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Some more thoughts about the recorder in the icon. I really wish it had a
monitor mode, really miss that as it's necessary when say converting tapes
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I also wish there was a key press when recording to save the current
recording and begin a new file.
also would be cool if it could 1 have a sound-activated recorder so it
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I'm sure i'm not the first person to think like this.

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Pakatan’s three targets for next GE

June 26, 2011

Pakatan Rakyat’s three targets in next general election: to retain four Pakatan states, win back Perak and form new government in six states, says DAP's Lim Kit Siang.

By Lim Kit Siang

Pakatan Rakyat has three targets for the states in the next general elections, viz:

  • To retain the four Pakatan Rakyat states of Penang, Kedah, Selangor  and Kelantan;
  • To win back Perak state government which was illegally, unconstitutionally and undemocratically robbed from the people and the Pakatan Rakyat; and
  • To form the state government in the six states of Negri Sembilan, Johore, Malacca, Pahang, Terengganu and Perlis.

The forthcoming 13th general election will be the battle of the century as at stake will not only be the state governments of all the 11 states in Peninsular Malaysia but  federal power in Putrajaya as well.

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is fully aware of the highest stakes involved in the next general election, which is why he is so indecisive on the dates for the national polls, setting off repeated speculations as to when the next general elections would be held.

I think we can rule out the possibility of general election in the third quarter of this year.  The next general election will be either at the end of this year or next year.

The 13th general election will be unprecedented, as it will be the first general election in the nation’s history where the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional  under Umno hegemony, will be facing a life-and-death battle.

In the last 12 general elections from 1959 to 2008, Umno and the ruling coalition had gone into the hustings with supreme confidence, not only about retaining power but doing so with a great margin of  victory.

In fact, there was not a single general election in the past five decades where Umno had not contested with supreme confidence that it would be able to win power with comfortable two-thirds parliamentary majority.

No pride in coming second

Until the 308 “political tsunami” of the 2008 general election when Umno and Barisan Nasional suffered their worst electoral debacle, losing two-thirds parliamentary majority and clinging precariously to power thanks to the two “fixed deposit” states of Sabah and Sarawak.

Umno and BN will be fighting a “life-and-death” battle in the 13th general election, not just about whether they can regain two-thirds  parliamentary majority lost in 2008, but whether they could be returned to power or would have to occupy the opposition benches for the first time in their experience.

This is why Najib reminded the Selayang Umno yesterday that in a general election there is no such term as runner-up like in other contests, as either Umno and BN retain power in Putrajaya or they are relegated to the opposition benches.

This applies to the state elections and the state governments as well.

This is probably the reason why the Umno and BN leaders are so panicky about the Bersih peaceful rally on July 9 for fair, free and clean elections for they fear that Bersih will be even more successful manifold than the first Bersih rally in 2007.

Najib is fully aware that a 5% swing in votes in the next general election as compared to the 2008 general election will see a Pakatan Rakyat government in Putrajaya and Umno and Barisan Nasional taking their places in the parliamentary opposition  benches. The same odds apply for the state elections as well.

However, Najib and his election strategists should realise that if the BN government decides to resort to high-handed, repressive and undemocratic measures to use the police to crack down on the peaceful Berish rally for free,  fair and clean general elections, they may be creating the very conditions which would ensure a 5% swing against Umno and BN in the next general election – setting the stage for a change of federal power in Putrajaya for the first time in the nation’s history.

This is a speech by DAP Parliamentary Leader and MP for Ipoh Timor Lim Kit Siang at the Teluk Intan DAP anniversary dinner held on Saturday, June 25, 2011.

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We live in paradoxical times. The core institutions and systems that have supported journalism in America for decades are weathering a perfect storm of challenges that have undercut our country’s longstanding information infrastructure. At the same time, a new generation of news and journalism organizations is driving a renaissance in local reporting and reinvigorating our media system.

This shifting media landscape has inspired a range of important reports and initiatives designed to help chart a course toward stronger journalism and media in America. In report after report, America’s public and noncommercial media sector has been held up as a core component of the future of hard-hitting, accountability journalism.

Although U.S. public broadcasting has accomplished much in the 40 years since its founding, today there is a growing sense that we can and must do better. In the global context, our public media system’s independent civic mission is woefully underfunded: U.S. per capita public spending is less than $4, far less than the $30 to $134 per capita for the 14 countries examined in this study. And as the recent efforts by politicians to punish NPR for its firing of news analyst Juan Williams suggest, public media in America possess little autonomy from direct political pressure.

How can public media be adequately funded and protected from partisan political meddling? These decisions do not need to be made in a vacuum. The lessons of other democratic nations, many of whose public media systems have been around long before American public broadcasting, are instructive.

In this report, we survey the concrete ways that a cross-section of democratic nation-states around the world fund and protect the autonomy of public media. In the 14 nations examined in this study, public media independence and democratic functioning are promoted through a variety of means.

  1. First, in several countries, funding is established for multiyear periods, thus lessening the capacity of government to directly link funding to either approval or disapproval of programming.
  2. Second, public media seem to be strongest when citizens feel that media are responsive to them rather than to politicians or advertisers (i.e., when they are truly “public”). Funding structures and oversight organizations that create a direct link between public media and their audiences foster citizen engagement, involvement and accountability.
  3. Third, the legal and administrative charters establishing public broadcasters work to assure that public funds are spent in the public interest — providing diverse, high-quality news and other content. At the same time, these charters and related media laws restrict the capacity of governments to exert influence over content in a partisan direction.
  4. Fourth, public agencies, administrative boards, and/or trusts of one type or another exist in all countries to serve as a buffer between broadcasters and the government in power. The independence of such agencies, boards and trusts is bolstered through a variety of means and by creating an “arms-length” institutional relationship between the public broadcaster and government that prevents partisan political interference or meddling.

As a result of these policies, not only have public broadcasters continued to provide high-quality, diverse programming, they have also been responsible for airing critical investigations of government performance. According to a growing body of scholarly research, public broadcasters across Western Europe and other democracies examined in this study provide more and higher quality public affairs programming and a greater diversity of genres and unique perspectives than their commercial counterparts. Publicly subsidized newspapers are just as critical of government as their advertising-subsidized competitors, if not more so.

In sum, even as public media face new challenges and difficulties, this report establishes the continuing international viability, indeed vitality, of the public service model and provides a range of policy prescriptions, from funding mechanisms to citizen engagement and governance structures, for the United States as it considers the role of public and noncommercial media as a key part of responding to the news and information needs of society.

While it is unlikely that the United States would adopt any of these models directly, the report quite clearly demonstrates that public service broadcasters play an important civic role in many countries, remedying the classic market failure in the production of quality, independent journalism. The models herein should be considered a starting point for discussion, with the understanding that each would have to be modified for the American media and political context.

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Rodney Benson is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Benson’s research comparing the U.S. and French press was recently featured in the Columbia Journalism Review. He has written numerous articles on U.S. and European news media. His book, Framing Immigration: How the French and American Media Shape Public Debate, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Matthew Powers is a PhD candidate at New York University in the department of Media, Culture and Communication. His research interests include the sociology of news, comparative media and political communication.

