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Judge Eases Jail For Terror Trial 12 -- THE 12 defendants in Australia's largest terrorism prosecution are not getting a fair trial, the judge overseeing the case has said. The startling admission came as Justice Bernard Bongiorno said the conditions under which the accused are being held are so severe they could cause mental illness and jeopardise their ability to defend themselves. In a ruling he described as "extraordinary'', Justice Bongiorno ordered the men be moved to a new prison and called for their conditions to be upgraded.
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Palestinian Territories |
USA To Transfer %150 Million To Palestinians -- An agreement for a USD150 million aid (about 95 million euro) by the United States to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was signed in Ramallah, in the West Bank, today. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who signed the agreement with U.S. Consul General Jake Walles, told the media that the financial aid "comes to us at a time of great need and it will help our efforts in building towards Palestinian statehood." |
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Zogby Poll: McCain Bests Both Obama, Clinton in 3-Way General Election Tests -- Perhaps profiting from the continuing political battle across the aisle, McCain would defeat Hillary Clinton of New York by six points and Barack Obama of Illinois by 5 points, the survey shows. |
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United States |
Why Are Reverend Wright Videos Disappearing From YouTube? -- There was a video posted by the Trinity United Church of Christ, which I found on their YouTube page, of Louis Farrakhan being honored with the Jeremiah A. Wright Trumpeter award. It's gone from YouTube. And there was a video of disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick receiving a similar award. It's gone from YouTube, too. But the one I'm really mad about is the one of the church's new pastor, Otis Moss III, talking about gangster rap and crack cocaine. They pulled that one, as well. |
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Suicide Bombers = Activists -- according to the AP’s guidelines, it would fall under the heading of fair use when I point out the following Reuters photograph, and mention that it’s yet another example of the mainstream wire services’ utter corruption and moral blindness, labeling Hamas terrorists in suicide bomber outfits as "activists." They’ve slowly debased the language to the point where this kind of sick, evil description is routine business as usual. |
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United States |
Lawsuit Eyed By Sharpton Over Florida -- Laying the groundwork for a court battle that could divide the Democratic Party, the Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to sue the Democratic National Committee if it counts Florida's primary results in the official presidential delegates tally. |
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United States |
$148M For Permanent Palestinian "Refugees" -- The US government has pledged 148 million dollars this year to the UN refugee agency to aid Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and neighboring countries.
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Who Leaked The Details Of A CIA-Mossad Plot Against Iran? -- The Bush administration is prolonging the hunting season against journalists. The latest victim (they should have used "traitor") is James Risen, The New York Times reporter for national security and intelligence affairs. About three months ago, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena against him, ordering Risen to give evidence in court. A heavy blackout has been imposed on the affair, with the only hint being that it has to do with sensitive matters of "national security." |
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Iran Sanctions Vote Faces New Delay -- The U.N. Security Council will likely delay a vote on a third round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, as Western countries lobby for a big vote in favor, diplomats said on Wednesday. |
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United Kingdom |
BBC Knew Of Link To Failed 21/7 Bombers -- A BBC producer failed to give police information that would have helped track down the July 21 bombers. |
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United States |
ABC Pushes Islamic Victimhood -- The perpetrator of this hostility was an actor. The victim was an actor. The whole incident was trumped-up, rendering the significance of the reactions suspect to say the least. ABC could not, you see, count on a veiled Muslim woman encountering hostility anywhere in this U.S. -- otherwise, they could have simply sent her into a few stores and filmed the uncanned reaction. So they had to create an "Islamophobic" store clerk as well, to guarantee the outcome they wanted. |
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ABC News Stages 'Islamophobia' Event -- ABC News does their best to set up the "dumb American bigots" at a roadside Texas bakery, with one actor wearing misogynistic radical Muslim garb and provoking the yokels as another actor pretends to be a Muslim-hater, as a crew films with a hidden camera, all designed and staged to show how “Islamophobic” Americans are. |
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Brother of Slain TWA 847 Hijack Victim Says Media Are Pro-Terrorist -- While press outlets such as the New York Times grieved over the death of Imad Mugniyah last week, they disgracefully ignored the hundreds of innocent people directly and indirectly killed by this terrorist the past three decades. One such was Robert Stethem, a Navy Seabee diver that was assassinated on June 15, 1985, during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847; Mugniyah was one of the hijackers.
