. Over at the Religion of Peace they have the running list;

The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks Just  Since September 11th, 2001

 

 

This is the number of attacks since 9/11, not the number dead. What would these leftard journalists prefer, having their thumbsucking asses blown up at their desks while dining on their sushi lunches?

Soldiers die. It is a horror. That's what soldiers do. That's what an army is for. That is the military's job, to defend and protect. Fighting al qaida in Iraq is a brilliant strategy. Taking down major buildings in NYC is an act of war. Khobar act of war. USS Cole act of war. You get my meaning.

Iraqi-based terrorists have been urged by Osama bin Laden's deputy to stop beheading foreign hostages and shoot them instead - not because decapitation is wrong but because it may be counterproductive in the battle for Muslims' "hearts and minds."

Write to the media of your choice and demand they run the daily death toll of human life at the barbaric hands of our enemy, Radical Islamic Jihadists. Oh and make sure you click on the link to the list to see the horrific fashion in which each these innocents were murdered. It is no wonder that the moderate Muslims are afraid to speak out.

Update: October 14 received my daily notification;

AP: 3,663 Killed in Iraq in Past 6 Months
Guardian Unlimited - UK The AP gathered the statistics on Iraqi dead on a daily basis from hospital officials, Iraqi police, the Iraqi military and other government officials.

UPDATE: October 2oth received my head count

A Daily Look at Military Deaths in Iraq
AP via Yahoo! News
As of Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005, at least 1,988 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,541 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.

Concerns Over Iraq Growing on Homefront
AP via Yahoo! News
Bob Simpson dips his brush in a jar of black paint and starts scrawling two numbers on a sign he hangs outside his home — totals for U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in Iraq.

Why does this putz Bob make news? Why doesn't Bob have a paint a ginormous sign of the thousands of innocent dead from Radical Islamic homicide attacks? Why doesn't Bob do that? Is it because there is not enough paint in Bob's town or is it because Bob won't make the AP newswire if he does that?
 

Whose Credibility is Gaping?

Check this out from CNN;

Bush's growing credibility gap
CNN.com
In what the White House promoted as "a major speech," President George W. Bush compared the struggle against terrorism to the Cold War, "Islamo-fascism" to communism and the fugitive cave-dweller Osama bin Laden to Adolf Hitler.

Now I ask you, objective and ratonal readers. Whose credibility gap is growing. That CNN could run a headline like this the day after the most historical election in Middle Eastr history. This despite the world entire rooting against Freedom in the Middle East, the relentless drumbeat of a Bush bashing media (over 80%, (!), of the stories covering Bush are negative. Note the quotes around major speech, eh?

I don't know how this man gets anything done. And yet he does. Indeed he does.
CNN? *spit* Painful to watch the gangrene overtake the organism.

 

Feminazis Stone Deaf to Stoning of Women

Iranian adultress sentenced to death by stoning
Iranian Press News

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian woman has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, local media reported on Saturday, although Tehran maintains it no longer executes women in this way.

The woman, named only as Soghra, was found guilty of having an affair with her husband's friend, the Etemad daily reported.

Iran has met international criticism for handing out stoning sentences for adultery. The penalty involves victims being buried up to their midriffs and then pelted to death with stones that are not big enough to kill instantly.

Judiciary officials say no woman has been executed by stoning for several years and that stoning sentences are routinely changed to other forms of execution, such as hanging, or lighter sentences. 

"The Islamic code obliges the judge to issue the stoning sentence in adultery cases, however the head of the judiciary may change the final sentence," a judiciary official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.

WTF is the feminists, where are the lovers of Freedom, where are the media?

A Hawk friend wrote me of the gross failure of the feminists in this country and how dishonest their platitudes were. They ruined American women;

I'm not a lawyer but I am a female who has absolutely no idea what American MODO feminism means anymore other than the right to continue emotionally beating down males (except those males whose image appears to be subservient to the female but behind closed doors behaves like one of those male chauvinist pigs feminist like NOW used to ahbor but today seem willing get down on bended knees and open their mouths in praise of such libidos). I have no idea what equal protection under the law means when there exists such a law of the land which serves to benefit one specific gender for a specific period of time(around nine months) and seems to specifically end right after a twenty minute adventure through the birth canal.  And, I have no idea what American feminist mean when burned bras were replaced by size DDD silicone breasts which insist that it not only takes a village to raise a single child but that their grannies and granpies, mommies and daddies be delegated to the sole care of The Government because any semblence to nurturing Motherhood is really just burdensome patriarchy parasitic oppression we females must be Equalized against in order to confirm our

What I really cannot figure out is after some fourty-plus years of living the Equalized life why do I feel so oppressed by Feminism?  I think I could use a tall glass of Liberation right now.

More from the Fem Left - Daily KOS their Mother of the Year

Supporting HIllary

by CindySheehan

I would love to support Hillary for President if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation, because she supports it.

• CindySheehan's diary :

I will not make the mistake of supporting another pro-war Democrat for president again: As I won't support a pro-war Republican.

This country wants this occupation to end. The world wants the occupation to end. People in Iraq want this occupation to end.

Senator Clinton: taking the peace road would not prove you are weak. Instead, it would prove that you are the strongest and wisest candidate. As a mom, as an American, as a patriot: I implore you to have the strength and courage to lead the fight for peace.

I want to support you, I want to work for you, but like many American moms, I will resist your candidacy with every bit of my power and strength unless you show us the wisdom it takes to be a truly great leader.

Prove that you are "passionate" and reflect our nations' values and refusal to support imperialism, greed and torture.   

Senator Clinton: come out against this occupation of Iraq. Not because it is the politically expedient thing to do but because it is the humane thing to do. If you want to make Casey's sacrifice count, bring the rest of his buddies home alive.

I did meet with Sen. Clinton, along with Sen. Harry Reid, on September 22, 2005.  No one has asked me how it went with Sen. Reid, but I've been asked about my meeting with Sen. Clinton many times. A few days earlier in Brooklyn, I had referred to her as waiting for a politically "expedient" moment to speak out against the war in Iraq. I, of course, think that this tactic is wrong, because politics has nothing to do with the slaughter going on in Iraq. No one asked the almost 2000 Americans and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis who have been killed what political party they were rooting for. When a mother receives the news that her son or daughter has been killed for lies she never thinks "Oh no, how could this have happened? I am a Democrat(Republican)!!!"

Playing politics with our soldiers' lives is despicable.

Mother Sheehan it is you who are despicable. One more word about occupied NOLA or that damn Katrina stealing your airtime. You shame your son with every breath you take -Atlas

More here, here and here on Mother Sheehan. While media darling and mother of the year Cindy Sheehan, SHAMELESSLY exploits the death of her son for her 13 minutes of fame;

.... she [Sheehan] whined CNN was dwelling on Rita coverage and neglecting her [Sheehan].  Unfortunately for CS, some the the Kidz had relatives in the Rita area, and they took her to task, accusing her of being a mediawhore, etc. This is almost as good as "get our troops out of occupied New Orleans"...............

From Cindy Sheehan on Daily Kos:

"I am watching cnn and it is 100 percent rita...even though it is a little wind and a little rain...it is bad, but there are other things going on in this country today...and in the world!!!!"

You can just imagine her yelling at the TV -- "ME! ME! ME!"

Enemies, A Love Story, Chavez, Mugabe So Where's Baby Doc? Pol Pot?

When evil is given a free pass, despots get away with stuff like this and the complicit media runs it like it's normal;

Mugabe compares Bush, Blair to Hitler at UN event
"Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed (an) unholy alliance, formed an alliance to attack an innocent country?" he said.

"Is this the world we desire? The world of giants and international terrorists who use their state muscle in order to intimidate us? We become the midgets," he said
Mugabe accuses Britain and the United States of working to unseat him over his forcible redistribution of white-owned commercial farms among blacks, which has helped plunge his country into its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1980.

Check out this article. All the outrageous lies and allegations against Bush and Blair are printed in full but no mention is made of the atrocities and despotism of both thee men.  Mugabe had flown to Rome in defiance of a European Union travel ban after the United Nations caused outrage by inviting him to address a conference on world hunger. Considering Mugabe's history of watching his people starve, it is pathetic irony.

Photo: Be still my foolish heart;  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) greets Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe at the 60th anniversary celebrations of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. Two mentally deranged sociopaths.
I wonder if Fidel is jealous, I see menage a trois.........

Million More Iraqi Voters vs Million Man "More, More, More" March

Yes, there were a million more voters in the Iraqi elections yesterday, despite threats by terrorists to murder Iraqis that dared to vote. Video here.
Risking life and limb the Iraqis voted and the international community yawned.

Meanwhile across the world in Washington DC, Louis Farrakhan's marked the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March with an inclusive "Million Man Movement" which remained largely African-American  and lacked the turnout of the Million Man March.
Lasting Change, Not Turnout, To Spell Success, Farrakhan Says

Despite the call for all people, all minorities, all "oppressed" to join the movement, gay and lesbian leaders led a protest of the Millions More Movement yesterday after they accused event leaders of reneging on a pledge to allow a national gay leader to address the crowd.

Nobody would give up a number but attendance fell far short of the hundreds of thousands at the march a decade ago.

Farrakhan delivered a withering critique of the federal government;

"I think we need a regime change in the United States of America."

 
Clearly, Farrakhan, Sharpton, and Jackson do not speak for the Black community at large.

Conservative African Americans charge that liberal civil rights groups lined up to support and participate in Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's "Millions More Movement" on Saturday, are getting a free pass in terms of media scrutiny.

"Farrakhan has said some radical things, and yet the media continues to give him a pass,"

Shelby Steele, a conservative African American from the Hoover Institute, told Cybercast News Service. Steele believes that liberal civil rights groups and individuals such as the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, all of whom participated in Farrakhan's march on Saturday, should be held accountable for Farrakhan's controversial and allegedly racist statements of the past.

The only "march" Farrakhan is fit to lead is the ongoing "rally" in Toledo.

Democrats Oppose Free Iraq Fisking Wesley Clark

Listen to President Bush's Radio Address  on the Iraqi election here.

The Dhimmis respond to the Iraqi election. General Wesley Clark  (listen here) said the following (which btw CNN ran in full, giving sparse coverage, bare bones attention  to Bush's historical remarks today. See  here);

A leading Democrat, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, sent out a cautionary message about the larger context of what he says is expected to a "large turnout for the referendum: While it "seems to be an important step" for the country "let's not kid ourselves about the difficulties that lie ahead."[as opposed to what you shmuck? Beheadings, rape rooms, shariah? Life is "difficult", establishing democracy on a continent familiar only with tyranny, that is "difficult"....death is easy - Atlas]

The president on Saturday delivered his weekly radio address, and Clark, a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, delivered the Democratic response.

Clark the vote "an important political event" and said "I wish this were the end of the story in Iraq, but it isn't" [thank G-d it's not the end. IT'S THE BEGINNING! Such vision the Democraps have - Atlas]  He criticized the Bush administration's handling of the war in his remarks.

"Public confidence in President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq has sunk to an all-time low. [According to the Arab  Zogby? You keep telling the American people how bad things are and eventually they'll believe you -Atlas]An increasing number of Americans of all political persuasions are now calling for expedited withdrawal of U.S. forces.

"More and more Americans are angry. They are angry about the president's incompetence and his general unwillingness to acknowledge with some humility that he has made some terrible and tragic mistakes regarding the mission in Iraq." [Bush is brilliant and his strategy in Iraq will be retold AD infinitum  100 years from now if you guys would just get out the way!-Atlas]

"America cannot allow itself to be so blinded by anger over this administration's mishandling of events since the removal of Saddam Hussein from power that we are unable to see the danger of pushing for a premature withdrawal of U.S. forces. Those who would use terror as a tactic in Iraq would be rewarded and emboldened if we pull out prematurely. We cannot do that." [PUTZ! In spite of of incredible attrition, Bush has pursued a new era of freedom in the Middle East. Doing things even Reagan was reticent to do (Lebanon killing of 242 Marines, remember?0 - Atlas]

He urged the president "to give the American people clear answers to basic questions" about the Iraqi operation. [PURPLE FINGERS that's my answr - Atlas]

Bush praised compromise changes to the text that led to the endorsement of some Sunni Arab leaders, who will join Kurds and Shiite Arabs in backing the document.

The voters, he predicted, will "deal a severe blow to the terrorists and send a clear message to the world: Iraqis will decide the future of their country through peaceful elections, not violent insurgency. "

Clark said: "Mr. Bush is long overdue in providing a plan to achieve Iraqi military sufficiency, to build domestic political consensus inside Iraq around a new government, to achieve regional political stability around Iraq, and to finally achieve an efficient reconstruction effort in Iraq. [this is embarassing - Atlas]

He said "basic questions" must be asked about troop levels, politics, economic recovery, and regional diplomacy.

"The Sunni minority is isolated, fatalistic, and increasingly anti-American. Many of the Iraqi forces we are training are able to fight with US leadership and support, but their real loyalty is in doubt. Militia forces are strong, they're well organized and, in fact, they are the ultimate arbiters in Iraq. They are preparing to settle factional disputes by force."

He said there is "a long way to go before victory." [aha! I am sure he is not aware of it, but he is admitting to victory. And victory is genrally not easily achieved. You have to fght for it -Atlas]

"Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan. What we need to do is change the course and put in place a real strategy that will not only bring us success in Iraq, but will restore to the United States of America the moral authority we've lost through our missteps over the past three years." [A Slogan?  Live by it. Having a spine, having integrity, keeping your word - only to the Deomcrats could that be a mere "slogan" - Atlas]

What is this shmuck running for? Public Evemy #!?  What is wrong with these people.  Who put him  up to it? The Clintonistas?.........(they put him up for President).

Photo: A handicapped Iraqi holds up his ink-stained finger, showing he voted in Saturday's referendum.

Quiet Vote for Iraq, Even Quieter Mainstream Media

Wild eh? An incredible historic day in the Middle East and all quiet on the media front.
Quiet Vote for UN Charter...........and the pull quote from the BBC?

I am voting 'Yes' - to end the occupation...........a voter in Iraq.

Have they no shame, these people are voing for a constitution for G-d's sake. For the determination to govern themselves..........WHAT A DAY! Ginormous turnout by the Iraqi people.

One man said with a big grin that he was very happy to be able to take part in the referendum - only the second time in decades that Iraqis have been able to cast a democratic ballot.

By mid-morning, turn-out at this one polling station was already high: 2,000 out of 2,900 registered voters.

The BBC is not excited. In their opinion

There was not the excitement of January's election, but there was still an atmosphere of celebration among Iraq's Shias as they waited to vote.

The MSM just can't contain itself huh? History is steam rolling all over the thumbsucker's pens and pencils. They ought be ashamed.

IN A WORD, IT'S WORKING, actually a Bush word. WORKING.

BRAVA! Props to The Wall Street Journal

How great is this? After a million years, the Wall Street Journal has a weekend edition.
Personally, I think we have the blogosphere to thank for this (!). How funny am I? Talk  about center of the universe complex.
But seriously, this was a long time coming. And the news hungry politically literate, news savvy masses are growing and if the Wall Street Journal is good at something, it's recognizing an opportunity in the marketplace.

What is most interesting from my perch, is how a fat, liberal successful newspaper like The New York Times reacted to the rapidly changing marketplace vs. a a paper like the Wall Street Journal. The NYT has fought for the status quo (most unsuccessfully I might add, see here and here), while the WSJ has seduced it. Literally gotten into bed with the net. I can't live without it, they are a primary player in the blogosphere. The same cannot be said for the NYT. There are alot of reasons for this. I do not have time to disclose. Maybe I'll do a paper on this at a later date.

Watch this case study. I can guarantee that this will be textbook (as in Harvard) case study in 5 years (maybe 10, Harvard is sloooooooow to react, too busy bashing Israel.

On other blog related news from Roger Simon;

Bloggers that "act more like businesses" or media entites will have "some sort of coverage" under Sen. Lugar's (R-Ind.) media shield bill, a Lugar spokeswoman told us Wed. Lugar told the Inter American Press Assn. this week his Free Flow of Information Act (S-1419) would "probably not" apply to bloggers, Editor & Publisher reported.

WTF is everyone so afraid of? The truth?


 

"Have Yourself A Very Islamic Christmas"

          Hey Happy Allah Akbar Xmas baby click here song #13                                             

We are going into the ridiculous season now, with the liberals out spreading winter holiday cheer to all and insuring that no one uses the word.

Click here: Frank Sinatra Parody: You Are Either With Frank Or You Are With The Terrorists! Listen to it all!

Reality Check weighs in;
“Christmas” except behind closed doors in the privacy of their own homes.  Lest anyone think that the liberals and radical leftists are going quietly, just look at their actions after having suffered one of the worst election defeats in modern history.  They are all over the networks lecturing us on tolerance, open-mindedness and multiculturalism while doing everything in their power to denigrate the historical and religious traditions of the majority. 

• REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103!
• REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993!
• REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon!
• REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military barracks in Saudi Arabia!
• REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa!
• REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE!
• REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001! REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!
• Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID Muslim  holiday season with a commemorative first class holiday postage stamp.
• REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp when purchasing your stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.

hat tip: Cancer Doc, er excuuuuuse me make that Chairman Cancer Dr.
woo hoo Congrats!

and Reaganite, while it may not be new (2003), it still stings. 

We welcome Islam in America. It enriches our country with Islam’s teachings of self-discipline, compassion, and commitment to family. It deepens America’s respect for Muslims here at home and around the world.1

Today, Muslim Americans are a cornerstone of our American community. They enrich our political and cultural life; they provide leadership in every field of human endeavor, from business to medicine, to scholarship.2

These public pronouncements of President Clinton to Muslim Americans are indicative of how Islam has become established as a major religion in America. 

Why isn't UN Leak Getting Karl Rove Media Attention?

First ran 11/11 4:33 pm

UPDATED: Octber 12th

Where is the outrage?  Where is the moral indignation? Where is the mainstream media on this story?

Smells like liberal left lunacy.................

U.N. Procurement Scandal: Secret Information Was Leaked to a Bidder
Claudia Rosett, FOXNews.com
On the morning of Nov. 6, 2003, an e-mail sped between two business executives at two private firms, bearing an important tip-off about an impending and highly confidential United Nations business deal. The message was brief and direct. "Dear Andy," it said, "This will go to the Committee next Tuesday. All the best." [Read More]

The Belmont Club has more here on Rosett's devastating ongoing United Nations' investigation into the Oil for Food scandal  and the new discovery of possible links between al qaida and Oil for Food -wild, huh but the way things are going hardly a shocka.

This is far more diabolical than Rove or anyone else, for that mattering, mentioning "so and so's wife is working for the CIA" and yet I  hear nothing about it!  Huh? The largest ripoff in world history and nothing. But Plame and his wife, ginormous fashion photo spread of them running in Vanity Fair at that very time, that is going to bring down the White House..........?

smells like Watergate..........

UPDATE: October 12, The Guardian

For me the 800 lb. jackass in the room is the fact that it was former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson that suggested that his wife was not undercover at the time columnist Robert D. Novak revealed her identity in a July 2003 column.

Referring to Wilson's comment in a July 14 interview on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports. "My wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her identity," -Atlas

WASHINGTON (AP) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller on Wednesday gave prosecutors details of a previously undisclosed conversation she had with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.

uh oh.................Haliburton must be in the mix too

/duck- Atlas

Miller's notes, according to a story published last weekend in the Times, refer to Bush administration critic and former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

The prosecutors have been examining the roles of Libby, presidential aide Karl Rove and others in the Bush administration in the leak to reporters of the identity of Wilson's wife, covert CIA officer Valerie Plame.

Before the June 23 Miller-Libby conversation, the Times and The Washington Post had both referred to Wilson, though not by name, in articles questioning the Bush administration's handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq. On July 6, 2003, the Times published an op-ed piece by Wilson suggesting the Bush administration had twisted intelligence to exaggerate the threat from Iraq's nuclear weapons program. Eight days later, columnist Robert Novak exposed Plame's identity as a CIA officer, saying his information had come from two administration officials.

and lest we not forget, it was Plame that recommended Wilson for the job. Wilson, a nakedly leftist apologist. Appearing with Barbara Lee and Dennis Kucinich, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of   The Nation and donating gobs of $$$$$$$$ to the Dems (Wilson Has Donated Over $8,000 To Democrats Including $2,000 To John Kerry For President In 2003, $1,000 To Hillary Clinton’s (D-NY) HILLPAC In 2002 And $3,000 To Al Gore In 1999) -Atlas.

Miller never wrote a story about Wilson or Plame. She testified Sept. 30 about two conversations with Libby in the days after Wilson's op-ed piece in The Times came out.

The newspaper said in a memo to its staff that once Miller's obligations to the grand jury are fulfilled, The Times intends to write ``the most thorough story we can of her entanglement with the White House leak investigation. It's a complicated story involving a large cast, and it has required a meticulous reporting effort - in part to chase down and debunk some of the myths kicked up by the rumor mill.''

oh yeah, I can just bet. We know how veracious the Times is. I expect Chubby Checkers to write the article.

The Times added that Novak has not disclosed the details of his grand jury testimony. Novak has refused to say whether he cooperated with Fitzgerald's investigation.

 

Satellite TV planned by Iran's Hezbollah

Speaking of propaganda spewing organ grinders monkeys..........hurry shield the children!
From Iranmania;

LONDON, October 11 (IranMania) - Spokesman of Iran's Hezbollah Mojtaba Bigdeli said the satellite TV channel Kheibar will become operational in the next couple of months.

We are presently holding talks with satellite TV channels for airing our programs. So far, we have received proposals and members of Hezbollah's Central Council will announce their final decision in the near future," he said.

The spokesman also said the Kheibar TV channel's programs will be mainly broadcast in North America and Europe, ISNA reported.

Currently we are procuring the hardware,? he said.

Oh yeah? Who are the lowlifes that are paying for it? Iran no doubt...........

other terror news;

AL-JAZEERA SIGNS DAVID FROST: That was the week that was. I wish I were joking. Howard Kurtz' Washington Post story is here.

Supreme Court Justice Scalia Leads the Columbus Day Parade

How cool is Scalia, I mean really.

