Here is another look around the Internet at what news and commentary is available, and this time I will start off with a bit of a revelation: FackCheck.org lies, and lies prolifically. For example, one of their recent lies is exposed by Sweetness & Light in an article entitled, ‘Factcheck’ Posts A Year-end Whopper.
So, here is the rest of what I have found, divided into rough categories that eventually end as I have begun...with lies from the left.
The Left has edited the political dictionary in a way that determines how we are able to think about politics and ideology. A prime example is the word, "Capitalism," an invention of the silly and evil Karl Marx. It is instructive how deeply this semantic pathology has reached that people who passionately opposed the manifest horror of socialism reflexively reach back to words like "Capitalism" to describe what they believe to be good.
"Capitalism," of course, simply does not exist. It never has. Using this word to describe the vast oceans of human relationships which Marx sought to bottle up in his shibboleth "Capitalism" accomplishes only the goal which Orwell feared: It mutilates language and cripples our capacity to understand what "Capitalism" and "Socialism" really mean.
Source: 'Meritalism' not 'Capitalism'
World War IV
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq, Dec. 19, 2008 – A Multinational Division Baghdad soldier and his four-legged partner work with other military dog teams here in helping to make Baghdad’s streets safer for Iraqi citizens and soldiers to live and operate.
Army Sgt. James Harrington, a military policeman and dog handler attached to the 1st Special Troops Battalion of the 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, along with Ryky, his canine partner, patrol the streets and communities of southern Baghdad’s Rashid district to search for weapons and make soldiers a more effective force.
Source: Black Five
The End of Time event at the East London Mosque, which is being publicised on internet sites including Facebook, will feature a videotaped lecture from Anwar al-Awlaki, who is banned from entering the United States after allegedly acting as a spiritual adviser to three of the September 11 terrorists.
Mr Awlaki, who lives in Yemen, has been described as "an al-Qaeda supporter" by the US Department of Homeland Security, which has accused him in recent months of using video lectures to "encourage terrorist attacks".
He is due to deliver a video lecture at the mosque in Whitechapel on New Year's Day. Speeches will have titles such as The sound of the trumpet – the real terror starts.
Other speakers will include Suhaib Hasan, who advocates implementing sharia in Britain, and Khalid Yasin, who has described the beliefs of Christians and Jews as "filth".
Source: U.K.: Mosque "committed to peace, diversity and interfaith dialogue" hosts conference featuring "spiritual advisor" to 9/11 jihadists
Palestinian threats: An Israeli invasion of Gaza would draw a harsh Palestinian response, including the kidnapping of more Israeli soldiers, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees warned Friday.
Specifically, the group would aim to kidnap a female soldier, the PRC's Abu Abir told the Nazareth-based Arb al-Dahel.
"The resistance movement is talking about the abduction of a female soldier, and we're certain we'll succeed," he said. "Then, Gilad Shalit will be able to start a family, and the negotiations will be for the release of the Shalit family."
Source: PIOUS GAZAN MUSLIMS PLAN TO KIDNAP JEWISH GIRLS OF THE IDF
Last week the French capital Paris was startled by a new terrorist threat. Last Tuesday the famous department store Printemps was evacuated after a bomb threat. Not without reason, as it turned out: in the toilets of the department store, five (albeit useless) sticks of dynamite were found.
The letter that warned of the attack was placed in the postbox of the AFP news agency earlier that day. “Tell your President that he must withdraw French troops from Afghanistan before the end of February 2009, otherwise we will take action against your big capitalist stores, without warning you in advance,” the message read. The letter was signed by the “Afghan Revolutionary Front,” an organization totally unknown to the intelligence services.
Source: Terror Threat in France
Don't expect to read anything this honest in the US papers...
George W. Bush liberated 60,000,000 Muslims from tyranny- More than any leader since World War II.
