Academia-Gate: As Big Labor and Media Push ‘Researchprop’ on Our Kids, Who’s Really Paying the Cost? (Part 1)

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Jun 092010
 

by Liberty Chic
BigJournalism.com, June 9, 2010

Yesterday’s story on the “Cry Wolf” project has exposed a dangerous pretense that has been prevalent, yet well disguised, for some time in our institutions of higher learning. It’s an important post.  A small committee of professors and academic professionals, normally held in high regard, have blatantly betrayed the trust of the public and quite possibly smeared the reputations of all colleges and universities nationwide.  By soliciting “paid activists” to create research papers that are intentionally designed to silence opposing viewpoints, they have undermined the political system and manipulated the governmental policy making process.  And in the meantime, they’ve also implicated all of academia in the manufacturing of their propaganda.

It is an abuse of their power, and an abuse of the institutions they represent.  It is appalling and repellent.  Perhaps even against their employers’ rules or the industry’s ethical code. Consider it an ominous warning — this will have a dire impact on our political and economic system in the future, if we remain apathetic in the face of such a rhetorical and intellectual assault.

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In Both Words and Pictures, Reuters Continues To Lie About Israel

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Jun 092010
 

by Jeff Dunetz
BigJournalism.com, June 9, 2010

Having been caught doctoring pictures during of the violence aboard the guerilla flotilla boat, Mavi Marmara, Reuters is circling the wagons and looking for other ways to discredit Israel.

Officially, Reuters says the elimination of the IHH terrorists holding knives in the pictures it originally published to its wire was an editing error.

Reuters is committed to accurate and impartial reporting. All images that pass over our wire follow a strict editorial evaluation and selection process. The images in question were made available in Istanbul, and following normal editorial practice were prepared for dissemination which included cropping at the edges.

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The Long and Foggy War

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May 132010
 

Political and media elites continue to view the global conflict through clouded eyes.

Clifford D. May
National Review Online, May 12, 2010

terroristWe Americans are uncomfortable with such ideas as holy war and religiously motivated mass murder. Raised to believe in equality, tolerance, and diversity, we cannot imagine slaughtering fellow human beings so that adherents of the “true faith” might prevail over “enemies of God.” Nor can most of us imagine others acting in this way. Our imaginations are failing us.

Two years ago, Andrew C. McCarthy published Willful Blindness, his authoritative memoir of the years he spent prosecuting terrorists for the federal government. It should have opened the eyes of anyone who, despite the atrocities of 9/11, still could not grasp the fact that those who say they are waging a jihad against infidels really mean they are waging a jihad against infidels.

But the response to the attempted terrorist bombing in Times Square demonstrates that many political and media leaders continue to view the global conflict though clouded eyes, insisting that terrorism must be motivated by political grievance or personal frustration or economic deprivation or desperation — anything but theological conviction.

For example, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg theorized that the would-be car bomber might be “someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health-care bill or something.”

The Associated Press was quick to tell the public that the perpetrator’s motives were “unknown.” It added, however, that suspect Faisal Shahzad’s “life had unraveled.” National Public Radio provided a specific turning point: “Times Square Suspect’s World ‘Flipped Upside Down’ Last Summer.” Continue reading »

As the MSM Whips Up Fears of Tea Parties, Media Ignores the Real Terrorists Among Us — the Eco-Nuts

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May 012010
 

by Rich Trzupek
BigJournalism.com, May 1, 2010

We hear a lot about the tea party movement’s supposed potential to inspire violence an awful lot from the left and their allies in the lamestream media. It’s a predictable response to a powerful grass-roots movement that they aren’t capable of understanding: crank up the fear machine boys! If bogus charges of racism won’t stick and if the tea parties themselves are peaceful – if  passionate – protests, then you have to find some theme with which to frighten independent middle-America away from a movement to which they would otherwise instinctively sympathize with.

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Whatever Happened To The Erupting Iceland Volcano?

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Apr 292010
 

By Dr. Tim Ball
Canada Free Press, April 29, 2010

This photo (left) taken on April 27, 2010 shows that the Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to erupt in Iceland, but the story has fallen off the very small mainstream media tabletop. We need to put in perspective what happened and what it means.

There are two major stories. The first was the information provided by the United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UKMO) that was used to ground all the flights. They provided maps of the distribution of the ash cloud and made these available on their web site.

The site is still providing information but it is also providing an analysis of the model used to generate the forecasts. This is the Numerical Atmospheric Modelling Environment (NAME) that uses information from their larger Met Office Unified Continue reading »

What the New York Times Won’t Tell You About the CIA — and What the Washington Times Will

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Apr 282010
 

Brad Thor
BigJournalism.com, April 28, 2010

Since I began blogging about the dysfunctional, bloated bureaucracy at the Central Intelligence Agency, I have been inundated with phone calls and emails encouraging me to keep it up.  Not surprisingly, many of them are from people fed up with the culture at Langley who have moved on to greener pastures.

What has been surprising, though, is the number of people within the Agency itself who have been quietly reaching out to me.  As I have taken pains to point out in the past and will do so here again, it is important for everyone to realize that there are exceptional men and women working at the Central Intelligence Agency.  Unfortunately, they are being very poorly led and very poorly managed.

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On Wednesday, April 14, the CIA’s Deputy Director, Stephen Kappes announced his retirement.  The New York Times ran a softball piece on him the next day, but it was Kenneth R. Timmerman of the Washington Times on Sunday, April 18 who drove home many of the real problems surrounding Kappes. Continue reading »

Misusing History

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Apr 282010
 

Inhumanity, like humanity, is universal.

Thomas Sowell
National Review Online, April 27, 2010

Many years ago, I was surprised to receive a letter from an old friend, saying that she had been told that I refused to see campus visitors from Africa.

At the time, I was so bogged down with work that I had agreed to see only one visitor to the Stanford campus — and it so happens that he was from Africa. He just happened to come along when I had a little breathing room from the work I was doing in my office.

I pointed out to my friend that whoever said what she heard might just as well have said that I refused to go sky-diving with blacks — which was true, because I refused to go sky-diving with anybody, whether black, white, Asian, or whatever.

The kind of thinking that produced a passing misconception about me has, unfortunately, produced much bigger, much longer lasting, much more systematic, and more poisonous distortions about the United States of America. Continue reading »

Remember that ash cloud? It didn’t exist, says new evidence

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Apr 262010
 

By Sean Poulter
DailyMail.uk, April 26, 2010

Britain’s airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country.

Skies fell quiet for six days, leaving as many as 500,000 Britons stranded overseas and costing airlines hundreds of millions of pounds.

Estimates put the number of Britons still stuck abroad at 35,000.

Stranded: Hundreds of desperate Britons sleep on the basement floor at Bangkok’s International Airport, Thailand waiting to get flights home
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