tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88034659908758775152024-03-07T13:29:15.449-08:00Under The Holly TreeHolly is a symbol of goodwill and joy. In the Victorian language of flowers, holly means foresight. Holly is seen as a symbol of good luck in both Christianity and Islam. But most importantly for me, it is said that disputes are often solved "under the holly tree"Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.comBlogger1274125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-48293620234753132272013-11-02T09:22:00.000-07:002013-11-04T15:57:46.303-08:00The Anatomy of Advertising Deception Using Muslims<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Where to begin? Let's start with the advertisement itself. One that has "stirred controversy" yet according to the company who put out the ad, SnoreStop, their new campaign is supposed to be about diversity while it purposely stirs controversy. They have chosen to portray "couples" Couples who you "don't see but which exist"<br />
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"As a snoring solution company, we're in the business of keeping people
together," said Melody Devemark, spokeswoman and member of the family
that owns the Camarillo, California-based company, in a press release.
"So we found the most polarized couple and thought: 'If we can keep them
together, we can keep anybody together.'"<br />
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The company said the ad is inspired by a real life couple -- veteran Jamie Sutton and his wife Aleah, who is Muslim. (<a href="http://www.10news.com/news/u-s-world/controversial-snorestop-billboard-coming-to-san-diego-103113">source</a>)<br />
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Note the spokeswoman says the ad was "inspired by". She does not claim the couple portrayed on the billboard is an actual couple. Or do
they? Five days ago "Stefanianne" who claims to be part of the promotion
claimed on her <a href="http://instagram.com/p/gBO0ZDy1u3/#">Instagram</a> (note the comment by SlexyDayz and various hashtags)<br />
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Read what is purported in this San Diego FOX News report on the ad. "Officials said the models, U.S. soldier Paul Evans and his Muslim girlfriend are also a real couple."<br />
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Read more: <a href="http://fox5sandiego.com/2013/10/30/head-turning-billboard-coming-to-san-diego/#ixzz2jV6aHkGW" style="color: #003399;">http://fox5sandiego.com/2013/10/30/head-turning-billboard-coming-to-san-diego/#ixzz2jV6aHkGW</a><br />
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Are they? Let's see. Starting with the female in the ad whose name is Lexi Panterra, "slexydayz" First question. Is Lexi a niqabi? Is this how she normally dresses as a conservative Muslim? You can judge for yourself from her own <a href="http://lexypanterra.com/">WEBSITE</a>. <a href="http://vimeo.com/34864513">HERE</a> is a music video of Lexi's. Is niqab her attire as a conservative Muslim? Absolutely not. <br />
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2. Do conservative Muslim women marry non-Muslims? Answer is "no" they don't.Per Islam, Muslim women marry Muslim men. Do mixed marriages occur sometimes between Muslim women and non-Muslim men? Yes. Among secular Muslims, not conservative Muslims who wear niqab, absolutely not. Can a non-Muslim male convert (actual proper term in Islam is REvert) to Islam and marry a Muslim woman? Yes, it happens often. So the billboard might lead a thinking person to "assume" that since they are a "couple" as the company claims, Paul Evans must also be Muslim which is a very reasonable assumptioin due to the fact that there are many Muslims serving in the US military. Of course the woman in the ad is identified easily as a Muslim because she is wearing niqab. Paul Evans however is only portrayed as a soldier with no religious identity indicated in any way. Is this purposeful on the part of the advertising company and SnoreStop? I would say "definitely" otherwise the company would have clearly stated this is a Muslim COUPLE, not just a soldier, Paul Evans with a niqabi who has stated ""You know, as soldiers, that's really what we fight for right there; I
mean, we just want our freedoms, we just want that equality," . (<a href="http://www.10news.com/news/u-s-world/controversial-snorestop-billboard-coming-to-san-diego-103113">source</a>) I ask Mr. Evans, did the US have to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, occupy those countries, in order for you and others to marry or DATE a conservative Muslim niqabi? Shades of WWII occupied Japan and Germany. Why not go further back and portray a US Calvary soldier with a Native American woman? After all, you became a soldier for "freedom" right? <br />
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3. Are Paul Evans and Lexi Panterra (who is not a niqabi) a couple as both the company and Paul Evans claim? One needs to go no further than Lexi's Instagram and Tumbler accounts to find the answer. On Halloween she posted an Instagram video "<a href="http://instagram.com/p/gHWBtLyUdV/">boyfriend's makeup</a>" Is that Paul Evans in the video? No it is not. It is a man named<a href="https://twitter.com/iamBastianP"> Sebastian Praga</a>. How long have Lexi and her boyfriend Sebastian Praga been together? That can be documented per her Tumbler account to some degree by the pictures she has posted of him there. October 18,2013 "<a href="http://slexydayz.tumblr.com/page/7">My boyfriend does my makeup tag</a>". You know conservative Muslim niqabis change out "boyfriends" easily right? They also take niqab on and off easily, one day making sexy music videos, another day donning niqab as an ACTRESS in an ad to "keep couples together" by stopping snoring. </div>
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SnoreStop must not work as claimed to "keep couples together" because if Paul Evans and Lexi Panterra were ever a couple in the first place, they sure aren't now! #product fail #advertising deception #fighting wars so you can have the freedom to DATE slexidayz who dresses up as a niqabi and is NOT a niqabi #using deception in advertising to "stir controversy" when your product does not work as advertised LOL.<br />
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To note, none of the above addresses the use of CONCOCTED political controversy when the US invasioins of Iraq resulted in the deaths of millions of Muslims and countless refugees, the longest US occupatiion of any country, Afghanistan which is an utter fail, the use of drones which have killed countless innocents.<br />
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That's a whole different aspect of this DECEPTIVE advertisement which is easily documented.<br />
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Hat's off to SnoreStop. You pulled a fast one all right. Sleep tight! Don't let the bed bugs bite.<br />
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Video on the making of this ad can be found in <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/soldier-muslim-billboard-ad-snorestop_n_4192238.html">THIS</a> article at Huffington Post. </div>
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To open, what this story is not about. It is not about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatif_rape_case">Qatif Girl</a>. She is but a prop in this instance, used by an organization that has rightfully been named as one of the<a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/163023/fear-inc-americas-islamophobia-network#"> top propagators of Islamophobia</a>, The organization is the Clarion Fund, founded in 2006 by Canadian-Israeli Raphael Shore. Read about this organization <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Clarion_Fund">HERE</a> giving their history, and their agenda.<br />
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Now for the unfolding of the Anatomy of Islamophobia: the REHASH of an old news story, set lose on the Internet. How I saw this unfold (and it's still unfolding as more and more sites are posting this "news")<br />
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On Thursday Sept 26 Nick Kristoff posted the following on his Facebook page, linking to an <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/victim-sentenced-200-lashes-by-saudi-court">article</a> at Examiner.com by Timothy Whiteman (who Loonwatch wrote about in a very interesting <a href="http://www.loonwatch.com/tag/timothy-whiteman/">article</a>) Note how many followers Nick Kristoff has (623,734) Notice how many likes he received for the post.(1,084)<br />
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Then commenters, including myself, did just a bit of digging and realized that the article he had linked to, the story, had an uncanny resemblance to the story of the Qatif Girl. However, what the Whiteman article failed to note was that the Qatif Girl story was old news, she had been <a href="http://www.arabnews.com/node/306849">pardoned in December 2007 by King Abdullah.</a> Whiteman's story is alarming! It is NOW and the girl has had her punishment increased to 200 lashes just this week! Due to proof of how this story seemed eerily similar to the Qatif Girl, Nick Kristoff wrote:<br />
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I asked Kristoff to look into the the organization that had rehashed an old story as "news", leaving out the resolution of the story, the Qatif Girl's pardon. I asked him to look into the Clarion Fund because they are a top propagator of Islamophobia. He ignored me and eventually deleted the entire post writing: "</div>
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When I tried linking to the Clarion Project link Whiteman gave, it didn't work (at that time). So I went to The Clarion Project's Facebook page and lo and behold it was there. That link worked. The article has since been removed from the Clarion Project's Facebook page. As well, the article date on the Clarion Project's website has been changed from September 22, 2013 to <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/saudi-arabia-defends-barabric-sentence-given-rape-victim">November 15, 2007</a> (in keeping with when the news was actually news) As well an UPDATE has been added at the bottom which reads </div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 22px;">Now, here is what I would like you to do, read the comments on <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/victim-sentenced-200-lashes-by-saudi-court">Whiteman's article</a>. It's the usual, Saudi Arabia of course is mentioned, but most of the comments (as usual) are bashing all Muslims. Why? Because this is how it works in the Islamophobe Industry, search out every single thing you can find negative regarding Muslims and then paint all Muslims with that brush. Paint them all as women abusers. (and in Whiteman's case call the Clarion Project a "women's rights news portal which is beyond laughable) Yes Saudi Arabia is rife for use by the Islamophobe Industry but this is NOT about the Qatif Girl or Saudi Arabia, this is about smearing all Muslims any chance you can get, even if it means rehashing OLD news and omitting that the woman in question has been free since December 2007 and never received ANY lashings and lashings are certainly not imminent for her NOW. Indeed it is Whiteman's article that is spreading like wildfire across the internet, now on page after page NOT saying she was pardoned, but rather she is in danger NOW. Shark chum, and boy oh boy are they biting. They always do.<br /><br />Now, just as Whiteman picked up Clarion's Sept 22nd "news" story, another journalist has also picked it up through other sources writing after Clarion's article and written <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/saudi-court-ups-gang-rape-victim-sentence-200-lashes-after-her-lawyer-protests-original">his own story at opposingviews.com</a>. Jonathan Vankin has listed his sources as <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/world/middleeast/16saudi.html?_r=0">New York Times</a>, <a href="http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/WOR-raped-by-seven-men-saudi-woman-sentenced-to-200-lashes-6-months-in-prison-4387244-NOR.html">Daily Bhaskar </a>and <a href="http://ap./">AP.</a> Note the dates on the sources. The NYT article is from 2007, the AP article is from 2007 but the Daily Bhaskar article is dated Sept 27, 2013 and gets it ALL wrong saying the woman was raped on Sept 22 just last week! Notice that the Daily Bhashkar article sites the Clarion Project as the source. (apparently not reading it very thoroughly because Clarion states the case goes back to 2006) How could Jonathan Vanig who has <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=176904368&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=9-3Q&locale=en_US&srchid=109114711380419300289&srchindex=1&srchtotal=2&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A109114711380419300289%2CVSRPtargetId%3A176904368%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary">so many credits to his name </a>get it so wrong? Answer, he did, and he didn't put two and two together that the 2007 articles had an entirely different date on which the woman was raped! I have emailed Mr. Vankin but as of this moment he has not responded to me. How many times is Mr. Vankin's article now going to be shared in Internet Land? How many times is it going to be used NOW as shark chum to bash all Muslims? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 22px;">This latest shark chum all started with the Clarion Fund on Sept 22. They have attempted to cover their tracks, but it doesn't work, for the proof is there above, they published on Sept 22 and since then one more "incident" has hit Internet Land. A woman is going to be lashed 200 times! Look at those EVIL Muslims who are doing this. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 22px;"><br /><br />That old saying, "Everything old is new again" applies.<br /><br />To liars.<br /><br />(I will post updates as they occur)<br /><br />Read: <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia.pdf">Fear Inc.</a><br /><br />Read CAIR's Sept 2013 report </span></div>
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<span id=".reactRoot[508].[1][2][1]{comment226962750772240_891242}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[24]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">He says Belkacem Nahi Coordinator Development of the Organization of your Islam reliving in an interview for "Elaph": "" We feel regret bitterly to prevent Sheikh Ayed Al-Qarni of attendance for charity ceremony which will be held in the states of Washington, DC and California and New Jersey, Chicago, and all the sons of the Muslim community spread in the United States was a great longing to meet him. "</span><br id=".reactRoot[508].[1][2][1]{comment226962750772240_891242}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[25]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><br id=".reactRoot[508].[1][2][1]{comment226962750772240_891242}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[26]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><span id=".reactRoot[508].[1][2][1]{comment226962750772240_891242}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[27]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">The organization spent your Islam reliving tens of thousands of dollars to rent rooms in plush hotels U.S. where he planned Qarni delivering his speeches in front of the crowd.</span><br id=".reactRoot[508].[1][2][1]{comment226962750772240_891242}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[28]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><br id=".reactRoot[508].[1][2][1]{comment226962750772240_891242}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[29]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><span id=".reactRoot[508].[1][2][1]{comment226962750772240_891242}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[30]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">According Belkacem Nahi that "his organization has invited to the sons of the Muslim community in America because they know the weight of the volume of Sheikh Al-Qarni Islamic as an advocate large and unpopular massive, has been renting rooms within months hotels U.S. and room for five thousand people in the lecture" one, adding that being Muslim Reliving has lost all financial and insurance developed in order to book those halls after the ban.</span><br /><br />
Al-Qarni was denied entry by Homeland Security. Islamic Relief's attorneys failed to successfully intervene on his behalf. CAIR's Nihad Awad also stated that CAIR was willing to offer their legal services on Al-Qarni's behalf should he request. <br />
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No doubt Al-Qarni was not denied entry due to his stance on women driving, However Islamic Relief and MSA-ICNA both had this "sheikh" scheduled to speak at their events that stated the following in regards to why the women of Saudi Arabia should not be allowed to drive:<br /><br /><span id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[32]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">“One: I do not see women driving cars in our country because of the consequences that would spring from it such as the spread of corruption, women uncovering their hair and faces, mingling between the sexes, men being alone with women and the destruction of the family and society in whole.</span><br id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[33]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><br id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[34]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><span id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[35]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">“Two: Sadd Al-Dharaie principle (the closing of doors which could lead to corruption or sinful actions) is one of the values in our religion. Women driving cars is a sinful thing. It is used by those who want to wage a war against purity and hijab.</span><br id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[36]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><br id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[37]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><span id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[38]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">“Three: One of the principles of our religion is protecting honor and moral values. Women driving cars would threaten these principles because of the dire consequences resulting from it.</span><br id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[39]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><br id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[40]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><span id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[41]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">“Four: Such public issues must be brought up with the certified religious institution who have the say in such matters as I have said many times before.”</span><br id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[42]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><br id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[43]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><span id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[44]" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">*source of above quotes </span><a href="http://www.arabnews.com/node/243514" id=".reactRoot[403].[1][2][1]{comment10151358677171140_9973939}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[45]" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #f1f2f6; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">http://www.arabnews.com/node/243514</a><br />
