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FACEBOOK CRACKDOWN ON ANTI TERROR GROUPS UPDATED: FACEBOOK refusing to remove groups that deny the Holocaust, Aids the spread of hate

It seems there has been an edict declared from on high. Recently there has been an FB crackdown, an upsurge in deletions and suspensions on facebook, all anti-terror related. Here's one of many anecdotal stories, this from Elaine, "I had photos of the Iranian dissidents on my FB page whom I support, for obvious reasons. I had links to various articles about radical Islam, these items have been removed. A friend informed me she tried to forward my link for American Congress for Truth, the organization founded by Brigitte Gabriel, which gets the word out about radical Islam, and my friend was "blocked" from the content. I am being censored!! There is a story here. Bret, I had tried to e mail you last week when you requested story ideas, and tried to forward you a link about the Saudi Academy proposed expansion in Fairfax, I could not send you the link, that was blocked, too."

This Facebook message mirrors other notes I have received in recent days. It all points to a shut down of grass roots efforts by good folks to organize and pull our country back from the brink.

Obama has been a free speech opponent since taking office. The "fairness doctrine", small media councils, staged press conferences and town hall meetings teeming with un-indicted co-conspirators CAIR and ISNA. He is squelching free expression. Now Facebook is the frontier.

Obama is no stranger to Facebook. He's right tight with Chris Hughes, the 24 year old billionaire and founder of Facebook -- which has over 175 million members. He was an essential part of  putting President Barack Obama in the White House. Obama has continued to use the internet to push his trillion dollar budget through congress.

Just recently, President Barack Obama used the internet and connected with online supporters and nonsupporters of his economic policies.  Over 77,000 Americans online responded to the internet forum about economic policies and political issues

How did Chris Hughes help President Barack Obama to win the election?  Chris Hughes used Web 2.0 social networking to connect millions of Americans to President Barack Obama to get him elected to the presidency.  Chris Hughes 2.0 technology connected over 150 million users worldwide during the presidential election campaign of 2008. 

Chris Hughes created the comprehensive website, MyBarackObama.com to reach the grassroots of the American poliotican movement through the use of internet telecommunications. 

Chris Hughes offered site usage of the MYBO accounts and helped to host community election events.  These activities contributed significantly to the presidential election win of Barack Obama.  The site also helped voters to find local polling booths in their community in which to vote.

Although the election is over, MYBO is still active. President Obama looks through MyBO website and urges supporters to stay engaged in efforts to bring positive political change to the nation.  Chris Hughes plans to continue the MYBO website and may even permanently leave FaceBook to become part of the presidential web team.

Obama 's tentacles are all over Facebook. He gets what he wants, and we are under attack on Facebook. Benyamin B is a co-founder and co-President of the Anti-Terrorism Coalition (ATC) and the director of Project Expose - the code name for the ATC's Database of Terrorist Websites and eGroups (ATCD) and the effort behind it (December 2003 - August 2005). He has been involved in the fight against terrorism and collectivism since 2002. He has written this exclusive piece for Atlas on the massive wave of censorship.

Facebook Launches Massive Attacks Against Anti-Terrorists  By Benyamin B.

Last week, three anti-terrorism organizations were targeted in a massive crackdown by Facebook. The organizations - The Anti-Terrorism Coalition (ATC), Facebook-based American Infidel (AI) and Facebook-based Infidel Forces (IF) - were involved in taking over Islamic terrorist, pro-terrorist and other hateful groups operating on the popular networking site.

IF, which was formed in 2008, had originally been created to counter Facebook's bias against anti-terrorist, patriotic and other freedom-loving groups and individuals. While countless terrorist, pro-terrorist and other hateful groups and users have been allowed to operate freely on Facebook, friendly users and groups have constantly been banned and shut down, respectively. Thus, the creators of IF decided to both "level the playing field" and combat cyber terrorists, at the same time.

By then, Facebook's blatant bias toward hostile groups and against allied groups was beyond obvious. David Appletree, the leader of the Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF), was (and still is) getting banned frequently for his group's actions against hostile groups. The JIDF had been involved in taking over hostile groups and getting others banned, by having massive numbers of its users report them to Facebook. In one instance, David Appletree was banned for being an administrator of a group that was taken over by Islamic hackers, while no action was taken against the hackers.

Facebook's favoritism of the very same people "who would kill all of its male employees and put all of its female employees in burqas" has also made it to the news on numerous occasions. In one instance, after Islamic hackers took over a massive pro-Israel group, Facebook banned the group's creator - a 14 or 15 year old American Jew by the name of Todd Snider. While this story was picked up by the anti-terrorism community, especially by Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, the David Horowitz Freedom Center (and Frontpage Magazine) and some others; it was largely ignored by the mainstream media.

This led IF to take over hostile groups and infiltrate others by sending in operatives posing as Islamic terrorist sympathizers. The AI, and later, the ATC both subscribed to IF's effort. Operating in accordance with Facebook's terms, IF began to join hostile groups left without administrators and grant themselves administrative powers.

By early this month, the allied effort had managed to take over more than 150 hostile groups and prevent the hostile takeover of approximately 15 - 20 friendly groups. Additionally, several friendly groups that had been taken over by hostiles were "liberated" by the allies, after they took those groups over themselves.

It was then that Facebook launched its mass purges against the AI, IF and ATC. In late June, Facebook sent a warning to IF and AI members for "uploading" a picture of an Israeli flag, in which the Star of David was replaced with a swastika, to the group "Stop the israelian Genocide against Ghaza". Facebook staff also took down the picture. In reality, this group had actually just been taken over by allied forces and they had not yet had the chance to change the picture. In fact, the picture had been uploaded by the group's terrorist and anti-Semitic creators at least several months ago. Interestingly, during this lengthy period of time, Facebook did not take any action against the group or its original administrators.

About a week later, on July 2, Facebook disabled the accounts of two high-ranking AI members (who were also administrators of AI's Facebook group). Asked to be identified only as Ben and Hodge, the two had been active supporters of IF's effort and had lent them a hand on several occasions. Then, on July 5, IF leader Jack Johnson, several other IF members and ATC member Jack Turner were banned by Facebook. This was followed with the banning of IF's second in command, Mike Jenkins, on the following day. Facebook also banned every single undercover account being used by the three allied groups, effectively shutting down all of their attempts to infiltrate hostile groups.

In the aftermath of these attacks, almost all the groups controlled by IF and its allies were left without administrators, and thus, susceptible to hostile takeover. Within several days, approximately a quarter of all these groups had fallen back into enemy hands.

In addition, any threads and posts made on any Facebook groups at all by any of the banned individuals were automatically deleted when they were banned. Thus many anti-terrorism groups, in particular, lost an overwhelming amount of posts and threads. The AI group suffered perhaps the greatest data loss of them all. This completely hampered the debates, discussions and the dialogue going on at these groups. One AI member expressed great dismay that the debates he had been having with a Muslim individual at the AI group had been deleted, adding that "they were extremely respectful and informative."

Not one of the individuals banned has thus far been able to get Facebook to reactivate their accounts, with a staff member by the name of Lysander explicitly telling both Ben and Hodge that they had violated Facebook's terms, that he was not able to "provide further explanation" of their violations, that their decision to ban them was final and that all of their subsequent inquiries would be ignored. IF leader Jack Johnson has provided a rather detailed account of exactly what happened on the ATC Website: http://www.atcoalition.com/news/viewarticle.php?id=29.

On top of all of this, Facebook has been engaging in surveillance of the ATC and other friendly websites. It first began to visit the ATC website hours after the original press release that broke Facebook's crackdown against allied groups was published.

To my knowledge, never before, in the history of Facebook, has such a massive crackdown as this ever taken place. In fact, few Western companies have been able to match Facebook in their ultra-Chamberlainian actions. This incident ranks up there with Yahoo's targeting of the ATC and other allied websites in June of 2003 and Network Solutions' banning of the website where Geert Wilders planned to release Fitna in March of 2008.

And while us and our allies have abided by the law and by Facebook's terms, countless numbers of Facebook groups and users that in the past and present put up swastikas, post pictures with the Star of David crossed out, post pictures of American and other allied flags being burned, call for violence against non-Muslims, hack into accounts and groups (thus also breaking the law) and commit other despicable acts are, for the most part, unmolested by Facebook. In fact, only when friendly groups such as the JIDF ask massive numbers of their supporters to report individual hostile groups to Facebook staff does any action get taken against such groups.

In the meantime, my organization - the ATC - will continue to expose the radical leftist and authoritarian nature of Facebook.

UPDATE: But note this: (hat tip Armaros)

Facebook gives hatred a handBy refusing to remove groups that deny the Holocaust, Facebook is aiding the spread of hate at a time of rising racism

Facebook has decided not to remove groups that deny the Holocaust. This policy contradicts its own "statement of rights and responsibilities", which clearly states "you will not post content that is hateful". Facebook seems to be ignorant of the inherent danger of Holocaust denial, the deeply hateful nature of it, and international efforts against racism. It either fails to understand the responsibility it has to society, or it has placed profit far above morality.

Holocaust denial is illegal in 13 countries. Other countries, such as Australia, have broader laws prohibiting racial vilification – the carrying out of a public act that will "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or group of people" who are targeted because of "race, colour or national or ethnic origin". In the UK there has long been a debate over strengthening anti-hate laws to close gaps that have been exploited by the likes of the BNP. One gap, for example, makes it an offence to incite hate, but not to be directly hateful to a victim (the case prevented by the Australian laws). The law is, however, a bare minimum. More action against hate is often required, as the National Union of Students has shown with its "no platform policy" – a total boycott of proscribed racist and fascist groups.

As Anthony Julius has explained, combating Holocaust denial "requires the recognition that denial is an especially offensive form of antisemitism" and that "the presence of denial material on the net is treated with as much seriousness as is the presence of other kinds of offensive material". At the same time as defending its unpopular position to allow Holocaust denial, Facebook has been on a crusade against pictures showing breastfeeding mothers. Either its priorities are scrambled or someone is asleep at the wheel.

Facebook's allowance of Holocaust denial comes despite a 2007 resolution from the UN general assembly that "urges all member states unreservedly to reject any denial of the Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part, or any activities to this end". It comes despite EU legislation from 2005 that asks countries to pass laws that make Holocaust denial "punishable as a criminal offence". Facebook's move comes at a time when the British public are still recovering from the election of the BNP's Nick Griffin, a Holocaust denier, to represent them in the European parliament. Facebook is a powerful social networking tool – in times like these, with racism across Europe rising, what sort of impact does it have when it helps Holocaust deniers to network and spread their message?

Their only excuse is ignorance.

Iran's Web Spying

If the mad mullahs crush dissent.......what will become of those freedom fighters and citizen journalists who beamed those messages, tweets, pics and reportage, without which the world would never have known of the brutal oppression and violence of Islam?

Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology WSJ

..............in confronting the political turmoil that has consumed the country this past week, the Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep packet inspection, which enables authorities to not only block communication but to monitor it to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for disinformation purposes, according to these experts.

The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company, in the second half of 2008, Ben Roome, a spokesman for the joint venture, confirmed.

The "monitoring center," installed within the government's telecom monopoly, was part of a larger contract with Iran that included mobile-phone networking technology, Mr. Roome said.

"If you sell networks, you also, intrinsically, sell the capability to intercept any communication that runs over them," said Mr. Roome.

The sale of the equipment to Iran by the joint venture, called Nokia Siemens Networks, was previously reported last year by the editor of an Austrian information-technology Web site called Futurezone.

The Iranian government had experimented with the equipment for brief periods in recent months, but it had not been used extensively, and therefore its capabilities weren't fully displayed -- until during the recent unrest, the Internet experts interviewed said.

"We didn't know they could do this much," said a network engineer in Tehran. "Now we know they have powerful things that allow them to do very complex tracking on the network."

UPDATE: Nokia/Siemens issues a statement concerning the WSJ  report  that it provided Iran with censoring technology. Read their statement is here.

Recent media reports have speculated about Nokia Siemens Networks’ role in providing monitoring capability to Iran. Nokia Siemens Networks has provided Lawful Intercept capability solely for the monitoring of local voice calls in Iran. Nokia Siemens Networks has not provided any deep packet inspection, web censorship or Internet filtering capability to Iran.

Meanwhile, if you own their stock, sell it.

OBAMA SIGNS OFF ON INTERNET CZAR

All of these "czars" -- to what end? Sidestepping any of our nation's checks and balances? And now we have -- drum roll please -- a cyber czar. This is all happening so fast .......... every day another freedom seized. More federal power.

He has nationalized the banks and the automotive companies -- next up, nationalization of health care, And crap and trade, energy control and usage, not to mention co-opting the census and all the power and money that goes with it.

Now the net.

Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate

President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan.

Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid

Today's fresh hell ............if they knock out our electrical grid, we go from the technological age to the pre-industrial age in a nanosecond.

These occurences must be related.

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies WSJ

WASHINGTON -- Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.

