This is a good interview:
Category Archives: movies and media
MEMRI clip on the love Islam has for Jewish people
I guess in the highly competitive world of antisemitism in Islamic states you have to get more and more outrageous to get attention. Much like slutty rock queens in the west who have to be caught it a more lewd scandal than the previous diva did to sell records and make headlines. One wonders though how bizarre the accusations can be and still be believed. Sadly in nations where reason is anathema and evidence is not important, you can go pretty far. The Nazis made some fairly outlandish and imaginative claims and as far as I know did not get questioned much on them. It will be interesting to see what the competition offers on CAMEL news next week.
Pakistan. If you read or see nothing else this week…
Make it this post. This is the most accurate and detailed documentary done so far on the deteriorating situation in Pakistan concerning Taliban and Al Queda in the Swat valley. This is extremely serious. I will be adding information all night on this but watch the documentary for the love of god, freedom, your wife and children, any Jewish friends you may have, for anything you hold sacred. If you think this isn’t going to happen here, wherever here is, I have news for you. It already is.
Add to this new information about the near total impotence of the civilian government in Pakistan, the army’s likely inability to step in and stabilize the country as it did in the early 90s, and today’s dismissal of the premiere of the largest province in Pakistan the Punjab.
I will be adding more to this post over the next 24 hours. There is a lot of information about Pakistan emerging rapidly but I want this video up now. Everyone simply has to see this.
Special thank you to Muslims against Sharia, a most excellent blog for providing me the embed code and for Australia’s four corners for making this. Sit down, get a drink, and watch.
some decent information on the Crusades
Below please find videos on the actual history of the crusades as written both by the aggressors, The Muslim nation and its victims, the Christian European defenders. The Crusades is taught so badly in terms of the facts one would think the entire history was made up by the CBC. You wouldn’t be that far off. Much of it was created by the BBC its spiritual sister. However the video below, while not spoken by an actor and the narration is poor by the standards of what we have come to expect from TV, is factually correct and can be determined to be so by any scholarly history on the matter. I refer you to the excellent book, ‘A concise History of the Crusades‘ which you can link through to Amazon.com here through the store page of Vlad. This book as well as these videos use information from the source. Chroniclers of the day, and in the areas where the events known to us as the Crusades actually took place.
Please enjoy. These videos where all found initially on the most excellent website, Occidental Soapbox. A good resource for factual history where we are typically fed politically corrected nonsense to avoid offending the fifth column living in western nations. This site is worth bookmarking and checking often. The focus there is history and they do a very good job of explaining issues which have become political hot buttons today, from Israel to Ireland.
A little fiction to help get some perspective on today’s reality.
There is a story this link leads to, which is a wonderful dialectic. One which reminds me of the wonderful writieng style of Scott Adam’s best known as the creator of Dilbert but less known perhaps for his most charming book, ‘god’s Debris‘, one of the most enjoyable reads I have ever had. This story I do not think was written by Adam’s and nor is it charming in other than style. But like brilliant fiction since the invention of the novel, is a good way of using literary devices to help us understand our own reality. This author uses a time traveler from the future to solidify our understanding of the present. Settle back with a drink perhaps and take 15 minutes and enjoy this 2 page short story. This writer, actually gets it. We all need to if we hope to survive the near future in any recognizable way.
More foaming Muslim preachers demanding dead jews and exploding Muslims
Maybe it’s just a matter of a few rabies shots?
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For details analysis and references on this video please visit mere rhetoric
There is a lot of great stuff there actually. Looking forward to perusing the site more often.
Hamas’s ‘CNN strategy
Thank you Grace for your tireless efforts combing the Canadian media for good material.
From Canada’s National Post:
Alan M. Dershowitz
“On the first day of Israel’s ground attack, approximately 30 Palestinians, almost all Hamas combatants, were killed. On the same day an Islamic suicide bomber blew herself up in a mosque in Iraq, killing 40 innocent Muslims. No protests. Little media coverage.”
