Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe
At the request of members, I am restarting those "Tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast"-- the stories and issues that the press and media either ignore, won't even talk about, or will mention once and forevermore claim "it's old news..."
Naturally, some will be stories which interest me, or things I think we all need to be aware of.
I am experimenting with a minor change in presentation- when I can, I will cut to
with a keyword or two and see what kind of links to "mainstream" stories I can find in contrast to what we see here and on other sites.
May I remind you of a couple of points to bear in mind?
Each link usually has many other links within- follow them all to get "the rest of the story."
Don't forget the "open multiple browsers" trick with control-n -- this allows you to hold your place with one, and use the others to follow links, run searches, etc.
Rather than go back and rehash old links, I'll give you links to the original posts here:
-DUBOB 10- the *best of* the Dark Underbelly Series--
-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast..... --
DUBOB 8-- still *more* tales from the Underbelly***
DUBOB 7-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 5-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB IV- yet more Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast-
DUBOB III -- "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast"
DUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II
-The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--
Cerberus asks the million reader question;"It seems that, during the election, Liberal bloggers pretty much got their butts kicked by a much larger, much more determined, much broader and much more widely read (both by John Q. Public and media interlopers) conservative blogs. We started to catch on only in the last 2 weeks or so as more Liberals, out of desperation, suddenly "got it" about blogs."
The primary reason that liberal/left bloggers in both Canada and the US have so much more difficulty gaining traction in the way the conservative-shere has isn't really a mystery - they compete with the majority of voices in mainstream media for their readers - and we don't. Comments (31)
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Kos Kidz Horrified at Agreement with LGF
One of the Kos Kidz notes that LGF and Daily Kos seem to be mostly in agreement that it’s probably not a good thing for a United Arab Emirates company to control US sea ports—but they quickly emphasize that at the morally superior Daily Kos, they’re opposed to it for the right reasons, whereas LGF is, you know, like racist or something, dude: Daily Kos: It’s Not An Arab Thing. The “diary” post above is a reply to this one: Is This DailyKos or LGF? Terrorist Lovers Controlling Our Ports!
UPDATE at 2/21/06 2:42:07 pm:
Until recently, the United Arab Emirates was the home of one of the most insane and malevolent Arab “think tanks” ever in existence, the Zayed Centre for Coordination and Followup—funded directly by the UAE government. link: 197 comments
Read some facts and another opinion
Its more than and less than you think people.
Take some time to research and read before you leave the gate.
This angle on the ports issue is interesting.
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Time for your daily Cyber-Jihad Report: This Turkish hackers' forum (which just went online today) has already been the origin of attacks on various sites that publish or host the Danish cartoons. The list of sites there is a "hit list" of sites to launch cyber attacks on. I'm on the list. |
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| Friday Sermon in Tripoli and Hizbullah Leader on Possibility of Civil War Attorney General: Indictments Emphasize Need for Vigilance--Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi and Wassim Mazloum were indicted...
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UAE Company ( Yes, the "ports" nation...) Hosts Hamas Web Site
According to Israel’s Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a company in the United Arab Emirates provides hosting services for one of the leading web sites of Hamas: Hamas - Marketing terrorism by Internet. (Hat tip: JammieWearing Fool.)
UAE Imam: Despicable Jews & Christians (LGF July 06)
Holy crap... have any of you seen this?.--To MetroSpy
F*ck the US and their citizens for their stupidity, naivety, arrogance and ignorance. I am a staunch opponent of all violence and lake of sensitivity, but slowly I start to understand the peoples' view outside the US, about a bunch of largely uneducated, uninterested, overweighed and uninformed *ssholes. - René
From: rene.fritschi@rpf-group.com
The Golden Age of Islam is a Myth
Here you go, Serge Trifkovi does such a wonderful job of blowing that myth up into a gazillion pieces:
If you haven't read his book THE SWORD OF THE PROPHET, I would suggest that you do...
Hands Are OK
A St. Paul charter school is quietly caving in to Islamic supremacism, changing the school’s art curriculum to avoid drawing human figures.
Or animals.
