Thursday, March 23, 2006

AP Erases Video Of Israeli Soldier Shoot A Palestinian Boy

Asssociated Press ,the "respectable" news agency is apparently no more than Zionist mouthpiece. It plays the usual game of cover up, manipulation and deception in favour of Israel. The following news as reported by Alison Weir tell all. Alison Weir is Executive Director of If Americans Knew, which is currently conducting a statistical analysis of AP's coverage of Israel-Palestine, to be released within a few months. The organization has created cards that describe AP actions for people to disseminate in their communities.

In the midst of journalism’s “Sunshine Week” – during which the Associated Press and other news organizations are valiantly proclaiming the public’s “right to know” – AP insists on conducting its own activities in the dark, and refuses to answer even the simplest questions about its system of international news reporting. Footage of this boy being intentionally shot by an Israeli soldier was erased by the Associated Press.Most of all, it refuses to explain why it erased footage of an Israeli soldier intentionally shooting a Palestinian boy.

AP, according to its website, is the world’s oldest and largest news organization. It is the behemoth of news reporting, providing what its editors determine is the news to a billion people each day. Through its feeds to thousands of newspapers, radio and television stations, AP is a major determinant in what Americans read, hear and see – and what they don’t. What they don’t is profoundly important. I investigated one such omission when I was in the Palestinian Territories last year working on a documentary with my colleague (and daughter), who was filming our interviews.

On Oct. 17, 2004 Israeli military forces invaded Balata, a dense, poverty-stricken community deep in Palestine’s West Bank (Israel frequently invades this area and others). According to witnesses, the vehicles stayed for about twenty minutes, the military asserting its power over the Palestinian population. The witnesses state that there was no Palestinian resistance – no “clash,” no “crossfire,” not even any stone-throwing. At one point, after most of the vehicles had finally driven away, an Israeli soldier stuck his gun out of his armored vehicle, aimed at a pre-pubescent boy nearby, and pulled the trigger.

We went to the hospital and interviewed the boy, Ahmad, his doctors, family, and others. Ahmad had bandages around his lower abdomen, where surgeons had operated on his bladder. He said he was afraid of Israeli soldiers, and pulled up his pants leg to show where he had been shot previously.
In the hospital there was a second boy, this one with a shattered femur; and a third boy, this one in critical condition with a bullet hole in his lung. A fourth boy, not a patient, was visiting a friend. He showed us a scarred lip and missing teeth from when Israeli soldiers had shot him in the mouth.
This was not an unusual situation. When I had visited Palestinian hospitals on a previous trip, I had seen many such victims; some with worse injuries. Yet, very few Americans know this is going on. AP’s actions in regard to Ahmad’s shooting may explain why.

We discovered that an AP cameraman had filmed the entire incident. This cameraman had then followed what apparently is the usual routine. He sent his video – an extremely valuable commodity, since it contained documentary evidence of a war crime – to the AP control bureau for the region. This bureau is in Israel.
What happened next is unfathomable. Did AP broadcast it? No. Did AP place the video in safe-keeping, available for an investigation of this crime? No.
According to its cameraman, AP erased it.

We were astounded. We traveled to AP’s control bureau in Israel. With our own video camera out and running, we asked bureau chief Steve Gutkin about this incident. Was the information we had been told correct, or did he have a different version? Did the bureau have the video, or had they indeed erased it. If so, why?
Gutkin, repeatedly looking at the camera and visibly flustered, told us that AP did not allow its journalists to give interviews. He told us that all questions must go to Corporate Communications, located in New York. He explained that they were on deadline and couldn’t talk. I said I understood deadline pressure, and sat down to wait until they were done. When he called Israeli police to arrest us, we left.
Back in the US later, I phoned Corporate Communications and reached Director of Media Relations Jack Stokes, AP’s public relations spokesman. I had conversed with Stokes before.

