Showing posts with label jihadism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jihadism. Show all posts

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Blogger.com Makes It Too Easy to Censor Blogs - What to Do?

First, please read these two articles:

What is the current status? As of 4:30 Eastern Time (US) 7/18/07, Gates of Vienna was back up.

So why be concerned about it now? Because other bloggers need to know about this situation, and because it's time for Blogger to do something to prevent its blogs from being shut down either maliciously or by mistake. Gates of Vienna is a respected counterterrorist/antijihadist blog that in no way deserves to be treated as a "spam blog." This situation also shows how easy it would be to misuse Blogger.com to censor another blog.

How did this happen? It is possible that someone unintentionally clicked the "flag" button in the Blogger.com toolbar while attempting to navigate. But then, if a single error like that can cause a blog to be blocked, something is very wrong with Blogger.com! More likely, Gates of Vienna was maliciously flagged as a "spam blog" multiple times by one or more individuals who object to antijihadistist messages being made available to the public. Either way, Blogger.com is allowing de facto censorship, and this is wrong. It allows wrongdoers of every stripe to muzzle anybody who may be trying to warn the public about the crimes they have committed or are preparing to commit. It also will intimidate some bloggers into keeping silent - though not this one!

Does this remind you of anything? It should! The Digg "bury brigade" has aroused intense controversy for exactly the same reason: because it became too easy for a few anonymous users to muzzle opposing points of view or to cover up uncomfortable facts simply by clicking on a little button.

What are we asking Blogger to do? Blogger should add safeguards to prevent the same thing from happening again to this or other blogs in the Blogspot domain. If Blogger.com fails to take action, then other blog owners will have reason to worry about losing access to their blogs. They'll migrate to other blogging systems and and hosting providers that will help them to safeguard their ownership.

You may recall that I've blogged before about the issues that Blogger.com has with spam blogs (see Does Blogger.com think your blog is spam?) but this is a different situation. There is a very big difference between the minor inconvenience of requiring the blog owner to enter Captcha characters before posting to the blog, and the major intimidation Blogger.com causes by blocking the blog entirely.

Now please do this:

  • Link to the stories at Gates of Vienna and Foehammer.net from your own blog.
  • Ask everyone else you know who has a blog to do the same.
  • Publicize the story in every other legitimate way that you can think of: StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Twitter, Pownce, word of mouth, chat rooms, you name it.
  • If you wish, post a comment here indicating where else this article is being publicized.

Contacting humans at Blogger.com: Google makes it especially difficult to contact anyone at Blogger.com directly. But at least for now, you can contact them at support@blogger.com. And here's a website with rolling updates on how to contact Blogger.com: How to Contact Blogger Support. So if you are not happy about the way Blogger.com is misidentifying Gates of Vienna and other blogs as spam, you can still let them know what you think.

Also see:

Keep the pressure on Blogger.com to do something to safeguard their blogging system against being hijacked by the same "bury brigade" that has rendered Digg.com all but useless! And for what to do about THAT, see How to Bury Digg.com.

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Sunday, July 15, 2007

CONFIRMED: White Slaves and Millions of Heroin Dollars Bought Ahtisaari's Kosovo "Independence" Plan (With Rolling Updates)

The latest major U.N. scandal is a real doozy, and it's coming out at a very inconvenient time for George W. and the U.S. State Department:

BND: White Slaves and Millions of Heroin Dollars for Ahtisaari’s Plan

According to the June 21 article by the Banja Luka daily Fokus, titled “Albanian Mafia Bought Ahtisaari,” German Federal Intelligence Service BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) has recently sent a report to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon revealing that Albanian separatists and terrorists in Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province have literally purchased Ahtisaari’s plan which suggests independence for the Serbian province and its severing from Serbia.
German Secret Service has found that 2 million Euros (2.68 million USD) have been transfered directly to Ahtisaari’s personal bank account, and that amounts of multi-million Euros were given to the UN envoy in cash on at least two occasions, totaling up to 40 million Euros (over 53 million U.S. dollars).

