RWC Unfiltered 8-11-11

• n Former Congresswoman McKinney on Middle East America Bashing Tour
• n China Sorties First Air Craft Carrier
• n Afghanistan Rules of Engagement Fsulted
• n Hamas Image Campaign Called Success.
• n Strange Connections Between Muslim Media and America

A Fox News poll shows Romney ahead of all Republicans but trailing Obama in all other polls.

Former Congresswoman Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is a former US Congresswoman and a member of the Green Party since 2007 and its nominee for President, She is the first African-American woman to have represented Georgia in the House. She is currently touring the middle East bashing America spouting all sorts of anti-American conspiracy theories.

At this writing she has refused to show who is paying for her travel and expenses.. Some sources point to Tehran University as a major sponsor for this horrifically ignorant and anti-American woman.

The Carter era “Community Reinvestment Act” of 1977 that he called his proudest moment when Jimmy Carter forced banks to lend to uncredit worthy people and having those bad loans backed by taxpayers through Pennie Mae and Freddy Mac began thecurrent housing crash and then Bill Clinton made it worse in the 90s.

As part of a “military buildup,” China’s first aircraft carrier swept through fog-shrouded waters on Wednesday to open sea trials.

The move stoked concerns about Beijing’s growing military strength and increasingly assertive claims over disputed territory in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).

While Chinese carriers could challenge US naval supremacy in Asia, China still has far to go in bringing such systems into play, experts say. The United States operates 11 aircraft carrier battle groups and its carriers are far bigger and more advanced.

The U. S. has rebased its Pacific force onto Guam in mid-Pacific. The 1,000 foot ski-jump nosed former Soviet aircraft carrier that flies China’s ensign is no match for U. S. Nimmitz class attack carriers. But, China will keep beavering away until it becomes a real strategic challenge to the U. S. in the western Pacific.

Openly homosexual Dem. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) who infamously allowed a aide to run a homosexual sex business from his Washington DC area apartment has scummed up even more by loudly passing gas during a live MSNBC interview.

http://conservativebyte.com/2011/08/did-barney-frank-pass-gas-live-on-msnbc-you-decide/

 For more than two years trooper’s in Afghanistan have been bitching about The rules of Engagment hat Obama has imposed. Most often the lament is there is more concern about protecting Afghan vicilians that our own troops, and not doing anything, incuding winning, to imperil Obama’s withdrawal strategy.

By the second beer at almost any NCO CLUB the subject comes up of ineptitude and even micro managing from the White House ir at least that the effluent flushed from it is slopping about the Pentagon.

Wednesday the New York Post headlined that the Stock Market was up and down like a hooker’s drawers.

In the United States, the unemployment rate among black teenagers is 39.2 percent, compared with 23 percent for white teenagers. It is little wonder that civil unrest is high on the agenda for responsiblle police officers. In LOs ANGELES police have cintingency plans to build fortresses to counter attack rioters.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy

The terror organization Hamas claims ’significant breakthroughs’ in image campaign with West. The Islamic movement has reported expanded contacts with Western states, including members of NATO. Hamas spokespeople said the communications have resulted in an improvement in relations with the European Union.

“I believe there are significant breakthroughs in the relationships between Hamas and several Western states,” Hamas foreign relations director Osama Hamdan said. “Europe is showing more understanding of Hamas’ positions.”

Hamdan, based in Lebanon, said Western countries were realizing that Hamas was an authentic Islamic movement. He cited the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, in which the Muslim Brotherhood played a leading role.

“We believe that the popular revolutions come in the context of liberating the [Arabs and Muslims] from dependency,” Hamdan said. “The people seeking liberation realize the magnitude of the challenges.”

The statement came amid a Hamas campaign to project a moderate image in the West. Hamas leaders, including Khaled Masha’al, have been interviewed in leading European and American publications on the movement and its goals.