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George Soros Pours $2.5 Million Into New Advocacy Group -- Although it cannot get directly involved in advocacy for or against candidates, Fund for America is expected to air television ads and take other political action aimed at helping Democrats claim the White House and retain control of Congress.The group is organized as a "527," so named for the revenue code section that defines it. |
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ElBaradei: Unconcerned With Arab Nuclear Programs For Power -- IAEA chief says he sees no reason ‘why anybody should be concerned about ... Arab countries using nuclear energy for power development’; stresses all enrichment, reprocessing activities should be under international control. |
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Shadow Warriors -- According to Timmerman, the Bush agenda has been illegally sabotaged from within by people whose constitutional duties require them to implement the orders of the duly elected commander in chief. From the war in Iraq and counterterrorism efforts to confronting hostile foreign powers, Timmerman documents incident after incident to illustrate the unprecedented nature of this anti-constitutional mutiny by unelected bureaucrats. |
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United Kingdom |
Multiple Wives Will Mean Multiple Benefits -- Even though bigamy is a crime in Britain, the decision by ministers means that polygamous marriages can now be recognised formally by the state, so long as the weddings took place in countries where the arrangement is legal. The outcome will chiefly benefit Muslim men with more than one wife, as is permitted under Islamic law. |
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As U.S. Troops Succeed, Network News Retreats From Iraq War Story -- After months of improving security in Iraq, the big network morning shows on Friday cited one horrific suicide bombing as proof that “mayhem and misery are back in Baghdad,” as CBS correspondent Mark Strassmann put it. But over the last five months, the broadcast networks have consistently reduced their coverage of Iraq, as if the story of American success in Iraq is less worthy of attention than their old mantra of American failure in Iraq. |
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We're Above The Law -- The mainstream media seems to believe that they are above the law. they feel that anything that they do should be protected by law, no matter if they are engaging in actions that walk close to the line of treason. Today, Breitbart News is reporting that New York Times reporter James Risen, one of the two reporters who blew the whistle on the US government's use of overseas wire-tapping (a program, mind you that has not been declared illegal) is being subpoenaed over his source in a 2006 book on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). |
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2004's Swift Boat Vets One of "Dirtiest Campaigns Ever" -- In an issue dominated by rehashing early and modern American campaign history, U.S. News & World Report’s January 28/February 4 issue devoted sympathetic pages to the losing campaigns of two Massachusetts liberals, John Kerry and Michael Dukakis. The cover promised stories on "The Dirtiest Campaigns Ever," and inside the "Down & Dirty" section included reporter Danielle Knight’s story charging the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth made allegations about Kerry’s medals had "little or no merit," according to...The New York Times. |
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Al Sharpton Emerges From Burrow, Declares One More Year Of White Guilt -- It's become a tradition. On the 22nd day of every January, the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson crawl out from their respective burrows. If they don't see their shadows, it means that Dr. King's Dream is yet unrealized, and White America must spend another year flagellating itself for the sins of slavery. If, on the other hand, their shadows do appear, then Dr. King's Dream has at last been realized, and both of these well-respected Black leaders will fade into obscurity. |
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Republicans: FISA Authority In Constitution -- Authority to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance comes from the Constitution and is vital to stopping foreign terrorist attacks and spies, says a Republican staff assessment of the revised Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "There is nothing new or aggressive about relying on Article II authority in the context of foreign intelligence surveillance," stated the assessment produced by the office of Sen. Christopher S. Bond, Missouri Republican and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. |
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Russia Issues Pre-Emptive Nuclear Threat -- Russia's military chief of staff says Moscow would use nuclear weapons in pre-emptive strike if it felt threatened. "To defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia and its allies, military forces will be used, including preventively, including with the use of nuclear weapons," |
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Can't Say "Islamist" In Dallas/Fort Worth (photos) -- Why change the billboards? The sales manager of a Dallas-area billboard company explained: “My boss wouldn’t go along with this type of advertising since we have an international clientele, some of whom might be on the other side." The other side? On the side of the jihadists? Imagine an American billboard company in 1942 toning down an anti-Nazi billboard because, well, some of their clients are Nazis!