Oh, and by the way, KFOR NATO troops are involved:

On the last day of February, at 11:47 p.m., German Secret Service agents made a note about the arrival of the KFOR (NATO troops stationed in Serbian Kosovo province, Kosovo FORce) jeep which brought two young women over, followed by Boria’s bodyguard. The girls were in Ahtisaari’s quarters until 5:17 a.m., when they were driven away by the same vehicle.

This is particularly awkward now, because GWB has been making a big push to turn over control of Kosovo to Albanian Muslim narcoterrorists, which is not only insane, but also violates the treaty that the U.S. signed at the end of the Kosovo War. (See Updated: Was GWB's wristwatch stolen while he was meeting a crowd in Albania? and How the U.S. and NATO were duped in the Balkans.) The only thing that can be said for GWB in this regard is that his Democrat opponents would have tried to do the same thing even sooner.

Okay, so I'm old. This huge UN Albanian-narcoterrorist bribery scandal reminded me of a long trail of other scandals: Libyagate (starring Billy Carter), Abscam, Iran arms-for-hostages, BCCI, UN oil-for-food, and now, Bill and Hillary cashing in from Qatar, and the Bush family's close ties to the Bin Ladin Group. (Yes, THAT Bin Ladin Group; they've altered the English-language spelling, but yes, they are OBL's relatives!) To put icing on the cake, there's Venezuela, with Chavez' ominously cozy relationship with Ahmadinejad, Iran's nuclear neo-Nazi.

So what made me think of all these other scandals? What common thread has linked every major scandal of the western world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries?

They're are all about foreign money from Muslim sources being used to corrupt politicians and bureaucrats in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the UN. It's as simple as that.

In the U.S., this money has bought politicians wholesale on both sides of the aisle. The corruption is so pervasive that it's not even about partisan politics; it's about the blindly selfish, and in fact treasonous, pursuit of power and wealth. The funding is not only coming from Muslim petrodollars, but also from Albanian crime syndicate money (from drug-running, arms-smuggling, slave-trading, and wholesale looting), Taliban opium money, diverted foreign aid, you name it.

What to do? Many people won't want to hear the answer, but that isn't my problem. I calls 'em as I sees 'em, and I don't care whether anybody likes it or not.

We can't afford to keep doing business with our enemies. Our enemies include every Islamist and every jihadist-sympathizer on the planet, and every government that openly or covertly promotes jihadism. Yes, that adds up to an awful lot of people. Our foes have already chosen that path. Our failure to acknowledge it will not make them go away. They see it as a war of extermination against us, and we have no choice but to defeat them.

What does "not doing business with the enemy" mean in practice?

This means we have to bite the bullet and achieve complete energy independence as soon as possible, and by every means available.

This means building clean-coal and nuclear power plants, wind farms, synfuel facilities, you name it. We need to stop putting roadblocks in the way of everyone who is trying to help achieve energy independence. For example, when a reputable electric power company wants to build a new clean-coal plant or a nuke plant, making use of resources that the U.S. has in abundance, the authorities should let them proceed as soon as a good plan is in place. And we should go ahead and drill for oil in uninhabitable wilderness regions.

This means we must finally debunk all of this propaganda that blames us - and our desire to maintain a standard of living compatible with civilized life - for "global warming." Is Mars also warming up because we've been driving too many SUVs on the red planet? Claiming that there is a "scientific consensus" on behalf of one's political agenda does not mean that there actually is one! The people who started up this propaganda evidently hate people in general, and modern civilization in particular. More to the point, their political manipulations play into the hands of our foreign enemies. The only way to deal with them is to refute them once and for all, and then never listen to any of them ever again.

This means we stop making alliances with, and stop giving aid to, any Muslim nation, entity, or faction. It means we never again use U.S. military power to fight a war on behalf of Muslims under any circumstances whatsoever - no matter how much they flood the airwaves with fauxtography and stage elaborate hoaxes to play themselves up as the victims of whomever they want the U.S. to punish - and no matter how much they are paying our politicians under the table.

This means that we must stop educating and hiring aliens, including de facto enemy aliens, in preference to our own citizens. That would be an inexcusable outrage during peacetime, and it's criminally insane when we are at war. It's time to stop bringing in any foreign nationals from predominantly Muslim countries or regions, particularly in the fields of engineering and IT. It's time to drastically scale back the student visa program, and to eliminate the thoroughly corrupt H-1b program entirely. We've been shutting out loyal, qualified, experienced, and hard-working Americans from jobs, and turning over large portions of America's technical infrastructure to foreign nationals whose loyalty is clearly elsewhere.