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Real vegetarians don't eat fish (or any other seafood)

Little to nothing broke my heart like learning that the trifecta of Thai curries -- red, yellow and green -- all have animal byproducts, predominantly shrimp paste in the curry paste itself (red: shrimp paste; yellow: fish sauce or shrimp pastegreen: shrimp paste). Knowing this, I had to either make it myself so it's truly vegetarian-friendly, or ditch one of my favorite meals (genre of foods?).

Tourist ponders whether or not to eat a raw fishThis may come as a surprise because one of the questions I am asked most frequently after telling people I'm a vegetarian is whether or not I still eat fish.

Common sense

Folks. I don't mean to get snarky here, but to sample from The Vegetarian Society:

  • Fish: cold-blooded, water-dwelling animal
  • Vegetarian: someone who doesn't eat animals

I love nothing more than a common sense approach to most situations. So by the above logic, wouldn't you say that eating fish and/or seafood discounts one's vegetarian efforts? I would.

Do fish suffer?

Thickening the stew, Stephanie Ernst over on Animals | published a nice post highlighting Peter Singer and Tyler Cowen's debate whether or not fish suffer and whether vegetarians should eat them. In discussing their arguments, Ernst agrees with Singer that fish do suffer:

"And for the record, because Cowen brought it up, let's talk definitions: someone who eats fish is not just "not a pure vegetarian." That person is simply not a vegetarian at all. Pescatarians eat and condone the intentional killing of fish, yes. But vegetarians (and, obviously, vegans) do not. Fish are feeling animals, not plants; living in a watery world rather than on land does not strip them of their animal status, their capacity for suffering, or their desire to live."

Which begs the question, can fish feel pain? According to Michael Agger's post last year over on Slate, "Frying Nemo: Can Fish Feel Pain?" a study proved that yes, fish can feel pain and react to it as much as humans do.

We've established that fish are animals and feel pain. So remind me again how a vegetarian can eat fish and still consider themselves vegetarian?

People become vegetarian for all sorts of reasons, so I'm not here to play vegetarian police and call someone out for not being authentic enough--elitism isn't my style and tends to be the very reason most people have grudges against vegetarians and vegans in the first place. I will say that if you eat fish, or any other seafood, please call yourself a pescatarian. As for me, no, I do not eat fish or any other seafood.

Like they say in Finding Nemo, fish are our friends not food.

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ashlee - August 7, 2010 10:26 AM

do scallops count?

mynamesnotpascaloneohone - November 19, 2010 6:37 AM

nor do REAL vegetarians eat processed foods, dairy and eggs.

(labels seems to fail people, generally. why is that??? it's very easy to learn what's in processed food... 99% of it isn't consumable to any living organism in the first place.)

getting fed up by the mockery, confusion and faketarians.

MissVelvet - January 12, 2012 8:01 PM

That would be a VEGAN that doesn't eat dairy and eggs, or honey for that matter.

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The Friends University Board of Trustees is vested with ultimate authority for the general, academic and financial policy-making functions for Friends University. Trustees are responsible for the University’s financial health and welfare and exercise their institutional authority in a fiduciary capacity. The board is responsible for selecting the president, reviews and approves major changes to the academic programs, and determines institutional policies bearing on faculty appointment, tenure, and promotion. Trustees are responsible for monitoring the financial condition of the University, ensuring that appropriate policies and procedures are in place and functioning for the institution’s assets, investments, and physical plants. As such, the board approves the annual budget, including tuition and fees. Through its bylaws, the Board of Trustees is responsible for other fiduciary duties and works closely with the president, who is charged with the day-to-day administration of the University.

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A Permanent Goodbye to the United States

Michael C. Ruppert

© Copyright 2006, From The Wilderness Publications, All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted, distributed or posted on an Internet web site for non-profit purposes only.

“Sometimes you get your best light from a burning bridge” – Don Henley, “My Thanksgiving

August 16th 2006, 11:45 AM [PST] – CARACAS – It was about a week before I left the United States forever that I watched Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. tell Charlie Rose something all of us already know in our hearts. “Today,” he said, “the United States is hated around the world far worse than it was at the height of the Vietnam War.” I remember the Vietnam War. I will never forget it.

I opposed that war, and I still remember riots on the UCLA campus in May,1970 when four students were shot dead by National Guard troops at Kent State University in Ohio. I was a college student then, and I was 2S-deferred for the draft. A year later I would be re-classified 1A as the nation shifted to a lottery system. At least someone in my country was willing to risk his life in the face of injustice. It gave me hope. That kind of risk-taking was commonplace then, from the civil rights movement to the anti-war movement, to the American Indian Movement. American blood was shed regularly on American soil to resist American tyranny; from Watts, to Detroit, to Selma, to San Francisco to Memphis to Wounded Knee. It fertilized our lives and souls as it touched the ground. The willingness to endure physical suffering, material sacrifice, and jail for the sake of justice was a singular mark of the American character that earned respect as it infected the world.

What is the United States infecting the world with today?

Now it seems the American people won’t even risk their credit ratings, student loans, the next piece of ass, or a sideways glance from people who look at them like AIDS patients for daring to deviate from the corporate, media-instilled norm. We have come a long way backward. Rodney King’s “Can’t we all just get along” has become the modern day theme song for the surrender of America’s character, and the L.A. Rebellion of 1992 was probably the last flame of will to fight injustice in American history.

This new quiescence comes at a time when US crimes are far worse and more far-reaching than they were in 1970; certainly in the eyes of the world. In 2001 the US government both facilitated and executed the attacks of 9/11 against its own people, killing thousands of its citizens as an excuse to launch a neo-imperial conquest for energy. A few Americans held small rallies, organized some ineffective groups, bought a few hundred thousand books and DVDs, listened to a few radio programs and lectures, and then quietly lined up to have their bags, emails, credit histories, minds and bodies searched. Critical mass was never achieved as Executive Orders along with the Patriot and Homeland Security Acts shredded the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments to our Bill of Rights.

In my book Crossing the Rubicon I wrote that events that took place in the five years following those attacks would determine the course of human history for centuries to come. We now stand at the brink of that fateful anniversary.

After the 9-11 attacks the US government lied to create a war for oil in Iraq telling us that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, almost-ready atom bombs, poison gas and deadly germs. We were told that he helped execute the 9/11 attacks. It was all lies, and no one has held the US accountable for the hundreds of thousands of deaths (murders) in Iraq and Afghanistan since then. Few have tried to hold the government accountable for 2,500 Americans who have died needlessly, and those who have, have been remarkably ineffective.

US presidential elections were stolen in 2000 and 2004 through rigged electronic voting software and intimidation. Not one drop of blood was spilled anywhere, even as the US Supreme Court rendered an illegal decision supporting the overthrow of the Constitution and trampling the rights of individual states.

I never thought I would call the 60s and 70s “the good old days”. I would cry tears of joy today to see just one campus overrun by a modern equivalent of the Students for a Democratic Society. I would cheer to see a general strike paralyze a city. It would be living proof that American character had not been submerged, drugged, weakened, and rendered anemic beyond revival.

