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CyberAlert Special Edition Monday, June 15, 2015 at 5:35 PM EDT Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996

Media Reality Check: "Boosting Bush: Liberal Media Pushes Jeb to Whack Conservatives"

Below is the text of a Media Reality Check, compiled Geoffrey Dickens, the MRC's Deputy Research Director, which was posted earlier today.

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The text of the June 15 Media Reality Check:

Boosting Bush: Liberal Media Pushes Jeb to Whack Conservatives

Jeb Bush's entry into the 2016 GOP primary race hands the liberal media an establishment candidate that they enjoy using as a tool to whack conservatives. Bush's stances on immigration, Common Core and other issues have drawn praise from the likes of Chris Matthews who cooed: "He wants to run on his own terms. He's not going to become a wacko bird. He's not going to join the clown car...he believes in Common Core education. He believes in immigration."

The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne hopefully cheered Bush could become a "change agent in the Republican Party" on immigration because for Bush " It's about love for their children. That doesn't go over well in large parts of the party."

It wasn't always this way for Jeb Bush. Whenever he was in the way of a liberal candidate or signed conservatives legislation they attacked him. When he was running for the Florida governorship in 2000 against liberal Democrat Lawton Chiles he was described by ABC's Jack Smith as "a radical conservative." And in 2005 ABC reporter Jeffrey Kofman compared him to the fictional Dirty Harry when he signed pro-gun legislation: "What was it Clint Eastwood said, 'Go ahead, make my day?' Well, Florida Governor Jeb Bush has done just that for gun owners here in Florida. It's going to be a lot easier to shoot and kill someone in the name of self-defense."

When there was a move to eliminate racial quotas for state college admission, in 2000, CBS's Byron Pitts sneered: "Few believe Bush will be swayed by the protests and passions of people who didn't put him in office in the first place. But like the demonstrators in Selma 35 years ago, who were beat back with night sticks and tear gas, those who gathered today said they'll be back here or in court."

But now that Bush is seen, by the liberal media, as a moderate and therefore more acceptable choice compared to his conservative rivals they seem more willing to praise him.

The following quotes from the MRC archives are a few examples of the media's attempt to use Jeb Bush as a way to slam conservatives:

# Jeb Is Better than Those "Wacko Bird," "Clown Car" Conservatives

"Lots of noise now about 2016. Jeb Bush seems like he wants to run, but he wants to run on his own terms. He's not going to become a wacko bird. He's not going to join the clown car. He believes in education, he believes in Common Core education. He believes in immigration, good immigration. He is different than some of those Ted Cruz-types out there, and he's not going to cross-dress and pretend he ain't."
— Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball, December 2, 2014.

# NBC Promotes Jeb Bush "Noting the Missteps" of Past GOP Candidates "Playing Too Far to the Right"

"Jeb Bush, last night, became the latest in the Republican Party to speak truth to power or try to. While admitting he is thinking about running for President, he put forth the belief that he would have to lose in the primaries, especially early on, to win the election. Noting the missteps past candidates have made in perhaps trying to play too far to the right before heading into the general election."
— Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News, December 2, 2014.

# Echoing Jeb: Would "Rigid Republican Factions" Reject Reagan?

"From these rocks [in Kennebunkport, Maine], the 41st President watches politics from a distance, his son saying neither his father, nor Ronald Reagan, would be accepted by any rigid Republican faction today. [to Bush] Jeb said recently that he worries about the Republican Party and the polarization."
— Anchor Diane Sawyer profiling George H. W. Bush on ABC's World News, June 15, 2012.

# NBC's Alexander to Jeb: How Can You Overcome "Ideological Problems" of GOP?

Peter Alexander: "How are you going to help the party overcome the ideological problems that, sort of, torpedoed it in 2008 and 2012?"
Jeb Bush: "I don't think we have an ideological problem. I honestly don't. I think we need to be focused on laying out a – a compelling alternative to where we are today."
Alexander: "Bush may dismiss any ideological problem. But conservatives on the right have serious concerns about his positions on immigration and education – both of which could give him headaches going forward."
— NBC's Peter Alexander on NBC Nightly News, April 17, 2015.

# Chris Matthews: Jeb Would Be Hillary's "Worst Nightmare" He Puts "The Middle in Play"

"Is Jeb Bush conservative enough to be the Republican nominee in 2016?....I think he's the Hillary people's worst nightmare if he runs. Because if he wins the nomination, the middle is in play."
— MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Hardball, February 26, 2015.

# Washington Post's E.J. Dionne: Bush Running Is 'Delicious,' He Can Be GOP 'Change Agent'

"The irony here is, it's almost a delicious irony, is that Jeb Bush, if he runs, maybe a change agent in the Republican Party, and you're seeing that in what Rush Limbaugh is saying, because he's going to run as someone who's not opposed to immigration reform. Indeed, he said and enraged a lot of people in the party, that immigrants who come here - it's not about illegality. It's about love. It's about love for their children. That doesn't go over well in large parts of the party. He's actually very conservative, including on education. He supports vouchers. But in the Republican Party, if you support the Common Core curriculum now, that's almost a communist act. So, then, I think Jeb is going to have to run as someone who wants to change the party from where it is now."
— Washington Post's E.J. Dionne on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, December 16, 2014.

# "Far to the Right" GOP Needs a Moderate Like Jeb to Rescue Them?

"Jeb Bush is apparently now thinking about running. And, you know, I have a source that told me that, if Jeb Bush decides not to run, that Mitt Romney may actually try it again. Because they're very concerned that the party is not moving forward, that the party has moved so far to the right that, you know, they can't elect a presidential candidate."
— CBS's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation, April 27, 2014.

# CBS Frets Jeb Bush Will Have Trouble in Primary Since GOP "Enthusiastically" Backs "More Conservative Candidates"

Jan Crawford: "[Jeb] Bush is also signaling he would run a more centrist campaign. He recently declined an invitation by Iowa Congressman Steve King, a conservative hardliner, to speak at a political forum that will showcase other potential Republican contenders. King has made controversial comments on immigration, in stark contrast to Bush's more moderate position on the issue."
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Robert Costa, Washington Post: "Bush wants to be at the center of this race on his own terms, that's why he's moving in early. He doesn't want to bow to the right his party."
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Crawford: "Now, the challenge of Bush is going to be running a center right campaign for the Republican nomination. Jeff, this is a time when the party is enthusiastically embracing more conservative candidates."
— CBS's Jan Crawford and the Washington Post's Robert Costa, CBS Evening News, January 1, 2015.

# Charlie Rose Touts Jeb Bush's Differences With GOP on Taxes

"You know that we're facing a fiscal cliff for a combination of reasons, having to do with the Bush tax cuts; having to do with raising the debt ceiling; having to do with some other issues coming late December and early January. You, in testimony before Congress, said that you were okay, as you well know, with $10 of spending cuts for $1 of tax revenue....But are you worried about the direction of your party?"
— CBS's Charlie Rose's questions to Jeb Bush on June 7, 2012, CBS This Morning.

Leasheryn's mother

As many of you know, Lea's mom is battling cancer in her eyesocket. She had some surgery done, and got the news yesterday that the surgery wound is healing much better than expected.  Keep the family in your prayers please. Dad is not well, and Lea is worn out from her duties as caregiver to both. Pray that this is a sign that they got all he cancer , and mom will continue to improve

Today in History

Today is Tuesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2015. There are 198 days left in the year.
June 16, 1955
members of Argentina's military bombarded the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires in a failed attempt to assassinate President Juan Domingo Peron and his Cabinet, causing hundreds of civilian deaths, the same day Peron was excommunicated by Pope Pius XII for expelling two bishops from his country (however, the ban was effectively lifted in 1963).
1567
Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland. (She escaped almost a year later but ended up imprisoned again.)
1858
accepting the Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved, declaring, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
1903
Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
1911
IBM had its beginnings as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. was incorporated in New York State.
1933
the National Industrial Recovery Act became law with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signature. (The Act was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was founded as President Roosevelt signed the Banking Act of 1933.
1943
comedian Charles Chaplin, 54, married his fourth wife, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, in Carpinteria, California.
1944
George Stinney, a 14-year-old black youth, became the youngest person to die in the electric chair as the state of South Carolina executed him for the murders of two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, 11, and Mary Emma Thames, 7.
1955
the Disney animated feature "Lady and the Tramp" had its world premiere in Chicago.
1963
the world's first female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova (teh-ruhsh-KOH'-vuh), 26, was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6; she spent 71 hours in flight, circling the Earth 48 times before returning safely.
1978
President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos (toh-REE'-ohs) exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Panama Canal treaties.
1987
a jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four youths he said were going to rob him; however, Goetz was convicted of illegal weapons possession. (In 1996, a civil jury ordered Goetz to pay $43 million to one of the persons he'd shot.)
1999
Vice President Al Gore formally opened his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kathleen Ann Soliah (SOH'-lee-ah), a fugitive member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, was captured in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she had made a new life under the name Sara Jane Olson. Thabo Mbeki (TAH'-boh um-BEH'-kee) took the oath as president of South Africa, succeeding Nelson Mandela.
Ten years ago:
On the eve of Iran's presidential election, President George W. Bush said the voting was designed to keep power in the hands of a few rulers "through an electoral process that ignores the basic requirements of democracy." European Union leaders put on hold plans to unite their 25 nations under a single constitution. Masked gunmen took dozens of toddlers hostage at an international school in Siem Reap, Cambodia, killing a 3-year-old Canadian boy before they were overpowered by the police.
Five years ago:
After meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg announced the oil giant was establishing a $20 billion claim fund and suspending dividends as he insisted, "We care about the small people." Movie director Ronald Neame ("The Poseidon Adventure") died in Los Angeles at age 99.
One year ago:
President Barack Obama notified Congress that up to 275 troops could be sent to Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the American Embassy in Baghdad. A divided Supreme Court sided with gun control groups and the Obama administration, ruling that the federal government can strictly enforce laws that ban a "straw" purchaser from buying a gun for someone else.
Today's Birthdays:
Actor Bill Cobbs is 81. Author Joyce Carol Oates is 77. Country singer Billy "Crash" Craddock is 77. Songwriter Lamont Dozier is 74. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eddie Levert is 73. Actress Joan Van Ark is 72. Actor Geoff Pierson is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer James Smith (The Stylistics) is 65. Boxing Hall of Famer Roberto Duran is 64. Pop singer Gino Vannelli is 63. Actress Laurie Metcalf is 60. Actor Arnold Vosloo is 53. Model-actress Jenny Shimizu is 48. Actor James Patrick Stuart is 47. Rapper MC Ren is 46. Actor Clifton Collins Jr. is 45. Golfer Phil Mickelson is 45. Actor John Cho is 43. Actor Eddie Cibrian is 42. Actor Fred Koehler is 40. Actress China (chee-nah) Shavers is 38. Actress Sibel Kekilli is 35. Actress Missy Peregrym (PEH'-rih-grihm) is 33. Actress Olivia Hack is 32. Singer Diana DeGarmo (TV: "American Idol") is 28. Pop-rock musician Ian Keaggy (Hot Chelle (SHEL)) is 28.
Thought for Today:
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." — Dudley Field Malone, American attorney (1882-1950).

Making Babies Doesn’t Make You A Father by Mychal Massie

Recently, as a friend and I talked he shared about a documentary he had seen. The documentary addressed the devastation young male elephants were causing within their herds. It explained that the young males are causing unparalleled harm and disruption in the herds because there are an ever-decreasing number of fully-grown bull elephants.

He explained that the young males, fueled by raging hormones and no male guidance, (which included a good stomping when the situation called for it), would literally terrorize the herd.
My friend and I discussed the direct correlation between the similarities of the socially undeveloped elephants and the human landscape, specifically in predominantly black urban areas. Not only do the male children not have fathers to teach and guide them, many of them have multiple male siblings from multiple men. This is a particularly volatile situation because you have the normal different personalities within a family matrix, but you also have the potential exacerbation of same due to the added influence of multiple emotionally/psychologically immature fathers.

When you factor in the generational dysfunction, poverty, disrespect, emotional neglect, and inculcated inferiority, one need not strain themself searching for reasons reasons so many blacks are dead at the hands of other blacks or in prison. Making babies out of wedlock with any female (hopefully) not suffering from a transmittable disease, is their validation of manhood – ergo the cycle of illegitimate births, death, drug, truancy, wasted lives, ad nauseam is replicated countless times every day.

Money cannot break this cycle. We see the wealthiest athletes with several children out of wedlock from several different females. Taxpayer dollars won't correct this pandemic either as evidenced by the $22 trillion dollars wasted on the so-called war on poverty that has experienced less success than Obama has with his laughable Iran treaty.
Telling these young men to use condoms and telling the girls to go on birth control or just have them murder their unborn child as 17.3 million other black women have done is not the answer either.

The answer is to teach personal responsibility and personal accountability. The answer is to stop handicapping young blacks by inculcating them with a message of acrimony and immiseration. The answer is to teach them from birth that they are more than a color – they are Americans. The answer is teach them that the revisionist lies being taught under the guise of Afri-centric curriculums are damnable heterodoxies designed to emotionally segregate not impart marketable skills. The answer is for them to learn trades and to stop buying into the belief that if they do not go to college they won't be able to get a job.

College for most people today, and specifically blacks assures them of nothing more than a huge debt and a Pygmalion self-fulfilling prophesy that they cannot function outside the "hood".

Opening basketball courts at night so they can play ball as a means of staying out of trouble is like opening a dog kennel at night to stop dogs from barking.

The message that must be taught in the home is that respect begins with self. Men and women who respect themselves typically respect the welfare of their children. But there is still more to being a father.

My son was planned for and prepared for. Being part of my son's life has been an experience I wouldn't trade for love or money. Raising him in a bible-believing Christian church has been the paramount component in his life.

Raising children means investing ourself in them. Unlike animals, our child leaving the nest doesn't mean that they are no longer in need of our watchful eyes and concern.

My son can make travel arrangements and find his way around airports more efficiently than I can tie my shoes. I call him to ask how to use a remote control. I ask him how to use certain features on my computer, etc.

My son is mature and erudite. But when it comes to life experiences he cannot hold a candle to me because he hasn't lived as long enough to deal with the array of life's realities that I have. I am dad and I will be there until the Lord calls me home.

Father's Day isn't a day to celebrate baby-making or sperm dumps. Father's Day is about being a Father. And tragically as my friend and I both acknowledged there aren't enough fathers today.

Getting drunk with your son, telling off-color jokes and making untoward remarks about women isn't being a father. Working all of those extra hours so you can take a two-week vacation and buy HD TV's for each room of the house isn't being a father.

Being a father means investing ourselves into our children. It means showing them the love that God our Father has shown us. It means being a living example, the very best that we can be, even when we drop the ball.             http://mychal-massie.com/premium/making-babies-doesnt-make-you-a-father/

OBAMA’S DREAMERS: 121 Criminal Aliens Released By BHO Have Been Charged With Murder : Chuck Ross

And that's just the numbers since 2010! Are these the dreamers that Obama talks about? Those are definitely some interesting dreams they have.

One-hundred twenty-one illegal aliens with criminal convictions who were released by federal immigration authorities back onto U.S. streets between 2010 and 2014 have been charged with "homicide-related" crimes.
That's according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which released data in response to a letter sent in February by Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Arizona U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake.
The senators sent the letter after Mexican national Apolinar Altamirano allegedly gunned down Grant Ronnebeck, a Mesa, Ariz. convenience store clerk, over a pack of cigarettes on Jan. 22. ICE released Altamirano in Jan. 2013 on $10,000 bond related to a burglary charge. After his release, Altamirano was accused of threatening a woman, but he remained in the U.S.                                                                                                                                                                                                   In response to Grassley's and Flake's letter, Sarah Saldaña, the director of ICE, stated that 33 of the 121 illegal aliens who have been accused of "homicide-related offenses" had been released on bond at the discretion of the Justice Department's Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) after committing their original crime. Another 24 were released because ICE was unable to obtain approval to deport alien convicts within the 180-day timeframe mandated by federal law.                          http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/15/121-criminal-aliens-released-by-obama-administration-have-been-charged-with-murder-since-2010/

Pamela Geller : Denmark Bows to Sharia: Bans Geert Wilders’ Muhammad Drawing Exhibition

From Denmark comes news of still more capitulation to violent intimidation in the service of the imposition of sharia blasphemy laws. Kudos to my friend and colleague in Denmark, Anders Gravers of SIAD and SION, for refusing to submit. He sent me this message:
Dear Pamela,
Yesterday late evening, I received an email from the party Fremskridtspartiet who should host the exhibition of your drawings where they forbid me to show the exhibition in their tent to the peoples meeting on Bornholm – a meeting where also Geert Wilders will attend and talk for Free Press Society DK.
They were pressed by the leadership of the peoples meeting to forbid me to show the exhibition in their tent. The chairman of the peoples meeting is Bornholms mayor, who – when the story was in the media about my exhibition – went out and said that they would never allow to show these "offending pictures" in their meeting.
I have send out a press release that we are not bending down for sharia law and we of course are going to hold the exhibition very soon in another place, and we will do the same in Paris, London and Madrid – as we will in Copenhagen.
Here is a slightly improved Google Translate rendering of a Danish news article about this:
Progress Party drops cartoon exhibition on Folkemødet
There will be no exhibition of prophet cartoons on Bornholm. This irks SIAD Chairman Anders Graversen.
12. June 2015 pm. 12:58
It is now quite clear that the People of the meeting guests do not get the Muhammad cartoons to look after the Progress Party has banned the chairman of the association Stop Islamisation of Denmark (SIAD), Anders Graversen, from showing drawings of them, as he had planned.
Read the Mayor rejects cartoons on Folkemødet
– I think it's something worse nonsense that the Progress Party bowing to Bornholm mayor, Winnie Grosbøll (S). I have no doubt that she has pushed them to tell me that I must not show the cartoons, says Anders Graversen.
The Bornholm mayor announced earlier this week that she would not have the drawings on display at Folkemødet – and that she, if necessary, would even pull them down, if they found their way to the island.
Only the curtains as protection
According SIAD had Progress Party agreed to host the controversial event, but the layout recognizes Progressive Party's national chairman, Niels Highland, no.
Read also OVERVIEW Bornholm before put rocks to controversial speakers
– It has been discussed, but it has not been approved by the People's meeting, said the national chairman and continues:
– I think it is a pity, but it is necessary not to show them. There's nothing but a canvas as protection, and we saw the what happened in Texas and Krudttønden in Copenhagen, says Niels Højlund with reference to shooting incidents during the two speech debates where just cartoons were pivotal.
He says that he agrees with the mayor of that Folkemødet not the right place to show the drawings, although he emphasizes that it is 'more than a shame' that this is so.
– There going well all sorts of people all around here and our tent and they might not even know that we showed the drawings, and their safety can of course also be in danger, and I can not take responsibility for, he says.
Subservience to Islam
Meanwhile Anders says Graversen and siad that it is' submission to Islam:
– When you bend it here, so they accept Sharia law. I think it's a slippery slope for what's next, banning beer on people meeting and ask the women use burkini instead of bikini ?, he says.
Also read Geert Wilders has confirmed its participation in Folkemødet
He will now try to have the drawings of the Prophet Mohammed on display in Copenhagen.
– I imagine that we hang them like posters, so Muslims can see that we well may draw Mohammed, says Anders Graversen.
Alternatively, imagine SIAD chairman that they be exhibited at the City Library in Copenhagen.

http://pamelageller.com/2015/06/muhammad-drawing-exhibition-banned-in-denmark.html/

Why can't you post videos ?

I follow the inxtructions to the letter, and can't get a video to post! And, I feel I am wasting my time here, as not a single thing I have posted has any replies ! I also can't figure out how to tell the chat room is in use! I see someone's name there, but never get  a reply ! I've asked a lot of  my friends from sodahead to come here, and a lot of them have done so. Have I wasted their time too ?

HUGE NEWS: Barack Obama Caught in Crime "Of the Century"

President Barack Obama has shown his willingness to shred the Constitution and spy on American citizens. But he has been caught red handed in a major crime spree that I didn't want to believe was possible.

This report shows The White House not only knew about the CIA spying on the United States Senate, but they were behind the spying! This is incredible.

At the time, CIA Director John Brennan had discussions with top White House Staff – including Obama's Chief of Staff Denis McDonough – about an effort to scan hard drives of staffers used on the Senate Intelligence Committee. These staffers worked for Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and they wanted the secret details of the investigation on interrogation techniques by the CIA.

After becoming aware of the CIA's snooping, Feinstein argued that the CIA had "likely violated the constitutional separation of powers," according to The Huffington Post.

The White House, not surprisingly, declined comment, implying that Obama's Administration agrees and is either scrambling for a defense or simply has none.

The new information suggesting the White House was aware of — and did not stop — the CIA's computer snooping is unlikely to improve the existing distrust between Senate committee members and the executive branch. Feinstein has said that the CIA's computer search likely violated the constitutional separation of powers, an allegation the White House has declined to directly address.
                                                                                                                                                                            The Oval Office's prior knowledge of the controversial computer review will no doubt worsen the tensions that have erupted over the matter between the executive branch, its chief intelligence agency and the lawmakers tasked with their oversight.

In January 2014, agency personnel became concerned that a set of sensitive, internal CIA documents known as the Panetta Review had somehow made their way into the hands of Feinstein's investigators, who were working at a secure, off-site CIA facility to compile a 6,600-page study on the CIA's post-9/11 torture program. To determine whether Senate staff had obtained the documents, five CIA employees — two lawyers and three IT personnel — sifted through a walled-off hard drive on the Senate's side of a shared computer network. (The Inspector General later determined that those five employees had engaged in wrongdoing.)

