Canadians targeted on radical Islamic website
By Tobi Cohen:
The RCMP is aware of an al-Qaida linked website that has posted the names of Coptic Christian Canadians it accuses of trying to “tarnish the image of Islam.”
The Canadian names are among hundreds listed on the Shumukh-al-Islam website which is known to support Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization.
In many cases, the citations include photographs and telephone numbers which security experts fear could be used by the radical Muslims who surf the site to inflict harm.
The three web pages of names target Coptic Christians, typically of Arab-Egyptian origin, all over the world.
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The Net Neutrality Coup
By JOHN FUND:
The Federal Communications Commission’s new “net neutrality” rules, passed on a partisan 3-2 vote yesterday, represent a huge win for a slick lobbying campaign run by liberal activist groups and foundations. The losers are likely to be consumers who will see innovation and investment chilled by regulations that treat the Internet like a public utility.
There’s little evidence the public is demanding these rules, which purport to stop the non-problem of phone and cable companies blocking access to websites and interfering with Internet traffic. Over 300 House and Senate members have signed a letter opposing FCC Internet regulation, and there will undoubtedly by even less support in the next Congress.
Yet President Obama, long an ardent backer of net neutrality, is ignoring both Congress and adverse court rulings, especially by a federal appeals court in April that the agency doesn’t have the power to enforce net neutrality. He is seeking to impose his will on the Internet through the executive branch. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, a former law school friend of Mr. Obama, has worked closely with the White House on the issue. Official visitor logs show he’s had at least 11 personal meetings with the president.
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Rush: FCC trying to keep internet from becoming like talk radio and Fox News
Posted by therightscoop:
“They are worried to death that the Internet is gonna become the next conservative talk radio and Fox News, and that’s what they’re not gonna permit. That’s what so-called net neutrality is all about.”
People mocked Sarah Palin for saying that there would end up being ‘death panels’ because of ObamaCare. But when you ration care, that has to happen in the end. Even the deficit commission said in order for ObamaCare to be viable, it would need death panels.
Now Rush is telling you what Net Neutrality is all about. I’ve said before that it’s baby steps to an end goal of silencing dissent that gets in the legislative way of big government.
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Dictator Obama Seizes Control of Internet
Pam Gellar:
Mad with power.
This power-mad president continues to power grab. And the subdued state-run enemedia couldn’t be happier. The net has been the only outlet (along with talk radio) that actually reports the news. That does the job and tells the truth. And the American people have been abandoning the networks and newspapers in droves.
This is Obama’s first strike against the internet. If this tyrannical administration atttempts to regulate free speech and information dissemination, the people will not go quietly.
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Regulation by prosecution
Ed Lasky:
Barack Obama is on a permanent campaign to not only win reelection but also to transform America. A new tactic has come to my attention via our friends at Investors Business Daily.
An IBD op-ed by James Copland, “Government Regulation by Prosecution is Just Criminal Law on Steroids,” looks at the expansion of criminal law to cover corporate actions. Even the threat of Big Brother/Big Bully using its vast resources to threaten businesses can force companies to accede to government demands — regardless of their merits and costs. Particularly notable is the role of one key official on the Obama team who provided the framework for these types of threats:
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Taking names, Napolitano style
By Doug Hagmann:
Did you see the Washington Post this morning? That was the one sentence e-mail I received yesterday from my DHS contact who alerted me to the DHS/TSA memorandum about the domestic intelligence agency’s creating and maintaining a list of individuals who were determined to be “interfering” with the enhanced airport TSA screening procedures through their objections or “opting out” of such procedures.
In my November 23rd report titled DHS making a list, checking it twice, I wrote that the DHS, through the arm of the TSA, under the direction of Napolitano and with the full consent of Obama, was collecting the names and personal information of such individuals, labeling them as potential “domestic extremists.”
Meanwhile, the very same agency was busily averting an uprising by air travelers and a potential public relations nightmare by temporarily suspending their draconian security measures during one of the busiest travel times of the year.
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Obama’s mystery proposal to regulate the Internet
Washington Examiner:
If President Obama wants his executive branch to resemble the opaque, power-hungry political machinations in Chicago, he seems to be succeeding in the area of Internet regulation. Last April, a federal court told the Federal Communications Commission that it has no business regulating the Internet. Unfortunately, judicial rejection of the commission’s first swing at the “net neutrality” ball — the idea the FCC must regulate the Internet to insure everybody has equal access — didn’t deter Obama’s FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, from taking another whack. He’s bringing a new set of proposed net neutrality regulations to the five-member panel Tuesday. Unfortunately, nobody knows any details of the new proposal because Genachowski has kept them secret until the last possible minute even as he rushed them forward for a vote. How ironic that the Internet, the great and empowering liberator of information that “wants to be free,” is being chopped up behind closed doors by an unelected panel. Note, too, that this is being considered by the FCC on the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year.