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New Black Panther Party Endorses Obama -- Barack Obama represents "Positive Change" for all of America. Obama will stir the "Melting Pot" into a better "Molten America." |
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United States |
Congressmen Seek Answers About Terror Expert's Firing -- Members of Congress are seeking more information regarding the firing of a top terrorism expert at the Pentagon following reports that he was dismissed for being too critical of Islamic law. |
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Canada |
Mark Steyn Is Not Alone -- Award-winning author Mark Steyn has been summoned to appear before two Canadian Human Rights Commissions on vague allegations of "subject[ing] Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt" and being "flagrantly Islamophobic" after Maclean's magazine published an excerpt from his book, America Alone. |
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Muslim Who Filed Human Rights Complaint is Charged with Discriminating Against Women -- The Saudi-trained propagandist who filed a "human rights" complaint against Canadian publisher Ezra Levant for printing the Danish Mohammed cartoons, gets even more ridiculous today, as Levant reveals that Soharwardy himself is the subject of a human rights complaint—for discrimination against women. |
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Anti-War Soros Funded Iraq Study -- A study that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros. Soros, 77, provided almost half the £50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal. Its claim was 10 times higher than consensus estimates of the number of war dead. |
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FBI Agent Faults Counterterrorism Work -- The FBI's counterterrorism agents lack the language skills and cultural understanding needed to succeed, an agency whistle-blower charged Saturday. Bassem Youssef, a decorated FBI supervisor who was born in Egypt and speaks fluent Arabic, also said jealousy, discrimination and flawed directives hinder the FBI's attempts to fight terrorism. "The FBI has publicly stated that expertise in working counterterrorism matters, and cultural understanding of the Middle East and the radical Islamic groups, as well as the language, are not necessary to run the counterterrorism division."
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A Declaration of War Against the People of Europe -- It’s the runup to the implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon, which will codify the permanent dictatorship of the Brussels bureaucracy over what is to become Eurabia. An accompanying propaganda blitz from the governments of Europe and their related quangos is attempting to soften up the subject populations of the European “provinces” and grease the skids for their acceptance of the new regime. |
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Moonbats Arrested in ACLU Organized Protest of Guantanamo -- Since today is the sixth anniversary of the first group of terrorist thugs to arrive in Guantanamo, the ACLU and Amnesty International pooled their resources in DC and organized Wear Orange Day to protest the isolation of murderous thugs from the rest of the world. And this blogger was there. |
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New Law Redefines Gender in California Schools -- The new law erases the old definition of sex as entirely male or female and, say critics, could give students the right to decide for themselves what gender they are. This, say critics, could in theory allow a male who thought of himself as female to assert his right to shower with the girls. |
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Al Sharpton Wants Another Scalp -- I’m sure you heard about the Golf Network anchorwoman who joked last week that young players who wanted to dethrone Tiger Woods should “lynch him in a back alley.” The cable news networks, looking to capture some Imus-style ratings, went ga-ga over the story. Despite Woods calling the matter closed, despite the anchorwoman and Woods being long-time friends, and despite the anchorwoman apologizing for her politically incorrect words, the non-scandal lingers. She has now been suspended. But that ain’t enough for nosybody, race-hustling Al Sharpton. |
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Only 19% Of Americans Implicitly Trust Media -- In a press release for a Sacred Heart University poll, those respondents who said they believe all or most of what the media has to tell them fell 8% since 2003. In 2003 27.4% of the poll's respondents said that they trusted all or most of what the MSM reports. In 2007 that number plummeted to just 19.6%. 23.9% said they believe little or nothing that comes out of the MSM with 55.3% saying they believe some of what the media churns out. |
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New York Times Book Review -- Islam |
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Russia |
Report Reveals Rampant Smuggling of Radioactive Materials -- In a troubling disclosure, the Russian Federal Customs Service has revealed that authorities thwarted more than 850 attempts to smuggle highly radioactive materials in and out of Russia in 2007. Eighty-five percent of these smuggling attempts were going into the country, and 15 percent were going out.