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On the website for the MSA-ICNA event Al-Qarni's "bio" was posted without one word regarding his stance on women. <a href="http://www.masicna.com/conv2012/2012GuestSpeakers/tabid/118/post/sh-ayed-al-qarni/Default.aspx">LINK</a>.<br /><br />When his visit was denied they posted <a href="http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Unpleasant-News--Dr--Ayed-Al-Qarni-denied-access-to-board-plane-.html?soid=1103542047386&aid=AkU-u_-gD18">THIS</a> announcement. Again, without a word regarding his "sheik's" stance on women driving in Saudi Arabia where it is these very clerics who speak such words about women.<br /><br />"Sheikh" Al-Qarni was also scheduled to speak at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/274320312685235/308972232553376/?comment_id=309480295835903&notif_t=event_mall_reply">THIS</a> Islamic Relief event Jan. 30<br /><br />My open question to the above entities is very simple, why would a Saudi cleric who has this stance on women be invited as a guest to the United States to speak at several events, thousands of dollars spent on him?<br /><br />Is this something that any of the above entities wish their interfaith partners (which are many) to know? Why on God's green Earth would this man who is an integral member of the very apparatus that oppresses Saudi women be sponsored by Islamic Relief, invited to speak by MSA-ICNA and defended by CAIR simply because he is Muslim?Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-2418730882014957302012-07-12T14:26:00.002-07:002012-07-12T14:33:35.963-07:00Facebook Activism per Urban DictionaryFrom Urban Dictionary:<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><table id="entries" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; width: 475px; margin-bottom: 5px; "><tbody><tr style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><td class="word" style="vertical-align: top; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: black; ">Facebook Activism</td><td class="tools" id="tools_3947072" style="vertical-align: top; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; line-height: 20px; "><span class="status"><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Facebook%20Activism#" style="color: black; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; "><b>413</b> up</a>, <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Facebook%20Activism#" style="color: black; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; "><b>15</b> down</a></span><span class="thumbs"><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Facebook%20Activism#" id="thumbs_down_3947072" class="thumbs_down" style="color: rgb(14, 66, 108); display: block; height: 19px; width: 19px; float: right; margin-left: 4px; background-image: url(data:image/gif;charset=utf-8;base64,R0lGODlhEwATAPQVAP/fqqp/AKp/VaqfVaqfqqq/qtR/ANSfANSfVdSfqtS/VdS/qtTfqtTf//+fAP+fVf+/Vf+/qv/fVaCgpMDcwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAUAABUALAAAAAATABMAQAWVYCVWjWIizKiOFBJAMKxIsQIjY0MgiLL+osZAACHSIDQJoKYSBh4OhACxAIpaD0hAIolIGD1GarQgEmNI2BI2YBEEggA8hhgUKI3mBPE4IChWgYIrCzwQERAKPGM/CS4wXkpKEIUKVRUtLxAISACSaYkiBZqaR6AyIgsEQ2hoPHWXV45nmwMTgQsGfLCDLa+xvXeDIiEAOw==); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></a><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Facebook%20Activism#" id="thumbs_up_3947072" class="thumbs_up" style="color: rgb(14, 66, 108); display: block; height: 19px; width: 19px; float: right; margin-left: 4px; background-image: url(data:image/gif;charset=utf-8;base64,R0lGODlhEwATAPQTAP/fqqp/AKp/VaqfVaqfqqq/qtR/ANR/VdSfVdSfqtS/VdS/qtTfqtTf//+fVf+/Vf/fVaCgpMDcwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAUAABMALAAAAAATABMAQAWT4CSO5LggDCkhT9tC7wMBkLOUUyMVBDEIAQFCgsOdZADFbVRAKByuqEzwEKSKpMVAAUBgJwMWLBxALEVNqMK1bgEeAUhAJElEfILDo12tJr6AgSYDD16CDAQuZ0VaYgsPA0YKCJQubzOQZ01SMS0CMwIiBCycLZNThloOQXucMHMiOhISCxE/BlQtZYE6BAULRCQhADs=); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></a></span></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><td style="vertical-align: top; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "></td><td class="text" colspan="2" id="entry_3947072" style="vertical-align: top; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding-right: 15px; line-height: 1.8; padding-bottom: 10px; "><div class="definition">The illusion of dedication to a cause through no-commitment awareness groups. <b>Specifically in reference to Facebook groups centered around political issues</b>.</div><div class="example" style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; ">Dave: Man, this genocide in Darfur is terrible. I sure wish I could make a difference.<br /><br />Jenna: Well, I made a facebook group about it. We have almost one million members!<br /><br />Dave: That's great! Are you all going to donate money to refugees or something?<br /><br />Jenna: No, but now those murderers will really know how sad we are!<br /><br />Dave: Sounds like you're really into your Facebook activism!</div><div class="example" style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><br /></div><div class="example" style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; ">^^^^^^^ Question: Are you really an activist in real life? Who are you friending on Facebook ? Are you able to verify your "friend" on Facebook is real and is an activist for REAL? </div><div class="example" style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><br /></div><div class="example" style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; ">Stupid question of the day. If the answer to the above question does not fit within the peramerters of REAL LIFE activism and REAL LIFE precautions any sane person would take, what the hell are you doing on Facebook?</div><div class="example" style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; "><br /></div><div class="example" style="font-style: italic; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; ">Enquiring minds would like to know......</div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-38226396456719302862012-07-11T13:23:00.003-07:002012-07-11T13:23:52.018-07:00How to become a "Palestinian" activist on Facebook1. Come up with a decent enough sounding name.<br />
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2. If you are on Timeline, put up a nice banner. Using the Palestinian flag as your profile picture comes in handy.<br />
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3. Post some articles on your wall about Palestine. This may take a little while, actually not long at all, if you have pro-Palestinian articles on your wall, you must be pro-Palestinian. Everyone with any brains knows that right?<br />
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4. To gain credibility choose some high profile activists to send friend requests to. These folks have thousands on their lists, certainly all those folks must be real right? You know this because you have heard of them other places OR they also have outward appearances of being pro-Palestinian. This is KEY to getting your foot in the door due to ........... #5<br />
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5. The key is "mutuals". You know how that one goes. If you have a whole lot of "mutuals" with someone, especially high profile Palestinian activists, then BINGO this person sending you a friend request must be legitimate. (hint hint, that high profile activist has no time for this sort of baloney, it's "only facebook" and they're so busy with all their real stuff they don't have time to check anyone out, if they want to be their friend then that is really REALLY "nice")<br />
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6. Once you get your foot in the door, the sky's the limit. The more friends you make, the more friends you are able to make because gee whiz, if someone has that many friends they must be real!<br />
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7. Now what can you do once you are "in" as a pro-"Palestinian" FACEBOOK "activist", gee whiz, I can't think of anything at all harmful can you?<br />
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Now that you know the basics of "How to become a pro-"Palestinian" activist on Facebook, HAVE FUN. There's a whole world out there for you to meander through. On any given day you can make more "friends", join Facebook groups, hell you might even get made an administrator on some of these groups and then you are REALLY "in". This last part is just a perk that may or may not occur. This may take some patience on your part but ya know that saying, who won the race, the tortoise or the hare?<br />
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Stay low, enjoy all your new friends just like they are enjoying you when they don't even know who the hell you are! But you have Facebook friends and a whole lot of them too so you must really be somebody. Oh, one thing, make sure you at least try to continue to appear pro-Palestinian. Any cracks in your appearance and some of these "activists" may notice, but hey, not necessarily cuz to each their own who they friend on Facebook.<br />
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Thus is the land of Facebook activism. It's "only Facebook" right?Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-434798738090623502012-07-01T20:30:00.001-07:002012-07-01T20:30:43.563-07:00Why oh why did I ever stop blogging? I miss it here. I need some inspiration.............. The entire format of blogger has changed since I was last here. I used to write, I really did. I didn't think I could get back in here. Now..... let's see. Can't come up with anything at the moment. I miss my old blogging friends!<br />
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<br />Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-80334037971780450752011-01-04T13:43:00.000-08:002011-01-04T13:45:59.100-08:00Martyr's Funeral Jawaher Abu Rahmah-Bilin 01.01.2011<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/99pRhZNBYWk?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/99pRhZNBYWk?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-14558559797814751972010-11-04T09:57:00.000-07:002010-11-04T12:49:09.638-07:00The Last Bastion of Acceptable Racism in the US, Islamophobia, MUST GO!<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Racism in America, a touchy touchy subject these days. With our nation electing it's first African American president, it would be utterly foolish to say that it has not flared again. As the underlying and often outright tone of many of the attacks against Obama are noticeably racist (not legitimate debate on policy disagreements), it would also be undeniable to say that racism against African Americans has become totally unacceptable. Unacceptable because racism in ANY form is unacceptable.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Or is it? Unquestionably the last bastion of racism in the US which is acceptable to spout is racism against Muslims. Witness the wild flurry leading up to 911 this year concerning the Park51 project. Not racist you say? All one needs to do is watch the videos of the protest against Park51, the nature of the signage and the crazed rantings of so many of Park51's opponents to see that at best the opposition was thinly veiled racism and at worst full-blown racism against Muslims. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" 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style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">F</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">O</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">X</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">N</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" 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style="font-size:medium;">u</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">u</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" 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style="font-size:medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">y</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">p</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">c</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" 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style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">y</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">u</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">911 came and went this year, "Pastor" Terry Jones of Florida backed down from burning</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">K</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">m</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" 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style="font-size:medium;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">d</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Note: none of the 911 hijackers <a href="http://www.muhajabah.com/otherscondemn.php">whose actions have been condemned soundly by statements and fatwas from Muslim organizations world</a> wide were "dressed in "Muslim garb". Note also that the myth is still perpetuated that Muslims have not condemned these horrendous acts when this simply is NOT the case.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As we all know, Juan Williams was fired following his statement on FOX. Subsequently CAIR has been blamed erroneously for the firing when the only thing CAIR did was ask</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">NPR to address Juan Williams' statement. CAIR did NOT ask for him to be fired, it was NPR who terminated his contract with him. Immediately following and since his firing</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">CAIR has been under attack. By threatening emails sent to them and public reaction</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the firing of Juan Williams and support of his right to make the statement he did has</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">far outweighed those who agree he should have been fired. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">However, there is much more to this story than what is apparent on the surface. There</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">are also questions that need to be asked of Juan Williams himself. Today an <a href="http://www.trivalleycentral.com/articles/2010/11/04/florence_reminder_blade_tribune/top_stories/doc4cd1e29f4a0f0946475257.txt">article was published </a>which does ask Juan Williams a pointed question:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br /><i><blockquote>"Were he to get pulled over by a cop who made him get out of his car and submit to a full body-search, would he say “That’s OK officer. I know you’re just expressing your honest feeling that most black people driving nice cars are criminals”?</blockquote></i><br /><br />Unfortunately Juan Williams himself perpetuated the idea in his own statement that he was fired by NPR BECAUSE he did not fit NPR's mold as a Black liberal. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mold? What mold Juan?<br /><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You were already on notice from NPR for other infractions and this time as stated by NPR you were fired due to breach of your employer's ethics code. A reminder of what those codes are which Juan Williams agreed to follow in signing his contract with NPR:<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/ethics/ethics_code.html" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "aca31FNWhNG01j--mceQt_7vByA", event);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/ethics/ethics_code.html</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br />Now, lets compare Juan Williams' statement about being frightened of getting on planes with people in "Muslim garb" to the point made by the author of this article, would Juan Williams have a problem being pulled over for driving while Black simply because the police officer had an "honest feeling that most black people driving nice cars are criminals"? Note, it doesn't have to be "nice cars", it can be any car can't it? The point being that this Black man is in the wrong neighborhood, he must be up to no good, he doesn't belong here, reason for suspicion.<br /><br />While racism against African Americans has become RIGHTFULLY politically incorrect in this country to publicly espouse, it hasn't stopped die hard racists from continuing to flaunt their racism. Take the case of White Nationalism which exists here til this day. Leading the pack of US White Nationalists is David Duke. What is he up to these days besides announcing his potential run for the presidency in 2012? Well David Duke has glommed on to a recent news item about a cheerleader in Texas who was raped at a drunken party in 2008. Evidently the rapist was allowed to continue playing football while the girl was kicked off her cheer team for refusing to cheer him. The story is outrageous, but what aspect of the story did David Duke hone in on? The fact that the rapist was Black, and that these sort of things didn't occur in Silsbee, Texas until Blacks started moving in.<br />This is important, watch David Duke's video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZAFhf3hXw">HERE</a>: at 4:40 he states, <blockquote><i>"There was a time when Silsbee High School was entirely European American, parents never had to worry about their teenage girl getting raped at school or at a school party, much less gang raped, during that time gang rapes of 16 year old girls was simply inconceivable"</i></blockquote></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Student while Black. Before these non-White Europeans moved in there was never anything to worry about at Silsbee High. Got that? White Europeans don't do such things, never in Silsbee. Silsbee was the perfect little White hamlet at one time wasn't it Mr. Duke?<br /><br />There's just one problem with Mr. Duke's statement (besides the point that it is utter RACISM), while unable to find evidence of past gang rapes in Silsbee which I am SURE have occurred since gang rape in this country crosses all socio-economic and racial boundaries and does not stop at any municiple border, I was able to find the list of registered sex offenders for the town of Silsbee, and surprise surprise NOT, there are White registered sex offenders a plenty in this priorly perfect little hamlet. Note: the term "aggravated sexual assault"=rape.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.city-data.com/so/so-Silsbee-Texas.html" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "aca31yKamNXqMz_gZKpZiahkk-Q", event);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">http://www.city-data.com/so/so-Silsbee-Texas.html</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br />Now back to Juan Willliams being frightened of those in "Muslim garb". Just as David Dukes utter racism paints Blacks as the criminal element bringing "this sort of thing" to what used to be the perfect little White hamlet of Silsbee, Texas, so is Juan Williams statement that he is fearful of those in "Muslim garb" RACIST. To collectively hang the tag of criminal on ANY group of people is RACIST. Juan Williams would NOT accept being pulled over for "driving while black" any more than he would accept David Duke's assertion that Silsbee, Texas was just a wonderful place to live before the undesirables (Blacks) moved into town.