Over the past several years I have noticed disturbing flaws in AP coverage of Israel-Palestine: newsworthy stories not being covered, reports sent to international newspapers but not to American ones, stories omitting or misreporting significant facts, critical sentences being removed from updated reports.
I would phone AP with the appropriate correction or news alert. One time this resulted in a flawed news story being slightly corrected in updates. In a few cases stories were then covered that had been neglected. In many cases, however, I was told that I needed to speak to Corporate Communications. I would phone Corporate Communications, leave a message, and wait for a response. Most often, none came.

Several times, however, I was able to have long conversations with AP spokesman Stokes. None of these conversations, however, ever ended with AP taking any action. Some typical responses:
The omitted story was “not newsworthy.”
The story deemed by AP editors to be newsworthy to the rest of the world – e.g. Israel’s brutal imprisonment of over 300 Palestinian youths – was not newsworthy in the US (Israel’s major ally).
Burying a report of Israeli forces shooting a four-year-old Palestinian girl in the mouth was justified.
Misreporting an incident in which an Israeli officer riddled a 13-year-old girl at close range with bullets was unimportant.


Despite this unresponsive pattern, when I learned firsthand of an AP bureau erasing footage of an atrocity, I again phoned Corporate Communications. I no longer had much expectation that AP would take any corrective action, but I did expect to receive some information. I gave spokesperson Stokes the numerous details about this incident that we had gathered on the scene and asked him the same questions I had asked Gutkin. He said he would look into this and get back to me.
After several days he had not gotten back to me, so I again phoned him. He said that he had looked into this incident, and that AP had determined that this was “an internal matter” and that they would give no response.
While I should have known better, I was again astounded. AP was blatantly violating fundamental journalistic norms of ethical behavior, and clearly felt it had the power to get away with it.
Journalism, according to the Statement of Principles of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, is a “sacred trust.” It is the bulwark of a free society and is so essential to the functioning of a democracy that our forefathers affirmed its primacy in the very first amendment of the Bill of Rights.
According to the Society of Professional Journalists, one of the four major pillars of journalistic ethics is to

“Be Accountable.” According to the SPJ’s Code of Ethics:
“Journalists are accountable to their readers, listeners, viewers and each other.
“Journalists should: Clarify and explain news coverage and invite dialogue with the public over journalistic conduct
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Encourage the public to voice grievances against the news media.
Admit mistakes and correct them promptly.
Expose unethical practices of journalists and the news media.
Abide by the same high standards to which they hold others.”

Finally, this week, on deadline with a chapter about media coverage of Israel-Palestine, I again tried to confirm some of my facts with AP. Certainly, I felt, during “Sunshine Week” AP would respond. As part of the Sunshine campaign, AP’s CEO and President Tom Curley is traveling the country giving speeches on the necessity of transparency and accountability (for government) and emphasizing “the openness that effective democracy requires.”
“The trend toward secrecy,” AP's President has correctly been pointing out, “is the greatest threat to democracy.”
I emailed my questions to AP, talked to Stokes by phone, and again was told he would get back to me. Again, I got back to him. Then, in a surreal exchange, he conveyed AP’s reply: “The official response is we decline to respond.” As I asked question after question, many as simple as a confirmation of the number of bureaus AP has in Israel-Palestine, the response was silence or a repetition of: “The official response is we decline to respond.”
The next day I tried phoning AP’s President Curley directly. I was unable to reach him, since he was on the road giving his Sunshine Week speeches (“Secrecy,” Curley says, “is for losers”), but I left a message for him with an assistant. She said someone would respond.
I am still waiting.

It is clearly time to go to AP’s superiors. The fact is, AP is a cooperative. It is not owned by Corporate Communications spokespeople or by its CEO or even by its board of directors. It is owned by the thousands of newspapers and broadcast stations around the United States that use AP reports. These newspapers, radio and television stations are the true directors of AP, and bear the responsibility for its coverage.
In the end, it appears, the only way that Americans will receive full, unbiased reporting from AP on Israel-Palestine will be when these member-owners demand such coverage from their employees in the Middle East and in New York. As long as AP’s owners remain too busy or too negligent to ensure the quality and accuracy of their Israel-Palestine coverage, the handful of people within AP who are distorting its news reporting on this tragic, life-and-death, globally destabilizing issue will quite likely continue to do so.

