Clarion Fund, the non-profit anti-Muslim group which created Obsession and Third Jihad, claims that its “educational” efforts to make the world aware of the menace of radical Islam are non-partisan.  It has to do so to maintain its 501c3.  But everything this outfit does is partisan.  Reader Robin McLaren notes that a  Phoenix newspaper said this about a local screening of the film: Brent Lowder, a partner in Frontline Strategies LLC, represented the nonprofit Clarion Fund, ...

tags: muslim group, firm marketing, pr firm, jihad, clarion, obsession, republican

Opening this week: Brendan Kiley on the Darby Crash hagiography What We Do Is Secret: "Note to the world: Unless you're a reporter or a historian, striving for authenticity is played. Fuck authenticity, whether you're writing a novel or starting an Indian restaurant. We don't need authentic, we need imaginative and good." Paul Constant pretty much likes Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married: "Anne Hathaway should be commended for not drooling all over the part in a Method-inspired ...

tags: rosemarie dewitt, jonathan demme, cia drone, debra winger, darby crash, body of lies, arab markets, nbody, maximum efficiency, dense material, writing a novel, unblinking eye, drama queens, anne hathaway, wedding day, complexities, interested parties, filmmakers, authenticity, swoop

In this week's paper, Jonah Spangenthal-Lee takes a hard look at the "epidemic" of violence in Southeast Seattle... In the last month alone, there have been at least half a dozen shootings, many of them attributed to rising tensions between rival gangs. As Mayor Greg Nickels trots out his Youth Violence Prevention Initiative—a $9 million program designed to keep kids out of gangs and reduce violence in South and Central Seattle—South Seattle residents like Rachel ...

tags: violence prevention initiative, youth violence prevention, mayor greg nickels, police helicopters, rival gangs, dozen shootings, seattle residents, southeast seattle, central seattle, probation officer, south seattle, frizzelle, david schmader, farmers market, apartment building, transit station, sound transit, old capitol, risley, light rail station

One of the cool new features that our team has been working on is Marketplace on the web. When the New Xbox Experience launches on November 19th, you’ll be able to browse the Marketplace on Xbox.com, and queue up downloads. The next time you turn on your Xbox 360, the aforementioned items will begin to download. Also, when I make a post about a new demo, or DLC here, I’ll be able to link directly to that ...

tags: new xbox, new features, xbox, marketplace

Ladies and gentlemen, I want metrics. In the spirit of objectively tracking the downfall of the global economy, I've decided to begin a semi-regular post conglomerating data on the (non-)functioning of the financial system. If I'm going to panic, I want evidence backing it up. Rather than focusing on the stock market (equity), like most daily coverage of this crisis, I'm going to focus on liquidity. The inability of companies, big and small, to borrow ...

tags: corporate bond yields, state of fear, relative state, market equity, ladies and gentlemen, objective data, global economy, beaker, implosion, downfall, stock market, liquidity, metrics, apocalypse, apologies, economist, doom, ted, spirit

The End Of American Capitalism?: "The End Of American Capitalism?By Anthony FaiolaWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, October 10, 2008; A01The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is claiming another casualty: American-style capitalism.Since the 1930s, U.S. banks were the flagships of American economic might, and emulation by other nations of the fiercely free-market financial system in the United States was expected and encouraged. But the market turmoil that is draining the nation's wealth and has upended ...

tags: american capitalism, market turmoil, time china, flagships, government ownership, great depression, nationalization, bailout, banking industry, financial sector, financial instruments, purists, lifeblood, developing world, bush administration, american style, stakeholder, financial markets, emulation, financial crisis

What better time to negotiate a rapprochement? Cuba is NOT our enemy and we have complimentyary interests thyat would benefit both countries!HAVANA (AP) - Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough—barely—to go around. The lines are long and some foods are scarce, but because the government has maintained and even increased rations in some areas, Cubans who initially ...

tags: jose luis rodriguez, communist cuba, old mercedes, farmers markets, fruits and vegetables, economics minister, cap prices, credit crisis, consumer purchases, cubans, food imports, luis rodriguez, two pounds, stockpiles, rapprochement, better time, rations, lettuce, gustav, hurricanes