Archive for April, 2006
LUTHERVILLE, Md.- April 11, 2006. Naomi’s Rest, the first organization to link Christians with Jews for purposes of aliyah, today announced the launch of their flagship website, The Holocaust Warning Center. This on-line resource unites anti-Semitism with Christian persecution and global aliyah. Through the Holocaust-Warning-Center.org, Naomi’s Rest provides facts about the worldwide spread of Islam and hate groups, a serious threat to both Christians and Jews. Besides being a repository for crucial information about aliyah, the “H-W-C” features a newsletter, bookstore, on-line library, a media center, directory of links, Holocaust research, a ‘contact the Knesset’ page, a register of regional aliyah centers, and more. The organization is actively seeking strategic alliances with American and Israeli businesses to facilitate relocation, learning Hebrew, and related concerns. Read the rest of this entry »
Rev. Peterson Says Prosecution of Rep. McKinney Should Proceed
LOS ANGELES – Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., expressed “sincere regret” and apologized for the “misunderstanding” in her altercation with a Capitol police officer. McKinney told the House, “There should not have been any physical contact in this incident.” She added, “I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation.” Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who has been a staunch critic of McKinney for falsely accusing the Capitol police of ‘racism’, issued the following statement today regarding this situation:
“Where’s the real apology from Cynthia McKinney? McKinney is still blaming the Capitol police officer when she says that there should not have been any ‘inappropriate touching.’ The only thing inappropriate about this incident is McKinney’s hitting of a police officer. The facts are that Rep. McKinney attempted to bypass a security checkpoint without proper identification and then hit a Capitol police officer for doing his job. For the past week McKinney has denied any wrongdoing and accused the officer of ‘racism’ and of ‘racially profiling’ her. Now we find out that she has been lying and falsely accusing the officer. McKinney made her remarks today because she feared prosecution by a federal grand jury. She still has not admitted any wrongdoing and has not taken any responsibility for her actions. Her phony ‘apology’ is too little too late. Hitting a police officer is a serious crime and McKinney should be prosecuted. The Capitol police officer and the entire department deserve nothing less. Shame on Rep. McKinney and her supporters.”
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the Founder and President of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny), a nationally respected nonprofit organization dedicated to “Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man.” For the past 16 years, BOND has been providing unique programs and services designed to help men and their families. Rev. Peterson is also the author of the widely acclaimed book “SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America.”
"The most anti-scientific and anti-democratic force in the world today seems to be the ideology of Islam. Thinly guised as a religion, it usually manages to dodge the criticism that is rightfully directed towards its totalitarian cousins Communism, Fascism and Nazism."
by Morten Breivik
One of the most valuable principles of science is to question everything; to consider nothing untouchable. If a specific theory cannot withstand comprehensive and rigorous scrutiny, it is practically worthless and should be discarded. It is for instance futile to champion a mathematically beautiful theory of physics if it fails spectacularly when faced with empirical evidence from the real world.
This kind of thinking particularly lends itself to the natural sciences, but is harder to apply to the more elusive and less tangible social sciences and humanities, where so-called pseudo-science seems to be more widespread. Pseudo-science attempts to resemble science by applying elements of its formal structure; utilizing scientific-like jargon and language, employing symbols and equations, providing conferences and journals, etc. However, by closer scrutiny the actual content is found to represent nothing but unsustainable rubbish, often camouflaged through creative rhetoric and cognitive manipulation.
DisHonors also go to Chris Matthews, Jack Cafferty and Rosie O’Donnell
WASHINGTON D.C.–The Media Research Center today announces the worst liberal reporting awards from their 6th annual DisHonors Awards gala held last night at the Grand Hyatt Washington. Ted Turner, Chris Matthews, Jack Cafferty and Rosie O’Donnell “won” for their superlative bias. Judges included Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Steve Forbes, Brent Bozell and other distinguished conservatives.
Quote of the year was chosen by the 950 guests in attendance and was awarded to Ted Turner for his ridiculous analysis of North Korea. Below is a full list of the 2006 awards, winners and the quotes that earned them their respective DisHonors. Audio and visual clips are available at http://www.mrc.org/.
Excerpts from 2006 DisHonors Award Winners’ Quotes
Aaron Brown Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis and Quote of the Year winner – Ted Turner, for declaring his faith in the good intentions of North Korea’s despotic communist dictatorship.