I love Columbus. I loved him in elementary school and I still love him. He was a great explorer, fearless. He got me here (in a very roundabout way) - but even so.
He was a great man, fearless.
Now, lets watch the leftards go nuts (actually that's quite a diss to people genuinely afflicted with retardation).

and speaking of Columbus, an excellent piece bashing Columbus-bashing over at the Atlassphere written by Tibor Machan;

Columbus Day has been — for the last several decades — a time when the Europeans who came to the Americas have been roundly condemned in the spirit of political correctness.
However there is a tendency in our time to focus only on the misdeeds of those who hailed from Europe. This form of what amounts to self-flagellation is, of course, part and parcel of political correctness. Just as environmentalists often denounce human beings and wallow in misanthropic sentiments, so others — some of them multiculturalists who hold to a doctrine of moral equivalence about all cultures except what is usually lumped together as Western — cannot say anything nice about Columbus and his pals.

How sad. History should not fall prey to such distortions simply because some people are eager to paint certain men and women of the past in an unfavorable light. Indeed, doing this betrays a nasty habit of condescension: It treats certain people of the past as not entirely human, unable to do what other humans do routinely — namely, act badly, violently, and brutally toward their fellows.

By acknowledging that all kinds of peoples around the globe and throughout history have been capable of malfeasance, one acknowledges these people’s fundamental humanity. No doubt, at different times and in different places more or less malfeasance has occurred, just as is occurring in our own time. But it is rank racism and ethnic prejudice to make it appear that only Europeans had the inclination and capacity to do bad things to others.

Photo: New York Sun

Meanwhile Cato reports that

;Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, often extolled by conservative Republicans as their ideal model of a judge, said yesterday the confirmation process was too politicized and that he wouldn't want to experience it again," The Associated Press reports. In the forward to the Cato Supreme Court Review,

Quick Fisk of the Mainstream Media

Came across these headlines and had to point out the glaring bias. My comments in lilac italics -Atlas.

No evidence government involved in Darfur raid: HCR official
AFP via Yahoo! News Sun, 02 Oct 2005 1:45 PM PDT
A team from the United Nations' High Commissioner for refugees said it found no evidence of Sudanese government involvement in a deadly raid last week on a camp in western Darfur.
No matter how many times you read this, your mouth will still drop open. The UN is exonerating the radical islamist government guilty of rape, slavery, human trafficking? The war on non-Muslims, moderate Muslims, dhimmis, Arab against Arab is merciless. It's always been the government. Always. Shame on these cretins - Atlas

UPDATE 11:50 am: This just in from the "I told ya so" Dept:

Sudan accused over Darfur attacks
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Sun, 02 Oct 2005 9:28 AM PDT
The African Union has accused Sudanese government forces of supporting Arab militiamen targeting civilians in the troubled region of Darfur. The head of the AU mission in Sudan said government helicopters gunships had flown overhead during a recent militia attack on a refugee camp.

Bottom line?  Last week Arab janjaweed militia, riding camels and horses, and backed by government vehicles, swooped in committing acts of "calculated and wanton destruction" that have killed at least 44 people in a camp for internal "refugees" in the Darfur region of western Sudan. More here -Atlas.

 

UN investigates DR Congo graves

BBC News Sun, 02 Oct 2005 7:42 AM PDT

A United Nations team investigates three mass graves found in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Are these the same UN workers guilty of child rape in the Congo? Just asking..........don't think I would put much stock in their findings.Oh and BTW, these are the same guys that acquitted the Sudanese government of the above acts or wanton murder  -Atlas.

After Iraq, let's bring democratic rights to millons of Americans

San Francisco Chronicle Sun, 02 Oct 2005 5:40 AM PDT

After U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared in a recent speech in Cairo that the United States will henceforth be "supporting the democratic aspirations of all people," perhaps the world's only superpower will finally turn to the task of bringing democracy to millions of people who have long been denied it -- Americans. Frankly, I can't even begin to touch this one. IT IS A STAND ALONE. READ IT AGAIN AND WEEP - Atlas
 

Hamas leader says U.S. calls on his group to disarm are 'rude', interfering
Canada.com Sun, 02 Oct 2005 4:01 PM PDT
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The political leader of the radical Palestinian Hamas militant group said Sunday that calls by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for his group to disarm were "rude" interference in internal Palestinian affairs. Well if that don't beat all. Hamas is calling us RUDE!~ RUDE! Imagine that..........killer of babies, teenagers, innocents........strapping explosives onto 3 year olds, murderers, barbarians, ............I find GENOCIDE  rude. I find their MBO - annihilation  of Israel and the Jews "rude". WTF?- and the media reports it like it's normal - Atlas

 

World Leaders Denounce Bali Bombings
Voice of America Sun, 02 Oct 2005 5:16 AM PDT
World leaders and diplomats are uniting to condemn Saturday's deadly suicide bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denounced the attacks and said the United States stands with Indonesia as it works to bring the perpetrators to justice. They denounce the bombings? Denounce? oooooooooo........I an sure terrorists are shaking in their fake birkenstocks......Atlas

Bush to crank up message machine on dangers of Iraq withdrawal
AFP via Yahoo! News Sun, 02 Oct 2005 3:11 PM PDTPresident George W. Bush will this week attempt to rally Americans wavering on Iraq, as senior aides warn a quick exit for US troops could sow a deadly harvest of future terror attacks on US soil. Dig this,"crank up message machine".............these dogs. Not surprising as AFP is the Fwench (basically state run) news agency, but how dare they. When America is the only one with spine, enough, balls enough, to take on the these death loving killers. When Bush, despite the Fifth column and America hating world, despite the daily attacks on his character, intelligence, integrity, despite it all forges ahead to purge the world of  radical jihadism. "Crank up the message machine" - who, may I ask, is really cranking up the message machine? BTW, I do not believe for one second Americans are wavering on Iraq. I do not believe that Americans didn't hear Talabanis voice cracking in gratitude to Bush (even if the mainstream media gave it no play at all, instead they were harping on Bush [and G-d too I guess] as being racist in the matter of KKKatrina) If you haven't seen it watch it here, I do not believe Americans have forgotten the purple fingers.  How noble! Having had a background in marketing, I know you can make polls do and say anything you like.

I believe Americans are very much aware that it is Radical Jihadists and al-qaeda (same thing) that we are fighting in Iraq. I do believe America is very much aware that the action we have taken in the Middle East is in large part responsible for the lack of attacks on US soil post 9/11.

Oh My G-d! Did they really say that?

From the Guardian

Compassion is putting yourself in the other person's shoes and feeling sympathy. It does not require affection. One might feel compassion for Hitler, Stalin or Saddam on learning about their appalling childhoods (like most famous dictators, they lost a parent before the age of 14), or even for George Bush (who had a beastly time), but still hate them for what they did.

I really need to move to a new planet.............no, no, seriously

Hat tip: Chas M

Hamas Launches Strikes Against Israel..........Fisking the Mainstream Media

Before reading the folllowing fisk, please  Download israeli-children.pps this file and view, for a moment of reflection and pain before continuing on. This was sent to me from the HR mission at Honest Reporting.

Yup, Hamas is attacking Israel, this after the Palestinian rockets hit Israel. Nothing new I know. Noteworthy is how the Mainstream Media is twisting the story - Israel as the aggressor. I fisk in lilac italics;

Israel Launches Airstrikes Against Hamas
AP via Yahoo! News Sat, 24 Sep 2005 2:01 PM PDT
Israel launched a "crushing" [note the word - "crushing" - have you ever seen them use that word when describing attacks against Israel?- Atlas] retaliation Saturday against Hamas in Gaza with deadly airstrikes, troops massed at the border and a planned ground incursion after militants fired 35 rockets [sounds pretty "crushing" to me - and actually it was 39 (but who's counting right?) UNPROVOKED rockets, this just after Gaza withdrawal mind you - Atlas] at Israeli towns in  their first [uh excuuuuuuuse me, FIRST? This after  numerous attacks on Israel - Atlas]  major attack since the Gaza pullout. [Good Ole Jew hating AP -Atlas]

Israel to resume targeted assassinations-source
Reuters via Yahoo! News Sat, 24 Sep 2005 1:39 PM PDT
Israel will resume targeted assassinations of Palestinian militants, an emergency meeting of ministers decided on Saturday, according to a source who took part in the meeting. [WTF? Reuters making up stories now? What source? Am I to believe a high level Israeli insider is trusting Reuters? Believe that and I have some coastline I'd like to sell you in New Orleans - Atlas]

Israel launches strikes on Gaza Strip following Palestinian attacks
Knight Ridder via Yahoo! News Sat, 24 Sep 2005 1:09 PM PDT
JERUSALEM - Israel launched a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Saturday in response to renewed rocket attacks by Palestinian militants on nearby Israeli communities.
[This is a fair description, mental note - write Knight Ridder and thank them - Atlas]

Hamas and Israel Clash, Raising Tensions in Gaza
New York Times Sat, 24 Sep 2005 7:54 AM PDT
JERUSALEM, Sept. 24 - Israeli ground forces gathered near the border of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, and Israel's defense minister threatened a forceful response after an overnight rocket barrage by the Islamic faction Hamas. [What CLASH? Hamas attacked Israel! What CLASH?- Atlas]

 

Israel Vows 'Crushing' Response to Attacks
AP via Yahoo! News Sat, 24 Sep 2005 5:56 AM PDT
Israel ordered ground forces to the Gaza border Saturday and threatened a "crushing" response after Israeli towns were hit by the first major Hamas rocket barrage from the coastal territory since Israel's pullout two weeks earlier. [Note the headline - "vows crushing" - the story is Hamas attacked Israel with 39 rockets but the headline is about what Israel may or may not do. The headline hasn't even happened. - Atlas]

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Israel launches further air strike near north Gaza
Reuters via Yahoo! News Sat, 24 Sep 2005 2:43 AM PDT
The Israeli air force launched a further air strike on Saturday near the northern Gaza Strip on an open field used by militants to fire rockets into Israel, the army said.[Note the word "further" from our friends at Al Jizz Rooters. Further? The actual story is Israel finally responded to numerous unprovoked attacks after disengaging. What further?- Atlas]

Israel fires missiles on Gaza following rocket attacks
AFP via Yahoo! News Sat, 24 Sep 2005 2:17 AM PDT
Israel launched its first air strikes on the Gaza Strip since its historic pullout from the territory following a deluge of militant rocket attacks endangering hopes of a new era in Middle East peace. [Fair account - shocking considering this is from the French state run (practically) news agency, I think this is a first. Although I would be derelict if I did not mention the sardonic "new era of Peace", when the Palis/Jihadists have done NOTHING to bring about a new era of anything but death to Israel - Atlas]

Israel Launches Airstrikes Against Hamas
ABC News Sat, 24 Sep 2005 1:52 PM PDT
Israel Launches Airstrikes Against Hamas in Gaza Strip After Militants Fire at Israeli Towns  [good ole ABC News - home of the long biased Peter Jennings school of anti-semitism. This headline says it all. How dishonest and disgusting - Atlas]

Israel, Hamas On Verge Of Battle
CBS News Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:30 AM PDT
Hamas is calling for its militants to attack Israel to avenge Israel's killing of at least two Hamas militants in a missile strike. That came after a 39-rocket barrage on Israeli towns.
[Once again SeeBullShit News? "On verge of battle". Uh Uh......Israel was attacked numerous times. What would you have them do - die? Uh, don't answer that - Atlas]

Why is this so important? Because this is where all the news outlets the world over get their news  (from your locals newspapers and TV stations all the way up the media food chain).

To the antisemitic Mainstream media I say Shame on you, don't ask for  whom the bell tolls............

UPDATE: 5:07 PM

Israel arrests 206 terror suspects in West Bank
CNN.com Sun, 25 Sep 2005 7:59 AM PDT
In raids across the West Bank overnight, Israel Defense Forces arrested at least 206 "wanted Palestinians," an IDF spokeswoman told CNN on Sunday[This is good news, in my mind's eye, but notice how CNN puts wanted Palestinians in quotes? Insinuating what? That the Israelis arrested  law abiding citizens for no reason? I notice they don't put "crushing" in quotes when referring to potential Israeli retaliation. Why then "wanted terrorists"? Israel has never been guilty of arresting innocents as opposed to say Syria, Iran, etc. More bias..........Atlas] 

and another headline we love to hate............what up with the "selling out"?

Recognizing Israel: Or Selling Out

UPDATE 8:50 pm

Meanwhile, under the rain of rockets tikun olam (repair the world) continues apace. Why is it you never read about these things?

Israel Developing Technology to Reduce Hurricane Damage

Israeli-US initiative provides one-stop shop for gene exploration   
A US-Israeli start-up is enabling biotechnology companies to bring new life-saving drugs and treatments to market more quickly. Through an innovative data mining tool called GeneCards developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Xennex is speeding up the process of gene research.  More...

Health | Kibbutz company sends natural pharmaceuticals far and wide   
What do sexually anxious Nigerian tribal chiefs, follicly-challenged men from Singapore, and psoriasis sufferers in Thailand have in common? They're all being helped by medications produced by an Israeli company - Trima - which specializes in exports to countries in Africa and across the Far East. The North American and European markets may not be far behind. More...

Health | Israeli researchers find connection between brain and bone density   
What happens in the bones can begin in the brain, an Israeli study has determined. A protein in the brain that regulates bone density may hold the key for future treatment of osteoporosis, the most widespread, degenerative disease in the Western which more than one in ten Americans is likely to face at some point in their lives. More...

Global Democracy | When Israeli venture capital meets social ventures   
In a 'win-win' way to help organizations in the areas of youth and education, the Israel high tech community is galvanizing behind Tmura - and its model which enables start-ups to give back to the community, through pledging grants of stocks. When the company does well, the charities get the money. More...

More at 21C

 

Hollywood and Pallywood.......Video at 11

We now know that the Palestinians have taken to the movie business......... see the video entitled "Pallywood" here ,and my previous post

And in an almost a quid pro quo, Hollywood has adopted many Palestinian practices. Click on this image for the latest news on the graft, theft of taxpayer dollars that the lefty "celebrities" resort to;
 

A Clinton administration official who served as a top executive of Air America, the politically liberal radio network, says he was "sickened" to his core by the thought that the network was funded by money taken from a Bronx Boys & Girls Club.

Imagine that, an ex-Clintonista "sickened" by the left's SOP (standing* operating procedures).

And then there is this from the always acerbic yet wildly entertaining Taranto over at the WSJ,

MediaMatters.org, meanwhile, has posted a follow-up to our item yesterday. It includes an interview former comedian Al Franken conducted with former journalist David Brock on the former's Air America radio show. We'll just quote Brock's portion of the interview:

Is that right? Great. [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] Right. Sure. Absolutely. Right. And he's not being dishonest in his response. Right. Sure. Right. Right.

Anyway, in keeping you updated with the latest  left coast lunacy

Democrat Warren Beatty Takes On Gov. Schwarzenegger

Uh huh...........Yup Bul(shit)worth is taking on the Terminator on a platform the screams commie left wing lunacy.

"I now believe that he doesn't have the experience or the political courage to risk his popularity by defying his advisers and raising taxes," Mr. Beatty said.

Can you believe it?  The Left still has not learned that raising taxes hurts everybody and most specifically the economy.

Mr. Beatty unleashed a series of insults against Mr. Schwarzenegger, calling him "a Republican right-wing spokesmodel" and denouncing a special election the governor has called for this fall as "a cosmetic exercise to build up his image while he exhibits himself as a supposed reformer."

Which is in itself amusing seeing as that the Republicans think he is a tad, well RINO, eh?

And you gotta love Ahhnold's retort

In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Schwarzenegger said he is puzzled at Mr. Beatty's vocal opposition. "I just think that maybe he is jealous that I did jump in," the governor said. "I find it silly because I respect his work."

Could Bulworth topple the Terminator?

Look this  should be really good, unless I am completely off the mark - the silent majority in California will squash Bugsy like Lucky Luciano did.

*Thanks Jay

Pallywood or The Palios go Hollywood

Seconddraft.org, an organization directed by BU Professor Richard Landes, has produced a very interesting short documentary (approx 20 minutes) entitled "Pallywood," exposing Palestinians staging war scenes with fake victims and other carefully arranged fabrications.  The Palestinians appear to be staging photo-op scenes for the purpose of disseminating bogus news videos that are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

 

In one segment, the Palestinians are shown staging a funeral.  They accidentally dump the body off of its stretcher and the "corpse" gets up off the ground and places himself back on the stretcher.  In another eye-opening segment, a Palestinian doctor in a hospital is shown instructing a patient and her husband how to lie about their baby's birth, to help their "Palestinian brother," the reporter.  Even though the doctor himself delivered the woman's baby in the hospital, he instructs the husband how to convincingly relate the false tale that because of supposed delays imposed by the Israelis, the father had to deliver the baby in their car, while he was driving. It is apparent that the couple and doctor feel that it is their patriotic duty to lie for the "cause."

In another segment, Palestinians are seen at a Gaza junction, apparently staging fake "war scenes." Civilians are seen directing the movements of the gunmen and crowds. Palestinians are shown running, supposedly under Israeli gunfire, faking injuries, while bystanders watch or wander around in the open, just a few feet away, not appearing to be in any fear of the supposed Israeli gunfire.

Ambulances arrive, as if on cue, a few seconds later to take the "wounded" away.  Gunmen are shown firing, supposedly at the Israelis, but when examined closer, we realize that they are simply firing into an empty building, just for show, to make it appear that they are in a firefight with the Israelis.

 

Anyone watching the raw footage or the actual filming of these scenes clearly must know that staged, bogus scenes are being filmed.  The faking of scenes for the news cameras is an open "secret" among the Palestinians.  So why does the Western media continue to show video clips from such suspect sources?

www.CAMERA.org

Stop the Presses: Bush LIED Pees!

Earth to Moonbats: Yes, he pees.

Even for the MSM, this is a new low. This picture was snapped by Reuters contract photographer Rick Wilking and shows Bush scribbling a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reading, "I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?"

PDN Newswire spoke with one of Reuters' picture editors, Gary Hershorn, who explained that sections of the photo were overexposed so a Reuters processor used the Photoshop technique to "burn down the note."

The NOTE HEARD ROUND THE WORLD   break  the organization's standard policy, according to one of its picture editors.
Front page stuff  in Ireland. Yup.

Running across the front pages of the world. What? The Man is  not supposed to evacuate?

How come Al Rooters never took  a close-up of Clinton of inserting his cigar into Lewinsky's Vagina Monologue.

These people have no shame. This is news? Bush needs a  bathroom break?

[Atlas shakes head in disgust]

To ABC's Surprise, Katrina Victims Praise Bush and Blame Nagin

SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY. That's what I call "poll numbers". This is not a new trend but certainly more obvious and more damaging in the case of KKKatrina.
From the very first, the mainstream media blamed Bush. Not Nagin, who deserves jail. Not Blanco who deserves a recall, but Bush. Which BTW was ridiculous. But the media said it and kept saying it, and then they took a pol. This is what they do.

They politicize a story, inject their bile, report the meme over and over and over again and then take a poll.
The resulting poll results reflect what the American people have been told repeatedly 24/7.

Then the icing on the cake, The Democrat talking heads spend the following week, beginning every sentence with "The American people think" or "The American People are telling us............." and then that becomes the story. AMERICAN PEOPLE UNHAPPY WITH BUSH, LOWEST APPROVAL RATINGS OF HIS PRESIDENCY.

Of course, the American people are going to repeat what they mainstream media has been clubbing them with. The media is consistent in its Bush bashing passion.

Needless to say,in the case of Katrina it was particularly destructive to the American people.Why create a racial divide when there was none? Why ferment hate  at a time when people need each other the most?  Sick really sick.

And I am sure the limousine liberal reaction to the evacuees in this news segment will be typical of the lunatic left. They know better than those poor souls being manipulated by Karl Rove.

"The fact remains that this was a cataclysmic, epic natural disaster and great suffering was unavoidable" Dick Meyer

A word to the wise, IGNORE POLL (exit polls included). Oh and BTW, the Wall Street Journal weighs in on what the victims are really saying in Louisiana.

interesting about the angry messages is the choice of targets. The majority aren't about President Bush and the slow pace of federal assistance, for instance. Writers seem to be furious chiefly about the performance of local and state officials, specifically Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Messages blasting them for ineptitude during the crisis outnumber those about federal authorities.

Here's the  great post here from Brent Baker over at Newsbusters..........and do go to the videotape

To ABC's Surprise, Katrina Victims Praise Bush and Blame Nagin

ABC News producers probably didn't hear what they expected when they sent Dean Reynolds to the Houston Astrodome's parking lot to get reaction to President Bush's speech from black evacuees from New Orleans. Instead of denouncing Bush and blaming him for their plight, they praised Bush and blamed local officials. Reynolds asked Connie London: "Did you harbor any anger toward the President because of the slow federal response?" She rejected the premise: "No, none whatsoever, because I feel like our city and our state government should have been there before the federal government was called in.” She pointed out: “They had RTA buses, Greyhound buses, school buses, that was just sitting there going under water when they could have been evacuating people."

Not one of the six people interviewed on camera had a bad word for Bush -- despite Reynolds' best efforts. Reynolds goaded: "Was there anything that you found hard to believe that he said, that you thought, well, that's nice rhetoric, but, you know, the proof is in the pudding?" Brenda Marshall answered, "No, I didn't," prompting Reynolds to marvel to anchor Ted Koppel: "Very little skepticism here.”

Reynolds pressed another woman: “Did you feel that the President was sincere tonight?" She affirmed: "Yes, he was." Reynolds soon wondered who they held culpable for the levee breaks. Unlike the national media, London did not blame supposed Bush-mandated budget cuts: "They've been allocated federal funds to fix the levee system, and it never got done. I fault the mayor of our city personally. I really do."

Full transcript follows. Video excerpt: RealPlayer or Windows Media. Plus MP3
Listen to the black evacuees and HEAR IT FOR YOURSELF

The MRC's Rich Noyes alerted me to the reactions ABC broadcast.

Hat tip: Veritas

BTW, Hugh Hewitt and Major Garrett are onto what should become a huge story.  Apparently, the Red Cross was blocked by the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security from going into New Orleans with their supplies.

