Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Massive CO2-Sequestration Experiment Now Shrimp-Food!
Ooops. A nice theory, some might say. Others call it "official junk science". And they think cloudbusting or the orgone accumulator are nutty... but when we do our work, the outcomes are far more predictable. Which goes to the fundament of how we gauge a correct versus incorrect scientific theory -- by its accuracy in predictions of outcomes. J.D.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090327-iron-seeding.html
Huge Man-Made Algae Swarm Devoured--Bad for Climate?
Kelly Hearn
for National Geographic News
March 27, 2009
A giant experiment went awry at sea this month.
Shrimplike animals devoured 159 square miles (300 square kilometers) of artificially stimulated algae meant to fight global warming-casting serious doubt on ocean fertilization as a climate-control tool.
For years, scientists have proposed supercharging algae growth by dumping tons of iron into the ocean.
Iron is a necessary element for algae photosynthesis-the process by which the plants convert sunlight into energy-but it is relatively rare in the ocean.
(Related: "Plan to Dump Iron in Ocean as Climate Fix Attracts Debate".)
Algae suck carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, out of the atmosphere. The algae then generally fall to the seafloor-sequestering the CO2 indefinitely.
About a dozen such "iron fertilization" experiments have already been done-with mixed success.
But experts have warned of unintended consequences, such as unpredictable reactions in the ecosystem.
And that's just what happened during a recent, large-scale iron dump in the South Atlantic, the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany announced this week.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Correction on NYT article and Freeman Dyson
The title on my recent OBRL-News should have been more precise. The
NYT didn't "slander" Dyson, but simply tries to make subtle put-downs
of anyone not going along with the consensus, on CO2 as well as a
large number of other issues (ie, "infectious HIV"). I've changed it
on our blog to "NYT 'Science Editors' Still Hot Over CO2", which
better captures the essence of the issue.
NYT didn't "slander" Dyson, but simply tries to make subtle put-downs
of anyone not going along with the consensus, on CO2 as well as a
large number of other issues (ie, "infectious HIV"). I've changed it
on our blog to "NYT 'Science Editors' Still Hot Over CO2", which
better captures the essence of the issue.
NYT "Science Editors" Still Hot Over CO2
When it is so damn cold and icy, and global temps are on the decline over some years, and your emotional frustration and rage blocks your capacity to think clearly, that your well-laid plans for CO2 Socialism might be ill-considered, you've got to do SOMETHING! Once again, they will hammer any notable scientist who disagrees with the well-crafted agendas.
I certainly do not agree with some of Dyson's ideas, but he has got it right on the CO2 issue.
There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global. I am not saying that the warming does not cause problems. Obviously it does. Obviously we should be trying to understand it better. I am saying that the problems are grossly exaggerated. They take away money and attention from other problems that are more urgent and more important, such as poverty and infectious disease and public education and public health, and the preservation of living creatures on land and in the oceans, not to mention easy problems such as the timely construction of adequate dikes around the city of New Orleans.
- Freeman Dyson
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/freeman-dyson-m.html
Freeman Dyson: More Heretics Needed, Don't Sweat the CO2
The article linked below gives more details. Just remember while reading such stuff as the NYT puts out on "science", that "Science Journalism" is a fairly new academic discipline, where the young student with nearly zero life-experience studies journalism, writing and communications for a couple of years, and then takes a few added undergraduate introductory "science" courses -- to make up for what they slept through, in abject boredom, during High School. So they get a B.S. degree in "science journalism", after which comes a job at the NY Times, Etc. It then becomes possible for the new "instant experts" on everything, to shovel lots of BS into the public face, to slavishly pant at the feet of the scientific-academic Priesthood, and throw contempt and slander at Heretics. And they are typically invited to give speeches to "skeptic" groups like CSICOP, which bloats their egos all the more.
And of course, if they don't fall into this line, in most cases they are out of a job pretty quick, no less in the newspapers than in the science departments. The journalist who escapes this crushing down of the mainstream, who uses logic to question both mainstream and sidestream, is as rare as the scientist who sticks to facts over authority and personal advancement. But really, after a few years of undergrad brainwash in the typical left-socialist university departments, one either quits in disgust, or is thrown out, or learns to gravitate towards whatever is the current fad over smaller irrelevancies... like facts or truth. One learns that "consensus" is important, and to ignore the lessons of the History of Science (assuming one knows anything about it) and of human history in general, that new discoveries are almost exclusively born and developed by the oftentimes heroic and sacrificing efforts of single scientists, carrying forward new and unpopular ideas, and who are opposed every step of the way by "mainstreamers" and their cadres pushing "consensus". James DeMeo, PhD
http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2009/03/co2_freeman_dyson_magic_trees.php* CO2, Freeman Dyson, Magic Trees, the NY Times, and a Piece of Pencil Lead the Size of New Mexico
March 27, 2009 4:48 PM, by Mike Dunford
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899571/posts
Cold Yet? [Hansen model predicted new ice age coming]
Washington Times ^ | 9/20/07 | John McCaslin
Saturday, March 28, 2009
A Betrayal of Authentic Muslim Moderates
By lurching forward with open-ended policies to meet with and have conversation with the world's most authoritarian and bloody regimes, without preconditions, America's new leadership have sold out and betrayed every decent and authentic freedom-aspiring moderate in those nations. The new policy will cement into place their stranglehold and dictatorships, even while trade sanctions are lifted, reformers arrested and tortured, and mass-graves continue to fill. J.D.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/obama_and_khamenei.html
Obama and Khamenei
By Amil Imani
And while on the international subject, yes, we were all lied to once more by the Islamofascist-dominated UN and Islamofascist-sympathetic leftist MSM regarding Israel and Gaza.... so what else is new.
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=35&x_article=1647
Charges of IDF "Wanton Killing" Crumble
Friday, March 27, 2009
Have You Paid Your UN Climate Tax Yet?
You evil carbon emitter, you!
Doesn't seem to matter that we are spiraling towards cold-wet conditions globally. But really, not even the liberal Democrats believe in global warming anymore. It is now merely an excuse to grab more money from the pockets of already hard-pressed working people, and stuff it into the pockets of the world's worst money-criminals and dictators, or into their own. Keep your powder dry. J.D.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510937,00.html
U.N. 'Climate Change' Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy
Friday, March 27, 2009
By George Russell
A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes - all under the supervision of the world body.
Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations "information note" on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an "effective framework" for dealing with global warming.
The 16-page note, obtained by FOX News, will be distributed to participants at a mammoth negotiating session that starts on March 29 in Bonn, Germany, the first of three sessions intended to hammer out the actual commitments involved in the new deal.
In the stultifying language that is normal for important U.N. conclaves, the negotiators are known as the "Ad Hoc Working Group On Further Commitments For Annex I Parties Under the Kyoto Protocol." Yet the consequences of their negotiations, if enacted, would be nothing short of world-changing.
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Read the whole outrageous thing.
Monday, March 23, 2009
'Global warming' simply no longer happening
HEAT OF THE MOMENT
Shocker: 'Global warming' simply no longer happening
Temperatures dropping, fewer hurricanes, arctic ice growing, polar bear population up
Posted: March 22, 2009
WASHINGTON - This may come as bad news for Al Gore.
The modest global warming trend has stopped - maybe even reversed itself.
And it's not just the record low temperatures experienced in much of the world this winter.
For at least the last five years, global temperatures have been falling, according to tracking performed by Roy Spencer, the climatologist formerly of NASA.
"Global warming" was going to bring more and more horrific hurricanes, climate change scientists and the politicians who subscribed to their theories said. But since 2005, only one major hurricane has struck North America.
A new study by Florida State University researcher Ryan Maue shows worldwide cyclone activity - typhoons, as well as hurricanes - has reached at least a 30-year low.
Two more studies - one by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Germany and another by the University of Wisconsin - predict a slowing, or even a reversal of warming, for at least the next 10 to 20 years.
The Arctic sea ice has grown more on a percentage basis this winter than it has since 1979.
The number of polar bears has risen 25 percent in the past decade. There are 15,000 of them in the Arctic now, where 10 years ago there were 12,000.
"The most recent global warming that began in 1977 is over, and the Earth has entered a new phase of global cooling," says Don Easterbrook, professor of geology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, confidently. He maintains a switch in Pacific Ocean currents "assures about three decades of global cooling. New solar data showing unusual absence of sun spots and changes in the sun's magnetic field suggest ... the present episode of global cooling may be more severe than the cooling of 1945 to 1977."
Climatologist Joe D'Aleo of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, says new data "show that in five of the last seven decades since World War II, including this one, global temperatures have cooled while carbon dioxide has continued to rise."
The Arctic sea ice has grown more on a percentage basis this winter than it has since 1979.
The number of polar bears has risen 25 percent in the past decade. There are 15,000 of them in the Arctic now, where 10 years ago there were 12,000.
"The most recent global warming that began in 1977 is over, and the Earth has entered a new phase of global cooling," says Don Easterbrook, professor of geology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, confidently. He maintains a switch in Pacific Ocean currents "assures about three decades of global cooling. New solar data showing unusual absence of sun spots and changes in the sun's magnetic field suggest ... the present episode of global cooling may be more severe than the cooling of 1945 to 1977."
Climatologist Joe D'Aleo of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, says new data "show that in five of the last seven decades since World War II, including this one, global temperatures have cooled while carbon dioxide has continued to rise."
"The data suggest cooling not warming in Earth's future," he says.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sta Awa from PSA - and from the Hospitals
The data graphic on this report suggests getting the PSA test actually increases the rate of death from prostate cancer, by around 10%, and does not merely "save few lives" as the headline would have it -- it doesn't save ANY lives and boosts the death rate by 10%. It has been known among natural health advocates that the PSA test merely prompts a rush to unnecessary surgery, which puts more older men into their graves at a quicker rate. J.D.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/health/19cancer.html?_r=1
Prostate Test Found to Save Few Lives
By GINA KOLATA
The PSA blood test, used to screen for prostate cancer, saves few lives and leads to risky and unnecessary treatments for large numbers of men, two large studies have found.
The findings, the first based on rigorous, randomized studies, confirm some longstanding concerns about the wisdom of widespread prostate cancer screening. Although the studies are continuing, results so far are considered significant and the most definitive to date.
The PSA test, which measures a protein released by prostate cells, does what it is supposed to do - indicates a cancer might be present, leading to biopsies to determine if there is a tumor. But it has been difficult to know whether finding prostate cancer early saves lives. Most of the cancers tend to grow very slowly and are never a threat and, with the faster-growing ones, even early diagnosis might be too late.
The studies - one in Europe and the other in the United States - are "some of the most important studies in the history of men's health," said Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.
In the European study, 48 men were told they had prostate cancer and needlessly treated for it for every man whose death was prevented within a decade after having had a PSA test.
Dr. Peter B. Bach, a physician and epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, says one way to think of the data is to suppose he has a PSA test today. It leads to a biopsy that reveals he has prostate cancer, and he is treated for it. There is a one in 50 chance that, in 2019 or later, he will be spared death from a cancer that would otherwise have killed him. And there is a 49 in 50 chance that he will have been treated unnecessarily for a cancer that was never a threat to his life.
Prostate cancer treatment can result in impotence and incontinence when surgery is used to destroy the prostate, and, at times, painful defecation or chronic diarrhea when the treatment is radiation.
As soon as the PSA test was introduced in 1987, it became a routine part of preventive health care for many men age 40 and older. Experts debated its value, but their views were largely based on less compelling data that often involved statistical modeling and inferences. Now, with the new data, cancer experts said men should carefully consider the possible risks and benefits of treatment before deciding to be screened. Some may decide not to be screened at all.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
"Chemtrail" Analysis of Barium and Aluminum in Rainwater
Photo attached: B17 Contrails from WW-II, long before the birth of contrail hysteria.
I recently had a correspondence regarding a rainwater sample claimed to be contaminated by "chemtrails". The sample was submitted to a reputable laboratory and was found to contain 8 micro-grams of barium per liter, and with 1010 micrograms of aluminum. These kind of reports raise alarms among the chemtrail believers, as they superficially appear to validate the claims of some abnormal contamination of rainwater with insoluable minerals one does not anticipate will naturally come down from the sky. However, upon closer examination, the claims are not supported, and the mineral deposits at those or even higher levels are not something necessarily deliberately sprayed from airplanes. Below I share part of the discussion.
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Dear M.