My country is dead. Its people have surrendered to tyranny, and in so doing, they have become tyranny’s primary support group; its base constituency; its chief defender. Every day they offer their endorsement of tyranny by banking in its banks and spending their borrowed money with the corporations that run it. The great Neocon strategy of George H.W. Bush has triumphed. Convince the American people that they can’t live without the “good things”, then sit back and watch as they endorse the progressively more outrageous crimes you commit as you throw them bones with ever-less meat on them. All the while, lock them into debt. Destroy the middle class, the only political base that need be feared. Make them accept, because of their own shared guilt, ever-more repressive police state measures. Do whatever you want.

No amount of mind control spin can absolve any of us from acknowledging this ugly truth about the US and its crimes today. It lurks invisibly behind every corporate news broadcast, every commercially-made television show, every infomercial, every new magazine ad, and almost every new popular song that leads Americans deeper into ever-less-satisfying consumption, self-indulgence and debt. It stands grinning behind every report on the world’s rapacious financial markets and every new automobile, shampoo, or other product that promises to give the world larger and more potent sexual organs, bigger (more ridiculous) breasts, a better love life, and peace of mind.

I left my last classes that spring day in 1970 after four students had been murdered, crying from both the emotional pain and the tear gas that wafted up the Janns Steps and onto the Quad at UCLA. I went to my job as an intern at the Los Angeles Police Department. After donning my khaki uniform without gun or badge I returned to UCLA to work at LAPD’s command post, ferrying dispatches and running errands for Deputy Chiefs, Commanders, and Captains as LAPD batons shed the blood of my fellow students. My life has always been full of ironies. Then, I believed that the system could be changed from the inside. Then, I believed that the United States could be changed from the inside.

Mistrusted by both sides there was no safe place for me to cry that day.

My shame today is that it took a set of circumstances where my life was in danger to make me make the right choice, a choice I would now like to say was totally a matter of conscience, but it was not. The truth is that I was prompted to do what I should have done long ago out of a well-justified desire to save my life.

In this life I have chosen not to die a martyr’s death. As I am learning every day, there are more difficult and demanding ways to write the final chapters of one’s life. I left the United States with one large suitcase, my laptop, and a backpack. I left behind my precious library, most of my clothing, my personal possessions, my guns, and a house full of furniture. I brought with me less than eight thousand dollars in cash and gold to start the final segment of my life.

My permanent exodus from the US was actually ordained thirty years –- to the month –- before I left for good on July 18th, 2006. It was thirty years ago that my then-fiancée, a career contract agent for the CIA, disclosed to me that “her people” were interested in giving a major boost to my career with LAPD if I would become involved with her “anti-terror” operations that involved “overlooking” (i.e. protecting) large drug shipments coming in while facilitating the movement of large quantities of firearms going out. I refused to compromise my ethics as a police officer and –- as I wrote on page 6 of Crossing the Rubicon – “that has determined the course of my life ever since.”

Like all humans I want to hold on to dreams for as long as possible, even long after I know they will never come true. I have tried and sacrificed with every fiber of my being to change my country, but the plain fact is that the United States of America cannot and will never be changed from within. I recall the words spoken to me by a senior FBI agent in Los Angeles in 1986: “Mike, the world doesn’t want to be saved.”

Stupid me. I still believe it does –- at least the parts of it that lie outside the US, Great Britain, and Israel; the real Axis of Evil.

Today the United States is the cause of ever-expanding wars (covert and overt), carnage, suffering, and political and economic exploitation –- even within its own borders against its own people –- that fill our corporate-issued headlines and TV shows. The US economy, the privately-owned Federal Reserve system, and the government which they operate like a franchise are the greatest enemies of the entire human race and especially the rapidly- deteriorating and fragile ecosystem which supports all life. U.S. citizens are slowly discovering that they are not immune because of their nationality. On our planet today, what happens to one must inevitably happen to all. Peak Oil and global warming will spare no nationality in the end.

The US economy, driven by a fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, debt-based financing –- and “doped” with the billions of dollars of drug profits laundered through its corporations and banks –- is a superheated pyramid scheme of infinite growth wherein 5% of the world’s population consumes 25% of the world’s energy and a totally disproportionate share of the world’s diminishing resources and commodities.

In their silence and acquiescence Americans have voted –- even if by abstention –- to stand on the shoulders of all drowning peoples in the vain hope that they will somehow be saved from a paradigm which they support and empower by obeying it; by endorsing it with their silence or knowingly impotent protests; by refusing to throw themselves against the gears of the machine. In this world, a protest which is allowed and encouraged, corralled into free-speech areas, and then policed by the ruling government only to be ignored by the media is, by definition, meaningless.

The US is a nation where the “non-negotiable” and unsustainable “American” way of life is propped up by global conflict, out-of-control military spending, massive and unsustainable debt, and an increasingly-aggressive fascist police state. It is a nation where all US citizens who do not resist and disconnect from this paradigm enjoy their ever-diminishing privileges with the guilty knowledge that somewhere else, hopefully in some “other” country, others are paying the price for it.

The world is now my country.

With the passage of time, the degree of corporate oppression, the outrageousness of the cruelty, and the absurdity of the lies can only increase as dwindling resources diminish and desperation erupts. Ironically, the disappearing American middle class will still cheer at each new millionaire success story, even if they quietly understand that a hundred or a thousand of their kind had to disappear to create it. They chase illusions of hope rather than the real possibility of justice and change like lottery players with a one-in-a-billion chance of winning. They prefer that to hard work and sacrifice with much better odds where almost everybody can win something.

As the human race enters the first stages of inevitable collapse resulting from Peak Oil, it does so ass-backwards, in complete denial, and in the one way most certain to guarantee the greatest amount of suffering and death for future generations. It does so because, for a time at least, U.S. foreign, military, and economic policy holds the steering wheel of human destiny through dollar hegemony, military force, technology and globalization.

This control is inevitably weakening, and other hands in other countries are successfully struggling for an ever-increasing measure of influence. The Empire is dying from within, and like all wounded beasts, it is becoming more vicious and dangerous in the process; its lies more transparent.

A different world is possible. A better world is possible. It took the imminent threat of my own death at the hands of my government to make me fully admit to my innermost self what I have known for years. Having failed to change my country’s direction after 30 years of effort, I had to stop living in the problem and start living in the solution. If I did not, my soul would have died just as surely as my body would have died after the recent burglary that savaged our offices.

I do not know where I will spend the rest of my days. Maybe in Venezuela, maybe in Mexico with the Zapatistas, maybe in Bolivia, maybe in France, Germany, or even Russia. But because Venezuela has become the singular world leader in resisting US domination under the courageous, intelligent, and inspired leadership of Hugo Chavez, I want to begin the rest of my days here.

Being freer to speak, to learn, to experience and to witness real solutions being discovered and implemented by peoples willing to take risks and who understand the challenges, I will be better able to report usefully to FTW readers and the world in future books and articles. I am currently in a country where the people have changed and are changing their government; where the elected head of state has won six elections while George W. Bush has stolen two. Is it any wonder I feel better already?