“Our policy, as a movement, is that we have never behaved in a way that leads to more problems in the Arab world,” Hamdan said in May. “Hamas’ positions have been responsible and keen to serve the interests of the [Arabs and Muslims]. No one can doubt that.”

Hamas has been under severe pressure to re-locate from Syria amid the Arab revolt. The Palestinian movement, with headquarters in Damascus for nearly the last 20 years, has refrained from supporting the revolt against President Bashar Assad.

Despite its image campaign, Hamdan refused to point to any achievements by Hamas. He said the movement was waiting for decisions by Western governments to legitimize Hamas, currently on the list of terrorist organizations compiled by the EU and the United States.

“But I believe it is too early to rush to conclusions,” Hamdan said. “We should see something practical on the ground and not just statements.”

Early today Vandenberg Air Force base auccessfully l;aunched a hyper-sonic glider that could fly at 13,000 miles per hour before falling into the ocearn.

Michael Calderone, the senior media reporter for The Huffington Post, has written an article which appears on the Web site of Arab American News that appears to “credit” Sen. John McCain for helping get carriage for what could legitimately be called the terror channel, Al-Jazeera English (AJE), on Time Warner cable in New York.

He writes that “…U.S. political leaders have had far more praise for the network’s on-the-ground reporting around the globe. In March, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called AJE ‘real news’ for its coverage of the Arab Spring protests. Two months later, both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) attended a dinner for the network and spoke glowingly about its impact on the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.”

Meantime, an Al-Jazeera contributor, Republican David Ramadan, who supported McCain for president, is running for the newly created 87th House of Delegates seat in the Commonwealth of Virginia and seems poised to win. He has been interviewed by Al-Jazeera, which the Muslim Brotherhood describes as the “great Arab media organization,” and says that his mission includes “educating the Republican party on the Arab-American and Muslim community on what we need from candidates in order to support them.”

On August 10, former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese is scheduled to appear on Ramadan’s behalf at a Loudoun County, Virginia, restaurant.

The Huffington Post has done its part on behalf of Al-Jazeera, as noted by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA): “Another facet of the Huffington Post’s brand of journalism is its symbiotic relationship with Qatar’s state-financed news organization Al Jazeera. In early 2011, the Huffington Post ran a series of pieces supporting Al Jazeera’s efforts to convince major American cable companies to carry its newscasts.

“From Jan. 30 to 31 alone, Huffington Post published four pieces promoting Al Jazeera, including one by Jeff Jarvis titled ‘We Want our Al Jazeera English Now’ which calls the decision not to carry Al Jazeera ‘un-American.’

“Another piece by Wadah Khanfar, the Director General of Al Jazeera, was a full page promotional piece for the network, citing its ‘Journalism of depth.’

“Khanfar has become something of a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, creating the unusual circumstance where the head of a foreign-based media source owned by an autocratic head of state serves as a guest columnist for a major American news organization.”

Calderone is nevertheless correct in his assessment of how significant McCain’s praise of the channel has been. As we noted at the time, McCain’s praise of the terror channel “was a shocker because the day before, on Sunday, The Washington Post had finally gotten around to publishing a semi-critical article on the channel, noting its double-standards and open bias on the matter of revolutions in the Middle East. The Post even acknowledged that WikiLeaks had released a U.S. cable describing the channel as a foreign policy instrument of Qatar, the Middle Eastern dictatorship which financially sponsors it and selects its personnel.”

Picking up a New York Times story by Brian Stelter about Al-Jazeera getting carriage in New York, Keach Hagey of Politico wrote: “It’s a major step forward for the awareness-raising campaign that AJE has been on since its coverage of the Arab Spring propelled it to newfound relevance this year. But so far there is no sign that the obstacles keeping the channel from achieving its true goal in the U.S. - national cable carriage - are cracking at all.”

Neither Stelter nor Hagey gave any space to critics of Al-Jazeera, an indication of how this “awareness-raising campaign” has captured the exclusive attention of these reporters, indicating that they do not want to be accused of putting obstacles in the way of its well-financed push for carriage in major U.S. media markets.