In the final analysis, therefore, it is up to us – members of the public – to step in. Everyone who believes that Americans have the right and the need to receive full, undistorted information on all issues, including Israel-Palestine, must take action. We must require our news media to fulfill their profoundly important obligation, and we must ourselves distribute the critical information our media are leaving out.
If we don’t take action, no one else will.

Monday, March 13, 2006

Random Notes



She's making a list,

She's checking it twice,
She's gonna find out
who's naughty or nice.
Condi Rice is coming to town!
She sees you when you're sleeping,
She knows when you're awake.
She knows when you've been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake!

1. Claiming Virginity In Prostitution Market.

She is coming to Jakarta tomorrow. But Condi is no santa to me, cause she remind me of Heidi Fleiss, the notorious Hollywood pimp. How does it sounds to you to hear Heidi claiming that she is virgin. That is exactly the same situation when Condi’s US Department Of State publish a Human Rights Reports criticizing countries for violating basic human rights. All right it's politics,but there is a limit to where you can go, this one is an insult to common sense. The recent UN report of force feeding, nasal tubes, sleep deprivation and beastly tortures that used in Guantanamo, make Stalin’s Gulag feels like Hilton. Fellow blogger Haitham Sabbah put it right by saying it is like “Claiming Virginity In The Prostitution Market”




2. Homo Piggiensis

Netherland parliament endorsed a new law that will outlaw women wearing the traditional Arab clothes Burqa. Netherland is a country that legalize euthenasia, cannabis, prostitution and gay marriage. It is a matter of time before they legalize marriage between a human being and a pig, so there is a reason to believe that anthropologically speaking, their culture is in some kind of evolutionary transformation to sub human race, call it Homo Piggiensis.

Friday, March 10, 2006

Yahoo! Unbanned Allah

You can easily identify Bule Bigots by the way they name themselves in blogosphere. Words related to Islam like Allah or Bismillah are used in the middle of other dirty words. The purpose is none other than defamatory. It was for this reasons that Yahoo! banned the use of the name Allah even if it is included within other letters as reported in the February 20th edition of a Sci-Tech portal The Register :

Yahoo! is banning the use of Allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name. This was uncovered by Register reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.

Enquiries to Verizon revealed that a partnership with Yahoo! was to blame. Yahoo! will not accept any identies which include the letters "allah". Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or bin laden. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, budha, satan and both priest and pedophile.

Ed Callahan wrote : "On one level this is just silliness. But we have a war on terrorism and it's migrating to be a war on Muslims - this just shows the confusion there is between the two and how pervasive this is."
The Callahans are still waiting to hear back from Yahoo! A spokesman for Yahoo! UK said: "This sounds like a glitch. But we will get back to Ed and Lindy Callahan with a full answer as soon as possible." .

Later they get back as promised:
"We continuously evaluate abuse patterns in registration usernames to help prevent spam, fraud and other inappropriate behavior. A small number of people registered for IDs using specific terms with the sole purpose of promoting hate, and then used those IDs to post content that was harmful or threatening to others, thus violating Yahoo!'s Terms of Service.

"'Allah' was one word being used for these purposes, with instances tied to defamatory language. We took steps to help protect our users by prohibiting use of the term in Yahoo! usernames. We recently re-evaluated the term 'Allah' and users can now register for IDs with this word because it is no longer a significant target for abuse. We regularly evaluate this type of activity and will continue to make adjustments to our registration process to help foster a positive customer experience."

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Consult Rabbi Near You


There is something a bit unusual about Hollywood. First, Paradise Now was nominated in The Best Foreign Film Of The Year category. Then Jon Stewart the witty liberal comedian who like to ridicule neo con, hosted the 78th Academy Award presentation this week. But the winner is Tsotsi, a South African movie. Why, only God and the Oscar panel knows why.