<br /><br />Just as David Duke's racism is unacceptable, so was Juan Williams' statement and those supporting his right to have this "feeling" are both unacceptable.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Fear of those in "Muslim garb" or Muslims in general=fear of those "driving while Black"/fear of "undesirables" (African Americans) in the neighborhood.<br /><br />While it is RIGHTFULLY politically incorrect and WRONG to harbor racist sentiments against African Americans in this country, it must ALSO become unacceptable to harbor racist sentiments towards Muslims.<br /><br />NO TO RACISM no matter what form it takes.<br /><br />NO TO RACISM against Muslims, it is time to bury the acceptance of this vile sentiment.</span></span></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-34857150809067272042010-10-20T17:56:00.000-07:002010-10-20T18:08:26.695-07:00Queridos mineros chilenos, por favor no acepten la invitación de Israel!The <a href="http://thehollytree.blogspot.com/2010/10/dear-chilean-miners-please-do-not.html">letter I wrote to the Chilean miners</a> (in English)concerning the all-expense paid offered to them by Israel to visit the Christian holy sites at Christmas, the two most important of which (Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Bethlehem) are in occupied Palestine, has been translated and <a href="http://www.oicpalestina.org/ver_noticias.php?id=6801">published on the website for the Palestinian Foundation of Chile</a>. Shukran khatier:<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><table width="100%" border="0" id="ver_masnoticias"><tbody><tr valign="bottom"></tr><tr><td colspan="4" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div align="justify"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Queridos sobrevivientes de la mina chilena:<br />Ustedes no saben de mí. Yo sólo soy un bloggero/actvista por la paz estadounidense que ha seguido sus esfuerzos heroicos por sobrevivir a los 69 días de prueba y los esfuerzos heroicos por salvarlos. Con asombro he visto cómo los subían uno a uno hacia la libertad desde ese infierno bajo tierra, donde por tanto tiempo no se sabía si iban a vivir o morir. De hecho, el mundo entero vio cuando fueron rescatados entre la alegría estruendosa de sus seres queridos reunidos y sentados en vigilia por ustedes durante tanto tiempo, insistiendo en que estaban vivos, insistiendo en que siguienran los esfuerzos de rescate, orando juntos por su seguridad. El mundo entero se regocija por su retorno a salvo hacia la superficie junto a sus seres queridos.<br /><br />Ahora es vuestro tiempo para que se recuperen de su terrible experiencia, para el reajuste en la superficie viviendo con todos los aspectos físicos que esto implica, así como también con los emocionales. Sin embargo, hay personas que desean adherirse de alguna manera a su rescate y lo que ellos ven es un estatus de celebridad para realizando invitaciones públicas para ir a visitarlos.<br /><br />Cuidado con los regalos de caballo de Troya. Las invitaciones de viajes con todos los gastos pagados se emiten con su propia imagen e intereses en el corazón.<br /><br />Hoy he leído que han recibido una invitación del Ministerio de Turismo israelí para visitar la Tierra Santa, donde empezó el cristianismo, donde está ubicado el más sagrado de los sitios cristianos. Ellos les han ofrecido pagar por la totalidad de su viaje allí, para que ustedes puedan visitar "Israel". Le están ofreciendo este viaje en Navidad como un "regalo para ti"<br /><br />Les pido que por favor no acepten esta invitación. Ustedes no están siendo solo invitados a visitar "Israel," se le está pidiendo ir a visitar los lugares santos que han estado bajo la ocupación israelí de Palestina durante 42 años, sitios a los que habitualmente se les niega el acceso a los palestinos cristianos por parte de su ocupante.<br /><br />En junio, el Vaticano ha emitido un documento que deplora la negación del acceso a los cristianos a los lugares sagrados bajo la ocupación, deniminando como "injusta" la ocupación.<br /><br />Ustedes serán llevados a la Iglesia del Santo Sepulcro en Jerusalén oriental ocupada que diariamente le niega el acceso a los palestinos cristianos. Ustedes también visitarán Belén, el lugar donde nació Cristo, que ha estado bajo la ocupación israelí durante 42 años. Muy cerca se encuentra la casa de la tienda Daoud Nassar de las Naciones Unidas que está continuamente bajo la amenaza de demolición por parte de Israel.<br /><br />Los palestinos cristianos sufren las mismas desgracias que sus compatriotas musulmanes bajo la ocupación israelí.<br /><br />Por esta razón la Declaración de el Cairo pide el fin a la ocupación de Palestina tras 42 largos años de violación directa al derecho internacional.<br /><br />Introducción<br /><br />Nosotros, un grupo de palestinos cristianos, después de la oración, la reflexión y el intercambio de opiniones, clamamos desde el sufrimiento en nuestro país, bajo la ocupación israelí, con un grito de esperanza en la ausencia de toda esperanza, un grito lleno de oración la fe en Dios y el siempre vigilante, en la providencia divina de Dios para todos los habitantes de esta tierra. Inspirado por el misterioso amor de Dios hacia todos, el misterio de la presencia divina de Dios en la historia de todos los pueblos y, de una manera particular, en la historia de nuestro país, proclamamos nuestra palabra sobre la base de nuestra fe cristiana y nuestro sentido de Palestina Perteneciente - la palabra de fe, esperanza y amor.<br /><br />¿Por qué ahora? Porque hemos llegado hoy a un punto muerto en la tragedia del pueblo palestino. Los responsables en la toma de decisiones en las gestiones de la crisis se contentan en lugar de comprometerse en la tarea de encontrar una manera de resolverlo. Los corazones de los fieles están llenos de dolor y preguntándose: ¿Qué está haciendo la comunidad internacional? ¿Que están haciendo los líderes políticos en Palestina, en Israel y en el mundo árabe? ¿Qué hace la Iglesia? El problema no es sólo de carácter político. Es la política en que los seres humanos son destruidos, y esto debe ser motivo de preocupación para la Iglesia.<br /><br />Nos dirigimos a nuestros hermanos y hermanas, miembros de nuestras iglesias en esta tierra. Hacemos un llamado a los cristianos y a los palestinos, a los líderes religiosos y políticos, a nuestra sociedad palestina y a la sociedad israelí, a la comunidad internacional, y a nuestros hermanos y hermanas de las Iglesias de todo el mundo.<br /><br />Todos los días equipos cristianos por la paz trabajan en los Territorios Ocupados para proteger a los palestinos de la ocupación militar y de los ataques rutinarios de los colonos.<br /><br />La Teología de la Liberación en América Latina ha desempeñado un papel importante en la provisión de apoyo y consuelo a los oprimidos. Palestina también tiene una organización, Teología de la Liberación de Palestina (Saabel), que aboga por la libertad de los oprimidos bajo la ocupación israelí y la política del gobierno. Estos son tus hermanos y hermanas en Cristo, en la humanidad.<br /><br />Las conversaciones de paz en el levantamiento de la ocupación de Palestina no han llegado a ninguna parte en 42 años, Israel ha continuado violando el derecho internacional al continuar construyendo asentamientos en los territorios ocupados. Israel se ha negado a extender la congelación de diez meses en la construcción, siendo una violación directa al dereho internacional.<br /><br />Ahora el Ministerio de Turismo de Israel le ha cursado una invitación con todos los gastos pagados para visitar los "lugares sagrados" en "Israel". La Iglesia del Santo Sepulcro, el más sagrado de los santuarios cristianos, se encuentra en la Jerusalén oriental ocupada. Belén, el lugar de nacimiento de Cristo, se encuentra en la Cisjordania ocupada. Estos son sólo dos lugares santos cristianos que Israel desea tomar y sacar provecho de su celebridad para su propio beneficio.<br /><br />Yo mismo como cristiano, le ruego no aceptar esta invitación, no hasta que Israel se retire luego de 42 largos años de ocupación ilegal de Palestina. La Navidad es nuestro tiempo para celebrar el nacimiento de Cristo, no sólo en desmedro de los que viven bajo ocupación en su ciudad natal, al aceptar un regalo de su ocupante.<br /><br />Queridos mineros, quizás ustedes nunca puedan llegar a leer esta carta, pero de alguna manera debe llegar, porque fue escrita desde mi corazón, al corazón de ustedes, los hombres valientes que sobrevivieron, por la gracia de Dios, que todavía están con nosotros.<br /><br />Bendiciones a ustedes en paz,<br /><br />Robin<br /><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21505">Global Research</a></span></span></div></td></tr><tr valign="bottom"><td height="30" colspan="2" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div align="right"><a href="http://www.oicpalestina.org/index.php" class="Estilo18" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; "></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-91957526169539240472010-10-18T13:19:00.000-07:002010-10-18T16:14:29.658-07:00Dear Chilean miners, please do not accept Israel's invitationDear Survivors of the Chilean Mine Trap,<div><br /></div><div>You do not know me. I am just an American blogger/peace actvist who has followed your heroic efforts to survive your 69 day ordeal and the heroic efforts to save you. With wonder I watched as you were brought up one by one to freedom from your underground hell, where for so long you did not know if you would live or die. Indeed the whole world watched as you were rescued in thunderous joy that you would be reunited with your loved ones who had sat vigil for you for so long, insisting you were alive, insisting the rescue effort keep on, praying together for your safety. The entire world rejoices in your safe return above ground to your loved ones.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now it is your time to recover from your ordeal, to readjust to above ground living with all the physical aspects that entails as well as the emotional ones. Yet people who wish to somehow attach themselves to your rescue and what they see as your celebrity status are now issuing public invitations for you to visit them. </div><div><br /></div><div>Beware the Trojan horse bearing gifts. For their all-expense paid trip invitations are being issued with their own interest and image at heart.</div><div><br /></div><div>Today I read that you have received an <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=191877">invitation from the Israeli Tourist Ministry</a> to visit the Holy Land where Christianity began, where the holiest of Christian sites are located. They have offered to pay for your entire trip there, for you to visit "Israel". They are offering you this trip at Christmas time as a "gift to you"</div><div><br /></div><div>I am asking you please to not accept this invitation. You are not just being invited to visit "Israel", you are being asked to visit holy sites which have been under the Israeli occupation of Palestine for 42 years, sites that Palestinian Christians are routinely denied access to by their occupier. </div><div><br /></div><div>In June the Vatican issued a paper deploring the denial of access to Christians to the holy sites under occupation, <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/israeli-occupation-unjust-says-vatican/story-e6frf7jx-1225874281780">calling the occupation "unjust"</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>You would be taken to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in occupied East Jerusalem which Israel routinely denies access to for Christian Palestinians. You would also be taken to Bethlehem, the birth place of Christ, which has been under Israeli occupation for 42 years. Nearby is the home of Daoud Nassar's <a href="http://www.tentofnations.org/">Tent of Nations</a> which is continually <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/08/update-from-the-tent-of-nations.html">under threat of demolition by Israel</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Christian Palestinians suffer just as horrifically under the occupation as do their fellow Muslim Palestinians.</div><div><br /></div><div>For this reason the Kairos Declaration was issued which calls for an end to the 42 year long occupation of Palestine which is in direct violation of international law.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(34, 27, 27); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Corbel, Frutiger, 'Frutiger 45', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.2857em; line-height: 1em; "></h3><blockquote><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.3em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Corbel, Frutiger, 'Frutiger 45', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.2857em; line-height: 1em; ">Introduction</h3><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2857em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2857em; ">We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God’s divine providence for all the inhabitants of this land. Inspired by the mystery of God's love for all, the mystery of God’s divine presence in the history of all peoples and, in a particular way, in the history of our country, we proclaim our word based on our Christian faith and our sense of Palestinian belonging – a word of faith, hope and love.</p><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2857em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2857em; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Why now?</b> Because today we have reached a dead end in the tragedy of the Palestinian people. The decision-makers content themselves with managing the crisis rather than committing themselves to the serious task of finding a way to resolve it. The hearts of the faithful are filled with pain and with questioning: What is the international community doing? What are the political leaders in Palestine, in Israel and in the Arab world doing? What is the Church doing? The problem is not just a political one. It is a policy in which human beings are destroyed, and this must be of concern to the Church.</p><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2857em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2857em; ">We address ourselves to our brothers and sisters, members of our Churches in this land. We call out as Christians and as Palestinians to our religious and political leaders, to our Palestinian society and to the Israeli society, to the international community, <b>and to our Christian brothers and sisters in the Churches around the world</b>.</p></blockquote><p class="bodytext" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2857em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.2857em; "></p></span></div><div>Read the entire Kairos Declaration <a href="http://www.oikoumene.org/gr/resources/documents/other-ecumenical-bodies/kairos-palestine-document.html">HERE</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Every day <a href="http://www.cpt.org/work/palestine">Christian Peacemaker Teams</a> in the Occupied Territory work to protect Palestinians from their military occupation and settlers who routinely assault them.</div><div><br /></div><div>In Latin America liberation theology has played a large role in providing solace and support to the oppressed. Palestine also has an organization, <a href="http://www.sabeel.org/">Sabeel-Palestine Liberation Theology</a>, which calls for the freedom of the oppressed under Israeli occupation and government policy. These are your brothers and sisters in Christ, in humanity. </div><div><br /></div><div>As peace talks in lifting the occupation of Palestine have not gotten anywhere in 42 years, Israel has continued to violate international law by continuing to build settlements in the occupied territories. Israel has refused to extend their ten month freeze on building which is in direct contravention of international law. </div><div><br /></div><div>Now the Ministry of Tourism of Israel has issued you an invitation for an all-expense paid trip to visit the "holy sites" in "ISRAEL". The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest of Christian shrines, is located in occupied East Jerusalem. Bethlehem, the birth place of Christ, is located in the occupied West Bank. These are only two Christian holy sites that Israel wishes to take you to and to somehow capitalize on your celebrity by their offer. </div><div><br /></div><div>As a Christian myself, I beg you not to accept this invitation, not while Israel refuses to withdraw from their 42 year long illegal occupation of Palestine. Christmas is our time to celebrate the birth of Christ, not to do so to the detriment of those living under occupation in his birthplace by accepting a gift from their occupier.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dear miners, you may never read this letter to you, but should it somehow reach you, it was written to you from my heart, to the hearts of you brave men who survived, by the grace of God, you are still with us.</div><div><br /></div><div>Blessings to you in peace,</div><div>Robin</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-41727602844805518992010-08-25T10:03:00.000-07:002010-08-25T10:06:14.767-07:00What it means to be an American - Have You Forgotten?<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:monospace, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: normal; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The footage is old, the concepts are older, but they've never been more applicable than they are today.<br /><br />Never forget what it is that makes America great especially as our cultural dialogue focuses and polarizes around race, religion and cultural identity.<br /><br />SB 1070? 9/11 Mosques? Is Obama a Muslim? Socialism? Muslim?<br /><br />Footage dates back to a 1947 documentary entitled Don't Be A Sucker produced by the US Government. I've added the comment at the end and shot the color footage.<br /><br />Remember, your duty to your country is constant. It's a fundamental duty to fight for equality - both for yourself and your fellow human.<br /><br />Stand up for what is right. Stand up for America!<br /><br />Original footage by the US War Department, 1947 Available at<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947" target="_blank" title="http://www.archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 51, 204); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; ">http://www.archive.org/details/DontBe...</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w03tJ3IkrM&feature=youtu.be">SOURCE</a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0w03tJ3IkrM?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0w03tJ3IkrM?