Geometric shapes are OK.
The Art of Compromise. Hands are OK too. As long as they’re just silhouettes. link: 173 comments |
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| Never Again: Fighting Genocide in Darfur-- he left out a few words: gain, the world has been slow to react to the massacre by Muslims... |
YESTERDAY two political leaders responded to the big issue of our time. In Australia, Prime Minister John Howard observed that radical Islam is "utterly antagonistic to our kind of society".
In India, the Minister of Minority Welfare of Uttar Pradesh, Yaqoob Qureshi, offered a $14 million reward to anyone who beheaded one of the Danish cartoonists who drew images of Mohammed.
In their own distinct ways, both may contribute to Western countries recognising how serious, and how long-standing, is the challenge of radical Islam to the core of their culture.
Explosion Heard in Iraq City of Samarra (famous Shiite religious shrine was damaged)
One of the holiest shrines in Iraq for Shia Muslims has been destroyed in a bomb attack.
The Etymology of the Moonbat
At the New York Times, William Safire is looking for the origin of the term “moonbat:” Blargon. (Hat tip: Michael.)
The prevailing put-down of right-wing bloggers is wingnuts; this has recently been countered by the vilification of left-wing partisans who use the Web as moonbats, the origin of which I currently seek. Michelle Malkin offers numerous images and descriptions of Moonbatus unhingii.
Barking Moonbats Early Warning System has a lot of facts about Moonbats.
Looks like Zombie's part of a record breaking cyber jihad...
Muslim hackers hit 3,000 Danish Web sites Let the Cyber War Begin!
First use at LGF, in August 2002: lgf: raving moonbat watch. More information is available at zombie’s LGF Dictionary. link: 66 comments
If you know something about a subject talk about it. If you know nothing about a subject talk real loud and maybe someone will think you're really smart.
Mosque Attack Pushes Iraq Toward Civil War
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
Iraq the Model adds this eyewitness account of the hornet's nest stirred up by the Shi'ite mosque explosion. His bullet points are reproduced verbatim below.
Bill Roggio's appreciation of who the perps are is given below:
The likely culprit is al-Qaeda in Iraq...8 comments
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php
Saudis Support Hamas
Our friends the Saudis joined Egypt today in snubbing Condoleezza Rice: Saudis Reject U.S. Plan to Isolate Hamas. link: 38 comments
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NBC has breaking news on Quailgate, and it won't please the members of the Fourth Estate. It turns out that all of the witnesses to the shooting have a consistent story -- and it matches what Dick Cheney said all along about the accidental shooting of Harry Whittington:
NBC News has obtained new documents regarding the shooting accident involving Vice President Dick Cheney.NBC News filed an Open Records Act request with the sheriff's office in Kenedy County, Texas, which investigated the shooting. Late Wednesday, NBC received two dozen pages of documents, including hand-written affidavits on the shooting never before made public. ...
Here's Hillary Clinton going bananas over school vouchers, via FNC's Hannity and Colmes:
Download and watch the video (Windows Media file).
Hillary screeches that providing inner-city and poor students with more choice in education will lead to a a "school of the Church of the White Supremacist " and a "School of the Jihad."
Did someone slip some bourbon in her coffee before she went on stage or something? There are already voucher programs in parts of the US. Show me any of them where they dole out funds to Osama Bin Laden Elementary or the Robert "Sheets" Byrd White Power Middle School. It's not happening now, nor will it happen.Also, may I add that Hillary Clinton sent Chelsea to an exclusive private school. So, what's her real beef with allowing ordinary parents, who aren't as rich as the Clintons, to get the same kind of education for their children?
Iowa Voice: Hillary Clinton Must Be Out Of Her Mind... ( Naw- she just reminds everyone of their ex first wife... )
This is the fourth post in this series. Follow this link to the previous post on the document analyzing the failed jihad in Syria.
