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The Blog - 2002, April 14-20
Saturday, April 20, 2002   By: Juan Paxety

April 19

Today's the anniversary of the beginning of the American revolution, April 19, 1775. The battles at Lexington and Concord. Battles fought assymetrically, but between two armed forces. Ben Franklin did not send Sam Adams to London with a suicide belt.

The plane crash yesterday in Italy reminded everyone of 9/11 - and frightened most. Here's an e-mail I received from a young woman in Milan:

I don't know what to say... it has been a real shock... we heard the plane crash everywhere here in Milano.
We were still working around 10 minutes to 6.00 pm when we heard a vibration of the glasses... but at the moment we didn't think at a tragedy.
While we were leaving the office to come back home at 6.00 pm, one of my colleagues said: Annamaria a plane crashed the Pirelli building.
I was like: eh????? no, you are kidding... it's not possible. 
While I was into my car the radio stopped the music and started to say about the plane.
I was trying to call my family with my mobile but it was mute... there was too much traffic.
I was scared about one of my friend that works there at the offices of our region (Lombardia).
YOU CAN IMAGINE... immediately all our minds went to New York and there was a real panic everywhere.

When I arrived at home I found that my friend was at home and that all my family and friends were safe.
Till now it seems to be an accident, yes it comforts us but anyway it has been a tragedy.
I was in front of my television and it was like a replay... I was seeing the same scenes of New York, with the difference that it was my town, places I know very well !!!
I think there are TOO MUCH things that remember us the last september.


 

April 18

Missing from the traditional media has been the rumbling that there is a connection between the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and Iraq. Here's another story on the topic from the non-traditional media.

A reporter I heard on CNNRadio, I didn't hear her name, said that Yasser Arafat left  his final meeting with Colin Powell furious - so furious that "his chin trembled with rage." A congressman from Louisiana, who also happens to be a medical doctor, noticed Arafat's trembling chin a couple of months ago and attributed it to Parkinson's disease. Moreover, this report says this:

Arafat's health has been the subject of speculation for years. He was in a plane crash in the Libyan desert in 1992. And during an interview in 1997, an Israeli television crew zoomed in on his quivering hands and lips.

And

(James) Zogby (of the Arab American Institute) said he reviewed Arafat's medical records two years ago out of concern about the shaking and found no mention of senility. Zogby said Arafat's doctors had concluded that he suffers from "a mild form of Parkinson's (disease), which is being treated and renders him perfectly normal when he has his medication, which he has been taking." 

So, was it rage or a reporter, once again, jumping to conclusions?

The Arab-Nazi link. Go here for a look at links between the Arab states and the Nazis. Included is a photograph of Yasser Arafat's uncle meeting with Hitler and excerpts from the uncle's diary:

It is clear that the Jews have accomplished nothing in Palestine and their claims are lies. All the accomplishments in Palestine are due to the Arabs and not to the Jews. I am resolved to find a solution for the Jewish problem, progressing step by step without cessation. With regard to this I am making the necessary and right appeal, first to all the European countries and then to countries outside of Europe.

It sounds very 2002 doesn't it. It was written in 1941.

 (Thanks to Daniel Taylor.)

Jacksonville news wars, again. WJXT-TV4 is dumping CBS this summer and will be adding more news programming - including, it's now announced, an hour-long newscast at 10PM followed by a 15 minute newscast at 11PM. WJXT has just kicked the market's other news departments in the teeth. At 10, it is directly taking on WAWS - FOX30's  signature newscast, which, as a Cheap Channel station, has been just that - cheap - and also juvenile. At 11, it takes on the duopoly newscast from Channels 12/25 - but their newscast is 30 minutes. Why waste 30 minutes at 11PM when you can get it all in 15 minutes. WJXT's move also should shut down WJWB's vague thoughts about beginning a 10PM newscast. I predict all around success for WJXT - at least in news.

And I will say only once that I spent most of the past decade trying to convince WJWB (then WJKS) and WAWS to do exactly what WJXT is now doing.

April 17

An update on the little girl below dressed as a suicide bomber. German police are looking for the man holding her - the cutline identifies him as her father. German officials say it's promotion of murder.

When we see stories like this one - people celebrating the "martyrs," we need to remember this story about what's in the "martyrs'" future.

April 16

As late as 1987, when I was working for WMGT-TV in Macon, Georgia, there was a billboard on the highway leading to the station that said "Get US out of the UN." Right-wing nuts I thought. Now there's this:

UNITED NATIONS - Six European Union countries yesterday endorsed a United Nations document that condones violence as a way to achieve Palestinian statehood.

They were voting as members of the UN Human Rights Commission on a resolution that accuses Israel of a long list of human rights violations, but makes no mention of suicide bombings of Israeli civilians.

The United Nations is endorsing what's shown in the photograph below. Only Canada, Great Britain, Germany, the Czech Republic and Guatemala opposed it.  It is time for us to get out.

Later - I'm not alone.

April 15

This is the sickest thing I've seen in a while.

An unidentified Palestinian demonstrator carries his daughter who wears a mock belt of explosives as they protest Israel's military offensive in Palestinian territories in Berlin, Saturday, April 13, 2002.
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It's a photo, not from Palestine but from Berlin. Germany. A place where IDF troops are not knocking down doors looking for terrorists.

Note the cutline. It's her father.

Her father made the belt for her - he supplied the materials used to make the fake dynamite. What could possible have made him do that? Only a sick culture much like European modernism. Remember that led directly to Auschwitz.

New bin Laden tape. He says 9/11 was a great victory. There's also a tape of one of the hijackers. Looking at the published stills from the tape, bin Laden looks fresh - his beard without much gray. Not at all like the tape of an interview conducted October 21. I'd say this is an old tape. And that makes me believe, for the first time, that he's dead

Perhaps the Cutest Little Commie in Congress is misnamed. Cynthia McKinney's (D-Ga) campaign contributors are here.

  



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