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UN Expenses increase 25% — for what? -- Despite long-standing efforts by successive U.S. administrations to rein in U.N. spending, the United Nations this month presented its top donors with a request for nearly $1.1 billion in additional funds over the next two years — boosting current U.N. expenses by 25 percent and marking the global body’s highest-ever administrative budget, according to internal U.N. memos. |
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"Speak English" Signs OK At Philly Shop -- The owner of a famous cheesesteak shop did not discriminate when he posted signs asking customers to speak English, a city panel ruled Wednesday. In a 2-1 vote, a Commission on Human Relations panel found that two signs at Geno's Steaks telling customers, "This is America: WHEN ORDERING 'PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH,'" do not violate the city's Fair Practices Ordinance. |
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The New Dhimmi Times -- Totalitarians have an uncanny appreciation for the subversive effect of foreign propagandists. The Nazis had Lord Haw-Haw, Imperial Japan its Tokyo Rose, the Soviets the World Council of Churches (among many others) and the North Vietnamese Jane Fonda. Now, our time’s totalitarian ideologues, the Islamofascists, have the New York Times.
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The Media's Nauseating Approach to Terror Reporting -- There is a push by the Jurassic Press, in two directions at once, to frame just-so their presentation of the murder and murderers engaged in the attempted global implementation of political Islam. |
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WaPo Editor: "I Want More Muslim Journalists" -- Philip Bennett, the Washington Post’s managing editor, paid a visit to the University of California, Irvine for a little chat earlier this week. During his comments on the subject of religion and politics, Bennett claimed that the MSM should hire more Muslims because the media has too many misconceptions about Islam. Bennett told the UCI audience, "At the Post I want more Muslim readers and I want more Muslim journalists." One wonders how far this new understanding of Islam in the media will go for Bennett, though? Will his desire to be inclusive and to create a new politically correct understanding go as far as excusing Islamofascism as we try to better understand Islam? |
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European Commission Braces For Anti-Islam Film -- The European Commission has warned all its offices around the world that the release of an upcoming Dutch film criticising the Koran could spark violent protest by Muslims. "We have informed our delegations that the film, due for release soon, although we don't know exactly when, could draw protests." EU external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner's spokeswoman, Christiane Hohmann, told Adnkronos International (AKI).
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NY Times Term For Eco-Terrorists: "Anti-Sprawl Activists" -- For people who are anti-sprawl activists — or have baser motives — a new-built house sitting empty in a previously rural area evidently makes a ripe target for an attack by fire. |
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More Americans Turning To Web For News -- Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey.
While most people think journalism is important to the quality of life, 64 percent are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism in their communities, a We Media/Zogby Interactive online poll showed.
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NBC Claimed Bush Allowed Al-Qaeda In Iraq Before War, Media Now Ignore Pre-War Presence -- While it is currently conventional wisdom in the media that there was no Al-Qaeda presence in Iraq before the 2003 invasion, as evidenced by the media's failure to correct Barack Obama's recent claim that "there was no such thing as Al-Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq," for several years dating back before the Iraq invasion, there have been media reports of former Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's connections to Osama bin Laden, and his use of Iraq as a base to plot terror attacks against other countries before the war. In fact, four years ago, the NBC Nightly News claimed not only that there was an Al-Qaeda presence in Iraq before the invasion, busy plotting attacks against Europe, but that the Bush administration intentionally "passed up several opportunities" to attack terrorist bases in Iraq "long before the war" in 2002 because of fear it would "undercut its case" for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. |
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Does Experience Matter For The Presidency? Not Really -- On Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith interviewed the Managing Editor of Time Magazine, Richard Stengel, about the publication’s latest cover story on the presidential campaign entitled "How Much Does Experience Matter?," with a clear picture of Barack Obama’s silhouette surrounded by a holy aura of light (see picture). Smith previewed the segment earlier in the show by wondering: "Still ahead, the question of experience dominating the Democratic campaign, does it really matter?" |