The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, these officials said, and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical system and its controls. The intruders haven't sought to damage the power grid or other key infrastructure, but officials warned they could try during a crisis or war.

"The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid," said a senior intelligence official. "So have the Russians."

The espionage appeared pervasive across the U.S. and doesn't target a particular company or region, said a former Department of Homeland Security official. "There are intrusions, and they are growing," the former official said, referring to electrical systems. "There were a lot last year."

Many of the intrusions were detected not by the companies in charge of the infrastructure but by U.S. intelligence agencies, officials said. Intelligence officials worry about cyber attackers taking control of electrical facilities, a nuclear power plant or financial networks via the Internet.

Authorities investigating the intrusions have found software tools left behind that could be used to destroy infrastructure components, the senior intelligence official said. He added, "If we go to war with them, they will try to turn them on."

Officials said water, sewage and other infrastructure systems also were at risk.

"Over the past several years, we have seen cyberattacks against critical infrastructures abroad, and many of our own infrastructures are as vulnerable as their foreign counterparts, " Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair recently told lawmakers. "A number of nations, including Russia and China, can disrupt elements of the U.S. information infrastructure."

Officials cautioned that the motivation of the cyberspies wasn't well understood, and they don't see an immediate danger. China, for example, has little incentive to disrupt the U.S. economy because it relies on American consumers and holds U.S. government debt.

But protecting the electrical grid and other infrastructure is a key part of the Obama administration's cybersecurity review, which is to be completed next week. Under the Bush administration, Congress approved $17 billion in secret funds to protect government networks, according to people familiar with the budget. The Obama administration is weighing whether to expand the program to address vulnerabilities in private computer networks, which would cost billions of dollars more. A senior Pentagon official said Tuesday the Pentagon has spent $100 million in the past six months repairing cyber damage.

Overseas examples show the potential havoc. In 2000, a disgruntled employee rigged a computerized control system at a water-treatment plant in Australia, releasing more than 200,000 gallons of sewage into parks, rivers and the grounds of a Hyatt hotel.

Last year, a senior Central Intelligence Agency official, Tom Donohue, told a meeting of utility company representatives in New Orleans that a cyberattack had taken out power equipment in multiple regions outside the U.S. The outage was followed with extortion demands, he said.

The U.S. electrical grid comprises three separate electric networks, covering the East, the West and Texas. Each includes many thousands of miles of transmission lines, power plants and substations. The flow of power is controlled by local utilities or regional transmission organizations. The growing reliance of utilities on Internet-based communication has increased the vulnerability of control systems to spies and hackers, according to government reports.

The sophistication of the U.S. intrusions -- which extend beyond electric to other key infrastructure systems -- suggests that China and Russia are mainly responsible, according to intelligence officials and cybersecurity specialists. While terrorist groups could develop the ability to penetrate U.S. infrastructure, they don't appear to have yet mounted attacks, these officials say.

OBAMA SEEKS NET CONTROL ....ENCROACHING FASCISM

"The cybersecurity threat is real," says Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which obtained the draft of S.773, "but such a drastic federal intervention in private communications technology and networks could harm both security and privacy."

I agree, the cybersecurity threat is real, all right -  from the government.

Soon He May Control The Internet - Cool

A bill pending in Congress, The Cybersecurity Act of 2009, sponsored by John Rockefeller (D) and Olympia Snowe (R) attempts to deal with very real threats to the nation's cyber-infrastructure. Attacks on military, government and civilian cyber-infrastructure are all too real, and it is time the nation woke up to the problem.

But one provision in the bill has received scant attention, other than an article in Mother Jones (via Memeorandum). The provision allows the President to declare a cyber emergency, shut down the internet, and access almost any cyber-information. The President may

declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network" (Sec. 18(2))

The term "United States critical infrastructure information system or network" includes federal, state and local governmental, and non-governmental systems or networks. In other words, everything. (Sec. 23(3)) The President also

shall have access to all relevant data concerning such networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access. (Sec. 14(b)(1))

The standards in the Act as to what constitutes an emergency, and what the President can do with the information, are unacceptably vague. While cyber-security is increasingly important, I worry about giving such sweeping powers to ANY President, much less one who already has created a cult of personality enabled, in part, by an adoring media.

And with Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, and James Carville at the President's side, we all can sleep peacefully knowing that the information gathered through this program will not be used for political purposes.

Remember all the fury from the Left over the Patriot Act and other attempts to give the government the ability to intercept communications believed to be between terrorists? Or to provide immunity to telecommunications companies which cooperate with the government? Why the silence here from the always-critical-of-anything-which-makes-us-safer blogs and public interest groups?

ACLU, HuffPo, Talking Points Memo, Glenn Greenwald, FireDogLake, Ezra Klein, etc. - Where are you?

UPDATE: It's happening in Britain:

Internet records to be stored for a year

Details of every email sent and website visited by people in Britain are to be stored for use by the state from tomorrow as part of what campaigners claim is a massive assault on privacy.

A European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force which will require all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and telephone calls made over the internet, for 12 months.

They let Islamic extremists in en masse, but Wilders or Feiglin they keep out, so who do they want to spy on?

PROTEST FACEBOOK JIHAD

Let's help get this action going - we are being assaulted on all fronts:

Protest Launched Against Facebook for being Pro-Jihad, Anti-Israel

The David Horowitz Freedom Center is calling upon all supporters of freedom of speech and of Israel to join in its protest against Facebook, the Internet social networking site. Facebook has allowed a group of hackers who openly support the terrorist group Hizballah to take over and destroy what was once the largest pro-Israel site on Facebook. In a blunt act of internet censorship, Facebook added insult to injury by disabling the account of that site’s creator, 14-year-old Todd Snider.

Snider established the Facebook group called “I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel,” in July 2008. By February 2009 it was Facebook’s largest pro-Israel site, with over 180,000 members.

But on February 15, 2009, Snider’s Facebook group was hacked and destroyed by a pro-Hizballah group calling itself “Lebanese Shee’a Hackers.” The hackers completely erased the original site content and replaced it with threatening, obscenity-laced pro-jihad, anti-Israel propaganda datelined Bint Jbeil, South Lebanon: “DEAR ADMINS, DON’T WASTE MY AND YOUR TIME , LEAVE THIS GROUP ITS BETTER FOR BOTH THIS IS THE LAST TIME ILL EDIT YOU INFO , NEXT TIME…”

Facebook allowed the hackers to destroy Snider’s site, answering his repeated entreaties for help with blandly evasive form letters.

And now, after the appearance on March 6 of an article about the incident in FrontPageMagazine.com (“Facebook Jihad” by Robert Spencer), Facebook has taken the additional step of disabling Snider’s account altogether, capitulating to the jihadi hackers and accusing Snider himself of “misusing” Facebook’s “features.”

Facebook’s outrageous action is not only an assault on free speech and internet freedom and a breach of its own social networking protocols, but also appeasement of a group of hackers who have invaded Facebook’s space and who openly avow their support for the jihad terrorist group Hizballah.

We therefore urge all Facebook members who oppose Islamist terror and internet censorship to contact the site administrators through the Facebook contact form, and all others to join us in protesting against Facebook’s outrageous behavior by writing to abuse@facebook.com.

David Horowitz
Robert Spencer

UPDATE: Much thanks to Ed for tracking this down:

FACEBOOK Headquarters

156 University Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301-1605
United States  (Map)

Phone: 650-543-4800
Fax: 650-543-4801

Mark Zuckerberg- Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Christopher Cox Director of Product

 

Lori Goler -Director of Human Resources

Jonathan Heiliger -VP of Technical Operations

Chamath Palihapitiya VP of Growth, Mobile and International

Mike Murphy VP of Global Sales

 

Dan Rose VP of Business Development and Monetization

Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating Officer

Elliot Schrage VP of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy

Mike Schroepfer VP of Engineering

 

Ted Ullyot VP and General Counsel

Gideon Yu VP & Chief Financial Officer

9/11/2008 CATASTROPHIC FINANCIAL TERRORIST ATTACK CAUSED ECONOMIC MELTDOWN

The recent bombshell that Rep. Kanjorski dropped gets bigger and bigger. Atlas reader Suzanne picked up on a mindblowing "detail" in my blog post: "RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT HUSSEIN: "A $550 Billion Electronic Run on the Banks". Paul Kanjorski describes the closed door session of Congress where it was revealed that there was a $550 billion electronic run on the banks and that was what caused the economic crisis.
In the video, Kanjorski says this occurred on Thursday, September 15, 2008. September 15th was a MONDAY.

THURSDAY was  .......SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This was a Financial Terrorist Attack on the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Aren't the American people entitled to know who was behind the run on the banks?

Why was this kept from the American people before the most important election in US history? And why did Obama treat it as an unimportant incident - accusing McCain of grandstanding when McCain left the campaign trail and flew to Washington? Remember what President Hussein said? "They'll call me if they need me."

FLASHBACK: "Call me if you need me"

When President Hussein was campaigning and the "economic crisis" hit, he did not think it pressing enough to leave the campaign trail, but now we should push through a trillion dollars in legislation without oversight because a few weeks later the King deems it urgent?

The financial crisis was deliberate, planned, staged. Who made the run? "Someone threw us in the middle of the Atlantic ocean without a life raft. We are trying to determine which is the closest shore and whether there is any chance in the world to swim that far. We don't know."

Electronic Run On Banks - $550 Billion Withdrawn In 1 Hour, Federal Reserve Halts Withdrawals - US Economy Would Have Collapsed Capitalism Gone Wild  hat tip Cathy

Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania explains what former Treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke told congress during the September 2008 closed door session. During the first third of the video an enraged caller is ranting to Rep. Kanjorski about how wasteful the first $700 billion bailout was. The best part is 2 minutes and 15 seconds into the tape where Rep. Kanjorski reveals what Paulson and Bernanke told congress that shocked them into supporting the first $700 billion bailout.
[...]

"Why did we do that? Look I was there when the Secretary and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve came those days to talk to members of Congress about what was going on. It was about  September 15th. On Thursday (Thursday was September 11th] Here's the facts and we don't even talk about these things.

On Thursday [Thursday was September 11th] at about  11 o clock in the morning The Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the USA to the tune of $550 Billion dollars in a matter of an hour or two. Money was being removed electronically."

The Treasury tried to help, opened their window and pumped in $150 Billion but quickly realized they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks. So they decided to closed down the accounts.

Had they not closed down the accounts they estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon. Within 3 hours. $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawn and the entire economy of the United States would have collapsed, and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed.

Kanjorski also explains why Paulson spent the bailout money differently than he originally proposed.

Some other gems from the recording:

It would have been the end of our economic and political system.

We would have had to spend 3 to 4 Trillion dollars to buy up all the toxic assets. But we didn't have that much we only had 700 Billion.

Without a banking system you don't have an economy.

We are no better off now than we were three months ago.

Someone threw us in the middle of the Atlantic ocean without a life raft. We are trying to determine which is the closest shore and whether there is any chance in the world to swim that far. We don't know.

Read the rest of this

MUSLIM GOOGLE

Have you seen this?
hat tip Spencer

UPDATE:From The Nose on your Face...... From Anthony:

Google’s practice of dressing up their logo to commemorate selective holidays has generated much speculation about the company’s politics. Some have suggested that Google’s yearly tributes to holidays like France’s Bastille Day, Earth Day, and the Persian New Year, and ignoring of holidays like Memorial Day, Christmas and Flag Day, indicates a decidedly anti-American and anti Judeo-Christian stance.

In an effort to counter these rumors, Google yesterday presented several new logo treatments the company is considering for some key holidays.

UPDATE: Hmmm, Muslim google may not be google. But would those tools over at google have the balls to sue? Never.

Check the whois for muslumangoogle.com . I'm not so sure that this is really a google company.
Registrant:
   Selim AKYUZ
   Selim AKYUZ        (sa@selimakyuz.com.tr)
   Kocaeli
   Merkez
   Kocaeli ,11111
   TR
   Tel. +90.905334682436
   Fax. +90.905334682436

(hat tip commenter over at JW)

KADIMA PARTY SITE HACKED

Now this is rich ............ Kadima Party site was hacked. If Kadima signs this jihad imposed hudna/ceasefire, perhaps the screenshot is  ...... prescient.

Screen shot (click below) t h/t. wolf - Couldn't capture the Arab music and shouting - typical jihad tourette syndrome.

E-JAD! CYBER WARFARE: HACKING PRO-ISRAEL SITES - YNET

Israpundit, Jihadwatch ..... now YNET news. Silencing the fight for freedom. Early Friday morning around a little after 12pm Israel Time, the Ynet news site was hacked. Here's the webshot. The site has since been fixed. (hat tip wolf)

UPDATE: Randall gives up this stat:

Site has been scrubbed from the DNS servers.  This is astonishing.  As if they don't exist on the internet at all.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

ping www.ynetnews.com
Ping request could not find host www.ynetnews.com. Please check the
name and try again.

ping www.ynetnews.com
Ping request could not find host www.ynetnews.com. Please check the
name and try again.