Iraqi President Talabani Makes Historic Speech - Ignored by Media and the World

Iraqi President Talabani to President Bush earler today;
Video here

In the name of Iraqi people, I say to you, Mr. President, and to the glorious American people, thank you, thank you. Thank you, because you liberated us from the worst kind of dictatorship. Our people suffered too much from this worst kind of dictatorship. The -- (inaudible) -- was hundred thousand of Iraqi innocent children and women, young and old men. Thank you, and thanks to the United States, there are now 15 million Muslims in Afghanistan and inIraq liberated by your courageous  leadership and decision to liberate us, Mr. President.

We agree with Mr. President Bush that democracy is the solution to the problems of the Middle East. Mr. President, you are a visionary, great statesman. We salute you. We are grateful to you. We will never forget what you have done for our people.
 

It gets better, video here, PLEASE WATCH IT..............found it finally, nowhere in the MSM of course, had to go to White House website. UNBELIEVABLE.

UPDATE: Bush: 'I take responsibility'
                 Clinton: I did not sleep with THAT woman
Who is up for an in-depth anlysis of Guiliani vs Nagin on Crisis Management?

Live blogging the hearings here

UPDATE: The Cotillion is up at TFS MAGNUM appropriately titled;

Heros: Everyday and Extraordinary People

Everyone is entitled to our opinion...

I am pleased to host part of the Cotillion for September 13th. My co-hostesses are e-Claire (Now Chocolate Covered!), Portia Rediscovered, and Mary Katherine Ham of Townhall.com C-Log. And all of these can also be found at the main Cotillion site..............

And my most favorite Carnival of all is up ..........Carnival of the Clueless at Right Wing Nuthouse
not to be missed

And Gary over at The Owners Manual has the Best Of Me Symphony

Shades of '08 - Romney vs. Clinton

Very interesting look see at the politics that will shape, define and subsequently determine the outcome of the White House in '08. Of course in my mind, there is only one issue- the War. The ticking clock, and the end of the world as we know it.

But we know it is not so simple. First we must eradicate the Fifth Column. So the game must be played or we forfeit.

Opening bell:

Seizing on an issue likely to define the nation's two major parties as they battle for the White House in 2008, two figures expected to participate in that contest, Senator Clinton of New York and Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, used Hurricane Katrina yesterday to expound upon the role of government.

In speeches delivered in Manhattan, the two prospective candidates differed sharply over where blame for the Katrina fallout lies. Mr. Romney, a Republican, cited a lack of leadership at the local level and an outdated, bureaucratic approach to crisis management. Mrs. Clinton, a Democrat, recommended increased government involvement, and excoriated the Bush administration for being insufficiently supportive of local authorities in New Orleans.

"In crisis situations, you have to respond with leadership," Mr. Romney said in remarks delivered to the Manhattan Institute, a free-market think tank. He added that, in the aftermath of the storm, "there seemed to be none" at the state and local levels.

To handle future disasters, Mr. Romney said, it is essential to scrap the "old way" of a bloated and cumbersome government bureaucracy.

Today's New York Sun, read it all
oh and BTW if you are unfamiliar with Mitt Romney........get to know him now and here at the Weekly Standard.

No Media Bias Here........

No, No,  media bias here folks...........nothing to see............keep it moving

DOES MY ROCK look big on this?                                 hat tip Tom P Barcepundit

9/11, Katrina, ......when did America lose her soul?

Maybe we are just plain full of shit as a nation. Not everyone of course. But as a whole.

Yesterday made me sick, It was 9/11, 9/11 for G-d's sake - a national day of mourning of untold proportion but the coverage of the massive attacks on America of just four years ago was sparse and embarrassing to me as an American (or any American. It could have been anyone of us. Just being American).

It seems trivializing 9/11 is essential to trivializing the War on Radical Islam.

The little coverage I did find was disrespectful, the talking bobbleheads of 24/7/365 news channels talking over the mourners and speakers with their drivel. That's the new disease of the mainstream media, the inability to differentiate between what is meaningful,  important and pure drivel.
Even my little one looked up to me and said "ma, why won't she be quiet? " - meaning the blonde inflatable on the screen, and I said "I don't know". Even worse was  what she was carrying on about.......speaking to other talking heads about what was still wrong after 9/11.  Airline safety (!), mistreatment of gays (!), the whole thing was depressing .

First off, it's not the day for such sillyspeak. Secondly, with the scant attention being paid to the day that changed America, can you lay off trannie  rights or how the airlines can prod me one more time in search of the gold trim on my underthings?

The problem is not MORE AIRLINE SECURITY, the problem is THE ENEMY. I don't want to spend my hard earned taxpayer dollars on more security and first responders (which is pork anyway). We must spend our taxpayer dollars  ridding the world of the enemy. It is that simple. That is the answer.

And so far as yesterday's embarrassing lack of national soul for all those that died on 9/11, be ashamed. 867 channels and I couldn't find coverage.........after Rumsfeld movingly spoke (a rarity as he always seems to be reading a speech whenever I catch him making a speech), he spoke and had to catch himself a coupleof times.......and then  it was back to KKKatrina all day. Why? Of course KKKatrina is a  nightmare and  the cleanup continues. The news channels could have paid homage to 9/11 on the one day, the one day, 9/11 that we must never forget. Certainly updating the audience once an hour with a basic "here's another look at KKKatrina" but essentially nothing new (as in news)  happened.
It took me forever to find the ceremony at Ground Zero on a tiny public access channel WNYE, that broadcast it all day.........no voice-overs, no unnecessary blow by blow...........just the memorial service. And I cried and cried ...........and I cried when they cried. Thank G-d for WNYE. I think I would have lost my mind had I not been able to grieve yesterday.

It seems trivializing 9/11 is essential to trivializing the War on Radical Islam.

As for KKKatrina, I have complete faith in the American ability to rebuild. But let's be frank here, It is not about the hurricane, it is about clubbing Bush with the story du jour. Before KKKatrina, it was Cindy Sheehan (yes, that lunatic) - of all the mothers of all the servicemen and women laying down their lives fighting radical islamism where it should be fought (there not here), this "mother" gets full court press. I use quotes on "mother" because I question the maternity of any woman that defiles their child's sacrifice for self aggrandizement or just plain old tawdry celebrity.

KKKatrina coverage is the work of fifth column, the left. They and their organ grinder's monkey, the Mainstream Media (who are only to0 happy to john for their pimp) do this best - blaming Bush for Democratic failures (Clinton 9/11 helloooo) while simultaneously exploiting the poor.

The Dems always exploit the poor. What's up with that already? The poor are not retarded, they are poor and this is America. You can change your circumstances. But the Dems need the poor. They keep the poor poor.It parallels  the  Arab world keeping the Palis in those camps for all these decades. They are a tool, a propaganda tool of a malevolent agenda.

Look, the hurricane hurt everybody - but they never talk about that. They never talk about the hardworking people that lost everything that had.

It was all Bush's fault. It's such absurdity, and it is fed to the starving masses eager to  lap the gruel up.
It was Nature, G-d, Gail winds.......it was a HURRICANE not an attack by the angry Bush God. And the failure lies at the hands of the mayor (see Nagin vs. Guiliani) and Blame (see Pataki, and I don't even like him very much). What is most interesting in all this is who will emerge the hero. The Hero in this test of the American can do spirit will surely be the Mayor Of Houston Bill White. The best retort I heard yesterday was when the press quiried White on how the Feds were responding to the his needs (in light of ALL the refugees) he said "we are handling it, when we need 'um we are  working with FEMA but this is local". That was rich.

Why was there no horror expressed at Bush's tardiness after 9/11? Because the left didn't even think of it. They didn't have to, they couldn't - it was handled, controlled chaos.
The local and state governments in Louisiana are an abomination. Why are those city buses sitting in all that water, why weren't those city buses and school buses used to usher folks out of the city? Why blame anyone if folks refuse to leave their home?

But that is debate for today.
Yesterday was 9/11 and yesterday made me sick. My kid had a soccer game, I was invited to an afternoon wedding (WTF?)...........like just another day

Look at that destruction, that massive, senseless, cruel loss of human life ... and then I ask you to look in your hearts and recognize that there is no room for neutrality on the issue of terrorism. You're either with civilization or with terrorists.

On one side is democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human life; on the other is tyranny, arbitrary executions, and mass murder.

We're right and they're wrong. It's as simple as that.
                                                                                                                            Rudy Guiliani

Such a powerful day, rendered impotent.

UPDATE 10:32 am

Wonder Woman over at North American Patriot points out that the lefty blogsphere was just as deliberately remiss yesterday in it's avoidance of 9/11 coverage............I did not blog yesterday so I wasn't aware of it but it is empirical evidence of what I've just written here.

Al Franken is a Big Fat Liar

After yesterday's outing of Al Franken's blatant lies in the Air America scandal. Yeah, that short fat little prick had the audacity to write a book called Rush Limbaugh is a big Fat Idiot  (and btw  Rush is BRILLIANT, mega dittos) and another slime book "Lies and the Liars that tell them" (is that balls or what?)

Franken Signed Air America's Payment Pact

The Air America radio network's biggest star, Al Franken, and its former chairman, Evan Montvel Cohen, were among the signers of a confidential agreement last November . A settlement agreement signed by Al Franken, Evan Montvel Cohen, and other parties acknowledged that the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club had claims totaling $875,000 against the Air America radio network, but did not commit any party to the payment of those claims.

In an interview with the Sun on August 1, Mr.Franken said he did not know anything about the transfers from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club until late the previous month. He said he did not know whether the $875,000 was absorbed by the radio network or not, and he characterized the network's decision to pay back Gloria Wise as a "moral obligation."

Mr. Cohen [who  worked as a fund-raiser during the period when he helped launch the liberal network- Atlas], said "Gloria Wise knew exactly where the money was going," he said, adding that at least one unnamed club official authorized the transfers. "There was no question, no backroom dealing. It was straight up: I'm borrowing this money, it's going here."

Today we have the following report of the additional gross theft of taxpayer dollars to fund the overthrow of the American way of life, today's New York Sun, America's finest ethical newspaper

         
Air America Wires $825,000 To Club in Bronx

Air America Radio, the liberal network that in 2003-04 received $875,000 in transfers from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx, announced last night that it had wired $825,000 into an attorney-controlled escrow account for the Bronx nonprofit group. It had previously sent $50,000 to the club.

The transfers to Air America, which a former official of Gloria Wise described as interest-free loans, is part of a probe by the city's Department of Investigation and the state attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, into what officials termed "inappropriate transactions" by Gloria Wise. In a statement issued yesterday, Air America said the network would release the account to Gloria Wise when the city agency "completes its work and authorizes payment."

So what does it all mean? It means that the diabolical left will stop at nothing to take over our democracy and impose it's socialist politically left leaning, morally bankrupt, terrorist enabling despotism in place of our constitution. That's what it means, and it will steal your taxpaying dollars "RAISE TAXES!" to do it.

And you know what? I aint gonna be no one's slave..................ever.

The Radical Islamists I know we can beat, it's the Fifth Column that worries me.

 

The New York Slime Times Slimes Again

no surprise here............keep it moving

My great blog aficionado Chas,  shared this telling exchange he had with  The New York Tomb, uh make that Times

I'm sorry, I assumed you had the Times in front of you.  Read the graf before:

Each day since Katrina brings more evidence of the lethal ineptitude of federal officials. I'm not letting state and local officials off the hook, but federal officials had access to resources that could have made all the difference, but were never mobilized.

It's clear that USS Bataan was, in fact, mobilized.  Then, in the next graf, Krugman says "Here's one of many examples:..." and cites as an example the Bataan.  He also calls out specifically (as well as hospital facilities) the Bataan's water-production capacity, which as you will note are specifically mentioned as being part of Bataan's support on their website.

You didn't really think I'd fall for that argument, did you?

On 9/6/05, Public/NYT/NYTIMES <public@nytimes.com> wrote:

Dear Mr. Martin,

Thanks for writing. However, he said that the ship was sitting without patients and you haven't provided any evidence that statement is incorrect.

Sincerely,
Joe Plambeck
Office of the Public Editor
The New York Times

Note:  The public editor's opinions are his own and do not represent those of The New York Times.

hat tip Chas dah Man

and on a lighter note...............photo cartoonist  Pete at IHillary shares this beauty with me

It's the small print that gets ya.
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The U.N.'s Spreading Bribery Scandal: Russian Ties and Global Reach

By Claudia Rosett, George Russell
FoxNews.com
September 6, 2000 

How widespread is the corruption at the United Nations? The multibillion-dollar Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal was just the beginning.

Now the issue is becoming the scale of corruption in the U.N.'s normal operations — and which individuals and corporations are reaping the benefits of a network of bribery and conspiracy that investigators have just begun to uncover. So far, those identities are still a mystery — but perhaps not for much longer.

Last Friday, federal prosecutors in Manhattan indicted the head of the U.N.'s own budget oversight committee, a Russian named Vladimir Kuznetsov, on charges of laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bribes paid by companies seeking contracts with the United Nations.

...Kuznetsov's arrest is the latest twist in the scandal involving the U.N. procurement department, which was the longtime post of Alexander Yakovlev (search), another Russian U.N. official recently fingered by U.S. federal investigators.

More at Gateway Pundit, Kofi Braces for More Criticism

Hat tip: Instapundit

oh and BTW, Special thanks to Richard of Brooklyn, got my RED ELVISES-
GROOVING TO THE MOSCOW BEAT ..................HOOHA!

MUSLIM KILLING CHRISTIANS! Dont just stand there!

Killing Christians, "honor murders", fffffffffffffffolks whats it going to take? Where is the goddamn media?

A Muslim mob converged on the Palestinian Christian town of Taibeh, burning and looting 13 homes owned by relatives of a man suspected of having an affair and impregnating a 30 year old Muslim woman who worked for him. Prior to the mob attack, in yet another suspected "honor killing," the pregnant woman, Hiyam Ajaj, was found dead from poison.

 

Lara Sukhtian, of the Associated Press (AP), has written a compelling article about the incident that included context regarding Muslim-Christian tensions, as well as the disturbing practice of "honor killing" among both Muslim and Christian Arabs.  While I understand that coverage of the massive Hurricane Katrina relief effort has appropriately bumped many other news items, this compelling story is of particular interest to Christians and women's rights advocates, as well as the general public.

 

In contrast to the dwindling population of Christians in the PA territories -- as well as surrounding  Muslim countries -- Israel's Christian population is vibrant and growing.

HILLARY STAGES ANOTHER STAR STUDDED SHAM "COMMISSION" WITH THE USUAL SUSPECTS, BABS BOXER, sKERRY, PLAGERIST BIDEN, STICKY FINGERS SANDY BERGER and MURDERER KENNEDY TO WHITEWASH THEIR MONUMENTAL FAILURES AT LOSING SO MANY LIVES

AHA!!  So Hillary Clinton calls for 9/11-type 'Katrina Commission
THESE PEOPLE MAKE MY SKIN CRAWL -ATLAS
US Senator Hillary Clinton has urged President George W. Bush to set up a "Katrina Commission" to probe the government's response to the killer hurricane that has ravaged New Orleans and its surroundings, possibly killing thousands of people.

WHY ISN'T SHE CALLING FOR THE RESIGNATION OF NAGIN AND BLAME A/S/A/P. Because this the the favorite MO of the left...............after gross dereliction of duty they "call a commission" so that they might espouse their lies and spin their failure into a Republican boondoggle. And the Republicans fall for it very time

Why do you think she wants that? Huh? So that she can wash the sins off the Democratic mayor and governor with lies directed at the current administration? Hey Billary, let's not forget STATE"S RIGHTS!

Remember the ginormous lies of the 9/11 commission? They politicized it and corrupted it on every level right down to Sandy Berger shoveling classified documents down his pecker while everyone else ignored that and "Able Danger" It-was a sham............to turn the horrible historical mistakes of the Clinton White house against Bush. WTF was Berger really covering up? WHAT? Why does no one answer that key question?

Sorry fellas,  i will not buy tickets to this circle jerk of show. Lies lies lies lies lies

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more, no more.
Hillary Clinton makes Evita Peron appear to be normal.

Tales from the Crypt

Hat tip  Gail Cooper for this first hand account vis a vis Little Green Footballs (my blogdaddy)
Astounding how fast MSM coverage moved into 'big lie' territory.

I just wanted to pass along my little perspective from the front in
Mississippi. My power has just returned and this ithe first chance I've had to visit LGF since the Monday of the storm, so I don't know how this topic has been treated, but the MSM's handling of this crisis has been even worse than I could have imagined.

It is being framed as a racist conspiracy, and proof that racism is as bad as ever in the U.S., but the truth is quite different.

An AP reporter - a raging liberal, btw - whose wife was staying in the same friends' home as my family and me this week, says that AP won't let him tell many of the stories he witnessed first hand, among them that when predominantly black refugees from New Orleans were piled together with predominantly white tourists who were evicted from their hotels inside the convention center, there were packs of black drug gangs preying on the tourists.

A NYT reporter who tried to enter the CC was beaten by them and thrown out. At one point a police commander came out of the CC and announced that his officers were organizing a military-style invasion to retake the place. As the reporter was leaving the Superdome, he and a few fellow reporters were followed by a few blacks for a couple of hundred yards, who taunted themsaying, "It's the fault of you JEWS. You JEWS living up in the Garden District drinking wine and champagne while we die down here... it's all the fault of you JEWS."

Is this a racial catastrophe? Only in the sense that it's a cultural catastrophe the short end of which many blacks in New Orleans have put themselves on.

Look at the difference in the situation on the Ms. Gulf Goast vs. N.O., and you'll see the difference made by a culture of dependency vs. a culture of independence: The scope and intensity of the destruction on the coastMdwarfed what happened in N.O., but how much of the sick depravity thathappened in N.O. happened on the coast? Damned little.

The explanation can be found in what will become the enduring image from this disaster: A lone black woman, sobbing, holding and dragging multiple children to what she hopes will be deliverance. Meanwhile on the Ms. Gulf Coast, if you actuall  go down there instead of watching the TV news, the enduring image is of FAMILIES - led by MEN - rolling up their sleeves and getting after it. All they want from the government is to keep out the troublemakers - they'll take care of the rest.

In New Orleans, a disturbing number of the "men" who are left are brutalizing and preying upon people. Not so on the Ms. coast. The utopia the liberals keep telling us  s there - one in which life is not just bearable but equally idyllic without responsible men being around and intact families being in place, is a fantasy, and  here's no better proof than the contrast you seen in New Orleans vs. the coast. --Greg Giffords

Hat tips:Hawks

CBS to give Bloggers a Bad Name

Check this one out..............CBS is going to blog! HA! Imagine that..............undone by the blogosphere, this is their solution. How macabre!

Isn't veracity the answer? Isn't honest reporting the answer? Isn't unbiased reporting the answer?   CBS News counters bloggers with 'Nonbudsman'

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - After a controversial run-in with bloggers last year that helped sink "60 Minutes Wednesday," CBS has hired a "nonbudsman" to write a blog that will go behind the scenes at the news division.

Former "Hotline" editor Vaughn Ververs will report his findings on "Public Eye," which debuts next month on http://www.cbsnews.com.

Ververs will be a kind of media reporter, mostly focused on CBS News, reporting and writing about how the news is gathered, produced and placed. In addition to providing Journalism 101, "Public Eye" also could offer extended versions of segments that appeared on CBS, interviews with correspondents and producers and maybe even the daily story meeting for the "CBS Evening News."

Why isn't the New York Slime Times or the International Herald Trib All Over this story?

Billions for Jew killing, crumbs for peace

What Happened to Fifty Years of Aid Money? - Frederick Forsyth
I saw Gaza on my first visit to Israel in 1968. It was created in the same year as the UN created Israel: 1948. It was supposed to be a temporary camp for Palestinians displaced by the new Israeli state. Its inhabitants were supposed to be able to return to new plots of land inside Israel or accept a living space in the lands of their surrounding Arab "brothers." (This was 19 years before the 1967 war.) Alas, the "brothers" did precious little. Gaza had better propaganda value as a festering sore of human misery to be waved before the world. It soon became a sewage-smelling slum.
    But aid did pour in; billions of it, enough to make that tiny plot a mini Garden of Eden, a prosperous, healthy, thriving enclave beside the blue Mediterranean south of Ashkelon. Fifty years later, it was still a sewage-smelling slum, wreathed in chaos. What happened to all the money? Well, the Palestinian leadership embezzled half of it; the rest went on guns, bullets, and explosives. (Daily Express-UK)

Goodbye Gaza, Hello Hamas

It's funny (not) but when I was flying down to Florida a couple of days ago, the FOX channel wasn't working on the flight and so  I was forced to watch CNN...........yeah I had to pin my eyelids open to stop from cringing.
Anyway, it was the day before the Jews were scheduled to disengage from Gaza and all CNN kept talking about, especially that 2nd rate, C list ,numbskull Jack  Caffertywas "why should America help Israel pay for the disengagement and the resettling of the families?" (three generations mind you) torn from their homeland.

*spit*

Oh and just for knowing, Bush has agreed to half of what Israel requested.

UPDATE:  Must give props to the New Zealand Herald for this extremely even handed piece on the UN and media's  prejudice on the Pali/Israeli conflict;

Two things immediately occurred to me while reading them. The first was the astounding absence of context; the second was that the attacks were coming from representatives of an organisation whose stance on the Israeli-Arab conflict, over decades, has hardly been exemplary.

Reading the articles, one would be forgiven for thinking Israelis have had nothing better to do than bomb or shoot up Palestinian communities. The implication is that Palestinians have, as a result of their benighted circumstances, had no choice but to take up arms against their oppressors.

The story is full of holes. Why no reference to the fact that Gaza has been for years been the planning base and launch pad for hundreds of bomb, mortar and other attacks against Israelis?

And in case we've become hardened to the idea of terrorism, let's remember what it entails: body parts splattered across city streets, infants without limbs, orphaned children maimed for life.

Why have the writers ignored the fact that, far from distancing itself from attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has embraced these groups, failing to honour its commitments to dismantle the terror networks?

There's also no reference to the fact that establishing bomb factories in the midst of civilian neighbourhoods have long been favoured Palestinian extremist tactics.

