Twitter: Bring Back Noah David Simon!

please unsuspend this account. I have a brand name across the internet with the name NoahDavidSimon on each social network. people go to twitter looking for me and see a message that this account is suspended. I understand there were differences early on regarding terms that had not existed concerning what an account can retweet and what is spam, but considering a network had never existed like twitter before with an account that could break contemporary terms I am asking for leniency. there is a group on facebook with supporters behind my request: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=102808379378 the reason these people are asking for you to do the right thing is because I am a positive member of my community and considering the recent issue of Iranian hackers on twitter we should look at those who early on were responsible for architectural in-fractures as heroes and not ostracized with suspended accounts. this should not be a personal issue between any administration at twitter and should be about what is the right thing to do with a person's name which is out there on the internet for search.

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http://xrl.us/DhimmiNewYear CAIR: NY Muslims Featured in 'I am American' Times Square Ad -- WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization announced today that its new public service announcement (PSA), called "I am Muslim, I am American," began airing this morning on the CBS Super Screen in New York City's Times Square.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said its New York chapter (CAIR-NY) produced the 15-second PSA, which will air every hour for 18 hours each day through January 16, 2010, on the 26-foot by 20-foot full-motion screen. More than one million people pass through Times Square each day.

CAIR-NY's PSA features an American Muslim NYPD sergeant, as well as a Muslim Little League all-star, a human rights activist, a doctoral candidate, and an attorney. It begins with the statement, "Building Community, Serving Country." Viewers are encouraged to visit CAIR's Web site.

To view the PSA, go to: http://www.cair.com/ny/

"This public service advertisement features ordinary American Muslims whose everyday lives are dedicated to building community and serving country," said CAIR-NY Community Affairs Director Faiza N. Ali. "This initiative is part of our ongoing effort to ensure that a fair and accurate portrayal of Islam and Muslims is presented to the American public."

Ali added that the PSA will air during the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, when up to one million people turn out to watch the ball drop at midnight.

"We hope that the millions of people from around the nation and the world who view this public service announcement will return home with enhanced understanding of Islam and the American Muslim community," said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. "Our PSA shows that American Muslims are a vital part of our nation's social and religious fabric."

Awad noted that a 2007 study by the Pew Research Center described American Muslims as "middle class" and "mainstream." The first-ever nationwide study said American Muslims are "largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world."

SEE: Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/483/muslim-americans

CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

CONTACT: CAIR-NY Civil Rights Director Aliya Latif, 212-870-2002, 732-429-4268, E-Mail: alatif@cair.com; CAIR-NY Community Affairs Director Faiza N. Ali, 212-870-2002, 718-724-3041, E-Mail: fali@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com; CAIR Communications Coordinator Amina Rubin, 202-488-8787, 202-341-4171, E-Mail: arubin@cair.com

SOURCE Council on American-Islamic Relations

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via prnewswire.com

Terrorist Front Group CAIR Promotes Islam to Times Square

This is FANTASTIC news!

Wasn't Islam already promoted to lower Manhattan on 9.11.01?

Via Al Arabiya:

An American Muslim advocacy group launched a massive advertisement in New York City's famous Times Square on Tuesday in a bid to present to millions of Americans a "fair" and "accurate" portrayal of Islam.

The public service announcement, "I am Muslim, I am American," was launched by the New York branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)....

The advertisement starts with the statement "Building Community, Serving Country" and features American Muslims from all walks of life, including a police sergeant, a Little League all-star, a human rights activist, a doctoral candidate and an attorney.

...The campaign will run from Dec. 22 to Jan. 16, and will even be shown on New Year's Eve, when at least one million people are expected to crowd Times Square for celebrations and the infamous countdown, when the ball drops at midnight.

"We have more than 400 million people going through Times Square and we thought this would be a good opportunity to send out a positive message about Muslims," Ibrahim Cooper, CAIR's national communications director, told Al Arabiya.

And for those who have never been to Times Square, Hooper explained that the advertisement will appear on the CBS Super Screen, which is a 26-foot by 20-foot full-motion screen, called a "JumboTron," and will air 18 times a day.

See also:

• Does Islam Breed Violence?


