Cao just recorded a new phoneblog, you can click here or on the player below to listen.

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Cao just recorded a new phoneblog, you can click here or on the player below to listen.

If you’re looking for pieces on Jack Idema and his team, please click on this link.

I’ve got Jack Idema on the line. Although he’s Afghanistan, at Pulacharke prison right near Kabul, he even has his own radio show (click on the picture above to go to RogueRadioLive). Jack was arrested in 2004 and immediately tortured at Saderat, the extreme interrogation facility on completely ridiculous charges, and convicted in a Taliban court. Later, the Afghans reversed the verdict, declaring him innocent.

When you consider his background, and the fact that he’s lived with and understands the Afghan mentality and culture, it’s confusing to me that he would be held on charges that the Afghans declared him innocent of, and is still being held as a ‘political prisoner’ by the American government. A small group of bloggers participate in the “Free Jack Idema Blogburst”, to protest his incarceration, and to inform people of this situation, which should never have happened, and is a travesty of justice.

From his bio at WAR Radio:

Jack Idema is a Green Beret, a former NY police detective, Skydiver, Master Scuba Instructor, Hand to Hand Combat Instructor (US Special Forces Hwa Rang Do Master), and has more military and Special Forces qualifications than Rambo every dreamed of. He joined the army at 17, entered the Special Forces Course at 18 and was awarded his Green Beret at 19, making him the youngest Green Beret in history.

He has fought in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala, South East Asia, Africa, Haiti, and South West Asia. He has trained and advised military forces in Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Laos, South Africa, Lithuania, most of Europe and even Russia. He was in Berlin when the wall crumbled, Lithuania during the fall of the Soviet Empire, and sat in a deserted Red Square with a team of pro-democracy Russian GRU/Alfa Group (Spetsgruppa A) Commandos drinking beer as the USSR’s flag was lowered for the last time at 1935 hours on December 25, 1991. These former enemies were still drinking as the new flag went up.

He was one of the first American combatants to enter Afghanistan after 9/11 and spent ten months training, advising, and leading the Northern Alliance as they swept through Afghanistan and defeated the Taliban. Every al-Qaida terrorist training image you see played on FOX News, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and BBC was captured by Jack Idema. How many people do you know that searched bin Laden’s house, chased Abu Musab al-Zarqawi into across the Afghan border, and found Ayman al-Zawahiri hiding in Iran? He was featured on the front cover of the bestselling War on Terror book of all time, The Hunt For Bin Laden, and on the British book - TASK FORCE DAGGER. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, Dateline, Nightline, and thirty other television shows, and on more than 750 radio shows, including one of the longest appearances ever on IMUS.

Here at “Your 15 Minutes”, we talk about several things, one is the Syracuse woman who spit on the soldier around Thanksgiving time, as reported at Syracuse dot com, and picked up by many bloggers.

You can find all kinds of bloggers and discussion forums that picked it up, from Sycracuse dot com, but I just can’t seem to find the verbiage there.

The Jawa Report, “Leftist Blogger: “Spitting on Soldier Not News”, by Bluto
Above Top Secret (also citing the Syracuse dot com)
Military dot com
Hooah Wife and Friends
Right-Wing and Right Minded
Point-B
AOL Elections Blog

Naturally, nobody would see something like this on the DNC’s Big Three, which is one of the reasons why I guess Fox News picked it up. This is something conservatives would want to know about, as we are supporters of our military and in general, leftist democrats are not that supportive of the military, which is why the journalists reporting are often times referred to as “THE DNC’S AP”, “The Terrorist Sympathizers at the New York Times”, etc..

Jack talks a little about his personal experience with people spitting on military guys during the Vietnam days, as we discuss how we’ve gone back to the days of Vietnam, complete with people spitting on our boys when they return home from Afghanistan and Iraq.

The strange fact that this Maggi woman’s story hasn’t been blasted all over the place, and is difficult to find other than on blogs, might be due, in part, to the fact that there is a reporter, by the same name, Laura Maggi, in the Capital bureau of The Times-Picayune. a Don’t know if it’s the same woman who spit on the soldier by the name of Laura Maggi, though.