None of these things are impossible, or even all that difficult, to do. It's all a matter of growing up, facing facts, and seeing the world and its inhabitants as they are, not as we wish they would be. If we refuse to face facts, that will not stop the facts from facing us.

Rolling updates on the Ahtisaari bribery allegations:

  • The original post on Byzantine Sacred Art blog that brought this matter to my attention
    (posted in original article 6/25/07):
    BND: White Slaves and Millions of Heroin Dollars for Ahtisaari’s Plan
  • Article in Serbian-language paper "Fokus", Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia
    (posted in original article 6/25/07):
    Albanska mafija kupila Ahtisarija
  • Blog S@LE picked up this article (added 6/28/07):
    It's good to be Marrti Ahtisaari
  • Byzantine Sacred Art blog post about Ahtisaari's previous racist remarks against Serbs
    (added 6/28/07):
    Serbian Jerusalem; a Ticket to Butt Clubs
  • Article in Berlin Online providing some background on the Albanian crime syndicate
    (added 6/28/07):
    Von der Mafia beherrscht
  • Crossfire War - UN Envoy Ahtisaari Accused of Taking Bribes
    (added 6/28/07):
    Crossfire War - UN Envoy Ahtisaari Accused of Taking Bribes
    Editor's Note:
    Since publication of the Focus report and this opinon based on that report, new information suggests that the intelligence report the Bosnian Serb news agency Focus claims was filed at the UN apparently was never received by the UN.
    Since the alleged report is the only piece of evidence provided in support of the claims by Focus, the claims in the Focus story - and the opinion below based on that, may be false. Please check back later for an update.

    1389's comment (added 6/28/07):

    I remain convinced that there is an extremely high probability that this story is true. To begin with, the story comports with everything that has been going on in Kosovo since 1999. Moreover, the UN has an interest in attempting to bury an embarrassing story by having some unnamed individual claim that the UN never received such a document.

    To the best of my knowledge, there have been no denials of culpability or involvement on the part of Ahtisaari, the Albanians, or anyone else. Nor has there been any official denial issued by any named individual or department at the UN.

    I must point out that the failure to deny wrongdoing is tantamount to an admission of culpability. As someone who has neither accepted nor offered bribes, if some newspaper had accused me of such a thing, not only would I have denied it loudly and without delay, but I would have immediately contacted an attorney to talk about filing a suit for defamation.

  • Centre for Peace in the Balkans (added 6/28/07):
    Serbia's Dulic calls for inquiry in Ahtisaari bribe allegations
    Neither the UN nor Mr Ahtisaari, a former Finnish president, has commented on the allegations.

Newest updates on the Ahtisaari bribery allegations:

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The Battle Against E-Jihadis: Why we need to know what we're up against!

This piece of good news:

Bad Day to Be an eJihadi/Cyber Terrorist

came in from The Jawa Report, not long after I had posted some remarks about an e-jihadist "hacker's kit" that had been making the rounds of the Internet. Evidently, two sites that had been hosting this malware kit are gone.

Keep in mind, though, that the perps will try to come back as soon as they find another venue. All of us - bloggers and other private individuals, Internet service providers, anti-malware companies, other corporations, non-profit organizations, as well as law enforcement, the military, and other governmental bodies - will have to be a lot more vigilant in the future about tracking and combating attacks from this quarter.

You might be astounded to learn just how much a lone blogger can accomplish. The Cyber Jihad is Real shows us how a lone blogger with no prior experience put the kibosh on several significant threats. Knowledge of Arabic or other foreign languages is not necessarily a requirement, though it is helpful. This article links to several other resources, including:

Now go and read:

Sunni Insurgents in Iraq Guilty of Cyber Jihad.

You may already know that Sunni insurgents are posting jihadist videos on the Internet showing U.S. troops being killed. It doesn't take long before al Qaeda's mouthpiece al-Jazeera picks up those videos and uses them to incite further mayhem. Foehammer makes a good case that the Bush Administration's attempts to keep the American public from seeing these images actually plays into the hands of our enemies.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

COUNTERTERRORIST BLOG SWARM WANTED!