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Bobbies Will Be Taught Sharia Law And The Koran In "Secret" Plan To Counter Terror At Local Level -- Police will be trained on the importance of the Koran and Sharia law to Muslims under Government plans to tackle extremism. Lessons in the Islamic faith and culture will become part of the formal training for recruits. Chief constables said officers will build better relationships by understanding the communities they are policing. This could prove crucial in rooting out extremism and preventing a terrorist attack, according to the Association of Chief Police Officers. |
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8,000 Foreigners Received Illegal Pilot Licenses -- In one of the most damaging reports ever filed about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), ABC news headlined yesterday with "9/11 Redoux:'Thousands of Aliens' in U.S. Flight Schools Illegally." The article paints a pathetic portrait of the TSA in a free-fall, unable to handle the most basic of its Constitutionally-mandated jobs. |
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Should Government Employ Terrorist Sympathizers? -- Imagine trying to fight a war without a clue as to what motivates your enemy or governs his strategy for your destruction. Actually, you don't have to work too hard to get your head around such an insane idea; it is the current practice of the United States government. |
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Ezra Levant -- I mentioned that Shirlene McGovern, the "human rights officer" who interrogated me, has resigned from my case. The human rights commission advised my lawyer that McGovern quit because of the public backlash against the commission, and against her in particular. In other words, she didn't like being called a censor in the blogosphere. I'm not sympathetic. I believe that any government bureaucrat who makes a living interrogating citizens about their political beliefs ought to be held in public contempt.
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Unconscionable Horror: U.S. Soldiers Blindfold Prisoners in Iraq, NY Times Editorial Board Wets Themselves -- What, exactly, did these men do to justify blindfolding them and forcing them to their knees on a concrete floor, their heads pressed against the wall? In the United States, kidnappers, rapists, and mass murderers are not treated this way. Timothy McVeigh was not treated this way. |
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Top British Defense Think Tank -- Multiculturalism has made the U. K. a "soft touch" for jihadists. |
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"Unavoidable" Choices? -- Ironically, we all owe a debt of gratitude to Rowan Williams, who as Archbishop of Canterbury is chief prelate of the Church of England. Our thanks are not due this cleric, however, for his appalling pronouncement last week that we had better get used to the imposition of Shariah law in Britain since it is now, in his words, "unavoidable." Rather, we should be appreciative because, by his declaration of capitulation to and appeasement of the Islamofascists — who agree with him on the inevitability of the triumph of the brutally repressive totalitarian theo-political-legal code they call Shariah — Archbishop Williams has, albeit wholly unintentionally, sounded a needed alarm.
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Suicide Bomber, 12, At U. K. School -- Fury erupted last night after it emerged that a boy of 12 who trained to be a suicide bomber is being allowed to attend school in Britain. |
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At Least The Ayatollah Of Canterbury Is Honest, Mr. Brown -- The poor old Ayatollah of Canterbury doesn't actually deserve all the slime now being tipped over his modernised mitre. Just some of it. Of course it is absurd for the chief of the Christian Church in this country to cringe publicly to Islam. But at least Archbishop Williams is open about his unwillingness to defend the faith – as is his colleague, the wretched Bishop of Oxford, who recently announced that he was perfectly happy for loudspeakers to blare the Muslim call to prayer across that city. Even on their own liberal terms, this pair are clueless about sharia and its scorn for women. |
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Sharia Law Row: Archbishop Is In Shock As He Faces Demands To Quit -- The Archbishop of Canterbury was facing demands to quit last night as the row over sharia law intensified. Leading bishops publicly contradicted Dr Rowan Williams's call for Islamic law to be brought into the British legal system. With the Church of England plunged into crisis, senior figures were said to be discussing the archbishop's future. |
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Shari'a Law In Texas! -- Assalam aleikum, y'all! The Second Court of Appeals of the State of Texas has rendered a ruling on the enforceability of shari'a judgments rendered by imams. According to the Texas appeals court, it's all good. You've heard of the Texas Courts. Ladies and gentlemen, make way for the Texas Islamic Courts!!! |
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Sharia Law In U. K. Is "Unavoidable" -- The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable." Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system. Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion. |
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The Islamists' Best Friend At The U. N. -- Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will be presiding over Durban II, the UN's 2009 follow-up to its controversial 2001 ‘anti-racism’ hatefest in Durban, South Africa. While Canada, her home country, announced that it will not attend the Durban II Conference's "circus of intolerance," as Canada’s Secretary of State for Multiculturalism so aptly described it, Ms. Arbour will be the Secretary-General of this circus.