Jihadists Call for 'YouTube Invasion'

With B. Hussein in da house and Google taking ownership of YouTube  ....... duck!

Jihadist forum calls for 'YouTube Invasion' hat tip wolf

A jihadist forum has urged supporters to wage a "YouTube Invasion" by uploading propaganda videos to the popular video-sharing website, the SITE Intelligence Group has claimed.

HACKING THE RIGHT: THE LEFTS HIGH CRIMES, O'REILLY HIT

The party of terrorists rights and their right to privacy and the al jizz like Ny Times who leaked NSA and FISA classified information because terrorists privacy might be compromised,  show what fascists they really are. SILENCE  and complicity over the hacking of Palin's private email account.
There has been no outrage over Palin's privacy being hacked by leftist digital brownshirts.And no one on the left will denounce this.
Could you imagine if this happened to Obama or Campbell Brown? (did you see this video?) or Zawahiri? How the leftards would weep and prostrate themselves?

Yesterday O' Reilly was hacked. Gateway has the story here:(hat tip Larwyn)

Leftist hackers broke into Bill O'Reilly's website and posted information on his premium members at the Wikileaks website.

The criminals were upset with the way O'Relly reported on the Sarah Palin "hacker" attack.
Computer World reported:

Just days after publishing U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal email messages, the Wikileaks Web site has published data about members who signed up for a section of Fox Television host Bill O'Reilly's Web site.

Hackers were able to obtain a list of Billoreilly.com premium members, including email addresses, site passwords and the city and state where they live. Some of the information was published Friday on Wikileaks.com, which has been under fire from conservative commentators, including O'Reilly, for publishing Palin's messages.

OBAMA SUPRRESSES TRUTH VIA GOOGLE SEARCH

This is what the man does. He is an enemy of free speech. He suppresses the truth, a true child of his mentors Marshall and Alinsky.

Barack Obama Uses Google to Combat Vicious Rumors US News World Report

Searches for some of the "most pervasive Internet rumours" often turn up links to his campaign website

Barack Obama is waging an quiet battle in the Googlesphere to combat damagingrumors, as well as his opponent, John McCain.

Specifically, Obama's campaign has waded into online auctions for Google search terms to snap up not only obvious phrases like "Barack Obama" but also potentially negative ones like "Barack Obama birth certificate" or "Barack Obama as a Muslim," according to Hitwise, an Internet audience monitoring firm.

This means that, as of Wednesday morning, Google searches for Obama being a Muslim often turn up a prominent "sponsored" link at the top of the results page that connects to a page on Obama's campaign website that debunks the myth and details his Christian faith. Searches for Obama's birth certificate produce a link to a page showing the official document.

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It's not clear how many Web surfers are being driven to his site through these search ads. Data from Hitwise suggest the numbers are relatively low.

Whether or not people visit the Obama site, the Google search results page displays, underneath the link, text that denies the specific rumor, such as "Barack Obama is a Christian. Get the facts at his official site."

Similarly, a search for "Obama flag pin"—referring to another Internet myth that Obama refuses to wear a U.S. flag pin (which is also false)—frequently turns up a link to his site, with the text, "He says the Pledge, puts his hand on his heart and wears a flag pin." Other searches, like "Obama Koran" or "Obama Pledge of Allegiance," also usually contain sponsored links to Obama's website.

His campaign is not just playing defense. Searches for terms like "Palin Bridge to Nowhere" and "McCain maverick" sometimes display sponsored links back to Obama's campaign website.

CYBER WARFARE: Hacking Slaughterers

I would gladly continue to suffer hack attacks if the jihad suffers as well :)

Hackers break into Hamas website hat tip Van

A ring-wing Israeli group hacked into websites of organizations and activist groups Thursday, including those of the armed wing of Hamas, Izzadin Kassam, and left-wing Israeli organizations. The group of hackers, calling themselves the 'Extremist Zealots,' boasted that they had broken into numerous sites. CONTD...

Uh, BTW, how bad is the my site load today?

CYBERZIONISTS!

And a cutie to boot! hooha! Fight dhimmitube!

To register and be part of the Zionist Task force go here

Jane Novak: Blog Heroine

The New York Times (!) did a wonderful piece on Jane Novak of the blog, Armies of Liberation. She is the quintessential blogger doing what she does for liberty, justice and democracy. I have had the distinct pelase of corresponding with her from time to time on Yemeni matters. She is tireless and intrepid and the nemesis of the brutalYemeni government. For Novak, the basic issue is freedom of speech. And so the Yemeni government despises her. She embodies the best of the blogosphere

It is rare that I send you over to the Times but this is a terrific piece. Please read and check out her blog. The title seems to minimize y=her stature but what would you expect from The New York Times, she is doing what they should be doing.

A LIVING ROOM CRUSADE VIA BLOGGING

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Jane Novak, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mother of two in New Jersey, has never been to Yemen. She speaks no Arabic, and freely admits that until a few years ago, she knew nothing about that strife-torn south Arabian country.

And yet Ms. Novak has become so well known in Yemen that newspaper editors say they sell more copies if her photograph — blond and smiling — is on the cover. Her blog, an outspoken news bulletin on Yemeni affairs, is banned there. The government’s allies routinely vilify her in print as an American agent, a Shiite monarchist, a member of Al Qaeda, or “the Zionist Novak.”

The worst of her many offenses is her dogged campaign on behalf of a Yemeni journalist, Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani, who incurred his government’s wrath by writing about a bloody rebellion in the far north of the country. He is on trial on sedition charges that could bring the death penalty, with a verdict expected Wednesday.

Ms. Novak, working from a laptop in her Monmouth County living room “while the kids are at school,” has started an Internet petition to free Mr. Khaiwani. She has enlisted Yemeni politicians, journalists, human rights activists and others around the globe. Her blog goes well beyond the Khaiwani case and has become a crucial outlet for opposition journalists and political figures, who feed her tips on Yemeni political intrigue by e-mail or text message.

She says her campaign is a matter of basic principle. “This is a country that lets Al Qaeda people go free, and they’re putting a journalist on trial for doing his job?” she said. “It’s just completely crazy.”

But Ms. Novak does admit to a personal interest in the case. She and Mr. Khaiwani have become close friends, though they have never met, and neither speaks the other’s language. One of the charges against him is receiving a cellphone text message from her, as part of an alleged plot (which he denies) to aid the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen.

“The penalty for this crime is usually death,” Mr. Khaiwani said during an interview at his home in the Yemeni capital, Sana, in January. A lanky 42-year-old with large, piercing eyes and a dark sense of humor, he has already been jailed four times by the authorities in connection with his journalism. Last year he was kidnapped and beaten by men he says were plainclothes police officers.

Mr. Khaiwani added, with a broad smile: “If you add to this my relationship with Jane Novak, it means the death penalty for sure.”

Ms. Novak does not fit the profile of a dilettante in exotic causes. A former sales manager for a textile company, she speaks with a distinct Brooklyn accent, having grown up in Flatbush. When a Yemeni government minister visited the United States last year and invited the notorious “Jane,” as she is known throughout Yemen, to go to Washington for a meeting, she turned him down. “It was too much, the money, the kids, all for a one-day trip,” she said.

Nor does she have any background in Middle East studies. One of her opponents in Yemen accused her of being a Zionist member of Aipac, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “I had to Google it,” Ms. Novak said with a chuckle. “I didn’t know what it was.”

It was after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that Ms. Novak, who used to work not far from the World Trade Center, first took an interest in the Arab world. “I thought it would be a good idea to write in the English-language Arabic press on subjects we could all agree on, freedom of the press, equality, stuff like that,” she said.

In 2004, she started her blog, www.armiesofliberation.com, adorned with a Stars and Stripes logo, and soon wrote an article defending Mr. Khaiwani, who was in prison. He wrote her a letter of thanks, addressing it to “Jane Novak, the American journalist and political analyst.”

“Leaders in our region transform into gods,” he wrote. “They even come to believe in their fake holiness, which we aim to shatter, as they know they are humans just like us. Democracy and freedom are not granted by a leader of a regime. It is a worldwide human achievement of all the free people on earth.”

Moved by the letter, Ms. Novak started her first petition campaign on Mr. Khaiwani’s behalf. Through translators, the two began corresponding.

“He’s just such a nice guy,” Ms. Novak said. “He really believes in democracy, and he’s paying the price for it.”

It was months after their first letters before Ms. Novak could bring herself to tell Mr. Khaiwani that she was not, in fact, a journalist and political analyst, but a homemaker blogging on a laptop at home. “I didn’t want to tell you before, because I didn’t want you to lose hope,” she wrote.

Mr. Khaiwani wrote back to say that the news made him even prouder of her and her work.

Bless you Novak. Go getta 'em. :)

Read it all and don't forget to sign the petition.

ANTISEMITISM AT WIKIPEDIA, Weakipedia, TOOL OF THE JIHAD

Is there no one that can stand up to evil? Seriously. Must everything be corrupted by Islamic thuggery and bullying? Wikipedia ......... another, in a long line, of surrender monkeys and useful tools. Doesn't historical accuracy mean anything anymore?
Bottom line, this does enormous harm to the credibility of wikipedia. It is not a credible source - it will increasingly be perceived as a propaganda tool of the jihad. Frankly, the mainstream medai really ought to pick up on this piece. Students, fact finders, researchers beware.

Exposed - Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit, may strive for pure democracy, but that doesn't mean it's always fair. Our colleagues at CAMERA learned this the hard way last month when their effort to fight anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia ended in several members being banned from the site and bad press for the organization. CAMERA's campaign involved recruiting volunteers and instructing them in the basics of Wikipedia participation. The Palestinian advocacy group, Electronic Intifada (EI), however, branded the effort "a plan to rewrite history" and filed a bitter complaint with Wikipedia administrators, resulting in unusually stiff penalties for the CAMERA volunteers involved.

EI's chief evidence against CAMERA was a series of private e-mails exchanged by CAMERA staff and their volunteers. An EI staff member infiltrated the group and turned the e-mails over to Wikipedia, claiming they revealed a plot by CAMERA to manipulate Wikipedia and to pass off "crude propaganda as fact." An investigation followed, resulting in two indefinite bans and several shorter-term bans for CAMERA members.

A closer look at Wikipedia's inner workings, however, reveals there is more to the story. Research carried out by Social Media expert Dr. Andre Oboler, a Legacy Heritage Fellow at NGO Monitor, reveals that it was EI, not CAMERA, that manipulated Wikipedia to achieve its ideological goals.

Dr. Oboler and HonestReporting also found that despite Wikipedia's clear policy against political advocacy, initiatives such as "Wiki Project Palestine" and the Yahoo group "Wikipedians for Palestine" used the Wikipedia platform to promote their ideological views, largely unopposed by the Wikipedia community. CAMERA, however, was singled out by the administrators in order to "send a strong message to lobbying groups, campaigns and other advocacy groups."

WIKIPEDIA AND THE NEUTRAL POINT OF VIEW

With nearly 60 million visitors a month and 10 million entries in 253 languages, Wikipedia has become a primary resource for students across the world. A Google search for almost any topic will return a Wikipedia entry at or near the top of the list of results.

But despite its popularity, Wikipedia does not always provide the most accurate information. What sets the encyclopedia apart from other sources is its reliance on the "wisdom of crowds" - allowing any user who spots an error in any entry to simply change it himself, anonymously if he chooses.

Not surprisingly, this feature turns controversial topics such as "Jerusalem" or "Terrorism" into battlegrounds between people with sharply different agendas. To counter the problem, Wikipedia established the neutral point of view (NPOV) as one of its guiding principles. The NPOV policy is meant to ensure all sides are presented equally on a topic until a consensus eventually emerges, a process that can take many months of intense debate.

Unfortunately, NPOV is another noble goal not always applied equally by Wikipedia users. Dr. Oboler tracked the activity of Wikipedia user Bangpound, an individual revealed to be EI staff member Benjamin Doherty, who appears to be looking to spin EI's view of CAMERA's campaign. Here is how Dr. Oboler describes his activity:

At 14:08 on April 21 EI boasted publicly to someone thought to be a member of CAMERA's staff that CAMERA and its editor have been exposed. He links to the EI article about CAMERA [accusing CAMERA of a Wikipedia conspiracy]. At 14:26 the same person edits the CAMERA page making it say "CAMERA also attempts to use Wikipedia to covertly disseminate discredited pro-Israeli propaganda."  They add that EI have e-mails that "outlined an attempt to subvert Wikipedia editorial controls and leadership structures" - an accusation designed to make Wikipedia editors see red. At 14:44 they edited the Wikipedia page on reliable sources adding "CAMERA cannot possibly be considered a reliable source" and again they outline their accusations. These edits appear aimed both to discredit CAMERA and to promote EI. It was clever marketing as well as clever advocacy, and it took under half an hour. [For the full transcripts of these edits see Dr. Oboler's research on Zionism on the Web].