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN MOVED TO http://1389blog.com.

The blog name has been changed to 1389 Blog.

Click here for this article on the new blog!

Please update your links, feed subscriptions, and favorites. Thanks!

This article by Julia Gorin is a must read for everyone:

Ending the Balkan Quagmire at American Thinker

This article is all about how US and EU counterterrorism foreign policy went so horribly wrong. It explains how jihadist terrorism has succeeded in overrunning Europe and in attacking the US. It's particularly important for Americans to read this article, because it cites news stories from reputable sources that have had some exposure in Europe, but haven't made it into the US media.

So why am I asking for a blog swarm?

Exactly because this information isn't getting around in the US, and I want this story to get some exposure!

Why is this story being kept off the radar screen in the US?

Simple: It's a catalogue of errors and misdeeds that makes the US media conglomerates look bad, and the US government (i.e., nearly everyone on both sides of the aisle) look even worse. It reveals an ongoing foreign policy fiasco that makes the Bay of Pigs Invasion look like a victory by comparison. And it isn't just a fiasco for the government, it's a fiasco for the American and European public, because it has greatly increased everyone's vulnerability to jihadist terrorism.

What to do?

  • Link to the original story on your blog.
  • Ask everyone else you know to do the same.
  • Publicize the story in any other legitimate way that you can think of.
  • If you wish, post a comment here indicating where else this article is being publicized.

This story has been submitted to Digg as How US and EU counterterrorism foreign policy went so horribly wrong. We'll see how long it stays there before Digg's censors and bury brigade get to it, as recently happened with Foehammer's Anvil.

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Blogs and Websites that have Posted or Linked to:
Ending the Balkan Quagmire at American Thinker:

  1. Gray Falcon
  2. Foehammer.net
  3. Byzantine Sacred Art Blog
  4. Ft. Hard Knox
  5. Erik with a "K"
  6. Intergalactic Source of Truth™
  7. Orthodoxy Today
  8. Eastern European Forum
  9. Jillosophy
  10. SerbBlog
  11. Allah's Willing Executioners
  12. Israpundit
  13. JBlog Central
  14. New Serbian Optimism
  15. Right Wing News
  16. Fiery Spirited Zionist
  17. Liberty Post
  18. Free Republic
  19. Sulekha
  20. US Political Opinions (UK)
  21. Icerocket Blogs
  22. The Black Kettle
  23. American Council for Kosovo
  24. The Lighthouse
  25. Phanari
  26. 2nd Anagennesis - A Blog of Townhall.com
  27. Our Children are the Guarantors
  28. Vigilant Freedom/910 Group Blog
  29. Brucified
  30. EagleSpeak
  31. The Conservative Razor
  32. Atlas Shrugs
  33. Noisy Room
  34. Dumb Ox
  35. Geek Orthodox.org
  36. Ironic Surrealism
  37. Panhandle Poetry and Other Thoughts
  38. View from Minas Morgul
  39. Open thread on The Pirate's Cove
  40. Political Mavens
  41. Giltner Review
  42. Sokotica (full text of article)
  43. pjungwir at del.icio.us
  44. The Outraged Spleen of Zion
  45. Strategic Board
  46. Noblesse Oblige
  47. Field of Blackbirds
  48. Open thread at Little Green Footballs

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Updated: Is the U.S. government finally ready to confront cyberjihadism?

See this entry on My Pet Jawa, a prominent antijihadist blog.

It has certainly taken awhile for the U.S. government to start paying attention to cyberjihadism.

1389 wants to know:

When will they begin to look at the relentless pro-jihadist intimidation and censorship at social news and Web 2.0 sites, such as Digg?

When will they recognize that the site's owners and staff are responsible for allowing this activity to run rampant?

When will they start looking at the backgrounds and connections of these staffers, including contractors?

Allowing our self-proclaimed enemies to take control of, and to censor, our social news sites is giving them waaaaay too much power, and it has to stop!

Update (6/16/07):

Update (7/5/07):

Update (7/10/07):

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The Battle Against E-Jihadis: Why we need to know what we're up against!