Why, one wonders, did Newman fail to mention that those same traumatised Palestinian children she writes about have been subjected, through PA media outlets, school textbooks and holiday camps, to programmes inciting violence against Jews and lauding the "martyrdom" of suicide bombings.

Another missing piece: Palestinian leaders have for 10 years been responsible for administering Gaza. During that time, they have squandered millions of dollars in foreign aid - setting up a dozen security agencies, bankrolling propaganda, diverting funds to private bank accounts, buying apartments in Paris.

Then again, taking a one-sided view of the Israeli-Arab conflict is standard operating procedure for the United Nations.

amen...................thank you

 

Antisemitism Under Every Mendacious Media Elite Rock........TAKE DOWN THE DINOSAUR

To the vile and disgusting antisemitic International Herald Tribune that depicts Israel's disengagement as "drama" - yeah that's what they called it "drama" (well it is owned by The New York Slime Times and the Washington Post*) to wit I submit the following question-
Who is is the real inciter of violence?
Whos is really aiding and abetting the terrorists?  The fifth column.

Read the following from the IHT story;

Of course, Palestinians didn't miss the context. Talk in our living rooms and over Turkish coffee at the office has been mixed:
"Do you think they were acting?"

or this gem

Another network countered such images with an interview with the parents of Muhammad al-Dura, the 12-year-old boy who was photographed dying in his father's arms in 2000 and whose image has become a symbol of the intifada. But for the most part, the language on the broadcasts has been accurate and straightforward

accurate and straightforward you say ?the Palis killed him!- Atlas

Mind you NO MENTION IS MADE IN THE TRIBUNE THAT THE AL DURA CHARADE WAS ALL A SET UP, A HOAX . The case involved the alleged Israeli killing of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy and the severe wounding of his father at Gaza's Netzarim Junction in September 2000.Never mentioning that it was a staged event.Proved to subsequently be a hoax.   
Killed by his own people................

To all this I counter with the following:

The mother of a child who had been killed by terrorists had locked herself in his room, together with gasoline tanks that she threatened to ignite. Another family whose son, an Israeli naval commando, had fallen in Lebanon, was also hesitating to leave.

• The severest test of one battalion's fortitude - and humaneness - occurred in Badolah's synagogue, where the settlers were afforded an hour of parting prayer. But after two hours waiting in the blistering sun, the soldiers decided to enter. The scene that greeted them was shocking: settlers clutching the pews, the Ark and the Torah scrolls, or writhing on the floor. The troops tried to comfort them, only to break down themselves, and soon soldiers and settlers were embracing in mutual sorrow and consolation.
• Ultimately, the settlers were either escorted or carried, sobbing, onto buses. But their rabbi, stressing the need for closure, requested permission to address the soldiers, and the battalion commander remarkably agreed. So it happened that 500 troops and 100 settlers stood at attention, with Israeli flags fluttering, while the rabbi spoke of the importance of channeling this sorrow into the creation of a more loving and ethical society. "We are all still one people, one state," he said. Together, the evicted and the evictors, then sang "Hatikvah," the national anthem - "The Hope."

*UPDATE:

Naked Villiany makes this valid point:

Only one little quibble with this. The Washington Post sold its share of the International Herald Tribune to the NY Times last year. So the WaPo no longer is affiliated with that paper.

My bad (they owned it forever but no more, just slime owned now)

The OTHER Ginormous Scandal the LLL MSM refuses to cover

If you haven't heard or more likely can't find the facts on the Air America financial scandal, go over to THE NEW YORK SUN. They have a running database on the corruption and theft of taxpayer money to fund this radical left wing propaganda machine (which BTW no one even listens to). David Lombino is all over it.........thanks man.
The left is trying to do an" oil-for-food job" on this - act like it doesn't exist and maybe it will disappear.
Broadcaster Seeks $1.5M From Network
Suit: Air America Ownership Transfer a 'Sham'
City Probe Began 19 Months Ago
Boys & Girls Club May Vote To Drop Bronx's Gloria Wise Club Next Month

Franken Unaware Of Ex-Colleague's Alleged Loans

 The comedian Al Franken, Air America Radio's most prominent host, said yesterday that he did not know whether the hundreds of thousands of dollars apparently lent to the radio network by a Bronx social-service organization had indeed been relayed to Air America by Evan Montvel Cohen. Mr. Cohen simultaneously served as director of the liberal network and development director of the nonprofit Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club.

Funds of a Bronx Youth Group Allegedly Lent to Air America

Imagine, if you will, if this was a Republican debacle, you can't look me straight in the eye and say the Dems wouldn't have Bush up on impeachment charges.

Wag the Dog

A Liberal Hawk asks the following;

I'm just  wondering.  There's been so much talk lately, some of it  media  generated of course, but apparently not all of it, about  falling  poll numbers in terms of support for Iraq, do you all agree  with  that, or think it is media late summer contrivance -- a way to  wrack  up a conversation.

To which I respond;

Having a background in strategic planning and marketing, I can tell you first hand that you can make numbers (poll, focus groups et al) say  anything you want them to.

Me? I think it's a lie. It is the MO of the left, to make a lie become  a truth.

It seems to me that the left continues to dictate the national agenda.  Exit strategy? It's all they talk about. And common sense tells you that would  be the  worst, the very worst thing America could do. A timetable for departure is dangerous. Dangerous, because challenging Bush to agree to a timetable only emboldens Jihadis, who would very much like to move the frontlines of this Long War from their turf to ours.

The fierce opposition in Iraq is proof positive that this war was
1) a long time coming
2) formenting for years
3) foisted upon us
4) global, intra national in its very nature
5) so much more than WMDs
6) bloody, barbaric - a fight to the death .

The ferocity of the opposition in Iraq is evidence we are doing  right thing, the only thing, to loosen the  deathgrip Radical  Islam has spent decades building (and Western civilaztion ignoring) in  that region..

I do not believe those polls for one second . Nor do I believe in  this anti-war movement. Why Sheehan, why now? With all the greiving parents  across this great nation, why her? Why full court press? It is theater,  deliberately manufactured  to create the impression of an anti-war  movement. So that people in a herd society follow along (remember that soda  commercial - "I'm a Pepper, You're a Pepper, He's a Pepper, She's a Pepper,  Wouldn't you like to be  a Pepper too? Dr.  Pepper.........Driiiiiiiiiiiiiiink Dr Pepper).or "Be part of the Pepsi Generation"
It's the same thing, marketing their agenda............and without the  blogosphere, it works (see Vietnam War - remember we didn't lose one battle in Vietnam, just the war).

There is not one country that opposed our going into Iraq that was not robbing Oil for Food blind. Not one. But the left continues to harp on getting the backing of the "international community", while belittling the coalition and other countries that stand with us. Who wants the backing of thugs, bloodsuckers, and theives that steal off the backs of Iraqi women and children all the while accusing the US of "killing Iraqi children" vis a vis the sanctions against Saddam Hussein.

Just take a look at s MORE GREAT NEWS FROM IRAQ (that you'll never hear from the MSM)

Much thanks to Chrenkoff (part 33 in the series, that means there are 32 priors, another thing I bet you didn't know).

The UN.... An Arm of Al Qaeda?

The slaughtering African civilians, rape, child slavery (where are the feminazis?) and human trafficking continue apace  in the Sudan and the  region of Darfur. So when you read all these  LLL media "news" stories, understand that's what they are - stories (pathetic ones at that);

U.N.: Sudan Rebel Group Committed to Peace 
The head of the United Nations in Sudan said Wednesday that one of the main Darfur rebel factions was dedicated to resuming peace talks even though it had asked to postpone a session slated later this month.

U.N.: Sudan Rebel Group Committed to Peace
 U.N. Official Says Sudan's Darfur Rebel Group Committed to Peace, Sees Deal by Year's End

Know it's bullshit. It's the left wing media propping up the the morally bankrupt, criminal, malevolent euphemistically named United Nations as part of its sabotage of the Bush Doctrine (fighting terrorists and freeing oppressed peoples)
The UN  exists in it's current dhimmi form to serve the islamofascists in its war to destroy Western Civilization hence its obsession with the elimination of Israel - just this week the UN funded Pali/Hamas propaganda against Israel - during the disengagement-which U.S. Ambassador John Bolton protested as "unacceptable" payments. 

Sudan is a horror. Two ongoing conflicts,  the 22-year-old civil war that has pitted the Muslim government against Christian and animist rebels in the country's southern region and in western Sudan,   the Janjaweed - the word, an Arabic colloquialism, means "a man with a gun on a horse." Janjaweed militiamen are primarily members of nomadic "Arab" tribes who've long been at odds with Darfur's settled "African" farmers, who are darker-skinned.
Whatever.
The killing, rape, slavery and human trafficking goes on................the answer?
It's all part of  the global  War on Radical Islam (aka as the War on terror). We as a nation must eradicate it before it takes hold of Africa, Mexico and Latin America.

BOYCOTT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE. STOP BEING BRAINWASHED.

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Better late than never, HOT NUTS ~ it's CARNIVAL TIME!

The tastiest nut in the sphere has the most delicious carnival up and running
Right Wing Nuthouse hosts the Carnival of the Clueless and he roasts the nutcase of the weak ...............the woman that gives mothers a bad name.

Get it while it's still hot!

And speaking of that nut.............Roll Call writes me that;

Cindy Sheehan has announced that she will return to Crawford to continue her message that America is not worthy...

There is no doubt that this war pits good mounting a charge against evil. In most cases before the battle the flag bearer volunteers to carry the flag. Therefore, all the soldiers in this days army are flag bearers as all volunteered to enter this battle against terror and possible die young so that others may live a long and full life of freedom from fear and terror.

Cindy Sheehan has shamed her son who fell holding the colors by telling the others do not pick up the flag he bore in the charge. Cindy Sheehan says the colors her son died holding high representing the ideals of freedom, justice, liberty and peace is not worthy.

But the day will come when at the sound of the trumpet these fallen who by then may have been forgotten will rise again and answer to the roll call by the Captain of the Hosts as they are now eternal. And the voices of those who dishonored their valor while they were fallen will NOT have a voice on that day but will be silent forever.

And what do I think of this tool? I hate to give her copy but what galls me more than anything is the coverage this beast is getting. I don't give a rat's ass about her. She is using her son's death to achieve some sort of celebrity.......in other word she's a c*nt and I wouldn't give her the one line of text.

But of all the grieving parents across this great nation, of all the fine decent families , who gets  full court press..............why her? why now? It's is OBVIOUS to me, let's pray it is just as obvious to the American people (the silent majority). And the fact that her family is against her, her husband divorced her for her battiness, and her son is weeping in his grave is of little import to this vulger opportunist. After four long years, this is the mother that gets the media's full attention? *SPIT*

The Media is the Enemy..................when will Bush finally put them on the List of Terrorist Organizations?

More bizarre nuts here

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL

I am home on my computer (my secret lover, oy).................yay!

ok,  let's look at Iran's new cabinet...................this is important.

The LLL. media wants you to think about other things - like that psychopathic mother Sheehan in Texas. Why does she get so much press? Huh? 1900 fine young delicious America lives sacrificed for our freedom and this "mother" gets full court press? WTF? I don't want to hear...............of course soldiers die. That's what , these brave fine wonderful honorable men and women soldiers do - fight for our freedom. So that the 3,000 innocent American lives lost on 9/11 were not taken in vain.

The LLL mainstream media think they are still dictating what Americans will think. HELLLOOOOOOOOOO. Why blogosphere then?

DO NOT TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL

Iraq a mistake? HARDLY! The ferocity of the war is proof positive that THIS IS WAR. The attack from Jordan on American and Navel apparatus today is proof positive we are at war.
Remember after 9/11? How FREAKED we were when the next attack would come. REMEMBER?

I do. In New York we were soiling our pants. WORD.

And if you think it's an "accident" that we haven't been hit since YOU ARE IRRATIONAL.  Having been in advertising and marketing in a prior life, you can make polls say whatever you want. Bush's ratings at their lowest? LIE.

The American people know we can't withdraw from Iraq. An exit strategy?  There is no such thing. We attempting to accomplish something never done before - freeing a people in a region oppressed for centuries. There is no template.

If we pull our troops or give a timetable all hell breaks loose, just what the left wants. Whose side on they are on? Have they, even for moment, considered the consequences if they are wrong?

While I don't believe for a second Bush is wrong, what if he were. Whats the damage? Freeing people subjugated under the heel of a despot's brutality.

MEMO TO ANGELINA JOLIE: Wanna really help? Stop the happy horseshit and stop giving money to despotic regimes. Speak out for the African dhimmis being raped and slaughtered. Gving money to Africa is NOT THE ANSWER. It is much tougher than that. It takes a real backbone...................hard to find even harder to act on.

Back t Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism. Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria all back by the Jimmuh Carter supported Islamic Regime. The new cabinet from Jack Wheeler's To the Point (subscribe already!)

A CABINET OF EVIL
Ledeen's Lair

By Michael Ledeen

Iranian President Ahmadi Nejad has been busy putting together a cabinet for the Islamic republic. While all real power remains firmly in the clammy hands of Supreme Leader Khamenei, it's worth taking a look at some of the new ministers, if only because it tells us two important things:

(1) The face the regime wishes to show to the world at large, and (2) the policies the regime intends to unleash on the long-suffering Iranian people.

Let's start with the interior minister, Hojatoll-Islam Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi. He was formerly the number-two man in the ministry of intelligence and security — where he was directly in charge of the foreign section (and thus the sorts of foreign operations now running full bore in Iraq and Afghanistan) — and, even more significantly, the man in charge of those matters in the office of the supreme leader.
Pour-Mohammadi comes from a sartorially celebrated family; his father and brother are tailors for leading clergy. Indeed, they prepared the tailoring for both bin Laden and Zawahiri in their recent videos, in which their clothing was distinctively Iranian.
The minister for intelligence and security is Hojjatol-Islam Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ezhei, from Isfahan, where he acquired a reputation as a particularly vicious and barbaric head of the Islamic tribunals which regularly issued brutal sentences.

He has been special prosecutor in the intelligence ministry, where he was also in charge of key personnel decisions, and at present he is judge and prosecutor for the special tribunal of the clergy.

To Mohammed-Hossein Saffar-Harandi of Tehran goes the ironically named ministry of culture and Islamic guidance. In reality, that ministry's key role is to provide cover for external intelligence operations.

For a decade, Saffar-Harandi was the director of the political bureau of the Revolutionary Guards, in which he holds the rank of brigadier general, and for which he was the commander of southern Iran.

The foreign minister is Manoucher Mottaki, whose long diplomatic career (he has been ambassador to both Japan and Turkey, and deputy foreign minister) has included the sensitive role as liaison between the foreign ministry and the revolutionary guards. While he was ambassador to Ankara, numerous Iranian dissidents were murdered and others kidnapped.

And then there is the defense minister, Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, another brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards, where he has been since its official formation in 1979. As several commentators have pointed out, he was the commander of the RG forces in Lebanon in 1983, when the Marine barracks were blown up by the Guards and Hezbollah. So we owe him one.

The mullahs have torn off their conciliatory mask in order to bare their fangs to us, the Europeans, and the Iranian people.

If we had an Iran strategy worthy of the name, our confused leaders would have pointed out the remarkable interview with the chief nuclear affairs negotiator, Hossein Musavian. It was broadcast on Iranian television August 4th, and made it quite clear that the Iranians deliberately tricked the Europeans into giving the mullahs an extra year to complete a vital part of their nuclear program in Isfahan.

"Thanks to the negotiations with Europe," he bragged, "we gained another year, in which we completed...Isfahan." This was quite a coup, at least in Musavian's humble opinion:

"We suspended (the enrichment program) in Isfahan in October 2004, although we were required to do so in October 2003...Today we are in a position of power: (the program) in Isfahan is complete and UF4 and UF6 gases are being produced. We have a stockpile of products, and...we have managed to convert 36 tons of yellow cake into gas and store it..."

President Chirac? Chancellor Schroeder? Prime Minister Blair? How do you all intend to answer your parliamentary inquiries? You were all gulled by the mullahs (or, to put the darkest light on the matter, willing accomplices).

Meanwhile, the mullahs are killing us. Time Magazine published a long report from Baghdad on August 16, entitled "Inside Iran's Secret War for Iraq," which lays out chapter and verse of the mullahs' longstanding efforts — often coordinated with Assad's Syria — to drive us out of Iraq.

It is the first time I've seen a major publication confirm what I reported months before Operation Iraqi Freedom: planning for the terror war against Coalition forces in Iraq "began before the U.S. invaded."

And Time quotes a "British military intelligence officer about the relative inattention paid to the murderous Iranian activities. 'It's as though we are sleepwalking'."

Instead of devoting hours of prime time coverage to the ravings of a broken mother, our media would do better to ask this administration why, four years after 9/11, it still has no Iran policy.

Perhaps, although one cannot say more than that, we are paying more attention. First came the announcement that American forces in Iraq found a cache of Iranian weapons, and had also captured a truck with shaped explosives entering Iraq from Iran.

Then, talking to journalists on his plane during a South American swing on August 17, Rumsfeld said that U.S. forces have found Iranian weapons in Iraq "on more than one occasion over the past couple of months."

These are straws in a very strong wind, and they will be blown away unless President Bush, Secretaries Rice and Rumsfeld, and Security Adviser Hadley at long last craft a serious policy to bring the terror war to bear on Tehran, as the president should have demanded on 9/12/01.

The list of proven Iranian actions in the terror war against us is a very long one. To take just a few:

In July, Assistant Secretary of State David Welch testified to the House International Relations Committee that "Iranian cadre were training Hizballah fighters in Lebanon," which Representative Tom Lantos quite reasonably found "profoundly disturbing."

Hezbollah is operating in Iraq, and its infamous operational chieftain, Imad Mughniyah, remains at large even though the US Government has put a very high price on his head for decades.

U.S. special forces in Hilla last fall captured documents and photographs of known Iraqi terrorists meeting with Syrian and Iranian intelligence officers in Syria.

The celebrated Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzon publicly stated that, after the liberation of Afghanistan, al Qaeda reconstituted its leadership in Iran, where they convened a strategic summit in November, 2002.

One of the participants was a Syrian named Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, who is now suspected by British authorities of being one of the masterminds of the lethal terrorist attack in London. According to Spanish newspapers, "Intelligence reports from foreign agencies last year placed Nasar in Iran."

The seemingly inescapable fact is that Iran is waging war on us, we are well aware of it, and we are not responding, even though most Iranians are dreaming of the day that the United States supports them against the mullahs.

Hardly a day goes by without anti-regime demonstrations in one Iranian city or another, involving students, workers, intellectuals, and even some very important clergymen. The number of Iranian dissidents on hunger strike is growing. Akbar Ganji hovers between life and death in a hospital in Tehran.

Yet, aside from occasional statements of compassion, there is no hint of action from the Bush administration.

This inaction has recently been buttressed by two fanciful "estimates" from the intelligence community. The first reassuringly forecast that Iran is a good ten years away from nuclear weapons; the second insisted that no revolution is in the Iranian works.

To which the only proper response is a belly laugh.

I'm personally willing to bet the farm against any intel-type willing to take the wager that Iran will have atomic bombs in a period closer to ten days than to ten years.

And the "no revolution in the works" prediction comes from the same people who made the same prediction just before the fall of the Shah and who confidently told Ronald Reagan that the Soviet Empire was here to stay.

President Reagan ignored these deep thinkers, and the Soviet Union is no more. President Bush needs to do the same with the Mullacracy of Iran.

Enough already. Let’s roll.

and no modern day Greek tragedy would be complete without the diabolical flying monkeys at the United Nations weighing in on Iran's [lanned  nuclear holocaust;

UN nuke agency to clear Iran on uranium charge, diplomats say 

The UN nuclear agency has concluded that highly enriched uranium particles found in Iran were from imported equipment and not from Iran's own activities, diplomats said.

I swear,  I couldn't make this stuff up.

In light of today's horrible events............

I  am without a computer until tomorrow night (traveled with wrong power cord, don't ask).....................ack.

I am running a post I did over at Trey Jackson's a few days ago. In light of today's most heart wrenching events this fisk is all the more sagacious and Cohen all the more despicable.

For the first time in our history Jew against Jew

saw this disgusting slanted terror loving piece in the International Herald Tribune (owned by the New York Slime Times and I had to fisk it; [fisking in lilac italics]

Meanwhile, Israel grabs the rest of Jerusalem  [grabs? WTF are they talking about? -Atlas]

Hind Khoury [no surprise here -]  International Herald Tribune

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2005

JERUSALEM After more than 38 years of its oppressive [oppressive? says who? you??!? I call babies, women, children, families getting blown to bits and stuck with nails, shrapnel, and glass in pizzerias, cafes ,and buses oppressive dickhead-Atlas] military occupation [one man's "occupation" is another man's "defense" -Atlas] of the Gaza Strip, Israel will soon begin evacuating the few thousand settlers[whaaaaaaaaaat see my GAZA FACTS BELOW!] who have been denying freedom [WHO IS DENYING WHO THE FREEDOM TO LIVE LIAR?] to more than a million Palestinians there. Israel has marketed [marketed? Are you reading this? Is this muslim unbelievable? Israel is tearing herself apart and this antisemite calls it a commercial] the Gaza withdrawal as yet another historic opportunity to jump-start the peace process. But Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem indicate that Israel's unilaterally imposed disengagement was never meant to start a peace process, but rather to end one [Really now. Is that how you see a unilateral disengagement of land? WTF have the Palis done to "jumpstart the Peace process"? *spit*]

GAZA FACTS -Atlas

21 Settlements
The disengagement will remove 1,700 families from their homes, most against their will. Many families have lived in that region for three generations. In addition to the Gaza settlements, four Northern West Bank communities will also be removed.

$1.7 Billion
The disengagement will cost a total of $1.7 Billion, which represents a cost of approximately $260 for each Israeli citizen.

$120 Million
Produce and flowers exported by Israeli farmers in Gaza is a $120 Million per year business. Israeli farmers in Gaza produce 60% of cherry tomatoes, 60% of herbs, and 70% of all organic produce exports for the entire country. The move out of Gaza will virtually extinguish this economic resource.

10,000
About 5,000 Palestinians worked in the Erez industrial zone and another 5,000 performed agricultural work in the Jewish settlements of Gush Katif. It is likely that these workers will now lose their jobs.