One thing is certain about fascism and that is that its behavior and evolution are remarkably predictable. Five years ago I helped bring into world consciousness a forgotten quote from Benito Mussolini wherein he said that, “Fascism ought to more properly be called corporatism since it is the merger of state and corporate power.” Nothing better describes the state of the world today. The U.S. is a nation of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation. As such it has placed something different from and opposed to the welfare of human beings on the compass as its “true North”.

Fascism always becomes more vicious as it evolves. It never retreats, and as with drug addition, larger and larger doses of oppression and violence are always required to sustain its inevitable path towards self-destruction. As the great Cynthia McKinney said to me not long before her just-orchestrated ouster from the House of Representatives, “any fool can see it coming.”

The burglary that took place at the new FTW offices in Ashland, Oregon on Sunday, June 25th of this year was the equivalent of my Kristalnacht, a replay of the night in 1938 when Nazi storm troopers, aided by an increasingly cowed and cowardly citizenry, raided synagogues all over Germany and smashed every piece of glass and every window they could find. German Jews not in denial who could (literally) read the writing on the walls (Juden Raus!) fled for their lives in the short time remaining before The Holocaust. Those who denied the meaning of that very specific warning remained in Germany, and their fate was sealed.

As a man who owns his own mind I can and do vehemently oppose the Israeli government and its policies and still have no ill will at all towards any Jew anywhere. Israel is a country. Judaism is a religion. All men and women are free to worship their God or Gods as they see fit, and in so doing, to bring knowledge of the unknowable and their truths to a human table that is increasingly deprived of compassion, love, justice, balance, and mercy. These will always remain the common threads in all true spirituality. Truly what is needed now is some spirit.

Those who do know history are not destined to repeat it.

As for the burglary itself, there will be another time and another place, when I can and will say more about what happened. Certain important events have yet to unfold, and I’m holding other key facts until the time is right. There are facts about the timing of the burglary that may eventually connect to events here in Venezuela. But for now, suffice it to say that it was the final outrage in almost three decades of attempts to silence my voice and the eight-year-old voice of From The Wilderness.

It is almost certain that the burglary was perpetrated, at minimum, based upon inside information provided by recently fired or resigned FTW staff members. There is – or was – only one television program I cared about, HBO’s Deadwood. It was common knowledge in FTW’s new offices that I was obsessed with the show, and on June 25th I was certain to be home watching one of the first episodes of the new season I had been anticipating for a year. As everyone knew, I worked late and had irregular hours every other day of the week. I may never find out if Al Swearingen got the best of George Hearst, but in retrospect, it’s a small price to pay for my new freedom.

The burglary followed on the heels of my humiliation of the perpetrator of a feeble and stupidly executed sexual blackmail plot that began when a newly-hired staff writer (with a clean record and a Master’s degree in English) began a torrid (and not very discrete) sexual affair with my long-term IT manager. The IT manager was, at the time, involved in a committed relationship with a woman in Los Angeles. The same female employee also made simultaneous direct sexual advances to my Operations Manager who is married. These included her showing naked photographs of herself to both men in our offices, something which they kept from me until later.

Eventually the sexual intrigue resulted in an altercation between the three which wound up on my doorstep late on a Sunday night in April. It seems no one involved in the altercation was capable of telling the whole truth. It was also clear that my IT manager – who was known for his appetites – had fallen hopelessly in the grasp of an attractive sexual smorgasbord that was fulfilling his every wish. This is what he said to people in phone conversations who later told me about them. He reportedly described her as a “sexual demon”. He lied to his girlfriend. He lied to me when he told me that he had ended the relationship. Then he lied to his friend, the Operations Manager, about it. I could no longer trust him, and this was of enormous concern to me.

After all of the previous attempts to sink FTW over the years I was well-prepared when the same woman started making advances to me. How dumb did they think I was? I concealed a tape recorder in my office as she directed me, after regular office hours, to pornographic web sites and continually tried to tempt me with scanty outfits, G-strings and hints of sexual delights including descriptions of her private parts. She was doing all this at a time when she made 103 cell phone calls in one month to my IT Manager on a cell phone that FTW was paying for. I got the bills. Most of the calls were made during business hours. The second month’s bill was just as bad when it arrived after she had been fired.

My IT Manager had been my most trusted employee and a close friend. I may never be able to forgive his betrayal even if the Siren’s song had overwhelmed him. In previous years FTW computers had been sabotaged, our web site had been hacked, and several attempts had been made to financially sabotage our operations. Being fully aware that he was likely revealing our most sensitive proprietary information, including account access codes, I had but two choices.

I could fire the young woman. But if I did so she would be angry outside the company and still have the IT Manager as helpless as Ulysses’ crew in her vindictive grasp. Or, I could keep her close, play along with her games, prepare myself against the blackmail I knew would come, and try to find out what kind of damage she was intent on doing and head it off. When she could not compromise me sexually, she turned the IT Manager against me, and he gave sudden notice. That was damaging enough. His last day of work was to be June 1st. I decided immediately that that would be her last day of work too, and so it was.

As June 1 approached I baited her with actions I knew would force her to show her hand. She did on May 29th and that’s when I let it be known how I had protected myself. She immediately went – no doubt with the guidance of our IT Manager – to a ridiculous pseudo-journalist who has been hounding FTW and other 9-11 activists for years. In a previous sabotage attempt in 2005 this same pseudo-journalist had been directly connected to the FBI by a tape recording.

Her allegations of sexual harassment against me fell flat on their faces, and she was publicly humiliated. She had also been showing highly erratic emotional behavior consistent with drug use in her last two weeks of work. On the day she was terminated she and the IT manager frantically rushed to erase large quantities of data from her office computer. This was witnessed by the entire office staff. Fortunately for us, the erasures were only made with one-pass deletions, and most of what they were trying to hide remains recoverable.

This was on my mind when I came into the office at 7:30 AM on June 26th and saw all seven of our computers dismantled and smashed in a vacant portion of our building. As luck would have it, the right hard drives were not damaged beyond recovery.

But other facts started to indicate government involvement. As soon as I discovered the burglary I ran next door to the offices of the US Forest Service which shares the same building (rented from a California property management company). A female Ranger who was raising the flag out front seemed unusually nervous even before I got to her. I asked if they had surveillance cameras covering the front of the building and our only parking lot. Reacting as though I was scaring her to death, she hastily replied, “No”. I couldn’t help but feel she already knew about the burglary.

If I didn’t know that there were no surveillance cameras on a government building then how could the burglars have been so confident? The street our offices are on is a long “no outlet” street, and the only place to park late at night is directly in front of FTW’s front door. My next step was to look for any one of the three small and run-down motor homes belonging to poor people who always parked right in front of our offices at night. It was a rent-free place for them to sleep, and it had a great view. Maybe they had seen something. All three were gone. One of them had been parking diagonally across the street every day since the day we moved in, and I had (correctly, I believe) pegged that one as government surveillance.