Regarding that lab report, it would have been helpful if they would have also analyzed for rather common minerals such as calcium, sodium and so on, for comparisons. The barium levels identified at 8 micro-grams per liter is exceedingly tiny. By comparison, the EPA sets a limit of 2 milligrams per liter for barium in drinking water, which equal to 2 parts per million. Considering how one liter of water contains a thousand grams, that lab report indicates barium levels at 8 parts per Billion. Here's a website covering that issue, and a lot more about barium:
That's a great website, as you can look up different mineral or chemical compounds and get the basic info. There's a "quick link" index on the upper right of each page.
Looking up aluminum,
That website says EPA puts a "secondary maximum" of 0.05 to 2 milligrams/liter for drinking water, but that is not toxicity-based. It only addresses taste, smell and color of the water. So the lab report of 1010 micrograms, or 1.01 milligrams per liter, is close to the upper limit of that secondary maximum. It says we eat about 7-9 milligrams of aluminum in our food every day. So if you drank 7-9 liters of that rainwater, you'd be getting about that same amount as from food. I could not find any info there about drinking water toxicity, but aluminum is a major part of the Earth's crustal material, so life fairly well evolved with it. I would not expect its natural components to have a health problem except in the most extremely high concentrations, or if you were breathing high concentrations of aluminum powder, as in a machine-shop environment. There's probably a bigger problem with aluminum cooking pots, or people overdosing on aluminum compounds in antacid pills, or aluminum in anti-perspirants, and you'll know those controversies.
The lab report says they used "EPA 6010B" as the method of analysis, which employs Atomic Emission Spectrometry. This basically means they evaporate the sample to get the mineral residues onto I think a glass slide, which is then inserted into the spectrometer chamber where it is subjected to very high temperatures. The "flame" or plasma from that heated sample is then subjected to optical spectrometry and the height of various emission bands gives them an indication of the constituents and quantities. See here for example:
In conclusion I would say the measured amounts of aluminum were not especially alarming or unusual, and the barium was probably at the limits of instrumental detection. Obviously this person did not bring a full liter of rainwater to the lab, so the lab extrapolated up to give the amounts of barium in a full liter. It would help also to know the atmospheric conditions at the time of the rainfall event, if for example one of those Asian dust clouds was hitting the West Coast, then some of that desert aerosol material would be in the rainwater for your region. That report lists the sample date as early February, which I thought was dry in your area as it was here. So did he scoop up some snow for the sample? And if so, was it snow from the prior December? If so, that would have a month to accumulate dusts settling down on it, and therefore amplify the quantities of minerals.
In any case, barium is a trace mineral in soils, so it is present in desert dusts, fire-smoke, aerosols, as well as coming out of tail-pipes, smoke-stacks and aircraft exhaust. Aluminum is a major component of the Earth's crust, so that is not surprising either, even at the higher levels. I added the attached paragraphs below to my "chemtrail" webpage:
I also added, to that chemtrail webpage, the quotations from Wilhelm Reich's publications where he says jet contrails are the sign of a healthy cloud-forming atmosphere. His observations remain true, even as the increase in global population and civil aviation have created far more jets, and jet contrails, than during his time.
James DeMeo, Ph.D.
Director OBRL
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New Additions to Chemtrail Page
For those who want a global satellite view of the problem of dusts and aerosols, and pollutants from urban industrial regions, I highly recommend to view the TOMS satellite images, which are put into a moving day-to-day loop at this website:
This website shows how tiny invisible aerosol dust-particles move from the large Saharasian Desert Belt outwards around the globe, to affect and choke-up distant regions. It also tracks aerosol particles from agricultural smoke, as from the widespread "slash and burn" methods used in the tropical regions. It additionally detects and displays sulfate pollution in the atmosphere, as comes from industrial regions. In fact, from observing a few days of this moving satellite loop, one gains the impression that there are very few places on our small planet which are not periodically afflicted with aerosol and chemical air pollution from desert-dusts, agricultural burning, or industrial pollution. In fact, industrial pollution seems to constitute the smallest fraction of the problem, though in the Northern Hemisphere regions removed from both big deserts and burning tropical forests and grasslands, it is the major problem.
It suggests an atmospheric problem which began many thousands of years ago, of massive deserts and fire-smokes spreading their hazy and stagnant atmospheres around the world and even across the oceans, creating droughts and heat-waves in distant lands. When those fearing of "chemtrails" look up in the sky and see the thin hazy layer which blocks out the sun, or when the lower atmosphere if filled with hazy aerosol pollution (which can include all the mineral constituents of soils) and suffer respiratory problems, the long-distant transportation of desert-dusts, agricultural smokes and industrial pollution is the very likely cause. That they should observe airplanes scooting through that same atmosphere, and leaving contrails behind them, is with few exceptions purely coincidental.
Some of the chemtrail websites identify laboratory results where rainwater was analyzed for the presence of unusual minerals. However, the presence of insoluble minerals in rainwater, such as aluminum or barium, is a fairly natural occurrence, and cannot be attributed automatically to some kind of mysterious aerial spraying. Raindrops form around tiny mineral aerosol particles, the cloud condensation nuclei, and those particulates come down with the rainwater.
Certainly from aircraft alone there is much "stuff" coming out the exhaust, and close to airports where they cruise at lower altitude in the landing and take-off patterns, that material will quickly drift down to the ground. Gasoline and kerosene as used in propeller or jet aircraft is a toxic brew, with all kinds of mineral material in it which was brought up from deep within the Earth when the crude oil is originally pumped, plus all the additives and conditioners put into the fuel at the refineries. Homes close to airports will sometimes get quite a dose of this, and the jet exhaust can even be smelled. Likewise, in industrial regions where the burning of petroleum products or coal is abundant, these and many other naturally-occurring minerals, plus other exotic compounds created from combustion, will be injected into the lower atmosphere, and blow widely around. Likewise in regions of heavy automobile traffic, the air can be thick with such particulates and minerals for similar reasons.
Such minerals are also natural constituents of the Earth's crust, which is how they get into the petroleum products and coal materials in the first place. They are also taken up into vegetation from soils and groundwater, and from there can be injected into the atmosphere when the vegetation burns. Tropical soils are especially rich in aluminum and iron oxides, and barium is a trace mineral found in soils and glacial loess. Dust storms over the large deserts, or from barren loess regions inject massive quantities of this material into the atmosphere.