Al Qaeda’s “Letter Three: Five letters to the Africa Corps” is a collection of letters discussing Al Qaeda’s interpretation of America’s withdrawal from Somalia. Comments (7)
News out of Vancouver: No other city in North America would tolerate the sort of open drug use seen daily on Vancouver's streets, parks and school grounds, Vancouver police said Tuesday.Rolls said there is an elementary school, which he did not name, in his district where the janitor begins each day by sweeping the school grounds for used syringes, crack pipes, broken bottles, beer cans, used condoms and human excrement before children arrive...Remember crime ridden New York? This worked pretty well. Of course, a majority of the decision makers have to be on the same page.
A Lot More Port Stuff at Limbaugh Site
I told you last week, John Gambling, who is on WABC in New York, two hours prior to this program is, had Ann Compton of the White House press corps on during that whole Cheney kerfuffle, and he said, "Ann, what about this port story?"
CA: Tony Strickland: Governor Must Immediately Replace Reiner--The firestorm of controversy has continued unabated since a Los Angeles Times story on Monday exposed a series of abuses orchestrated by Reiner and a small cadre of paid consultants,”
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Twelfth Imam's Longterm Bolthole Bombed
One of the mosques attacked today in Iraq is not just any shrine, it’s the hiding place of the so-called “twelfth imam” who will return at the end of days to restore the world to a perfect Islamic society before Yawm al-Qiyamah—the day of resurrection: Al-Askariya shrine: ‘Not just a major cathedral’.
The cult of islam can scream about cartoons, but they care not about anyone else I'm a nominal Christian at best but I'm willing to stand up and say "Look, I don't respect Islam because it's bullshit".They have no respect for any holy place, of any true religion..how many Synagogues, how many Churches have they destroyed?What respect did they have when they blew up the incredible Buddhas of Gandhara in Afghanistan?
(Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 199 comments
Saudis Support Hamas
Our friends the Saudis joined Egypt today in snubbing Condoleezza Rice: Saudis Reject U.S. Plan to Isolate Hamas. link: 104 comments
If the Saudis gave a damn about humanitarian needs of Palestinians, they would have invested in that land, employed people, and undercut the terrorist groups.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/
Retaliation has begun for the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Iraq, a Shia Muslim shrine. Jack's Newswatch is all over the developing story, so I'll just send you there.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/02/vanderleuns-moist-men.html
Filed under "You Can't Make This Drivel Up," find the all-too-kind "book" "review" at American Digest. Both words have scare quotes because it's not really a tome, it's a creepy children's agitprop tale. Here's some nice scathing commentary on Why Mommy is a Democrat:
Maybe he’s treating them to solid values like; Democrats believe in killing the unborn, just like Mommy does. Or perhaps this one; Democrats believe President Bush is a mentally challenged Chimp, just like Mommy does. He could then drive the point home with this deep insight; Democrats believe individual achievement is unfair, just like Mommy does.
The Republic of Biloxi ...I wrote a note to the author suggesting the next title could be "Why Mommy is a Moonbat". :)
Here's some links to slavery practices in the UAE:
http://news.bbc.co.u...
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Too much time on their hands? Or too much spare ammunition? You be the judge.
William J. Bennett and Alan Dershowitz agree on "A Failure Of The Press".
Tim Denton mounts a defense of blogging. (Scroll up for the original post). " The ability to blog is both cheap and élitist at the same time. If we had no time, we could not blog. If we had no skills, we could not blog. But we have the time and the skills and we can provide the ballast, and the watchmen, in the ship of state."
A useful companion is Tim Denton's Netheads versus Bellheads. Denton and his co-authors argue conclusively that the Internet -- a stupid network in which the intelligence resides in the traffic -- trumps fixed intelligent networks like the telephone system and then explore the policy consequences therefrom. One of those co-authors, David Isenberg wrote The Dawn of the Stupid Network, which complements well the previous two works.
According to Dick Morris, former Vice President and lunatic-for-hire Al Gore may have enough momentum to steal the nomination away from Hillary Clinton in 2008. Morris postulates that Gore has picked up enough credibility on the Left that he can make himself the frontrunner by just entering the race:
From memory lane:
Why Gore lost
Dec 8, 2000
by Maggie Gallagher
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/maggiegallagher/2000/12/08/166938.html
German Blasphemy Law Conviction
Here’s a nauseating story from Germany, where they’ve apparently already accepted their new masters: German court convicts man for insulting Islam. (Hat tip: mglazer.) link: 76 comments Like I said about the holocaust denier prosecution ... it's a slippery slope. Banning certain types of speach ... scary. Once free speech is abridged, there's no end to it.