But according to Dr. Oboler, EI's manipulations on Wikipedia pale in comparison to other pro-Palestinian groups such as "Wiki Project Palestine" - an effort supposedly aimed at improving articles related to Palestinian culture and society but misused to promote a political agenda, and the Yahoo group "Wikipedians for Palestine."

The real organized effort [to recruit outsiders to promote pro-Palestinian views on Wikipedia] appears to be from "Wikipedians for Palestine," a group that was advertised to individuals both on Wikipedia and through at least one Palestinian campaigning organization. That group was active for over two years. It was detected, questions were raised on and off Wikipedia, and then …nothing seemed to happen, then or now.

People commenting on the CAMERA case who were shown to be involved in this Palestinian group first proclaimed the group's innocence. Then they made a number of misleading claims off Wikipedia, stating, for example, that they "never recruited neophytes to edit Wikiepdia," and that their group is "independent and never bankrolled and backed by any organization, let alone one as well staffed and funded as CAMERA."  They were challenged by an administrator to give access to their group so the archives could be checked, as was done to CAMERA. They promptly deleted the group - destroying all archives.

Wikipedia apparently dropped the issue because no one had infiltrated the group or had evidence revealing the content of the deleted archives. According to Dr. Oboler, it is impossible to know exactly what it accomplished over the past two years.

What is clear is that its claims on the group's home page were designed not only to defend themselves but also to attack CAMERA. The group may or may not have actually recruited people who were not editors, but they certainly tried to. The penalties to CAMERA are for trying to recruit people, not for any problematic editing on Wikipedia (itself a very unusual thing in a Wikiepdia investigation - normally only actions on Wikipedia are considered).

COMMON FORMS OF ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS ON WIKIPEDIA

Anti-Israel bias in Wikipedia takes three primary forms: vandalism, blatantly false allegations, and attempts to marginalize the Israeli perspective.

Vandalism, such as efforts to change Jerusalem to 'Capital of Palestine,' tends to be relatively harmless. Editors discover these kinds of changes quickly and "revert" them to the 'community consensus'. Wikipedia allows editors to be notified by email if someone has changed a favorite entry. It also keeps a history of all changes, making it easy to restore the original content.

A more insidious form of bias is the use of false information. An example can be seen on the 'Egypt' 'Camp David Accords' entry, where clear anti-Semitic incitement in the Egyptian press was dismissed as simple 'Anti-Zionist criticism'. This entry alone attracts 150,000 viewers a year, and the related 'Egypt' entry, which doesn't mention the issue at all, is viewed 3.5 million times annually.

More common are attempts to marginalize Israeli and Zionist content and lend more weight to the Palestinian or Arab narrative. The entry "Massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war," for example, lists only those allegedly committed by Jews. Another example is the original 'Hebrews' entry, which fails to mention the undisputed fact that Jews always prayed in Hebrew, and that it became their primary everyday language in Israel since the early 20th century.

This category also includes entries that serve to diminish the perception of threats against Israel. For example, several Iran articles are apologetic about Iranian president Mahmoud Admadinejad's calls for erasing Israel from the map, reassuringly explaining the threat as mistranslation of Farsi, which supposedly only meant 'erase off the pages of time.' However they fail to mention that the same slogan was also painted on ballistic missiles in Iranian army parades.

PRO-PALESTINIAN ADVOCACY: WIKIPROJECT PALESTINE

A WikiProject is a Wikipedia's community feature allowing people with common interests to collaborate on particular encyclopedia topics. A project's homepage is essentially a central billboard allowing users to share articles of interest with the Wikipedia community.

The 'Palestine Project' goals, stated on its page, fall within the accepted Wikipedia guidelines:  To "Maintain information on Palestine including history, culture, geography and contemporary political, socio-economic and ideological context; Improve Palestine-related articles by expansion, verification and copyediting." And finally: "Be thorough and watch for POV in particularly controversial articles."

Despite the warning, however, the actual content promoted by the project appears geared towards online advocacy. There are 210 articles marked as "high importance". About half are related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Many appear because of their influence on public opinion on the Palestinian cause.

In its hall of fame for best articles, the Palestine Project page lists four best biographies. One is by Norman Finkelstein, a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, whose controversial bestseller "The Holocaust Industry" accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust for financial and political gain.

There is also a large number of small articles that appear to have been posted to add weight to the Project's page, giving it the appearance of significant substance. Many of these articles are posted by anonymous users so that they will be difficult to track. This is particularly suspicious behavior considering the community-building nature of WikiProjects.

According to Dr. Oboler, the entire project appears to be an organized effort to promote the Palestinian point of view on Wikipedia.

In trying to kill off an attempt by CAMERA to get pro-Israel people involved in Wikipedia, Electronic Intifada may just have thrown a spotlight on the real and far more successful campaign to control Wikipedia... the campaign that caused CAMERA so much concern in the first place.

THE PROBLEMS ON WIKIPEDIA

A study of user involvement on Social Media sites such as Wikipedia suggests that only 1% of site visitors become heavy contributors. But according to Dr. Oboler, the involvement of more people and greater diversity ultimately benefits sites like Wikipedia:

CAMERA was right about the problems on Wikipedia. People should consider getting involved in Wikipedia and making use of the resources they have (such as books) to improve the accuracy of articles they take an interest in (on any topic imaginable). The first goal must be to improve Wikipedia. That this helps reverse manipulation of the truth is one side effect. Good well-sourced arguments will not only expose mistakes, they will also make Wikipedia better.

Editing Wikipedia is not hard and, in time, people will learn how it works and become part of the community. If you do want to get involved, pay attention to the policies, the five pillars and other information you will be shown when you join. If you run into problems there are plenty of people on Wikipedia more than happy to help or provide clarity about Wikipedia itself.

The truth will win out, but someone needs to make sure it is heard, footnoted and properly sourced.

Dr. Oboler is also a post-doctoral fellow in Political Science at Bar-Ilan University where he is researching online public diplomacy. This research covers Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google Earth and Wikipedia among others online platforms. More on his research can be seen at  http://www.zionismontheweb.org/internet_warfare/ . Details on Wikipedia (the background data of which was shared with HonestReporting) are being added during this week.

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THE OBJECTIVE OF ISLAMIC JIHAD

Internet jihad............... incitement to war. hat tip wolf

DEATH TO ISRAEL ETC, in different langauges

QASSAM QASSAM QASSAM

Jewish woman killed today by qassams

The company(s) that host this dreck should be indicted ..... war crimes.

hat tip da wolf

Quote: Originally Posted by iranian    These are impressive, but of little use in their current form. Why don't Al-Qassam fully exploit the potential of home-made rockets? In most other countries, rockets can be used with a choice of warheads like smoke, teargas, incendiary, cluster sub-munitions, anti-tank or high explosive fragmentation. This should be an urgent priority for the brigades because it will drastically increase the capability of the existing resistance artillery. Anti-tank warheads are particularly usefull as they will give the resistance the ability to challenge occupation armoured vehicles and make zionist attacks much more costly. Even the Iraqi resistance can do this with bombs. There is no excuse for Al-Qassam not to do so.

Salam Alaykum
The Iraqi resistance has an unlimited or almost unlimited supply of weapons and chemicals to make weapons and they can import as they wish. One example of this is getting a Dragonov sniper rifle for the sniper thats goes by the name of Osman. The Iraqi border is porous because of the lack of security as well as the its shear size therefore weapons can move through it with relative ease. In addition, the Iraqi resistance has many many engineers making these weapons and again chemicals and expertise are by no means restricted
The Palestinians are almost the exact opposite. Gaza has had all its borders closed and/or heavily guarded. In addition, Gaza's borders are not long, they are are small so less land to guard and therefore restricting supplies. The only way to get supplies in is to use the Egypt tunnels and those flippin' Egyptians are trying to restrict even those, as if tightening the noose. Therefore, in terms of the Gaza strip, chemicals are restricted, expertise they have, but they don't have the supplies to apply those expertise.

 

Wall Street Jihad

This is a must read. Alex Alexiev,vice president for research at the Center for Security Policy, writes in NRO:

Jihad Comes to Wall Street

"Sharia finance" does exactly what it promises, financing the spread of sharia — and terror.

If you’ve seen Geert Wilders’s film Fitna, you may not have noticed a single headline amongst all the bombings, beheadings, and earnest expressions of Islam’s eventual world domination: Halal-fund: investments for Muslims. But the investment vehicles referenced are an essential part of radical Islam’s efforts to insinuate itself into Western societies in order to destroy them from within. And Wall Street, barely out of the woods from its disastrous run-in with sub-prime mortgages — and having lost one of its historic investment houses, Bear Stearns, in the process — is now chasing the very kind of “sharia finance” against which Wilders's movie warns, a business line that may eventually wind up being even more calamitous than the subprime-mortgage fiasco.

[...]

For its proponents and ideological enablers — such as the well known suicide-bombing advocate, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — sharia finance is nothing less than “Jihad with money.” As al-Qaradawi explains, “God has ordered us to fight enemies with our lives and with our money.” Unfortunately for Wall Street, it’s hard to argue with the good sheikh on that score. Far from being a guide to ethical investment, sharia finance is indistinguishable from sharia itself.

Sharia is a reactionary-to-the-core medieval Islamic doctrine that claims control over every aspect of every Muslim’s life. It imposes such “ethical” mandates on Muslims as the obligation to discriminate against women and non-Muslims; to kill homosexuals, adulterers, and apostates; to establish and maintain Muslim rule around the world; and to carry out violent offensive jihad against infidels. Notably, for those Muslims who cannot engage in physical jihad using force of arms, sharia requires that they support jihad financially. This is what sharia finance is all about.

Far from being a legitimate investment vehicle, sharia finance facilitates religiously sanctioned support for terrorist organizations — as well as providing radical Islamists with highly paid sinecures as sharia-finance board advisors in the sanctum sanctorum of capitalism, all the while that they are pursuing a subversive campaign to destroy it.

Predictably, none of this is even remotely disclosed by any of the dozens of Western banks promoting sharia finance today, which obviously exposes them to huge non-disclosure risks ranging from fraudulent misrepresentation, to material support for terrorism.

[...]

The legitimization of sharia in the West and its gradual imposition in Muslim communities and beyond is a key objective of sharia finance, and there is no doubt it has already made huge strides. Indeed, the precedent of legal sharia-finance transactions was used by the hapless archbishop of Canterbury to buttress his argument that introducing sharia in the United Kingdom was unavoidable.

Given the reality of malignant Islamism now spreading into our own capital markets to the loud cheers of the same Wall Street masters of the universe who gave us sub-prime mortgage securitization, Americans have a right to ask: Where are the U.S. Treasury Department and the SEC, whose job it is to protect our markets? Given the outright fraudulent misrepresentation of the potential liabilities of sharia-finance funds under existing regulations, they should get involved soon.

You must read it all. And weep

FACEBOOK TERROR THREAT

I am Hezbollah and I am going to kill you and all of your family - promise you."

I guess jihadis don't handle rejection very well.

FACEBOOK TERROR THREAT Australian (hat tip rut)

COUNTER-TERRORISM agents have launched an investigation into a multi-national terror threat made against an Australian using internet social networking website Facebook.

The first investigation of its kind was prompted by a death threat emanating from the Middle East against a Jewish woman and her family from an alleged member of the Iranian-backed terror outfit Hezbollah.

The woman received the death threat from the self-proclaimed terrorist through the website after she declined the man's online "friendship request".

The Weekend Australian understands the man - who described himself as Ibrahim Dirani and a member of a Lebanon-based Facebook group - was banned by the network after police launched their investigation this week. The victim - who lives in Melbourne and is a member of an Israeli-based Facebook group - told police the alleged Lebanon-based Hezbollah operative promised to kill her and her family.

According to police documents, the man wrote: "I am Hezbollah and I am going to kill you and all of your family - promise you."

The investigation comes as security agencies question their ability to address serious online threats made against Australian citizens by foreign culprits.

"The international nature of the website makes it very hard for agencies to ... physically track down those involved," a security source said.

"People on those websites often set up their pages under false details."

Counter-terrorism expert Anthony Bergin yesterday warned Facebook users that terrorist networks might also be using the website to attract recruits.

The more the wold caves, submits, apologizes, funds, appeases, ass kisses the jihad, the more the stark raving madness will careen mercilessly out of control. There is nothing stopping them, except the SECOND AMENDMENT.

Jihad Sites Cry Foul!

Interesting how these Muslims use our western technology to further their jihad, spread their poison and then act shooked SHOCKED! when we take notice. If we weren't so PC we could beat these neanderthals blindfolded.

Congress cries about our blog on C-SPAN Muslim pad (hat tip wolf) 

It was recently brought to our attention that Congress is starting to work on new laws in regards to the Internet since the “terrorists” are using it for their purposes. In the video, they start talking about our blog and some of the things we have said and posted.

Note quotes.

