Free Speech News Update 2/15/08

Blogosphere Victory over Jihadist Mole

Hesham Islam, if you recall, is the Islamist mole who maneuvered his patron and mentor, Gordon England, into firing Steve Coughlin, the Pentagon’s only expert on Islamic law.

Winds of Jihad: Hesham Islam gets the boot

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Watch Ezra Levant with Glenn Beck on CNN

Ezra Levant is a lawyer, blogger, and journalist who was recently compelled to appear before a “human rights” commission in Alberta, Canada, to account for his decision to publish the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in Western Standard Magazine. Full details on his battle for freedom of speech and the press in Canada are on Ezra Levant’s blog.

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DDOS Attacks at Foehammer’s Anvil

…from Foehammer’s Anvil:

This should satisfy all that are wondering what has been going on with the hosting here at the Anvil. I finally received an email from a LunarPages admin that actually knows how to do her job. Not surprisingly, her name is something that I can actually pronounce and most likely doesn’t belong to a Muslim convert. What follows is an edited version of the response, but you will now see that I have absolute proof that the Leftofascists and Islamofascists have been hard at work tying to shut me up. I’ve been telling LunarPages to check for ddos attacks for weeks; someone finally listened: Read more

Are you getting a real CHARGE out of your laptop?

Is computing meant to be an electrifying experience?

I was truly shocked! I admit that I am rather stoic when it comes to pain. I recently felt a light stinging sensation from a laptop, but I was busy, so I ignored it. I didn’t realize that anything was wrong until I had already received several second-degree burns. Your mileage may vary.

The shock problem is NOT limited to Dell.

In fact, you can get a shock from just about any make of laptop, if you are using it while it is plugged in to AC current with an ungrounded adapter/charger.

What to do? Ask for an AC charger/adapter with a three-prong grounded (earthed) plug. Then plug your laptop into a correctly-wired receptacle.

If you cannot obtain a grounded charger, then avoid letting your skin come into direct contact with the outside of the laptop case while it is plugged into AC power.

Details:

• Cnet: Dell laptops in electric shock shocker
• Dell Support Journal on this topic

(Also at 1389 Message Blog.)

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Words fail me…

Reuters: Belarus jails Mohammed cartoon publisher

More and more writers, bloggers, and publishers face prison, financial ruin, or death.

BELARUS (Reuters) – Belarus on Friday jailed for three years an editor of an independent newspaper who reproduced cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that first appeared in Denmark in 2005 and caused mass demonstrations across the Muslim world.

The 12 cartoons portraying the founder of Islam, including one showing the prophet with a bomb in his turban, outraged Muslims who saw them as blasphemous. More than 50 people died in protests across the world the following year.

Belarussian authorities shut down the “Zgoda” (Consensus) paper in March 2006, around the time when other European journals began reprinting the cartoons. The security service, still known by its Soviet-era name, the KGB, began an investigation after Muslims in the ex-Soviet state complained.

Editor Alexander Sdvizhkov was sentenced to three years in jail in a closed session of the court for incitement of religious and national hatred.

“May God and the holy cross be with us,” Sdvizhkov said afterwards. His lawyer said she would appeal.

Muslims constitute about two or three percent of the 10 million residents of the country wedged between Russia and three members of the European Union. The Muslim community had called for leniency in the case.

Miklos Haraszti, media freedom representative for the 56-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, protested against Sdvizhkov’s jailing, calling the case against him “shocking” and saying he should be freed.

“Persecution of journalists for trying to inform the public on important issues is a misuse of hate speech laws,” Haraszti said in a statement from Vienna. “In fact the Belarus government has used the international controversy around the cartoons as a pretext to eliminate a critical voice from public life.”

President Alexander Lukashenko is accused by the West of ruling the country with an iron grip, jailing opponents, shutting down independent media and rigging polls, including his own re-election to a third term in 2006.

(Reporting by Andrey Makhovsky in Minsk; writing by Sabina Zawadzki)

H/T: Holger Danske

Lionheart is NOT the only blogger under threat.

All of us in the counterjihad are in this together!

• Click HERE to see the famous cartoons up close…
• Click HERE to join Michelle Malkin’s cartoon blogburst!

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More:

• Articles about cartoon censorship
• Articles about blog censorship
• Stop Blog Censorship! Resource Page
• Articles about censorship in general

Posted by 1389 – Also at 1389 Blog.

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Foehammer’s Anvil blog taken down by LunarPages

Counterjihadist blog Foehammer’s Anvil
is down for the time being.

This has happened before.

Evidently, someone at the Anvil’s current web hosting firm, LunarPages, does not want Foehammer’s message to get out.