Then we have a little discusson about Robert Young Pelton, Iraqslogger dot com, and I refer to this little bit I found at Bluto’s about Robert Young Pelton and that project.

IraqSlogger: Something New or Just More of the Same?

Here’s Bluto on Robert Young Pelton:

The history of IraqSlogger co-founder Robert Young Pelton (apparently, the “RYP” who has been commenting about IraqSlogger at various blogs) isn’t confidence-inspiring, either. In 2002 he told Salon that al Qaeda is a “bogeyman,” and that the 9/11 terrorists were really a “Mickey Mouse operation.”

And he also made this incredible statement:

And basically since the Vietnam War, the military realizes that the press is the enemy, because the press is actually faster and more intelligent than the military is. They can assess a military situation long before the military figures it out.

Pelton has found the reason why so many journalists go on to successful careers as generals. Not.

Now we know why guys like Joe Cafasso, Kathryn Cramer and Robert Young Pelton have reinvented themselves into military analysts; they think they’re smarter than the military, just like John Kerry.

We get cut off when our 15 minutes is up, but I’m sure I’ll have Jack on again. Thanks for spending the time, Jack.

Cao just recorded a new phoneblog, you can click here or on the player below to listen.

Jimmy Carter Jew-Hater, Genocide-Enabler, Liar by David Horowitz at Frontpage Magazine

Radio Blog - I want to install it on my blog. I have to figure out its compability with wordpress.

Chicago Suntimes - put into print-that we beat the Taliban over the past 90 days ? They said that on the radio this morning, but the evidence is clear that this isn’t so. I can’t find a link to this article, so I’m wondering where that came from.

Hekmatyar celebrates

Afghan warlord says insurgent success helped Democrats win U.S. mid-term elections

Iraqslogger dot com, Eason Jordan and Robert Pelton

Correction: Tokyo Rose was a generic name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of approximately one dozen English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda.

During the Vietnam Conflict, we had Radio Propaganda Queen Hanoi Hannah who did regular broadcasts to the U.S: Hanoi Hannah’s actual name was Trinh Thi Ngo. She called herself Thu Houng, “the fragrance of autumn”, but her job was to scare American gi’s and undermine the war effort.

How are you, GI Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what’s going on. (Hanoi Hannah, 16 June 1967)

Cao just left a PhoneBlogz message! And what do you know, Voila! It’s already here!

Click here to listen, or better yet,

click on this fancy flash player !

This is a great way to do audios; when you’re not anywhere near a computer you can still be connected!

A PhoneBlogz message has been left by Cao! click here to listen to it, or click on the fancy flash player to listen! i’m still testing this to see how I like it! What a great way to do a podcast; on the fly!

I came across another great plugin for wordpress, so now I have several plugins to serve the purpose of podcasting and posting mp3 files.

Phoneblogz is unique, though. It’s similar to the old blogger deal where you could call in to a number, and record a voice blog via the phone and then have it published to your website.

The difference is; this isn’t blogger! And I don’t think blogger is offering that service anymore. When a message is left at phoneblogz, a page is requested on my Wordpress site that tells it to check phoneblogz.com for new messages. If any new messages are found, they are posted to the blog.

I didn’t have the blog configured correctly to have the test I just did automatically post. So in another day or three I’m going to try doing this with the automatic post function and see how well that works.

I will be playing around with this, so bear with me as I experiment. I am still not sure if I can get this to post automatically; but if I can, it’ll just be another little bit of fun I’m going to have with the blog, and a little bit of fun you guys can have with listening to quick ten-minute snippets of ME posting audioblogs away from my computer. You may have already noticed I set up a new section here for phoneblogz; and we’ll just see how it goes.

I started with a small package, which will let me record two 10-minute phoneblogz each day, which will probaby be more than I’ll need to start out with.

This guy should really be podcasting, since all the subject matter at his blogspot blog is about podcasting and Melodeo, and he himself had a radio program for seven years online (which must have been one of the first). If you’re going to talk about the technology that enables people to download podcasts to mobile phones, you should be podcasting, methinks!

A PhoneBlogz message has been left by Cao! click here to listen to it! flash movie looks like this: