May 23-06: Media Bias, Leftists, UN & Illegals

NewsBusters: Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias -- Is Google Purging Conservative News Sites? Posted by Noel Sheppard on May 22, 2006 - 09:37.

The above is a collaboration with writer and software developer Marc Sheppard that first appeared at The American Thinker.

Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals.

[....S]uch behavior could give one relatively small technological corporation (when measured by the size of its workforce) a degree of political might that frankly dwarfs its current financial prowess.

It’s Not So Easy Being A Conservative E-Zine

As reported by NewsBusters, the most recent occurrence of this unexplained phenomenon was Friday, May 19, when Frank Salvato, proprietor of The New Media Journal, realized that his content that day hadn't been disseminated at Google News as it had been on a daily basis since he reached an agreement with the search engine in September 2005.

After sending the Google Help Desk a query concerning the matter, Salvato was informed that there had been complaints of "hate speech" at his website, and as a result, The New Media Journal would no longer be part of Google News. As evidence of his offense, the Google Team supplied Salvato with links to three recent op-eds published by his contributing writers, all coincidentally about radical Islam and its relation to terrorism.

[....] Two weeks after Jawa was cut from Google News, Jim Sesi’s MichNews.com was banished on April 12. In Sesi’s case, the three pieces provided as examples of “hate speech” were articles by conservative writer J. Grant Swank, Jr., all about – you guessed it – radical Islam and terrorism. [....]

Is Your Internet News Service Fair and Balanced?

[....] of the over $200,000 Google employees gave to federal candidates in 2004, “98% went to Democrats, the biggest share among top tech donors.”

[....] Potentially more telling, a May 15 “Washington Prowler” piece at The American Spectator disclosed a link between Google and the ultra-left wing MoveOn.org: .... Al Gore ....

Googling Past The Graveyard

[....] in this case, if the political leanings and proclivities of the world’s largest online information engine – as well as likely the number one disseminator of “new media” content – begin impacting its policies, America may be on the precipice of an even ghastlier problem than journalists, editors, and news producers allowing their political dogma to interfere with the impartiality of their reports.

[....] Gore’s cable channel, Current.

[....] poof ....

Sample comments below that article:

TheTruth Says:
May 22, 2006 - 11:27
When you are dealing with Progressive Intellectual Elites the simple truth if it disagrees with the lefty’s ideology is frequently considered ‘hate speech’ I have seen it many times you simply state the truth on some subject and provide the sources to back your position and the next thing know here comes a string of personal attacks having nothing to do with the subject being discussed. Liberalism can not survive in truth :-)

MSM: Arrogant intellectually dishonest LIBERALS teaching those stupid peasants how to vote by way of selective reporting, misinformation, propaganda, and out right lies.

Anonymous Says:
May 22, 2006 - 18:49
Serveral Points:
Some don't seem to understand that we're talking about Google's news services -- not search. Go to news.google.com for that portal page.

Summing up: Despite their "do-no-evil" policy, Google has acted for anti-democracy interests. Google supports "net neutrality," which is another word for their own monopoly (ie, regulation against letting others compete with them by providing certain services), they are allied with moveon.org (in support of that issue, and money has changed hands between the two), they support American liberals, they promote censorship in China, they called Taiwan a province of China, and it's been reported that they've turned over emails of Chinese democracy-supporters to that government. [....]

Do a little comparison: Try various search engines (google, yahoo, dogpile, etc.) and see which one may be practising political censorship. Try "Aga Khan" for starters; then try "Ismaili".

The link and excerpt that follows did not appear when I tried to find information a year ago at the time Canadians graciously gave $30-MILLION to the Aga Khan Centre for Peace in Ottawa. I was outraged since the Aga Khan lives in a castle or mansion in France, raises (breeds?) race horses, has been gifted with his weight in diamonds (250 lb I seem to remember) by his Ismaili followers who tithe. I believe he has connections to Switzerland, may have been born there, though the article suggests it could have been Paris, as well. At the time, mostly what I could find were excessive praise for him and his organization. Then, lately, I found the following.


A HISTORY OF THE AGAKHANI ISMAILIS, SECTION SEVEN The data compiled are from the third edition, published in 1985 in Toronto, Canada. 2. A Concise Text of History of Ismaili Imams (Gujrati). ... by author, Jazakum Allahu Khairan.

THE PRACTICE OF RECOVERING RELIGIOUS TAXES [....]

John Norman Hollister records in The Shi`a Of India (p. 359), that these followers of the Imam-Shahi faith "accepted for all practical purposes their Pir as an Imam, by their willingness to have him receive the dassondh." The term Dassondh means religious tax or tithe.

Khojah Momnas of Gujrat [....]

Like Imam-Shahi Pirs (who were also descendants of Pir Sadr-din), Mashayikh collected religious taxes from his followers and kept them for himself. He had no alliance with the Nizari Imams of Persia. Ismaili scholars say that the Pir was professing Sunnism as a taqiyya (dissimulation).

Pir Dadu of Sind [....]

Historical data are unavailable

Ismaili historians .... According to these claims, the practice of sending money to the Imams in Persia [Iran] through Rais (messengers), in leather bags called Jowlis, had been in operation since 1430. [....]

The recorded data do not match with the period during which the historical events associated with some of the recent ancestors did take place. [....]

some of the major controversies

Ismaili scholars discredit Ismaili historian [....]