One of the big obstacles has been the channel’s anti-American and anti-Israel bias.

Interestingly, many of the concerns that we have expressed about Al-Jazeera are confirmed in a 94-page master’s thesis, “Al-Jazeera as a Political Tool within the Contradictions of Qatar,” by an Arabic-speaking Japanese graduate, Munehiro Anzawa, available on the American University in Cairo Web site. It is dated May 2011.

This student is able to document many of the facts that seem to have been ignored by the media cheerleaders for the channel. First - and most obvious - the channel is Arab government-funded, which obviously colors its reporting.

The student writes that: “It is important to reveal how Al Jazeera’s financing by one of the most repressive governments regarding freedom of expression affects the channel’s coverage, bias, and editorial independence. It is also interesting to note that Al Jazeera’s news reporting virtually ignores the internal affairs of its financial sponsor, Qatar, or the ruling Al Thani family.”

“More significantly,” says the master’s thesis, “Al Jazeera does not seem eager to report on the internal issues of Qatar and the dirty laundry of the ruling family.”

Other important points on the subject of dirty laundry:

  Qatar harbored Islamic radicals “such as a top commander of Al Qaeda, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of September 11, and many Arab extremists…”

  “…according to the U.S. diplomatic cables unveiled by WikiLeaks, Qatar was the worst in counterterrorism measures in the region. Qatar’s security was ‘hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking reprisals.’”

  “Al Jazeera frequently hosts anti-American guests and has aired propaganda against the United States both before and after September 11th.”

The academic study, however, neglects many other important points, including the fact that Al-Jazeera’s Afghan correspondent, Tayseer Alouni, went to prison in Spain for being an agent of al-Qaeda. This kind of relationship explains why Al-Jazeera has been so quick to air exclusive videos and messages from Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

The study notes that a turning point for Al-Jazeera in the U.S. came when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the channel for offering “real news.” The study failed to note that her husband, disgraced former president Bill Clinton, has a financial relationship with the government of Qatar and several entities in the country. The regime is a financial sponsor, listed at between $1 and $5 million, of the William J. Clinton Foundation.

In mid-May it was revealed by Hagey at Politico that McCain had praised Al-Jazeera, becoming a shill for the terror channel. It appears that McCain was using the channel, or perhaps the channel was using him, in order to affect regime change in Libya. As a result, Islamists are poised to take control of the country.

We pointed out at the time, “McCain’s praise of Al-Jazeera was also curious because the channel, during the 2008 presidential campaign, had savaged the McCain-Palin ticket by running a piece depicting Republican voters as country bumpkins and racists. Casey Kaufmann, the Al-Jazeera reporter who did the story, contributed $500 to the Obama-for-president campaign, a violation of basic standards of journalism ethics.”

Additional research has turned up the fact that David Ramadan, a member of the Virginia delegation and Arab-American delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2008, told Al-Jazeera about his support for McCain in an article that appeared under the direct headline, “Why I support John McCain.” He wrote, “McCain is a reformer, McCain is pro-immigration, McCain is a centrist. McCain supports the US finishing the trouble that George Bush got the US into in Iraq.”

Ramadan is running for the newly created 87th House of Delegates seat in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Republican primary election takes place on August 23. His Web site boasts an endorsement from House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, a Jewish conservative, and other prominent Republicans. Appointed by Gov. Robert McDonnell to serve on the Board of Visitors of George Mason University (GMU), he says he is an example of living the American dream. He has lived in Virginia since 1989.

However, Ramadan’s bio also says that he is a “frequent commentator” on networks such as Al-Jazeera.

Pamela Geller, author of the new book, Stop the Islamization of America, suggests Ramadan is a Muslim Brotherhood candidate. Writing at Big Peace, Kent Clizbe, a former CIA counter-terrorism ops officer, says that Ramadan has mysterious foreign connections that deserve serious scrutiny.

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