Alhamdullilaah, these Kuffaar are scared and have fear in their hearts. This is a message to us - a glad tiding - that we are doing something correct. If the Kuffaar are affected to the point that they want to change their laws so that it will hurt us or stop us, then we are doing something correct inshaa’Allaah because Allah Ta’aala says,

And never will the Jews and the Christians be pleased with you unless you follow their form of Millah (religion/way of life). (2:120)

The fact that these Kuffaar are gathering together in their evil meeting places to express their hatred, anger and unpleasantnesses with us, we are very happy at this occasion because we are following what Allah Ta’aala has told us. Allah says that they won’t be pleased with us until we follow their form of Millah; so since they are not pleased with us - because of our love for this Deen - then it only means that we are not following their Millah. Walhamdulillaah.

And Allah ‘Azza wa Jall is not a liar.

Here is the video (skip to the 3 minute mark and start watching from there):

http://homeland.edgeboss.net/wmedia/homeland/chs/internetterror.wvx

And since the creation of this [new] blog, we forgot to put the “United States of Losers” as a category, so we have done it now.

It was not fitting for the people of Medina and the Bedouin Arabs of the neighbourhood, to refuse to follow Allah’s Messenger, nor to prefer their own lives to his: because nothing could they suffer or do, but was reckoned to their credit as a deed of righteousness,- whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of Allah, or trod paths to raise the anger of the disbelievers, or received any injury whatever from an enemy: for Allah suffereth not the reward to be lost of those who do good… [9:120]

AllahuAkbar, wal ‘Izzatullilaah.

Blah blah blah ........go invent something of you own.

Al Qaeda jihadis Troll Facebook & MySpace

Unbelievable. These savages have no life, so that you and I have ... no life.

Al-Qaida eyes troops' Facebook, MySpace listings

British intelligence monitors operatives gathering details from websites

LONDON - In an unprecedented New Year "high priority" warning, MI5, Britain's Security Service, has asked British troops to remove all personal details they posted over the Christmas period on the social networking websites Facebook, MySpace and Friends Reunited.

Under the heading "Personal Security," the two-page document, signed by MI5 chief Jonathan Evans, was circulated on New Year's Day to all British commanders in Britain, Afghanistan and Iraq.

"You are requested to ensure that service connections on chatroom and dating sites do not appear. Be especially careful if you use Facebook, MySpace or Friends Reunited."

The MI5 analysts have seen that many thousands of servicemen and women had posted personal details on those websites and had included news of their careers, pictures of themselves in uniforms and details of past postings.

"Those details in the hands of al-Qaida operatives offer invaluable information," Evans warns.

Access to Facebook is restricted to members. But all that is required to register is an e-mail address.

"We now know al-Qaida is using hundreds of false accounts to access the personal pages of many service personnel listed on regimental forums on the site," states the MI5 document.

As an indication of the danger on New Year's Eve, one MI5 analyst uncovered the names of 954 servicemen on the Royal Marines network on Facebook and another analyst found on MySpace no fewer than 127 names of Royal Anglican Regiment soldiers.

"Many of the soldiers gave their full names, dates of birth, home towns, names of family members, girlfriends or wives, the locations of where they had served and photos posing with colleagues and weapons."

UK: INDICTING BLOGGERS

Update on Lionhearts impending arrest. (Much thanks to folks in America who have written me and offered to take Lionheart in. A blessing on your head.)

Here is our Orwellian future:

Taken directly from Anorak news: Tony Bennett Says:

January 4th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I have been asked to represent Paul (’Lionheart’).

For the public record, here is a full copy of the e-mail sent by Ian Holden of Bedfordshire Police to ‘Llionheart’ yesterday, Thursday 3 January 2008:

QUOTE FROM IAN HOLDEN, BEDFORDSHIRE POLICE

The offence that I need to arrest you for is “Stir up Racial Hatred by displaying written material” contrary to sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986.

You will be arrested on SUSPICION of the offence. You would only be charged following a full investigation based on all the relevant facts and CPS consent.

Paul I will see you on the 19/02/08 when I will tell you everything that you need to know. Due to being out of the office for six weeks I will not have access to my email as of tomorrow 04/01/08.

There's more in this jaw dropping email - go here for the rest.

Targeting European Anti-Jihad Analyst

Nowhere to run to baby, nowhere to hide.

Web attacks against European anti-terrorist analyst Ioannis Michaletos (hat tip wolf)

The Islamic "Web Jihad" has already made its progress from being a recruiting and propagating virtual reality, to another level; that of instigating attacks against well-known analysts that expose terrorist affiliations and methods of operation.

I am presenting a passage that was transmitted in the "Terror Finance" website, after receiving several notes around this phenomenon that has surely created a negative atmosphere.

It has to be noted that the "AIO" Islamic organization mainly operating in Bosnia, has made several attempts over the past few weeks to sabotage the work of Darko Trifunovic, a Serbian analyst and member of the Terror Finance organization.

SOME COUNTER TERRORISM EXPERTS FEAR AL QAEDA ATTACKS THEM WITH THE INFLUENCE OF AL QAEDA MEDIA COMMITTEE - THE CASE OF DR DARKO TRIFUNOVIC

World wide counter terrorist experts have indicated that they believe in the danger of  web attacks on them. Now Al Qaeda and Radical Islamists are targetting not only our objects and soldiers, but also our intellectuals.
Al-Qaeda Media Committee Details, Center of Gravity: Pakistan Area of Operation, Afghanistan, United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo

 

MTV Spreading dah jihad

Getting laptops to the next generation of mujahids. Taqiya from MTV. hat tip TRK

ISN 2007/07: [ISN] 'Electronic Jihad' App Offers Cyberterrorism

Atlas Shrugs: E-Jihad

Cyber jihad: Hezbollah's New Site

Hezballah has a brand spankin' new website. All the better to beat you with, my dear. You gotta love what the savages do with Western technology, particularly all those Jewish tech inventions.
Oh and this is rich, yes, it's in German and the ISP server is also located in Germany. Shocka! Hat tip wolf. This is the main page

enter here boys and girls uh boys .........

Forum anyone. Looking for bomb plans or jihad juice?

Guns, photos inaccessible to the "unregistered" - could not get into the gallery of photos. I bet that's a real eye opener

Cyber Jihad, Litigation Jihad Cyber Litigation Foiled!

Hellzapoppin on the overlapping fronts on the cyber, e-, and litigation jihads here and abroad. Audrey Hudson over at The Washington Times investigates Osama's latest threat to the West - cyber  or e-jihad. She quotes Atlas. Yeah baby.

Web sites ready for al Qaeda 'morons' (Hudson rocks)

Robert Spencer, whose Web site Jihad Watch is a lightning rod for criticism from Islamist groups, said he is consulting with his technical advisers to ensure his page is inoculated from intrusion.

"Jihadists and their allies cannot compete in the arena of open debate, and so they resort to thuggish tactics to silence their opponents," Mr. Spencer said.

Aaron Weisburd, who operates Internet Haganah and has shut down more than 1,000 jihad and al Qaeda sites, predicts the attack to be "unsophisticated and will have minimal impact."

[...]

Pamela Geller, who runs Atlas Shrugs, said she has warned her peers to back up their blogs as a precaution.

"It's another front in the global jihad. Litigation jihad, academic jihad, cyber jihad, finance jihad," Mrs. Geller said. "Frankly, I don't think they're all that good."

Mr. Shackleford said he expects an attack will be tried against the Jawa Report as well as Jihad Watch, but it will be "pretty weak and easy to defend against."

"It may cause some problems on some Web sites, but it won't take down the State Department or military," Mr. Shackleford said.

"The reason why is that cyber-jihadists think they are clever, but they are really morons," Mr. Shackleford said.

DEBKAfile, an online counterterrorism Web site, said the cyber-jihadists will offer "would-be martyrs, who for one reason or another are unable to fight in the field, to fulfill their jihad obligations on the Net."

"These virtual martyrs are assured of the same thrill and sense of elation as a jihadi on the battlefield," DEBKAfile said.

One message board called al-Jinan acted as the main page for attackers to download software called "Cyber Jihad 3.0" for the attacks, but another, unidentified blogger initiated a counterattack and shut down the page last week.

E-Jihad; BACK IT UP BLOGGERS

Another front on the front of the global jihad. You've been warned. Steel yourselves warriors, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.

 

Al Qaeda declares Cyber Jihad on the West DEBKA Exclsuive
Symbol of al Qaeda's Cyber Warriors

In a special Internet announcement in Arabic, picked up DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources, Osama bin Laden’s followers announced Monday, Oct. 29, the launching of Electronic Jihad. On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda’s electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites. On Day One, they will test their skills against 15 targeted sites expand the operation from day to day thereafter until hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold numbers of anti-Muslim sites.

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that, shortly after the first announcement, some of al Qaeda’s own Web sites went blank, apparently crashed by the American intelligence computer experts tracking them. The next day, Oct. 30, they were up again, claiming their Islamic fire walls were proof against infidel assault.

Ha!

They also boasted an impenetrable e-mail network for vounteers wishing to join up with the cyber jihad to contact and receive instructions undetected by the security agencies in their respective countries.

Our sources say the instructions come in simple language and are organized in sections according to target. They offer would-be martyrs, who for one reason or another are unable to fight in the field, to fulfill their jihad obligations on the Net. These virtual martyrs are assured of the same thrill and sense of elation as a jihadi on the “battlefield.”

Read it all

Freaking Frightening

Really scary ...............especially when you consider how astute the e-jihad is as spreading its poison. So Keystone cop-esque.

Two-Thirds of G-Men Still Can't Get Online Noah Shachtman Blogwired hat tip Michael

Feel free to talk smack about the FBI around here.  The chances of a G-Man actually reading this are pretty small.

USA Today On Deadline catches the Bureau's Willie Hulon admitting to the Senate Intelligence Committee that only a third of the Agency's desks have computers that can access the Internet.   "Another third of the FBI's workforce is due to receive them within the next year ," allegedly.

But not to worry, Hulon adds.  It's not like agents can't do research online.  "They do have access to the Internet.  We have stations within field offices that people can go to to work at but we don't have access at everyone's desk," he says. 

Well, that fixes everything.

The FBI, once seen as the alpha geeks of law enforcement, have had acute cases of computer- and network-phobia for years.  Former director Louis Freeh reportedly had his PC taken off of his desk.  The 100,000 tips from 2002's Washington sniper case, Ronald Kessler notes in The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI , were circulated by fax. As recently as 18 months ago, the Bureau's chief information officer said the FBI couldn't afford e-mail addresses for 8,000 of its 30,000 employees.  And only 100 of 2000 agents in New York had Blackberries.  Headquarters nearly cut off the 100 Blackberry owners until an assistant director "raised a stink" and saved his G-men from being disconnected. 

Blogging Zawahiri Love

Screen capture  a new site devoted to al-Zawahiri. We are soooooooo on your trail mofos. (hat tip Wolf)

Doing what the government should

“Isn’t there anything this fellow can be charged with, or is he completely free to aid the global jihad from North Carolina and give interviews to The New York Times?” Robert Spencer.

If I've said it once I'll say it a google of times. The individual will save the day. Badah bing baddah boom. The government ain't gonna do it. Whether through willful ignorance, fear, or political correctness, they cannot or will not make the tough choices. But Joseph Shahda will.

NOT WAITING FOR GOVERNMENT Joseph G. Shahda is waging a private war on militant Web sites. This in The New York Times (of all places.)

PIXELS OF WAR [title change  - Atlas]

ONE by one, starting a few weeks ago, 40 militant Islamist Web sites got knocked off the Internet. Gone were some of the world’s most active jihadi sites, with forums full of extremist chatter.

This disappearance mystified American counterterrorism officials. They hadn’t shut them down, they knew, so who had?

Happily claiming credit for the jihadi blackout is a Christian-Lebanese engineer named Joseph G. Shahda, who is waging a private, and passionate, war on terrorism from his home near Boston.

“These sites are very, very dangerous,” Mr. Shahda said. “And I think we should keep going after them. They are used as recruiting tools for terrorists, arousing emotions, teaching how to hate.”

Except it’s not quite that simple, when you talk to some terrorism experts. Mr. Shahda’s one-man operation highlights the tension over what to do about online jihadi militancy — a tension that has grown along with the material. Perhaps it’s better to shut it down, and try to prosecute those involved. Or maybe the material should be left up, as a way to learn something valuable in the larger battle against terrorists.

“There’s a lot to be gained by watching these sites,” said Brian Fishman, a senior associate at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

One thing not in dispute is the sheer volume of the material. Al Qaeda has begun issuing videotapes as often as twice a week, while insurgents in Iraq pump them out daily, and the blood-drenched images appear on several thousand militant Web sites that now include upward of 100 in English.

Public concern rose a notch last week when The New York Times reported that one of the most popular English-language sites was run by a 21-year-old Qaeda enthusiast named Samir Khan from his parents’ home in North Carolina. Mr. Khan has done so since late 2005, unchallenged by law enforcement authorities

Blogging Al Qaeda in the Good Ole USA

Samir Khan US Citizen....al-Qaeda blogger with video from North Carolina, he is al-Muhajiroun propaganda producer. His website www.inshallahshaheed.muslimpad.com has been shut down today by hackers, but he will be back, see NY times story below.