Meanwhile in Nigeria the angry Christians are burning the corpses of Muslims.
A Failure of the Press
Bill Bennett and Alan Dershowitz agree—American media has completely failed in their duty to defend free speech, caving in to Islamist intimidation and issuing transparently phony statements praising themselves for “sensitivity:” A Failure of the Press. link: 66 comments
The Cartoon Wars just got sillier, if one can imagine such a development. Malaysia has now sanctioned a newspaper for publishing a cartoon that satirizes the protest over the Prophet cartoons, calling the cartoon "inappropriate":
UPDATE: Mark Tapscott says it's not just pusillanimity -- the leftists honestly believe in stifling dissent.
If the media hasn't figured that much out -- and they haven't -- at least Alan Dershowitz and Bill Bennett have. They point out the failure and cowardice of the supposed bastion of free speech... Comments (13) Can't seem to get my trackbacks to talk to Ed's trackbacks (five years ago, nobody would understand that sentence!), but I'm not as optimistic about the repercussions of this op-ed as the Captain is.
FBI raid in Tampa (Small business terrorist link)
Violence After Mosque Attack Kills 111
Internet Islamists on the hunt [Michelle Malkin hack update]--Note: Michelle Malkin is experiencing problems with her weblog after being the target of cyberattacks. While they last, Pajamas Media will host her posts here: Pajamas Media ^ |
"I'm still here" - Michelle Malkin's site is under attack (FBI contacted)
THE SILENT HOLOCAUST: Why Humanity Must Achieve Victory over ISLAM
Security Vulnerability in Safari
A newly identified security vulnerability in Apple’s Safari web browser can actually let a program (a shell script) execute on your computer merely by clicking a link on a malicious web site—or in the worst case, merely by visiting a malicious page.
If you’re a Safari user, the problem and the remedy are described here at macosxhints: Avoid a security vulnerability in Safari. More technical info is here: Secunia - Advisories - Mac OS X File Association Meta Data Shell Script Execution. link: 12 comments
No joking, dammit!
The Second Ring-Moon System of Uranus: Discovery and Dynamics
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Denial in the Islamic World
Iranian “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today blamed the attack on Iraq’s Askariya mosque on the US and Israel: Ahmadinejad: US, Israel attacked shrine. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 69 comments "Their claims are as worthless as their "religion". These people are pathological liars from birth."
Foes and even friends in Mideast say 'America is to blame'
Possible Coup in Philippines
At Pajamas Media: Coup rumors swirl in Manila. link: 61 comments
Phillipinecommentary Blog -- Live Blog ongoing
SEE - Better Link to PJ Media (that works !)
The Web Jihad
Islamic “hackers” (who are really just script kiddies, using commonly available hacking tools developed by smarter people) are escalating their stupid war of cyber-vandalism (Michelle Malkin apparently got hit today): Muslim hackers hit 3,000 Danish Web sites. (Hat tip: Zonie.) Here’s a related story from Las Vegas: Turkish hackers taking over Valley web sites. link: 54 comments
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As everyone may already know, I too have been hit by Turkish hackers (possibly the same ones). Michelle M and I (and one of the Archive mirror hosters) have been communicating about it. The surface of society may appear calm, but underneath it all a vicious international cyber-war going on. Will this cyber-war turn into a physical war between Islam and the West? |
Security Vulnerability in Safari
A newly identified security vulnerability in Apple’s Safari web browser can actually let a program (a shell script) execute on your computer merely by clicking a link on a malicious web site—or in the worst case, merely by visiting a malicious page.
If you’re a Safari user, the problem and the remedy are described here at macosxhints: Avoid a security vulnerability in Safari.
The fix is simple: in Safari’s Preferences (General), uncheck the box labeled ‘Open “safe” files after downloading.’ (Note that this box is checked by default.)
More technical info is here: Secunia - Advisories - Mac OS X File Association Meta Data Shell Script Execution. link: 57 comments
It's Time for Cooler Heads to Prevail
Dubai's bid to buy ports includes Vancouver hub
Will There Be Blood Justice If Terror Comes?
LA Times rips Reiner, First 5 a new one
Reiner denies impropriety in preschool politics
Freepers LS & Jeff Head have just released a book!
Stuck in HSA Denial (Dems won't concede what statistics can't hide/HSAs work, even for the poor)
"I DON'T RECALL" (THE CLINTONS COMMIT PERJURY WITH IMPUNITY-hear bill + hillary)
End of the Line. Where Do Ships Go to Die?
Cape Wind Farm Project Could Soon Be Killed--despite the near-total opposition of the local political establishment, polls are showing strong public support for wind power and concern over soaring energy costs.
Here is a cancer cure article I just left elsewhere on FR:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4446435,00.html
Parents Worry About Forced Sex Education in Public Schools--Rep. Alice Wolf, chief sponsor of H1641 -- the bill that would mandate sex/homosex ed -- has told the majority of Massachusetts citizens that they need to agree with her, or they have no business living in Massachusetts! If you don't think the state should have the final say on the moral education of your children in matters of sexuality, just leave the state! http://tinyurl.com/kmgpd
NRA challenges SF's firearm ban--It's funny how the left looks at the Constitution and sees a right to abortion (even though it's never mentioned) and a right to healthcare (even though it's never mentioned) and a right to social security (even though it's never mentioned) and we're expected to act on all these asserted rights - but when it comes to the CITIZEN ARMY (read - the "minutemen" of the American revolution aka the militia) suddenly we're going to argue over definitions.
How does the Planned Parenthood tax fraud work?
WORK! (Someone finally said what needed to be said…publicly, regarding Katrina evacuees)
Ominious new about events in Iraq as reported by the Times of London: Here's something that sounds particularly worrisome, from a different article in the Times of London: Many of the incidents related by the Times of London stories are mirrored in Healing Iraq's post of February 22nd. For instance, he details the attacks on the Sunni mosques and describes militias prowling around outside his door, but on the 22nd. On the 24th (recall Iraq is some hours ahead of US time.Riverbend, an Iraqi woman blogger who is pretty much an anti-coalition, has this report from February 23.34 comments
More on the situation in Baghdad from Iraq the Model. The highlights are given verbatim below. Bill Roggio has a piece up called Looking for Signs of Civil War in Iraq, in which he lays out indicators to watch for if a full blown civil war is under way. Zeyad from Healing Iraq has more on the situation following the attack on the Golden Mosque. From the Big Pharaoh in Egypt: 47 comments 248 comments
PM Howard Won't Back Down
Australian Prime Minister John Howard is a good man to have on our side: PM backs Muslim comments. link: 65 comments " 'Islamaphobia.' Just cause you're tired of their shit, you are islamaphobic. Screw that.""You are here. If you don't embrace our values and become one of us, go home."
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#37 rayra I've still never found a good timeline map of Islam's agressive expansion. Would love to see a nice essay & series of maps, showing the convulsive war-borne expansion of Islam across the trade routes spanning the Indian Ocean. You may find these maps to be what you are looking for: |
Just one of a collection.
Former President Corazon Aquino has asked current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to resign, according to Philippine Commentary, liveblogging from Manila. Philippine MSM news celebrity and blogger Ricky Carangdang has the most sober take on the overall situation I have found...70 comments
Massive hit on Bush over ports--For 1st time ever, Americans prefer Democrats
A Comprehensive List of Penninsular & Orient North American Operations
After a few days of fact finding and debate, do you now support or oppose the Dubai Ports deal?
Inside Scientology (Rolling Stone expose of $cientology a must read!)--Here's a link to Null and Void's Q&A on Scientology (as a former member): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1522132/posts
Why The Left Should Cringe at The Mention of Hugo Chavez
"What Should A Young Male Of 21 Know?"