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Obsession To The Point Of Dementia -- Yesterday the New York Times ran an editorial that perfectly sums up a kind of dementia, born of obsession and hatred, that has become common on the Left. Titled "Looking At America," the editorial focuses on the Bush administration's efforts to prevent terrorist attacks over the last six years. Some would look at that record and see success: no significant attacks on American soil after September 11, most of al Qaeda's leadership killed or captured, no more safe havens for terrorists, tens of millions of people liberated in Afghanistan and Iraq. But not the editors of the Times: they see only the negative, and react with "horror." |
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U. N. Moves To Kill Free Speech, Passes Resolution Against "Defamation Of Religions" -- Alongside a resolution adopted by the U.N. General Assembly this week calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, the world body passed a raft of other human rights-related motions. One of them, introduced by Islamic nations, focuses on combating the "defamation of religions." |
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Britain Drops "War on Terror" Label -- The words "war on terror" will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country's chief prosecutor said Dec. 27. Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless "death cult."
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Britain In Secret Talks With The Taliban -- Agents from MI6 entered secret talks with Taliban leaders despite Gordon Brown's pledge that Britain would not negotiate with terrorists, |
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Afghanistan |
Afghanistan Expels Briton Accused Of Taliban Talks -- British and European officials today scrambled to head off a diplomatic row with Afghanistan, saying the expulsion of two western aides for allegedly holding talks with the Taliban was the result of a "misunderstanding". |
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Defaming Islam -- the UN General Assembly has passed a resolution against the "defamation of religions," especially Islam. The anti-religious defamation resolution was introduced by the OIC as a corrective to the Islamophobia revealed by the Mohammed cartoon crisis in Denmark. |
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Flight 93 Blogburst: Tbogg Lying To Readers -- The Jaques comment is important because it shows the blatant dishonesty of the Park Service’s internal investigation. Jaques acknowledged that the giant Mecca-oriented crescent at the center of the design is similar to the Mecca direction indicator (called a mihrab) around which every mosque is built, then he told the Park Service not to worry because no one has ever seen seen a mihrab anywhere near this big before:
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Terrorism and the Times: What's Not Fit To Print -- In a front page story in October 2006, titled, "F.B.I. Struggling to Reinvent Itself to Fight Terror," the New York Times dismissed out of hand the dangerous nature of the JIS cell in California (and called into question the validity behind other instances of U.S. based-terrorism cells). The Times consistently apologizes for radical Islam by flacking for domestic Muslim Brotherhood groups with a history of extremism. As I have documented in the past, the New York Times is a serial offender when it comes to giving an uncritical voice to the nation's most virulent Islamist fronts. |
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Rich Pay More Taxes Since Bush Elected Contrary to Media Meme -- You know all that nonsense the media have been spewing that the Bush tax cuts caused the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer? Well, the Internal Revenue Service and the Congressional Budget Office have published tax and income numbers for 2005, and the press couldn't be any more wrong.
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Canada's Thought Police -- Celebrated author Mark Steyn has been summoned to appear before two Canadian judicial panels on charges linked to his book “America Alone." Five Muslim law-school students, acting through the auspices of the Canadian Islamic Congress, allege that Steyn's magazine Maclean's advocated, among other things, the notion that Islamic culture is incompatible with Canada's liberalized, Western civilization. They insist such a notion is untrue and, in effect, want opinions like that banned from publication. |
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Newspapers Continue Not to Label Democrats Caught In Scandal -- A close adviser and chief fundraiser to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was indicted on fraud charges. Yet if you read about the story in the Chicago Tribune, you won't read which party the governor belongs to. That's right. Blagojevich is a Democrat, yet the Trib didn't bother to include this fact in their piece. |
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Scientists Petition U. N. to Stop Hysteria over Global Warming -- One hundred scientists from around the globe aren't drinking the Goracle's Kool-Aid, and have petitioned the UN to stop pushing the global warming hoax, and the hysteria associated with it. |
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Clinton Library Got Funds From Abroad -- Bill Clinton's presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation ($10 million) coming from Saudi Arabia. |
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Government Backs Taliban Talks -- The Prime Minister is due to set out a new long term strategy for Afghanistan today after visiting the country earlier this week. He will reveal a new "three-pronged strategy" with the establishment of security by Nato and the Afghan army to be followed by economic and political development. The most controversial part of the strategy is the proposal to hold formal discussions with the Taliban – with the aim of dividing forces opposing British troops, splitting local Afghan fighters from militants linked to al-Qa'eda.