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></span>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-16925403277260818802010-08-22T18:41:00.000-07:002010-08-22T18:45:02.683-07:00Al Wasat Interview with Imam Abdul Rauf of the "Ground Zero Mosque"With today's explosive hate filled protest of the Cordoba Initiative/Park51 project and Daisy Khan, wife of Imam Rauf appearing in the US Media, the imam himself who rarely gives interviews did just that today in Bahrain while on a US State Department trip promoting relations between the US and Muslim nations. Al-Wasat has the ability to translate into English, so here it is<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><h1 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Abdul Rauf: Aim for rooting the positive role of Muslims in their communities</span></span></h1><p class="news_source" style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Center - Mansour Jamri</span></span></p><div style="padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); float: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img src="http://www.alwasatnews.com/data/2010/2908/images/thumb_int-m-1.jpg" title="«Center» dialogue Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (Photo: Mohammed Almkrq)" /></span><div style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 1px; margin-right: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 1px; background-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">«Center» dialogue Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (Photo:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mohamed Almkrq)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><a id="thumb" href="http://www.alwasatnews.com/data/2010/2908/images/int-m-1.jpg" class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 70, 89); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img src="http://www.alwasatnews.com/images/zoom.png" border="0" style="cursor: url(http://www.alwasatnews.com/library/3dp.js/highslide/graphics/zoomin.cur), pointer !important; border-top-width: 2px; border-right-width: 2px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: silver; border-right-color: silver; border-bottom-color: silver; border-left-color: silver; " /></span></a></div></div><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Prime «Cordoba Initiative» Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who oversees the plan for the construction of a mosque in New York near the site subjected to attacks of 11 September 2001 (Ground Zero), that the constitutional rights granted to the Muslims in the United States and a broad and more in line with the principles of Islamic law restrictions imposed by some Islamic countries.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He added that the civil and religious freedoms set forth in the Constitution reflect the essence of Islamic values.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This came in an interview «center» with Abdul Rauf, the day of his visit to Bahrain, and will also take him to Qatar and the UAE in his tour in the region to discuss efforts to combat extremism and spread the concepts of dialogue and tolerance among followers of religions, as well as spreading the idea put forward by «Initiative Cordoba »aims to keep the letter to the American Muslim is consistent with being Muslim, as well as U.S. citizens they are to other duties and to them as to other rights.</span></span></p><hr style="clear: both; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 2px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><h3 style="margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 4px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">«Center» Prime dialogue mosque construction project «Ground Zero» in New York ...</span></span></h3><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; "></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "></p><h4 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 4px; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Abdul Rauf: Aim for rooting the positive role of Muslims in their communities</span></span></h4><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; "></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Center - Mansour Jamri</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Prime «Cordoba Initiative» Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who oversees the plan for the construction of a mosque in New York near the site subjected to attacks of 11 September 2001 (Ground Zero), that the constitutional rights granted to the Muslims in the United States and a broad and more in line with the principles of Islamic law restrictions imposed by some Islamic countries.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He added that the civil and religious freedoms set forth in the Constitution reflect the essence of Islamic values.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This came in an interview «center» with Abdul Rauf, the day of his visit to Bahrain, and will also take him to Qatar and the UAE in his tour in the region to discuss efforts to combat extremism and spread the concepts of dialogue and tolerance among followers of religions, as well as spreading the idea put forward by «Initiative Cordoba »aims to keep the letter to the American Muslim is consistent with being Muslim, as well as U.S. citizens they are to other duties and to them as to other rights, as is the text dialogue.</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How do you know yourself?</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- I see myself as a student of Islam try to understand the basic motivations of the Qur'an and Sunnah, and on that basis, see also the historical aspects, the objective circumstances surrounding the jurisprudence and Islamic thought, and then look at the issues facing our Muslim communities, and I think that every religious society faces the challenges of everlasting which is how examination of the core values of religion, commitment, and how we express those values in the movement of life that Iezaretha community in the time and place.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you look to the history of Islam, and how it is when started from the Hijaz and went to the vast areas stretching from Morocco to Indonesia, we find that the teachings of Islam in terms of worship remained the same, but the understanding of the practical application of religion in the life varied from place to place, and even Imam Shafi'i is Rulings when he moved from Kufa to Egypt to harmony with the environment where Muslims live.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Scholars of the city were called Ahl al-Hadeeth, and scholars of Kufa were so-called opinion leaders, because they contain Kufa on the diversity of a larger community than it was in the city, and therefore the need to view the urgency of the Msameen time in that region.</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You bring a project is talking about moderation in Islam, and the harmonization of the Islamic religion with the Muslim environment, and Ballenbsp you, this means that the U.S. can win the Muslim religion Muslim and his citizenship to America ...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What is the idea exactly?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And where to meet with the idea that she was talking about the Islamization of science and Islamization of life, an idea launched by the founder of the International Institute of Islamic Thought in the late Ismail Faruqi in America in the Eighties the past?</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- No, what I put is different from what he put (the late) Ismail Faruqi, and he was my friend, but I disagree with him about the idea of Islamization.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You can not Twslm Science, Physics, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy can not be Twslmha, it is aware of all, even the Islamic banks can be released by the banks but of usury, but to give it the name of Islam and if you failed, you say that Islam is a failure.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Can not convert to Islam to the brand companies, and can not say that Islam says this or that, Yes, you can say that a Muslim in this opinion, he says, another Muslim opinion of the other, but Islam is not a brand for the company, for example, for instance the groups reporting to the Muslims, this in my opinion, «Islamization» of the work of Christian missionaries in the Muslim world.</span></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before the colonization of Muslim movements were not there and emailed an Islamic missionary, but a reaction to the missionary movements have emerged groups counter.</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The concept of Islamisation is now a problem to have, and now we see that there Osalmat to aspects of various reactions, and we have Islamic terrorism, the Islamization of terrorism, and we in our determination to shape many of the issues in the title of Islam, we see this call on everything, eating the Islamic Islamic art, Islamic Party, the Islamic state, even though we are talking about the limits of nationalism give it a title Islamic, and the nation state is essentially a Western idea, even if we go back to history we find that the talk was about the ruler and the ruled and the caliphate and the issues and things are completely different than what has been proposed concept of the State Islamic now.</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If we look at the Koran does not find that God says, «O Muslims», but talking about the faithful, and faith means believing in the existence of a group under different circumstances, and not in the presence of an Islamic state in the sense before now.</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I shall say that the title «Islam» has become like a title company, or brand, and hear some people ask «What does Islam say such and such?», And this language is wrong in structural terms, which is incompatible with the legacy of Islamic thought available to us.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We read in our old asks «What is the opinion of the public?» Rather than «What is the opinion of Islam ?»...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thus, the answer is «God said in Surat, and the verse as well as well as» ...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This Mtarhat Muslims in the heart of Islam.</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But the Islamic movements in control of the squares of the Islamic derives its strength from the ideas of characters is very impressive, for example, Maulana Abul Ala Maududi and Syed Qutb, Imam Khomeini, and others, and those posed thought was tough on several issues concerning the relationship with the West, for example, and these continued to cast him (such as the concept of governance has some Sunni scholars, the concept of clerical rule in some Shiite scholars) through the writings and interpretations of the Koran and the modern ...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How you will be able to put forward an alternative system of thought be able to reach the minds and hearts of religious scholars and youth activists scattered all over the world?</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- I do not confine myself in the terminology, but what concerns me is the understanding of the subject before stuck to the window and the term, we must look to what the Muslim thinkers and look to the nature of the circumstances in which they went through and how it influenced their interpretation of the data of religion for political realities they experienced and been affected by it, and this is natural if we understand the circumstances and, therefore, with the understanding of the changed circumstances changed, but the core concepts and values of the Islamic remains.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Figures are written and considered not done so in a vacuum but were in the process of political clashes that often affects the nature of the theory and the understanding that threw him.</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Therefore, our young people today when they read the books of Sayyid Qutb Ibn Taymiyyah or may not know the political circumstances surrounding them, and we must be aware of all the historical circumstances in order to understand why they said what they said ...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If the political circumstances are different, I think that the IPO will be different without a doubt.</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Do not you see that you put forward ideas of renewal and modernization of Islamic thought have remained trapped in academic circles small you can not move to the public Muslim students scattered in universities or to Muslim scholars who are leading the Friday prayers and the congregation in the mosque, and thus end of such proposals to folders only books .. .</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How will emerge from this impasse?</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- The hope that I am driving through the Cordoba Initiative, is to establish an Islamic approach raises harmonization and understanding among all religions and other ideas, and that this depends on the read-conscious and committed to the values and motivations Koran.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For example, the Koran presents «There is no compulsion in religion», and this clear guidance, if you look to the verses of the Koran you will see that they blame on those who do not believe in faith, but the verses also protects the rights of human beings to believe in Islam and engage in rituals, or do not do so.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And if you look to the practices of Muslims in history you will find the Jews and the Christians and Muslims live in harmony, and even Egypt has been for a long time after the entry of Islam to the majority non-Muslim, because Islam does not impose by force, but persuasion.</span></span></p><p style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 8px; text-align: left; direction: ltr; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I am currently trying to communicate with Muslim scholars in a number of different areas in order to get to the «quantum critical» critical number sense consists of a consensus among a number of Muslim scholars who Etwavqon about offering the Islamic push for mainstreaming the role of Muslims in their communities on the basis that they are part of those communities, They have full citizenship preserve their rights and play their role in the political process and development of the countries where they live, I'd very well that Muslims in America to do so, if we look at the American Declaration of Independence will see that it speaks of principles approved by our religion, we have the materials in the U.S. Constitution protects our rights What exists in our American Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution is much better than what is found in many Islamic countries.</span></span></p></span></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-64212511066979418372010-08-16T21:26:00.000-07:002010-08-16T21:27:15.373-07:00Raw Video: Israeli soldier poses with bound Arab<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IM4gvGXTDWc?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IM4gvGXTDWc?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-89221159976628483272010-06-30T16:12:00.000-07:002010-07-03T12:27:15.640-07:00Has Jethro Tull Cancelled Their Aug 7-8 Israel Concerts?Have they cancelled the two concerts?<div><br /></div><div>(Update below, the simple answer being NO Jethro Tull has not cancelled their concerts, and has made a statement on why he is playing Israel which can be read <a href="http://jethrotull.com/news/israeldates.html">HERE</a>)<br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jethro+Tull/+events">This WAS the schedule</a>:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(27, 27, 27); line-height: 18px; font-family:'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><table class="eventsMedium" style="border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; width: 755px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; font-size:11px;"><tbody><tr class="day" id="day-07-08-2010"><th colspan="4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 45px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; font-size:16px;"><span class="calSheet calSheetSmall" style="display: block; text-align: center; width: 32px; float: left; margin-top: -17px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -45px; "><abbr class="dtstart" title="20100807T1318Z" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- color:initial;"><span title="Saturday 7 August 2010" style="display: block; float: left; width: 32px; "><span class="month" style="display: block; float: left; width: 32px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); border-right-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); border-left-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1.1em; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; height: 10px; background-position: initial initial; font-size:9px;">AUG</span><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; width: 32px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: initial; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.8em; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.1em; background-position: initial initial; font-size:14px;">7</span></span></abbr></span>Saturday 7 August 2010</th></tr><tr class="gig future"><td class="summary" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 328px; "><a href="http://www.last.fm/event/1389581+Jethro+Tull+at+Caesarea+amphitheatre+on+7+August+2010" title="Jethro Tull at Caesarea amphitheatre" style="color: rgb(27, 27, 27); text-decoration: none; display: block; min-height: 45px; padding-left: 45px; "><strong style="color: rgb(1, 135, 197); "><img height="34" width="34" alt="" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34s/43460945.