Aga Khan's attempt to collect religious taxes [....]

Religious tax becomes obligatory

It is not known when the practice of collecting religious tax called Dassondh from the Ismaili families became obligatory, but it was so until the practice of maintaining records of the payments was discontinued in the 1940s. The minimum payment of religious tax is 12½ percent from the gross income of an individual. It is called Dassondh. Many Ismailis pay 25 percent from their gross income. It is called One-fourth. Dassondh is one of the six fundamental pillars of Ismailism and it replaces the Islamic pillar of Zakat. It is a religious duty of a murid (follower) to pay this amount diligently to one of the representatives of his Hazar Imam in cash in the Jama`at khana, every month. The majority of Ismailis pay their Dassondh on Chandrat (night of the new moon).

Ismailis quite often argue that this is not a compulsory religious tax, that it is a voluntary payment and that there are many followers of Karim Aga Khan who do not pay Dassondh. True, but there are Farmans that speak of calamities that will fall upon those who would keep back Imam's money, the Dassondh. [....]

I distinctly remember the marriage of my elder brother at Noor-baugh in Bombay. The expensive jewellery, new furniture, appliances, utensils, clothing, etc., received as dowry and gifts from relatives of both parties were physically inspected, evaluated, and taxed at 12½ percent by a salaried Kamadia Ibrahim Jaffar Rattansi of the Chief Jama`at khana, Bombay. [....]

Ismailis bury their dead in Muslim graveyards [....]

Religious taxes become optional

The practice of maintaining records of religious taxes was finally discontinued when Aga Khan's Estate Office in India developed a serious problem with the tax departments of the newly independent Indian Government. The wealth acquired by Aga Khan III from his followers and the funds donated became a taxable item in the books of the newly formed government. [....]

Since the Dassondh money was and is collected from across the world in cash, large sums are transferred from various parts of the world to Europe. There are instances in the past as well as present, where Aga Khan's Mukhis and agents have been caught and imprisoned for illegal money laundering.

"Money laundering" from Syria

"Money laundering" from the United States

More recently, in June 1989, United States Federal Agents arrested three groups of Agakhani Ismailis in Dallas, Seattle and New York, on charges of running an illegal money-laundering that stretched from United States to London and Switzerland, as well as from United States to Canada, London and Belgium. [....]

Alibhai had illegally taken more than $30 million in currency out of the United States between 1985 and 1987, reported Lee Hancock in the Dallas Morning News.

[....] "The three cases represent the largest money-laundering operation ever uncovered in North Texas and one of the largest nationally."

[....] the sect's members are required to give 12 percent to 25 percent of pre-tax income to the Aga Khan, a billionaire resident of Paris. Mr. Alibhai did not report the money to U.S. authorities only because his religion prohibited revealing how much he was carrying. "Traditionally, members of the community literally take the money in the form of cash to the Aga Khan, and traditionally there was secrecy involved."

GENEALOGICAL CHART OF THE ISMAILI IMAMS [....]

Names of Imams and their numbers vary [....]

Dr. Hollister writes in The Shi'a of India (pp. 331-32): [....]

I still want to know why Canadians' tax money has been given to the Aga Khan's Peace Centre in Ottawa.



UN: From that cauldron of perqs and "ethics" ... another socialist policy for leftists to tout .... onward to "No-one is Illegal" ... and "rights"

It may be too late to take action but you might want to look at this if you live in the US. For Canadians, it is coming here; just listen to the illegals' sob stories coming out of the leftists' Propaganda Organ / CBC.

Senate Gives Illegals Social Security Benefits -- url to go to if you wish to make contrary views known cfif.org / Center for Individual Freedom

Should ILLEGAL aliens be entitled to receive Social Security benefits? According to the United States Senate, the answer is "YES!"

"ILLEGALS GRANTED SOCIAL SECURITY"

That was a front-page headline in Friday's Washington Times. According to Times reporter Charlie Hurt, "The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment -- even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents."

This is what happened...

Further down the webpage is this:

What Are The Consequences!

In case you haven't looked carefully at the Senate bill, here are a few consequences of passing the Senate bill that you may not have heard about on ABC, CBS, NBC, or read about in The New York Times.

In a shocking new report by the Heritage Foundation, Robert Rector observes that the Senate's "immigration reform plan" would:

Grant immediate amnesty for 10 million illegal aliens, comprising 85 percent of all illegal immigrants currently in our borders

Create a "temporary guest worker program" that is anything but temporary, since most "guest workers" would be given an immediate path to citizenship

Provide additional permanent visas for family members of immigrants, including siblings, parents, and adult children

Open the door to nearly four times as many permanent worker visas as are now issued

Provide for the largest expansion of the welfare state ever and cost the American taxpayer $46 billion per year -- or as Rector says: "immigrants with low education levels are likely to be a fiscal drain on other taxpayers... This is important because half of all adult illegal immigrants in the U.S. have less than a high-school education. In addition, recent immigrants have high levels of out-of-wedlock childbearing, which increases welfare costs and poverty."

http://
www.cfiflistmanager.org/amnestytennm.html
Center for Individual Freedom

And if you think this has not affected and will not affect Canadians, think again. I have written before on a group "No-one is Illegal" whose spokeswoman was interviewed by CBC. No hard journalistic investigation ........ implications for the rest of Canadians ... missing.