1946
In 1946 with the encouragement of Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, Kfar Darom was established. It was evacuated in 1948 following an Egyptian siege, then resettled in 1970. A Jewish presence in Gaza dates back to biblical times.

6
A January 2005 vote left Hamas in control of seven of the ten Gaza council seats. Hamas has perpetrated hundreds of terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians and is officially committed to the destruction of Israel.

38
Jewish Law requires that the sanctity of a Synagogue be preserved once it has been dedicated as such. Any change of its use from a place of study and prayer is consider sacrilegious and an enormous sacrifice according to Jewish law.

150 B.C.E.
The first Jewish sovereignty in Gaza dates back to 150 B.C.E. during the times of the Maccabees (Hannukah story). The first Jewish settlement is recorded in Judges 1:18, and the story of Samson. The first Arab sovereignty occurred in 634 C.E., when Arab armies drove out what was then the largest area of Jewish settlement in Israel.

5000 children
All of these 5,000 school-age children will have to move away from their family homes and childhood friends. All of their schools will also be closed. In the Gaza Strip, this includes:
• 36 kindergartens
• 7 elementary schools
• 3 high schools
• 42 daycare centers

As the world's attention is diverted [diverted? as opposed to what? focusing on terror attacks on jews - an act of peace is a diversion? This man is evil]by scenes of the removal of settlers who had no right to be in Gaza in the first place [oh you don't say! History says different..The first Jewish sovereignty in Gaza dates back to 150 B.C.E. during the times of the Maccabees], the real strategy behind disengagement is revealed by Israel's aggressive moves to consolidate its occupation of Jerusalem's eastern Palestinian sector.[translation - Israel attempts to secure it borders so that daily murders are no long possible]

At stake is the very basis of peace between Palestinians and Israelis - a negotiated two-state solution. [two states takes two......get it?]Israel's plan is to use "concessions" [WHAT'S UP WITH THE QUOTES?] in Gaza to remove Jerusalem from the negotiation table. But without Jerusalem as a shared capital for Palestinians and Israelis, there is no two-state solution. [says you? pishhhhhhhhhhaw when was that decided? where? who?]

In violation of President George W. Bush's May warning not to prejudice the status of Jerusalem [I have seen no evidence of Bush warning Israel of anything. Israel and the US have been staunch allies and it is because of the trust between Bush and Sharon that the disengagement is taking place] , the Israeli cabinet recently approved a decision to complete Israel's wall in East Jerusalem by the end of August, while the world's attention is on the Gaza disengagement. The wall, which Israel is using to redefine Jerusalem's borders, is being routed through occupied territory in such a way as to maximize the number of Palestinian Jerusalemites behind the wall, while maximizing the amount of Palestinian land on the "Israeli" side. About 55,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem will be effectively cut off from the their city, forced to access their schools, hospitals and even families through Israeli military gates which, as Palestinians know from experience, can be closed at a soldier's whim. [oh puhleeze, the Palis will destroy Jerusalem and all of the centuries old holy  sites, they have done it already in Bethlehem. Christians won't even make the pilgrimage there anymore. The Israelis are building SECURE BORDERS. SECURE BARRIERS. Get it? The open porous borders allowed the Pali terrorists and Islamic Jihadists to murder and attack Jews at will .BASTA!]

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These Palestinian Christians and Muslims will be denied free access to the holy sites in their own city. [oh and we know how much they respect holy sites. Remember when the Palis took the Church of the Nativity?  Stormed, took hostage, and urinated/defecated on it. Just one  example of their  assault on Manger Square. In the past, the terror-supporting Muslim Waqf organization, backed by a local Muslim rabble have been the main attackers of this most holy of places for Christianity. The Waqf has been trying for years to build a mosque right on top of the Place where billions believe Jesus was born, and only Israel has been preventing this religious piracy and defending Christianity's interests. At the same time, many Christian residents of the Palestinian territories are under constant attack and are victims of religious persecution at the hands of their Muslim neighbors]

Well, you get the picture

Honestly the vile spew goes on word after word, paragraph after paragraph, I couldn't take it anymore. But Let this serve as a careful warning. "venerable" media institutions are completely and utterly corrupted. They intend to brainwash you as well. PAY ATTENTION! Prick up your ears when you hear "why do they hate us?

UPDATE ON THE WHY DO THEY HATE US  FILE:

Why They Hate Us
The Scotsman has an explanation for the murder in Iraq of journalist Steven Vincent. See if you can finish this sentence:

An American journalist who was shot dead in Basra last week was executed by Shiite extremists who . . .

. . . had been worn down by grinding poverty?

. . . were angry over Israel's treatment of Palestinian Arabs?

. . . resented the presence in their country of foreign troops?

. . . sought to avenge the abuses at Abu Ghraib?

If you said any of the above, you're wrong. Here's the full sentence:

An American journalist who was shot dead in Basra last week was executed by Shiite extremists who knew he was intending to marry his Muslim interpreter, it has emerged.

That's right, Steven Vincent was killed to prevent him from intermarrying. Those Westerners who side with the "Iraqi resistance" against America and its allies are defending the equivalent of the murder of Emmett Till.

Hat tip: My favorite sagacious acerbic wit, James Taranto
Opinion Journal

Bill Clinton is Running for President '08

Ok, so here I am at JFK, minding my own business and I run into Hudson News for a long sleeved shirt for my freezing kid and I get assaulted by this jolting visual .

This  irresponsible reckless feckless bum did more to ruin this country and bring down the office of the President of United States then all previous rogues, renegades, traitors and scoundrels combined.
Chinagate, Al Qaeda, knowledge of Bin Laden, Oslo, the Pope, Bosnia (backed the guys that back Al Qaeda) ............ and New York Mag is  e running this enemy on the cover! For what? What's he doing  but banging cocktail waitresses two a a time? But he gets a cover?

"For eight long years, the Clinton administration pursued a policy of appeasement, particularly in regard to Middle Eastern policy and pursuit of Islamic terrorists. Terrorists were classified as mere "criminals" then, including those Jihadi fanatics who first bombed the WTC's north tower in 1993, who bombed the Khobar Towers in 1996, who bombed our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and who bombed the USS Cole in 2000. Consequently, Clinton's negligent inaction emboldened this enemy, and the result was a devastating attack on our homeland just months after the Bush administration took office in 2001."
The Federalist

An then there is Bush, making all the unpopular choices. Saving the free world, liberating peoples oppressed for centuries, doing more for the woman's rights than the feminazis ever dreamed and they can't say his name without spitting.

This is incredible.............incredibly sick

UPDATE Tuesday night;
Ok pulled into So Fla and shmuckola here (yeah me) discovered to my crimson char grin that I took the wrong power cord for my laptop. So I am running on borrowed juice and don't know how long this new HP laptop battery will fuel me.And I am on dial up - ugh. High Speed Lives! Without I could never blog. So if the posts are a tad light.......keep checking. Will be back in full metal jacket by Friday afternoon.

The Fifth Column Weighs In.........for America's defeat of course

Richard *spit* Cohen writes the most vile piece in today's Washington Post (but of course). Only Richard should be free. Only Richard can appreciate freedom. Only Richard can delight in living in a free society. How arrogant of us to think everyone should be entitled to freedom.

 The same holds for Iraq. There, suicide bombings are an almost daily occurrence -- more than 400 since the U.S. invasion in March 2003. The guerrillas, the insurgents, the terrorists -- who are those guys, anyway? -- attack U.S. forces an average of 65 times a day.[who are these guys Rich? THEY ARE THE ENEMY. RADICAL ISLAMIC JIHAD. Sent across the borders of Iran and sidekick Igor Syria to destroy western civilization. Did you see the poll taken the other day of the Iraqi people. THEY WANT US THERE.  The terrorists are foreign according to the Iraqis They need us there - you selfish arrogant prig - Atlas] The insurgency is unrelenting, and so is the mayhem. Sunnis and Shiites are at each other's throats, killing and retaliating and killing some more. No one, it seems, can figure out who is allied with whom. The thing's a morass, a mess, a mystery and, unforgivably, a surprise. This was not supposed to happen. American troops would be greeted as liberators. Remember? There would be no insurgency. Where would it come from? What would be its purpose? Who would possibly die for such a cause? [Die for freedom? if not that, then what? Of course it's gruesome, WAR IS UNRELENTING, WAR IS GRUESOME, 9/11 WAS GRUESOME, PIZZA BOMBINGS ARE GRUESOME, THE TUBE BOMBIING WAS GRUESOME, WAKE UP RICH BEHIND YOUR BIG SWING DICK DESK AND YOUR FINE JAVA AND HELP US WIN THE WAR! - Atlas]

The smug ignorance is appalling[no Rich your smug ingnorance is appalling- Atlas]. We understood so little about Iraq. We thought it was just another place where people wanted to be free and vote for the school board. Even today U.S. officials cling to their ethnocentric aspirations. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice likened the Alabama of her youth -- racist, sometimes violently so -- to Iraq and Afghanistan. "I look at [our history] and I say what seemed impossible on one day now seems inevitable," she recently told Time magazine. "Well, that's the way great historical changes are [made]. And it's why I have enormous conviction that these people are going to make it." [amen Condi amen.........Go with G-d baby - Atlas]

Hugh G writes Cohen;

You wish for our nation's defeat in the war in Iraq. 

You are a traitor, not just to the US, but to civilization.  Your hatred of the Bush administration has made you deranged. Even worse, your column shows that you are a rascist.  You believe that democracy is ok for the US and Western Europeans, but that Arabs are not capable of exercising it.

Of course, if you tout your lies long enough, maybe you will demoralize the  American public and bring about our defeat.  Then, militant Islam will rise up to be an even greater threat to the civilized world.  If we abandon Iraq to failure, we will eventually have militant Islamists in the US bringing their suicide bombs and their way of death.

Yup, Hugh I couldn't agree with you more. And frankly his analogy of Gaza and Iraq is desperate and disgusting. The fact is the enemy in Iraq is the same enemy in Israel - Radical Islamic Jihad (here for more of my thoughts on that).

The fact is, if the US loses this war, it was not islamic jihad that defeated us but the enemy within. We know those barbarians are no match to the great American experiment. NO MATCH. But if we continue to club the American psyche to death like so many baby seals, we cannot help but lose. As I said repeatedly, the Left loves ideas, hates people. Especially people that might live and die free. Throw money at African despots and dictators under the guise of "aid"? Of course! Free the people dying under their oppressive boot? Nevuh!~

Glorifying or sanctifying beheadings while running 48 New York Times front page stories on the bullshit of Abu Garib is a psyop on treason. Lamenting the treatment of terrorist detainees here is an act of sedition.

The American people must FIGHT THE ENEMY. TAKE BACK THE MEDIA. Please talk to your friends, neighbors, butcher, baker, candlestickmaker.

ONLY YOU CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. If you stand by you are just as guilty. (rant over)

BTW, flying out to close on a sale inSouth Florida.........postings may be lighter in quantity, but as always heavy, heavy, heavy, in quality.

"Muslim Sister Swim"

How is it legal to have a public pool exclusively used for one religion?

The left is working to remove "under G-d" from the Pledge of allegiance, nativity scenes from any and all government premises, ban the ten commandments  from courthouses etc. but securing the rights of muslims to the exclusion of all other American citizens, that is the left's objective.

There is a pattern here and it wreaks of sedition.

Check this out over at Sound Politics

By pretending that all cultures are equal, multiculturalism doesn’t ‘preserve’ traditional cultures so much as sustain them in an artificial state that ensures they’ll develop bizarre pathologies and mutate into some freakish hybrid of the worst of both worlds.

Last month there was an article in the Seattle Times on a program where city public swimming pools have regularly scheduled hours for the exclusive use of Muslims: "Preserving modesty, in the pool"

It's Saturday evening, the end of a hot day, and a group of women and children have gathered at North Seattle's Meadowbrook Pool for their monthly swim ... The women and children — all Muslims — have been swimming in private once a month at Meadowbrook as part of a program organized by the North Seattle Family Center.

The outfit that organizes and pays for the Muslim Sister Swim is the North Seattle Family Center, a unit of the Children's Home Society, a non-profit that gets most of its money from various government sources. As such, it should strictly comply with non-discrimination guidelines. Nevertheless, the Muslim Sister Swim is open exclusively to Muslims, no infidel women need apply.

Let see, that's the third state to succumb to dhimmitude. 47 and counting............

hat tip: Tim

 

The Letter to Mom

Read this letter that Mohammed at  Iraq the Model wrote to Cindy Sheehan (tool)
It is a MUST READ

We live in pain and grief everyday, every hour, every minute; all the horrors of the powers of darkness have been directed at us and I don't know exactly when am I going to feel safe again, maybe in a year, maybe two or even ten; I frankly don't know but I don't want to lose hope and faith.

We are in need for every hand that can offer some help. Please pray for us, I know that God listens to mothers' prayers and I call all the women on earth to pray with you for peace in this world.

Your son sacrificed his life for a very noble cause…No, he sacrificed himself for the most precious value in this existence; that is freedom.

His blood didn't go in vain; your son and our brethren are drawing a great example of selflessness.
God bless his free soul and God bless the souls of his comrades who are fighting evil.
God bless the souls of Iraqis who suffered and died for the sake of freedom.
God bless all the freedom lovers on earth.

hat tip: Pat Slat

UPDATE August 15, Reader Russ Vaughn wrote this and sent it on to me...........thanks Russ

A Useful Death

A mother's anguish turns to ire,
Her liquid tears to spears of fire,
A useful fool for the liberal Left,
All hatred now, no more bereft.
The honor which her son embraced,
Is now dishonored, now disgraced,
As his mother stands atop his grave,
From there to shriek, from there to rave.


Yes, some are maddened in their grief,
And grief can surely change belief;
But this woman's views, her family say,
Have long been held, long fore today,
Enabling Leftists to use her grieving,
For Moore deception, Moore deceiving.
I see this mother as a willing fool,
A useful Moorish Code Pinko tool.


As one who fought in another place,
I sorrow for this boy's disgrace,
By a zealot mother grafting grief
Stealing his brave deeds, an honor thief,
Usurping his valor to claim her share,
Five minutes of fame in Media's glare.
Her platform one you don't see often:
A dishonored, flag-draped, soldier's coffin.

I can hear Michael Moore muttering under his breath,

"Yeah, this was really a useful death."

Russ Vaughn

"We control the media instead of the media controlling us."

Who said that?  Why an islamic leader at CAIR of course................read this devastating Memri report from Steve Salinsky at the New York Sun;  PAY ATTENTION FOLKS..............it's time for WE THE LIVING to take back the media.

CAIR & Co.'s Fatwa
The MEMRI Report

CAIR leaders discussed the organization's manipulation of the press under the headline "A Muslim America - Only a Matter of Time." One leader stated openly, "We control the media instead of the media controlling us." CAIR's founder, Nihad Awadh, described techniques utilized by the group's spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, to infiltrate the press: "You will be surprised to hear that all his articles do not go through censorship and correction in the big papers," Mr. Awadh said.

A CAIR leader added, "CAIR [exerts] today an organized and educated effort, using American media techniques and exploiting American legal loopholes ... For example: One of the editors of the American monthlies attacked the Muslims ... Answering these allegations, CAIR convened a press conference and recruited all Muslims to call the monthly in every communication method, and we paralyzed the paper's interests, and the man [the editor] was forced to apologize ... We exploit this position whenever someone else rises up to attack Muslims, and present to him what happened to those before him, and then he retracts ... This method has gained us great achievements and stops serious attempts to attack Islam."

 A New York Times story about the Fatwa quoted CAIR, as well as Jamal Badawi, who was identified as chairman of the Islamic Foundation in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Mr. Badawi went on to make an outrageous claim - that America could be behind these attacks: "This has to be investigated as to who is actually behind this ... There have been allegations that I cannot confirm that people going to the market to buy vegetables are stopped in the name of inspecting their cars by [American] forces, their hands are tied and they are blindfolded. There have been cases and I want a clarification from American officials to these allegations. After inspecting their cars they are allowed to go and when the car reaches [the] checkpoint it explodes and they call them suicide bombers, perhaps the occupants of the car were not even aware that they are carrying a bomb in their car. Such incidents should be thoroughly probed."

Read it all and demand that your media be straight. BOYCOTT LAZY LEFTWING TERRORIST-ENABLING  MEDIA

oh and BTW...........whoever is espamming my jihad trackback pings with pornographic content, I don't care. JUST FOR KNOWING, it won't stop me -Atlas

DEATH TO AMERICA!
Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West
View Obsession trailer
(broadband only - Windows Media Player), give generously to Honest Reporting...........

UPDATE: Go over to Bizzy Blog (my favorite pyjama clad economist) for this searing and brilliant fisking (my favorite blood sport) of a pillar of the Fifth Column, The Washington Post.

Tom writes me;
If you take as a "fifth column" in the modern sense, people who want to see the current government fail and do everything in their power to do it, this would seem to qualify, though not as flat-out treason.

The WaPo takes a simple report on the economy earlier in the day and turns it into an anti-Iraq and supposed negative polling rant in the  next day's print edition: READ IT here

It's actually very brazen when you compare the two articles

It also points to a critical  skill that Americans now must master, deciphering fact from writer left wing bias. Learn it, practice it, teach it to your children..........if you procrastinate it will be the death of us all- Atlas.

A Letter to the New York slime Times

Jason at Iraqnow,  CounterColumn blog writes a letter to the New York Times that I wish I wrote..........Right between the eyes. Right on the nose........................Hits the nail right on their head (ok I'll stop now)

PRECISE and TRUE

The reason we see so few positive stories in your paper is, quite frankly, because you have failed. You have failed your readership, and you have failed your community. You have failed because you are so immersed in the dysfunction of reflexive urban liberalism that, like the drunken, lampshade-wearing man who embarrasses himself and everyone around him at the company Christmas party, your shortcomings have become patently obvious to everyone around you except yourself and your enablers.

Military men have already all but washed their hands of your crap coverage in exasperation. We already know you are too wrapped up in your own neurosis to cover our fighting men and women with any degree of accuracy.

Yes, some people like Blackfive, Greyhawk, Cori Dauber, and myself, have already tried, on numerous occasions, to stage an intervention. But your illness has already caused a lot of people to give up on you.

But it's worse than that.

Read it all................and I mean the whole thing
hat tip: ChasRMartin

Shhhhhhhhhhhh.............The Media Doesn't Want you to Know

SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE!  The Economy is on a tear. Say what? You haven't heard? SHOCKA!
Unprecedented, unheralded, hush hush economic news. Bizzy Blog and the WSJ expose the gorgeous truth.

First - today's Wall Street Journal reports;

We would like to take a moment to pause and marvel at the U.S. economy. Friday's Labor Department report of more than 200,000 new jobs in July, and two million over the past year, provides the latest bullish details. But the larger story of American job creation, and its causes, is even more impressive.

First, more Americans have jobs today than at any other time in history. Second, over the past two decades or so, the U.S. has created more than 40 million jobs -- twice as many as Europe and Japan combined. And third, the U.S. has one of the lowest jobless rates of all developed nations.

It was only a year ago that John Kerry was blasting the "jobless recovery." Lou Dobbs was flogging "outsourcing" every night on CNN as a sign of peril for the American workforce. That criticism now looks wildly off base

And  Tom over at Bizzy Blog has the most Brilliant economic piece on the US economy;

The Economy Must Be Good Since You’re Not Hearing About

1. Did you know manufacturing (manu-what?) has been on a sustained tear?

Manufacturing growth accelerated in July, continuing steady and historic consistency
manufacturing has grown for 26 straight months, the longest expansion in the sector in more than 16 years, since nearly three years of uninterrupted growth ended in April 1989

2.  The NASDAQ is just about at a 4-year high. And imagine this–Not that the dollar amounts are enough to guarantee lifetime stays at the beach, but balances in 401(k) plans are at a 5-year high (link requires registration)

3. Has anyone told you that this recovery is better from an employment standpoint than the previous one?

Unless you’re a reader of Don Luskin at poorandstupid.com (which is neither) or Jim Glass at scrivener.net, there’s a good chance you don’t know that. Comparing this recovery to the previous one on five objective criteria, the score is 3.5 to 1.5 in favor of THIS recovery

4. Geez, I almost didn’t m>ntion the 3.4% GDP growth in the second quarter.

Go over to Tom's Bizzy Blog and read it all.......can you imagine if these were the numbers of a Democrat Administration, they'd be chiseling Mount Rushmore as we speak.

Praying for Secession

This is why  I dismiss the left, their moral equivocating has no equal.........I don't care how pretty San Francisco is, it's time they and their ilk seceded from the union, as they are the fifth column (or reopen and expand Alcatraz to the whole city and lock that nuthouse up)

Really they are the enemy...........

Editor's Note: The meaning of the word "democracy" has shifted and changed over time and geography. Now, writes PNS editor Franz Schurmann, a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" is being exported abroad. Schurmann is emeritus professor of history and sociology at U.C. Berkeley and the author of numerous books.


Pacific News Service SAN FRANCISCO--Winston Churchill referred to Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Maybe the same applies to the USA and the notion of "democracy" that is so much in the air these days.

America's liberation of oppressed people's is analogous to Russia's "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"?

More transparent a nation has never been or will ever be again.

Churchill is spinning wildly  in his grave.

 

Even when they are Right they are Wrong

They being the LLL mainstream media.

By that I mean yesterday's media coverage of the killing spree by a Jewish Settler.
It was horrific, wrong, terrible.

Period.

But what strikes me is the scant attention the media has made of the shooter's immediate lynching, murder by the mob. Natan-Zada was stoned and beaten to death. The mob also attacked two Arab men, apparently believing they were trying to protect the shooter.

No matter what...........that is wild. That is world news and if it happened to a Pali in Israel, we'd be wringing our hands until the next holocaust. The only paper giving it serious play is The New York Post (of course) - but that's expected. I am talking world media and America's media elites.

Take the news story and exchange settler for Pali and Pali for settler. The difference? The difference is murdering a bunch of  Jews on a bus would get no world press, but the lynching would be .............well Jenin (and there was no story in Jenin, just Pali lies)

Think about it.

Just sayin........

P.S. Charles over at Little Green Football,(my blogdaddy) coined the term car swarm, is this its natural progression - bus swarm - Atlas?