An internet search of word groups or phrases such as "barium in soils" or "aluminum in aerosols", "barium in desert dusts", etc., will turn up dozens to thousands of websites, mostly being research papers by agricultural scientists, geologists or air pollution specialists. One merely has to review the titles or Abstracts of those articles to confirm how these and many other mineral constituents are found in fire-smokes and desert or glacial-loess dust clouds, being blown around in the atmosphere globally, and sprayed out tail-pipes and industrial smoke-stacks around the world.
We should therefore expect to find those minerals in any atmosphere where desert dusts or agricultural smokes are blowing around, and of course the weblink given above to the TOMS aerosol satellite gives a real-time confirmation of the worst aspects of this problem. This is basic "Air Pollution 101" science, which seems to be thrown out the window in all the rush to blame atmospheric problems on the CIA, or the UN, or Morphing Space Lizards.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Female Genital Mutilation Rampant in Britain
What's happening in the UK is a test-case for what will happen in Canada and the USA perhaps ten years down the line, if not sooner. This crime against the sexuality of women and girls should be made punishable by immediate deportation of BOTH fathers and mothers... While the men typically demand that this butchery be done, it is generally the females of the Muslim households who do it, generally to their own daughters. A gaggle of female relatives will arrive to hold the girl down while mom or grandmom slices away with a razor, everyone beating tambourines and singing loudly to drown out the hysterical screaming of the poor girl. Or, the girl is shipped back to the "home country" (some Saharasian hell-hole) where a local fanatic will do it. Another result of insane "multicultural" ideology. J.D.
http://theopinionator.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/the-uk-taxpayers-will-now-be-paying-thousands-of-pounds-to-provide-free-surgery-for-women-who-have-been-the-victims-of-female.html
MARCH 17, 2009
Female Genital Mutilation Rampant in Britain - Free Reconstructive Surgery Offered
The UK taxpayers will now be paying thousands of pounds to provide free surgery for women who have been the victims of female genital mutilation. Advertisements will be placed so that women who have suffered through this abomination to their sexuality can hear of and take advantage of the program.
So why has female castration, which has been illegal in Britain since 1985, now being inflicted upon women and young girls in epidemic proportions? The answer, though deceptively left out of the below/last article, is clear = the huge increase in muslim immigrants into Great Britain and the subsequent high birth rate their immigration brings.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Left-Fascism on the Farm: Lose your property for growing food?
With the immense growth in the Federal budget comes immense control over more and more sectors of life, by a dead-handed Washington bureaucracy. Less freedom, not more. And not the kind of "change" most people anticipated. But like it or not, that's what you will get. Here's a new bill coming down from on-high, creating a small new army of agricultural inspectors, who will basically ham-string every small farm and producer with draconian bureaucratic regulations that only the Mega-Farms could afford to implement.
http://www.ftcldf.org/news/news-02mar2009.htm
HR 875 - The Federal Take-Over of Food Regulation
Edited 3/13/09
On February 4, 2009 Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (HR 875), a bill that would establish the Food Safety Administration (FSA) within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). HR 875 represents a tremendous expansion of federal power, particularly the power to regulate intrastate commerce. While the proposed legislation tries to address the many problems of the industrial food system, the impact on small farms if the bill becomes law would be substantial and not for the better. HR 875 is a major threat to sustainable farming and the local food movement.
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Here's more....
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92002
Lose your property for growing food?
Big Brother legislation could mean prosecution, fines up to $1 million
By Chelsea Schilling
Some small farms and organic food growers could be placed under direct supervision of the federal government under new legislation making its way through Congress.
Food Safety Modernization Act
House Resolution 875, or the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., in February. DeLauro's husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for Monsanto - the world's leading producer of herbicides and genetically engineered seed.
DeLauro's act has 39 co-sponsors and was referred to the House Agriculture Committee on Feb. 4. It calls for the creation of a Food Safety Administration to allow the government to regulate food production at all levels - and even mandates property seizure, fines of up to $1 million per offense and criminal prosecution for producers, manufacturers and distributors who fail to comply with regulations.
Michael Olson, host of the Food Chain radio show and author of "Metro Farm," told WND the government should focus on regulating food production in countries such as China and Mexico rather than burdening small and organic farmers in the U.S. with overreaching regulations.
"We need somebody to watch over us when we're eating food that comes from thousands and thousands of miles away. We need some help there," he said. "But when food comes from our neighbors or from farmers who we know, we don't need all of those rules. If your neighbor sells you something that is bad and you get sick, you are going to get your hands on that farmer, and that will be the end of it. It regulates itself."
The legislation would establish the Food Safety Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services "to protect the public health by preventing food-borne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes."
Federal regulators will be tasked with ensuring that food producers, processors and distributors - both large and small - prevent and minimize food safety hazards such as food-borne illnesses and contaminants such as bacteria, chemicals, natural toxins or manufactured toxicants, viruses, parasites, prions, physical hazards or other human pathogens.
Under the legislation's broad wording, slaughterhouses, seafood processing plants, establishments that process, store, hold or transport all categories of food products prior to delivery for retail sale, farms, ranches, orchards, vineyards, aquaculture facilities and confined animal-feeding operations would be subject to strict government regulation.
Government inspectors would be required to visit and examine food production facilities, including small farms, to ensure compliance. They would review food safety records and conduct surveillance of animals, plants, products or the environment.
"What the government will do is bring in industry experts to tell them how to manage all this stuff," Olson said. "It's industry that's telling government how to set these things up. What it always boils down to is who can afford to have the most influence over the government. It would be those companies that have sufficient economies of scale to be able to afford the influence - which is, of course, industrial agriculture."
Farms and food producers would be forced to submit copies of all records to federal inspectors upon request to determine whether food is contaminated, to ensure they are in compliance with food safety laws and to maintain government tracking records. Refusal to register, permit inspector access or testing of food or equipment would be prohibited.
"What is going to happen is that local agriculture will end up suffering through some onerous protocols designed for international agriculture that they simply don't need," Olson said. "Thus, it will be a way for industrial agriculture to manage local agriculture."
Under the act, every food producer must have a written food safety plan describing likely hazards and preventative controls they have implemented and must abide by "minimum standards related to fertilizer use, nutrients, hygiene, packaging, temperature controls, animal encroachment, and water."
"That opens a whole can of worms," Olson said. "I think that's where people are starting to freak out about losing organic agriculture. Who is going to decide what the minimum standards are for fertilization or anything else? The government is going to bring in big industry and say we are setting up these protocols, so what do you think we should do? Who is it going to bring in to ask? The government will bring in people who have economies of scale who have that kind of influence."