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Shadow Warriors -- I was curious how highly-classified intelligence information was winding up on the front pages of the NY Times and in other leftist media. Two stories, in particular, caught my attention initially: the leak of the CIA "secret prisons," and the smearing of Ahmad Chalabi, to which I will return below. I knew quite a bit about both stories, and knew that the way they were being reported was incredibly selective and politically motivated. I wanted to track them back to the source. What I discovered was a vast, underground network of government officials, former intelligence officers, members of Congress and their staffs, who were in bed with a complacent, anti-Bush media. They were eager to publish anything that did damage to this president, even if it put the lives of our intelligence officers or of our front-line troops in jeopardy. |
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AP'S Conflict of Interest -- There is one current story in Iraq that has attracted the full attention of the Associated Press, and that is the case of Bilal Hussein, an AP photographer and terrorism suspect. The AP report on Hussein's hearing yesterday leaves out the fact that Hussein was arrested with a known al Qaeda terrorist... one of but many troubling aspects of the news organization's decision to forego objective news reporting in favor of self-serving advocacy in a clear and pervasive conflict of interest. The Associated Press, as an involved party in this case, should recuse themselves from reporting on Hussein's trial. |
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Russert Concedes Fewer Deaths in Iraq Means Less Coverage -- Asked by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt on Sunday evening about how a new MSNBC/Mason-Dixon poll found that Iraq is not "the dominating issue" as "the economy is immensely important to voters," Tim Russert suggested Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani will have "to re-calibrate" for "a bread and butter election" since "with the surge in Iraq and the level of American deaths declining, it is off the front pages." |
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The trial of Bilal Hussein -- It’s Sunday morning in Iraq. Today is the day our military officials plan to submit evidence against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein to the Iraqi judiciary system. You’ll recall that the military stated last month that it "possesses convincing and irrefutable evidence that Bilal Hussein is a threat to security and stability as a link to insurgent activity." |
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Paintball for Terrorists? BBC Paid for Islamic Radicals' Amusement -- The BBC funded a paintballing trip for men later accused of Islamic terrorism and didn't pass on information about the 21/7 bombers to police, a court heard yesterday. The organisation gave Mohammed Hamid, an Islamic preacher accused of radicalising British Muslims, a £300 fee and paid for fellow defendants to go and be filmed for a documentary.
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Information Warfare, CNN & Hillary -- CNN portrayed Democrat party operatives as undecided voters, average Americans with honest questions. They were in fact Democrat activists, advocates and sympathizers; their questions designed to reinforce negative stereotypes about conservatives. |
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GAO’s Explosive Airplane Bomb Videos -- Last month, TSA Chief Kip Hawley evaded questions for Congress about why Congress' oversight arm, GAO, was able to sneak real live bombs (IEDs=Improvised Explosive Devices) and real live fire bombs (IIDs=Improvised Incindiary Devices) onto airplanes — yet again. |
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Global Warming and the Tax the Rich Scheme -- After the United Nations announced earlier in the week that rich countries - code for America, of course - are going to have to pay billions of dollars to help poor nations deal with global warming, several international press outlets published articles of similar content. |
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Teddy Bear Case Exposes Failure of American Feminist Leaders -- There has been appropriate international outrage over the treatment of Gibbons, from virtually everyone except American “feminists.” Multiple Muslim groups in the U.K. have condemned the sentence. Even the popular little boy in Mrs. Gibbons’ class who suggested the name for the bear came to her defense, explaining that he named the bear after himself. Yet, when asked by FOX News for a comment about the situation, a National Organization for Women spokeswoman said they were "not putting out a statement or taking a position."