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

How the U.S. and NATO were duped in the Balkans

It is no exaggeration to say that the recent U.S./NATO/EU war against the Serbs, and on behalf of the sl-Qaeda-linked Muslim jihadists in the Balkans, was the product of the slickest propaganda and disinformation operation in recorded history.

Only now is the real story beginning to get any traction...and some of us have worked for years to get this to this point. Even so, it is a rare thing for anybody with political, media, or academic connections to come out of the woodwork and admit that the mainstream media, together with official sources, enforced a totally false portrayal of a war and of an entire people. But the tissue of lies is finally starting to unravel, and the truth is coming out, whether anyone likes it or not.

At least one person, evidently without having read any of these articles, has already vilified me, by accusing me of "peddling genocide denial," simply for having raised this issue. I knew that was going to happen, because the mainstream media have usurped the roles of judge, jury, and executioner. The unthinking mob follows like lemmings, never imagining that the same thing could someday happen to them. The instant that the media have accused someone of a heinous offense, whether there is any basis for it or not, it's already too late. From then on, anyone else who dares to say, "Let's take another look at the evidence!" is immediately tarred with the same brush.

Have Americans learned anything from the Michael Nifong bogus-rape case? Or from Nifong's disbarment and suspension for numerous acts of prosecutorial misconduct, such as withholding exculpatory evidence? Or from the fact that Nifong was more than willing to continue ruining the lives of innocent people, rather than man up and admit that he had been mistaken?

Evidently not! So many people still want to believe that the Nifong debacle is an isolated instance. Not only is the Nifong case far from unique; but also it is a mirror in microcosm of the vast scope of deception, the prosecutorial abuse, and the total absence of due process of law, that have accompanied the recent wars against the Serbian people and their ongoing aftermath.

Just read these articles! Read them carefully. If you disagree with what you see, it behooves you to research the facts yourself before you comment. If you are afraid to read these articles, ask yourself why. And if you discover that you have had a mistaken impression of what was going on, grow up and admit it!

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Updated: Was GWB's wristwatch stolen while he was meeting a crowd in Albania?

This video from HotAir is a must see.

More here from the Byzantine Sacred Art Blog.

It's just too ironic for words. This incident just had to happen immediately after Bush promised the Albanians that he would grant "independence" to Kosovo.

Over the fully justified objections of Serbia and Russia, Bush promised something that is not his to give. Kosovo is legally part of Serbia, but it has been under US/Nato/EU occupation since 1999. During that time, the occupiers have allowed organized crime and jihadism to run rampant in Kosovo.

This world doesn't need a fountain of youth; it needs a fountain of common sense. The U.S. proclaims that it is fighting a "global war on terror." At the same time, it is attempting to take land that is sacred to Christian Serbs, with no legal justification whatsoever, and turn it over to Albanian Muslim jihadist rule.

I suppose this is Bush's idea of "democracy," and that's exactly what would happen. After all, "democracy" means "mob rule." People with any common sense would never want to live under democracy - instead, they would insist on the safeguards inherent in a republic.

For myself, I just wish we had the caliber of people, both in Serbia and in the U.S., that Serbia had during medieval times. Nearly all of Serbia's medieval kings were later canonized as saints, and deservedly so.

Update: The spin-doctoring begins...

One problem with all of this spin-doctoring is that Bush's high-speed sleight-of-hand in handing off the watch within a crowd of quick-moving people seems hard to believe. Nor does it show up anywhere on the video.

But even that is beside the point. Purely for the sake of argument, let's assume for a moment that Tony Snow was telling the truth in assuring us that GWB handed his watch to a Secret Service officer for safekeeping.

Why, then would Bush have suddenly decided, at the last moment, that he needed to put his watch in a safe place - unless he already knew that he was among people who would very likely steal it?

Here's yet another disconcerting thought:
What if Russia were to recognize the independence of California?
Don't laugh; it could happen!

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

It's time for the U.S. to get out of Russia's face

According to the mainstream media, a new Cold War is starting between the U.S. and Russia. As they see it, Russia in general, and Putin in particular, is always in the wrong.