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Section 304 of the Food Safety Modernization Act establishes a group of "experts and stakeholders from Federal, State, and local food safety and health agencies, the food industry, consumer organizations, and academia" to make recommendations for improving food-borne illness surveillance.
According to the act, "Any person that commits an act that violates the food safety law may be assessed a civil penalty by the Administrator of not more than $1,000,000 for each such act."
Each violation and each separate day the producer is in defiance of the law would be considered a separate offense and an additional penalty. The act suggests federal administrators consider the gravity of the violation, the degree of responsibility and the size and type of business when determining penalties.
Criminal sanctions may be imposed if contaminated food causes serious illness or death, and offenders may face fines and imprisonment of up to 10 years.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
DAVID LITTMAN: THE UN IN THE LAST YEAR
Another excellent must-see video interview, about the Islamic take-over in the UN, which underlys the Muslim push for new international "anti-blasphemy" laws and such.
The basic pattern is an hysterial reaction by representatives of different Islamic nations to the raising of any questions relevant to the freedom of women, or sexual freedom. This is stage one, to obliterate any legal rights for open critical discussion of the Islamic horror-show. Stage two will be, as stage one is slowly being implemented, to force sex-repressive Islamic customs on infidels. It is a slow cooking of the frog in the pot of water, and has been quite successful so far.
Islamic Holy Man: "Kill Disobedient Girls With an Axe"!
One reason why I no longer criticize the Christians so much as the Muslims...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5907458.ece?Submitted=true
My imam father came after me with an axe
Hannah Shah had been raped by her father and faced a forced marriage. She fled, became a Christian and now fears for her life
We are all too familiar with the persecution of Christians in countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. Yet sitting in front of me is a British woman whose life has been threatened in this country solely because she is a Christian. Indeed, so real is the threat that the book she has written about her experiences has had to appear under an assumed name.
The book is called The Imam's Daughter because "Hannah Shah" is just that: the daughter of an imam in one of the tight-knit Deobandi Muslim Pakistani communities in the north of England. Her father emigrated to this country from rural Pakistan some time in the 1960s and is, apparently, a highly respected local figure.
He is also an incestuous child abuser, repeatedly raping his daughter from the age of five until she was 15, ostensibly as part of her punishment for being "disobedient". At the age of 16 she fled her family to avoid the forced marriage they had planned for her in Pakistan. A much, much greater affront to "honour" in her family's eyes, however, was the fact that she then became a Christian - an apostate. The Koran is explicit that apostasy is punishable by death; thus it was that her father the imam led a 40-strong gang - in the middle of a British city - to find and kill her.
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Read the whole ugly thing, and remember they don't just want their own daughters to be "obedient" to Islamic law, but your wife, sister and daughters as well. And here's another Imam who gave voice to exactly that sentiment:
UK Muslim preacher: Brits "live like animals"; non-Muslim women must wear burkha
Amazing these kind of fanatical woman-hating barbarians get full freedom in the UK, while Geert Wilders was turned away at the border for daring to be critical of such monstrous behavior.
And HERE is what Sweden looks like, where Leftists, Muslims and Neo-Nazis have joined forces against everyone else, and get plenty of help from the local cops and politicians:
Sweden: Jihadists, Leftists, Neo-Nazis riot against Israel
What Islam is Not
A breakdown of the percentages of Muslim population around the world, and what you can expect this to mean for your homeland. Note the distinct Saharasia pattern.
It is Organized Emotional Plague, empowered by petrodollars, motivated by intensive sex-frustration, boiling rage, and murderous hatred of all who do not share the sickness.
What Islam Is Not.
And below is another example of how Organized Islam has worked to silence democracy and freedom within the United Nations -- Muslim hate speech ("kill the infidel/kill the Jew") is OK and allowed within UN events! But it is FORBIDDEN to try and expose or criticize that!
UN Human Rights Council: Silencing critics of Muslim antisemitism
Incredible!!! The "Banality of Evil" -- These UN SOBs deliberately shut off the microphone when anyone tries to point out the ongoing Butchery of Modern Islam. In a "Human Rights Council" no less.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
The Peasants are Rebelling....
"A Free Ride and Big Party for Me, And my Friends, but Mega Trillions in New rub-your-nose-in-the-dirt Taxes for Thee! "
The worker bees are increasingly fed up with the King, the Queen, their Court-Camp Followers, the hordes of Princes, Dukes, Earls, Pharaohs, Pshasas, Little Emperors, Big Bosses, mini-Tsars, etc., and the not-small army of bloated sterile drones who waddle in their wake, and do their bidding...
So.... time for a Tea Party Revolution. No idea where this is leading .... the curse of interesting times... and apparently it is fully "bi-partisan"!
Fresh Tea Daily
A daily cup of tea for the Tea Party Revolution
http://taxdayteaparty.com/
Huge: Thousands converge for Cincinnati Tea Party; Update: 5k strong
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/15/huge-thousands-converge-for-cincinnati-tea-party/
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/07/tea-party-on-taxpayer-revolts-in-green-bay-lafayette-olathe-and-harrisburg/
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Hurricane Energy at a 30-Year Low - Disasters Down
More evidence.... the Earth is not spiraling towards Environmental Apocalypse, and life will continue. Even if the elite "people who matter" will be the last ones to admit it. Socially, however, it may be quite a rough ride, so hang on to your incandescent light bulbs....
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http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/
Global and Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Activity [still] lowest in 30-years
Tropical cyclone (TC) activity worldwide has completely and utterly collapsed during the past 2 to 3 years with TC energy levels sinking to levels not seen since the late 1970s. This should not be a surprise to scientists since the natural variability in climate dominates any detectable or perceived global warming impact when it comes to measuring yearly integrated tropical cyclone activity. With the continuation (persistence) of colder Pacific tropical sea-surface temperatures associated with the effects of La Nina, the upcoming 2009 Atlantic hurricane season should be above average, as we saw in 2008. Nevertheless, since the Atlantic only makes up 10-15% of overall global TC activity each year (climatological average during the past 30 years), continued Northern Hemispheric and global TC inactivity as a whole likely will continue.
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http://www.dailymail.com/Opinion/DonSurber/200902250614
Scientist forces Al Gore to back down
For years, Al Gore has predicted that man's sins of carbon dioxide will bring calamity and apocalypse. He cited an increase in natural disasters.