American Families Fed up with Mainstream Media

GOOGLE news headline:

Ohio Families Fed Up With Loss of Marines

David writes me:

This headline went nationwide at 8:03am from AP, at 9:13am headline changed to “Ohio Families Mourn Loss of Marines”. This is the type of shit that caused us to withdraw from Viet Nam. As a grandfather and a Viet Vet I’m FED UP with the DNC media whores! The families have enough grief to deal with without being used in such an offensive manner

David,  I couldnt agree with you more. This is a  sickness, a self loathing  Hate America  psyop on the American psyche by media elites. This is their agenda. They will destroy this great country.. The Left Loves ideas, Hates people.

Dr. Sanity  wrote an interesting piece on just how manipulative it is.

Google has developed  quite the terrorist enabling reputation.

The Real AHA! Moment in the Rove Witchhunt

From Cliffford May NRO

But Huffington's basic point is perceptive (another sentence I never thought I'd write): Miller may not want to reveal her "source" at the White House "because she was the source....In this scenario Miller wasn't an innocent writer caught up in the whirl of history. She had a starring role in it."

with these deranged, pathetic, and desperate LLL moonbats, it would not surprise me

Kill Jews, Get Free Pass

UNDER THE MEDIA RADAR

Recent media coverage of the Mideast conflict has focused almost entirely on internal Israeli tension as Israel's 'disengagement' from Gaza approaches. It's broadly recognized, though, that Israel's sacrifice of its Gaza communities will only foster peace if accompanied by deep cultural reform on the other side ― including Palestinian education for coexistence, and a free, moderate Palestinian press.

Yet important developments in those areas routinely slip under the western media radar:

The official Palestinian Authority newspaper continues to glorify terrorists, flouting the PA's obligation under the road map for 'all official Palestinian institutions [to] end incitement against Israel.' These two men recently murdered an Israeli couple visiting Gaza, yet the official PA paper described them as Shahids ― 'holy martyrs':

All Palestinian journalists, moreover, have been banned from covering internal Palestinian conflict or the PA security forces (violators face 'personal and legal consequences of their deeds'), and urged to celebrate Israel's Gaza 'retreat'. This clearly fails the all-important 'town square test' recently endorsed by Condoleeza Rice, citing Natan Sharansky:

 

if a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society. And we cannot rest until every person living in a fear society has finally won their freedom.

Meanwhile, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter visited a Hamas summer camp, where he found this disturbing scene:

 

"In this camp we learn the important things of life ― good behavior, respect," said Osama, who was spending the summer at a Hamas-run camp on the beach outside Gaza City. They also learn how to sing "intifada songs," including one urging them to "kill Zionists wherever they are, in the name of God."

Here's a sample camp activity:

At one beach camp, attended by approximately 100 kids, an instructor wore a heavy flannel shirt under which a webbed belt could be seen strapped to his stomach. Asked by a reporter what it was, he answered, with a broad smile, "Boom!"

While the Chronicle should be commended for this coverage (on the heels of its recent, HR-documented slipup), this story demands far greater awareness.

For more on the problem of Palestinian incitement, visit HR affiliate Teach Kids Peace, and sign the TKP petition calling on world leaders to demand reform in Palestinian education, and media outlets to greater publicize the issue.

Why so little western coverage of these disturbing events? Martin Peretz, Editor-in-Chief of The New Republic, explains:

The PA has so many times obliged itself to Bill Clinton, George Bush, and the Israelis to stop official incitement against Jews and Israel. But the most grotesque and genocide-provoking hatred for the Jewish people and their state continues to flood the official marketplace of what you might not want to call ideas. I've known this for years, and American journalists have known it for years, but it has gone largely unreported. It's not their kind of story because it ruins the story of Palestinian moderation, to which so many reporters, columnists, and editorialists are wed.

As Israel prepares for its painful withdrawal from Gaza, HonestReporting calls on western news outlets to recognize the ongoing media restrictions, incitement and education to hate in Palestinian culture ― which threaten Israel's voluntary effort to generate peace with its Palestinian neighbors.

Thank you for your ongoing involvement in the battle against media bias.

HonestReporting

Read this Excellent post from Dr Sanity on media manipulation of the American mind

Google Terrorist Arm

This you must read FRONT PAGE MAG.
I and the best of the blogosphere voices (particularly Charles at LGF) have been screaming about Google's antisemitic, terrorist enabling practices for months. The won't give Charles news agency status but these murderers? Think about it. Charles is the single most influential news source on the War on Radical Islam.

The Internet giant Google will give news agency status to the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), according to an anonymous source at Google.

 If true, the ISM—an affiliate of the anarchist/communist wing of the PLO—would be on par with professional news services such as CNN, Fox, and Associated Press. In addition, the Palestinian Authority has announced through its WAFA news agency that the ISM will be given an official license as a separate news agency, according it the same media status as the news giants.

Biden is A Mistake In Every Respect

VOTE HIM OUT OF OFFICE...................and every other left wing asshat that threatens our national security

"Sending John Bolton to the U.N. behind the Senate's back is a mistake in every respect.," Mr. Biden said.

Bolton Heads to Turtle Bay as War Envoy

Now more than ever Bolton is the most APPROPRIATE candidate for the post. Having just returned from Europe I can say first hand that the overwhelming presence of arab muslims is frightening............Europe is doomed.

The greatest experiment in human history - America - must be saved. Deliberately saved, as it will not and cannot happen by accident. It must be the American people. The left wing media will sell us out like a two dollar whore.

I only pray Bolton doesn't wuss out and pander to the left......

Because now more than ever this is War....yeah, World War IV

''Today Gaza, Tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem''
The Palestinian Authority has commissioned tens of thousands of flags as well as mugs, bumper stickers, and posters with the slogan ''Today Gaza, tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem'' - props meant to portray the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as an achievement of the Abbas government. The PA is spending $1.7 million on withdrawal celebrations. Hamas is striking back, preparing for military-style victory parades and sewing thousands of martial uniforms and flags in the group's trademark Islamic green. (AP/New York Times)

 

Air America's Dirty Dough

Great blog post from Brian Maloney at  The Radio Equalizer........read it all

Media Cover-Up, Bronx Community Programs Nearly Shut
What happens when the mainstream media, after years of seething over conservative talk radio's success, discover its alternative got diverted public funds, earmarked instead for inner-city youth and seniors?

The answer, with one key exception: they pretend it didn't happen.

Yes, only because of a New York Daily News tidbit do we know that Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club nearly shut down major programs recently, because almost $500,000 in governmental grant money was instead diverted to Air America's liberal radio network.

It's taken a mad scramble by area politicians, including Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Bronx) to find a way to keep several programs for disadvantaged children and seniors from disappearing.
What's the connection between Air America and Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club?
How has this stayed out of the papers for the last month, even when community activists have been aware of the Air America connection since early July?

And how has the liberal talk network managed to avoid even the slightest bit of public scrutiny over the matter

hat tip, TimMcD

They are F*cking Kidding right?

Israel Is Still Blocking the Road to Peace from the Jewhaters at the International Herald Tribune (owned by SHOCKA! The New York Times)

"..........the failure of Israel to coordinate its imminent withdrawal from Gaza with Palestinian leadership. With less than four weeks to go, not one of the issues that will determine whether the pullout will be a success or a disaster has been resolved.

But as important as it is for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to coordinate the disengagement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and for Abbas to finally confront Palestinian rejectionist groups, there is an even more important problem. That problem is Sharon's determination to use the withdrawal not as a precedent for a comprehensive land-for-peace accord but to make such an accord impossible.

That, my dear friends and readers, is blatant antisemitism. Israel is tearing herself apart for this stinkin disengagement with no guarantees. The terror has not stopped. The security fence has impeded the animals ability to kill innocent jews, but other than that the attacks continue unabated - Atlas

A "SETTLER" from Jerusalem? Is all of Israel "Occupied?"

Jerusalem resident Brian Blum had an up-close-and-personal experience with media bias this weekend. HonestReporting asked Brian to share his story in this exclusive:

THE 'SETTLER' FROM WESTERN JERUSALEM
Brian Blum

For the past three years, I have been writing a decidedly non-political weblog called 'This Normal Life'. My goal has been to present slices of what passes for 'normal life' in today's troubled Israel.

I have very deliberately avoided presenting any particular political or religious point of view, and have turned down a number of offers for interviews with the international media, always afraid that my neutrality as an author would be compromised.

So it was with no small amount of trepidation that I agreed to be profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle. The reporter actually found me through my blog, and said he was writing a series of articles about the real people behind the headlines living their normal lives in the Middle East. As a former San Franciscan, I would be perfect, he assured me.

With a pickup line like that, how could I say no?

Imagine then my shock when I read the headline of the article about me that appeared in Sunday's SF Chronicle (July 24): 'Settler Hopes for Peace to Take Root.'

 

The last time I checked, we residents of western Jerusalem were not considered 'settlers'. I wondered: Had the western media, which already dehumanized Israeli residents of the West Bank and Gaza as problematic 'settlers' and interlopers, come to consider all of Israel a controversial 'settlement'?!

As a writer and a reporter, I know what happens in the editing process, and I know that the reporter who interviewed me, Matt Stannard, was not responsible for the headline. Indeed, Stannard sent me an apologetic e-mail shortly after the article came out, expressing how he feels 'terrible' and 'sabotaged' by whoever made what he said was a last minute overnight change.

Still, it highlights a general problem with 'balance' when it comes to media reporting in this part of the world.

  TWISTED SENSE OF 'BALANCE'

When I first started writing 'This Normal Life', I approached the Chronicle, my hometown paper, and suggested that they print my blog as a weekly column. The editor I spoke with said the only way they could do that is if they gave equal time and space to a contrasting Palestinian viewpoint.

I argued, to no avail, that my writing was not political; it was just charming little stories about daily life from an expatriate San Franciscan.

So now, when I see a headline describing me as a settler, I have to wonder ― was that the result of a complete lack of awareness by the headline writer as to what the term 'settler' connotes? A deliberate attempt to spice up the story ― to say 'look, here's a real settler who supports peace, isn't that special?'

Or was it something even worse ― a not-so-hidden political agenda to radicalize a simple Israeli?

Whatever the intention, the words are loaded and the result tarnishes Stannard's mostly-accurate portrayal of my life. But then, I had no illusions that the article would avoid a political point of view in the end. Stannard told me up front that he was planning on 'twinning' me with a similarly 'normal' Palestinian from Ramallah, and indeed, the cover of the Sunday Chronicle has both of us in full color.

A BELATED CORRECTION

After the article appeared, Stannard intervened and ensured that the headline of the article was changed ― several times in fact. Within hours of its original appearance on the web, 'Settler' changed to 'Resident' before settling (no pun intended) on 'Man from Berkeley hopes for peace'.

But the newspaper that hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay Area readers opened with their morning coffee this Sunday had already gone to print ― with me cast as 'settler'.

Looks like I'll be avoiding the press for a little while longer.

Brian Blum is a journalist and entrepreneur. His latest startup Bloggerce offers publishing services to budding bloggers. He lives in the Baka neighborhood of Jerusalem with his wife and three children.

Hat tip: Honest Reporting

The Old Gray Slime She Ain't What She used to be. The Bell Tolls for The New York Times

No surprise here.............nothing to see........keep it moving
Those left wing chickens are coming home to roost

BizzyBlog has a brilliant synopsis of the the death throes of The New York Slimes Times and the non-story I too refuse to report on "Nadagate"........Read it all, yup it's that good;

How is it doing in that area? Two words–not well:  The stock has taken a 40% dive, from its June 20, 2002 high of $52.79 to a Friday close at $31.20. The Times’ daily and Sunday circulations both declined more than 3% between March 2002 and March 2005. Its other major newpaper property, The Boston Globe, has experienced similar hits to its credibility in the past five years and has seen its circulation decline even more steeply.

Do they care? Apparently not. While there will always be tension between newsroom and business priorities (all kinds of stories have the potential of ticking off advertisers), The Times attitude appears to be “the investors be damned” (HT #2 to Poor and Stupid): Hat tip: Liberal Hawks

BUY THE SUN! Call 1-866-692-7861
and let me state for the record, I have NO AFFILIATION with Sun, do not own stock in the Sun, have no conflict of interest. Just love, adore, respect that newspaper, and this is coming from a newspaperwoman (ex-Publisher of The  New York Observer).

Posted by Pamela aka "Atlas" at 11:53 AM

Fax the Bastards to Death

Rocco DiPippo at  Moonbat Central: GO ROCCO!

By now readers of this blog are familiar with the controversy that surrounds the design of the future Twin Towers Memorial. In a nutshell, while we’ve been sleeping, Soros and crew have been toiling away at turning the memorial into a venue for promoting their grim view of America.

Please guys don't get me started on this, the perversion of right and wrong, good and evil is growing exponentially............

Fax your letter to the LMDC at (212) 962-2431133. Before composing it, read this piece. It will help put you in the proper frame of mind.

BUSH TO IRANIAN DISSIDENTS: "AMERICA STANDS WITH YOU"

Bush to Ganji: 'America Stands With You'

Whle FOX can't shut up about the launch that didn't launch,
GI-NORMOUS WORLD NEWS  goes virtually ignored.

But not by America's Brightest, Smartest, and Oft Ignored Newspaper, The New York Sun.

One of my favorite writers Eli Lake writes of the the bloody cry for freedom in Iran

WASHINGTON - As Tehran University students clashed with police in Iran yesterday during demonstrations demanding the release of political prisoners, President Bush, from Washington, joined the growing movement calling for the release of dissident journalist Akbar Ganji.

"The President calls on all supporters of human rights and freedom, and the United Nations, to take up Ganji's case and the overall human rights situation in Iran," a statement released by the White House yesterday read. Calls for comment to U.N. spokesmen were unreturned at press time last night. [surprise, surprise surprise.............those dogs -  Atlas]

This is HUGE! We must back up those dying for freedom. This is very much part of the WAR ON RADICAL ISLAM (I hereby refuse to call it the War on Terror).

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS STORY NOW! NOT ROVE, NOT CHALLENGER ABORTING, NOT CHUCK SCHUMER'S INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS JUDICIAL POSITION (KRYTOCRACY) .

This should be the national dialogue, this should be wall to wall coverage on the MSM, the alphabets and all the LLL media.

WRITE YOU SENATORS, CONGRESSMAN, REPRESENTATIVES NOW.

And yeah, I love George W for his testicular fortitude (Taranto?)

Great Editorial on this uprising at the New York Sun, Standing With Ganji.

See also Rumsfeld: Iran Could Be Behind Israel Bomb Blast
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday: "With respect to attacks in Israel, we know that Iran has been on the terrorist list. We know that Iran has been assisting Hizballah and other organizations and moving equipment and people down through Damascus into Beirut and down into positions where they can attack Israel for years and years....Clearly that's been one of the stated and continuous purposes of Iran, is to harm Israel." (Defense Department)

The Kurds! Free the Kurds.........News you'll Never Get from the MSM

Construction progress in the Kurdish region of Iraq

Blog post from Iraq the Model about construction progress in the Kurdish region of Iraq.  Seems that Sulaymania is doing real well.  Funny how we never hear these things in the MSM.

hat tip Tim McD

 What is it with America? Why is there no discourse or dialogue in the American public conversation about the Kurds. What better friend has the US had on the ground both in the invasion and ongoing war in Iraq?  Special forces love these guys.Why are we always kissing the asses of our enemies?

I mean really. 

The FOX that bit the MSM died

Fox stays on message..................while the world goes to hell in a handbasket

FOX DECLAWED IS UNWATCHABLE..........................
hat tip Tim McD

MSM's Naked Agenda...Check out My Post at Jackson's Junction

Check out these two covers from the nations two largest weeklies:

No No you are not seeing double. These are the nation's two biggest weeklies and who are they glorifying. China, yup China.
The worst abuser of human rights, the propmaster and financier of the most heinous muslim government Sudan, yes Evil China Secretly FUNDS Massive Slaughter and Slavery in Sudan
China lover to Iran, North Korea, Pakistan.........oh where to begin?

Go over to Jackson's Junction and get my whole nasty post on this ugly story

The Back Story should be the FRONT story: Palestinians Attempt to Exploit Those in Need of Medical Treatment

Aryeh sends me this link (excellent blog  btw, on why Abu Mazzan should be arrested).
and then Aryeh assumes correctly:

I assume that you've  heard, but in case you haven't, a 21 year old young Palestinian woman who was being admitted to Israel so that Israeli doctors could treat her for serious burns all over her body (as a result of a home accident), decided to repay their generosity by bringing the Israeli army 20 pounds of ammunition. She strapped this gift to her body and intended to blow herself up with as many civilians as she could.

Now she's under arrest which is a shame for her becuase if she had succeeded in blowing herself up there'd no doubt be a street sign bearing her name andmaybe even a soccer team named after her.  By now Amnesty International would be condemning the barbaric Israelis who could allow a young woman to be driven tothis ghoulish behavior.  After all, it is our fault,right

Female Palestinian Suicide Bomber Planned to Blow Up Israeli Hospital

Wafa al-Bas, 21, arrested on Monday at a Gaza checkpoint, planned to blow herself up in an Israeli hospital. Israeli officials said Bas was burned in a cooking accident five months ago and had received treatment on humanitarian grounds at Beersheba hospital. She was making another trip for follow-up treatment but planned to blow herself up instead. In an interview shown on Israeli television, Bas said her "dream was to be a martyr." She said she was recruited by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - an off-shoot of Palestinian leader Abbas' Fatah faction. Later, she pleaded for mercy because she "didn't kill anyone."  (BBC)
    The Shin Bet received a tip that Fatah was planning to send Bas on a suicide mission via one of the Gaza Strip crossings. Israel gave the PA and Chairman Mahmoud Abbas detailed information of the plan, but the PA did nothing. (Ha'aretz)
    Security forces were alerted when the biometric screener at the terminal crossing revealed that Bas was wearing 10 kilograms of explosives. She then attempted several times to detonate the explosives but failed. She said she had intended to blow up in a "crowded area in the hospital." A senior Israeli security official pointed out that human rights groups have criticized Israel in the past for carrying out inspections on Palestinians requiring medical treatment in Israel. (Jerusalem Post)
    See also Palestinians Attempt to Exploit Those in Need of Medical Treatment (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

This is the real news. The ignored, swept under the bloody rug news. The Amnesty International, UN, Eyrabia, calling Israelis Nazis, news. The real story for you isPalestinians Attempt to Exploit Those in Need of Medical Treatment.

Please for a moment..............sit back, close your eyes inhale through your nostrils and think about this  irrefutable truth. And then think about what you read in the papers and see on the alphabets (abc,cBS, commienewsnetwork etc.)

THIS IS THE FIGHT BOILED DOWN TO IT'S ESSENTIAL OILS.......................>

If AP says it, it must be so! NOT!

Here is a perfect example of the media saying something they want so desperately to be true, they report it as if it was true:

Bush likely to weigh UN appointment for Bolton after Senate setbacks

AFP via Yahoo! News Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:03 AM PDT
US President George W. Bush must decide whether to sidestep Congress after Democrats again blocked a confirmation vote for his controversial UN ambassador John Bolton.

I betcha dollars to donuts there is not an ounce of truth to that. I say Bush means to get this man confirmed and just because those metrosexual, lefty, gutless, spineless, seditious, enemies of the American people don't like him, they actually fear him, they will enforce the tyranny of the minority.
Who says Bush must decide whether to sidestep or not? AP?

Bolderdash! Once again the Blogosphere is here to save the free world

 

UPDATE: June 22nd

I hate to say I told you so (actually I love it)

FOX news reports

Frist's about-face came after a White House luncheon in which President Bush persuaded Senate Republicans to schedule another vote and break a deadlock set by Democrats.

"That's been exhausted," Frist said earlier Tuesday regarding his attempts to break a stalemate that has held up the nominee for months. But after meeting with Bush, Frist came out to the cameras stationed at the White House and said he would schedule a third vote to end debate and vote for confirmation.

"The president made it very clear that he expects an up or down vote," he said, adding that Democratic resistance has nothing to do with Bolton, but everything to do with resentment toward the president.

Hard Work Hard Work Hard Word Hard Work Hard Work...........Work Hard

McCain joins the choir of voices on Meet the Press about Bush:

What the American people should have been told, and should be told, and I believe the president is going to tell them, I think he's focusing back on Iraq, I think it's long, it's hard, it's tough. It's very tough.

Am I crazy but I can distinctly recall Bush being excoriated by the LLL and world press after the first debate for saying the words hard work in regards to Iraq TOO MANY TIMES!


Remember how everyone was making fun of the "big vocabulary challenged" President because he said hard work TOO MANY TIMES? VIDEO

Keep telling me how they are not out to destroy this man. Much the way they wanted to destroy Reagan (they were more subtle about it then............but there were no blogs then)

Bwhahahahahahahahahah

YOU'RE ALL INVITED TO GREG'S "TEA LOUNGE"

Wolfman sends me this link............ugh

Air America Radio | Morning Sedition |

And Nat comments

This is the typical statement of left-wing Democratic crap that has driven me, and many old-line liberals, into supporting Pres. Bush. I hated Saddam Hussein, he instigated or collaborated in wars on Iran, Kuwait and Israel, and behaved like Hitler within Iraq itself. I am delighted that he is gone, his sons are dead, and his regime willnot return. If the US or the UK had handled Mussolini like this in 1937, after his takeovers of Libya and Ethiopia, and his support of Franco in Spain, the world might have been spared a lot of agony. But the UN of it's day, the League of Nations, did nothing and the appeasers won. The only difference is that then the appeasers then were right-wing types, while now it's the left--- represented in the US by the Democratic Party !!!!

My favorite Republican are the old line liberals....they get it better than anyone.

Staying the Course......Everyone Get out of the Way

it is reassuring to see that the LLL press is NOT DICTATING FOREIGN POLICY, let those buffonns know we ' elect them or even better STFU
Bush: Pulling out of Iraq not an option
The Olympian Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:21 AM PDT
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush said Saturday that pulling out of Iraq now is not an option, rejecting calls by some lawmakers and polls indicating many Americans are growing weary of the war.