• CAIR Cashes in on Ft. Hood Massacre


• CAIR Outraged FBI Searched Mosque Where Nidal Hasan Prayed


• Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) speaker to Muslims: OK to attack Fort Bragg


• ‘The Simpsons’, Islamophobia and CAIR


• CAIR sues 'Muslim Mafia' author and son


• CAIR demands Detroit’s radical Imam’s Islamic Faith be ommitted from investigation. FBI Agrees


• Hamas-tied CAIR Joins Christians in Wrath Against Larry David and "Curb Your Enthusiasm"


• Who is CAIR? Exposed in extensive House floor speech by Rep. Frank Wolf


• Senator Shaw outlines his objectives with CAIR, refutes terrorist connections


• Facebook terrorism: Say what you want about CAIR.....

via thejidf.org

2010 predictions: Another turbulent year ahead for media -- latimes.com

AT&T will buy into Satellite. Interesting. I'd think a better business model for the media is for the media to buy AT&T. the best way to force people to pay for content is to control the pipeline. AOL Time Warner only failed because AOL didn't make any decent media, but a media telecommunications company that charges per show, per view... is a killer biz. might go across the board and try to buy the hardware as well. Apple would be an excellent buy for Disney or TimeWarner or News Corp. Controlling the hardware might not be the best business from a profit end, but it allows a corporation to protect itself from piracy.

Jay Leno's debut in the 10 p.m. hour was must-see TV for NBC. But the audiences have left him and we predict he'll leave the time slot in 2010, perhaps to return to late night, maybe on another network. (Justin Lubin / NBC)

• If there was still any debate in the media world over which is king -- content or distribution -- it was settled in 2009.

Between cable giant Comcast Corp.'s $30-billion deal to take control of NBC Universal and Walt Disney Co.'s surprise $4-billion purchase of comic book publisher and Spider-Man home Marvel Entertainment Inc., it became abundantly clear that it's more valuable to own what goes on the screen than the screen itself. Even a back-of-the-pack cable network like the Travel Channel sold for almost $1 billion, and Nickelodeon shelled out more than $50 million for rights to four old Ninja Turtles characters.

Content owners may be king, but it won't be worth much if these media titans can't figure out how to make money from all the new platforms overwhelming the landscape. There is a general consensus that putting content on the Internet for free -- d'oh! -- may not have been the brightest idea. Much of next year will be spent experimenting with business models to get people to pay for what they are used to getting for free.

Satellite broadcaster DirecTV will be sold to AT&T. The deal will face intense scrutiny, and to get it through Washington, DirecTV will agree to end its exclusive deal with the National Football League. Worried about being left behind, Verizon will start kicking the tires of Dish Network, but Dish CEO Charlie Ergen will lose the deal after attempting to extract too steep a price.

* Hulu will start charging viewers.

Hulu, the free video site owned by News Corp., NBC Universal and Disney, will require people to pay to watch its programming. This will cause a rift internally as Hulu CEO Jason Kilar resists switching to a pay model, leading to his exit.

via latimes.com

A Tale of Two Gazas: Website Pictures Deny ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ - Inside Israel - Israel News - Israel National News

"Statistics provided by the Palestinian Authority show that unemployment in the Gaza area dropped in the second quarter this year by 20 percent from 45.5 percent in the second quarter of 2008."

Here are some recent photos from the World's biggest concentration camp: Gaza. The pictures come from an Arabic web site that can be found here.

via israelmatzav.blogspot.com

Towards the Eid ad Adha holiday, Israel allowed approximately 7,000 head of cattle into Gaza as well as electricity, communications and water infrastructures, including bringing in equipment and repair teams to repair water and sewer facilities and to repair turbines and parts of the Gaza power station.

Last August, Israel renewed the supply of gasoline for private use, according to the standard determined by the High Court as the threshold sufficient for humanitarian needs. The military coordinator for supervising shipments into Gaza (COGAT) noted, “While the minimum quotas determined by the High Court are only partially filled because of the debts owed by the gas stations in Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, a decision was made by the Coordinator during the summer to meet the threshold set by the High Court.

“Cooking gas has been transferred to Gaza without restriction before, during and, of course, after Operation Cast Lead. It is important to note that the flow of diesel fuel to the power station continued to take place during and after Operation Cast Lead."

While Gaza authorities and foreign media reported that there were no building materials in Gaza and that residents were building houses out of mud, COGAT said it was prepared to coordinate the entrance of materials for repairing and sealing houses that were damaged during Operation Cast Lead.

Officials also said that construction has stopped because Hamas has taken workers from their jobs.

Other projects include approval of a German sewage plant, repair of a flour mill, restoring the American school and a project of greenhouses and chicken coops at the request of the United States Agency for International Development.

COGAT also noted, “The prevailing economy in Gaza is not an official economy but rather an economy of [smuggling] tunnels; there are no shortages in Gaza, but there is a problem of unemployment, primarily for civilians who are not close to Hamas and have no buying power.

via israelnationalnews.com

everyone wants me to feel guilty

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Eolake Stobblehouse thoughts: William Gibson on audio

Yes! The old William Gibson SF books are finally out as audiobooks on iTunes! I've been waiting for this.
Strangely, the first one, Neuromancer, seems to be only there in German, but the old favorites Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are there, as well as the short story collection Burning Chrome.
(By the way, I'm surprised that Neuromancer and Mona Lisa still have the same covers they had when I bought them twenty years ago, whazzup widdat?)

via eolake.blogspot.com

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