Gore quietly dropped the contention that the increase is connected to manmade global warming this week after being called on it by Roger A. Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado.
"Gore is pulling a dramatic slide from his ever-evolving global warming presentation," reported Andrew Revkin on a blog for the New York Times.
"When Mr. Gore addressed a packed, cheering hall at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago earlier this month, his climate slide show contained a startling graph showing a ceiling-high spike in disasters in recent years.
"The data came from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (also called CRED) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels."
The slide has since disappeared from the show, Revkin wrote.
This was not happenstance. Pielke called Gore on his assertions. The link between manmade activity and natural disasters has not been established.
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http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=440562
Bucking the media trend on global warming 'crisis'
Pete Chagnon
NEW YORK CITY - Speakers at a conference on climate change are making the case that the alarmism behind the global-warming bandwagon is politically motivated, has nothing to do with science, and could affect the sovereignty of the U.S.
The second annual International Conference on Climate Change hosted by The Heartland Institute is well under way in New York City. More than 700 registrants have gathered in the Big Apple to hear more than 70 scientists -- representing the views of tens of thousands of their colleagues -- make the argument that media and environmental advocacy groups have it all wrong, that global warming is not a crisis.
One of the headlining speakers to open the event Sunday evening was European Union and Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, who was welcomed with a standing ovation. Klaus, one of the most outspoken critics of manmade global warming in Europe, says those who propagate global-warming hysteria are like the communists of old Europe. Like global-warming alarmists, he stated, the communists did not listen to opposing views.
"They didn't even try to argue back," said Klaus. "They considered you a naïve, uninformed and confused person, an eccentric complainer....It is very similar now."
Klaus believes that politicians who propagate global warming hysteria only have one goal in mind: control of the public. "It is evident that the environmentalists don't want to change the climate," he said. "They want to change our behavior...to control and manipulate us."
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Pat Condell Interview on Islamification of Europe
Go to the original for the imbedded weblinks. Hat tip to Acharya S. for this item. A couple of other weblinks are given at the bottom, to fill in some detail on what's going on in the UK that few will know about if all they rely upon is the MSM. J.D.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=119389495&blogID=475755701
Interview with Dutch newspaper AD Weekend
This interview was published on 7 March 2009 in AD Weekend, the weekend section of the national daily newspaper AD (Netherlands). However, the published version was slightly edited, so I'm reproducing the original Q&A here.
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Q: If I am right, you have already 6 million hits for your internet videos. Have there been efforts to silence you (even physically), or to ban you from the internet, outside the recent ban on YouTube?
A: Actually, the videos have had more than 20 million hits. "More demands from Islam" has been seen more than five million times on dotSUB alone.
I've had hundreds of death threats by e-mail and I've posted some of them on my website, but people who have recognised me in the street have been very warm and supportive. Nobody has tried to ban me from the internet.
Q: Who were behind the proposed ban of your videos on YouTube? Religious organisations in Britain or islamic regimes in the Middle-East like Iran or Saudi-Arabia?
A: Welcome to Saudi Britain was removed after a flagging campaign by Islamic activists, but it backfired because hundreds of YouTube users uploaded it to their own accounts in protest and spread it all over the site like a rash. Then the National Secular Society and Professor Dawkins got involved and the press picked up the story, whereupon YouTube backed down and reinstated it. I have no evidence that any religious organisations were involved.
YouTube briefly removed another of my videos Godless and free but they e-mailed me to explain that it had been done in error.
Q: You started a petition against sharia-courts in Britain. What are the results so far? And why did you pick especially this subject among so many others for a campaign?
A: I didn't start the petition; I only signed it and helped to publicise it. Why this subject? Because sharia justice deals in crooked measures that are weighted against women in clear violation of their basic human rights. Isn't that a good enough reason? The fact that it's the thin end of a theocratic wedge is another reason.
The original petition was restricted to people in Britain, but now there's a global petition that anyone in the world can sign. Already it has many thousands of signatures, and I urge everyone who is concerned about the growing Islamisation of Europe and the free world to add their name.
Q: Do you have any support among the mass media for this anti-sharia-campaign? It seems the BBC doesnt allow so much criticism on religion. Is it still possible to criticize or make jokes about islam?
A: No, the BBC is utterly spineless. Whenever I've worked for them as a comedian I've found it almost impossible to make jokes about religion or to say anything at all about Islam. That's why I started making videos.
Q: Who are to blame for allowing sharia courts? Is it the Labour government or the churches, or both? Where are the Liberals and Conservatives in this?
A: It's Labour's sop to the imams. The Conservatives have promised to abolish them (the courts, not the imams, although some of them should be banned as well).
The Labour Party is the party of multiculturalism in the UK, though lately they've backtracked on some of the "diversity" rhetoric because it's beginning to dawn on them what a disaster it's been. But they depend heavily on the Muslim vote, and they'll do anything to get it, even sinking so low as to install a buffoon like Nazir Ahmed in the House of Lords.
Q: Some people will say: what's against sharia courts if people go there from their own free choice or religious convictions?
A: What free choice? Many women will be coerced into using these courts and everybody knows it. Their basic premise violates fundamental civilised values, and there is absolutely no excuse for allowing them.
Would we tolerate a legal code where people of a certain colour are treated unequally and their word is worth half that of someone of another colour? Then why the double standards when it comes to women? Why do we still tacitly condone the idea that women are inferior? What on earth is wrong with us?
Q: What went wrong with Labour? How is it possible that people like Lord Ahmed are in their ranks? Why is a movement, that in history tried to emancipate the working people from oppression by the church and the clergy, nowadays helping the oppression by the mosq and the clergy?
A: The Labour Party was established to emancipate ordinary people from economic hardship, but nowadays it's dominated by a political class, a quasi-aristocracy preoccupied with imposing their own "enlightened" values on society against the will of the people and consolidating their own power. In other words, the same kind of people who run your country and most of western Europe.
Since this Labour government has been in office we've seen a more rapid erosion of our basic civil liberties than at any time in our history. So much for emancipation.
Q: Why do you think the christian churches are treating islam as their ally, while christians are oppressed all over in the muslim world?
A: The two fascist dogmas have a common enemy in secularism, which they rightly see as a threat. That's why the Archbishop of Canterbury disgraced himself last year by advocating sharia law in Britain, and it's why we're hearing a lot more about interfaith dialogue between the two, where they agree to put aside their differences and focus on things they have in common, like prejudice against women and homosexuals, hatred of freedom, and a pathological fear of knowledge. In other words the basics.