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Navy Must Comply With No-Sonar Rule -- U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper (a Clinton appointee) ruled Monday that the Navy is not exempt from complying with both the National Environmental Policy Act and a court injunction that created a 12 nautical-mile no-sonar zone off Southern California. |
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In Berkeley, Push To Rescind Letter To Marines -- A week after blasting the Marines as "unwelcome intruders" in Berkeley, two City Council members want the city to back off the declaration that ignited the wrath of the nation's right wing and inspired a Republican senator to try to sever Berkeley's federal funding. |
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Promotion Of Islam In Our Schools -- Public school children in grades K-12 are being assigned textbooks that misrepresent and, in some cases, glorify Islamic beliefs and history – often at the expense of other religions and cultures. The apologetics and indoctrination common in university Middle East studies programs is being carried into public schools by contentious, ahistorical, and inaccurate textbooks written by those same Middle East studies professors. |
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After U. N. Watch Protest, U. N. Rights Chief Reverses Course On Anti-Semitic Arab Charter -- In an unprecedented reversal, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has backed off from her earlier endorsement of an Arab text calling for the “elimination” of Zionism, in response to a UN Watch protest. News of the controversy was covered internationally, sparking a series of Canadian newspaper editorials critical of Ms. Arbour’s initial statement and her overall handling of the affair. Following is a timeline of the events as they unfolded around the globe. |
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Europeans On The U. S. Elections -- An editorial in the Brussels-based, center-right De Standaard articulates a view shared by many Europeans: "American presidential elections are not 'home affairs'. American decisions have repercussions all over the globe…. Hence, the world should be given the right to vote." |
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Whitehall Draws Up New Rules On Language Of Terror -- A new counter-terrorism phrasebook has been drawn up within Whitehall to advise civil servants on how to talk to Muslim communities about the nature of the terror threat without implying they are specifically to blame. |
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Biased Reuters Headline Of The Day -- Every once in a while, Reuters uncorks a headline so stunningly distorted and biased that it stands alone, a shining example of so much that’s wrong with the mainstream media: U.S. says no one too young for Guantanamo court. |
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Department Of Homeland Security's Funds Bring Islamist Sympathizers To Tufts -- This past fall, Tufts' Interfaith Initiative, "Pathways," used its federal money to sponsor a dinner and dialogue by Edina Lekovic on "Women, Faith, and Women." The problem is that Lekovic is a radical Islamist sympathizer who has gone so far as to defend Osama bin Laden.