I say that's hogwash. There's no earthly reason why Russia should be our enemy, except for the fact that the U.S. has been doing everything it can to encroach on their space, against our own interests as well as theirs. Why do we insist on repeating the mistakes of the nineteenth-century British Empire? Instead, there are plenty of good reasons why the U.S. should clean up its act and stand shoulder to shoulder with Russia against the jihadists.

In his column, Who Lost Russia? Pat Buchanan explains how our relations with Russia went wrong, and what we should do now. In my opinion, a sincere apology on our part would be a good place to start.

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Why it's vitally important to keep up the pressure on the Senate

Over at Pirate's Cove, William Teach warns us about what happens when we fail to keep up the pressure on our legislators:

Demotivation Monday: Immigration Backers Optimistic

In a nutshell, our elected senators and representatives, not to mention the President, all think that they can ignore us. Teach gives several reasons, but this is the one you need to see right now:

Third, the flood of angry calls, emails, protests, etc, probably did recede, as the people who were making them, particularly Conservatives, do not think that they have to continue to say the same thing again and again: they expect Senators to listen the first time.

Problem is, they didn't listen, so you gotta crank up the volume.

We'll make it easy for you. Refer back to our earlier post on this topic, Updated: No, it's NOT too late to stop the immigration "reform" bill! Use the links there to reach out and touch the senators from your state.

Need some more motivation?

Terrorists Use Mexico to Enter U.S.

Open borders means no barriers against terrorist infiltration. And despite what the "reformers" say, it's impossible to do an effective background check on an alien in one business day. Once they get in, it's too late.

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Sunday, June 3, 2007

It takes a mighty big person to repent these days...

It's not about looks, bodily stature and strength, celebrity, power, or wealth.

It's all about emotional and spiritual fortitude.

With all of the public-apology-fests we hear about these days, from the unspeakably hypocritical Don Imus brouhaha to the flying TB patient, it's getting harder and harder to find folks who can repent of their own wrongdoing before they have been put under pressure by civil authorities, media hounding, public disgrace, or all of the above. Were this merely a personal spiritual issue for those who cannot turn aside from the wrong path they have chosen, it would be bad enough.

But when those who cannot repent are public figures, the slippery slope to destruction grows broad enough to encompass us all.

This is why the defamation of the Serbs never seems to end. I am talking about the US/NATO/EU government officials and bureaucrats, the NGO/"think tank"/academia frauds, the mainstream media people, and everybody else who has played a part in this over the last decade and a half (and more). The New York Times is one recent example; see Still Slandering Serbia.

The accusers keep sticking to their wrongheaded story--no matter how obvious it becomes that the U.S. has been fighting on the wrong side, on behalf of the Muslim jihadists in the Balkans.

It's true that too many of them have built their career on Serb-bashing. But there's another reason why these high-placed Serb-bashers dare not recant. It's because they have caught themselves in their own trap.

Lying is the lubricant that keeps the machinery of evil in motion. But now, the perpetrators can't get off their own runaway train. Nor can they let the rest of us off.

In the name of "justice," they relentlessly demanded draconian punishments for any Serbs accused of real or fictitious war crimes. Now the tragic irony is that these accusers cannot recant their own false allegations without inviting the same harsh fate for themselves that they have been demanding for the Serbs.

Lies have consequences. Their own false allegations against the Serbs resulted in a very real genocide against the Serbs. If these Serb-bashers were ever to admit they had been wrong, they would have reason to fear that, at some point--maybe years from now, maybe sooner--they would be called to account, and would find no more mercy than what they themselves had dealt out to the Serbs. And that is what they are truly most afraid of.

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Stein hoists to these valiant bloggers:

Thanks to all of you for having the courage to discuss this issue. Sadly, I too must admit that it took me way too long to understand what was going on.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Capt. Lance Peter Sijan, USAF

Here is the story of the heroic service of Capt. Lance Peter Sijan, as recounted by the United States Air Force. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroism during the Vietnam War, where he died as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. He displayed this strength of character not just at one particular time of great danger, but consistently throughout a long ordeal.

The USAF website noted the Irish heritage of Capt. Sijan's mother, but not the Serbian heritage of his father. Capt. Sijan's Wikipedia biography does mention this.