Of course this co-operation will only go so far. There will be no churches allowed in Saudi Arabia, while mosques will continue to be built all over Europe.
Q: Are you amazed that Britain has banned our MP Geert Wilders? You banned Al-Qaradawi, so why not Wilders, some people would say.
A: I'm not in favour of banning anyone. If somebody enters the country and breaks the law they should be arrested and tried. If found guilty they should be deported.
The British government caved in to an implied threat of public disorder, and there's no honour in pretending otherwise. Again Home Secretary Jacqui Smith revealed herself as someone who has been promoted above her ability and who is completely out of her depth.
Q: Many people in Holland agree with the ban. They say Fitna is a useless hatemongering movie insulting muslims. What would you say to people holding this opinion?
A: I'd ask what happened to the Dutch reputation for tolerance and open-mindedness. Are you only open-minded about things you agree with? And do you ban everything that offends anyone, or is it just Muslims who mustn't be offended?
There's more hate expressed in the Koran than in the film, which simply makes the point that Islamic scripture is used by terrorists to justify mass murder. That's a fact and nobody can deny it. A literal reading of the Koran gives Muslims permission to kill people, and those who do so have repeatedly used it as justification. This stuff needs to be acknowledged and discussed, not banned.
Nobody wants to offend people, but honest free speech is the oxygen of our society, and I believe that makes it more important than anybody's feelings, however delicate.
Q: What is your own opinion on Fitna and on Mr. Wilders proposal to ban the Koran and his comparison between the Koran and Hitlers Mein Kampf?
A: I think the film is a rather sensationalist way of drawing attention to the problem of European Islamisation. But the problem is real, and if it had been more honestly acknowledged and more frankly discussed in the first place there would be no need for a film like this.
As for the Koran, I don't think any book should be banned. I didn't know Hitler's book was banned in the Netherlands. I think that's childish. Nobody's opinion should be silenced, even those who would deny the Holocaust. I think everyone should be free to make a public idiot of themselves if they want to.
Q: In your video Shame on Holland you blamed the christian parties in the Dutch government. Didn't you forget the Dutch Labour party, that is part of the coalition government as well?
A: In that video I actually blamed the multicultural left, but several Dutch people e-mailed me to say that Christian politicians are also an important part of the problem, so I made that point in the subsequent video Freedom go to hell.
Q: Some people will say that Wilders, or Ayaan Hirsi Ali, or the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, or our cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot (did you hear about his arrest?), or you own person suffer from islamophobia. What about that? Do you think islam is now more dangerous for our freedom than other religions?
A: Nobody should worry about being called Islamophobic. Islamophobia is not a real word. It's a crude attempt by multiculturalists and Islamists to play on people's liberal guilt and demonise their legitimate concerns about the direction our society is going.
If you dislike something bad it doesn't mean you have a phobia. It means you dislike something bad, and you're probably wise to do so.
We keep hearing that Islam is falsely portrayed in a bad light, but the evidence shows that it's falsely portrayed in a good light by people who should know better.
Also, Islam is more than just a religion. In the guise of Islamism it's an aggressive political movement, and for this reason it is a bigger threat to our freedom than other religions.
Q: In your videos you seem very worried about the erosion of words like 'tolerance', and 'human rights' or 'emancipation'? Can you explain a bit why?
A: Tolerance is rightly seen as a virtue, but in practice it has come to mean intolerance of anything that doesn't conform to multicultural dogma.
The term "human rights" was redefined recently by the UN Human Rights Council after it was hijacked by a cartel of Islamic dictatorships. Now it means immunity from criticism for Islam. Also, they want western governments to make it illegal to criticise religion, and some seem very eager to do their bidding, including the Dutch government, as we've seen with the prosecution of Mr Wilders.
However, there are signs that things are starting to turn. The Norwegian government tried to introduce such a law last month, but they were forced to back down in the face of outraged public opinion. Bravo Norway. Maybe Europe does have a spine after all.
Q: Some people are very pessimistic and think Europe is already surrendering to Islam. Or are you more optimistic, hoping that our continent will come to its senses and recover and fight for its values?
A: I'm optimistic, but it won't happen by itself. Firstly, we still have a vote. (I haven't checked recently, so I may be wrong about that.) If we vote again for the people who created this situation we deserve everything we get.
Secondly, we can only defend freedom of speech if we use it. It's no good as a theory. A silent majority is not a majority at all if it remains silent; it might as well not exist.
If we keep backing away from Islam, if we keep retreating into silence to keep the peace in the face of unreasonable demands, we're in real danger of bequeathing our children the kind of world that we wouldn't want to be born into; a world where ideas are banned and where feelings and dogma are more important than truth; where women have fewer rights, and where homosexuals and Jews have more to fear.
Those of us who care about this prospect need to examine our consciences and make a decision to start speaking out before it's too late, because once it is too late, it will be too late forever.
Supplementary question 1
What do you think about the recent gains of the BNP (British National Party) in by-elections and in the polls?
A: I believe the BNP is a racist party, and therefore I don't support them. They're getting more support now because the mainstream parties have consistently ignored people's legitimate concerns about multiculturalism, and many people feel they've been left with no choice but to vote for them. If politicians listened to what people actually want, the BNP would be nothing.
Supplementary question 2
In the last opinion poll the PVV (Freedom Party) of Mr. Wilders scored as the biggest party, with 27 virtual seats. What is your explanation of the popularity of the PVV? What should the other political parties do about it?
A: It's good news, but not entirely surprising. People aren't stupid. They can see what's going on, and they're beginning to realise that if things don't change radically and quickly then western culture and its values are in big trouble.
The other parties should take off their multicultural spectacles and read the mood of the country. Maybe some of the politicians in those parties will now start saying what they really think, and not what they think they're supposed to think.
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UK Muslim demonstrators: British government is "terrorist"
Leftist British MP gives thousands of dollars, vehicles to Hamas
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To close, I should like to add my personal apology to the people of the UK for the following episode of cheap and insulting stupidity. Bad enough when Hollywood makes films of British military exploits and war heroes, turning them into pretty-boy American heroes.
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/film-u571.html
Authentic American heroics were abundant for that period, but Hollywood isn't particularly concerned these days to make authentic historically-accurate films.