Turner: “Well, hey, listen. I saw a lot of people over there. They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars, but …”
Blitzer: “A lot of those people are starving.”
Turner: “I didn’t see any, I didn’t see any brutality …”
— Exchange on CNN’s The Situation Room, September 19.
Cindy Sheehan Media Hero Award – Chris Matthews for claiming Sheehan is more informed than Congress.
Cindy Sheehan: "We’re not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and good will in the Middle East by killing innocent people … I see Iraq as the base for spreading imperialism…."
Host Chris Matthews: "Are you considering running for Congress, Cindy?"
Sheehan: "No, not this time…."
Matthews: "Okay. Well, I have to tell you, you sound more informed than most U.S. Congresspeople, so maybe you should run."
— Exchange on MSNBC’s Hardball, August 15.
by Sharon Hughes
Changing Worldviews
If you are like the majority of Americans, immigration is one of those issues that runs deep in your value system, for many reasons.
First, because one of the primary distinguishing marks of America is that she is a melting pot of people from every country in the world, who understand that our bonds are not in our common country of origin, or race, or traditions, but in the ideal that all men should be free. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights uphold this.
Second, because of this, America has always held open arms to the "huddled masses yearning to be free," and we reject no one based on color or creed or nationality…all are welcome.
Third, we understand, as Ronald Reagan said, "A nation without borders is not a nation," and therefore we have laws that govern our borders which require those wanting to enter our "land of the free" to do so respecting our laws. We take American residency and citizenship seriously.
WASHINGTON, DC – Cliff Kincaid, editor of Accuracy in Media, released the following statement on NBC Today Show co-host Katie Couric’s decision to join CBS News as anchor of the CBS Evening News:
"The decision suggests there will be less emphasis on hard news on the network that employed Edward R. Murrow, considered a hero to the old CBS News crowd. On the Today Show, Couric had to deal with some hard news, but a lot of celebrities and fluff. She has been hired by CBS, apparently, because she is a liberal who projects a pleasant, warm and friendly appearance. That may be enough to raise the ratings. CBS Evening News has been mired in third place among network news shows, with 8.1 million viewers. ABC World News Tonight is second, with 8.7 million, and NBC Nightly News is number one, with 9.7 million. It’s like shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic. They’re competing for a dwindling audience. It’s because of AIM — and those who have followed in our wake — that the network news shows are in such trouble. They still don’t understand that it is liberal bias that is driving away viewers. Putting a pretty face and a sweet voice on liberal bias won’t fool viewers for long."
Accuracy In Media (AIM) is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage.
WASHINGTON, April 3 /Christian Wire Service/ — The debate over the Senate’s version of the Immigration Bill to stop the flow of Illegal Aliens into our nation is in full swing in Washington DC.
One of the arguments for the new bill is that it will provide a difficult path for Illegal Aliens to gain permanent residency in our country. Since that means that they will end up in America, it sounds like amnesty.
Some of these proposals would include Illegal Aliens registering as a guest worker, paying a fine and working here for 11 years before they become eligible to apply for citizenship.
One of the arguments for passing a bill with such a clause is that we don’t have the resources to round up 12,000,000 Illegal Aliens and deport them. Another argument is that we don’t have the resources or enough jail space to put these Illegal Aliens in jail. Of course a high percentage of Illegal Aliens are already in our prison system.
Don Swarthout, President, of Christians Reviving America’s Values said, “If we do not have the resources to round up these Illegal Aliens, deport them or to put them in jail, how are we going to enforce making them register? What resources are we going to use to make sure that will happen? It really seems like this bill is really all about amnesty.”
“When the protesters were marching in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and in other cities, they carried Mexican Flags. By waving their Mexican flags in our faces the protesters seemed to say, ‘We are Mexicans and we are here to take over your country. We will tell you what to do.’ That is just wrong and it will not be tolerated by the majority of Americans voters. We must close our borders, without any excuses.” Swarthout said.
“If we don’t stop this illegal immigration the cost of welfare, prison system, education and hospitalization for Illegal Aliens will continue to erode away the financial well being of the United States. If we are already out of resources, how can we keep this whole thing going? America may be in trouble already,” Swarthout concluded.
Alexandria, VA—The Iraq war is now three years old and the bloody ex-dictator of Iraq, Saddam 
Hussein, is on trial for crimes against humanity and genocide. Yet the evidence behind these charges — and the gripping testimony of Saddam’s victims — has garnered little coverage from the broadcast network evening newscasts.