Virus [from mice] Found in [human] Prostate Cancer Patients [news from San Francisco]
Day labor battle brewing: Minutemen, Casa of Maryland set stage for showdown in Takoma Park
(County Funded) Illegal Immigrant Allies Threaten Children of Border Security Group (MD)
Anthrax Positive in 3 locations - Brooklyn
Participants at Rome seminar warn gay marriage poses risk to children
Ben Stein on the Cartoons of Blasphemy
At The American Spectator, Ben Stein says We’re Losing...we are losing our freedom here at home, and in a particularly nasty way... link: 199 comments "I know reporters for major newspapers and they are truly shocked at the failure of the editorial boards to publish these cartoons. What they also find deeply disturbing is the universality of the sentiment. They had assumed that each paper was independent, but now it appears there is some type of collective thinking going on. The reporters find this a bit scary."
VDH: Standoff in Iraq
Victor Davis Hanson, on the Standoff in Iraq. link: 15 comments
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/
Arabian Dissent is watching the situation in Iraq and finds signs that a major meltdown over the attack on the Golden Mosque may be avoided. Let's hope.
Keep your eye on the Iraqi bloggers on the sidebar, too. They're invariably more accurate in their analysis than the mainstream media.
New Straits Times Bows and Scrapes
Malaysia’s New Straits Times has issued an embarrassing, groveling apology for publishing a cartoon satirizing the worldwide Islamic rage over the Danish Mohammed cartoons: We Apologize, Unreservedly.
UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:45:10 pm:
It didn’t work:
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Muslim protesters stage a rally against the publishing a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad in front of New Straits Times office in Kuala Lumpur, Friday, Feb. 24, 2006. The New Straits Times provoked many Muslims groups in Malaysia by publishing the Non Sequitur strip on Monday, even though the cartoon did not show the prophet. Still, Muslim groups said it mocked Islam, and the government asked the newspaper to give reasons why it should not be punished, including shutting it down. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:49:10 pm:
Here’s the cartoon they published, and of course, it’s incredibly inoffensive: Non Sequitur, February 20. Ali Sina nails it.
| Pushy New Aides Signal Hillary's Run For White House--Carville and Begala - Eight More Years!
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Did UAE Save Bin Laden?
After reading and listening to huge amounts of debate on the UAE port deal, I’ve decided that although I am definitely not a supporter of the deal, I’m cautiously OK with it provided there is strict security supervision of the operations of DP World. (And I’m singularly unimpressed with those who call the people questioning this deal, “Islamophobic and un-American.”)The most persuasive argument in favor (for me, anyway) is that if a terrorist group wanted to attack through the ports, there are many less risky ways to do it than by infiltrating the company that schedules port operations. link: 141 comments
UN Peacekeepers' Ongoing Sexual Abuse Scandal
The head of United Nations peacekeeping operations says the incidence of sexual abuse in areas supervised by his organization is ... uh ... “too high.”
There are still too many complaints of sexual abuse against United Nations troops, the head of peacekeeping operations has said.
Jean-Marie Guehenno said the UN had investigated 295 cases under a new reporting system introduced last year.
It could take several more years to reform the system fully, says Jordan’s UN envoy who last year urged changes.
The 18 peace missions worldwide employ 85,000 staff from over 100 countries, with a budget of nearly $5bn.
Mr Guehenno said although significant progress had been made in reducing the number of cases of sexual exploitation following an investigation in the Democratic Republic of Congo two years ago, much more needed to be done.
“Allegations being lodged against UN peacekeeping personnel remain high and unacceptably so,” he said. He noted “how hard it is to change a culture of dismissiveness, long developed within ourselves, in our countries and in the mission areas.”
If y'all haven't yet seen it, the movie Broken Promises covers a lot of the U.N.'s failures and disgusting behaviors.
My wife and I were the researchers for it (and for Celsius 41.11, made by many of the same folks), and hence, we can vouch---at very least---for the accuracy of the facts therein!
Cartoon Madness on Video
From The NEFA Foundation, video of the Islamic demonstration in London earlier this month outside the Danish embassy. Absolutely chilling. (Running time 11:23.)