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: inline; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: -45px; " />Jethro Tull</strong></a></td><td class="location" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 160px; "><span class="adr"><strong>Caesarea…</strong><br /><span class="locality">Caesarea</span>, <span class="country-name">Israel</span></span></td><td class="info" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 110px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-size:10px;">36 people attending<br /><span class="shoutCount" title="There are 3 shouts" style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); "><a href="http://www.last.fm/event/1389581+Jethro+Tull+at+Caesarea+amphitheatre+on+7+August+2010#shoutbox" class="icon" style="color: rgb(1, 135, 197); text-decoration: none; "><img class="icon comment_icon" width="13" height="11" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: -2px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/sprites/9/icons.png); background-position: 0px -1220px; " /><span>3 shouts</span> </a></span><br /></p></td><td class="icon" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 15px; "></td></tr><tr class="day" id="day-08-08-2010"><th colspan="4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 35px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 45px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; font-size:16px;"><span class="calSheet calSheetSmall" style="display: block; text-align: center; width: 32px; float: left; margin-top: -17px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -45px; "><abbr class="dtstart" title="20100808T1319Z" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- color:initial;"><span title="Sunday 8 August 2010" style="display: block; float: left; width: 32px; "><span class="month" style="display: block; float: left; width: 32px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); border-right-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); border-bottom-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); border-left-color: rgb(213, 16, 7); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1.1em; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; height: 10px; background-position: initial initial; font-size:9px;">AUG</span><span class="day" style="display: block; float: left; width: 32px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-width: initial; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.8em; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.1em; background-position: initial initial; font-size:14px;">8</span></span></abbr></span>Sunday 8 August 2010</th></tr><tr class="gig future"><td class="summary" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 328px; "><a href="http://www.last.fm/event/1389585+Jethro+Tull+at+Binyeney+Ha%27Uma+on+8+August+2010" title="Jethro Tull at Binyeney Ha'Uma" style="color: rgb(27, 27, 27); text-decoration: none; display: block; min-height: 45px; padding-left: 45px; "><strong style="color: rgb(1, 135, 197); "><img height="34" width="34" alt="" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34s/43460945.jpg" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: inline; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: -45px; " />Jethro Tull</strong></a></td><td class="location" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 160px; "><span class="adr"><strong>Binyeney Ha'Uma</strong><br /><span class="locality">Jerusalem</span>, <span class="country-name">Israel</span></span></td><td class="info" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 110px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-size:10px;">8 people attending<br /><span class="shoutCount" title="There are 0 shouts" style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); "><a href="http://www.last.fm/event/1389585+Jethro+Tull+at+Binyeney+Ha%27Uma+on+8+August+2010" class="icon" style="color: rgb(1, 135, 197); text-decoration: none; "><img class="icon comment_icon" width="13" height="11" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: -2px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/sprites/9/icons.png); background-position: 0px -1220px; " /><span>Add shout</span> </a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><br /></div><div>This is the updated as of June 21 official schedule off of <a href="http://www.j-tull.com/tourdates/index.html">Jethro Tull's website</a>. (notice that no where on the schedule which is through November 24, 2010 does any Israeli concert appear):</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><table><tbody><tr align="left" valign="top" class="maintext" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 0px; left: 0px; clip: rect(auto auto auto 0px); text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; font-family:Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><td height="25" align="right" border="" style="color:#003399;"><span style="color:#FF6600;"><strong>AUG</strong></span></td><td border="" style="color:#003399;"> </td><td border="" style="color:#003399;"> </td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top" class="maintext" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 0px; left: 0px; clip: rect(auto auto auto 0px); text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; "><td height="25" align="right" bordercolor="#003399">11</td><td border="" style="color:#003399;">Zofingen, Switzerland</td><td border="" style="color:#003399;">Heiteren Festival</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top" class="maintext" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 0px; left: 0px; clip: rect(auto auto auto 0px); text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; "><td height="25" align="right" bordercolor="#003399">18</td><td border="" style="color:#003399;">Bergen</td><td border="" style="color:#003399;">Grieghallen</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top" class="maintext" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 0px; left: 0px; clip: rect(auto auto auto 0px); text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; "><td height="25" align="right" bordercolor="#003399"><a name="newnorway"></a>20</td><td border style="color:#003399;">Kristiansand, Norway</td><td bordercolor="#003399">Ravnedalen</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top" class="maintext" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 0px; left: 0px; clip: rect(auto auto auto 0px); text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; "><td height="25" align="right" bordercolor="#003399">21</td><td bordercolor="#003399">Gvarv, Norway</td><td bordercolor="#003399">Kartfestivalen, Farstadparken</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top" class="maintext" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 0px; left: 0px; clip: rect(auto auto auto 0px); text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; "><td height="23" align="right" bordercolor="#003399">22</td><td bordercolor="#003399">Oslo, Norway</td><td bordercolor="#003399">Sentrum Scene, Arbeidersamfunnets Plass</td></tr><tr align="left" valign="top" class="maintext" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-indent: 0px; left: 0px; clip: rect(auto auto auto 0px); text-align: left; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; "><td height="23" align="right" bordercolor="#003399">28</td><td bordercolor="#003399">Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany</td><td bordercolor="#003399">Classic Rock Festival, Trab Arena<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.j-tull.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Front page of his website</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">, left upper corner, no where is Israel mentioned</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;">Hmmmmmmm, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/news-in-brief-ii-1.297548">this article from Haaretz dated June 22</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;">, one day after the update on the official Jethro Tull Website it reads as follows.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(53, 52, 52); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><blockquote>The British rock band Jethro Tull is to perform three concerts in Israel in August: On August 7 at the Ra'anana Park Amphitheater, on August 8 at the Shuni Fortress in Binyamina and on August 9 at Jerusalem's International Convention Center. The band, which has performed in Israel five times, was last here three years ago. Jethro Tull, founded in 1967, is known for its blending of blues, jazz and classical tones. (Noya Kohavi )</blockquote></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#353434;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#353434;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:13px;">So someone tell me or find out, according to Haaretz a concert has been ADDED and according to the official website there is nothing scheduled in Israel. Interesting,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(27, 27, 27); line-height: 18px; font-family:'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;font-size:16px;">some fans”</span><table class="eventsMedium" style="border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; width: 755px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; font-size:11px;"><tbody><tr class="gig future"><td class="summary" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 328px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Just found this forum where in there is an email from David Coursey the webmaster for the Jethro Tull web site posted on June 19 which puts the concerts still up in the air at that time. Read that entire thread </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://thejethrotullboard.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tours&action=display&thread=1147&page=1">HERE</a><br /><br /><a href="http://mitkadem.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/jethro-tull-remove-israel-gigs-from-official-site/">THIS</a> blogger claims to have sent off an email to the same webmaster of Jethro Tull's website on<br />June 9th and gotten an entirely different reply.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">UPDATE</span></span> with info concerning Ian Anderson:<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><ol id="commentlist" style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 2.4em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; position: relative; "><li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-30947"><div id="div-comment-30947"><p size="1em" style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">People expected much too much of Ian Anderson. His musical lyrics have never matched his actions. In interview after interview he tells people he will not get into politics, he will only tell people to VOTE.</p><p size="1em" style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><a href="http://www.cliffordmeth.com/ianandersononwarreligionan.htm" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(178, 106, 22); ">http://www.cliffordmeth.com/ianandersononwarreligionan.htm</a></p><p size="1em" style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Anderson: My music is not going to address issues in a direct political way. You wouldn’t find me on stage in the last run at the election joining Bruce Springsteen and calling for the mobilization of civilian troops, as it were, to place their vote in the box next to the name Kerry. I wouldn’t be up in the stage doing that. But you would get me on the stage campaigning very simply with the word VOTE. That I’m very much dedicated towards. I wouldn’t be partisan. I would certainly encourage people to vote and in my small way I did try to do that when I was last doing concerts before I went on tour because I do think it’s very important from a moral point of view, as well as a political one, to take advantage of that democracy that I’m afraid so many Americans and British take for granted.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Politically, I’m an angry man. But the answer isn’t “pull the troops out.” We’re stuck with this now. We can’t abandon these people. We’ve brought notions of democracy to a country where they’ve been used to, at best, a patriarchal and tribal leadership. In Iraq, they were used to the tyrant dictator, but nonetheless, it was a stable country, for the most part throughout most its very complicated length and breadth, with all of its tribal and religious divisions. And when you go blundering in there as a Western Democracy with tanks and guns, you’re taking the lid off the hornet’s nest. And that’s unfortunately what seems to have escaped both Bush and Blair and their rather dodgy crew of advisors.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">It just seemed so patently obvious from the word go that this was just going to result in a lot of tears that it’s beyond me that they could have done it. I mean, it just seems so incredibly naïve, if you give them the benefit of the doubt, to have gone in their guns blazing thinking all you do is take out the government, replace it with a friendly military force for a few months, then get them all to go to elections. How could they ever believe that given the complexities that existed in Iraq? And this was pointed out in countless articles by countless learned journalists from all over the world reporting from Iraq for the last ten years. It was pointed out time and again that the result of removing Sadam Husein would not be a simple one. That is what is so extraordinary! However, we don’t want to waste the entire interview talking about that, but yes, I’ve got my opinion, and the answer is that it’s far too late to pull out—far too late for people like me to be putting in music or in song any clear cut political message.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The job I do as a musician is to travel— not to Iraq, thus far, but to certain other places where we have seen the suicide bombers and the tragedy of war in the last 30 or 40 years. I go to places like Israel; I go to Turkey, to India, to places where people do blow each other up. But as a musician, I’m allowed to cross those boundaries in the worlds of art and entertainment; I cross boundaries that politicians can’t–even if they want to. So I think I’m rather happy to keep my message a generally uplifting one of music and song. If there’s a political or religious comment being made, I do so with a degree of, I hope, subtlety and artistry, which I hope does not make me appear partisan and does not allow for misunderstanding, although I’ve been at the end of misunderstanding before, choosing words in my lyrics perhaps not so carefully as I might have done back in 1971.<br />***********************<br />There you go, Ian Anderson the civics teacher, VOTE, but he won’t be caught being political because in his own small way he can do what politicians cannot do, play music wherever he wants to and then look magnanimous in donating to “peaceful causes” I gave at the office.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Kum-ba-yah.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Yet another interview:</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; "><a href="http://www.jambands.com/features/2008/09/23/ian-anderson-this-was-and-always-will-be" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(178, 106, 22); ">http://www.jambands.com/features/2008/09/23/ian-anderson-this-was-and-always-will-be</a></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">““I’m an American taxpayer but not a voting citizen of the United States. So I have to leave it up to you guys, just as the Germans, French and the Italians do. It’s interesting times and the world is watching. My message to the American people isn’t to vote for John McCain or for Barack Obama or even for Hillary Clinton next time since it looks like she’ll take another crack at it. My message is simply – vote because you can’t afford to be one of the 40% of the people who sit on their behinds and can’t be bothered to go to the polls. Democracy is what young men and women have fought and died for in Afghanistan and Iraq. If anything we owe it to them to use our democratic right to show the rest of world how democracies work. That’s my message. Hanging chads notwithstanding,” he adds with a laugh.<br />****************************</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">There you go, our young men and women have fought for democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Doesn’t that pretty much say it all to this man’s level of understanding?</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">I say expose him for what he is and that this is the very type of person that plays Israel, someone who is an AIRHEAD when it comes to having any spine whatsoever.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Oh and last but not least, his hobbies are growing chili peppers and saving endangered cats!</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Watch this interview, he talks about his US tour when things were unpleasant here along political lines and the audience messed with his music!!</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:monospace, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JLKdH1S575U&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JLKdH1S575U&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Oh those darn hippies that made it hard for him to perform! It was all so damn unpleasant.</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Enjoy the concert Israel, Ian Anderson the school marm civics teacher will be "giving at the office", to who he will be "giving" he's not even willing to announce at this time!</p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>So, I decided many months ago not to profit from my work in this troubled region and hope that interested parties on all sides will understand and respect my decision and resolve. The details of recipients of my charitable donation will be posted for the benefit of the doubters, as usual, on this website later in the year.</i></span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">No backbone WHATSOEVER.</span></span></p><div class="reply"></div></div></li></ol><div class="navigation"><div class="alignleft" style="float: left; "></div><div class="alignright" style="float: right; "></div></div></span><br /><br /></span></td><td class="location" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 160px; "><br /></td><td class="info" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 110px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-size:10px;"><span class="shoutCount" title="There are 0 shouts" style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); "></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(105, 105, 105); "><br /></p></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-28737697047720007892010-06-25T13:12:00.000-07:002010-06-25T13:14:09.070-07:00Zionist Occupier Dances Around Handcuffed, Blindfolded Palestinian Woman<object width="480" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xdsvxz_israeli-soldier-dances-around-tied_news"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/video/xdsvxz_israeli-soldier-dances-around-tied_news" width="480" height="360" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-25208950229339464122010-06-14T17:22:00.000-07:002010-06-17T15:19:50.600-07:00Carolyn Glick's Lunatic Chutzpa Concerning "We Con the World"Continuing from my<a href="http://thehollytree.blogspot.com/2010/06/cnn-blatantly-gives-cover-for-israeli.html"> last post </a>concerning the vile video, "We Con the World" and the so called "apology" issued by the government of Israel, it seems that Youtube has pulled the video due<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/culture/youtube-removes-israeli-spoof-on-gaza-flotilla-clash-1.294467">to copyright infringement per Warner Music's request</a>. <div><br /></div><div>Linking to the video gets you the following message:<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner/ Chappell Music, Inc. .</span><br /><div><br /></div><div>Yet Carolyn Glick is ranting on on her blog boasting that friends of her's have uploaded the video on other video hosting sites and urges all to continue to spread it! She claims that the video was pulled as part of an orchestrated anti-Israel campaign that Youtube has cooperated with. But never fear, the intrepid <a href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/06/youtube-silences-latma-removes.php#comments">Glick chimes,</a> "If someone is in fact trying to silence our voices, they will soon discover that they are messing with the wrong Jews". Post on she urges! We will not be silenced! </div><div><br /></div><div>In confrontational manner to the take down Glick had her webmaster upload it elsewhere on another video hosting site with<a href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/06/youtube-silences-latma-removes.php#comments"> her next post containing full instructions</a> of how to get around the evil anti-Israel forces trying to silence Latma! </div><div><br /></div><div>It's fair use Glick claims! Her "attorneys" told her so! </div><div><br /></div><div>Wait a minute here Carolyn, do you have any clue what you are talking about when you claim the song is "fair use" as parody? Ben Sheffner, Senior Council for NBC Television Group disagrees with you. Read what he has to say about your claims <a href="http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2010/06/we-con-world-video-kerfuffle-when.html">HERE</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ms. Glick claims parody. What is the legal definition of parody?