These witnesses would have been invaluable because they would have seen whoever came to the office in the quiet business park that was always abandoned after sunset. After I left the states, allegations were floated that I had smashed my computers myself. But who could have missed my Blue and Gold, 1996 Ford Bronco? It stands out like a sore thumb. And I could hardly have walked a block or two with a sledge hammer over my shoulder without risking being noticed.

There are between eight and twelve screws that need to be removed to take the cover off of each of our computers. There were seven computers, and every one had their covers removed before being smashed. This was not a one-man job. Someone with computer savvy was involved. Four interior doors were also smashed with multiple sledge hammer blows. I estimated between three and five blows per door. Each computer had been disconnected from its monitor and peripherals. That was three to six connections per computer. This feat would have taken one person hours, and it would have been physically exhausting.

All the evidence showed that one person was waiting to dismantle each computer as it was brought into the vacant office (where there was plenty of room to swing the hammers) by another person who was doing the disconnecting, while a third person went ahead with the sledgehammer to open the doors to which the fired female employee never had the keys, from which to make copies before she was fired. I suspect that a minimum of two sledge hammers were used.

One door to a storage area which held no computers at all was needlessly smashed. That was wasted time and effort. Likely one or more of the burglars didn’t know where the computers were. Or maybe they just had a little too much crystal meth in their system and needed to burn off some energy.

There was, however, one other way that the burglars could have gained entry to the interior of the building. That is through a back door which is accessible only through a high-security parking lot controlled by the Forest Service which covers the entire back side of the building. No one else can get to the back doors. The burglars could have been waiting inside the Forest Service offices for me to leave. This would have left no telltale cars out front and would have provided an easy, secure escape route in the event that I or a police car pulled up out front unexpectedly. No one would ever have been seen entering via the front door, the only way FTW employees could get in.

About a week after the burglary I noticed the Ashland Police Department towing away one of the mobile squatters. The one mobile home that had been there every night up until the burglary has never been seen again. The third just vanished the night of the burglary.

Also, about a week after the burglary, my Operations Manager, who we have since discovered was apparently in the process of destroying our paper financial records, disclosed that the fired female employee was a multi-year close friend of a convicted methamphetamine manufacturer and dealer who had served five years in prison. That was the last straw, and it was then I started realizing that it was time to go.

Convicted drug dealers are usually on parole. They have little or no rights and can be violated and sent back to prison at any time. Whether it’s federal or state parole, they’ll do anything the government wants them to in order to curry favor, including the commission of crimes “under color of authority”. The COINTELPRO records of the FBI from the 60s and 70s against civil rights and anti-war activists; against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement; show clearly how these convicted felons were used as ideal plausibly deniable weapons of infiltration and mass destruction by the US government against enemies of the state.

In 2001 a high school classmate who had served in the US Army and worked for the National Security Agency, led FTW into a financial trap promising a major investment to re-publish suppressed books documenting US government corruption. After FTW had invested thousands of dollars in layout and committed to spending more for printing, the investor disappeared leaving us with a huge loss.

In 2001 and 2002 a series of previously-unknown computer viruses completely destroyed our office computers.

In 2003 an outside storage area of the building where our offices were, was burglarized.

In late 2003 our then General Manager, Michael Leon, suddenly abandoned his job and fled to New Zealand. That nearly put us out of business. We have since learned that he was, at minimum, a key material witness in a huge federal Ponzi scheme prosecution, US v. Osaki. (I had absolutely no connection to the case). In 2005 information surfaced in federal court that he had provided the FBI with information, and I have –- based on other information –- concluded that he was an active FBI informant while working for FTW.

Throughout 2004 and 2005 a series of successive employees (one of whom was a retired FBI agent presenting herself as a victimized whistleblower) engaged in ruthless sabotage which came closer to sinking us than anything ever had. Other links to the FBI were well-documented. FTW struggled for survival, and I successfully fought back, ultimately winning a case in Small Claims Court wherein I proved deliberate sabotage and won a small judgment. That nine-month effort ended just two months before we moved to Oregon.

Then came the events I just described in Ashland. To the end of my days I will never forget the indescribable beauty of the Rogue Valley in the brief time I was allowed to live there. I will always remember the wonderful, spiritual and courageous friends who came to our aid in time of need and who still remain close friends and supporters of FTW.

But at 55, as I looked at the smashed computers and realized that I had humiliated the government one too many times, I understood two things. I was too old to go on fighting these increasingly ugly and dangerous battles. And there was nothing left in the United States worth fighting for. The next battle would surely mean death for me. Additionally, according to their own figures, and after an independent review by a Los Angeles area law firm specializing in royalty rights, Rubicon’s publisher, New Society, appears to have defrauded me out of between $38,000 and $58,000 dollars of royalties.

I made my decision on July 1st. It really wasn’t difficult.

Since my departure Carolyn Baker, Michael Kane, Stan Goff, Jamey Hecht and the remaining FTW office staff consisting of Brendan, Spencer and Luke have been performing heroically. A brave and honorable Ashland attorney has valiantly stepped in with complete power of attorney over my affairs. My agent and publicist Ken Levine has been steadfast and true. It was he who helped to get me out of the country in secret. In the coming weeks some of these wonderful people will provide our subscribers with their accounts of my last days in the US. There were many poignant moments in the way we put together and executed a plan to get me out of the country in just 18 days, even as I noticed renewed and ominous surveillance around the office.

To all those who will assert – and I’m sure they will – that all of these things happened because I’m some kind of deranged maniac who pisses everyone off, I ask how I could possibly have earned and retained the loyalty of these wonderful people and all of our subscribers for all these years.

FTW is going to be bigger and better. I will continue to write and offer editorial guidance, but my days of running the business are over. Carolyn Baker, Mike Kane and Stan Goff are giants in their own rights, and they need room to blossom and carry on the FTW tradition with their own unique styles and personalities. Since leaving the US I have been offering occasional editorial guidance, but I have come to realize that FTW’s writers need very little of this. They have the map and are reading it well. Listen to them.

 FTW needs your help now. We need donations. We need sales. Very soon we will have a new DVD which will show you my last two public appearances ever in the United States. It will be my farewell message to all of you even as I say hello in a new form. After FTW’s current, considerable expenses and staff are paid, some of that badly-needed money will find its way to me in Venezuela where I sorely need it.

I have said time and again that the only thing that matters to me is effecting real change in the political landscape. Revolution is not a dinner party. The economy and government of the United States of America are my enemies and the enemies of the entire human race and even of the American people themselves. They must be weakened, defeated and replaced by something which places the welfare of human beings ahead of profits and share value.

With these words I have committed a crime in the eyes of US law. There is no turning back. The bridge is burned. But I will reply with the words of the Declaration of Independence which state:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it,…

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, their duty, to throw off such Government.

In 1776 there was no concept of any limitation in terms of resources, space or possibilities. We live in a fundamentally different era today, and so therefore, I would add to these truths the following:

We must also recognize that Happiness cannot be defined solely within the mind and the will of individuals alone, without regard to the availability of the same potential for all mankind and all life placed here by the Creator. One human being, or group of human beings, cannot possess a disproportionate share, deprive others, and justly call this Happiness. True Happiness and Peace result from harmony between peoples, the planet and all life forms without which no life is possible. These can only be achieved in a world where men and women in all places realize the need for Balance, Equity, Harmony and Justice and that only these will ensure equal and fair Rights for subsequent generations and the sustainability of the planet itself.