"Most of us reading the reports and stories coming out of the UK concerning the Muslim demonstrations are shaking our heads in disgust with the Orwellian performance of both the media and the governments appeasement of radical Islamic protesters while prosecuting the few who dare speak the truth of the dangers of radical Muslim supremists to democracy. Only six months ago Islamic supremists exploded several buses and a subway train killing over 50 and wounding several hundred, and now we have pictures of them parading in suicide vests and holding signs reading "respect Islam" and "death to the Danes" and it is considered a lawful display of the right of free speech."
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For What We Are, Not What We Do
Julie Burchill pulls no punches in her latest op-ed for Ha’aretz: Straight Talk / For what we are, not what we do. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) "For fear of appearing racist, many Britons suspend their normal judgments when dealing with the behavior of ethnic minorities. " Read the whole thing... link: 67 comments
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Muslims are being told that Canada's Parliament sets the law, and as far as the Canadian government is concerned, the Prophet has as much protection as he deserves.
Comments (13)Tough talk from Australia; "Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objection to those values, don't come to Australia." Comments (82) "Poll in Sydney Morning Hearld 75% in favor of Costello's remark."
Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post describes the murder of Ilam Halimi in a City of Light where a dark illumination has begun to shine. The principal suspect, now in custody, is a West African man called Youssef Fofana, who styles himself the "Brain of the Barbarians". (Hat tip: Debbie Schlussel) From Clara Beyler's excellent account of Halimi's murder on Israel's YNet:
"In a perverted variation on the theme of multiculturalism, Mr. Fofana may have embodied the fusion of murderous traditions, by combining gang warfare, primitive practices and radical Islamic ideology into one lethal cocktail..." 60 comments
You might also be interested in this essay by the Australian historian Keith Windschuttle, The Adversary Culture. Do you mean "Armed & Dangerous"?
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/
James Joyner attended the Christopher Hitchens organized rally today at the Danish Embassy in DC, Photos and a report (plus other linkage) are up at OTB.
Lots at Instapundit, too.
A Rally for Freedom
At Vital Perspective, photographs from the rally supporting Denmark in Washington DC: A Rally for Freedom.
UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:01:39 pm:
Reader IWuvLGF emailed another great photo from the rally:
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UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:05:39 pm:
More pictures at Age of Hooper (The).
UPDATE at 2/24/06 2:06:26 pm:
And still more pictures at Corsair the Rational Pirate.
You cannot make stuff this loony up:
Tom and Jerry – a Jewish makeover? Iranian official says cartoon is conspiracy to improve image...--Shouldn't we start rioting now, or something?
BBC: Only the Bumper Stickers Remain
Things must be getting pretty desperate for the American “progressive” movement if even the BBC notices it.
"The Dems don't even know who the hell their enemy is."
At this time the Dems don't know what country is theirs.
Iranian Madness Watch
Professor Hasan Bolkhari, Iranian “mass media expert” and cultural advisor to the Iranian Education Ministry, explains why the evil Jewish Walt Disney company unleashed the ultimate weapon against the Islamic world—Tom and Jerry cartoons. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.)
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Chronology of events in the US and elsewhere involving ricin.
Feb 2004: Letter With Ricin Vial Sent To White House...and to office of Sen. Bill Frist.
DHS ricin backgrounder here.
CRS ricin backgrounder here.
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Bloggers following the developing story:
Texas blogger Jason Smith has lots of local news coverage and photo coverage of the crime scene:
Tom Elia at The New Editor
Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit
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Bryan Preston has been following another strange ricin case in Richmond, Va.
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Debka: FBI Raids Yemen Airlines in Dearborn DEBKAfile is reporting that “suspicious documents” were seized in an FBI raid on the offices of Yemen airline Yamaniya in Dearborn, Michigan. (Hat tip: Allah.) link: 26 comments |"I tell ya, those darned Jews are behind everything. Thank goodness we have reasonable men like Osama bin Laden and this guy to warn us of the danger we're in." Anthrax, Ricin and propane theft links here:
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