Capt. Sijan was not the only Serbian-American awarded the Medal of Honor. Reportedly, a greater proportion of Serbian-Americans per capita have been awarded the Medal of Honor than any other ethnic group serving in the U.S. military.

Sadly, credit is not being given where credit is due. Not long ago, the U.S. was at war with Serbia, for reasons that did not prove justifiable in retrospect - which is why the mainstream media has so little to say about the Balkans at present. Even now, the U.S. State Department is still trying to detach Kosovo from Serbia to turn it over to jihadist rule, and to sell out the Bosnian Serbs as well, in defiance of all common sense. Encouraging the public to admire a Serbian-American hero would no doubt raise too many embarrassing questions about past and present foreign policy mistakes, and about those bureaucrats, journalists, and elected officials who are clearly to blame.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

It's new, it's by William A. Whittle, and it's worth reading now

If you aren't familiar with William A. Whittle and the Eject!Eject!Eject! website, you're missing one of the best writers on current trends from an historical perspective. His understanding of the issues of war and defense is spot on.

You Are Not Alone, Part 1 and Part 2 is a long article, but so thought-provoking, and, dare I say, inspiring, that it is worth dropping whatever else you are doing to take the time to read it now.

Read it, think about it for awhile, and read some of the other articles on Whittle's site. He has an intriguing, and I believe correct, comprehension of the real purpose behind, and need for, those efforts and struggles that so often seem lonely and futile.

Comments are open, both here and on Whittle's site.

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Friday, May 11, 2007

What Israel's PR problem really is - and how Web 2.0 can counter corruption in the MSM

Our Children Are The Guarantors: What Our PR Problem Really Is offers a convincing explanation of how the present-day vilification of Israel and the Jews has been engineered in much the same way as was the vilification of the Serbs in the 1990s.

1389 predicted that Israel would be the next target - but the Internet was not developed to the extent that it is today, and at that time it was very difficult indeed to reach an audience. Now we have a much larger audience on the Internet, with social news sites, Web 2.0, and much else.

The mainstream media has become corrupt largely because it faces too little competition. It's our job to give them some! Everyone who has good factual information can start using all of the available tools to get it to as many people as possible. In addition, we all need need to watch out for, and confront, any attempts to censor our message because it is not "politically correct" or, more to the point, because it gets in the way of our enemies' agendas.

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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Our Children Are The Guarantors: My Own “So Sorry”

1389 was deeply moved by this blog entry, Our Children Are The Guarantors: My Own “So Sorry”, which offers a personal view of how one writer was affected by the deceptive media spin on the Balkans debacle.

Be sure to read it.

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News Roundup: Who are the Fort Dix Six?

Here are some articles that provide background on the six foreign-born Muslims who were arrested for plotting to blow up Fort Dix.

Remember: If you see something, say something!

1389 asks:
If this were twenty or thirty years ago, and a foreign enemy was found to be plotting to attack American troops on American soil, everyone would have been up in arms - literally! Why isn't this on the front page of every newspaper? Shouldn't there be an ongoing investigation to find everyone else who is linked to these jihadists, and to uncover other terrorist cells that involve jihadists from the Balkans? Put it this way: if our heads are in the sand, then we are going to be kicked in some other part of our anatomy.
Sadly, the Internet and the mainstream media are populated with too many self-appointed censors who have decided that it's in their interest to downplay the very real dangers that we are facing. What's more, according to this New York Sun article, Islamist-Left Alliance A Growing Force, the Internet has become an important tool for jihadist communication and recruitment.

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Thursday, May 3, 2007

ABC News on the cyber-riot and other troubles at Digg

ABC News reports not only on the cyber-riot at Digg, but also on other serious troubles at the site, including the infamous "bury brigade."

This ABC News article correctly points out that the conservative site littlegreenfootballs has been especially victimized by the self-appointed censors on Digg's "bury brigade."

Unfortunately, the ABC News article omitted to mention that LGF is primarily an antijihadist site. Nor did the article note the revealing fact that antijihadist articles are being targeted for burial with especially relentless vigor.

Apparently, Digg is perfectly satisfied with this coverup of everything that might alert the public about the jihadist threat. Isn't it time to ask why Digg has never made even the slightest attempt to put a stop to this pro-jihadist censorship?

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