In many lectures I have uttered another one of my trademarked lines: The human race is now being presented by a dispassionate universe with one test; either evolve or perish. I, for one, have chosen to evolve.

Now that I am in the world and not a “country”, my prayer is that my future adventures for as long as I live will connect me with other world-changers so that we can support and empower each other and all peoples. I am already finding out that there are more people who clearly see these challenges than I ever suspected.

But I am also under no illusions about the increased danger this will bring. Even though life is very difficult now as I live on the cheap and struggle to become halfway fluent in Spanish, I wake up each morning with something I haven’t felt in a long time – hope, real hope.

I promise to send some home.

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We Are All Noor Almaleki

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All of us who genuinely care about women’s rights and the millions of women who live under death sentences due to Islamic gender apartheid have an obligation to follow this trial and to voice what needs to be said about it. Hopefully, with our voices and concern, we can bring not only some kind of justice to Noor’s memory, but also to the memories of the thousands of other honor killing victims — which include those on North American soil, like the Said girls (Amina and Sarah) in Texas and Aqsa Parvez in Toronto.

It is in the Left’s interest that the murders of thousands of innocent Muslim girls like Noor, Aqsa and the Said girls, and the monstrous Islamic ideology that engendered such murders, are pushed into invisibility. For the Left, it is crucial that historical amnesia is imposed on these uncomfortable matters (i.e. the extermination of Muslim girls), for the truth about Islamic honor killing makes it difficult for the Left to pursue its top priority: waging war on capitalism and on its own host society. Indeed, if an adversarial culture and religion turns out to actually be evil, then we might have to admit that there is something good and superior about our own civilization and that it is worth defending. This notion is anathema and unfathomable to the Left — and it explains why leftist feminists like Naomi Wolf engage in a romance with the burqa.

Because of the Left’s agenda, therefore, Noor, Aqsa and the Said girls, and the millions of suffering Muslim women they represent, must therefore be sacrificed on the altar of the Left’s utopian ideals. Feminist freedom fighter, scholar and heroine Phyllis Chesler has illuminated this phenomenon in her masterpiece book, The Death of Feminism, and has deconstructed how it has affected the way our culture deals with honor killings in her documented and unprecedented article, Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?

Pamela Geller, meanwhile, another modern-day freedom fighter and heroine, has stepped forward to bring a voice to the victims of honor killings by reminding us of who they were and how they suffered. All of us have a moral obligation to see her article, Honor Killing: Islam’s Gruesome Gallery, and to support her noble efforts, such as her honor killing awareness campaign, which posts ads on top of taxicabs offering safety to Muslim girls who feel their lives threatened by their families.

Let’s not allow the inhumane and vicious leftist hatred of human life and callous indifference to women’s suffering to continue to control the boundaries of our national discourse. Let’s all stand up during this honor killing trial and let Noor know, and all those who loved her know — and also all those radical Muslims and leftists who want us to forget about her — that she is not forgotten and that we will respect her memory and fight for the protection of future potential victims of Islamic honor murder. And we will not be silent about the Islamic ideology that paved the foundation for the taking of her innocent and precious life.

Let’s all declare with firm unison, loud and clear: We are all Noor Almaleki.

To get the whole story on Islamic honor killings and why the Left excuses them, read Jamie Glazov’s new book, Showdown With Evil.

See also Jamie Glazov on Fox & Friends discussing the New Ground Zero Imam’s Radical Ties:

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  • Chezwick_Mac

    Naomi Wolf and feminists like her embrace the Burkha essentially for one reason (though they publicly espouse others). They really don't want Muslims to progress and evolve beyond their primitive hatreds,…because Islam is the battering-ram which they hope will topple America from its perch of freedom.

  • Dr Bill

    Talk about removing "hate speech" from America, nothing politicians, conservatives, or liberals say can compare to the horrible human injustice indoctrination the mosques and Imams dish out to American citizens. Where does religious freedom end and human rights begin. For Christ's sake, Christian churches are being persecuted for speaking out against homosexuality, but Muslims teach hate, oppression, and murder of all who oppose their beliefs, including their own children. Something is wrong here, seriously wrong. Who's making the laws here?

  • Longdrycreek

    The primitive father ought to be tried and given a quick execution. The Muslims will not learn the lesson but the state will not be charged for his room and board in prison.

    • Michael Elmore

      Longdrycreek, your right. Locking up Muslims does no good. Their minds have been locked up for 1300 years. Going to prison is like vaction for these morons..elmore

  • Abigail

    Bless you, Jamie, for not allowing this horror to be swept beneath the carpets of denial. America must begin to face the truth.

    • jamie glazov

      Thanks Abigail. And bless you too for your fight for the truth.

  • tanstaafl

    Bravo, Glazov! Bravo!

  • 888jah

    I'm so disappointed in our country for not protecting these mulim women from sharia law. Remember Rifqa Bary. If she hadn't run, she would be another Noor. If muslims don't want their families being affected by our culture. Don't come here, stay home or go back to where you came from. I hope America wakes up or we will all be living under sharia law or worse yet, DEAD!

  • SaraElkins

    You are a brave man Jamie! This is the time of truth and the hour of definition for America. IFthe judge interpret as a religion freedom, and this killer gets exonerated, it will means America is submitting to Sharia law.And is America going to react? If he is condemned, how are the islamists going to react?

    Immigrants who don't want to assimilate, are not immigrants! Thay are invaders!

  • http://jc.does-it.net Gene

    All visitors, guests and citizens must abide by the laws of the country and local. True adherents of the Koran refuse to acknowledge any authority in conflict with their belief, and they should, but then they must suffer the consequences when they break the local laws. If that is too much to accept, then do not come here and go to where the Koran is accepted as law. I will not miss you.

  • Chris

    Can't wait to see if any of this appears in the mainstream (liberal) media. Doubt it.

    • 888jah

      Don't hold your breath.

  • kafir4life

    How is it different for a muslim to practice his faith than for a Christian or Jew to practice theirs? If their pedophilic murdering "prophet" says that this is the way to prroperly practice the gutter cult of islam, who are we to say? How is killing a daughter or beheading a wife any different than say, a Catholic praying the Rosary, or a Jew lighting candles. Isn't it really the same thing? Following your faith? Any muslims care to back me up on this one? Crabnutters from Texas?

    • alan g

      Kafir, Its time to pack up your faith and take it to a place where it will be appreciate it. I hear Iran is nice. They practice 15th century islam, just the way you like it. Have fun killing and beheading all you want.

    • CAROLE63

      How can you say that!
      There`s a world of difference, Islam is full of violence and killing!!
      How many catholics or jews have you heard about recently beheading, blowing up people in churches and elsewhere! This is happening all around the world. See Islam-The religion of peace website for a start!!

      • kafir4life

        I am sorry if my sarcasm missed its mark. Islam is truely a gutter cult practiced by brainwashed and braindead followers. Have you ever noticed the dead look in their eyes, especially the women?