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When Journalistic Ethics are Treason -- Is it ethical for an American company to encourage an employee to become “embedded” in the ranks of the enemies of the United States during an actual time of war? Related, is it ethical for that journalist to become embedded within forces that are intentionally breaking the Geneva Conventions by not wearing identifiable markings or uniforms? Intentionally targeting civilians? And murdering hostages? |
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The Media "Whitewash" of Hillary Clinton -- There is so much evidence of Hillary Clinton’s corruption, you’d think even a reporter for a mainstream news outlet would have to stumble over enough to write or talk about it. But ever since her husband popped up on the national scene, the media has downplayed every scandal. Now, a new book on the Democratic presidential frontrunner examines why Hillary became a media darling before she even set foot in the White House. |
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TNR's Last Stand? -- 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division, rotated out of Iraqi several weeks ago to their home base in Schweinfurt, Germany. This included noted fabulist Scott Thomas Beauchamp. Whether Beauchamp is still in Germany or has been allowed home on leave is rather irrelevant; he matters quite little now that he has established that he will not support his dark fantasies on the record. |
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The San Francisco Chronicle Deceives Its Readers Through Comment-Deletion Trickery -- If you make a comment on an article posted at SFGate, and if the site moderators then subsequently delete your comment for whatever reason, it will only appear as deleted to the other readers. HOWEVER, your comment will NOT appear to be deleted if viewed from your own computer! The Chronicle's goal is to trick deleted commenters into not knowing their comments were in fact deleted. I'll give evidence below showing how they do this. |
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SEC eye on Hillary's Money Man -- Federal investigators are probing a company run by a wheeler-dealer pal of Hillary and Bill Clinton that has already been accused by stockholders of wasting millions on the former first couple, it was revealed yesterday. |
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The Problem For Our Country -- I guess it’s noteworthy when George Soros singles you out for attack.[1] On the other hand, when you have been targeted by as many leftists as I have, one more billionaire doesn’t make much difference. These assaults have been inspired by my efforts to organize an “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” whose goal was to identify America’s enemies as more than just “terrorists,” and specifically to link them to a radical movement within Islam, which has declared war on the West. One salutary aspect of the Week is to have exposed the breadth of the coalition that now functions as a frontier guard for our enemies. Members of this coalition are apparently determined to run interference for America’s enemies, because, in their view, a greater danger to America is posed by conservatives such as myself and George Bush. |
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Baghdad Starts to Exhale as Security Improves -- The security improvements in most neighborhoods are real. Days now pass without a car bomb, after a high of 44 in the city in February. The number of bodies appearing on Baghdad’s streets has plummeted to about 5 a day, from as many as 35 eight months ago, and suicide bombings across Iraq fell to 16 in October, half the number of last summer and down sharply from a recent peak of 59 in March, the American military says. |
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U. S. Military Accuses AP Photographer of Being "Terrorist Media Operative" -- The US military has filed a formal complaint with an Iraqi criminal court accusing a detained, award-winning Associated Press photographer of being a "terrorist media operative," the Pentagon said Monday. |
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FEC Slaps Media Fund with Huge Fine -- The Federal Election Commission unanimously voted to levy a $580,000 fine against a group that spent tens of millions of dollars in support of Democrat John Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004. |
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New Hot Air video: The Politics of Planting -- Why did so many of the “undecided voters” who asked questions at last week’s Democrat debate turn out to be either anti-war, labor, race politics or Democrat party activists? |
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Muslims Discover Ron Paul -- The call has gone out to all the Muslim Americans to hurry up and register to vote Republican so that they can vote in the Republican Primary to support Ron Paul, the anti-interventionist, non-isolationist candidate for President of the United States. Muslims are opening their wallets and joining teaparty07.com as well. |
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CNN's Six "Undecided Voters" Were All Democratic Operatives -- CNN hits bottom and digs: All six debate questioners appear to be Democratic Party operatives. So much for "ordinary people, undecided voters". To paraphrase Junior Soprano, CNN is so far up the DNC's hind end, Howard Dean can taste hair gel.