A new study by the Media Research Center, Covering Saddam’s Shenanigans, Not His Crimes, found that Saddam’s trial has received only light coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, and much of that has focused on Saddam’s courtroom antics, not the details of his crimes:
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Saddam’s trial has been mentioned in just 64 stories over the last 5 months. In contrast, the first 6 months of the O.J. Simpson murder trial garnered 431 stories from those same networks.
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ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted nearly three times as much airtime on Saddam’s outbursts as on the testimony and documentary evidence of his orders to kill 140 people in Dujail.
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Total network airtime devoted to showing viewers the evidence and testimony against Saddam Hussein: just 11 minutes, 35 seconds over a five-month period.
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In spite of a record equal to some of the worst tyrants in history, reporters found Saddam’s personal reactions and orchestrated antics more compelling than the testimony against him.
“Toppling Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime and bringing the brutal dictator before a court of law is unquestionably a major achievement of the U.S. and our allies,” said Rich Noyes, director of research for the Media Research Center. “But TV coverage has minimized the historic significance of this case. Instead, the network’s Iraq news has been a depressingly dour drumbeat of terrorist attacks, U.S. casualties and dark warnings that Iraq is on the verge of ‘civil war.’”
“Saddam’s theatrics are meant to distract from the evidence of his terrible crimes. Reporters should have resisted the impulse to reward this cynical strategy. Instead, they’ve played right into his hands.”
For a review of the media’s reporting record on the Iraq War, please see MRC’s Special Report "TV’s Bad News Brigade: ABC, CBS and NBC’s Defeatist Coverage of the War in Iraq"
In Delhi, India’s capital city, a campaign against women aborting their female babies was launched to increase awareness of its effects on society. According to the 2001 census, there are an estimated 814 women per 1,000 men in Delhi.
"The problem [aborting female babies] has assumed monstrous proportions in most of the northern states," said a government official, "and is not only a blot on civilized society, but also a crime."
The campaign, Laadli (Darling Daughter), seeks to take action against "ultrasound clinics and other diagnostic centers conducting gender-based pregnancy tests." But the real root of India’s falling female ratio is the deeply ingrained cultural disdain of women. In an issue of SEND! magazine, Gospel for Asia outlined the life of an Asian woman:
There is no rejoicing on the day you are born. To your parents’ and relatives’ deep disappointment, you are a girl . . . if you survive the first few days of your life, you should consider yourself fortunate already. Out of 1,250 women recently polled in the state of Tamil Nadu, more than half had killed baby daughters . . . but cruelty is not a mother’s motive. She may actually believe that this is the wiser, more compassionate choice—rather than raise you and condemn you to life as a woman.
The greatest challenge for a woman in Asia today is to simply survive through a normal lifespan. Even before birth, a burden of oppression follows her until death.
Facing threats of prostitution trafficking, disease and neglect, a girl is considered a burden even to her own family—at the time of marriage especially, as her family is required to pay the groom a large dowry.
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By M H Ahsan
Were the bomb attacks on the Sinai holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh the work of al-Qaida network terrorists? M H AHSAN speaks to terrorism expert Issam Darras, 57, a former officer in the Egyptian army and now a publicist in Cairo — and once among the closest associates of terrorist godfather Osama bin Laden.
Q: At least 64 tourists were killed recently by Islamist terrorist suicide bombers in the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheik. The Sinai terrorists have claimed that their orders came directly from Osama bin Laden. Was the founder of the al-Qaida terrorist network indeed behind these attacks?
Darras: The reference to bin Laden was nothing more than a courtesy gesture to the overlord of Islamist terrorism, by now practically a legendary figure. But these groups operate autonomously, which doesn't necessarily rule out the possibility of certain lateral contacts. However, I doubt that there is any clear link among the demonic March 2004 attacks on suburban trains in Madrid, the recent bombings in London and the incidents in Sharm el-Sheik.
Q: Egyptian extremists, however, do seem to maintain contacts with one another.
Darras: It's conceivable that the same groups were responsible for the attack in the Sinai resort of Taba in October 2004 and the recent Sharm el-Sheik bombings, because both happened in the same region. Revenge for the arrests and brutal interrogations in the wake of the Taba attacks could have played a role in Sharm el-Sheik. Unfortunately, there are many thousands of young people who are susceptible to these kinds of ideas of revenge.
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