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The NY Times is busted again:
When the weaker-than-expected preliminary report on gross domestic product was first published in late January, the New York Times featured a story about it on the front page of its Saturday morning business section. The author was left-of-center Louis Uchitelle, a reporter who groused in his story about soft business investment (outside of computers and software) as well as weak export sales to foreign countries.
A month later, however, we have the revision of the GDP report for the last three months of 2004. The new data show a much stronger economy.
The initial estimate of 3.1 percent GDP growth for last years fourth quarter was revised upward to 3.8 percent. Business investment was revised higher to 18 percent from 14.9 percent. Included in this, the rise in non-high-tech business investment outstripped high-tech investment (by 15.2 percent to 13.7 percent, both at annual rates) for the first time since 1994. Private-sector domestic output what Economics 101 students might remember as consumption plus investment (or C+I) came in at an outsized 5.5 percent growth.
So what did the New York Times do with this upbeat economic story? It buried it. Rather than place the news on the front page of the business section, the Times editors shoved it on page B4. Instead of carrying a senior reporters byline, the copy came from Reuters News Service.
I’ve said it before. Mainstream media is no longer serious reporting: it’s an experiment in mind control.
Abu Ali is the American-born Muslim who has confessed as follows:
U.S. Magistrate Judge Liam O’Grady issued the order after a detention hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria in which an FBI agent testified that Mr. Abu Ali, 23, of Falls Church, confessed “multiple times” that he had allied with al Qaeda to plot the Bush assassination.
Per Daniel Pipes, Abu Ali was schooled in a Saudi-funded high school on U.S. soil:
Born in the United States to immigrant Jordanian parents, Abu Ali, 23, [...] attended the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Virginia, graduating in 1999 as class valedictorian. As an outpost of Saudi values on American soil, the academy enjoys Saudi government funding, is chaired by the Saudi ambassador in Washington, and boasts a curriculum imported straight from Riyadh.
Thus, the first grade teachers’ guide at the Islamic Saudi Academy instructs that Christianity and Judaism are false religions. When one realizes that the curriculum is overseen by Saleh Al-Fawzan, who in 2003 endorsed the institution of slavery, this comes as less than a grand shock.
While still living in the United States, Abu Ali developed ties to the “paintball jihadists” of northern Virginia, nine of whom have served time in jail.
Pipes links to this report on that high school:
WASHINGTON DC – Six-year-old children at the Saudi Islamic Academy in Alexandria, Virginia are taught to disparage Christianity and Judaism, according to a first-grade textbook obtained by the Saudi Institute.
The book, which is authored and published by the Saudi Ministry of Education, teaches Saudi and American children that Judaism, Christianity, and other faiths are false religions.
Lesson nine on page 19 of the textbook “Monotheism and Figh” instructs the teacher to explain to students that the religions of Jews and Christians are false. The book, printed in 2003, is part of the new Saudi curriculum, taught both in the Kingdom and the United States, which was changed following criticism of religious hatred in the education system.
Is the Saudi-funded high school in Virginia the only such high school in America? Not according to this report:
There are thousands of Saudi-funded Islamic schools in America. While we have been aware of this for years, Americans were ignorant about what was being taught in those schools to American children who just happen to be Muslim. The Saudi Ministry of Education has been creating a network of sleeper-cells right in the heart of America.
For a modest investment, the Saudi government has had total access to thousands of young American minds and has used that opportunity to corrupt and mold those young minds into its view of the perfect Muslim. The perfect Muslim is full of hate for all non-Muslims, has no loyalty to the United States, and is convinced that only radical Islam—Wahhabism (the dominant sect of Islamic teaching in Saudi Arabia)—is the correct interpretation of Islam. There are now thousands of pre-programmed terrorists in America, waiting for the war against the American infidel to begin in earnest. These soldiers do not consider themselves free: they know they are loyal Muslims in the army of Islam.
The American flag waves in front of each Saudi-supported American school, but the students continue to be taught that someday it will be replaced with the flag of Islam. They believe it is just a matter of time. These young people have been totally indoctrinated in the Wahhabism belief that has been taught in Saudi Arabia for two centuries. Children are not born terrorists. Terrorists are created. The Saudis have been very busy doing just that—right here in America.