I don't know if it is the product of all the late-night partying that has been reported at the White House, or an open contempt for non-Muslim nations by the current Prez, or what. Brits should know, most Americans are rather stunned about this -- the ones who know about it, anyhow. Like most else important, the MSM has fully refused to report on this side of the pond.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Facebook Geeks Go Islamic -- "KILL THE JEWS"
Are you a user of Facebook? Or your kids? Know that it is fully taken over by Islamic terror sympathizers, not just some sub-group of Facebook users, but the leaders, the CEOs and webmasters of Facebook, the computer geeks who keep it running. They spit in your faces, and like the Islamists, censor out anything even remotely critical of Islam, or supportive of Israel, and thereby wish you only slavery or death. When asked to make a choice, they have voted, shown their "true face", given their approvals to the sentiments "Kill the Jews and Infidels", rather than to stand up for freedom, for life, for women and children, and for the West against Islamic barbarism. J.D.
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D64A0388-7FD9-4F8D-86B4-E25D101C7182
Facebook Jihad
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, March 06, 2009
The jihad against Israel rages not just in Gaza, but worldwide, including on the Internet -- and even on Facebook, as a 14-year-old American Jew named Todd Snider recently discovered. In July 2008, Snider started a Facebook group called "I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel." This group quickly grew to become the largest pro-Israel group on Facebook, with over 180,000 members. But then, unexpectedly, this group gave this enterprising and dedicated young man a lesson in jihadist intimidation and thuggery -- including an unpleasant taste of how Western bureaucrats abet that thuggery, whether out of indifference or complicity.
On February 15, 2009, Snider recounts, "my inbox was suddenly flooded with messages." His pro-Israel Facebook group had been hacked and destroyed by a pro-Hizballah group calling itself "Lebanese Shee'a Hackers." The hackers completely erased the original site content and replaced it with pro-jihad, anti-Israel propaganda - while Facebook authorities stood by and let it all happen, answering Snider's repeated entreaties for help with bland form letters.
The hackers gained administrative privileges to the "I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel" group through the account of a co-administrator who had fallen for an illegal Internet phishing scheme, in which she was prompted to enter her account information and did so. They changed the group picture to one of Hassan Nasrallah and wrote the following obscene message in the Group Description section:
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Go to the given website to read the full item.
Friday, March 06, 2009
Western Women at Risk -- Left-wing leaders yawn.
Let's hope the sun shines on this protest march, which is NOT being sponsored by the "traditional" liberal women's groups, or "human rights" (read "Muslim rights") groups. Those older groups, like NOW, ACLU, Amnesty, etc., which played a fundamental role in expanding human freedoms during the 20th Century, seem to have all be taken over by hard-leftist Marxist functionaries in the 21st. They are all in favor of sweeping away Western freedoms and democracy in favor of multi-culti fascism, making big alliances with and empowering woman-hating Islamic religious fanatics. Here's a group that is not. J.D.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90898
GLOBAL INSECURITY
Islamic honor killings take center stage
Women's rights group warns of beatings, executions
A human rights organization says it's not enough for Americans to adopt "resolutions" opposing violence when Islamic girls are stoned for being victims of gang-rapes and warns that such violence already has moved into the United States, with beatings and murders - including a recent beheading - documented.
The result is a plan for a public rally on March 8, International Women's Day, at the Capitol Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., according to the organization Responsible for Equality and Liberty.
"Every day, women are under attack by Islamic supremacism that supports and approves of oppression, mutilation, and murder of women. According to leaders and followers of Islamic supremacism, they have the right to commit violence against women. Islamic supremacism views oppression of women as a legitimate 'right,' violence against women as a legitimate 'right,' and murdering women as a legitimate 'right,'" the organization announced.
The organization cited the U.S. Senate response - a resolution - when not even a year ago a 13-year-old girl, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, was stoned in front of an African crowd of 1,000 as "punishment" for being the victim of a gang rape.
According to a BBC report, while she begged for mercy, those stoning her said they were doing the will of Allah.
But the Senate failed to even acknowledge the "Islamic supremacist ideology" behind the attack in Somalia, a nation which now is ruled by Islamic Shariah law from border to border, the group charged.
That same "ideology," now has arrived in America, too, the group warned.
"Being 'sorry' is not enough. Politicians' 'condemnations' are not enough. Ignoring the Islamic supremacist ideology behind the slaughter and oppression of women in America and around the world is not enough. If we don't speak out, if we don't demand more of our national and international leaders, more women will be murdered by Islamic supremacists."
According to the organization, the effects - so far - on American women have included one case in which a Muslim TV network founder honored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations was accused of beheading his wife. Authorities there decided that the suspect should only be charged with second-degree murder.
There also have been cases of beatings, a woman told she would be treated "like a dog," a death threat for "defaming" Islam, a daughter in Atlanta murder for "honor," and two Dallas teenagers killed for the "crime" of having boyfriends, the group said.
"We demand that American government leaders acknowledge the existence of Islamic supremacism and act on the threat of Islamic supremacism to women. Now," the group said.
"This global threat against women must be confronted by both men and women, not just by being 'sorry' about random violence or about 'extremist' actions against women, but by demanding that our representatives acknowledge that Islamic supremacism threatens them, and by calling for global action against Islamic supremacism," the group said.
The campaign also has been taken up by the United Nations, where its rapporteur, Yakin Etruk, has warned against the "growing crisis."
"Women must demand that their governments implement agreements on women's equality, rights and an end to violence against women, which have been signed but have yet to be carried out. In these countries, those who speak on behalf of Islam still justify things like stoning or killing a woman for this or that reason as being part of their religion," she said.
According to the Associated Press, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said seven women who were shot in the head in "honor killings" deserved their deaths.
They had "loose morals," he told reporters, and rightfully were shot by male relatives.
REAL also reported a Canadian girl was murdered for "honor," in France and Germany Muslim women are set on fire, and in Israel Arab women are poisoned or strangled for defying Islamic supremacist traditions.
"We rightly recognize and remember the 3,000 victims of the 9/11 terrorism attacks, but the 5,000 victims of 'honor killings' have no day set aside to remember them, and many of our world leaders would just as soon forget about them," wrote Jeffrey Imm, of REAL.
The organization is assembling a petition that calls upon both U.S. and U.N. officials "to recognize the global threat of oppression and violence to women from Islamic supremacism."
It demands national and international condemnation of Islamic supremacism as a threat to women everywhere, as well as measures to protect the women of the world.
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