        • CAROLE63

          I must have been tired not to realize what you meant!
          Yes, come to think of it I have noticed that when I lived in London!
          Where I live now, in a rural area, I don`t often see any muslims so I`d forgotten.

          I live in a place where it is more how the UK used to be, but how long this will last I don`t know but I`ll enjoy it while I can!

      • Jennifer

        What do you make of the US bombing Iraq, Afghanistan and numerous other countries? Are women being liberated as they are being killed and raped by the US army? What of the Trophy or Sports Killings that happen on a daily basis in Iraq? Has the US spread democracy by invading foreign land and stealing its resources? Or that of Israel's occupation of Palestinians, their deprecations of basic human rights (i.e. food, water, movement etc.) Has Israel's destruction of homes, displacement of people, rape of women, imprisonment of innocent women, CHILDREN and men, has this brought about democracy? Lets cover some domestic issues, such as the priests raping children and going unpunished, the list can go on. Can you truly justify that Christianity or Judaism to be any different from Islam? The world has been so quick to stereotype Islam in one category but that simply shows ignorance. As far as Islam is concerned, Arabs are living in all parts of the world, even here in the US (believe it or not) most of Muslims live a normal peaceful life (shocking, I know) others may practice extremes (such as those of Christianity or Judaism or another religion.) Take a hint and educate yourselves. What this man did was horrendous and unacceptable and he should be punished with the full extent of the law but it does not give you or anyone else the right to stereotype a religion or its peoples based on a small groups actions. I have faith in the youth of our time that they will liberate people such as your self from this hatred towards a people that you only know through the media…A corrupt media to say the least!

  • tagalog

    If the guy didn't want his daughter to adopt Western ways, what in the world possessed him to bring her to the United States, a country known for its seductive culture?

    I mean, we even Coca-Colaized and Disneyfied the French!

    What could he possibly have been thinking, that somehow America wouldn't affect his teenaged child if he immersed her in American culture?

  • BS77

    See the film THE STONING OF SORAYA M and you will understand the mind set of a culture that believes women are chattel, possessions without any rights….

  • RiverFred

    Why are these morons allowed in our country? Don't they get screend for their beliefs? What a beautiful young lady, what a senseless way to die. Lets hope the thousands of Palestinians that Obama allowed to immigrate to the U.S. with assisted education, housing, food, etc. all paid for by taxpayers do not go the way of this jerk.

  • HostileLogic

    "Will the Left, which sees itself as the leader in the field of women’s rights, be in the forefront of this effort on behalf of Noor, who can no longer speak for herself?"

  • Thatcher

    To consider: How would Governor Chris Christie's nominee of a Muslim lawyer (with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood) rule in such a case?

  • pianoforte54

    If Muslims are allowed to practice their sharia law here in the US, then I believe Mormons should be able too. You can't let one segment of society do one thing and then another be prohibited. If our laws are not going to be extended to the Muslim community, then the door is wide open for ANYTHING to be practiced under the guise of religion.

  • Michael Canzano

    Islam ,killed Noor . The Koran killed Noor. The Women's rights groups of America killed Noor. She was killed because she wished to assimilate and refused to live under that tent. She was killed for wanting to be free of that "Junkyard Dog Religion".
    The daily "Suicide Bombings" are a testament to …"An addition of muslims to a Nation is a subtraction in civilization." Wake up America.
    American Christian Infidel
    Michael Canzano

  • CAROLE63

    It is so sad that this beautiful young girl was murdered by her own father!
    The trouble is in Islam men are given permission to treat women like 2nd class citizens and as possessions rather than treating them as equal and with respect for their individuality!
    This religion/ideology is barbaric and evil and is surely not from a loving God!
    I`m afraid to say it is pure evil and can be laid at the door of satan!!

  • Abigail

    Mr . Elmore, you obviously don't know who I am, since you clearly think I know nothing about Islam. Maybe you should read the interview jamie did with me recently here on FP, the articles I've written for him here on FP, my columns for Forbes, my book – something to give you an idea of what you're talking about before you say it.

  • John Corrigan

    Noor was a beautiful young lady and her murder is an incredibly insane act. I've noticed that when I mention this lovely lady and her tragic story to people they do not know what I am talking about. They haven't been told this story by our twisted "politically correct" media. What a total discrace we have become!

  • Phoenix

    You can read Noor's life story in Marie Claire magazine: http://www.marieclaire.com/world-reports/news/lat

  • John42

    While I am heartened to see more men speak up about violence against women, I am disappointed that you simultaneously demonize the women’s movement and those that have been risking their lives to speak out against domestic and cultural violence before you were even born. It makes me question your good intent when I cannot find a single thing you have written in support of women’s rights – without it somehow being twisted to a critique of the “left”. I also find no hint that you have any support from women who work in the field on this issue. Mr. Glazov, do you truly care about Muslim women’s rights, or even Noor Almaleki? Or are you highlighting this issue for your personal gain and to further your career.

  • Senshi

    Islam is a religion of peace! Yeah Right, I say nuts to that. That bastard needs to be force fed the entrails of a pig and executed.

  • luscious twinkle

    I unserstand what you mean….I love my freedom as a western woman and Im probably a bit of a leftie but those leftie feminists you describe are very extreme ones. The truth is that islam is very unpopular in britain….every woman has a story to tell about being harrassed by a muslim man and honour killings have been going on ever since eastern immigrant families arrived. You will find out in the USA that muslims lie and lie and lie about their faith and culture and their intentions…they are slippery as eels and not to be trusted. There are reasons we dislike islam and it is not because we are racist nor prejudice but becuse we are sick of having this cruel,archaic culture growing in our country. I have no problem with any muslim who wants to live in britain and integrate fully – that means letting their daughters (and sons) enjoy the freedoms that all brits have. I don't understand why telling those who do not want to integrate to go and live in a muslim country is considered so out of order….surely it is more outof order that they have brought their hideous customs to our country??? I feel physically sick when I see a woman or worse, child, in hijab or niqab because of what it reprsents. I will be pleased when something is done about this – for the record I love living in a country with Afro-carribeans, Chinese,Buddhists, Jews etc etc….I just want islam on the wane….

  • AR. Bahry

    What her father did was NOT based on religion at all, it was based on tribal tradition where the misogyny prevails. Islam never taught a father to kill his daughter/son. Yes, he dead wrong. Any Qs? email me abahry@hotmail.com, Imam at OH govt. inst.

  • Lily

    Wow. It's unbelievable to see so many comments which stem from a deep ignorance of not knowing abt Islam at all. As a young Muslim woman (expect to get bashed for simply saying this), I can easily say that honor based violence is not a practice of the religion itself, but a CULTURAL practice. It's abt time that people begin to see the difference. Unless you would like for me to go around saying that all white Christians are Timothy McVeighs hoping to cause some destruction? I would think not. So similarly, it's abt time we let go of the ignorance. Hatred of any religion or culture is jus as wrong as honor based violence itself. Grow up, people.

