Additional FITNA link

You can also see the movie FITNA over at google video. It seems that the nature of "viral video" is working in the favor of truth. The movie has been downloaded and posted by enough people that it will be on the internet, somewhere, for a long time.

The Fury over "FITNA"

Some days I surf the net and find some harmless fluff to post for a laugh. Today was not one of those days. This is a serious post about the war. No, not the war in Iraq or Afghanistan - I'm talking about the larger War Of Terror that is being waged world wide by Muslim extremists.

A Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, released the film Fitna on the internet just two days ago. So far the reaction has been de facto censorship by intimidation.

As of right now, the film is available in English at the official website http://www.themoviefitna.com/ It is posted there as a March 28th entry. This is despite the fact that Network Solutions suspended the original domain. The reason given:
This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site's content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy. Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation.

See the movie here.

The movie is graphic.

Truth is like that.

It was available on LiveLeak.com for a very short time, however they felt forced to remove the film. In a recent statement (posted in red at the top of the LiveLeak web site)
“Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill-informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.”
"This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else."

See the movie here.

The movie is graphic.

Truth is like that.

The video can be found on YouTube but it is behind the warning
This video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community.
To view this video or group, please verify you are 18 or older by logging in or signing up.

Interestingly enough there are literally hundreds of videos on YouTube and LiveLeak of IED's being detonated against coalition forces. Most of these have NOT been flagged by either site or place behind any type of "age shield".

See the movie here.

The movie is graphic.

Truth is like that.

Don't misunderstand me - I have no objection to graphic material being behind a shield of some kind but I think it is completely rational to ask Network Solutions, LiveLeak and YouTube to be consistent. A quick "whois" search reveals that YouTube is registered through Network Solutions (LiveLeak is registered with godaddy.com)
Registrant:
YouTube, Inc.
ATTN: YOUTUBE.COM
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447

Since YouTube is registered with Network Solutions and Network Solutions has not suspended youtube.com for being "in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy.", their suspension of fitnathemovie.com is disingenuous, insincere and dishonest.

Since Google now owns YouTube, this means that Google, YouTube, LiveLeak and Network Solutions have, by their selective enforcements of usage policies, communicated that they would rather spend their resources giving "aid and comfort" to Iraqi insurgents rather than to those who would expose the truth about radical Muslims extremists.

See the movie here.

The movie is graphic.

Truth is like that.

April 1 on Google

Well if you didn't have the chance to use Google today, you missed it. (not a joke) I will tell you what you missed but you should "google" them and read them yourself. (Hopefully they will still be posted on the web somewhere for a while - good jokes should be preserved in their entirety :-)

First a screen shot of the Google home page. Notice the "New! Get FREE breakthrough broadband with Google TiSP (BETA)"? It stands for "Toilet Internet Service Provider". The slogan for this "breakthrough"? "Want WiFi around? Just flush it down."

Once on their welcome page you can click the "Get Started with Google TiSP" button and it will take you to an installation page with some hilarious graphics.

About 2/3 of the way down on the "install" page is a link for "professional installation service" that takes you to an error page. The error page basically explains that this page wasn't finished because the joke got thrown together pretty quickly. The up side is that this page links to other April Fool's Day Google hoaxes.

There is "Google Romance". On the "tour" (no, I'm NOT looking - I knew it was a joke) you will find such jewels as "User B inadvertently reveals that he's kind of full of himself. Note: User A's telepsychic predicted this."

Google gulp "with Auto-Drink"

From the FAQ page "...you should be aware that by popping the seal on the twist-off Gulp cap, you send a wireless signal to Google's servers indicating your irrevocable acceptance of the Google Gulp Terms and Conditions, which do include the possibility, however remote, of hideous genetic mutation resulting from your consumption of this product. We're pretty sure you won't die, though."

As a quick aside, this makes me think of the scary factoid that only an estimated 2% of people actually READ End User License Agreements...

Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (G.C.H.E.E.S.E.) - complete with "Googlunaplex"

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A re-visit of a page explaining Google's lightning fast search results - Pigeon Rank using, yes, real pigeons. (Originally put out April 1, 2002)

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And the opportunity to search using the revolutionary "MentalPlex" (Originally from April 1, 2000)

Instructions:
Remove hat and glasses.
Peer into MentalPlex circle. DO NOT MOVE YOUR HEAD.
Project mental image of what you want to find.
Click or visualize clicking within the MentalPlex circle

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And last of all, I'm not sure if it was a glitch or an April Fool's joke by Blogger, I ran into a little snag when I uploaded these last four images (Google Gulp, Googlunaplex logo, Pigeon Rank and MentalPlex). Blogger just kept uploading and uploading all four images (22 times) before I figured out what was going on and could get it to stop.

ha. ha. ha.

Islam As Mental Illness

The title links to the original post on The Gathering Storm. i have to give credit to Faultline USA. Read their entry here about some scary internet censorship. Google is apparently using its liberal-leaning muscle to censor the truth.