A former managing editor of "Al-Talib, a Muslim publication at UCLA, Lekovic was on the masthead when it published an editorial - signed by the Al-Talib staff - praising and defending Osama bin Laden. |
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Questions For The Pentagon -- In the sorry tradition of shooting the messenger, the Pentagon is cashiering its top expert on Islamist doctrine, Stephen Coughlin. Some members of Congress are now contemplating hearings to ask why. Along with drawing attention to Coughlin’s research, now circulating on the Internet, the growing controversy has thrown a spotlight on Coughlin’s alleged nemesis at the Pentagon, a top aide named Hesham Islam — whose tale deserves closer attention. Not least, as a reporter for the Armed Forces Press Service observed last year, it would make a great Hollywood blockbuster. |
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Muslim Opening Prayer At Iowa Statehouse Raises Concerns -- a Muslim Imam began the prayer in the Iowa Legislature. The prayer asked of "Victory over those who disbelieve," and "Protection from the great Satan" among other things. |
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Three Little Pigs "Too Offensive" -- A story based on the Three Little Pigs fairy tale has been turned by a government agency's awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims. The digital book, re-telling the classic story, was rejected by judges who warned that "the use of pigs raises cultural issues." |
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MSM Tools Spread Soros Propaganda -- The right side of the blogosphere is all over the clueless media coverage of a new “study” and database compiled by “two nonprofit journalism organizations” that purports to show that BUSH LIED to entice American into Iraq. You would think by now that the MSM would try to spare itself some embarrassment and at least do a cursory Google search before casting the researchers as neutral, reliable, disinterested parties. But noooo. They dutifully published these transparent moonbat briefs for impeachment without disclosing the “nonprofit journalism organizations’” ties to BDS sugar daddy George Soros. |
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NBC's Ned Colt Ponders: Osama Bin Laden "Fanatic" or "Hero?" -- On Tuesday's "Today" show, NBC's Ned Colt decided he needed to balance out the views of Osama Bin Laden, as he rhetorically asked about the al Qaeda leader: "Murderous fanatic or hero of radical Islam?" Colt even went on to relay a soundbite from the editor of Al-Quds who painted Bin Laden as the "little David" with the U.S. playing the role of "the mighty Goliath." |
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Frightening Canadian Free-Speech Suppression Ignored By U. S. Old Media -- The Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) is busy these days -- aiding and abetting those who wish to suppress the human right of free speech and expression. Even though (or is it because?) the vehicle that enabled and emboldened the CHRC's thought police and those who complain to it was the passage of the kind of "non-discrimination" legislation Congress has considered passing for several years, US Old Media could care less.
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Bolton: U. S. Intelligence Has Become Politicized -- The 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate, as well as the skewed reporting around it, is a sign of the "illegitimate politicization" of the American intelligence establishment, according to former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton. |
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Most Diversity Training Ineffective, Study Finds -- Most diversity training efforts at American companies are ineffective and even counterproductive in increasing the number of women and minorities in managerial positions, according to an analysis that turns decades of conventional wisdom, government policy and court rulings on their head. |
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Tariq Ramadan's brother wins two years' pay after being fired for advocating stoning -- A Geneva teacher fired for controversial comments he made in an article for a French newspaper will receive SFr255,000 in damages from the canton of Geneva. The canton opted to pay the maximum indemnity to guarantee "peace" over the issue. |
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"It’s my bloody right to do so" (see video above) -- Ezra Levant is the publisher of Western Standard magazine, whose print version, now defunct, published the Danish Mohammed cartoons two years ago. On Friday Mr. Levant was summoned under protest to be interrogated by a "human rights officer" from the Alberta Human Rights Commission. The reason? Khurrum Awan, an imam from the Canadian Islamic Congress, filed a complaint with the HRC against him. |
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Video: "Obviously You're Hunting For A thoughtcrime" -- Canadian publisher Ezra Levant, questioned by the Canadian Human Rights Commission for publishing the Muhammad cartoons, mounts a magnificent defense of the freedom of speech and points up the ridiculousness of these new thoughtcrime laws. |