</div><div></div><blockquote><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">A parody is a work that ridicules another, usually well-known work, by imitating it in a comic way. Judges understand that by its nature, parody demands some taking from the original work being parodied. Unlike other forms of fair use, a fairly extensive use of the original work is permitted in a parody in order to “conjure up” the original.</span></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Let's go through the facts on the song "We are the World". The copyright to the song belongs to the Michael Jackson Estate and Lionel Richie, not Warner. Warner is Lionel Richie's agent entrusted with protecting the copyright of their client. </div><div><br /></div><div>The song "We are the World" was recently remade to raise funds Haiti. A non-profit foundation has been established, the <a href="http://wearetheworldfoundation.org/">We Are The World Foundation</a>. Lionel Richie sits on the board of that foundation, as does Quincy Jones. the song "We are the World" as it has been remade with the permission of the copyright holders, the Michael Jackson Estate and Lionel Richie is being used as it was originally intended, to raise funds for a cause. The foundation as formed did not get permission from Warner to remake the song, they got the permission from the estate of Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie: (watch the remake <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glny4jSciVI">HERE</a>)</div><div></div><blockquote><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">On January 12, 2010, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Haiti</a> was struck by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">magnitude 7.0 M<sub style="line-height: 1em; ">w</sub></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake" title="2010 Haiti earthquake" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">earthquake</a>. It was the country's most severe earthquake in over 200 years and caused widespread damage.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup> The epicenter of the quake was just outside the Haitian capital <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-au-Prince" title="Port-au-Prince" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Port-au-Prince</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup> It has been estimated that the death toll could reach 200,000.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup> Before the earthquake, Jones and Richie had planned to organize a re-recording of "We Are the World" on January 28, 2010 — the 25th anniversary of the original recording of the song.<sup id="cite_ref-.27We_Are_The_World.27_Re-recording_Reportedly_In_The_Works_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-.27We_Are_The_World.27_Re-recording_Reportedly_In_The_Works-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup> Randy Phillips, who was a key figure in the song being re-issued, said that "We Are The World" producer Ken Kragen had suggested to re-cut "We Are the World" and title it "Live 25".<sup id="cite_ref-billboardinfo_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-billboardinfo-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup> However, Lionel Richie and Jones were "very lukewarm" about the idea.<sup id="cite_ref-billboardinfo_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-billboardinfo-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup> Phillips commented that,</p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="margin-top: 0px; "><div>"[They felt] that what happened 25 years ago was iconic and they did everything they could for Africa at that time, and they didn't feel re-cutting the song really made any sense. Basically, Lionel didn't really want to do it, and we kind of let it die by not issuing the publishing license, because Lionel owns the copyright along with Michael Jackson's estate. That was in November/December [2009]. They had gotten <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Debit" title="Visa Debit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Visa</a> on board as an underwriter of that effort, and I think they were going to try and premiere it at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2010 FIFA World Cup" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">the World Cup</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-billboardinfo_5-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-billboardinfo-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup></div></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">However, because of the devastation caused in Haiti, these plans were postponed.<sup id="cite_ref-.27We_Are_The_World.27_Re-recording_Reportedly_In_The_Works_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-.27We_Are_The_World.27_Re-recording_Reportedly_In_The_Works-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup> Phillips said that Jones had called Lionel and said, "<b>this is what this song is written for, as a fundraising vehicle for causes, tragedies, catastrophes like this</b>. Why don't we take over the process, call our friends, and actually do this?"<sup id="cite_ref-billboardinfo_5-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-billboardinfo-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup> Lionel understood the urgency of Haiti, and in January 2010, it was agreed that "We Are the World" would be re-recorded to help benefit Haiti,<b> similar to how the original recording helped famine relief in Africa</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-.27We_Are_The_World.27_Re-recording_Reportedly_In_The_Works_4-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-.27We_Are_The_World.27_Re-recording_Reportedly_In_The_Works-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; "><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup> Richie commented, "Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a hit record to make someone decide to save a life. I want this song to be the battle cry again. Every once in a while, you have to wake the world up. We slept right through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Katrina</a>. If we are not a socially aware culture, we're going to fail."<sup id="cite_ref-usatodayinfo_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-usatodayinfo-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">[</a></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-usatodayinfo-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">7</a><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti#cite_note-usatodayinfo-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; ">]</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World_25_for_Haiti">source</a>) </span></sup></p></span></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><sup id="cite_ref-usatodayinfo_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span></span></sup></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Many of the reviews of the remake were negative. In a true parody of the remake Saturday Night Live made a skit about it as seen <a href="http://fliiby.com/file/820341/wbygoulmbr.html">HERE</a>. Note that in the beginning of the skit the actor is "Quincy Jones" saying that the remake was a disaster, so he has gathered together a group to undo the "disaster". </div><div><br /></div><div>That is a parody Ms. Glick. What you have created is not. What you have done is vilely parodied the Free Gaza movement which resulted in the death of nine individuals with six still missing using the VEHICLE of a copyrighted song. </div><div><br /></div><div>That is unless you and your boss Frank Gaffney want to claim you were parodying the song itself and intent for which it was written to raise funds for Africa and then remade to raise funds for Haiti. If that was Latma's intention, you don't get to pull in a third party which has nothing whatsoever to do with the song.</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's look at a case that was won on the grounds of fair use/parody, Abilene Music vs Sony:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Arial, Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; "></p><blockquote><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; ">In 2003 a New York federal court also upheld the fair use doctrine by dismissing a lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment and rappers Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and the Alchemist, for copyright infringement. The plaintiff, Abilene Music, accused the rappers and Sony – who released the album – of infringing its copyright in the well-known song "What a Wonderful World." The infraction allegedly occurred when the trio made slang references to marijuana in a rap that <b>began with a variation on the first three lines</b> of the song popularized by Louis Armstrong. The defendants successfully argued that, while the song's lyrics were adapted from "What a Wonderful World" they were protected as fair use under the U.S. Copyright Act.</p><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; ">In granting a summary judgment for Sony and the rappers, Judge Gerard Lynch said the <b>rap was clearly a parody, intended to criticize and ridicule the cheerful perspective of the original song</b>. The judge also noted the rap made key changes to the lyrics and overall effect of the lines, and <b>was not an imitation of the original</b>. The Judge held that, whereas the first three lines of "Wonderful World" describe the beauty of nature, the rap version read more like an invitation to “get high” with the singer. The slang reference to marijuana and the dark nature of the rap tune were in stark contrast to the mood of beauty in the original song. (<a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2009/06/article_0006.html">SOURCE</a>)</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; "></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Did you read there Ms. Glick? The song was not an IMITATION of the original copyrighted song "What a Wonderful World". </div><div><br /></div><div>Again I ask, is it the song "We are the World" you are parodying? Really Ms. Glick, is that really what you want to claim?</div><div><br /></div><div>Because if that is the case you are directly challenging Lionel Richie and the Michael Jackson Estate who own that copyright, not Warner whose CEO is Edgar Bronfman or Youtube which now is owned by Sergei Brin and Larry Page.</div><div> </div><div>I noticed you are soliciting funds to challenge the take down. I take it your boss at Latma, Frank Gaffney is up to this and wants in on record as to whose copyright and the purpose for which the song was written he is challenging, because indeed Ms. Glick, the intent of the copyrighted material is taken into consideration on infringement as well. </div><div><br /></div><div>For the record, I have left a total of four comments on Ms. Glick's blog which have not been published there.</div><div><br /></div><div>A little more: Lawrence Auster <a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/#016751">gives three examples of parodie</a>s of "We are the World" which have not been pulled from Youtube over copyright infringement in his attempt to support Glick and Latma. Let's look at his examples:</div><div><br /></div><div>The Saturday Night Live skit, as covered above, true parody which parodies the song itself.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:180%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px;font-size:18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></div><div>In Living Color: "Career Aid", We are the World parody: Again a true parody of the song itself knocking artists who use their art to do charity.</div><div><br /></div><div>Weird Al Yankovitch: Wierd Al always asks permission to use songs. Read <a href="http://tmcentlawforum.blogspot.com/2006/07/weird-al-yankovic-vs-those-who-do-not.html">his response to his recording of James Blunt </a>with Atlantic Records refusing to allow him to use the song.</div><div><br /></div><div>So there you go, Lawrence Astor, you don't know what you are talking about either. Warner manages the licensing for the song, but at the end of the day Lionel Richie and the Michael Jackson Estate could agree to have the song used in this manner because THEY hold the copyright. But it is Warner's job to protect the COPYRIGHTED song which again does not meet the legal standards of parody.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-family:'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">From the Warner Music website:</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I want to use a song by a Warner Music Group artist in my project. How do I obtain the necessary rights?</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A:<br />If you are interested in using the actual sound recording by an artist on a WMG record label, a good place to start is by calling our licensing division at Rhino Entertainment (818) 238-6100. <b>If you are interested in using a musical composition </b>that is published or administered by our music publishing company, Warner/Chappell Music, you should visit the Warner/Chappell web site where you will find a useful song search tool as well as tools to request mechanical and print license</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>what is a musical composition?</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>The music itself-the notes</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Going there…………..what is a copyright?</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What is copyright?<br />As stated on the U.S. Library of Congress website ( </span><a href="http://www.copyright.gov/)" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(200, 108, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">http://www.copyright.gov/)</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">:</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished works.<b> Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following</b>:<br />To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;<br /><b>To prepare derivative works based upon the work</b>;</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">BNGO: what is a derivative work?</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A derivative work pertaining to copyright law, <b>is an expressive creation that includes major, copyright-protected elements of an original, previously created first work</b>.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who holds the rights to all derivative works?</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to pre- pare, or to authorize someone else to create, a new version of that work.</b> The owner is generally the author or someone who has obtained rights from the author.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Anyone interested in a work who does not know the copyright owner can search the records of the Copyright Office or ask the Office to conduct a search for an hourly fee.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now, for the lyrics comparison which can be found<a href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/016664.html"> HERE</a> which Ms. Glick is claiming are a parody, remember, a parody is a work that ridicules another well known work. Can Latma who by the way has defiantly re-uploaded the video in question to their website despite Warner's DMCA notification to youtube in all true conviction say that the lyrics in Latma's song were meant to PARODY the ORIGINAL work?</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I don't think so!</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><br /><br />More CHUTZPA from Latma's white knight to the rescue: wejew.com who left Ms. Glick a comment to let her know that they have SAVED the video and are being DILIGENT because offering the video on their video hosting site has opened them up for hackers! Hello Shlomo Wollins, you also are flying in the face of a COPYRIGHT takedown. Do you have ANY clue that no one but the copyright holder or their agent can request a DMCA take down? That would be Warner Music whose CEO is Edgar Bronfman! This is the same Shlomo Wollins who wrote as a comment on his own website over the rescued Latma video:<br /><br />WeJew (3 days ago)<br />WeJew Founder Note: Youtube has BANNED this video for copyright infringement - which stretches their editorial credibility beyond belief - feel free to spread this link - as the critical video has become one of Israel's best PR responses to the flotilla.<br /><br />Shlomo, you didn't get the memo did you, your government press office's "apology" said the video doesn't represent the government of Israel, it was sent out by them by MISTAKE and it had not been vetted. No apologies from you however as you violate COPYRIGHT law. Have you thought to contact Warner? Have you thought to contact Lionel Richie or the Michael Jackson Estate? Youtube did not "stretch their editorial ability!" Oh pa-leeze-there is a way to respond to Youtube to send a counter notice. Did Latma OR you think to do that? Why not Ms. Glick? Why not Shlomo the White Knight?<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/t/dmca_policy<br /><br />Counter-Notification<br />If you elect to send us a counter notice, please go to our Help Center to access the instructions.<br /><br />Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability. Please also be advised that we enforce a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of subscribers who are repeat infringers.<br /><br />I double dare you all. Send in your counter-notifications!<br /><br />***Comment left on Ms. Glick's blog at 4:20 pm PST Tuesday June 15-let's see if it get's published there. (she published it <a href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/06/defend-free-speech---support-l.php#comments">HERE</a>)<br /><br />Let me help you out here Ms, Glick, the LEGAL way should you decide to choose that path<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/t/dmca_policy<br /><br />Note, if Warner sent out the DMCA misrepresenting that the material was infringed, Latma and anyone else whose youtube has been removed can sue Warner! Yes you can Ms. Glick, You can also appeal the removal. Did anyone do that Ms. Glick? The LEGAL way since you said you have attorneys telling you it is fair use?<br /><br />Please note that under Section 512(f) any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability for damages. Don't make false claims!<br /><br />Please also note that the information provided in this legal notice may be forwarded to the person who provided the allegedly infringing content.<br /><br />Claimant information will be published on the YouTube site in place of disabled content.<br /><br />Counter-Notification<br />If you elect to send us a counter notice, please go to our Help Center to access the instructions.<br /><br />Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability. Please also be advised that we enforce a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of subscribers who are repeat infringers.<br />***********************************<br /><br />I suggest you call up that lawyer who told you this was fair use and I'm sure he will take care of this matter for you.<br /><br />CIAO!