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To: Brumar89 who wrote (367526)	6/5/2010 11:12:52 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 793955

Muslim Jihadist Who Killed Cop in 1973 is Paroled in NY State… Suicidal Liberalism is a form of mental illness… (NY Post) — A state parole board has voted to release a cop-killing kidnapper involved in a 47-hour hostage standoff in Brooklyn in 1973, officials said today. Shuaib Raheem was initially granted parole three years ago in a decision that was later rescinded after it sparked a raft of outrage from the cop’s widow and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Raheem, 60, was informed today that he will be paroled. He is slated to be released on July 8 from the Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch, a prison located in upstate Ulster County. The parole board in Albany voted 2-1 to release Raheem. The board had previously denied his request six times. “Tragically, in the case of this murdering animal, the worst possible decision was made.” said PBA President Pat Lynch. Raheem was 23 when he and three other young men barged into John & Al’s Sporting Goods on Broadway in Williamsburg to steal rifles and ammo from the shelves for what he called a war on injustices against Muslims. weaselzippers.us

To: Brumar89 who wrote (367526)	6/5/2010 11:29:06 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 793955

Gaza Flotilla Group Part of U.N. NGO Branch June 4, 2010 - 11:29 AM \| by: Ben Evansky liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com The Turkish group at the center of this week's deadly high-seas clash with Israel has been a member of a hard-to-access U.N. organization since 2004, which has given the group special access to the U.N. system. The Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) branch of U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs invites in NGOs from around the globe, including the Turkish-based Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH). Earlier this week Fox News reported that the IHH has links to terrorist groups including Hamas and Al Qaeda. Indeed, the IHH was described in federal court documents as playing a role in the Millennium terrorist plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport. The Turkish charity was described in a recent report as being a "radical Islamic organization with an anti-Western orientation," and that "besides its legitimate philanthropic activities, it supports radical Islamic networks, including Hamas, and that at least in the past, even global jihad networks." (See full report below) Anne Bayefsky, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and Touro College, and an active participant in the U.N.'s NGO system, tells Fox News that the status granted to IHH gives most NGOs access to U.N. diplomats and enables them to speak at sessions of a number of U.N. bodies that are streamed online around the world and translated into six languages. Their consultative status also allows groups to distribute their material or statements as U.N. documents, Bayefsky said, "which gives them permanence and widespread circulation." Bayefsky says that the difficulty in joining the NGO branch of ECOSOC often depends on the organization's nineteen member committee which decides who warrants memberip. While "serious" human rights organizations are often blocked from gaining membership, she said, "applications from NGOs from or aligned with non-democratic states sail through without objection." While the IHH denies it supports terrorism, one of its members, Oguzan Ulas, told Fox News that Israel is trying to smear the organization. He did however say that the IHH does support Hamas and said that his organization disagreed with Hamas being designated a terrorist group by the U.S. A U.S. State Department spokesman told Fox News that the IHH has not been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and added, "We are unable to comment on the internal process with respect to specific designations." But he made it clear where the U.S. stood on fighting terrorism: "We are fully committed to taking appropriate action against foreign groups engaging in terrorist activity in order to prevent such groups from obtaining the resources and support needed to undertake terrorist activity." Asked whether the United Nations should take any action against the IHH, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs would only confirm that the IHH does indeed enjoy consultative status within the U.N.'s NGO system. Yet this is not the first time the U.N's NGO system has accepted groups with terrorist links. In 2006 and 2007, Fox News exposed a Saudi-based charity called the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), which, despite having two of its branches in the Philippines and Indonesia on the U.S. and U.N. terror list for aiding Al Qaeda, still enjoys full NGO status. Despite calls from members of Congress to expel them, the U.N. remains silent. Nineteen countries decide on who gets to join the NGO branch, including Angola, China, Cuba, Egypt, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia and Sudan, a cast of member states that incenses Bayefsky. "That such countries are the ones that decide who can and cannot participate in the operations of the U.N. explains a lot about what happens there," she said. Links: esango.un.org ihh.org.tr

To: Brumar89 who wrote (367526)	6/5/2010 11:40:19 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 793955

ABC News Deputy Political Director Takes Communications Gig With Far-left SEIU By Lachlan Markay (Bio \| Archive) Fri, 06/04/2010 - 11:25 ET The revolving door of political journalism underscores the brazen liberalism of today's newsrooms -- 15 former journalists now populate the Obama administration. And though taking a job in such a far left administration demonstrates journalists' overwhelming liberal politics, ABC News's deputy political director Teddy Davis has managed to raise the bar. Davis announced yesterday his intention to leave ABC, and said he will be "working with the SEIU team on their political campaigns and policy agenda." The Service Employees International Union, of course, is a group of liberal shock troops who recently tried--and failed--to field far left candidates in an effort to defeat centrist Democrats. So while some journalists have gone to bat for the Executive, Davis has managed to one-up virtually all of them in accepting a gig with one of the most partisan and thuggish groups on the political scene. The Washington Examiner's Mark Hemingway notes just how far to the left Davis must be. It's one thing to be liberal or Democratic, but being down with the SEIU's political agenda? Anyone who truly understands card check legislation and can defend it as good for the country is pretty out there. In any event, this helps explain why the media is largely uninterested in reporting on the SEIU and how the union's officers are robbing their members blind. Politico's Ben Smith thinks "the hire is a sign that SEIU's new leadership intends to keep its large Washington footprint." But it is also a sign that the union is keeping up relations with traditional newsrooms--hardly surprising, given some of its latest antics. Read more: newsbusters.org