IMEMC : The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) released a report, on Thursday, estimating that over 80 percent of Palestinian journalists were engaged in self-censorship.
The group released a report of its findings following two studies, along with a meeting on self-censorship and its impact on freedom of expression and media in Palestine, according to Ma’an News Agency.
Mousa Rimawi, general director of MADA, said that self-censorship is the most “serious and dangerous kind of censorship” journalists face, noting that the practice began during the Israeli occupation prior to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority.
Mr. Rimawi said that direct censorship by Israeli authorities during the First Intifada, in the late eighties, led to self-censorship among Palestinian journalists as media outlets used different methods of skirting Israeli restrictions on media output.
Self-censorship continued after the creation of the PA, Rimawi said, and has escalated “concretely and dangerously” since the 2007 split between Hamas and Fateh.
Ma’an further reports that, during a meeting entitled “Self-censorship: Is there a way to get rid of it?”, dozens of journalists and media students were presented with the results of two studies by MADA which revealed that some 80 percent of journalists surveyed practiced self-censorship on some or all of the material which they had written or produced.
Over 68 percent of journalists claim that their work, or their colleagues’ work, had been banned from being published, at one time or another, by their employer.
They also explained that the practice of self-censorship was related not only to official institutions, but also to fears that society and publishers are not willing to discuss taboo subjects.
MADA released a statement, in December of 2013, which documented “worrying violations” against media freedoms in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The report noted several arbitrary arrests of journalists by PA forces in the West Bank, as well as Hamas security forces in Gaza.
What has happened to America? Please show these numbers to anyone that does not believe that the United States is in decline. It is time for all of us to humble ourselves and face the reality of what has happened to our once great nation. For those of us that love America, it is heartbreaking to watch the foundations of our society rot and decay in thousands of different ways. The following are 50 facts that show how far America has fallen in this generation, but the truth is that this list could have been far, far longer…
#1 According to a survey that was just conducted, only 36 percent of all Americans can name the three branches of government.
#2 Only 25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S. senators there are.
#3 Even if you include same-sex couples in the numbers, the marriage rate in the United States is at a 93 year low.
#4 For the first time ever, single Americans make up more than half the U.S. population.
#531.1 percent of American young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.
#6One out of every ten teen girls in America engages in “self-harm”. Cutting and burning are the most common forms that this “self-harm” takes.
#7 One survey found that 85 percent of all young men in America and almost half of all young women in America watch porn at least once a month.
#8 A different survey discovered that 64 percent of American men of all ages view pornography at least once per month.
#9 The Internet can be used for great good, but it can also be used for great evil. It is being reported that 83 percent of U.S. boys and 57 percent of U.S. girls have been exposed to group sex while on the Internet.
#10 One survey discovered that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet access in the United States visit sex websites while they are at work.
#11 There is an epidemic of porn watching among federal employees. For example, one Treasury Department worker said that he viewed 13,000 pornographic images within the span of six weeks because he did “not have enough work to do“.
#12 An astounding 30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to adult websites.
This episode is part 1 of how to identify and deal with psychopaths, and is called “Defense Against the Psychopath,” and was recorded on Thursday, September 18, 2014, and was released on Wednesday, September 24, 2014.
My guest is Stefan H. Verstappen.
Stefan Verstappen is a Canadian writer, researcher, and adventurer. He has published six books and several dozens of articles on a variety of subjects. His latest book is, The Art of Urban Survival.
In a heated dialogue on Facebook yesterday, Joshua Blakeney and I argued for some time with a belligerent, irrational, platitude-wielding communist.
Despite the individual in question mostly just spewing traditional Marxist venom at us—labeling us “Nazis,” “fascists,” “reactionaries” and other dirty words—some real insight about the inadequacy of Marxist ideology can be gleaned from the faulty thinking displayed by this misguided person.
The first false assertion of this Marxist and all those who espouse Marxist ideology (all Marxists make the same or similar claims because they are reading from a script provided to them by their gurus and have no original thoughts or analysis), is that the present world order is spearheaded by “WASPs,” i.e., rich white capitalists who adhere to a “white supremacist” ideology and seek to hold down and exploit those not part of the white in-group.
This all-pervasive “white supremacist” bogeyman lies at the core of Marxist discourse. In the Marxist worldview, all the ills of the world can be attributed to the “white supremacist capitalist class.”
This claim is not only obviously racist, but it is inaccurate.
Muslim immigrants in France occupy a whole street for prayer.
If, as Marxists claim, “white supremacists” are at the helm of the global power structure today, then how do we explain the present policy of mass non-white immigration into all Western countries? Surely, if white racists controlled the immigration policy this wouldn’t be happening. How do we explain why most Western governments promote multiculturalism as a state ideology? How do we explain the “civil rights” movement in the United States which supposedly lifted blacks out of the shackles of oppression and discrimination in that country? How do we explain why the US government and other Western governments — again, supposedly dominated by “white racist capitalists” — have enacted massive social equalization programs (affirmative action, minority scholarship programs, etc.) that are designed to give minorities living in European-majority countries unfair advantages so as to artificially “equalize” society. If white racists hold the reins of power than why was the apartheid regime in South Africa overthrown with the consent and assistance of many Western governments? Why are scientists such as Philippe Rushton who have studied and published works on race and IQ hounded and harried and made into lepers in the academic community? Surely if white supremacists ran the show, academics such as Rushton would be celebrated and not traduced. The topic of race is a veritable taboo in Western societies, and even broaching the issue will result in one being branded a “racist” and even a “hate criminal.”
This false Marxist premise of white supremacist domination cannot stand up to scrutiny. The falsity of this Marxist meme is certainly a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the true nature of power today.
It is certainly true that whites were the dominant group in the world in the past three or four centuries, but it is not the case today and hasn’t been that way for many decades. The old WASP elite has been essentially dethroned and replaced by a hostile Jewish elite. This takeover process probably began at the beginning of the 20th century, and has been solidifying over the past 40 or so years. This new Jewish ruling class, as Joshua Blakeney has noted, cynically used the human rights struggles of blacks, Amerindians, and other minorities to discredit white gentiles who Jews sought to supplant as a competitor group. (See The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald) It is this new Jewish faction that is highly dominant today in the global economy and by extension global politics.
This is a fact that Marxists seek to suppress. Marxists are essentially fighting a long-vanquished bogeyman, and therefore cannot come to terms with the reality of Jewish power.
But why do they do this?
To understand this it must be said that Marxism was, at its core, a Jewish strategy of self-empowerment. It was created and fostered by Jewish ideologues as a mechanism of unseating Gentile rulers and overturning Gentile political systems. Communism has operated as little more than a vehicle for Jewish power, and that is its function. Communism stems from the Jewish totalitarian tradition, which is why so many of its ideological forebearers were Jews with rabbinical roots (i.e., Moses Hess, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxenbourg, Leon Trotsky (Bronstein), Ana Pauker (Rabinsohn), etc.)
Communism in practice was the act of enslaving Gentiles under a tyrannical Jewish dictatorship. It was in a sense a historical re-creation of the Jewish ghetto (shtetl) where authoritarian rabbis had complete control over all aspects of Jewish life. Instead of rabbis controlling Jewish life, communist states enforced their rigid doctrines on the Gentile masses. Those who refused to obey the self-appointed overseers of society were summarily shot or exiled to concentration camps. This was especially true in the Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe where “anti-Semitism” was decreed a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.
For IN the NOW with Anissa Naouai, The Resident discusses how yet another hashtag campaign is making the rounds on Twitter. This time, the goal is to get people to post photos of themselves just waking up and then challenging their friends to do the same, all while donating money to UNICEF to aid Syrian children. Called #WakeUpCall, it hasn’t taken off nearly as much as the Ice Bucket Challenge did, exposing one of two main flaws in hashtag activism.
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Part Three (“Good Funding Evil”) illustrates how the legalized extortion known as “taxation” creates a situation in which millions of decent, productive people end up inadvertently funding and enabling mass injustice.
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