After determining that the document did indeed exist on the Senate's side of the highly secure computer system, an agency lawyer consulted Brennan. It was not immediately clear whether this lawyer was one of the five employees identified by the Inspector General, though the lawyer does write that he was "ultimately responsible for ensuring the security" of the shared computer system used to compile the torture study.

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/huge-news-barack-obama-caught-in-crime-of-the-century/#ixzz3d9XvxVRJ  

Obama’s Best Secret Investment: City Of The Dead : Walid Shoebat

After President Obama's pullout from Iraq, the fastest money making trend now in Iraq, besides the total tag of one billion worth of 2,300 Humvees that were snatched by ISIS in Mosul alone, is not gold, silver or oil, but real estate plots in the Valley of Peace. The plots, thanks to Obama's pre-mature pull out of Iraq, have risen dramatically from $500 to $3000. Had you been invested in a plot in Najaf's Valley of Peace in 2007, your investment would have increased 600%. But the gravy train is still awaiting more investors since $3000 is nothing considering the rising demand.   http://www.mintpressnews.com/isis-captured-1b-in-american-humvees-in-iraq-uses-them-in-suicide-bombing/206167/

Here, see in the photo below what you would be investing in. What seems to look like homes studding as far as your eye can see, are not really homes, but an entire city in Iraq called The City of the Dead.

Lately it had to dramatically be expanded to fit the daily casualties in Iraq making this grave site the largest and most occupied graveyard in the world and the best investment opportunity in Iraq after the U.S. pulled out.

So in Iraq, what Obama's policies did, and besides the armored vehicles that were snatched, there are lives that are continually being snuffed out and it happens on daily basis, a phenomenon which is a hush-hush by Iraqi Government, as it is by the Obama Administration, where no one wants to reveal that all what Obama contributed for Iraq is to jack up the prices of grave plots.

Read more at http://libertyalliance.com/obamas-best-held-secret-investment-iraqs-city-of-the-dead/

3 Media Angles to Beware Ahead of the Schabas Report’s Release : Pesach Benson

The UN Human Rights Council will be releasing its report on Operation Protective Edge any day now.

Fallout from the William Schabas report could reach the International Criminal Court, where Palestinians are already pushing to put Israeli leaders on trial. Repercussions may reach the UN, where a French initiative on Palestinian statehood will top the agenda after the June 30 deadline on Iranian nuclear talks.      http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.660633

The worst case scenario? A chain reaction of headlines demonizing Israel while the report undermines its moral standing and its ability to fight terror. Should the report make Palestinian victimhood more resonant. efforts to isolate Israel would increase.

Here are three media angles to beware ahead of the Schabas report's release.

1. The Halo Effect
The halo effect refers to the ability of our impression of people, institutions, or brands to influence our feelings and thoughts about their character. This applies to reporters too, who report what they hear from respectable personalities, government officials, or international organizations without question or independent verification. Will reporters paint the UNHRC and its investigators as apolitical and unbiased?   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect     http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/the_ngo_halo_effect_and_the_media_the_evidence_shows_that_many_journalists_simply_reprint_ngo_reports_without_question_or_verification_this_is_known_as_the_halo_effect_and_violates_both_journalistic_ethics_which_require_skepticism_and_independent_verifica

If journalists would pierce the Council's veil, they would have to:

A) Acknowledge the UNHRC is made up of human rights abusers who are in no position to judge Israel, such as China, Cuba, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.

B) Make transparent the UN's reliance on unreliable Palestinian sources and non-governmental organizations for disputed facts like a basic casualty count and breakdowns between civilians and combatants.   http://time.com/3035937/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinian-casualties/      http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2015/02/03/the-list-of-william-schabas-biased-statements-and-actions/

C) Acknowledge Schabas's own expressed biases, and how — despite his resignation — those biases influence the commission's own internal dynamics, including the real authors of the UNHRC report.    http://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-un-gaza-inquiry-steps-down/        http://www.thetower.org/article/why-the-schabas-report-will-be-every-bit-as-biased-as-the-goldstone-report/

This is all the background for why Israel refused to cooperate with the Schabas inquiry.

Will the mainstream media coverage take in the halo and its aura of infallibility? Or will reporters skeptically scrutinize the Schabas report?                              http://honestreporting.com/3-media-angles-to-beware-ahead-of-the-schabas-reports-release/