The Telegraph gives an honest review of the Bush years:
Ten or twenty years from now, historians will view Bush's actions on the world stage in a more favourable light. America's 43rd president did after all directly liberate more people (over 60 million) from tyranny than any leader since Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Widely seen as his biggest foreign policy error, the decision to invade Iraq could ultimately prove to have been a masterstroke. Today the world is witnessing the birth of the first truly democratic state in the Middle East outside of Israel. Over eight million voted in Iraq's parliamentary elections in 2005, and the region's first free Muslim society may become a reality. Iraq might not be Turkey, but it is a powerful demonstration that freedom can flourish in the embers of the most brutal and barbaric of dictatorships.
The success of the surge in Iraq will go down in history as a turning point in the war against al-Qaeda. The stunning defeat of the insurgency was a major blow both militarily and psychologically for the terror network. The West's most feared enemy suffered thousands of losses in Iraq, including many of their most senior commanders, such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Abu Qaswarah. It was the most successful counter-insurgency operation anywhere in the world since the British victory in Malaya in 1960.
Source: George W. Bush: The Greatest Liberator Since World War II
MANILA: A series of rebel attacks this past week in the southern Philippines that left least nine civilians dead underscores the need for the government and Muslim separatists to resume peace negotiations, analysts said Friday.
While civilian casualties are not uncommon in the troubled region of Mindanao, some analysts view recent actions as the insurgents' way of pressuring the government to restart the peace process that has been stalled since August, when the government nullified a landmark agreement that would have expanded a Muslim autonomous region.
On Tuesday, members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the main group that has been fighting for Muslim self-rule in the predominantly Roman Catholic region since the 1970s, attacked villages in Sultan Kudarat township, killing nine civilians and wounding more, the military said...
Source: Wave of jihadist attacks hits southern Philippines in time for Christmas
President-elect Obama stopped by the Marine Corps base in Hawaii Kaneche Bay where servicemen and -women were eating Christmas dinner in Kailua Thursday evening.
“Just wanted to say hi, hey guys,” Obama said as he walked into the Anderson dining hall which was decked out in Christmas decorations.
The diners represented seven military units -- Marine and Navy -- some of whom were joined by their families for Christmas dinner.
As Obama entered the room, it was absent of the regular fanfare of cheering and clapping. The diners were polite, staying seated at their respective tables and waited for the president-elect to come to them to stand up.
Source: Obama Visits Marines... Met With Silence
India vs Pakistan
Pakistan began moving thousands of troops from the Afghan border toward India, officials and witnesses said Friday, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors and possibly undermining the U.S.-backed campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
The country also announced that it was canceling all military leave in the aftermath of last month’s terror attack on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai.
Source: The Captain's Journal
The empowerment of terror in Pakistan has not happened overnight. This is the logical culmination of the politics and policies pursued by Pakistan for years now.
Terrorism in Pakistan has its roots in the culture of hate and the ethos of inequality on the ground of religious faith, leading to their being deeply ingrained in the Pakistani psyche and mindset.
One factor that has played a crucial role in creating this culture of hate is the educational policy of the government of Pakistan pursued since 1977. The officially prescribed textbooks, especially for school students, are full of references that promote hate against India in general, and Hindus in particular.
Source: Pakistani textbook: "Previously, India was part of Pakistan"
As for the much touted movement of Pakistan 3rd Independent Armored Brigade, this is the IV Corps armor reserve. It has also gone to Jhelum for training. If you are planning war, or fearing it, are you going to send your armor out of the area for training? We don't think so. Please also remember - we mentioned this a few days ago - Pakistan XI Corps Artillery from Peshawar is also doing its turn at the Jhelum ranges, so if you reports about this west-based formation moving, disregard the reports unless you hear from us.
Last, Mandeep tells us that 16 Division has returned to its station at Pano Aqil (V Corps) with at least two of its brigades. You may recall Mandeep had alerted us this division had disappeared from its regular station, He is still waiting for confirmation on what happened. We mention this in case some bright spark picks up reports that 16 Division is moving east and thinks this means more reinforcement of the India front. This division is India front based and is one of the two defensive divisions for the desert sector, and we were quite baffled as to why it moved.
On the Indian side Mandeep is in India, and our agreement is that anything he says about India cannot be published. Sensible, you don't want your sources accusing you of providing classified information - both Mandeep and the Editor are Indian citizens subject to India law.
That said: the news reports of Indian II Strike Corps (Ambala) and Indian X Corps (Bhatinda - same corps we said is opposite Multan Sector) are simply doing their winter training. The Indians are deliberately putting pressure on the Pakistanis, so all we can say is that if you choose to regard the movements of these two corps as part of India's plans to attack Pakistan, the Government of India will not be unhappy (think Governor Palin wink wink). We must very clearly state that Mandeep has not commented on the Indian movements, even personally, to us. This information is from the Editor's side.
Source: India vs Pakistan Order of Battle (newest information on top)
The Obama Worship Has Begun
On Friday, Obama broke from his golf-gym-motorcade-gym-golf routine for a date with daughters Sasha and Malia. The three first visited an aquatic park where they caught a dolphin show, then the party continued over some shave ice, a local specialty, at Kokonuts Shave Ice and Snacks.
Obama also ordered a tuna melt for himself. The President-elect knows a thing or two about tuna: watch him make his signature tuna salad recipe.
And while we're on the topic of Obama's lunch, Obama befuddled the world when he ordered of spam sushi, or spam musubi earlier in the week...
Source: Shave Ice: Behind Obama's Sweet Treat (History, Recipes, Video)
The Bush Hatred Continues...if this were Obama...you be told why these books matter, and Oprah would be interviewing the authors...
I'm not certain that I want my President to be reading nearly two books a week. This isn't to say, of course, that I don't believe a President should be well read, or that the President shouldn't be allowed to have down time to do things that can, even for a short time, take his mind off the nearly unfathomably grave issues he must confront on a daily basis.
Source: Should the President Really Be Reading Two Books a Week?
Lies From The Left
Phillipe Sands is a member of the Queens’ Council and a professor of law at University College London. He is also the author of the May 2008 novel, “Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.” His treatment of interviewee Douglas Feith in that book earns him honors from Powerline’s Paul Mirengoff as the recipient of the dishonest journalist of the year award.
Source: Neptunus Lex
AMMAN, Jordan — Muhammad Fawaz is a very serious college junior with a stern gaze and a reluctant smile that barely cloaks suppressed anger. He never wanted to attend Jordan University. He hates spending hours each day commuting.
As a high school student, Mr. Fawaz, 20, had dreamed of earning a scholarship to study abroad. But that was impossible, he said, because he did not have a “wasta,” or connection. In Jordan, connections are seen as essential for advancement and the wasta system is routinely cited by young people as their primary grievance with their country.
Source: To The New York Times, Jordanian Jihadists Are Like Hippies
Newsweek sprinkled throughout its year-end double issue, with Barack Obama on the cover as the #1 member of “The New Global Elite,” a bunch of potshots at Sarah Palin -- and even derided teen daughter Bristol too. In a list of those who committed “low behavior” during 2008 (which did at least also highlight John Edwards), the magazine accused Sarah Palin of a “smear” against Barack Obama, on another page Newsweek described her as an “ill-informed, inarticulate shopaholic” (while on the same page hailing MSNBC's Rachel Maddow as a “brilliant” woman who “gives libs a happy new voice”) and deep in the December 29/January 5 edition the magazine ridiculed Bristol Palin: “For 30 years, the Moral Majority has promoted 'abstinence only.' Jamie Lynn Spears, Bristol Palin...how's that working out?”
The specifics:
Page 21, a list of “The Biggest Losers” of 2008 “who set the high-water mark for low behavior in 2008,” featured Palin: “In a smear that sounds even worse in retrospect, Sarah Palin goes rogue and stirs up prejudice by accusing Barack Obama of 'palling around with terrorists.'”
Source: Newsweek Uses Year-End Edition to Take Potshots at Palin
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