"The terrorists and insurgents are trying to get us to retreat. Their goal is to get us to leave before Iraqis have had a chance to show the region what a government that is elected and truly accountable to its citizens can do for its people," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

"We will settle for nothing less than victory" over insurgents there, he said later.

 

and continuing in that vein:

NEW PRISON BEING BUILT IN GITMO

WASHINGTON — A subsidiary of Houston-based Halliburton (search) has been awarded a $30 million contract to build an improved 220-bed prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay (search), Cuba, the Pentagon announced. Kellogg Brown and Root Services Inc. (seaCompose Postrch) of Arlington, Va., is to build a two-story prison that includes day rooms, exercise areas, medical bays, air conditioning and a security control room, according to the Pentagon. It is to be completed by July 2006.

WTF is with the day rooms, exercise areas, medical bay, and ac. SOUNDS LIKE A GODDAMN SPA........ My next vaca? Gitmo! Who wants to come.

It was only a matter of time...blame the Jooos

It had to happen right?
from my peops over at Honest reporting:

In the wake of Newsweek's now-retracted Guantanamo Bay Koran toilet abuse story, Palestinian prisoners have floated their own version to the western press.

On June 7, The Scotsman headlined: 'Israeli Soldiers 'Desecrated Koran During Riot''. Reports on this unfounded claim from Israel's Megiddo prison (including these Associated Press and Reuters versions) included a refutation from the Israeli Prisons Authority, but the media-fueled rumors were enough to spark violent protests and public burnings of American and Israeli flags in faraway Muslim communities.

And now, this:

This rehashing of an ancient anti-Semitic blood libel appeared prominently on GoogleNews.

Throughout the Arafat years, Palestinian spokespersons fed similar items to the western press, such as claims Israel deployed radioactive uranium against Palestinian protestors, and Suha Arafat's accusation in the presence of Hillary Clinton (pictured) that the IDF made 'extensive use of poisonous gas... which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children.'

A senior Israeli official said the cancer juice case reminds him of 'the same types of lies Yasser Arafat used to spread.' As documented in a JCPA report, those included accusations that Israel disseminated bubble gum that sterilized Palestinian girls and sent AIDS-infected prostitutes to infect Palestinian men.

We understand that Google uses an automated algorithm to filter news search results, but as HR has repeatedly indicated, this system is deeply flawed and lends itself to promulgating such absurd propaganda.

Comments to GoogleNews: news-feedback@google.com

this is only the beginning, believe me. Once they saw how successful the left wing media in America and worldwide aided and abetted the enemy, nothing will stop this.

Crossposted at blog brother Lance over at RedStateRant.... a Cotillion afficionado

Only a lefty paper like the Washington Post would call it "Risky"

Bush Meets Dissidents in Campaign for Rights
President Bush lately has begun meeting personally with prominent dissidents to highlight human rights abuses in select countries, a powerfully symbolic yet potentially risky approach modeled on Ronald Reagan's sessions with Soviet dissidents during the Cold War.

"Risky"???...isn't despotism, totalitarianism, concentration camps, oppressed peoples "riskier"

The Washington Post is hopeless.........more gems same article;

At the end of a private Oval Office meeting this week, President Bush asked a North Korean defector to autograph his book recounting a decade in a North Korean prison camp.

"If Kim Jong Il knew I met you," Bush then asked, referring to the North Korean leader, "don't you think he'd hate this?"

"The people in the concentration camps will applaud," the defector, Kang Chol Hwan, responded, according to two people in the room.

 

Bush lately has begun meeting personally with prominent dissidents to highlight human rights abuses in select countries, a powerfully symbolic yet potentially risky approach modeled on Ronald Reagan's sessions with Soviet dissidents during the Cold War. Besides Kang, Bush played host to a top government foe from Venezuela at the White House and met Russian human rights activists during a trip to Moscow last month. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met opposition leaders from the former Soviet republic of Belarus. [sounds great to me, what "risk"?  pissing off kim so ill, mullah mullah, who? Who should  we  be "afraid" of. Yes, Washington Post, let's empower them by icing out the fighters of freedom --ooooh boy! Atlas]

The sessions -- which come at a time when the Bush administration has itself come under international criticism for abuses at the prison facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and elsewhere -- represent a personal follow-through on Bush's inaugural address in January, when he vowed to activists around the world that "we will stand with you" in battles against repression. [international criticism at this point means "you are doing the right thing" Gitmo my ass, Abu Gharib blow it out yo arse - Atlas]

 

"He likes to talk to people who have experienced these things firsthand," said Michael J. Gerson, Bush's strategic policy adviser, who sat in on the Kang meeting Monday. "But there clearly is a signal here and a symbol that human rights is central to our approach, that there is a kind of moral concern." [and what in G-d's name is wrong with this? - Atlas]

As Bush himself acknowledged to Kang, such meetings, although heartening to activists, will surely aggravate the leaders of repressive countries. [GOOD!-Atlas] In the North Korean case, it could complicate or even derail the latest attempts to coax Kim back to multinational negotiations over his nuclear weapons program. [ this is the same guy that Condi outspokenly questioned his sanity right?-Atlas]So far, Bush has focused his attentions largely on activists from countries with which he is already openly hostile, while those from allies such as Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have not won Oval Office invitations.

Korea: A depraved  society was cannot ignore

Denzel Washington:Unsung Hero

Don't know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troups at Brook Army Medical Center, in San Antonio,Texas
(BAMC)  the other day. This is where soldiers that have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the States, especially burn victims.They have buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a hotelwhere soldiers' families can stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base but as you can imagine, they are almost completely filled most of the time.

While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to  build. He took his check book out and wrote a check for the full amount right there on the spot.  The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it.

The question I have is why does Alec Baldwin, Madonna, Sean Penn and other Hollywood types make front page news with their anti-everything America bile and this doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper, except the base newspaper in San Antonio
Hat tip Wolfman Ed

OT and speaking of unsung heros

GULAG vs. GITMO

         
Gitmo:
isolation for as long as 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair, playing on individual phobias² (such as dogs) and ³mild, non-injurious physical contact such as grabbing,poking in the chest with the finger and light pushing, Christina Aguilera. Deaths: None
Quote: "For Sunday they're going to be having Orange Glazed Chicken, Fresh Fruit Roupee, Steamed Peas and Mushrooms, Rice Pilaf - we treat them very well." (hat tip Michael, http://thecommonvirtue.com)
More from Michael: "Here's another good quote: "'On the other hand, feeding the detainees MRE's, the standard fare given to our troops on the front lines, is strictly verboten - considered an 'abuse' under restrictions imposed by Congress, Hunter said. The top House Republican also noted that the religious practices of the terrorist suspects held at the U.S. 'gulag' are scrupulously accommodated, explaining: 'We give them honey and dates when they break fast at Ramadan. We give them prayer beads and prayer oil - all paid for [by the U.S. taxpayer.] 'In fact,' he said, 'if you did that for American GI's - if you had a call to prayer five times a day - the ACLU would sue on the basis that we violated the separation between church and state.(free republic) 

Gulag:
Conditions in the camps were extremely harsh. Prisoners received inadequate food rations and insufficient clothing, which made it difficult to endure the severe weather and the long working hours; sometimes the inmates were physically abused by camp guards. As a result, the death rate from exhaustion and disease in the camps was high.
the true meaning of a "shortage of drying facilities" noted in a report - i.e., that the following morning people would go to work wearing clothes that had not dried during the night and freeze to death in them.
New archival research (conducted by researchers  Appelbaum author of Gulag ) to authenticate stories previously regarded as folklore - for example, the case of the 6,114 peasants who were brought to an uninhabited island on the Ob River and left there without food or supplies. Some 4,000 of them died within four months; the survivors were sent to prison on charges of cannibalism.
The number of prisoners grew steadily, reaching millions by the late 1930s. They were put to work creating infrastructure in areas where survival was difficult, building roads, factories and entire cities, cutting timber in the forests of the north, working in mines, in agriculture and in industry. Marxist political economy recognizes that slave labor is ineffective due to the lack of incentive - but Stalin's henchmen created an incentive: they tied the size of the prisoners' food rations to their labor output. Those who met the "quotas" got more to eat, those who did not, got less.
"Enemies of the people" and suspects arrested in great numbers were placed in temporary facilities. This solution ("humane" in comparison to swift executions, also fashionable at the time) was relatively cheap, a fact that caused it, paradoxically, to spread and endure, continuing to exist even today in countries such as North Korea and China. Deaths  2.4M sent to Gulag; 1.9M freed. "Official figures show 621,000 deaths in the Gulag"

Did you know? Of course you don't! The MSM STRIKES AGAIN!

THIS IS WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN IRAQ

Did you know that the Iraqi government employs 1.2 million Iraqi people?

Did you know that 3100 schools have been renovated, 364 schools are under rehabilitation, 263 schools are now under construction and 38 new schools have been built in Iraq?

Did you know that Iraq's higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers?

Did you know that 25 Iraqi students departed for the United States in January 2004 for the re-established full bright program?

Did you know there are more than 1100 building projects going on in Iraq? They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities and 69 electrical facilities.

Did you know that 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations?

Did you know that 4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October?

Did you know that there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%?

Did you know that Iraq has an independent media that consist of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations?

Did you know that the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004?

 

Did you know that two candidates in the Iraqi presidential election had a televised debate in their country recently?

 

Did you know that the Iraqi Navy is operational? They have 5-100-foot patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a navel infantry regiment.

Did you know that Iraq's Air Force consists of three operation squadrons, 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 bell jet rangers?

Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion?

Did you know that the Iraqi Police Service has over 55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers?

Did you know that there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3500 new officers each 8 weeks?

OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T KNOW...BECAUSE OUR MEDIA WON'T TELL YOU.
WHY? BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN AGENDA...AN ANTI-AMERICAN AGENDA.

Instead of shouting these accomplishments from every rooftop, they would rather show photo's of what a few perverted malcontent soldiers have done in prisons, in many cases never disclosing the circumstances surrounding the events.

Instead of showing our love for our country, we get photos of flag burning incidents at Abu Ghraib and people throwing snowballs at presidential motorcades.

The lack of accentuating the positive in Iraq serves only one purpose: to undermine the world's perception of the United States and our soldiers

However, the greater question is why do our media have an undeniable anti-American agenda? Your guess is as good as mine, but my guess is that the media are not anti-American, they are anti-capitalism. And America is the supreme example of capitalism in the world.
The above facts are verifiable on the Department of Defense website below. Pass it on!
U.S. Department of Defense Official Website
hat tip Briggite Gabriel

Liberal Dominos Falling on Schiavo

Great piece from the Scrapook Section of the Weekly Standard, hands down my favorite mag edited by those two studs Bill and Fred (Krystol and Barnes). They spew their java across the keyboard when reading Joan Didion's visceral  attack on the left's  untenable and singleminded assault on those of us who believed Terri's life was worth living.  READ IT ALL

The Scrapbook almost spilled its morning coffee upon opening the June 9 issue of the New York Review of Books and finding that Joan Didion had written . . . well, a remarkably forthright and evenhanded account of the Terri Schiavo case. In fact, Didion's essay is easily the best treatment of the case since Eric Cohen's essays in these pages (see "How Liberalism Failed Terri Schiavo," April 4, 2005, and "What Living Wills Won't Do," April 18, 2005). Everyone should read it. We're not joking.

Now, we always expect that Didion's prose will be sharp. What we weren't expecting was that she would aim her blade at liberals, especially the type who labeled as "fundamentalists" all those who felt that Michael Schiavo shouldn't be allowed to kill his wife. Here's Didion:

 

That this was a situation offering space for legitimate philosophical differences seemed obvious. Yet there remained, on the "rational" side of the argument, very little acknowledgment that there could be large numbers of people, not all of whom could be categorized as "fundamentalists" or "evangelicals," who

were genuinely troubled by the ramifications of viewing a life as inadequate and so deciding to end it. There remained little acknowledgment even that the case was being badly handled, rendered unnecessarily inflammatory. There was an insensitivity in the timing of the removal of the feeding tube, which took place on the Friday before Palm Sunday, meaning that the gradual process of dying coincided with a week that for Christians has specifically to do with sacrificial suffering and death. "Oh come on," someone said when this was mentioned on a cable show. There was a further insensitivity in the fact that the tube was removed at all. If the sole intention is to terminate feeding and hydration, there is no need to remove a gastric feeding tube. All anyone need do is stop plunging the formula into the tube. . . . In this case, in the absence of some unusual circumstance that remained unreported, the sole purpose of actual removal would seem to have been to make any legally ordered resumption of feeding difficult to implement.

And here's Didion on the badly reported facts of the case:

 

Theresa Schiavo was repeatedly described as "brain dead." This was inaccurate: Those whose brains are dead are unable even to breathe, and can be kept alive only on ventilators. She was repeatedly described as "terminal." This too was inaccurate. She was "terminal" only in the sense that her husband had obtained a court order authorizing the removal of her feeding tube; her actual physical health was such that she managed to stay alive in a hospice, in which only palliative treatment is given and patients without antibiotics often die of the pneumonia that accompanies immobility or the bacteremia that accompanies urinary catheterization, for five years.

Court Forces Feeding Tube of Prisoner but Mandated Killing Terri Schiavo

Unf-ingbelievable. It's not that I'm necessarily opposed to not letting convicts kill themselves, but in the cases of Terry Schiavo and Marjorie Nighbert we killed them, but here "sanctity of life" keeps convicts alive? Perhaps if they said we think it's more torturous feeding convicts and forcing continued life than letting them die...hat tip Dr Nancy G

Court OKs forced feeding of prisoner


While reports mount of elderly and disabled Americans being starved and dehydrated to death by denial of a feeding tube – sometimes by court order – a state court has approved the force-feeding of a convicted arsonist who was trying to starve himself to death.

In a decision Thursday, Washington's Court of Appeals ruled that the state's Department of Corrections was within its rights when it forced a feeding tube on Charles R. McNabb to end his five-month hunger strike.

According to a report in the Seattle Times, McNabb, 51, had been convicted of arson and assault for burning his estranged wife's Spokane home, during which his 16-year-old stepdaughter was seriously burned. He wanted to starve himself out of remorse over his stepdaughter's trauma. McNabb refused to eat while housed in the county jail while awaiting his trial last summer, losing close to 100 pounds.

Although McNabb had argued that the feeding tube violated his right to decline medical treatment, the three-judge panel unanimously ruled: "The right to decline force-feeding is not absolute because the state has an interest in protecting the sanctity of the lives of its citizens."

The case is an ironic contrast to the increasing number of cases where courts order the removal of feeding tubes from patients fighting for life. As the current edition of Whistleblower magazine reports, the Terri Schiavo case was just the most high-profile such instance.

For instance, Whistleblower tells the story of Marjorie Nighbert, an 83-year-old Florida stroke victim who had actually asked her nursing home care-givers for a "little something to eat" and a drink of water. Yet a Florida judge ruled she was not "competent" to make such a request for food, and was starved and dehydrated to death with the full agreement of her family.

Moreover, for every high-profile case involving the courts, many other elderly and disabled Americans are being quietly "helped along" toward death before their time, behind closed doors, without public knowledge, Whistleblower reports.

For the 5-foot-9 McNabb, sentenced to 14 years, the feeding tube was a violation of his rights.

"I am declining to eat for personal reasons," he wrote in a sworn declaration in August 2004, as he filed a lawsuit, according to the Seattle Times account. "I am competent to make this choice. ... I am deeply committed to that decision and for that reason I have consistently declined to eat, except under threat of force-feeding, for almost six months."

Finally, to avoid being force-fed, soon after the feeding tube was inserted, McNabb began to eat on his own.

As the prison system's chief physician, Dr. Marc Stern, told the Times:

"One of the things we struggle with is: Where does the patient autonomy end and where does the state autonomy begin? We do have cancer patients who can't eat and choose to not eat. In that case, the patient has autonomy. You have the right to die in a dignified way. But being perfectly healthy and saying, 'I'm not going eat,' that's where your autonomy ends and our autonomy begins."

But but but but, there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction

How can this be? There were no weapons (despite the thousands found dead in mass graves from these very nonexistent weapons)

UN weapons inspectors now report dual-use equipment and material usable for biological or chemical weapons were removed from 109 sites in Iraq to destinations unknown. Quantities found stored in Falluja area. Missing are 130 biological, 4,780 chemical and 3,000 missile-related items.

The Long March to Hell. NAVASKY TAKES OVER COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW

UNBELIEVABLE!
One might think with all of the academic integrity issues Columbia has had of late, that they just might, for a moment,  step back, exhale and reevaluate their strident left wing bias in the class, curriculum and faculty.
But noooooooooooooo, they really are LLL. They have chosen Victor Navasky.
Yes the editor of The Nation.
Now don't get me wrong, when I was Publisher of The New York Observer, Navasky was editor of the Nation . Both publications were  under Arthur Carter's umbrella of vanity press, *Carter subsequently sold the money losing NATION to Paul Newman - a veritable orgy of left lunatic libs. That notwithstanding I knew  Navasky to be a lovely, erudite, well spoken raving moonbat.

And The Nation was the most vile, America hating, ACLU (vis a vis NAMBLA) loving, commie loving rag in America.
This is who Columbia chooses on the heals of Columbia Unbecoming?

My man Jacob at The New York Sun  does it again .....YEAH JAKE! I yearn for your articles

Nation Publisher Navasky Takes Reins of CJR

BY JACOB GERSHMAN

Mr. Navasky has quietly taken the reins of CJR, while letting them go at the Nation. Mr. Navasky has not been listed on the masthead of the university's magazine.

While Mr. Lemann intended Mr. Navasky to oversee CJR, his exact role at the magazine wasn't agreed upon until this week, after a New York-based blogger, who goes by the name David M, wrote on Tuesday of the CJR's high profile hire. Shortly after that blog entry, Mr. Lemann and Mr. Navasky settled on the title of "chairman," and said Mr. Navasky's name would be on the masthead in the next issue of CJR. In his new role, he essentially succeeds a former publisher of Newsday and the Los Angeles Times, David Laventhol, who served as publisher of CJR between 1999 and 2003.

Just how Lunatic Left is Google?

Just insert "GOP Swept from Power in 2006" into your Google Search box in the Google Search news engine and you get this and this. WTF?

We knew they were biased here and sympathetic to terrorists here but this is off the rails.

hat tip: not neo just conservative, LGF

HONEST REPORTING: 5 YEARS AND COUNTING COUNTLESS LIES,BLOOD LIBELS EXPOSED

Honest Reporting - G-d love' em - five years old and their mission now even more monumental, exposing radical islamic,  antisemetic lies worldwide. They work 24/7/365 tirelessly, relentlessly, thanklessly.
Watch the video, it's just two minutes, you can spare it puhleeze, click on the photo:

THE NEW YORK SLIME TIMES IS SO OVER

Frank Rich is an idiot, I am not convinced that he even writes well but an idiotarian for sure.
In His OpEd piece,  Ground Zero Is So Over
he writes

But there is another, national narrative here.......................that stagnation may accurately reflect most of America's view about the war on terror that began with the slaughter of more than 2,700 at the World Trade Center almost four years ago. Though the vacant site is a poor memorial for those who died there, it's an all too apt symbol for a war on which the country is turning its back. [is he nuts, or what? -Atlas]

I don't know about you but I am as committed as I was on September 12, 2001

"This time the prospect of a televised roll call of the dead has caused little notice at all. Like the latest setbacks at ground zero, it is a troubling but increasingly distant event to those Americans who, unlike the families and neighbors of the fallen, can and have turned the page. "

He is a traitor and a major sh*thead.

Self Fulfilling Prophecy

How great is Jack Wheeler of To the Point? He sent this to me upon my return frrom DC.
Someone just sent it to him, calling it a "self-fulfilling prophecy" due to his  infamous Nuke Mecca article just after 9/11 and subsequent ones like GW's Sword of Damocles which evidently
generated this great satire....Havent subscribed to "to the Point"......you must. It is the best intelligence............the following is one of my favorite pieces of Jack's:

GEORGE BUSH AND THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES: Why There Hasn’t Been Another 9-11
Behind The Lines
By Dr. Jack Wheeler
Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Cicero, the Roman orator, told a story about a Greek King of Syracuse in Sicily named Dionysius (432-367 BC). He was rich and had the best of everything. He also had the usual retinue of court flatterers, one of whom was named Damocles.

Tired of hearing from Damocles how happy he, Dionysius, should be, the king offered to exchange places with Damocles for a day. The young man was deliriously happy to be wearing costly robes, eating the finest foods, imbibing the best wine, attended to by beautiful women – until he noticed a sword, suspended above him and hanging by a single horsehair. Should the hair snap, the huge sword would fall and pierce him to death.

Too terrified to move, he called out to Dionysius, who replied that the sword was there to teach Damocles a lesson: that the happiness of kings was an illusion, that there was always such a sword hanging above the life of any king, who at any moment could lose his kingdom or even his head.

One lesson we can draw from Cicero’s tale is the importance of identifying the particular Swords of Damocles hanging above the heads of your country’s enemies. There’s always at least one. The trick is figuring out what specific sword is hanging over what particular enemy.

Israel, for example, recognizes that the Aswan Dam is Egypt’s Damoclean Sword. There is no possibility whatever of Egypt’s winning a war with Israel, for if Aswan is blown, all of inhabited Egypt is under 20 feet of water. Once the Israelis made this clear to the Egyptians, the possibility of any future Egyptian attack on Israel like that of 1948, 1967, and 1972 is gone.

There has been a rumor floating in the Washington ether for some time now that George Bush has figured out what Sword of Damocles is suspended over Osama Bin Laden’s head. It’s whispered among Capitol Hill staffers on the intel and armed services committees; White House NSC (National Security Council) members clam up tight if you begin to hint at it; and State Department neo-cons love to give their liberal counterparts cardiac arrhythmia by elliptically conversing about it in their presence.

The whispers and hints and ellipses are getting louder now because the rumor explains the inexplicable: Why hasn’t there been a repeat of 9-11? How can it be that after this unimaginable tragedy and Osama’s constant threats of another, we have gone over three years without a single terrorist attack on American soil?

The proximate reasons aren’t sufficient: that we have taken the fight to the enemy in Iraq, drawing their attention and energy away from America; that the intel and law-enforcement folks have caught and prevented a number of planned attacks. These are good reasons why there haven’t been more attacks – but they don’t explain why there haven’t been any.