Samir Khan befriended members of the Islamic Thinkers Society, a tiny group that promotes radical, violent Islam by leafleting in Times Square and Jackson Heights, Queens, before moving to North Carolina. More on this enemy in our midst here.

Samir Khan also posts under the name SamiribnZafarKhan.

A Times Profile.

AN INTERNET JIHAD AIMS AT US VIEWER New York Times

Samir Khan, 21, silhouetted in a video, spreads the message of Osama bin Laden in the blog he writes from his parents’ house in North Carolina.

Mr. Khan produces his blog anonymously, but was identified by The Times through the e-mail account he used in previous online discussions. (Pictures he had posted online helped The Times distinguish him from another, unrelated North Carolina resident, about 10 years older, who has the same name.)

In an interview at a local mosque, where he sat on a prayer rug wearing a traditional Arabic robe, Mr. Khan traced his increasing militancy.

His blog has attracted enough notoriety that vigilante groups opposed to jihadi sites have gotten him shut down a few times in recent months. He said he was somewhat surprised he had not been confronted by government authorities, although, he said, “I’ve never told anybody to build bombs.”

More fro Bill W on  Inshallaheed

Asked how he felt living among people who had sent soldiers to Iraq, Mr. Khan said: “Whatever happens to their sons and daughters is none of my concern. They are people of hellfire and I have no concern for them.”

The traitor Samir Khan is in Charlotte NC, found his old blog address, also see current videos he has posted.  http://inshallahshaheed.vodpod.com/

"I firmly believe the Islamic Caliphate holds the true essence of ‘freedom’, ‘justice’, and ‘equality’ whereas the West doesn’t hold it."

Samir Khan hat tip Bill W

Age: 21
Gender: Male
Astrological Sign: Capricorn... DOB December 25th 1985
Zodiac Year: Ox
Industry: Student
Occupation: Tutor
Location:  Charlotte : North Carolina : United States

About Me
Interests: Achieving toto revolution of human being, Computers, Volunteering at The Mosque, Dhikr, halaqas, Islamic conventions, daydreaming, Sufism, Islam, all 9 levels of Jihad fi Sabeelillah, philistine, tassawuf, Tanzeem (IONA), Khilafah, Iqamat ud Deen, Iman, Ibadah, Shahadah 'Alan Naas, MSA, Qur'an, Dr. Israr Ahmad, Shaykh Omar Baloch, Malcolm X

Humanity is in need of a Just Social Order;

a way of life that protects men and women from the deceptions that this world can trap one into. In order to truly bring about this 'Renaissance' within the fixed area of man's existance, we must turn to the root of the different philosophies that man offered to the world; from there do we then choose the revolution which will bring about this great change. For this reason, I am in complete agreement with the Islamic Revolution brought about by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). With his revolution, was the human changed not only externally, but also internally; it was the absolute greatest internal revolution which led to the spreading of Islam, not by the sword, but by the hearts! Conquering a land is easy, but conquering a heart... well, you will need one heck of a philosophy! I humbly welcome you to my blog.

UPDATED: My Pet Jawa has all the disgusting details on the INSHALLAH'S bitch, the New York Crimes: hat tip Patvann

Michael Moss of the New York Times has outted Inshallashaheed, the al Qaeda supporting blogger who we've been investigating for over a year. I've been sitting on his true identity for months, but in one fell swoop Samir ibn Zafar Khan, who lives in Charlotte North Carolina, has been identified.

Thanks a lot to Michael Moss and the New York Times for blowing an ongoing investigation into a known al Qaeda sympathizer who lives here in the United States. I've known about this piece for a few weeks and wrote the NY Times to ask Moss not to run it. No reply from the Times.

While we appreciate Moss's commitment to spreading the word about the Internet Jihad, we really wish he would have consulted with us on the matter. He has a right to out Inshallahshaheed as Samir Khan, but doing so has jeopardized an ongoing investigation into a terror ring which begins in the US and ends in Somalia.

But that's just like the NY Times, isn't it? In Moss's defense, he seems to have asked the FBI if there was an investigation into Khan, and they declined to comment.

There's even a video of him here.

Rusty has it all here. GO.

UPDATE: Stacy McCain reminded me that just last week The Washington Times ran a story about Inshallahshaheed.

UPDATE: Jim Hoft over at Gateway Pundint notices that the jihad supporters at Islamic Awakening have taken a notice and are calling me a "Zionist/Neocon".

Related: Atlas Shrugs: E-haa E-jihad - Blogging for Terror

UPDATE: Inshallahshaheed is back up, and at new digs. via My Pet Jawa

Bloggers War on Jihadsites

I always say, the individual will save the world. And I'm right, of course. You can make a difference. Further proof.

BLOGS TARGET JIHADIS ONLINE Audrey Hudson Washington Times

Ordinary Americans are tracking down U.S. Web sites used by al Qaeda and jihadi sympathizers and then using the Internet to persuade the service providers to snuff out the sites.

"I do this because it has to be done," says one blogger who calls himself a "counter-cyberjihadist" for his campaigns to post on the Web the Internet service providers (ISPs) that host the pro-jihad sites.

A perfect storm of complaints forced several ISPs to shut down Web sites just days before al Qaeda released a tape of Osama bin Laden in August, says Aaron Weisburd, director of the Society for Internet Research and host of the Web site Haganah.us. He released a list of 19 pro-jihad Web sites, some of which were shut down in August.

The tactic was so effective that al Qaeda later said it was forced to disseminate the video directly to the networks, Mr. Weisburd said.

Mr. Weisburd's group and other Internet users say they are regular citizens who want to help in the war on terror by acting in cyberspace against Islamist jihadis.

The cybersleuths focus most of their attention on bloggers who use servers in the U.S. to post recruitment propaganda and show violent videos of American servicemembers being killed. Once located, they encourage people to contact the service providers to shut down the Web sites.

Read it all. Hope springs eternal.

 

E-haa E-jihad - Blogging for Terror

Ebola, HIV, gangrene, jihad .....never sleeps. Rusty over My Pet Jawa has the back story on cyber jihad here.

The Web of American Bloggers and The Terrorists They Facilitate

FBI Most Wanted Terrorist Has a US Hosted Website!

One of the worst American supporters of al Qaeda has moved to a new platform after we pwned his last two websites.  The new platform is owned by Sarfaraz Jamal, who you might recall for his support of jihad and because his "Muslim communications" platform is where many of the early internet jihadis met up to plan actual terror attacks.

There is a real connection between American supporters of al Qaeda online, and actual terrorists.  Oh, and there's an Islamic Thinkers Society connection as well.

Even when you kill 'em or jail 'em, their sites keep on projectile vomiting their bile. Case in point:  Juba is serving his time in Gehinom, and yet his  site itself is quite alive and well. Remember, these images and websites are the source of incitement and call to jihad against the infidels, meant to inspire the young and that they are doing...

Is there a connection between online supporters of jihad and actual acts of terrorism? Yes there is. Another in a long line of case studies showing these connections: Inshallahshaheed (aka, "Abu Jabbal"), and his connections to convicted jihadis.

Inshallahshaheed just doesn't know when to shut up. Remember, this is an American Muslim blogging this. You might expect this kind of pro-al Qaeda rhetoric coming from Riyadh, Quetta, or maybe even Londinistan, but it's shocking to hear it from an American

[Above: Inshallahshaheed's banner at his website shows al Qaeda chief of operations Abu Yahya al Libi]

Not content with posting a video allegedly showing the downing of an Apache helicopter by al Qaeda forces that call themselves "The Islamic State in Iraq", inshallahshaheed (derived from Insha' Allah shaheed = A martyr soon if God is willing) feels it necessary to editorialize about the event at his website The Ignored Puzzle Pieces of Knowledge:

AllahuAkbar! Our brothers from the Islaamic State of ‘Iraaq down an American helicopter with the permission of Allah Ta’aala. We have lost count as to how many helicopters they have now downed in total.

Then there is this commentary about an English language al Jazeera video of Americans fighting in Afghanistan:

The most captivating moment in this video is when during the interview, the Americans get ambushed by the Mujaahideen and one of the Americans are killed. Alhamdullilah, what a blessing from Allah ‘Azza wa Jall that we are able to see the hell that these people are going through. You can even see an American soldier hiding during the ambush like a baby!! AllahuAkbar! AllahuAkbar!

And in this post he calls the producers of the most recent bin Laden video "brothers". The video was produced by as Sahab, al Qaeda in Afghanistan/Pakisan's media front run by another American traitor Adam Gadahn:

Our brothers from As-Sahab Media have created high quality links for the documentary

Here is what he has to say about an al Qaeda in Iraq video showing 'martyrs' who died in action against US and Iraqi forces:

Verily the pillars of the Islaamic State strengthens when men give their lives for Allah’s Cause; so each one of them is a precious gem who are now flying in the bodies of green birds within Paradise, getting a preview of what their eternal life would be like, inshaa’Allaah. They are truly deserving of the crown of dignity and we don’t praise anyone in front of Allah Ta’aala.

Inshallahshaheed is a self-described follower of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama'ah, which makes him a devotee of the now exiled British cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammed, and a fellow-traveler with The Islamic Thinkers Society of New York.

He used to blog here, until we pwned him.  And then he moved to a "Muslim" blogging platform here, which promised to allow Muslims to say whatever they wanted--until it was pointed out to the domain owner what he was saying. It appears that most American Muslims don't want to have anything to do with this devotee of al Qaeda.

So now he's blogging on another Muslim platform, Muslim Pad. I suspect this one will be a little more tolerant of inshallahshaheed's pro-al Qaeda, pro-killing American troops stance.

Why?  Because Muslim Pad is an extension of The Islamic Network, once run by another American, Daniel Aljughaifi.  Daniel Aljughaifi (aka Abu Mohammed) is the name Daniel Maldonado took when he converted to Islam.  He's now serving 10 years in Federal prison after pleading guilty to charges that he trained with al Qaeda operatives for jihad in Somalia.

It's an incredible post - a ton of intel and snark  ie

PS & personal note to "Abu Jabbal" who actually reads The Jawa Report on a fairly regular basis: I hear it that your friend Danny is having a good time in prison. And contrary to the letters he's been sending, he actually enjoys getting pounded in the ass.

Rustay!

Hamas Maneuver Photos

E-jihad: Lots os sick Hamas maneuver photos here. hat tip Wolf.

Commenter: "Very beautiful pictures of brave Mujahideen training."

 

America Hosts Own Death Got popcorn?

Stealing America - like taking candy from a baby. A comatose baby.

Islamist Website Hosted in Minnesota Features Discussion on How to Attack U.S. Military Bases MEMRI

On September 3, 2007, the Islamist website www.ekhlaas.cc, which is hosted by SiteGenie LLC in Rochester, Minnesota, featured a discussion on ways to attack U.S. military bases. The discussion, which took place on a forum on the website, focused mainly on bases located in open terrain, e.g., in the desert, which the forum participants characterized as particularly difficult to approach without being detected. Some of the postings were accompanied by diagrams of military bases showing various plans and angles of attack (as in the image below).

The following are excerpts from one of the postings: [1]

"A [military] base located in the [open] desert is more difficult to attack than one located on a mountain... [or] in a city... because a base [located] inside a city is surrounded by many buildings that the mujahideen can utilize... In the desert... on the other hand... there is no place to hide... How then can one attack such a base, especially considering that these bases... are protected by ordinary, thermal and infrared cameras?... Another point to consider is that [bases are surrounded] by an exposed space that is [constantly] watched... Anyone entering [this area] is immediately asked for an... entry code and password... and if the invader ignores the requests [to identify himself]... and continues to approach, the guards... take position and wait... If the invader enters the inner domain [i.e., the base itself], they immediately open fire... If he stops before entering the base... he may be taken for questioning, and information may be extracted from him by force. [In some cases] this peripheral zone is monitored by radar..."

"Furthermore, when the enemies of God set up a base or a checkpoint, they identify the various locations [overlooking the base] from which long-range or short-range mortars can be fired [at them]... [Then] they cover these locations with mortar[-launchers of their own]... If a mujahid shells the base, the enemies of God... fire indiscriminately at all these locations simultaneously."

"Furthermore... bases... are not surrounded by a wall, but by a fence topped with barbed wire. The buildings [inside the base]... are built far from the fence. The space separating the buildings from the fence is equal to two streets in breadth... Some bases are [also] surrounded by a minefield, and all have several watch towers."

"It is important to have a clear idea of the purpose of the operation. We must ask ourselves... why we are attacking this [particular] base. Obviously [we are attacking it]... because it is an enemy base... [but we must identify] the exact target we want to hit once we penetrate the [perimeter] fences... [We must also determine whether the goal is] to penetrate the base headquarters in order to seize documents... or to capture a high rank commander... free prisoners... capture ammunition... or seize vehicles.