There are two major questions that remain: How much longer will Americans tolerate this Saudi hate-filled school system in our midst and how much damage has been done? One has to assume that the hate-everyone-not-Muslim curriculum is standard in all of them.
Conclusions: Saudi-funded high schools on U.S. soil are teaching American children Jihad, which is, to attack the surrounding American culture, and to attack Americans physically, which this student has carried out by attempting to kill the President.
And a question:
Where is the ACLU on this? The ACLU, which famously opposes all association of schools and religion. Do they only support religion when it is used to teach people to attack Americans?
I just got back from an event at which a small group met with Mr. Sody A. Naimer, a resident of Gaza, which is currently scheduled to be given up by Israel for the purpose of becoming part of a future Palestinian state. 8,000 Jewish residents of Gaza, who have lived there for up to 20 years, are to be evacuated, by force if necessary.
Mr. Naimer is a Physician in Gaza, and has seen a great deal of trauma and death inflicted on the residents there by terrorist actions. He commented that the surrounding Arabs “love to kill children waiting for school busses in the morning.” He described an occasion when a bomb fell through the roof of his house and didn’t detonate only because it bounced off of a stack of mattresses. He told of many good people killed by terrorists.
Yet he, and most of his fellow-residents, remain passionately dedicated to continuing to live there. They’ve built homes and lives there, and they feel it is by far in the best interests of Israel to keep the land it holds, rather than to surrender it to the Palestinians. Mr. Naimer believes the Palestinians will give Israel nothing in return, and will in fact use the land to launch further deadly attacks on Israeli citizens. He points out that the current official position of Israel is that they do not currently have a partner in peace in the Palestinians—in other words, the Palestinians aren’t even offering to give Israel anything in return for this great concession. He points out that it would be to reward terrorist actions to give up Gaza, and therefore encourage further such actions.
Mr. Naimer discussed how Israeli security personnel visited him and asked him if he would envision himself committing a crime, that is, attacking Israeli forces, to defend his home. Mr. Naimer’s reply was that he would not do such a thing. We asked what he would do if the time for evacuation were to arrive. He said, he and his family would go to the local synogogue, and wait there to see what happened. We asked if he would pack his things. “I won’t move a pen,” he said. “Physical possessions mean nothing to me” in comparison to the importance of Gaza to his fellow residents and to the well-being of the state of Israel.
Last Thursday I attended another event, sponsored by the Stand with Us organization of Los Angeles, dedicated to a secure future for Israel. This event was with Israeli government spokesman David Baker. The subject of Gaza was discussed at length. Mr. Baker said the reason for the evacuation was “math. 8,000 Israelis in the middle of 1.3 million Arabs doesn’t work.” I’m not quite sure what Mr. Baker meant by that. However, after several days, I think perhaps he meant that the Israeli government may feel that it cannot properly protect and guarantee the safety of the residents of Gaza. This is certainly a reasonable and even a caring position.
So here’s the drama: the Israeli government is saying to the Israeli residents of Gaza, leave, because we cannot protect you. And those residents of Gaza are saying back, passionately, even if we can’t have any more protection than we already have, even if we have to suffer from the undending deadly attacks on us, we don’t want to leave. We love our homes, we love Israel, and for the sake of these things, we want to stay.
Stay tuned.
The Denver Post describes a recent controlled experiment in which six computers were attached to the Internet and then watched to see if they attracted any viruses or worms.
Windows Service Pack 1, which was shipped by Microsoft until last August, got hammered:
Windows Service Pack 1, or SP 1 [...] was sold in computer stores until a few months ago.
SP 1 was attacked 4,857 times. It was infested within 18 minutes by the Blaster and Sasser worms. Within an hour it became a “bot,” or a machine controlled by a remote computer, and began attacking other Windows computers.
The good news is that the latest versions of Windows were unaffected. The Macintosh and Linux systems in the test were also unaffected.
So if you’re running Windows, make sure it’s the latest version:
Many computers around the world are still running Windows SP 1, though exact numbers are hard to come by. Gartner research director Michael Silver estimates that by the end of 2005, half of the world’s desktops used in businesses will still be using SP 1.
If you are running Service Pack 1, make sure your security features are turned on:
SP 2 comes with a firewall and automatic security updates, said Sundwall. These features had to be manually turned on in SP 1, which meant that some users missed out on computer patches.