<div>************************************</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">UPDATE</span>: An important court ruling was issued Monday concerning Chuck Devore's use of Don Henley's songs which changed the lyrics completely for his campaign. Guess what,<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/33049984/Order-on-Motion-for-Summary-Judgment-in-Henley-v-DeVore"> DeVore LOST</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-68208905055664806042010-06-05T13:15:00.000-07:002010-06-20T07:45:15.175-07:00CNN Blatantly Gives Cover for "Israeli Apology" (update,then changed the title)Just a short while ago, CNN published an article on their website titled "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/06/05/gaza.flotilla.mock.video/index.html?iref=24hours">Israeli government office apologizes for flotilla video</a>"<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">UPDATE::::: </span> Woo Hoo, CNN changed the name of the article, link to it and the article is now titled "Israeli government office links to video mocking flotilla" I wonder how many people complained about the title because I did. I tweeted Octavia Nasr where I picked it up from her twitter http://twitter.com/octavianasrCNN<br /><div><br /></div><div>In part: the Government Press Office of Israel issued a statement to media outlets reading (although CNN does not say whether or not this is the complete statement released by Israel)</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 14px/19px arial; ">"It was not intended for general release," the statement said. "The contents of the video in no way represent the official policy of either the Government Press Office or of the State of Israel."</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 14px/19px arial; ">The video, titled "We Con the World" -- set to the tune of the 1985 hit, "We are the World"-- was put together by Caroline Glick, a former member of the Israel Defense Forces and columnist for the Jerusalem Post.</p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Now, since CNN is certainly supposed to title their articles in non-deceptive manner, why is it that at the end of the article Marc Regev (<a href="http://www.israelemb.org/bios/regev.htm">who currently serves as spokesman for the Israeli embassy in Washington</a>) states the following: </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><blockquote><i>"I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny," he said. "It is what Israelis feel. But the government has nothing to do with it. The GPO distributes non-government items, things that we think that show our side of the story."</i></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>I guess Marc Regev didn't get the memo. Israel "apologized" for the release of the video on their website. They did NOT apologize for the content-but they said it isn't a government video. If you read the statement as published by CNN and furthermore Regev thought it is "funny" and "it is what Israelis feel"</div><div><br /></div><div>Which Israelis Mr. Regev? Since you are the SPOKESMAN for Israel here in the United States then I suggest you explain yourself. Either YOU represent your government or you don't.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just utterly disgusting. In case you haven't viewed this despicable video in which Carolyn Glick herself of JPost appears, view it <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg">HERE</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>LatmaTV is who produced this video. Let's see who their domain is registered to:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">domain: latma.co.il<br />descr: Center for Security Policy RA<br />descr: 1901 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 201<br />descr: Washington, DC<br />descr: 20006<br />descr: USA<br />phone: +001 202 8359077<br />e-mail: info AT <b>centerforsecuritypolicy.org</b><br />admin-c: LD-SB12052-IL<br />tech-c: LD-SB12052-IL<br />zone-c: LD-SB12052-IL<br />nserver: dns.netvision.net.il<br />nserver: nypop.elron.net<br />validity: 09-09-2010<br />status: Transfer Locked<br />changed: domain-registrar AT isoc.org.il 20080909 (Assigned)<br />changed: domain-registrar AT isoc.org.il 20081013 (Changed)<br />changed: domain-registrar AT isoc.org.il 20081013 (Changed)<br /><br />person: <b>Shlomo Blass</b><br />address: Halamed He 17B<br />address: Jerusalem<br />address: 93661<br />address: Israel<br />phone: +972 2 5665383<br />e-mail: seblass AT yahoo.com<br />nic-hdl: LD-SB12052-IL<br />changed: Managing Registrar 20080824<br /><br />registrar name: LiveDns Ltd<br />registrar info: http://domains.livedns.co.il</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">NOW: who is the Center for Secure Policy? Well, Frank Gaffney is the President and look at all the people in our own government who have signed his letters to Congress <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Security_Policy">HERE</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;">Frank Gaffney at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gaffney">Wiki</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;">From <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/06/we-con-the-world---the-gaza-fl.php">Carolyn Glick's blog</a>:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); line-height: 18px; font-family:verdana, 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div>Latma is the initiative of the <a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.xml" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Center for Security Policy</a>'s Middle East media project that I run in my capacity as the CSP's senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs. Our work is financed completely from donations by private citizens. If you are interested in supporting our work, please contact the CSP <a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/donate.xml" style="text-decoration: underline; ">here</a>. The mailing address is:</div><div><br /></div><div>The Center for Security Policy</div><div>1901 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 201</div><div>Washington, DC 20006</div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">And who is Shlomo Blass? He's an Israeli film producer who on his Facebook likes and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Shlomo-Blass/742100712">Netanyahu and Sheldon Adelson</a>. Ah, Sheldon Adelson, Shlomo "likes" people in high places.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">So there you have it. According to CNN Israel's press office "apologized" for this video being put up on their website, it does "not represent government policy" and you have Marc Regev telling us "it is how Israelis feel" and he thought the video was "funny"</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">Way to go CNN!!!! I've never quite seen an "apology" like this before.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">As updated above, CNN changed the title of the article</span>.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;">UPDATE: June 20, 2010 Surprise Surprise, Latma <a href="http://who.is/whois/latma.com/">changed their domain registry to PRIVATE</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;">Who are you guys wanting to hide from? Carolyn wrote on her blog Aug. 28, 2009:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: verdana, 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">By the way, Latma is fully funded through generous donations from philanthropists to the Washington DC-based Center for Security Policy's Middle East media program which I run in my capacity as the CSP's Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;">And again on June 12, 2010</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:#191919;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: verdana, 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><div>Latma is not a business. We're a public service, educational initiative funded from tax exempt donations through the <a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.xml" style="text-decoration: underline; ">Center for Security Policy</a> in Washington where I serve as senior fellow for Middle East affairs.</div><div>We could use all the help we can get.</div><div>To contribute to our efforts, please click on this <a href="https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=521601976&vlrStratCode=5oLRO0Hb5x%2fj%2bLeLvF9daZwy25gRYhNeSzmZncPS8R6uQcDJBo0BoLpYw0gd7UnU" style="text-decoration: underline; ">link</a>. It takes you to Network for Good's dedicated page for online contributions to the Center for Security Policy.</div><div>To make sure your contribution goes to Latma, in the box marked "designation" please write "Latma."</div><div>Thanks very much. 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Watada" in Little Tokyo, LA<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GO<a href="http://www.ncrr-la.org/news/5-25-10/1.html"> HERE</a> TO PURCHASE TICKETS VIA PAYPAL</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "></span></span></p></span><tr><td style="font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana, helvetica; "><div align="center"><div align="center"><div align="center"><p align="left" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; "> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" /></p><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; "><br /><br /></p></div><div align="left"><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; "><img src="http://www.ncrr-la.org/news/5-25-10/Watada-postcard-FRONT.jpg" width="719" height="479" /></p><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; "><img src="http://www.ncrr-la.org/news/5-25-10/Watada-postcard-BACK.jpg" width="719" height="479" /><br /></p><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; "> </p><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; "></p></div></div></div></td></tr><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">For Immediate Release<span> </span>May 24, 2010-05-24</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Special Screening of Academy Award- Winning Director Frieda Mock’s New Documentary “Lt Watada”</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">The Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) and the Asian American Vietnam Veterans Organization (AAVVO) will screen Freida Mock’s documentary, “Lt. Watada” on June 19, 2010 at the David Henry Hwang Theatre at 7:00 PM. “Lt. Watada” is an in-depth look a the case of Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq on the grounds that the war was illegal and immoral.<span> </span>He was inspired to join the army after 9/11 and in preparing to lead his soldiers to fight in Iraq, he was encouraged by his battalion commander to learn everything he could about Iraq and the war.<span> </span>His research led him to the conclusion that the U.S. invasion was an act of aggression based on lies.<span> </span>Watada believed that, as an officer, it was his duty to uphold the Constitution and that he could not obey an order he knew to be illegal. In June 2006, Lt Watada refused the order to deploy to Iraq.<span> </span>He was charged with “missing a movement” and “conduct unbecoming an officer,” and faced up to eight years in prison and a dishonorable discharge.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN">Freida Mock is an Academy and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, credited with producing films about a wide variety of historical and contemporary subjects. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation with her husband, Terry Sanders.Mock's diverse production credits include "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision", "Sing!" (about a Los Angeles community children's choir), "Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember", "To Live or Let Die", and "Return with Honor", presented by Tom Hanks. (wikipedia) . Both “Sing” and “Lt. Watada” were recently screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.<span> </span>(quote from Freida) Mock’s “Lt Watada”</span> charts Watada’s emergence as a public speaker and activist and chronicles the tense days of his court martial trial in February 2007 which ended in a mistrial.<span> </span>This thoughtful and incisive documentary is both an inspirational portrait of one man’s act of conscience and a powerful investigation into questions that threaten to unravel the government’s justification for the Iraq war.<span> </span><span lang="EN"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Watada’s actions helped educate people nationwide and created dialogue in the Asian American community about the illegality of the war in Iraq. In October 2006, NCRR and AAVVO sponsored a speaking tour with Bob Watada and Rosa Sakanishi, Ehren’s father and stepmother.<span> </span>Before the court martial in February 2007, the two organizations organized a march and rally in Little Tokyo led by Carolyn Ho, Ehren’s mother.<span> </span>Bob Watada and Rosa Sakanishi as well as Carolyn Ho will answer questions at the screening along with filmmaker Freida Mock.<span> </span>They will all be available at the reception following the screening.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">General admission for the screening is $15/ Seniors and Students: $10. The VIP ticket for $100 (tax-deductible) includes admission, reserved seating and a special pre-release copy of the “Lt Watada” DVD signed by the filmmaker Freida Mock and the Watada Family. To order tickets: visit </span><a href="http://ssomail.charter.net/do/redirect?url=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.ncrr-la.org%252F" title="http://www.ncrr-la.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#0000ff;">www.NCRR-LA.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span> </span>For more information about the event or to order tickets by phone, call (213) 284-0336.</span></p>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-14372510789567434382010-05-27T17:24:00.000-07:002010-05-28T11:25:29.975-07:00Hebrew University Sues GM over Einstein Image: How is Bill Gates Involved?<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size:17px;">The story <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/hebrew-university-sues-gm-over-topless-einstein-ad-1.292570">hit the news wires</a> today that Hebrew University has filed a lawsuit over what has been termed in the media as the unauthorized use of Einstein's photo on top of a buff body in an ad placed last November in People Magazine, "The Sexiest Men" issue.<div><br /></div><div>Upon reading the lawsuit filed though, it is clear that Hebrew University is claiming something different also. That by <a href="http://tilatequilaomg.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/docu81.jpg">use of the photo it appears that Einstein is endorsing the GM Terrain and since Hebrew University hold the rights to most of Einstein's image</a>s, it brings a loss to them because they do not endorse the Terrain vehicle. That's what it's about, Hebrew University's business interests. Read the full lawsuit <a href="http://misstilaomg.com/2010/05/24/brains-vs-brawn-albert-einstein-is-suing-general-motors-corporation/">HERE</a> (you have to read it page by page and click again to enlarge-note that Greenlight is named in the suit)</div><div><br /></div><div>In an <a href="http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20100527/FREE/100529874#">email to Crains</a>, it is learned that GM uses Leo Burnett for its' advertising, who "<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Geneva;font-size:15px;"><a href="http://205.188.238.181/time/time100/builder/profile/burnett.html">launched today's visual assault on the senses by proving that images, not words, were the nuclear power of advertising</a>"</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><blockquote>“At the end of the day, it's our ad. But the mechanics of creating the ad, including purchasing images from stock photo houses that guarantee they have proper usage rights, fall to the agency; in this case, Leo Burnett,” wrote Ryndee Carney, GM's manager of dealer and advertising communications, in an e-mail to<i>Crain's</i>.<br /><br />“There was no negligence in this case. It's something that's done virtually every day in the advertising business and the stock photo house that was used is well-known and highly reputable.”</blockquote></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">The stock photo house? That would be Greenlightrights which is also named in Hebrew University's lawsuit (though is not a party to the lawsuit)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">And who owns Greenlight?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">Bill Gates (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbis">He owns Corbis which rebranded its' Rights Services Division as Greenlightrights in 2008</a>)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">So there you have it folks. Hebrew University is stating in their lawsuit that it looks like Einstein (who is dead) is endorsing a GM product. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;">Hebrew University is claiming that the use of the photo as used in the GM ad was not authorized by them and that the use has somehow brought loss to the university.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;">Who screwed up? Greenlightrights owned by Bill Gates or Leo Burnett? The case has not been tried yet but it is General Motors left holding the lawsuit bag.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">Who are all the players involved in this lawsuit?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">Hebrew University who<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=au90S8Nskay4&refer=redirectoldpage"> makes millions every year off of selling Einstein's image for commercial use</a>.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">Our very own downtrodden American auto manufacturer, General Motors. (the entity named)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">Leo Burnett, listed in 1998 as the ninth largest advertising firm in the world. (not being sued)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">Greenlightrights which is owned by Bill Gates. (not being sued)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size:13px;">Oh, and don't forget Einstein, dead since 1955 who Hebrew University claims the ad makes it look like he is endorsing a car made NOW.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://library.ias.edu/hs/einsteininfo.php" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(26, 81, 143); font-weight: bold; ">http://library.ias.edu/hs/einsteininfo.php</a><br /><br />Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA (609) 734-8000<br /><br />Corbis<br />The Corbis (previously Roger Richman Agency) represents Hebrew University in the United States for granting licensing for the use of Einstein's image in print, television and film. Anyone seeking permission to use images of Einstein, other than for scholarly publication, should be referred to this agency. Corbis/Roger Richman website<br />Roger Richman Agency 9777 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 700<br />Beverly Hills, CA 90212<br />phone: (310) 276-7000 - fax: (310) 276-8023<br /><br />Corbis is owned by Bill Gates. In 2008 they restructured to name their Rights Services Division Greenlightrights. Greenlight is named in the lawsuit as who the picture was purchased from.<br /><br /><a href="http://einstein.biz/photos" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(26, 81, 143); font-weight: bold; ">http://einstein.biz/photos</a><br /><br />GreenLight LLC and its affiliates exclusively represent publicity, trademark, and related rights of Albert Einstein on behalf of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "<b>Albert Einstein" and "Einstein" are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</b>.