Read it all. Welcome to the new America (what's left of it anyway.)

No Mo Modoggies! Islamazis Attack Swede Websites

NO fookin motoons! What's it gonna take to make you unclean infidels understand that we mean business. The Baron has advised me that several Swedish websites have been taken down by Turkish hackers in retaliation for the Modoggies drawn by Lars Vilks. The Islamazisd don't need no stinkin badges.

Cyber-Mujahideen Attack Swedish Websites Gates of Vienna by Baron

Our Swedish correspondent Carpenter writes that, according to today’s Expressen, jihadi internet hackers have managed to close down Swedish websites in retaliation for the drawings by Lars Vilks depicting Mohammed as a Rondellhund.

Here is his translation of the full article:

Swedish sites are now being hacked

The rage against Lars Vilks’ Mohammed-drawings strikes a series of Swedish websites. Expressen.se can reveal that several Swedish websites have been attacked and closed down by aggressive hackers, and that several sites have been threatened. “Attack Sweden! Down with Sweden!” it reads on a blog with ties to the cyber-terrorists.

Full translation here.

Motoon archive here

Atlas Readers Fight Atlas Ban

Here in the latest on the ongoing ban on truth by Sonic Wall. Ron sent this to me with this note,

"Hi Pamela,  I just received this from SonicWall.  My response follows. 

I'm reading this as that they will continue with the hate/violence/racism crap.  If they confirm, I will respond with a reference to their acting with a reckless disregard for the truth."

cfssupport@sonicwall.com
To : Ron

Dear Customer:

You submitted the following rating request to SonicWALL CFS Support:
Rate atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com as "33.News and Media" at 2007-08-30 03:25:09.703

The request has been reviewed and rated as:
"1.Violence/Hate/Racism" at 2007-09-01 13:28:03.150

You should see this rating change reflected within 1 to 3 business days.

Thank you for your request,
SonicWALL CFS Support -----------------

My reply: 

I'm not sure that I understand this correctly.  

I requested that atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com be rated as "33.News and Media".  

Your reply to that request suggests that you're going to continue rating it as "1.Violence/Hate/Racism".  

Please clarify and provide justification.  Rating atlasshrugs as a hate/violence/racism site makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Thank you very much.

UPDATE: 1389 writes;

For rolling updates on the current status of our battle against blog censorship - and for information on what you can do to help - please visit and bookmark this link:

Yeah baby! I love the blogosphere!

Jihad 101: Target Bolton, Recruit at Schools, Form a Jihad Cell, pick a Western Target

America is the web host to these matter of fact Islamic websites that provide point by point war plans to destroy America. Instructions to take out "the American Ambassador" - sounds like John Bolton needs 24 hour protection and should carry a much smaller weapon.

It is clear that the lone jihadi and small sleeper cells here and abroad are taking specific instruction from these sites. Read it, its unbelievable. And so brazen, more so since their party got in power last November. Read this Download Compilat.htm , Download TerroristAttacksbyyear.xls- Compilation of data from Religion of Peace.

How to Join Al-Qaeda, Form a Jihad Cell, and Select a Western Target – "[Is] Assassinating the American Ambassador... Difficult For Someone Who Has Already Crushed America in His Home?" Memri

On August 26, Islamist websites posted an item titled "How to Join Al-Qaeda.".

The item calls on every Muslim to regard jihad as a personal duty and to take initiative to establish a jihad cell without waiting for recognition from Al-Qaeda. It goes on to elaborate on how to form and run the cell, how to raise funds, and how to select a target, "for example, assassinating the American ambassador," which, it states, "takes no more than a gun and a bullet."

The following are excerpts from the item:

     "You feel that you want to carry a weapon, fight, and kill the occupiers, and that it is our duty to call for jihad as much as to call for prayer... All that is required is a firm personal decision to fulfill this obligation, and participation in jihad and the resistance...

[...]

"The answers to these questions are the following: I don't have to meet Osama bin Laden to become a jihad fighter. Moreover, there is no need to meet even one jihad fighter to become one. Neither do I need recognition from Al-Qaeda...

"As the first step, imagine that Al-Qaeda does not exist and that you are interested [in waging] jihad – what would you do in this case?... If you know any young people – whether one, two, or more – in your area, mosque, or university who are as dedicated and enthusiastic about jihad as you are, come to an understanding with them, and together form a cell whose objective is to help Islam and only Islam...

"At first, your cell should have no more than five members, all absolutely trustworthy... The cell must have a commander and a shura council... The commander must clearly realize that he is Osama bin Laden to the cell members...

"Each cell should have a source of funding... When you have several members, you will [surely] find the funds for your cell... Then you should buy weapons, make plans, brainstorm, plot your plans, monitor your enemy's important objectives, and study its moves. Set a goal; for example, assassinating the American ambassador – is it so difficult? Is it [indeed] difficult for someone who has already crushed America in his home?

"What is the difference between you and the hero of the New York attack, Muhammad Atta, who planned an action which even today shakes the world every time it is mentioned? Assassinating the ambassador takes no more than a gun and a bullet. One could disguise oneself as a peddler in order to tail [the target], which shouldn't cost a lot of money...

"The cells must maintain contact among themselves, but by no means in a direct or conventional way. The contact must be spiritual: What will unite you is the love of Islam and the motto "There is no God but Allah." Even if the contact between [your] cell and the rest is indirect, it will be close... You must meet once a month... You must not meet in the same place twice... Personal meetings with a small number of people [must take place] once a week...

"From the moment the cell is established, its members must be divided – into secret members, members who do not [act] openly and are not wanted by the authorities, and members who are wanted (who have been arrested in the past or on whom the intelligence apparatuses have a file)... The secret members must perform intelligence tasks, collect information, raise funds, recruit [new members], and assist in [actual operations]. Those who act in the open must perform the primary military operations, such as assassinations, firing at enemy facilities, etc.

"You must be aware that you have brothers everywhere, and that they are expecting the actions of you and your friends even if they don't know you in person or by name...

"Every jihad cell is a microcosm of the world jihad organization."

Atlas Banned in Charlotte, NC

Badge of honor, folks, badge of honor. In the parallel universe of inverted language, saving the free world,  fighting oppression, and fascism, now translates into "Violence/Hate/Racism." Jim of BTWA writes;

A few weeks ago I posted a message alerting folks to anti-semitism     among muslim cab drivers in Charlotte...     nothing has changed.

More to the point, I became frustrated and went to Hertz Car Rental (adorned with Kippah) to get a car. The first car they gave me was filled with fire ants and I didn't drive it out of their facility. The replacement car was filled with ants, too, however the ants didn't emerge until a few miles outside the Rental Car Facility when I turned     on the air conditioning and they blew into my face.

The third car they gave me was a Ford Taurus with faulty brakes and engine problems so profound as to represent a hazard to renters and other drivers. I returned the vehicle after going to Gleiberman's Deli to pick up Kosher. Strangely, according to the Hertz Site Manager, I was the only person to complain about such things.

This morning, as I sit in Charlotte/Douglas Airport, I discover that the following web sites are banned at the Airport by their SonicWall firewall:

    1. Atlas Shrugged - This site is blocked by the SonicWALL Content     Filter Service. URL: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/     Reason for restriction: Forbidden Category "Violence/Hate/Racism"

    2. Jihad Watch - This site is blocked by the SonicWALL Content Filter     Service.....Reason for restriction: Forbidden Category     "Violence/Hate/Racism"

    3. Dhimmi Watch - This site is blocked by the SonicWALL Content     Filter Service...Reason for restriction: Forbidden Category     "Violence/Hate/Racism"

    In a peculiar turn of events, I can easily traverse the links to Hamas and Jihadist propaganda sites.

Perhaps others have had terrific experiences in Charlotte, NC, I hope     your experiences continue to meet expectations. Lately my expectations of Charlotte, NC, have waned.

But but but I love humanity - it's people I hate :)

UPDATE: Apparently I am in very good company here as well.

UPDATE 9/1: Foehammer's Anvil scores one for the good guys. From the comment section;

My readers succeeded in getting the status of the Anvil fixed on both SonicWALL and SurfControl in just the past week: An Anvil Victory Against Censorship: a Victory for All Coming up next in the blog censorship rogue’s gallery: SurfControl Happily, I checked Atlas status at SurfControl, and you're listed under Blogs & Forums, Pamela. However, Jihad Watch is not so lucky: Intolerance & Hate. I informed Robert.

Islamic Jihad 101: Get online degree

Iranian detonator instructions making the rounds Internet Haganah hat tip wolf

The video is part of a series co-produced by Iran and Hizballah. The focus of this lesson is the improvised explosive detonator.

The leftards see no evil, hear no evil ................ BUSHCHIMPHITLUH!

Meanwhile, Iran prepares to take over Iraq as soon as the dhimmicrats retreat and surrender.

Wonder Woman: Great American Hero, Mom

What a story. What a woman.  Read the incredible true story over at The Belmont Club.

It was soon afterwards that I learned that I was not the only American surfing the chat rooms. In October 2004, while monitoring Arabic Islamist websites for threat-related information and activity, I saw a message posted in English by a man calling himself Amir Abdul Rashid. He said he was a Muslim convert who "was in a position to take things to the next level in the fight against our enemy (the U.S. government)." He further requested that someone from the mujahideen contact him for details. I was suspicious because Rashid posted his message in English on an Arabic website and was openly seeking contact from the mujahideen. I traced his IP address back to an area outside of Seattle, Washington. Over time, it also became apparent to me that he was a member of the U.S. military.

With the Montana mom aware of him the net slowly closed. Rashid turned out to be Spec. Ryan G. Anderson, whose National Guard unit was scheduled to deploy to Iraq. Anderson was hawking the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the M1-AI and M1-A2 Abrams tanks as well as U.S. troop locations in Iraq. The price for this success was the end Rossmiller's anonymity. Called to testify at Anderson's trial, Rossmiller's modus operandi and identity were revealed in court records. Her cloak stripped away, the hunter soon became the hunted.

Best Blogs Banned. TRUTH SILENCED

I mentioned earlier on my show that Atlas Shrugs has been banned in the UK and the EU according to Pim's Ghost. Stranger still, the number of visits to this site generated by google search have all but disappeared in the past couple of days. I am talking 3-4,000 hits a day to virtually nothing. I have been vexed by this. One of my readers just sent this;

EMAIL SUBJECT: ATLAS IN BEIJING /not

Your's is the first website I run to when I logon. I was in Mainland China from July 8- July 16. We stayed in a 5 star hotel (The Swiss Hotel in downtown). This is a marvelous hotel and it had everything...... except you.I couldn't find your website! Neither could I find Maverick News Network. The screen message said the server could not be found.I did find Ali Sina's Faith and Freedom International. Perhaps you have the honor of being on the Chi-Coms undesirables list. When I got back home I ran to your site and saw that on July 12 you made a posting for people not to buy Chinese. I don't know how it all works but I hope you break through the electronic 'Bamboo Curtain'.

A trend is a foot. Just last week we recoiled in free speech horror when Jihad Watch ran Banned in Chicago! and Spencer: Muzzling Jihad Watch    

In FrontPage this morning I discuss the continuing censorship of Jihad Watch:                        

I began getting the emails several days ago: Jihad Watch readers telling me that they had been accustomed to reading the site at work, but now their employer had blocked access to the Jihad Watch site on company computers. Many reported that the ban on Jihad Watch was explained with the assertion that Jihad Watch contained “hate speech.” This was true even in Federal Government offices. And it wasn’t only the Feds. Jihad Watch was blocked, readers informed me, on the computers of the State of Connecticut; the City of Chicago; Bank of America; Fidelity Investments; Site Coach; GE IT; JPMorgan Chase; Defense Finance and Accounting Services; Johnson Controls, Inc. IT; Boeing; Tenet Hospitals in North Carolina; Provisio; the Sabre Group TSG; Wachovia bank; and others: several people have written in to tell me that as of this week they can no longer access Jihad Watch at work, but haven’t told me where they work.

Wait, it gets worse. I just received this from Dymphna over at Gates of Vienna, the best of the blogs;

Some evil troll has done us in. Here's the message the Baron is sending out:

I just attempted to post at Gates of Vienna, and was told by an automatic message that our blog is suspected of being a spam blog, and has been blocked by Blogger.

The full text of the message:

“This blog has been locked by Blogger's spam-prevention robots. You will not be able to publish your posts, but you will be able to save them as drafts.”

And here’s what  Blogger says about what we are suspected of:

“What Are Spam Blogs?

“As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.”

Some of the most coherent writing on the web.

I followed Blogger’s instructions, typed in the visible letters to prove that I was not a bot, and am now awaiting a response from the Powers That Be.

In the meantime, I can’t even post a notice at Gates of Vienna about what is going on.

If you don’t think Gates of Vienna is a spam blog, please post a notice about what has happened. If you know of a way to contact Blogger or Google, please let them know that Gates of Vienna is *not* a spam blog, regardless of how politically incorrect it is.