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Five Years Later, Evolutionary Immunology and other Icons of Kitzmiller v. Dover Not Holding Up Well
by Casey Luskin:
Judge Jones might not realize it, but in a recent article in the York Dispatch he admitted that his ruling in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case amounted to judicial activism. He stated: “The decision seems to be holding up well … No other school district has engaged in this kind of a battle. I hope that’s a product of the decision and perhaps the way that I wrote the decision.” As Lawrence Baum writes in his book American Courts: Process and Policy, “[w]hen judges choose to increase their impact as policymakers, they can be said to engage in activism; choices to limit that impact can be labeled judicial restraint.” By admitting that he sought to impact the policy decisions of parties outside of the ones in his case, Judge Jones shows his ruling engaged in judicial activism.
But is Judge Jones’ decision actually “holding up well”? Not if we judge it by the science.
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FCC Gives Government Power to Regulate Web Traffic
By AMY SCHATZ:
Federal telecommunications regulators approved new rules Tuesday that would for the first time give the federal government formal authority to regulate Internet traffic, although how much or for how long remained unclear.
A divided Federal Communications Commission approved a proposal by Chairman Julius Genachowski to give the FCC power to prevent broadband providers from selectively blocking web traffic.
The rules will go into effect early next year, but legal challenges or action by Congress could block the FCC’s action. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Tuesday called the FCC’s action “flawed” and said lawmakers would “have an opportunity in the new Congress to push back against new rules and regulations.”
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It’s Europe’s crisis
JOHN BOLTON:
The recent riots in Athens, London and Rome signal rising insecurity and uncer tainty within the European Union. The most profound and widespread challenge is the growing sense that the EU’s common currency, the euro, may not survive in its present form, if at all.
The obvious reason is that, as a matter of economics, the euro project gives surrealism a bad name: A currency without a government was always doomed to fail. Now, there are only two choices: 1) Abandon or dramatically shrink the euro concept, or 2) increase the powers of the European Commission to oversee — and where necessary de termine — national tax and spending decisions.
A cynic would say that this crisis was pre-planned — anticipated years ago as a convenient trigger to create the ever-more-centralized EU government that its advocates could never have achieved openly.
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Losing Faith and Secular Dhimmitude
by Roland Shirk, FrontPage:
My last column did its job. I was trying to highlight some of the reasons why conservative Christians are reluctant to join in the struggle against global jihad. And this is a problem, because–apart from Muslims, the only groups who are having children and passing along their beliefs almost undiluted to the next generation are conservative Christians and ultra-orthodox Jews (plus the Amish–who probably won’t be relevant to this conflict). Witness what secular demographer Philip Longman has to say on this subject:
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Why Arab leaders Do Not Care About Medical Services In Their Countries
by Khaled Abu Toameh:
When Arab leaders want good medical treatment, they know where to get: anywhere else but their own countries.
Why? Not because they are afraid of being hospitalized in the same ward with an ordinary citizen, but because they know that American and European hospitals and medical centers are better equipped and hire many of the world’s best surgeons and physicians.
The wealthy Gulf countries should have the best hospitals and medical centers in the world. But Arab monarchs and presidents prefer to spend most of the money they steal on themselves and their families.
And who pays the price? Ordinary people who can’t afford to travel abroad for medical treatment.
An Arab prince or princess prefers to spend millions of dollars on shopping in Paris and London than investing in an Arab hospital.
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Kim Jong Il Hangs Out His Christmas Stocking
by Claudia Rosett:
Hey, all you American taxpayers! Maybe North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and his son, junior-tyrant-designate Kim Jong Eun, aren’t on your Christmas gift list. But watch out. The way things are going, Uncle Sam might be getting ready to send them presents on your behalf.
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“Time” Gets It Wrong Again
by Dr. Avi Perry
Follow Israel opinion on Twitter and Facebook .
The December 20 issue of Time Magazine features an article, “Palestinian Youth, Growing the next generation of Israel’s adversaries,” by Karl Vick, in which he contends that the separation wall, erected by Israel to separate Israel and the Palestinian Authority, is the reason for the separation of the mind, for the absence of familiarity. It is the rationale and the basis, he claims, “there is little chance for the two peoples, one day living as neighbors in peace.”
Really?
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Hanging on in a roller coaster world
By Judi McLeod:
Start thinking small.
Think survival not striving to be well off.
In a throwback to the days of Stalin, the elected governments of many nations, including America, are turning on their own people. What Barack `Kill-America’ Obama is doing to the USA is being done elsewhere because what he is doing originates from a global initiative.
Close your ears and close your mind to any talking heads or Internet stories that try to portray Obama as an incompetent; a trapped, abandoned little boy in a man’s body or just another evil Democrat politician. Obama is a cold-hearted, cold-blooded Marxist on a rush mission to take down America.
Thinking small could be families moving in together. People moving from the city to the farm; determined to do the best with whatever they have; pulling together, sharing; just wanting to survive.
Live in reality.
The recession is ravaging life as we know it, world wide.
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