Foehammer explains…

…unfortunately the trials of the Anvil continue. The site is down again. This time it may take me finding a new host in order to restore things. I’m done playing games with LunarPages.

The Anvil may be down for quite a few days, possibly weeks. Inform anyone that might inquire that I’m doing what I can, but this all comes at a very bad time for me to deal with and is not my doing.

Keep blogging!

Foehammer, we wish you the best and hope to see you back online soon. Of course, you are always more than welcome to post articles at 1389 Blog, or, if you prefer, when your own blog is back up, to post links to your articles from there.

More:

• Statement by Foehammer at his cached mirror site.
• More articles about Foehammer’s Anvil and his battle against Islamic expansionism and pro-jihadist web censorship.

(Also at 1389 Blog.)

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Foehammer’s Anvil website taken down – again!

What’s going on at Lunarpages?

The last time I tried to access Foehammer’s Anvil,
I got THIS:

Foehammer explains…

Foehammer recently answered a reader’s comment on his blog post, “Blog for a Year Contest Ends”:

Author: Foehammer
Comment:

Obviously Foehammer got the bug fixed.

I wish it had been a bug, but instead it was the intentional disabling of this site again by my hosting company Lunarpages. I am no longer going to hide their part in the several times that the Anvil has gone offline unexpectedly. They outsource their support but claim that they do not. I am quite suspicious that what is described to me in nebulous emails from Lunarpages as “script errors” that require blocking my site are simply transparent excuses made on the part of certain people that would much rather see this site off-line. Lunarpages should be supportive of my blog for the very simple reason that I am a good customer and pay my bills and run a clean blog, but apparently that is not good enough anymore. Instead, I am expected to be bled dry for what little I might be able to afford in order to maintain a blog that has seen its traffic dwindle in no small part but as a result of such mischief as transpired earlier this week.

Between sites like Digg and my own hosting troubles, vicious personal attacks from religious zealots masquerading as anti-hate police and all the rest of the nuts that even have gone so far as to threaten my life, it can be of little wonder to anyone that is paying even scant attention that I am disgusted and no longer view this fight the same as I did a year ago.

The Internet is a battle ground between those who dare to put forth the Truth and those cowards that would run from it or those enemies that would hide it. Well, as I have intimated before, the Net is no longer enough. I will take my message and put it into play in new ways over the course of the coming decades. In time I will be vindicated on multiple levels by way of the simple expanse of history as it unfolds before us, but beyond that, I will do my own part in creative ways to defeat Islamism and the lemmings that would bring it to the USA.

A few bumps in the Information Highway are not going to stop me and they shouldn’t stop any of us that care about the Truth and the Future.

Evading accountability at Lunarpages

1389, and other Foehammer fans, promptly contacted Lunarpages tech support by email at support@lunarpages.com, as indicated in their message.

But all I got was some guff requiring me to prove that I was the owner of foehammer.net (which I obviously am not) in order to report a problem with accessing it. This insulates Lunarpages support staff from having to deal with multiple complaints if they have wrongfully taken down a site that is relied upon by a community of users.

For that reason, we have provided contact information for Add2Net, the parent company of Lunarpages/Lunarservers. Have at it, everyone!

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Contact Information

(Add2Net is the parent company of Lunarpages/Lunarservers.)

Add2Net Corporate Headquarters
100 E. La Habra Blvd.
La Habra, CA 90631

Telephone: (714) 521-8150)

Fax: (714) 521-8195

• info@add2net.com
• sales@add2net.com
• support@add2net.com
• webmaster@add2net.com

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Also see:

• Infidel Bloggers Alliance: Foehammer’s Anvil taken down by its provider
• Hartos de ZPorky: Suspendida otra web antijihadista
• Right Truth: Rudy Giuliani running out of money
• Right Truth: Gitmo plaintiffs lose lawsuit
• Shhhh Quiet! Censorship in Progress (The Coming of the Indoctrimemes)

(Also at 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech.)

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Rolling Updates:

• 1/12/08, 1:36 AM EST: The Anvil is up again. However, the issue is that the site has repeatedly been taken down, so we will continue to monitor it. It is not much use for a site that focuses primarily on US issues to be up only in the middle of the night in US time zones.

  Foehammer left the following comment, by way of explanation:
  

  The Anvil is back online but I do not know how long this will last. My hosting company is continuing to claim that my site is eating resources at an inordinate rate and I see no evidence of this on my end. I am at their mercy and I no longer have the patience to tackle the technical side of this any deeper than I have.

  Do not panic if the Anvil goes off-line again; in fact, expect it.