Anybody out there in Atlas sphere know anything that can be helpful? What is happening?

UPDATE: Baron is on it. He SKYPED me with Christine of the Center for Vigilant Freedom and we tried to figure it out. Check out the SKYPE conversation:

Pamela:   your test did not show on my site stats  

   * Baron Bodissey added Center for Vigilant Freedom to this chat  

Baron:   I hit you 2 or 3 times with regular google, and then looked for you on google images  

CVF:   hey  

Baron:   you used to get very high ratings on google images  

Baron:   but something is wrong now  

Pamela:   look ........i got a little action  

Baron:   I tried "bat ye'or"  

Pamela:   i am telling you something happened  

Pamela:   i always have thousands of google hits  

Baron:   you should have been in the top ten, but you weren't there at all  

CVF:   how can this be gamed - I know there are websites all about manipulating google links  

Baron:   Gates of Vienna was in the top 20  

Baron:   something's screwy  

Pamela:   something was done  

Baron:   and Google Web doesn't show you like it should  

Pamela:   absolutely  

CVF:   hard to do from the bottom up  

CVF:   conceivable  

Pamela:   like it did  

Pamela:   it always showed me big time  

Pamela:   my stuff is not coming up  

Baron:   But you still should have seen at least 3 Wild Blue hits, via google, probably listing ISP as Colorado  

Pamela:   even when you google me  

Pamela:   its stuff others wrote    

Baron:   that is true, mostly.  

Baron:   You're there, but not the main link  

Baron:   and your images have almost vanished  

Baron:   you used to be high on google images  

Pamela:   really?  

Pamela:   going to check  

Baron:   Yes, I use google images all the time  

Baron:   And I would see you on the first page with almost any keyword  

Baron:   I bet you used to get a lot of hits from google video too  

Baron:   and they're probably gone, too.  

Baron:   This is wild and scary  

CVF:   Even if I check "Bat Ye'or" and Atlas, it comes in about 6th not at the top  

CVF:   which means it's the domain not the terms I think  

CVF:   that is being pushed down  

Baron:   there are some which don't come up at all, but should.  

Baron:   "muslims and commies"  

Baron:   should produce this  

Baron:   http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/amuslimrrally3.jpg  

Baron:   but it doesn't  

Baron:   I know Google images very well, and something is distinctly fucked up  

CVF:   In images, if I search Bat Ye'or and Atlas Shrugs I don't get Pamela in the first page at all  

Baron:   not in the first 4 or 5  

Baron:   i checked  

Pamela:   I AM TELLING YOU 4,000 HITS A DAY  

Baron:   She should be in the top 3

CVF:   I get your domain in the 2nd page but no pix of you  

Baron:   I'm going to parse this chat and you should post it, Pamela, since I can't.  

CVF:   If I search Atlas Shrugs I just get you pamela that works - but if I add another term like Bat Ye'or, you disappear  

CVF:   so maybe it is term related not just domain related - it's both  

Pamela:   listen the pix of mine that show are those that ran on other sires  

Pamela:   listen to me  

Pamela:   they are not off atlas  

CVF:   yes you're right!!  

Baron:   Yes, you're right.  

CVF:   just checked  

Baron:   I saw that, too.  

Pamela:   they are picked up .......look at the source of the pic  

Pamela:   how did they do that???????????????  

CVF:   yes they have one from your site but its Ahmedinejad  

Baron:   You are being airbrushed out, like Bukharin in the Soviet photos.  

Pamela:   ha!  

Baron:   tell me when you want me to cut this out and parse it. Then I'll send it to you for a post.  

CVF:   ok so. what is interesting is that jihadwatch does appear on searches, and GoV  

Pamela:   how can this be done? can it be undone?  

Pamela:   different set of leftists jihad lovers  

Baron:   Google can suppress your ranking  

Baron:   I've heard that it has been done before.  

CVF:   From the top down or is that done by others?  

Pamela:   so its google?  

Baron:   I don't think it can be done by link manipulation though I could be wrong.  

Baron:   When did it happen?  

Pamela:   two days ago  

Baron:   all of a sudden?  

Pamela:   i noticed a drop in my daily hits from 9000 to 5000  

Baron:   one day?  

Pamela:   just like that  

Pamela:   swoooooooooooop  

Baron:   that couldn't be done by google bombing I don't think  

Baron:   Not unless the enemy has massive capabilities we're not aware of!  

Pamela:   the looters and moochers in one fell swoop  

CVF:   OK on yahoo, searching Bat Ye'or and Atlas, you come in #6 and 8  

CVF:   All the others are citing the interview but at other sites  

Pamela:   i am the only one with an exclusive!  

Pamela:   did i come up or charles martel  

CVF:   you come up #6 and #8, charles martel, solomonia the others  

CVF:   also thehillchronicles and israelforum  

CVF:   in single digits  

Baron:   If you go to Google images, and type "John Bolton", you should get Atlas near #1  

Baron:   but she's not there at all.  

Pamela:   none of my posts are coming up  

Pamela:   i'm sick  

Baron:   we need you to post a version of this conversation, and send a copy out via Larwyn.

Pamela:   wild  

Pamela:   copy and paste this conversation?  

CVF:   On images you come up in yahoo, ten out of 20  

Baron:   I can parse it and fix it up nice, send you as an HTML page in table format.  

Baron:   My own software.  

Baron:   tell me when to cut it off & parse it, and the result will come to you in a couple of minutes.  

CVF:   Hey  

CVF:   I have something at googlerankings  

CVF:   I put in the URL and it said valid Google API key not found

Pamela:   huh?  

CVF:   http://www.googlerankings.com/  

Pamela:   how is that possible?  

CVF:   I've never used this before  

CVF:   testing it on another site  

Pamela:   I was always like a 6 7  

Baron:   That's wild.  

CVF:   I don't know it says same thing for vigilantfreedom.org  

CVF:   let me try littlegreen  

Pamela:   what number.....how far on the bar are you?  

CVF:   maybe it's not working said same thing for littlegreenfootballs, now it's searching for msn  

CVF:   what is url for kos?  

Pamela:   shitheads.com  

CVF:   Valid google API key not found!  

   Querying MSN. Please be patient...  

   Sorry, Your site was not within the ranks in MSN™'s results (keyword:Atlas Shrugged)  

   Time: 0.77 seconds  

   Querying Yahoo. Please be patient...  

   Sorry, Your site was not within the ranks in Yahoo™'s results (keyword:Atlas Shrugged)  

   Time: 0.29 seconds  

Baron:   lol  

CVF:   The PageRank for http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/ is: Page Rank (it says 6 and bar is about half way, a little more)  

CVF:   http://pr.blogflux.com/index2.php  

Pamela:   what happened to google?  

Pamela:   who would know this?  

Baron:   Charles  

CVF:   charles at lgf  

Pamela:   vexed!  

CVF:   glenn at instapundit  

Baron:   Yes, you should run it

CVF:   OK a different URL than the other one: http://googlerankings.com/prindex.php  

CVF:   I put in your URL  

CVF:   Google™ PageRank™ for atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/  

   PageRank™  

   Time: 0.13 seconds  

CVF:   it was 5/10  

Pamela:   this is getting so outta hand  

CVF:   Did you try this??http://diagnostics.googlerankings.com/  

CVF:   This is underthe "penalized" diagnostics:  

   f you can exlude with confidence ( or have already fixed ) all on-page and known linking pattern problems, and the penalty still persists, you may need to look for the most rare although at the same time most extreme causes as well, such as Hijacking. Another hint may be that it's not always the doing of the current webmaster or even the content, linking pattern of the actual web site, but the remains of a Historic Domain Penalty. Make sure you know of the history of the domain the web site is hosted on. If the domain name was pre-owned, and it was the previous web site that has been penalized, you may need to bring the change of ownership to the attentnion of Google Inc. to lift the penalty.  

CVF:   what is Hijacking?  

Pamela:   i am on typepad  

CVF:   ok but that shouldn't affect the google ranking per se  

CVF:   I think this might be the issue:  

   http://diagnostics.googlerankings.com/bad-neighborhood.html  

CVF:   or for Pamela this: http://diagnostics.googlerankings.com/hijacking-google-results.html  

Pamela:   something happened  

CVF:   yup  

Pamela:   this is a fact  

Pamela:   because the numbers are staggering  

Pamela:   and the search results are void  

CVF:   Did you put anything else on - install any other widgets or applications - in this time frame +- 2 days?  

Pamela:   no ......added nothing  

Pamela:   racking my brain  

CVF:   you might be able to check with Lexis Nexis before then to see if it's affecting them, and BTW this also provides you with what may be grounds for recovery of damages.  

CVF:   if you can find the source of the damage.  

Pamela:   if i wasnt so damn techtarded i feel like helen keller  

Baron:   ask my wife  

Pamela:   i only work with what i got  

Pamela:   cut and paste  

CVF:   hush Baron let her talk -   

UPDATE: This is the latest:

Looks like the blog is under a possible hijack or you have some serious routing problems. I would forward an email to blog to see what they come back with and the reason for the block.

Help Get the Islamazis Offline

The e-jihadis are back. Rusty over at My Pet Jawa alerted me to this;

The official website for the Taliban has publicly challenged The Jawa Report to try to take them back offline again.  In an official announcement from the group on a well known Islamist bulletin board, the group gloats that, "For a long time now the official site of the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan - Taliban has been shut down-- due to the exposure and prosecution it was closed by the enemies of Islam," but that party officials were able to get a new site up and running.

The "enemies of Islam" that were able to get their website shut down? The Jawa Report.  :-)

The new website has a few more sophisticated safeguards, some of which we've already thwarted, but getting this new website shut down should not be that hard to do--with your help.

The gauntlet has been thrown.  The Taliban are practically begging for their website to be PWN3D once again.

If you, my dear, sweet delicious readers, could please go to to this post and to the complaint e-mails at the bottom of the post, I would be most grateful.

UPDATE: And while you are at it,

  "Palestine is not a country. Delist it from Facebook as one!"

To read the message, go here. Thanks, The Facebook Team

Happy Birthday Big Boy

Thomas Jefferson wrote that on that day of America’s birth, in the little hall in Philadelphia, debate raged for hours, but the issue remained in doubt. These were honorable men; still, to sign a Declaration of Independence seemed such an irretrievable act that the walls resounded with cries of “treason’’ and “the headsman’s axe.”

Then, it is said, one unknown man rose to speak. He was neither young, nor strong in voice; yet, he spoke with such conviction that he mesmerized the hall. He cited the grievances that had brought them to this moment. Then, his voice failing, he said: “They may turn every tree into a gallows, every hole into a grave, and yet the words of that parchment can never die. To the mechanic in the workshop, they will speak hope, to the slave in the mines, freedom. Sign that parchment. Sign if the next moment the noose is around your neck, for that parchment will be the textbook of freedom, the bible of the rights of man forever.” And sign they did.

Ronald Reagan Independence Day speech 1981 More here. More on photo here

UPDATE: Not what our forefathers had in mind. Robert at Jihadwatch writes.  Ugh. hat tip LGF

The email I received from a federal employee is illuminating:

I wanted to drop a line about the inability to access JihadWatch at work. I work for the Fed Gov. Three weeks ago, Memri was blocked. Two weeks ago HotAir, which I used to look at on my lunch break for your updates, was blocked. As of Friday,June 29th, JihadWatch was blocked. I can however, visit CAIR, read anything about Islam, and even get the Arab news. The censors I deal with are from the Dallas area. It is very easy to see that this censor is not operating according to the proper rules of access. They are operating by thier political beliefs (or hopes.) It is unfortunate that these people block the very information that we need in these times....

Ha!

 

Banning the E-Bomb Too much, too little too late

d'oh

Website bomb-making lessons to be outlawed across Europe
Times Online hat tip Larwyn

Placing instructions on how to make a bomb on the internet will become a criminal offence across Europe under plans outlined by Brussels yesterday.

Arguments about freedom of expression will not be allowed to stand in the way of criminalising the publication of bomb-making information that could be used by terrorists, a senior EU official said.

It will be part of a range of antiterrorist proposals to be published in the autumn that will also include the collection of airline passenger data from every flight in and out of the EU. The extension of measures was promised yesterday by Franco Frattini, the EU Justice Commissioner, after the British car bomb plot and the murder of Spanish tourists in Yemen.

Internet service providers (ISPs) would face charges if they failed to block websites containing bomb-making instructions generated anywhere in the world, EU officials said.

What took so damn long?

CYBER JIHAD: Here, There Everywhere

Lionheart reports here (if you missed me interview  with him, listen here.) I am not sure who is more out of control, the jihad or the West's inability to respond.

Just this week there has been major news in the UK regarding Al Qaeada's plans to bring down the whole UK internet system. The details of their planned assault can be read here.

The battlefield with Islam is on every level of life with the Internet being one more of those level.

All details regarding this attack and the potential consequences are below. Go here