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CNN Stocked Audience and Controlled Thursday's Debate Questions -- There's a great deal of controversy brewing concerning implications that CNN not only stocked the audience at Thursday's Democrat Presidential debate, but also controlled the questions attendees asked. So much for Wolf Blitzer not caving into pressure from the Clinton campaign. |
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CNN Planted Questions For The Democrats? -- According to the MySpace page of the girl (one Maria Luisa) who asked Hillary the "diamonds or pearls" question, every question at the debate last night was staged.
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No Tenure For Hatred -- Joel Mowbray makes a straightforward argument against Columbia University's possible award of tenure to Professor Joseph Massad: "No tenure for hatred." It seems like a winning argument, but roughtly the same argument would apply to the recognition Columbia accords its distinguished lecturers such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Thanks to Joel Mowbray for turning a spotlight on Columbia's forthcoming decision in the Massad case. |
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YouTube Asked to Curb Jihad Videos -- The YouTube website is facing calls to crack down on extremist videos promoting violence after it emerged it was being used to post footage of Islamic fighters with guns and rocket launchers. |
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Debate on U.S. Kosovo Policy Brewing in Washington -- On November 1 the Voice of America interviewed former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, about the future status of Kosovo. Mr. Bolton expressed the view that the State Department has conducted a consistently anti-Serbian policy for more than 15 years. Unfortunately, he said, this biased policy has continued even though there is no logical reason for it after the fall of Milosevic. |
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Shoe Bomber Alert -- Catch and Release |
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LA Times Sitting On Major Sex Scandal Involving "Leading Presidential Candidate" -- So I was down in DC this past weekend and happened to run into a well-connected media person, who told me flatly, unequivocally that “everyone knows” The LA Times was sitting on a story, all wrapped up and ready to go about what is a potentially devastating sexual scandal involving a leading Presidential candidate. “Everyone knows” meaning everyone in the DC mainstream media political reporting world. “Sitting on it” because the paper couldn’t decide the complex ethics of whether and when to run it. The way I heard it they’d had it for a while but don’t know what to do. The person who told me )not an LAT person) knows I write and didn’t say "don’t write about this."
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Al Qaeda and Haditha bombshell -- What the MSM didn’t tell you. |
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Cuomo, Kurtz Revel in Media's Ability to Push Anti-war Agenda -- On Tuesday's "Good Morning America," co-host Chris Cuomo and media critic Howard Kurtz ignored the role that liberal bias has played in the decline of ratings for the network evening newscasts. At the same time, Cuomo and Washington Post reporter seemed to be proud of the media's ability to turn Americans against the war in Iraq. |
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Liberal Media Bias Case Exhibit # 257,906 -- Interview Airtime on ABC, CBS and NBC Morning Shows |
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400,000 People, and No Media? -- An estimated 400,000 people congregated in San Francisco on Sept. 30. Crowds flooded the neighborhood known as "South of Market" to take part in the 24th annual Folsom Street Fair. People from all over the nation, even the world, flocked to the Golden Gate city to celebrate and call attention to an aspect of their lives of which they are very proud.