But if you notice the prologue of the academy award, you will find the lead to the answer, that is the politics that runs the show. Paradise Now is about two young west bank Palestinian recruited to blow Tel Aviv. It is not an action packed movie, but a drama that tells suicide bombers from humanity point of view.

Israel newspapers Haaretz tell the politics of the show prior to the presentation of the award.

Israel and U.S. Jewish groups have lobbied organizers of next month's Academy Awards not to present a nominated film about Palestinian suicide bombers as coming from "Palestine," an Israeli diplomat said yesterday. "Both the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles and several concerned Jewish groups pointed out that no one, not even the Palestinians themselves, have declared the formal creation of 'Palestine' yet, and thus the label would be inaccurate," the diplomat said.

Although a great number of movie stars are liberals, Hollywood is an industry controlled by zionist Jews. The largest media empire Time-Warner and second largest Disney are owned and controlled by zionist jews. Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and Disney President-CEO Michael Eisner described as “Jewish control freak” . Remember Disney refused to distribute Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 .

Next is Viacom (used to be Paramount ), headed by Sumner Redstone, his Jewish born name was Murray Rothstein. Later Viacom merged with CBS who is headed by Melvin Karmazin, also a jews.

Fox empire including its subsidiary 20th Century Fox owned by Rupert Murdoch a jew down to his balls and ass. (And mind you,Murdoch has 25% share in ANTV a dying local TV channel ). One analyst stated that without Fox, “the Iraq war would have been a much harder to sell to the American people”.

DreamWorks owned by Steven Spielberg, a Jewish director who made Schlinder’s List a film about holocaust that won the Oscar some years back.

Columbia pictures owned by Sony is probably an exception. However, the CEO Amy Pascal is a jew and the rest of top executives are jews too. Sony let the jews run the business because “we don’t want to disrupt American corporate culture”.

So the next time you want to compete in Academy Award , be sure to consult Rabbi near you.



Saturday, March 04, 2006

Free Speech Made In Boo Lay


US, Europe and their Asian poodle dog -Australia - are the ass(ets) of zionist. For different reasons, they serve zionist interest and work for jewish favor. Europe is living under the shadow of their dark history; they carry the burden of ancestral sin of what they believe they have done to Jews during WW II. US Congress and White House are clearly governed by zionist lobby. Australia is for sure locked in their past, and therefore look up to their ex wardens.

I consider the following story, a disgusting joke of the year. You must have heard the latest zionist show in a former Nazi land, Austria. A British right wing extremist David Irving once boldly denied holocaust and for that reason he was sentenced 3 years jail. So denying holocaust is a felony, mortal sin and therefore against the law. Europe wants to tell you what to believe and what not.

Poor David The Dickhead, he has done anything he could to escape the sentence, that he swallowed his own shit by pleading guilty and “confessed” that he believe holocaust was actually happened, yet he could not avoid jail.

The former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohammad once said that the west put holocaust above all, absolutely above God. You can insult Islam because Islam must bow to free speech but you can not deny holocaust because free speech must bow to holocaust myth.


The following story is another version of free speech made in New York. Two weeks from now, many peace lovers will observe the 3 years anniversary of the brutal assasination of a beautifull lady . Do you remember Rachel Corrie, a 23 years old American killed by Israel while defending Palestinian homes.

You might not, because it happened in March 16, 2003. It was two days before assault on Baghdad while the world’s attention is in Iraq. She was standing against a moving Caterpillar bulldozer made to demolished Palestinian homes, and there she was crushed to death.

A playwright Katherine Viner wrote the play “My Name is Rachel Corrie”. It seems this play ran well in London and arrived late last month in New York to begin its’ run at the New York Theater Workshop. The play was “postponed indefinitely” from showing there due to the current “political environment” vis a vis Ariel Sharon’s illness and the Hamas victory”. You will never hear voices against Israel in New York because, if US is the greater Israel, then New York has always been the zionist capital of the world.
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