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-size:12px;">So, my question, did GM legally purchase the photo of his head from Greenlight as they say they did through Burnett as it was and then Burnett tweeked it to be on top of a buff body? Did Burnett not ask what the stipulations for use of the photo were, or did Greenlight not tell them? Because GM stated clearly to Crains that the photo was purchased and Hebrew University is not claiming in their lawsuit that they were not paid for it as some media outlets have stated. They are claiming that the use of it was not authorized by them.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">MUST READ: </span><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/mar/05-einstein-inc"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Einstein Inc</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">2009: <a href="http://www.arentfox.com/publications/index.cfm?fa=legalUpdateDisp&content_id=2018">"Einstein" website taken down, same law firm as this case </a>against GM, Arent-Fox</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div></span>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-32854475471109180142010-05-21T12:55:00.000-07:002010-05-23T00:59:55.073-07:00Please write to the president of Pratt who is hosting "Moo-Ham-Mud" exhibitionToday I came across an article concerning an art exhibit that is being hosted at the Steuban Gallery at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Read the article <a href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/21/24_prattartist_2010_05_21_bk.html?comm=1">HERE </a>about the "Moo-Ham-Mud" exhibit which is beginning next week.<div><br /></div><div>I called the office of the president at Pratt to voice my concerns. His name is President Schutte.</div><div>He was not available but I spoke to the receptionist. I told him that I was calling from Los Angeles and as someone who works in interfaith peace and justice I wished to voice my absolute disdain that their institute would be hosting an exhibit such as this. I informed him I am NOT anti-free speech, I am voicing my concern over the nature and the NAME of this exhibit and that I am NOT a Muslim. He asked me to write to the office of the president at Pratt. This is President Schutti's email presoff@pratt.edu</div><div><br /></div><div>I wrote the following:</div><div><br /></div><div>Dear President Schutti,</div><div>Today I came across an article stating that an exhibit named "Moo-Ham-Mud" by Joseph Stulman will be hosted next week in a gallery at your institution</div><div><br /></div><div>http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/21/24_prattartist_2010_05_21_bk.html?comm=1</div><div><br /></div><div>Allow me to state to you that I am not Muslim myself, I am Catholic. Let me state furthermore that I work in interfaith groups in the Los Angeles areas. Let me state also that I have many Muslim friends and family, none of whom have ever supported any sort of violence against past Mohammed cartoons. Violence in action is not why I am writing you. Violence in word and art using the guise of free speech is why I am contacting you. Being a very liberal person myself, I do not wish to stifle free speech. I do however speak out when I see hate speech.</div><div><br /></div><div>Joseph Stulman's exhibit which Pratt is hosting next week titled "Moo-Ham-Mud" is hate speech. While Congress has failed to pass federal laws concerning hate speech and religion,</div><div>any reasonable person seeing the prophet Mohammed's name PBIH distorted in such manner would label the name of this exhibit hateful towards an entire religion, Islam.</div><div><br /></div><div>Interestingly while doing research prior to writing to you, I found an article penned by Pratt's</div><div>chair of the Religious Affairs Committee, Rabbi Simcha Weinstein<a href="http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/censoring-south-park/"> concerning the recent South Park episode concerning Islam</a>. I found this sentence of the rabbi's very interesting, </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; ">Like Islam, Jewish tradition also prohibits the making of graven images. (That’s the Second Commandment, so it’s pretty important.) This explains why synagogues have no pictures of any kind on display.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; ">However, Judaism doesn’t extend that prohibition to non-Jews, or threaten and intimidate those who create images we might find disturbing. Given our contributions to, and reverence for, literature and the arts throughout the ages, and our own rich tradition of satire, that would be a very “un-Jewish” thing to do.</p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I am now after reading the rabbi's article not inclined to ask you to censor this exhibit due to hate speech. I am inclined to appeal to you on sheer decency. While growing up my mother taught me one thing, the only person you can control is yourself. In your case President Schutte, the buck stops with you as to what is allowed at Pratt Institute. This exhibit titled "Moo-Ham-Mud" is simply indecent. It is inflammatory when inflaming hatred against Muslims is so far reaching in our country. By hosting this exhibit President Schutte you are allowing an endorsement of this and adding in your own contribution. </div><div><br /></div><div>Again sir, I am not Muslim. I am Catholic and work in interfaith work in my community. While realizing that art is often inflammatory and is not censored, many art institutes in our country have done just that when it concerns banning exhibits because they did not reflect what they wanted to reflect for their own public image. Or, they censored under outside pressure.</div><div><br /></div><div>My request is for decency on the part of your institution to not host this exhibit next week. Should you not decide to censor, I ask for your own opinion on the merit, the MERIT President Schutti, of an exhibit titled in such manner.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you. I look forward to hearing from you prior to the scheduled opening of the exhibit next week.</div><div>****************************</div><div>More, Joshua Stulman has <a href="http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2006/04/04-21-06tdc/04-21-06dnews-13.asp">been censored before at Penn State</a>. He stated then, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;">It's not about hate. I don't hate Muslims. This is not about Islam"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;">That is why Joshua has shown such respect for the prophet Mohammed PBUH in titling this exhibit, "How to paint Moo-Ham-Mud" I take it.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;"><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/04/27/pennstate">That decision was overturned by the president of Penn State and his exhibit went forward</a>.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><a href="http://www.pratt.edu/uploads/4506_HumanRights.pdf">PRATT'S OWN POLICY ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND GRIEVANCES PAMPLET</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; color:#1a1a18;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Pratt Institute’s community is one of diversity, which is a hallmark of an urban academic environment. The Institute is committed to the recognition and preservation of each individual’s human rights and <b>does not discriminate or tolerate harassment on the basis of</b> gender, race, color, <b>religion</b> or creed, marital status, age, sexual orientation, status as a veteran, political beliefs, disability, citizenship, genetic information, and national or ethnic origin with respect to the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to all members of its academic community.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; color:#1a1a18;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">*******************************</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; color:#1a1a18;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Now, there it is in writing, their own policy does not tolerate harassment on the basis of religion. Yet this exhibit titled. "How to Paint Moo-Ham-Mud" is going to open next week.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; color:#1a1a18;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; color:#1a1a18;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">From what I found, there is a Muslim Student Association at Pratt.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; color:#1a1a18;">**********************</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; color:#1a1a18;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; color:#1a1a18;"><br /></p><p color="#1a1a18" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></p><p color="#1a1a18" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></p><p color="#1a1a18" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman', Times;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br />Oh now, here's something really interesting. Joshua Stulman wrote a <a href="http://art455.pbworks.com/OnNarcissism">term paper on narcissism in art</a><br /><br />"Narcissism exists in art in the form of arrogance and the characteristic of craving attention."<br /><br />SO, Joshua<a href="http://volokh.com/files/stulman.pdf"> SUED Penn State</a><div><br /></div><div>OOOOH BOY, Joshua has been an active little critter over on a forum I found where he has been posting. First I found <a href="http://forums.toynewsi.com/index.php?showtopic=2073271">THIS </a>where he invites people to his exhibit and still hasn't come back to answer my question (as Holly Tree) to his statement, "So to make a remark that the exhibit is anti-Muslim makes no sense whatsoever"</div><div><br /></div><div>But lets go looking for what ELSE Joshua has written in this forum concerning Islam (there are several posts there) He wrote in a <a href="http://forums.toynewsi.com/index.php?showtopic=2071447&view=&hl=&fromsearch=1">thread concerning the painting of Mohammed</a></div><div><br /></div><div>"Thanks for the comments. FYI if anyone wants to know where NOT to be, don't be in Brooklyn in May or anywhere near the Pratt Institute"</div><div>Regards-Joshua</div><div><br /></div><div>OH, here's some really interesting posting by Joshua. He got really hot when someone said something crude concerning Jews controlling Hollywood. Just go ahead and read <a href="http://forums.toynewsi.com/index.php?showtopic=2068055&st=0">this thread</a> to see Joshua's reaction. "Clam" was the one who wrote the remark and then claimed it was a joke. Well THEN Joshua wrote: (His screen name is </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(29, 54, 82); background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(213, 222, 229); background-position: initial initial; font-size:1.1em;"> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn" href="http://forums.toynewsi.com/index.php?showuser=23509" style="color: rgb(40, 75, 114); text-decoration: none; ">Flounnderr</a></span></h3><div><br /></div></span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(28, 40, 55); line-height: 19px; font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Clam,<br /><br />Just don't make the joke, it's not funny and quite tasteless.<br />I have no need to quarrel with you over this anymore, i just hope you will pay more attention to what you write. This is a community and not a private conversation.<br /><br />BTW I haven't seen the Joe movie and i'm a big time joe collector because it looked like a waste (same as TF2), if i see it at one of those supermarket 1.00 rentals, then maybe.<br /><br /><a href="http://forums.toynewsi.com/index.php?showtopic=2068055&st=25">regards<br />joshua </a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#1C2837;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#1C2837;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;">OH REALLY JOSHUA!!!! And what is titling your "exhibit" "How to Paint Moo-Ham-Mud" and then writing in this forum to people where NOT to be when your exhibit is showing, anywhere near the Pratt Institute.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#1C2837;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#1C2837;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;">And IF the administration says anything to you about this, what are you going to do? Sue them?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#1C2837;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#1C2837;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;">Joshua Stulman, you are nothing but a little twirp hiding behind your "free speech" rights to provoke, by your own term paper, a NARCISSIST. Twirp Joshua, a racist provocative TWIRP!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#1C2837;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#1C2837;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:13px;">And now Pratt Institute, he's YOURS.</span></span></div><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">OOH Joshua is conversing with me over </span><a href="http://forums.toynewsi.com/index.php?showtopic=2073271"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">HERE</span></a>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-37272848971394140112010-05-15T04:57:00.000-07:002010-05-15T05:13:27.269-07:00On the Commemoration of the 62nd Nakba<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><p dir="ltr" align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; "><span class="stxt" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I Come From There</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Mahmoud Darwish</b></span></span></p><span class="stxt" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; "><b><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "></p></b></span><p style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "></p><p dir="ltr" align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span class="stxt" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; "><b>I come from there and I have memories<br /><br />Born as mortals are, I have a mother<br /><br />And a house with many windows,<br /><br />I have brothers, friends,<br /><br />And a prison cell with a cold window.<br /><br />Mine is the wave, snatched by sea-gulls,<br /><br />I have my own view,<br /><br />And an extra blade of grass.<br /><br />Mine is the moon at the far edge of the words,<br /><br />And the bounty of birds,<br /><br />And the immortal olive tree.<br /><br />I walked this land before the swords<br /><br />Turned its living body into a laden table.<br /><br />***<br /><br />I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother<br /><br />When the sky weeps for her mother.<br /><br />And I weep to make myself known<br /><br />To a returning cloud.<br /><br />I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood<br /><br />So that I could break the rule.<br /><br />I learnt all the words and broke them up<br /><br />To make a single word: Homeland.....</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, fantasy; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/">The Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a></span></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; "><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/r9aLdkr0oCY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/r9aLdkr0oCY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span></span></span></p></span></span></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-81169551009266425322010-05-14T22:05:00.000-07:002010-05-14T22:13:46.785-07:00HRW 113 pg Report: "“I Lost Everything” Israel's Unlawful Destruction of Property during Operation Cast Lead"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">To read full 113 page report <a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2010/05/13/i-lost-everything-0">LINK</a></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><h1 style="font-size: 24px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 11px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; font-weight: 100; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">Israel unlawfully destroyed Gaza property, says report</h1><div><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">THE ISRAELI army wantonly destroyed civilian property during its 22-day offensive against Gaza, Human Rights Watch has reported.</span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The human rights group says Israeli forces targeted buildings and other facilities that had no “no military significance” in “grave” breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.</span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In a 116-page document, entitled </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I Lost Everything: Israel’s Unlawful Destruction of Property in the Gaza Conflict</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> , the report documents the complete destruction of orchards and farms as well as 189 buildings. These included 11 factories, eight warehouses and 170 residential buildings, rendering 971 people homeless during Operation Cast Lead which began on December 27th, 2008 and ended on January 18th, 2009.</span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The report said that a dozen specific targetings documented in the report account for only 5 per cent of the homes, warehouses and factories destroyed during the conflict. The report stated: “These cases describe instances in which Israeli forces caused extensive destruction of homes, factories, farms and greenhouses in areas under [Israeli] control without any evident military purpose”. </span></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Read further</span><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0515/1224270464614.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">>>>>>>>></span></a></p></div></span></span></div>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-29680405467205508202010-05-10T08:03:00.000-07:002010-05-10T08:05:19.992-07:00Hey Elton: Must See Video, CANCEL YOUR CONCERT IN ISRAEL!!Totally amazing & timely video from Canadian filmmaker John Greyson! A call for Elton John to cancel his upcoming Tel Aviv concert. Make it go viral! Pass it on to your friends.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9HSClZbhB5g&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9HSClZbhB5g&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-83490781170677946992010-05-09T23:16:00.000-07:002010-05-10T09:43:30.762-07:00Lena Horne 1917-2010Inducted into the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0002/wof/Lena_Horne.htm">Civil Rights Walk of Fame</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/examinerslideshow.html?entryid=1249131">Photo essay</a><br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ipQf5jpLH9U&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ipQf5jpLH9U&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />One of America's greatest women has died.<br /><br />Watch James Gavin who wrote her biography. She always felt she needed to be all things to everyone. Just watch. Now she is gone, a lady...............<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-fu_Bx2DhZM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-fu_Bx2DhZM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803465990875877515.post-88050527743717890442010-04-26T18:00:00.000-07:002010-04-26T18:01:36.065-07:00Free Gaza Sailing in Three Weeks "Cements Their Support" (video)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; "><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yz-LYXV6_t0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yz-LYXV6_t0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span>Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05083797851421885147noreply@blogger.com1