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80 Anti-Gitmo Protesters Arrested At Supreme Court -- A photo essay and video from the anti-Gitmo protest at the Supreme Court. Eighty demonstrators, many clad in those left-wing fashionable orange jumpsuits, were arrested. Some of the marchers were filmed reading Gitmo detainee poetry obtained and published by the pro bono lawyers for jihad that are subsidized by Arab governments. |
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Flight 93 Memorial Blockbuster! -- Professor who white-washed the Crescent of Embrace was Paul Murdoch's classmate at UCLA. |
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Goldman Sachs Predicts Grim Year For Newspapers -- Newspapers will take it on the chin in 2008, according to analysts with Goldman Sachs, who warned Wednesday of a potential double-whammy, as the industry's secular downturn converges with a broader economic slowdown. Overall, they forecast a 7.9% decline in revenue, a much more substantial drop than their earlier prediction of just 2.6%. |
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Goldman Sachs Predicts Grim Year For Newspapers -- Newspapers will take it on the chin in 2008, according to analysts with Goldman Sachs, who warned Wednesday of a potential double-whammy, as the industry's secular downturn converges with a broader economic slowdown. Overall, they forecast a 7.9% decline in revenue, a much more substantial drop than their earlier prediction of just 2.6%. |
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Philippine Government Drafts Constitutional Amendment To Create Muslim Homeland -- This definition of what is called "the territory" is part of larger peace negotiations between the government the MILF, and was due to be formalized on December 15. |
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AP Obit Paints Traitorous Ex-CIA Agent, Castro Apologist As Travel Agent -- Philip Agee, a leftist who exposed fellow CIA operatives by name in a book he published in the 1970s has died in Cuba. Agee's perfidy was one reason Congress in 1982 passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. If that doesn't ring a bell, that's precisely the law that Bush administration critics charged Karl Rove and/or Scooter Libby violated in the "outing" of CIA agent Valerie Plame. |
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The New Multicultural Finland -- Migration and European Affairs Minister, Astrid Thors, wants to slacken the immigration ministry’s unnecessary strict measures. In order to do so, she is introducing a new vocabulary which will center around the word client. An immigrant will no longer be known as an immigrant, refugee, asylum seeker etc. He is just a client. |
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Columbia Professors Plan To Visit Iran To Apologize To Ahmadinejad -- An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. The delegation plans to express regret for the insulting remarks Columbia University President Lee Bollinger directed at Ahmadinejad on September 24 in his introductory speech, the Mehr News Agency correspondent in New York reported.
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Mayor In "Muslims Cause Mayhem With Explosives" Row -- A Tory town council mayor has sparked an outcry after saying Muslims "cause mayhem with explosives". Tory Mirfield mayor Robert Bennett made the remarks in an email to the town council clerk. Today his comments were branded as unacceptable and disgraceful by his party. |
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Bad Journalism and Iraq War Traced Back to Bloggers -- The so-called "dean of the White House press corps," Helen THomas, is at it again. Sh'e not abusing her front row position at White House press briefings and criticizing the Bush administration, but this time by taking shots at the new media. |
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CBS, WaPo Trots Out Has-been McGovern: "Impeach Bush, Worse Than Nixon" -- Will the MSM ever give up their quest to get Bush and Cheney impeached? Seemingly, no. And this time they have trotted out one of the biggest most, irrelevant losers in American electoral history like a performing monkey ready to sing impeachment to the MSM's organ grinding tune. |
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"The termination of Stephen Coughlin on the Joint Staff is an act of intellectual cowardice" -- We can only hope he can be positioned in his next venue to continue to educate our military for the fight we are in. If we don't understand the war and the enemy we are engaged against, we remain vulnerable and we cannot win. |
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First They Came for the English Bloggers -- Britain's recent laws concerning the incitement of racial and religious hatred have made illegal much of what is published in the Counterjihad blogosphere. The first British blogger is about to face the Multicultural perp-walk. Lionheart is a well-known patriotic blogger in England, and is on our blogroll. He is currently outside the UK, and has been informed that he will be arrested for stirring up racial hatred as soon as he returns home.
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Clinton Judge Torpedoes Navy Sonar -- A federal judge forbade the Navy on Thursday from using a powerful form of sonar within 12 miles of the California coast and slapped other restrictions on naval war exercises in a ruling that could have repercussions in the Pacific Northwest.
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CNN’s Blitzer Implies White House Officials Will Lie In CIA Matter -- Instead of leading with the Iowa caucuses, Wednesday’s "The Situation Room" began its broadcast covering attorney general Michael Mukasey’s decision to open an investigation into the destruction of interrogation tapes by the CIA. Host Wolf Blitzer compared this investigation to the investigation of Scooter Libby. "Whenever they [Bush administration officials] have to go testify, whether before a grand jury or to the FBI, and tell what they know... they fall into that dangerous area where they might not necessarily tell the whole truth, and then they could be charged with a cover-up, if you will, sort of along the lines of Scooter Libby." |
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Vanessa Redgrave Helps Guantanamo Suspects -- Two suspected al-Qa'eda operatives released from Guantanamo Bay have walked free from court although they are still wanted in Spain on terrorism-related offences. One of the men, who is accused of distributing extremist propaganda produced by Osama bin Laden, had half of his £50,000 bail surety met by the actress Vanessa Redgrave. Miss Redgrave said: "It is a profound honour and I am glad to be alive to be able to do this." |
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Right Wing News -- Favorite 15 Quotes Of The Day For 2007 |
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Dishonest Reporter Award 2007 -- Our seventh annual recognition of the most skewed and biased coverage of the Mideast conflict. |
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The Best Notable Quotables of 2007 -- The 20th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting. |
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Outlets Twist Good News on Iraq Into Bad, Except ABC & LA Times -- Viewers of ABC's World News on Tuesday night learned of good news in the Pentagon's latest quarterly report on conditions in Iraq, but the positive developments went unnoted on CBS while NBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, AP and McClatchy all stressed the negatives in the status report. |
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Year Of Global Cooling -- Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards. |
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Old Media Ran Seven Bogus Slaughter Stories in Seven Weeks -- The mainstream media remains perfect-- 7 bogus reports in 7 weeks. Another exaggerated slaughter story made the news this weekend just like the bogus al-Kawwaz family "slaughter" made headlines last month. |
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VIDEO: Make Me a Muslim -- Your jaw may need to be retrieved from the floor after watching this extended advertisement for Islam from Britain’s Channel 4. |
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The Year in Media Errors and Corrections -- A compilation of goofs and outright lies published in the media.
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U. S. Director Gets Green Light on Ahmadinejad Documentary -- American movie director Oliver Stone will start filming a documentary about Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in February 2008. |
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Our (USA Today) View on War in Iraq -- Surge's success holds chance to seize the moment in Iraq.
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Principal Tells Teachers To Dumb-Down Standards -- Last month, Principal Bennett Lieberman sent off a stern memo to teachers. "If you are not passing more than 65 percent of your students in a class, then you are not designing your expectations to meet their abilities, and you are setting your students up for failure, which, in turn, limits your success as a professional." |
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Conservatives Laugh at Media Bias -- If Vice President Richard Cheney died, more people would live. Bill Clinton sounds like Jesus in the Temple. And the Republican Party caused the near-deathly stroke of Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota. |
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MSNBC's Shuster: Waterboarding Equivalent to Shooting Legs Off -- Shuster began wildly comparing waterboarding to violent acts: "If you believe that America should torture, fine! Waterboard them! Drill them in the kneecaps. Shoot, shoot their legs off! Whatever you want to do." |
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Prominent Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren Not Sure What He Apologized to Muslims for -- Rick Warren, the "purpose-driven life" pastor, signed the dhimmi apology that a large number of Christian leaders recently offered to Muslims. But he's not sure what for. Don't bother him with details! If there was ever something Christians did that was unjust or unkind to Muslims, Rick Warren is sorry for it! |
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MSNBC Senior Political Analyst Admits He's Afraid to Criticize Islam Publicly -- Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr., is MSNBC’s Senior Political Analyst and a panelist on “The McLaughlin Group.” He has won a reputation over the years for a volcanic temper, and has gained attention recently for an emotional attack on Mormonism. But here's what he says about criticizing Islamic jihadists; "Oh, well, I’m afraid of what the…that’s where I’m really afraid. I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my life if I do." |
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CBS’s Schieffer: "We Have Sunk to Using the Tactics" of the Terrorists -- On Sunday’s "Face the Nation" on CBS, host Bob Schieffer aksed in his commentary at the end of the show: "Have we helped our cause with the rest of the world when they come to believe we have sunk to using the tactics of those who oppose us?" |
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British Spy Chiefs: Iran "Hoodwinked" CIA over Nuclear Plans -- British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has mothballed its nuclear weapons programme, as a US intelligence report claimed last week, and believe the CIA has been hoodwinked by Teheran. Analysts believe that Iranian staff, knowing their phones were tapped, deliberately gave misinformation. |