For over 40 years, America and the Soviet Union fought a “Cold” war that never got hot because each had a nuclear Damoclean Sword over the other. After 9-11, George Bush went after Osama’s Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and began systematically hunting down and either killing or capturing scores of Al Qaeda agents around the world. But he also thought: “Is there some threat so horrible to Osama and these Wahhabi fundamentalists that they would refrain from attacking us again? We can fight this war with them elsewhere, in Afghanistan or Iraq, but how can we make America off limits? That’s the kind of threat we need.”

There’s only one threat that would deter Osama from repeating a 9-11 type terrorist attack on America: a threat to nuke Mecca.

Completely obliterating the terrorists’ holiest of holies, rendering what is for them the world’s most sacred spot a radioactive hole in the ground is retribution of Biblical proportions – and those are the only proportions that will do the job.

Osama would have laughed off such a threat, given his view that Americans are wussies who cut and run after a few losses, such as Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993. Part of Bush’s rationale for invading Afghanistan and Iraq – obviously never expressed publicly – was to convince Osama that his threat to nuke Mecca was real. Osama hates America just as much as ever, but he is laughing no more.

He is not laughing because he knows that he is playing poker with a Texas cowboy holding the nuclear aces, that there is nothing his Al Qaeda could do terroristically to America that could come remotely close to the permanent obliteration of Mecca. So far, Osama has decided not to see if GW is bluffing. Smart move.

For one version of the rumor is – as discussed in Mad in Mecca – is that there already is a W-80 nuclear warhead undetectably buried in Mecca that can be triggered by a satellite signal.

This is why Osama is going after the Saudi Royal Family rather than going after America. It’s also why he is going desperately crazy. GW cleaned his clock in Afghanistan, the Royals are doing the same in Saudi, so now he is embarked on persuading Sunni Arabs in Iraq to immolate themselves on his behalf.

These folks are outnumbered four-to-one by the Shias and Kurds and would get wiped out in the civil war Osama and Zarqawi are trying to instigate. Persuading an entire people to commit auto-genocide (as opposed to getting a few of them to blow themselves up individually) is a tough sell.

The success of the January 30 Iraq elections is the beginning of the end for Osama and his Al Qaeda. He is a Moslem Damocles with GW’s terrible swift Sword of Doom above him that he dare not let fall.

Today's Daily Diet of AntiSemitism Carefully Prepared by Al-Jizz

How is this considered a "news organization"? Every story, every word for that matter, is dripping with jewhatred. They are channeling Goebbels. Imagine a daily diet of such vitriole, day in, day out, week in week out, year in year out.  They do the same thing with America, not because of Israel but because of everything America is  and represents.
Israel  suffers from the same hate-America crowd.  Being America's close ally comes with a price.
But do not for one moment misunderstand the enemy. With or without the Jews, we are all infidels which is why the Arab radical islamic government is killing muslims in Sudan (the moderates are being slaughtered), the Chistians and anyone that does not subjugate themselves to radical islam. And there is no color barrier, black on black, Arab on Arab............Israel is the canary in the coalmine
From Al-Jazeera online today:

More on Palestine...

Jewish settlers seize more Palestinian land Palestinian fighters fire rockets into Israel Israeli missile strike targets Palestinian fighters  PA minister accuses Israel of nuclear waste disposal

oh and lest we not forget they also make sure to  rally up the jewhaters to march on DC for our conference today through Tuesday...........

Activists to protest pro-Israel conference

A coalition of U.S. and international groups plan a peaceful demonstration against Israel next week when a pro-Israeli group holds its annual conference in Washington.

The coalition includes prominent congressmen such as Republican Paul Findley who’s said that Washington’s strategic relations with Israel discredits the U.S.’ image and would drag it into unnecessary wars with Iran and Syria.

Among the groups supporting the May 23 protest is the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee and the Middle East Crisis Committee and Council for the National Interest.

Newsweek is part of the Enemy Within; Advancing a Seditious Agenda

Ann Coulter hits it hard and fast and gets it exactly  right in her column this week. She is so spot on that as I read this, I could actually channel her. Yeah, I was right there with her at the typepad banging fast and furiously on her keyboard without so much as missing a stroke. Coulter fires off the truths with power and speed of a  machine gun atop a Bradley (eeeeha!)  She has the enviable skill of lasering in on whats what. A is A. She exposes Isikoff, who is transparent but erudite (unlike most lefties), Newsweek, on the other hand,  is downright scary.

NEWSWEEK DISSSEMBLED; MUSLIMS DISMEMBERED

When ace reporter Michael Isikoff had the scoop of the decade, a thoroughly sourced story about the president of the United States having an affair with an intern and then pressuring her to lie about it under oath, Newsweek decided not to run the story. Matt Drudge scooped Newsweek, followed by The Washington Post.

When Isikoff had a detailed account of Kathleen Willey's nasty sexual encounter with the president in the Oval Office, backed up with eyewitness and documentary evidence, Newsweek decided not to run it. Again, Matt Drudge got the story.

When Isikoff was the first with detailed reporting on Paula Jones' accusations against a sitting president, Isikoff's then-employer The Washington Post -- which owns Newsweek -- decided not to run it. The American Spectator got the story, followed by the Los Angeles Times.

So apparently it's possible for Michael Isikoff to have a story that actually is true, but for his editors not to run it.

Why no pause for reflection when Isikoff had a story about American interrogators at Guantanamo flushing the Quran down the toilet? Why not sit on this story for, say, even half as long as NBC News sat on Lisa Meyers' highly credible account of Bill Clinton raping Juanita Broaddrick?

Islamic Lies Eagerly Devoured by a hungry Left Wing Media - they have really lost it

What is most worrisome about the FrontpageMag.com article "CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense" authored by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha is not the lies the lying murderers tell (we have all come to expect that as the least of their eggregious crimes), but the complicity of the LLL media elite to eagerly plant it as fact...........meme glorified. No fact checking, no research, no substantiation............so what are we to rely on? Just a couple of eggheads in a small dark room exposing the truth to the light of day.

Check out this morsel of truth they expose on the Unequal Protection: The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2005, an annual report issued last week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)   [love the acronym, nice touch, eh?]

But CAIR is part of the Wahhabi Lobby, so (unlike the mainstream media reporters) we thought it a good idea to take a closer look at the report. We examined in detail some “examples of anti-Muslim hate crime reports received by CAIR in 2004,” on p. 43, plus some “samples” on p. 53 and discovered a pattern of sloppiness, exaggeration, and distortion:

1)                          CAIR cites the July 9, 2004 case of apparent arson at a Muslim-owned grocery store in Everett, Washington. But investigators quickly determined that Mirza Akram, the store’s operator, staged the arson to avoid meeting his scheduled payments and to collect on an insurance policy. Although Akram’s antics were long ago exposed as a fraud, CAIR continues to list this case as an anti-Muslim hate crime.

2)                          CAIR also states that “a Muslim-owned market was burned down in Texas” on August 6, 2004. But already a month later, the owner was arrested for having set fire to his own business. Why does CAIR include this incident in its report?

3)                          CAIR lists the March 2005 lawsuit filed by the Salmi family for the firebombing of their family van as one example of a hate crime reports it received in 2004. However, the crime named in the lawsuit occurred in March 2003, was already reported by CAIR in 2003, and should not have been tabulated again in the 2004 report.

4)                          CAIR reports that “a home-made bomb exploded outside of the Champions Mosque in the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas,” staking its claim on eyewitness reports that on July 4, 2004, “two white males” were seen placing the bomb. We inquired about the incidents and found that Spring’s sheriff department could not locate any police files about an explosion. Further inquiries to the mosque and an e-mail to CAIR both went unanswered. There is scant evidence that any crime even occurred.

5)                          CAIR notes that “investigators in Massachusetts are still investigating a potential hate motivated arson against the Al-Baqi Islamic Center in Springfield.” However the case was long ago ruled a simple robbery, news that even CAIR’s own website has posted. The Associated Press reported on January 21, 2005, that prosecutors determined the fire was set by teen-age boys “who broke into the Al-Baqi mosque to steal money and candy, then set the fire to cover their tracks.” The boys, they clarified, “weren’t motivated by hatred toward Muslims.”

6)                          CAIR describes what happened to a Muslim family in Tucson, Arizona: “bullet shots pierced their home as they ate dinner in October 2004” and two months later their truck was smashed and vandalized. But the only evidence that either incident was motivated by hate of Muslims is the Dehdashti family itself, not the police. Detective Frank Rovi of Pima County Sheriff’s Department, who handled the shooting investigation, said that according to the neighbors, the desert area by the Dehdashti house was often used for target practice. Neither incident was classified as a hate crime and both cases were closed by February 2005, long before the CAIR report went to press.

Of twenty “anti-Muslim hate crimes” in 2004 that CAIR describes, at least six are invalid – and further research could likely find problems with the other fourteen instances. Nor is this the first unreliable CAIR report; earlier ones were just as bad

Go to FrontPageMag........read it all

hmmmmmmmmm.........I am still wondering about that murder of the Egyptian Coptic Christian family (its been awfully quiet).........I know I know it was the upstairs neighbor (!)

Heeeeeere's China! Brought to you by the Left Lunatic Liberal Mainstream Media. They DARE CALL THE BLOGOSPHERE IRRESPONSIBLE, MILLIONS OF FACTCHECKERS!

According to the murderers over at Newsweek, China is oh so fabi! And they strongly encourage China's  emergence as the world's number one superpower. Can you smell agenda, mendacity, conspiracy maybe? It Wreaks of it!

In the May 9 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, May 2): "China's Century." This report examines all aspects of China's rise as a powerful global force and how it may challenge U.S. pre-eminence. This is the first of a series of special reports on the next superpower that will continue through the 2008 Olympics. Newsweek also reports on the preparations for the Olympics, where planners are already nervous about mass demonstrations. Plus: challenging the food pyramid and summer movies.(PRNewsFoto)

aw isn't that special?

NOW LETS TALK REALITY, SHALL WE?


The following news report is from the UN (!) and we know how easy those boys are on the malevolent global forces. China has the a most horrific human rights record. Despicable..........which is probably why they saddle up with all those monsters in the graph below.............

First UN rights probe in China blasts widespread violations AFP via Yahoo! News Fri, 13 May 2005 12:27 PM PDT China struggled through its first ever examination by a UN human rights committee after a panel reviewed evidence of forced labour, forced abortions, exploitation of children, evictions, discrimination against internal migrants, low wages and other violations.

Ok so let me understand this now. Newsweek says China is a good force (forced abortions, forced child labour, no free speech, list too long) and Newsweek will make up stories about the poor treatment the U.S. gives the  very enemies that tried to kill our boys,  MAKE UP STORIES, get people across the globe killed to  do what? Say America Bad? America is helping free all  peoples in all different colors..............."In recent months, the world has marveled at the hopeful changes taking place from Baghdad to Beirut to Bishkek. But before there was a Purple Revolution in Iraq, or an Orange Revolution in Ukraine, or a Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, there was the Rose Revolution in Georgia. (Applause.) Your courage is inspiring democratic reformers and sending a message that echos across the world: Freedom will be the future of every nation and every people on Earth." (my man Bush in Soviet Georgia)

Who do you believe the Lefty LA TIMES or American Boys fighting for our Freedom

Who do you believe? The notoriously lefty chomsky loving LA TIMES or thr soldiers wounded in battle, recovering  at  Walter Reed that just came home from this very  bloody fighting?

Iraq Violence Taking a Sectarian Twist

By Ashraf Khalil and Patrick J. McDonnell

BAGHDAD-The discovery Sunday of at least two dozen bodies - all Iraqi men apparently abducted and slain execution-style - is the latest grisly episode in an escalating sectarian conflict fueled by this nation's raging insurgency.

Note the headline..........SECTARIAN twist. Main Entry: [2]sectarian
Function: adjective
Date: 1649
1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian
2 : limited in character or scope : PAROCHIAL
- sec·tar·i·an·ism /-E-&-"ni-z&m/ noun
Function: noun
Date: 1819
1 : an adherent of a sect

Acccording to our boys, IT IS NOT IRAQIS killing Iraqis, it is foreign fighters from Syria, Iran.
It is Al Quaeda, our arch enemy. Please be careful when you read the papers or watch the alphabets (ABC,NBC, CNN CBS), they are playing with your mind.They think you are fools and cannot think for youself. Choose your news editors carefully! Snap out of it!

Just how dangerous is the Left Lunatic Liberal Media? THEY ARE KILLING PEOPLE!

The LLL are beneath our contempt, little children playing grown up games. Well it aint funny

Newsweek Apologizes for Inaccurate Koran Story That Sparked Deadly Riots - Howard Kurtz
Newsweek apologized Sunday for an inaccurate report on the treatment of detainees that triggered several days of rioting in Afghanistan and other countries in which at least 15 people died. The report said American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said investigators found "no credible allegations of willful Koran desecration."  (Washington Post)
    See also Hamas Protests Alleged U.S. Koran Desecration
Shouting, "protect our holy book," about 1,500 protesters, some carrying the green banners of Hamas, marched through the streets of Jabaliya in northern Gaza in an anti-U.S. protest Friday. Some demonstrators burnt Israeli and U.S. flags. (AP/Jerusalem Post)

Harvard and the Left Want to Take This Country Down...Big Time

Can you sink your teeth into this? This is what the leading academic institution in America is advancing during the World War IV (in the New York Sun, New York's Next Great Newspaper).
Imagine 48 front page New York Slime stories, endless whining and handwringing....but silence on Oil-for-Food, sex scandals, genocide..........when in doubt Blame Israel

Harvard Funds Play on Abu Ghraib Abuses

BY DANIEL HEMEL - Special to the Sun
May 12, 2005

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Testifying at the January trial of a U.S. soldier accused of prisoner abuse at the American prison in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi detainee, Hussein Mutar, said "the Americans were torturing us like it was theater to them."

Tonight at Harvard, Abu Ghraib will become theater, as students re-enact the prisoner abuse in a 90-minute university-funded performance that, according to the show's Web site, is designed "to inflame."

It was important to spice up the theater scene at Harvard," said Currun Singh, the 19-year-old Kuwaiti-born sophomore from Honolulu, Hawaii, who wrote and is directing the play.

"Abu Ghraib" opens with a handcuffed male actor - clothed only in a black hood - holding his genitals while standing atop a three-foot box placed center stage. Later in the show, the character of Army Specialist Charles Graner, portrayed by freshman Rob Salas, 18, urinates on a detainee who has been tied to a door, although Mr. Salas said he only "stage" urinates with his back to the audience.

"We haven't censored ourselves," Mr. Singh said, while noting that the play does avoid full-frontal nudity. "The prisoners get roughed up a bit," he said, but the play for the most part relies on "stylized violence."

THE PHOTO I COULDN'T FIND

I searched for this photo online for half an hour before I went to White House photos.....it is nowhere to be found. Google news (spit), Yahoo news, AP, AFP.........fuggedabouddit.
Wild eh? Think about it..............what they don't want you to see.OH! But they don't stop talking about the "phantom grenade" that was allegedly lobbed onstage. No one saw it, no one heard it, and it didn't go off! But they told Secret Service about after the President left the country. HA! And if it is true? Well than it just makes his Texan cujones even bigger. Yeah baby!

"Thousands gather in Freedom Square to hear President George W. Bush speak in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, May 10, 2005. "When Georgians gathered here 16 years ago, this square had a different name. Under Lenin's steely gaze, thousands of Georgians prayed and sang, and demanded their independence, said President Bush. "The Soviet army crushed that day of protest, but they could not crush the spirit of the Georgian people." White House photo by Paul Morse"

and I loved this photo...........those hungry for freedom so "get" Bush

President and President Saakashvili Discuss NATO, Democracy

101 sKerry Days and Counting

Today marks 101 days since John Kerry promised, on national TV, to sign form SF-180 and release his military records.

To help the senator out, you could fax him a copy of the form. It’s only 3 pages, and is available online here.

Here are the fax numbers for the senator’s offices:

Washington D.C. - (202) 224-8525
Boston, MA - (617) 248-3870
Springfield, MA - (413) 736-1049
Fall River, MA - (508) 677-0275

If you don’t have access to a fax machine, you can e-mail the fax by using a service like MaxEmail or eFax. Or just go to the nearest Kinko’s.

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The Impenetrable Relentless Unstoppable Double Standard

Love Rich Galen, articulates my overwhelming frustration in the matter of the double standard. Rich, add fuel to my fire.....sssssssssssssssssssssssizzzlin

• This is not a new observation: The popular press has one set of standards of Republicans and a wholly different one for Democrats.
• A few weeks ago MSNBC's Chris Matthews was on the Don Imus morning radio/cable show complaining about the fact that Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum had offered the prayer in the Senate the weekend of the Terry Shiavo business because the Senate Chaplain was unavailable.
• Matthews made it clear that he felt a sitting US Senator offering a prayer was a ghastly intrusion of religion into government.
• I happened to be watching, and called the producer of the program, Bernard McGuirk suggesting he have Imus ask Matthews if he thought having a Catholic Priest as a voting member of Congress was more or less a violation of the First Amendment.
• I was referring to Father Robert Drinan - a Jesuit Priest - who served as a Member of Congress of Massachusetts from 1972 to 1981. Drinan was a staunch Liberal who was opposed to the Vietnam War and for the impeachment of President Nixon.
• But Imus didn't do it.

   

  Along the same lines, Page 1 column 1 of yesterday's Washington Post featured a piece by reporter Shailagh Murray about a Baptist minister named Rick Scarborough who has been instrumental in drumming up support for the "nuclear option" regarding the Democrats' threat to filibuster Conservative Federal judges.
• The article by indicates the paper's position on Reverend Scarborough with this sentence: "Scarborough is a potent force with ties to House Majority Leader Tom DLan (R-Tex.) and influential Senate conservatives."
• Query for the Washington Post Ombudsman: When the Post regularly cites REVEREND Jesse Jackson and REVEREND Al Sharpton - neither of whom has ever said a good word about, much less voted for, a Republican - why is there not the same tsk-tsking which is evident in the front pager on Scarborough?
• Tom DeLay's (R-TX) for the most part, been tarred with the actions of aides and associates. These transgressions have been labeled as ethical violations by the House Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi.
• But in discussing the problems of the House Democratic Whip (the number two guy on the Dem side) the Baltimore Sun describes the failure of Hoyer to report who paid for his junkets as "technical mistakes in reporting trips paid for by industry groups, think tanks or other private entities."
• Notice any difference in tone, there?

   

  Then there's the issue of the Sainted Junior Senator from New York.
• It seems that a fundraising event in Los Angeles which benefited the Senate campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton Rodham was modestly in violation of every law ever considered regarding Federal campaigns and Hillary's "former campaign finance director," David Rosen is going to trial next week.
• The San Francisco Chronicle, however, goes to great pains to point that that:

  "Though Clinton hasn't been linked to charges that the gala's cost was vastly underreported, she is a top target of Republicans who are scouring for ammunition against one of their top targets in next year's elections - and perhaps the 2008 run for the White House."

• Yep. It's all the GOP's fault.

The MSM and Media Elite Twist Pervert and Spin and Destroy; The Enemy Within

Do me a favor take a quick glimpse of how dishonest and twisted the media elites and the mainstream media are playing the Bush story. Here you have a great American President being lauded by new and emerging democracies while a wanna be despot (POOtin) is trying to regain the malevolent crown by jailing entrprenuers and cracking down on reform/reformers. President Bush is in Latvia, the first stop on his trip through Europe. There, he received the nation’s highest honor and read from the freedom monument.
And our press is painting Bush as the bad guywith one giant stroke. This Great Statesman. Bush is the enemy and POOtin, realigning and rearming the axis of evil (Egypt, Syria and Iran), is the offended party.

Take a look, from the always predictable   

Bush Lectures Putin on the Joys of Democracy

AOL NEWS:  HE SLAMS PUTIN: CHAFES WOUNDS
                          BUSH'S TRIP RAISES RUSSIANS  IRE
                            ARE ICY RELATIONS HIS FAULT?

Bush Walks Fine Line Between Russia and Baltic Agendas



Creating tension with Russia, President Bush acknowledged the U.S. role in the tyranny that
took over Eastern Europe at the end of World War II. NBC’s David Gregory reports.


Bush Trip Brews Russian Tension

The Sloth of the Media Elite

Here is a copy of a letter running in this week's Weekly Standard.
The moral of the story DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ IN THE ELITE MEDIA....you want proof, you want boots on the ground, you want hyperlinks, you want VERACITY! This little tidbit was a 1982 anecdote, imagine the exponential decay............oy. They really think we are mindless.

Secondhand News

The practice of cobbling together news stories from suspect or unconfirmed sources (Scrapbook, April 25) may be deplorable, but it is certainly not a recent phenomenon.

As exchange students in the former Soviet Union in 1982, my friends and I spent quite a bit of time with some

of the American reporters stationed in Moscow. They all shared information as though it were the most natural thing in the world. Reporters who'd met with a source, official or underground, would come back to the compound where they were all staying and casually share the crux of the interview with whoever was hanging around.

Bylined articles would then be written--and appear in different publications--as though each reporter had personally secured the information, lending a hefty dose of credibility to what was in reality just one rehashed source. (Ever since then, I automatically translate "unnamed source" into "drinking buddy" when I read mainstream papers or watch the news.)

I was also shocked at how willing the media were to report officially disseminated information as true, without even trying to ascertain the information's validity. The day after Brezhnev's death was announced, for example, the New York Times ran a front-page story that said all Moscow theaters had been closed the evening before in honor of the chairman's passing. There was no "we've been told," "officials say," or any other such qualifier that might have told the reader the information was unconfirmed.

When I told the Times bureau chief that I myself had been at the theater in Moscow that night, he laughed and told me not to tell the reporter (who, he said, had been filing stories slavishly and would not be in the mood to hear about his mistakes).

Whether some or all (or any) theaters closed on that night doesn't make much difference in the grand scheme of things. But it made me wonder what other official information the Times had reproduced without question over the years, and what other enemy governments were receiving such kid-glove treatment.

It seems nothing has changed. But today, perhaps for the first time, at least the problem is being discussed.

Frances Erlebacher
Rockville, MD