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Insider Report: Jimmy Carter's Psychic Connection Special From NewsMax's Most Informed Sources
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories): 1. TV War Coverage Called "Prudish" A Middle East expert castigates American television's coverage of the war in Iraq, saying that by covering up the conflict's horrors TV has become a "lethal adjunct to war." Robert Fisk, a London-based journalist and author of "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East," writes in the Los Angeles Times that American TV "continues to present war as a bloodless sandpit." He said "the horrors of conflict are kept off the screen. Editors in New York and London make sure that viewers' 'sensitivities' don't suffer, that we don't indulge in the 'pornography of death' or 'dishonor' the dead whom we have just killed.
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"Our prudish video coverage makes war easier to support, and journalists long ago became complicit with governments in making conflict and death more acceptable to viewers. Television journalism has thus become a lethal adjunct to war." Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the London Independent, also complains about the "semantic iceberg" that has "crashed into American journalism in the Middle East." He cites the use of the words "rebels" and "terrorists" and "remnants" of the former regime for those who attacked American troops in Iraq. He also complains about the media's use of the word "settlements" instead of "colonies" for Jewish enclaves on Arab land, and the change from "occupied" Palestinian land to "disputed" land. Fisk concludes: "Back in the old days, we used to believe did we not? that journalists should 'tell it how it is.'
"So let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is
and maybe express the reality of war by showing that it represents not, primarily, victory or defeat, but the total failure of the human spirit." 2. Mossad: Iran Soon to Have Nuclear Weapon Iran will achieve "nuclear technology independence" within several months, the chief of Israel's Mossad spy agency has warned legislators. Appearing before the Knesset's defense and foreign affairs committee to deliver his annual intelligence report, Meir Dagan also declared that Iran "will not stop with one nuclear bomb." He said "technology independence" doesn't mean Tehran will actually have a nuclear device. But "it does mean they'll be able to enrich uranium with centrifuges," columnist Uri Dan writes in the New York Post. "Building a bomb would only be a matter of time." Said Dagan: "Iran will not be satisfied with producing fissionable material for one bomb but will continue to produce large quantities of such material for more bombs." Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset committee, said: "Iran is capable of getting a bomb in a year or two. And if it does, there will be a new Middle East black, dangerous and threatening the world over." Dagan called for an intensification of international diplomatic pressure on Iran. But Aharon Zeevi, Israel's chief of military intelligence, said the current lack of pressure can be blamed on the Europeans. "I had meetings with senior officials in Europe," he told Uri Dan. "And their position is, why should we fear Iran's nuclear weapons? After all, we lived under the nuclear threat after World War II. "And besides, either you or the Americans will solve the problem." Zeevi has said that a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would be "difficult but not impossible." But he told the Yediot Aharonot daily: "It is not the time nor place to talk about military action as the diplomatic route is still the order of the day." Editor's Note:
3. Steve Forbes: Action Against Iran Crucial Former presidential candidate Steve Forbes has issued a dire warning: Iran's soon-to-be-successful push for nuclear weapons poses an "increasingly mortal threat to our safety." Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, writes in his Fact and Comment column that Iran's looming nuclear capability is especially frightening because its new president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is "lethally delusional." He is obsessed with the Mahdi, the expected Messiah of Muslim tradition, who is to return just before Judgment Day. Ahmadinejad believes he must prepare the way for his reappearance, according to Forbes. The Iranian leader has also insisted that the Holocaust never occurred and that Israel should be wiped off the map. Russia is attempting to convince Tehran not to go nuclear. But at the same time, Moscow recently agreed to sell Iran an advanced weapons system that can destroy incoming missiles and laser-guided bombs. A nuclear Iran would be an "immense setback" in the war against Islamic fanaticism and could lead to an Iranian-encouraged overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, Forbes warns. "Is military action the only alternative?" he writes. "Yes, unless somehow internal Iranian pressures (the mullahs are despised by most Iranians), as well as international pressures, force either a fundamental change in this fascist theocracy or its actual overthrow "But time is running short." Forbes laments that the Bush administration has done next to nothing to persuade the American public about the possible need for stern measures. But he concludes: "Thankfully President Ahmadinejad's consistent public statements on the 'myth' of the Holocaust will make clear to not only us but also the European masses and elites that this regime poses an increasingly mortal threat to our safety, that European-style diplomacy (a mechanism for doing nothing) is no longer viable." Editor's Note:
4. Jimmy Carter's Psychic Connection Former President Jimmy Carter reveals that he once used a psychic in a trance to do what the United States' satellite surveillance system couldn't find a downed American plane. In an interview for GQ magazine excerpted in The Weekly Standard's Scrapbook section, Carter recalls: "We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic a twin-engine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. "So we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every 90 minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it. "So the director of the CIA (Stansfield Turner) came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went into a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellites over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane." The Weekly Standard comments: "The Scrapbook figures this woman is probably no longer alive. Otherwise they'd have found bin Laden by now." Editor's Note:
5. Fox Has Itself a Merry Little "Christmas"
Fox News Channel isn't the Grinch that stole "Christmas" after all. But Fox redeemed itself on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day by wishing viewers a "Merry Christmas" in large letters on its station break logos. It also played Christmas hymns to accompany the logo. So much for the "Kool-Aid secular-progressive ACLU America haters" who O'Reilly says want to take the "Christmas" out of Christmas. Editor's Notes:
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