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MNF-I Responds— Another Bogus Report!… No Evidence of Dwelah Massacre! -- The “Dwelah Massacre” made international headlines on December 2, 2007. "The story you are reading in the news is NOT true… CF assessment: Wildly inflated, irresponsibly exaggerated claims-no 600 families displaced, no 200 terrorists, no evidence of civilian KIA." |
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NBC Backs Down on Freedom's Watch Ads -- Is it merely a coincidence that this public reversal came just over three hours after the Majority Accountability Project, on this site, revealed that "the NBC lawyer who refused to allow [the ads had] donated at least $45,000 to a host of Congressional Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and the campaign committees of House and Senate Democrats"? |
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Shuster Imagines Evangelicals Going to Gitmo To "Torture People Just for Fun" -- We'll go to a revival and then go to Guantanamo Bay and torture some people just for fun." -- David Shuster on evangelicals, 12-7-07. |
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Helen Thomas Says Bloggers are "Dangerous" -- I do think it is kind of sad when everybody who owns a laptop thinks they're a journalist and doesn't understand the ethics. We do have to have some sense of what's right and wrong in this job. Of how far we can go. We don't make accusations without absolute proof. We're not prosecutors. We don't assume. (LOL!) |
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NYT's Cohen: Hugo Si! Jorge No! -- After the Venezuela referendum, I 'd been waiting for the first MSMer to make an invidious comparison between Hugo Chavez and George W. Bush. Didn't take long. "[D]emocracy was alive and vital in Venezuela on Sunday in a way foreign to President Bush’s America." |
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Guantanamo and the Law -- Among the many odd affectations of the American Left is its unjustifiable confidence in the judicial system as the answer to all problems great and small. Perhaps this grows out of the Left’s overweening belief that only its adherents can really know what is good for people and its consequential squint toward authoritarianism. Maybe it is because it knows that it cannot achieve its ends democratically in a country that, in spite of the Left’s best efforts, still celebrates rugged individualism and jealously guards individual prerogative and liberty at large. |
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"Our Troops Must Leave Iraq" -- Former "CBS Evening News" anchor Walter Cronkite, much like his former colleague Bob Schieffer, appears to be dead set against the war in Iraq regardless of how conditions have improved in the past several months. In an op-ed published at the liberal website Common Dreams, Cronkite made his strongest surrender appeal to date, whilst of course castigating the Bush administration. |
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MRC Study: As Surge Succeeds, Iraq News Gets Rarer -- All three networks have become more optimistic in their on-ground reporting from the war zone, admitting that the surge in troops and new counterinsurgency tactics have reduced the violence. But as the news from the war front improves, a Media Research Center study finds ABC, CBS and NBC are less likely to tell viewers about it. |
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Criminalizing Free Speech -- Nowadays, within the European Union, it’s no stretch to criminalize free speech. Under the draconian new legal guidelines issued by Brussels, virtually any Counterjihad writings can be cast as “inciting religious hatred” or “promoting racism”, or some other Orwellian classification. Speech is cast in these terms to render it doubleplus ungood, and therefore unutterable. |
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We Need To Be Hearing About More Troops Dying in Iraq -- Upset that immigration has been such an important issue focused on in the Republican debates, Schieffer shows his frustration. Instead he downplays current success in Iraq and expresses how he thinks we need to hear more about Americans dying in Iraq. Apparantly we haven’t heard enough of that. |
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TNR's Foer on Beauchamp Retraction -- "There's a Baseline Level of Trust You Have in Writers" |
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Bombshell…TNR ‘Fesses Up -- The Beauchamp Stories Are Bullcrap. |
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CBS Veteran Suicide Numbers Bogus? -- On the CBS "Early Show" on Nov. 13th, co-host Julie Chen claimed that there was "an alarming suicide rate among veterans" of the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts. CBS then aired a report that went on to claim that the suicide rate for our troops had wildly climbed. Fellow NewsBuster Kyle Drennen had his doubts about the report when the show originally aired and now comes an editorial by oftentime military reporter Michael Fumento further casting large amounts of skepticism on the CBS report. |
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Christian Leaders Ask for Muslim Forgiveness -- Responding to an open letter in October signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars, clerics, and intellectuals from around the world, the Christian leaders also asked the Muslim world for forgiveness “We want to begin by acknowledging that in the past (e.g. in the Crusades) and in the present (e.g. in excesses of the “war on terror”) many Christians have been guilty of sinning against our Muslim neighbours. Before we “shake your hand” in responding to your letter, we ask forgiveness of the All-Merciful One and of the Muslim community around the world”, they said in the letter which was made available to the press here yesterday. |
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U. S. Is "Worst" Imperialist: Archbishop -- The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain during its imperial heyday.
Rowan Williams claimed that America’s attempt to intervene overseas by “clearing the decks” with a “quick burst of violent action” had led to “the worst of all worlds”.
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Retired U. S. Iraq Commander Speaks Out for Democrats -- The general who led U.S. forces in Iraq after the invasion launched by Republican President George W. Bush spoke out for Democrats on Saturday, backing legislation aimed at withdrawing American troops.
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NPR Loves Bad Cinema -- If It's "Laudable Agitprop" Against the Troops -- National Public Radio's arts-and-culture show "Fresh Air" recently displayed how its leftist ideology trumps artistic judgment, especially when it comes to movies designed to get America out of Iraq before our crazed soldiers senselessly kill more civilians. Film critic David Edelstein lauded Brian De Palma's new movie "Redacted" as a "laudable artistic response to an unpopular war," even as he conceded the movie is terrible as a work of art. |
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French Prosecutors Throw Out Rumsfeld Torture Case -- The Paris prosecutors' office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of torture, human rights groups who brought the case said on Friday. |
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Hypocrisy and Incompetence -- That's a fair characterization of Wednesday's editorial in the New York Times on the 2nd Amendment case that will be decided next term by the Supreme Court. The hypocrisy lies in the Times' seeming horror that the case is going to the Supreme Court at all. |
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The Flight 93 Memorial Mosque Supporters Are Playing Semantics Games -- No comment from the Park Service yet on Congressman Tancredo’s request for a new Flight 93 Memorial. We did a little better with last week’s blogburst letters. Some emailers got a response from Memorial Project Superintendent Joanne Hanley, answering Mr. Tancredo’s contention that the original giant crescent is still present in the redesign. Interestingly, her description of the redesign actually admits that the giant crescent IS still present, both geometrically and thematically. |
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Novak Clobbers Colmes on McClellan Claims -- If Alan Colmes turns up at your Thanksgiving get-together sporting a couple shiners and a re-arranged smile, don't press the poor guy if he claims to have walked into a door. The FNC host just got clobbered by a certified DC heavyweight - Bob Novak. |
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Counter-Terrorism Officials Rethink Stance on Muslims -- Counter-terrorism officials are rethinking their approach to tackling the radicalisation of Muslim youth, abandoning what they admit has been offensive and inappropriate language. They say the term "war on terror" will no longer be heard from ministers. Instead, they will use less emotive language, emphasising the criminal nature of the plots and conspiracies. The government in future, they add, will talk of a "struggle" against extremist ideology, rather than a "battle". |
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"Islam Should Not Be Blamed for Terrorism," U. N. Conference -- The international community should counter the spread of Islamophobia partly due to "misinformation and misperceptions", participants at a UN counter-terrorism conference said. Speaking at the 3-day conference, experts said there is a need for the international community to counter the spread of Islamophobia, which they noted has been growing in recent years partly because of misinformation and misperceptions about the religion. |
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CBS' Bogus Vet-Suicide Stats -- we have absolutely no way of verifying the CBS data nor how the network claims it collected the info. CBS News admits to collecting the data itself, rather than relying on an independent outside party. It also concedes its rate is "much higher" than that in an uncompleted Department of Veterans Affairs study. So somebody isn't telling the truth. And the evidence is overwhelming that it's CBS.
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National Health Service Paying for "Virginity Fix" Operations for Muslim Women -- Taxpayers funded 24 hymen replacement operations between 2005 and 2006, official figures revealed.
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