• La página de Foehammer suspendida por su proveedor

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  How trolls drive traffic to their own blogs for profit
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  Dedicated to de-mystifying buzzwords
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  Your PC’s clock, that is!
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(Posted on 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech and Fort Hard Knox)

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Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity – The Blue Prius!

Jeff does standup comedy – The Blue Prius!

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(Posted on 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech and Fort Hard Knox)

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Is Digg up for sale – if it is, why should anyone buy it?

Things keep changing at Digg…

…and generally not for the better. Digg always seems to be adding new features, tweaking existing features, and removing old features that people liked. For instance, Digg took away both the user rankings and the data field that, for a time, allowed people to figure out who had buried some of the stories… (We know…that was NOT a feature – that was a BUG!) As far as we are concerned, those examples show how Digg merely tries to cover up problems instead of addressing its users’ biggest complaints – sluggish performance, unresponsive tech support, accusations of bias and lack of transparency, and, of course, the infamous Bury Brigade.

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A Musical Treat: Andrea Bocelli Sings Adeste Fidelis

Andrea Bocelli: Adeste Fidelis

Beautiful version of the classic Christmas song by Andrea Bocelli, from his ‘Sacred Arias’ concert.

Andrea Bocelli: When a Child is Born

THE GREAT TENOR, ANDREA BOCELLI’S CHRISTMAS SONG (just in time for the holidays!)

More Christmas Music

O Holy Night

Comment by ArrrMaltie :

Hi. Actually, I took clips from 5 films. Jesus of Nazareth, The Jesus Film, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Ten Commandments and The Passion of the Christ. I wanted to put the lyrics in, but did it backwards so they didn’t work. Now I know how to do it right. The lyrics truly are needed for the second verse.

(On Fort Hard Knox and 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech)

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Silent Night by Elvis Presley

Stein hoists to Gramfan and Andrew Bolt!

(On Fort Hard Knox and 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech)

Holdman Christmas Lights – Christmas Carols

Holdman Christmas Lights: Carol of the Bells

Holdman Christmas Lights – Pleasant Grove, Utah

For 2007 we have upgraded from 80 Channels to 192 Channels of control, Installed 6 more 20 amp circuits (for a total of 17 now), and few other surprises. Come by and check it out!

…Welcome to the Holdman Christmas web site. 2006 was our first year doing a Computer Controlled Christmas display. The display had around 45,000 Lights and consumes 300 amps of power when everything is on. Visitors can listen to the music that is synchronized with the display on our low-power FM transmitter at 99.9 FM.

Questions? You can e-mail Richard Holdman at christmas@holdman.com

More Holdman Christmas videos:

• HD videos on Vimeo
• Slower connections: View on YouTube

(On Fort Hard Knox and 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech)

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Straight No Chaser: The Twelve Days of Christmas

Straight No Chaser sings Twelve Days of Christmas

From the site:

Buy the concert on DVD:
http://www.a-cappella.com/product/646/video-performance-pop The original members of Straight No Chaser perform their comedic version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” at the Musical Arts Center, Bloomington, Indiana. December 7th, 1998.

NOTE ABOUT THE DVD: It’s out of stock, but you can pre-order it. HOWEVER, of the 2500 copies we had pressed, over 1600 of those are already sold as pre-orders. That leaves less than 900 copies available for purchase. When those are gone, they’re gone. I’m not pressing more, because I don’t want to have to store them if they don’t sell!

(On Fort Hard Knox and 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech)

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Mannheim Steamroller – Joy To The World

Mannheim Steamroller – Joy To The World

Chip Davis’s Mannheim Steamroller performs ‘Joy To The World’ live in concert. Hundreds of thousands concert-goers have experienced Mannheim Steamroller Christmas shows over the years. This performance was captured by twenty four 35mm film cameras of digital audio in the historic Orpheum Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska — home of Mannheim Steamroller.

Christmas Light Shows
synchronized to
Mannheim Steamroller:

Joy To the World – Mannheim Steamroller, Murfreesboro TN

Here is Joy to the World Christmas light show sequenced to the Mannheim Steamroller.
Light Show Created By Bill, Kevin Maxwell, Sandra Elgin, Murfreesboro TN.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Carol of the Bells

Hallelujah (2007)

54000+ lights synchronized to Mannheim Steamroller’s song Hallelujah.
Visit www.neverenoughlights.com for more info.

Deck the Halls (2006)

Even an RV can join in the fun! Click here to watch!

(H/T to Impediment!)

A very Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year
to you and yours!

(On Fort Hard Knox and 1389 Blog – Antijihadist Tech)

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