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"Fox and Friends" Guest Speaks Out Against CNN's "God's Warriors" -- The controversy behind CNN’s "God’s Warriors" continues. On the October 4 edition of "Fox and Friends First" guest Alex Safian, Associate Director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), spoke out against Christiane Amanpour’s special and its equivocation of Islamists with devout Jews and Christians. |
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More Interested in Influencing Events in Iraq than in Reporting Them -- Yesterday's Washington Post ran three stories about Iraq on the front page, yet buried a report about the substantial decline in U.S. and Iraqi civilian deaths on page 14. When the death count goes up, that's almost always front page news at the Post. |
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New York Times Covers for CAIR, Again -- In what has become practically a routine, whenever bad publicity for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) surfaces, in an almost Pavlovian response, the New York Times leaps to its defense. |
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BBC's Newsround Fed Youngsters Al Qaeda Propaganda, Claims Ex-Spy Chief -- Britain's former spy chief accused the BBC of "parroting" Al Qaeda propaganda to children as young as six. Dame Pauline Neville Jones, who is also a former BBC governor, is infuriated at the stance the corporation's Newsround programme took on the September 11 attacks. |
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Is Global Warming Alarmist James Hansen a Shill for George Soros? -- How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely "NASA whistleblower" standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros' Open Society Institute , which gave him "legal and media advice"? |
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The Soros Threat to Democracy -- Investors Business Daily shines some sunlight on George Soros's secret promotion of unworthy causes through the inaptly named Open Society Institute. (The editorial is one in a series on Soros and MoveOn.org that IBD compiles here.) IBD criticizes the lag between OSI's financial support and the disclosure of the support: |
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The Soros Threat To Democracy -- George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire's backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency. |
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Canada |
Muslim Inmate Wins $2,000 for Bacon on His Plate -- A Muslim inmate has won $2,000 and a partial human rights victory over a Correctional Service of Canada policy not to replace bacon with a halal diet for Islam-worshipping cons. |
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NYT's Public Editor Says Paper Made Mistake Running MoveOn’s "Betray Us" Ad -- On Sunday, the Times's public editor Clark Hoyt came out strongly against the paper's decision to run this piece of detritus claiming that MoveOn got a price "that it should not have received under Times policies," and that "the ad appears to fly in the face of an internal advertising acceptability manual that says, ‘We do not accept opinion advertisements that are attacks of a personal nature.'" |
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MSNBC Gives CAIR Air Time To Smear Rep. Peter King -- After showing a few seconds of his comment and a statement from Giulliani, the rest of the segment was spent with CAIR representative, Ibrahim Hooper, without anyone offering an opposing challenge or viewpoint. |
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Video of Boy‘s Death Ordered Released -- A French judge has ordered a television network to release unedited footage of the shooting death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip for renewed investigations into the contentious incident, judicial officials said Friday. The Israeli army initially said the gunfire "apparently" came from Israeli positions. But a military investigation subsequently determined he could have been hit by Palestinian bullets in an exchange of fire. |
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Columbia's Disgrace -- In the video above, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Acting Dean and Professor John Coatsworth explains that Columbia would also be happy to extend a platform to Adolf Hitler were he only available to accept their hospitality. These folks will not be content until they have made it apparent to the world that they are complete and utter idiots. |
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U. N. Human Rights Commissioner Calls on Euro Governments to Combat "Islamophobia" -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said on Monday that bigotry and prejudice, especially in regard to Muslims, were common in Europe and called on governments to tackle the issue. |
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IAEA Springs Into Action, Elects Syria Co-Chairman -- The United Nations descends even further into the depths of absurdity, as the UN’s toothless nuclear watchdog elects Syria as co-chairman of the IAEA. |
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U. N. Human Rights Council Boycotts Denmark -- When Anne Bayefsky participated in the 2001 UN Conference on Racism in Durban she and many others were shocked. The conference touched on neither the situation for women and minorities in Arab countries nor the massacres in Congo or Durban — or any of the other catastrophes in the world. No, most of it was about how Israel treated the Palestinians, and the conference adopted a slew of resolutions against Israel and the USA. The two of them left the conference in protest while the delegates from all European countries and NGO’s — Danes included — stayed and put a good face on it. |
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Jihadist in the Netherlands Convicted ... Again -- A Dutch Muslim radical was sentenced to four years in jail by an Amsterdam appeals court on Monday for planning a terrorist attack in 2004. Samir Azzouz had already been acquitted on the same charges twice by a lower court and an appeals court which said his plans were "so clumsy and primitive" that they were not a threat.
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Modoggie Monday -- The Swedish Prime Minister should condemn al-Qaeda’s threats, opines the Swedish editor-in-chief, whom al-Qaeda wishes to kill resulting from the “blasphemous” depiction of Mohammed. |
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