As Israel persists in its military efforts — by ground, air and sea — to protect its citizens from deadly Hamas rockets, and as protests against Israel increase around the world, the success of the abominable Hamas double war crime strategy becomes evident. The strategy is as simple as it is cynical: Provoke Israel by playing Russian roulette with its children, firing rockets at kindergartens, playgrounds and hospitals; hide behind its own civilians when firing at Israeli civilians; refuse to build bunkers for its own civilians; have TV cameras ready to transmit every image of dead Palestinians, especially children; exaggerate the number of civilians killed by including as “children” Hamas fighters who are 16 or 17 years old and as “women,” female terrorists.
Hamas itself has a name for this. They call it “the CNN strategy” (this is not to criticize CNN or any other objective news source for doing its job; it is to criticize Hamas for exploiting the freedom of press which it forbids in Gaza). The CNN strategy is working because decent people all over the world are naturally sickened by images of dead and injured children. When they see such images repeatedly flashed across TV screens, they tend to react emotionally. Rather than asking why these children are dying and who is to blame for putting them in harm’s way, average viewers, regardless of their political or ideological perspective, want to see the killing stopped. They blame those whose weapons directly caused the deaths, rather than those who provoked the violence by deliberately targeting civilians.
Collection of videos of pro hamas/anti jewish demonstrations in Toronto Canada
Syd Ryan of CUPE and Canadian rep for Hizbolah demonstrating together against Israel. How charming.
UK video on Islam in Europe. Its views of freedom of conscience and homosexuality.
This is fantastic. I am so pleased someone made this superb documentary. I will add this to the movie page of Vlad so it won’t disappear down the time line.
who is at fault? Short video from Pal TV
Palywood propaganda. More BS from Hamas and the state of journalism in Gaza
England’s channel 4 and it’s alternate Christmas message. A theory.
I’m a big fan of #4 UK. They have done some of the best reasoned documentaries I have seen out of England a few of which are available here on the movie page and one of the best of which is a documentary on a rise in antisemitism in the west due to Islam and within Islam. So I was shocked to see the reaction to it’s choice to air an alternate Christmas message as I was to read about the choice itself.
Let me offer an alternate hypothesis:
The BBC has become a tool of the UK government politically. They sell Islam wholesale to all aspects of British life and to say anything about it will land you in trouble. Like Canada it has become dangerous to a degree to go against official culture even when that culture is alien and dangerous not to mention antithetical to centuries and centuries of British history and law. So how do you do a wake up call to the people of England? The only way I can think of is give em a big big dose of exactly what to expect if you stay on the same course.
Given #4’s history of excellent critical analysis of Islam and mass immigration with such fantastic documentaries as Hidden Mosque #1 and #2 there can be only a few explanations. They where bought out or taken over by Islamics who want to see Imadinnerjacket of Iran replace the Queen; The Government is forcing them to have ‘balance’ between truth and facts such as Hidden Mosque and wild speculative hatred like Iran’s theories on Jews or much more likely in my view, they wanted to send a loud clear signal to the people of England. This is what our policy of multiculturalism will bring, this is what it means, we can’t afford to continue fooling ourselves and we must wake up.
Whether or not this was the intended purpose of showing Iran’s genocidal maniac instead of the Queen’s message this was the effect. Not to mention showing the people of England the delight of the Muslims already living there. So congratulations #4 for doing this, Keep it up. You are the best hope to wake up the sleeping people of England on purpose or by accident. Below I offer some of that organizations truly excellent programs.
Journalists in Palistinian areas tortured, controlled forced to represent Fatah
December 17, 2008 | Khaled Abu Toameh
PA Tortures Journalists
“This is not Israel, where you are allowed to see a lawyer.”
Over the past two years Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been subjected to a systematic campaign of intimidation that has resulted in the death of some and the detention of others.
The campaign, which is being waged by both Hamas and Fatah, has received almost no attention from human rights groups and advocates of the freedom of expression throughout the world.
By contrast, when a Palestinian journalist is accidentally wounded by Israeli gunfire during clashes with Palestinians, the incident makes headlines in major media outlets in the US and EU.
What is most disturbing about the campaign of intimidation is the fact that it’s being spearheaded by the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. This is the same authority that is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from American and European taxpayers’ money every month to build a proper judicial system and promote democracy and transparency among the Palestinians.
One should not be surprised when Hamas targets journalists. The Islamist movement has long been known for its tough measures against “unfriendly” reporters.
At least 13 Palestinian journalists have been arrested and tortured by Hamas’s militias in since the movement took full control over the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007. Hamas also raided the offices of most of these journalists and confiscated computers and other equipment.
Stratfor: On the crisis in journalism. A great read.
Obviously it worth considering the role media played in the last US election as well as the Iraq war (The CIA used the New York Times to try and destroy Bush by leaking secret plans for the Iraq war which did not involve the CIA in the way they wanted) when reading this as usual excellent bit of analysis by the people at Stratfor.
Eeyore for Vlad
The Death of Deep Throat and the Crisis of Journalism
December 22, 2008
By George Friedman
Mark Felt died last week at the age of 95. For those who don’t recognize that name, Felt was the “Deep Throat” of Watergate fame. It was Felt who provided Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post with a flow of leaks about what had happened, how it happened and where to look for further corroboration on the break-in, the cover-up, and the financing of wrongdoing in the Nixon administration. Woodward and Bernstein’s exposé of Watergate has been seen as a high point of journalism, and their unwillingness to reveal Felt’s identity until he revealed it himself three years ago has been seen as symbolic of the moral rectitude demanded of journalists.
In reality, the revelation of who Felt was raised serious questions about the accomplishments of Woodward and Bernstein, the actual price we all pay for journalistic ethics, and how for many years we did not know a critical dimension of the Watergate crisis. At a time when newspapers are in financial crisis and journalism is facing serious existential issues, Watergate always has been held up as a symbol of what journalism means for a democracy, revealing truths that others were unwilling to uncover and grapple with. There is truth to this vision of journalism, but there is also a deep ambiguity, all built around Felt’s role. This is therefore not an excursion into ancient history, but a consideration of two things. The first is how journalists become tools of various factions in political disputes. The second is the relationship between security and intelligence organizations and governments in a Democratic society.
Watergate was about the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. The break-in was carried out by a group of former CIA operatives controlled by individuals leading back to the White House. It was never proven that then-U.S. President Richard Nixon knew of the break-in, but we find it difficult to imagine that he didn’t. In any case, the issue went beyond the break-in. It went to the cover-up of the break-in and, more importantly, to the uses of money that financed the break-in and other activities. Numerous aides, including the attorney general of the United States, went to prison. Woodward and Bernstein, and their newspaper, The Washington Post, aggressively pursued the story from the summer of 1972 until Nixon’s resignation. The episode has been seen as one of journalism’s finest moments. It may have been, but that cannot be concluded until we consider Deep Throat more carefully.
Deep Throat Reconsidered
Mark Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI (No. 3 in bureau hierarchy) in May 1972, when longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died. Upon Hoover’s death, Felt was second to Clyde Tolson, the longtime deputy and close friend to Hoover who by then was in failing health himself. Days after Hoover’s death, Tolson left the bureau.
‘Classic comics’ version of Mohamed’s sex life. Quite revealing and well sourced.
Here is a video showing how Mohamed basically just made up instructions from god to allow him to do pretty much whatever occurred to him to do at any given moment. Perhaps it should be noted that while other religious leaders through history tended to show self sacrifice from basic desires in order to create a better and more cooperative world Mohamed used edicts from gods to justify a near total if not total lack of personal restraint on all matters. It’s hard to know who to blame more. Mohamed for making up this destructive crap or the people around him for actually buying into it or the one billion plus Muslims alive today who still go with it.
Here is a straight picture text version of the same thing for those with no patience for the video.
I find it interesting that Mohamed’s version of mercy is not to slaughter a bunch of women (his twenty odd wives no less) when he could have as easily made up an edict from god making it OK to do so. I guess its like Islamic concepts of martyrdom where one sacrifices as many innocents as possible to reach ones goals as opposed to sacrificing oneself to a principle without harming others, a more typical and accurate definition of martyr.