    • 888jah

      Timothy McVeigh was a scapegoat. I think pictures of young girls with their noses cut off, burned by acid or brutally murdered are horrific. I don't want to see sharia law in the USA. I have no hate for muslims but I hate the things some muslims do to their fellow man. That's a big difference.

  • Mary

    "honor killing" is another term for domestic violence. Anyone in this position should be encouraged to file a restraining order & seek support of domestic violence shelters. I mourn the loss of this girl. I have a friend who was murdered by an estranged boyfriend because she wanted to leave him. Noor's life was taken away for the same reason. Someone wanted to control her life & she refused.

    We can not allow violence against women in any form.

  • kellyy

    We are not all her. She was from Iraq and a muslim…a country and religion that processes peace will exacting horrible crimes. Until all religions learn they are not better than any other religion these things will continue to happen.

  • Abigail

    I'm afraid I have to disagree with you very strongly on this last part of your post, Mr. Williams. My closest friend is an Iraqi Muslim who was kidnapped, shot, and left for dead by Iraqi militants because she assisted an American journalist in Basra. She literally risked her life for America, and we owe it to those Iraqis and others like her who have done the same to welcome them to the USA and offer them the freedom they have fought for so valiantly in their own countries. Think of the Iranians forced off the streets in the Green uprisings a couple of years ago, beaten and tortured in Iranian prisons. They are our allies. We need them. And we need to bring them to the US in order to undermine and counterattack, and indeed, in order to call attention to, the extremists in America — because non-Muslims don't have the access or the insight. Beyond the fact that closing borders to people on the basis of their religion is undemocratic and inhumane (Holocaust, anyone?), it is also impossible. All anyone has to do is lie. And in the meantime, what do you do about the fact that the majority of attempted attacks in the past few years on American soil were perpetrated by American-born citizens, converts to Islam, many of them blue-eyed blonds who used to be Boy Scouts and choirboys?

  • Michael Elmore

    Abigali, I am not afraid to disagree with you. We don't need Muslims or Islam, your talking more moral and religious relativisms, the idea of a moderate muslim is one who is disobedient to Islam. The true moderate muslim is the on killing and blowing up people. The extremist is the one doing nothing. Islam stands for nothing short of destroying, subjugating and conquering anything non muslim. Islam has a divine mandate to do so written in the Koran, Haditha and Sira. So the sooner all true Americans learn this the sooner they will take the side of defending principles of Western Civilization and give up the idea that there are nice Muslims that want to assimilate as Americans first, muslims second, there is no separation of church and state in Islam. Just look at the Middle East and ask your self why it's such a sh-t hole and it all comes down to Islam. It's really that simple but that's why it's so hard for people to grasp…elmore

  • Abigail

    So, Mr. Elmore, in your view, Noor, the woman who was killed by her father for Westernizing, basically, you know, deserved it ,because hey, she was a Muslim?

    If I read your words and the writings of Islamic extremists, truly, I can see no difference.

  • Michael Elmore

    Abigali, you just made my point. Noor was killed by a Muslim because she was not a Muslim and that's what Muslims do to Non Muslims. Westernizing and being a true Muslim are incompatible no matter what crap you are hearing from those who say it's a religion of peace. When you study Islam and it's ideology you will come to the same conclusion. You can never win this debate because you have not studied Islam and when you do you are not going to like it, especially being a women. Just ask your self honesty why these people do the things they do and you will find the answer..not trying to be a horses ass I am just being honest..sorry if you find that offensive..have a nice day. elmore


text:
EPA Pollution Mandate Forces Ambulance to Shut Down, Killing Patient

ObamaCare ambulance

Red is the new Green. Or maybe Green is the new Red. The patient in question doesn’t sound like much of a loss, but it could have been anyone. And the bigger story is that the madness of Obama Inc. has gotten us to the point where emergency vehicles shut down automatically to reduce emissions.

DC Fire and EMS officials are explaining why an ambulance had to stop, in the middle of the transport of a suspect who was shot by police.

The ambulance the suspect in stopped short of the hospital, where he later died. Fire officials say it wasn’t because of an attempt to let a suspected cop shooter die in their care, but because a new piece of equipment on their truck meant to reduce diesel emissions forced the ambulance to shut down.

The device which is mandated by the EPA to be on all newer model diesel vehicles is designed to burn of diesel toxins. It does it either automatically or manually. If neither of those happens during a common cycle known as a “re-generating cycle” warning lights will go off and eventually force the vehicle to lose power and shut off.

Critics of this EPA mandate say there should be exemptions for emergency vehicles so this won’t happen.

However, Deputy Chief Donnelly says their challenge is to work within the federal agencies restrictions. Donnelly added, “We’re not in a position to fight the EPA regulations and we’re not even going to try.”

Fighting environmental Green Fascism is becoming an emergency situation.

Over a 20-month period, the San Diego fire department reported more than 500 regeneration-related issues, Firefighter Nation reported in 2011. And the Southeastern Association of Fire Chiefs in 2011 wrote to the EPA outlining the problem and lobbying for an exemption.

“Fire trucks across the country are breaking down at record rates because of this filter system that EPA forces them to use,” the association said.

In many cases, engines running at high levels for long periods of time can generate enough heat to cleanse the filters and avoid a drop or failure in engine performance. But for urban departments, which often perform short runs, the vehicles are required to undergo what’s called “manual regeneration,” in which the vehicle must be parked and the engine run at a high level for an extended period of time in order to generate the heat necessary to burn the soot from the filter.

Just wait till passenger planes shut down in midair and plummet into the ocean in order to save the planet.

  • gee59

    I think that the EPA officials that forced this should be arrested and face a trial for manslaughter

    Obamacare is what is really polluted

  • tanstaafl

    Can this be applied to the emergency vehicles that service Capitol Hill?

  • Gordo

    Ok, so the obvious question. How much extra fuel is burned when the engine has to be run to burn off the emissions it is only regenerating. The IQ at the epa and other government agencies is definitely in the single digits. It is a wonder they figure out how to climb steps since it requires one foot slightly above the other.

  • Raymond in DC

    Something tells me the diesel vehicles in the president's fleet don't have such filter-regeneration systems in place. Butthose vehicles have been brought to a halt even without them. One sent with Obama to Israel last March proved unusable because some knucklehead back in the US filled it with gas instead of diesel.

    • Flowerknife_us

      Par for the course with this administration.

  • Flowerknife_us

    So let me get this strait. The Vehicle needs to have the engine revved for extended periods of time to clean a filter? How does that compute for fuel/mileage standards? How does this "save the Planet" How could the Auto Industry ever let themselves put all of America behind such Idiots?

    Can we all wait for the tandem tractor trailer to suddenly die doing 70 on the expressway?

  • objectivefactsmatter

    "…a new piece of equipment on their truck meant to reduce diesel emissions forced the ambulance to shut down."

    What?! What further proof is needed that our federal government has gone insane over "global warming?"

  • James

    The EPA has done more to DESTROY the environment than help anything. DOCUMENTED FACT!!!

  • crosspatch

    “We’re not in a position to fight the EPA regulations and we’re not even going to try.”

    We should vote those people at EPA out of office … oh, wait …