It was supposed to be a formal and solemn proceeding carried out by a dispassionate state. But the grainy recording of the execution’s cruel theater summed up what has become increasingly clear on the streets of the capital: that the Shiite-led government that assumed power in the American effort here is running the state under an undisguised sectarian banner.
It left the impression that the government cared more for revenge than for justice, Sunnis said.
“Either it’s terrible incompetence or it’s an act of revenge — a vendetta,” said Adnan Pachachi, a respected Sunni whose political career began long before Mr. Hussein took power. “That was the impression people had.” NY times
He remained with his composure till the very end , in spite of the circus atmosphere, who were these people? and did it take half a dozen masked men to explain to him how he was going to die? Anyone that looked at the video can tell he was taunted.
"God damn you," a guard said.
"God damn you," replied Saddam.
Saddam appeared to smile at those taunting him from below the gallows. He said they were not showing manhood.
Then Saddam began reciting the Shahada, a Muslim prayer that says there is no god but God and Muhammad is his messenger, according to an unabridged copy of the video clip, which was posted on a website.
Saddam made it to midway through his second recitation of the verse. His last word was Muhammad. Then the floor dropped out of the gallows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVx1lkhaldY
Al-Jazeeera
December 30, 2006, 5:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
This was announced by US-backed TV al Hurra and Iraqi state television. He was 69.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Saddam Hussein, Died Well but forgot to live Free
Furor CNN offers Watch US troops getting shot or killed . On Demand.
Christians are in a tizzy over this, wonder how many churches they will burn down! It's all part of freedom of the press, although I would have it another classification, the family rating was a bit much .
Chase Bank is sponsoring this special on video CNN obtained from the Islamic Army of Iraq
it shows US troops getting shot at, or killed, on demand ! under the category "Family", this should make great watching for the kids, who need a break from the video games, especially if you have a relative serving in Iraq you just might watch him shot by insurgents, courtesy of Chase Bank and CNN. Michele has the story, first reported by Return of Conservatives.
Death for New Years in Bangkok
Whisper of Peace
In an apparent gesture to Syria, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday he is open to "any whisper of peace" from Israel's enemies. "The state of Israel is open to any whisper of peace from our neighbors and across our borders," he said. Cox & Forkum
1,500 in Minneapolis protest ouster of Sharia government in Somalia
What are 1,500 supporters of Islamic jihad and Sharia law doing in Minneapolis? What are the implications of this for our own national security? Why is no one with any power or influence even asking these questions? by jihadwatch
Iraqi Wife ..Happy Eid and Happy New Years...
Saudi Arabia Bars Bible-Bearing Flight Attendant
Friday, December 22, 2006
S W I N E
Beneath a picture of the president, a series of apparently sympathetic statements were arranged such as "Support his fight against Bush" and " Iran has the right to produce nuclear energy". The advert was attributed to "Danes for World Peace".
However, the first letters of each phrase, when read from top to bottom, spell out "S-W-I-N-E".
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Eight Marines charged in Haditha killings
By Dan Whitcomb
CAMP PENDLETON, California (Reuters) - The U.S. military charged four Marines on Thursday with murder and four others on related charges in the November 2005 deaths of 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
Ahmadinejad: Iran now nuclear power
Yaakov Lappin Published: 12.20.06, Iran is now a "nuclear power," its President, Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, declared Wednesday, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency .
In recent days, the US military has begun to build up forces around the Gulf, in what is being seen as as a warning to Iran.
"Today, it is the United States, Britain and the Zionist regime which are doomed to disappear as they have moved far away from the teachings of God," he said in a speech in the western town of Javanroud. "It is a divine promise."
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Pakistan Bans Spencer's Book
Robert Spencer's latest book, "The Truth About Muhammad," has been banned in Pakistan.
"The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion," published by Regnery (a HUMAN EVENTS sister company), was pulled off shelves after it was found to contain "objectionable material" about Islam's founder, according to a notification obtained by the Kuwait National News Agency.
The Pakistani government has confiscated all copies and translations of the book.
Worry About OPEC
The dollars they are getting for their oil now buy fewer pounds to spend in Harrods, and fewer euros to spend on the necessities of life in the south of France. Worse still, the dollars they have already accumulated are declining in value
To protect against further declines, the oil producers are diversifying out of dollars and into other currencies, most prominently euros and Japanese yen. The central banks of the members of the OPEC cartel cut their dollar-holdings from 75 percent of total reserves in 2001, to 67 percent at the end of the first quarter of this year, and again to 65 percent at the end of the second quarter.
Weekly Standard by Irwin Stelzer
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Reading Shakespeare has dramatic effect on human brain
Research at the University of Liverpool has found that Shakespearean language excites positive brain activity.
Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb. Researchers found that this technique allows the brain to understand what a word means before it understands the function of the word within a sentence. This process causes a sudden peak in brain activity and forces the brain to work backwards in order to fully understand what Shakespeare is trying to say.
By throwing odd words into seemingly normal sentences, Shakespeare surprises the brain and catches it off guard in a manner that produces a sudden burst of activity - a sense of drama created out of the simplest of things." read all here ......
The End of Dollar Supremacy
Iran announced yesterday ordering the central bank to direct foreign transactions and transform the state's dollar-denominated assets held abroad to the single European currency instead of the U.S. currency. "The government has ordered the central bank to replace the dollar with the Euro to limit the problems of the executive organs in commercial transactions," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters.
"Some banks abroad are also willing to go Euro in dealing with us and there is no problem if some others want to do business in other exchanges based on their preference," said governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), adding that the country's FRF stands at $ 10 billion, indicating a 35 percent growth over last year.
It has been said that he who holds the gold makes the rules.
Will other oil producing countries in the Middle East, members of The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), follow the suit?
A switch by OPEC members from the U.S. currency to the Euro could enhance the value of the Euro, the new official currency of the European Union (EU) which first came into existence on Jan. 1, 1999, further, ending the U.D. Dollar supremacy.
Haniyeh Urges Factions to Stop Fighting
blames US for gov't failure; six killed, dozens wounded in clashes Tuesday.
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Monday, December 18, 2006
From the Funny to the Obnoxious
Y.A.A.F.M. 12: MUSLIMS
Reginold takes on the Muslim Cartoon Controversy... this one is gonna hurt!
Looking for controversial and outrageous stuff this one got top the list
Do not watch if you are easily offended.....
Dirty Blues
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Blues being a part of our Un-deniable culture which affects everything from Rock and Roll to the Rap that is heard today. I decided to post this piece of history because most of you have not ever heard a piece of the real funky blues . Give it time to load , it's worth it*
Miami's Home Grown Terrorism on the Rise
A 17-year-old girl was shot to death Sunday when gunmen in a passing car sprayed the front of a home with bullets, North Miami Beach police said. Detectives said at least 25 bullets were fired from an assault rifle. The teen becomes the latest victim in a bloody year, which has claimed the lives of almost 30 people in Miami-Dade who are 18 or younger.
BY ALDO NAHED
Hey Iraqi wife and you thought this only happens in Bahgdad?
Iraqis Victims of Violence...
Mass abductions Aid workers seized in Baghdad
Iraqi Red Crescent Spoke Too Soon?
During a United Nations meeting in Geneva on Friday, Dr. Jamal Al-Karbouli, the vice president of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, had told a gathering of reporters that “the main problem we are facing is the American forces more than the other forces.
The American military, he said, had been consisitently using overly aggressive tactics — what he even referred to as “attacks” — in searching the agency’s headquarters for insurgents. But the insurgents themselves had never given the Red Crescent any trouble.
“The insurgents, they are Iraqis, a lot of them are Iraqis, and they respect the Iraqis,” he told reporters. “And they respect our (the Red Crescent’s) identity, which is neutrality.”
By Tom Zeller Jr.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
France has said it will withdraw
US politicians meet Cuban officials
by Al-jazeera
Raul Castro, the interim leader of Cuba, has signalled a possible change in his communist country’s foreign policy by suggesting talks with the US to end years of tensions between the two countries.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Al-Qaeda’s Strategy and Struggles
Documents released by Special Operations Command through West Point's Combating Terrorism Center reveal some of the struggles of post 9/11 al-Qaeda. Also revealed is the strategic goal, or "end game" for al-Queda:
The documents show al-Qaeda is committed to waging a holy war against "dictators of the Earth and secular groups" that will end only when "everyone believes in Allah."Well, there you go. And of course, that means "by any means necessary". It also means that those who refuse to "believe" will be summarily killed. Fairly simple, fairly straight forward, and something which should remove all doubt as to what the west faces in the WoT.
USA Today
Worry Grows Over Terrorists Attacks
Fatah Has Declared war on Allah, Trouble in Palestine
Hamas escalates its internecine feud with Fatah to jihad. Dozens injured in rival Palestinian gunfights in Ramallah and Gaza as Abu Mazen and his Fatah are accused of “declaring war on Allah.” December 15, 2006, 8:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas leaders said Friday: “Abu Mazen and Fatah have declared war on Allah. Whoever joins them is a shahid.”
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Authorities Probe Foreign Student Seeking Commercial Truck-Driving HAZMAT License
NEW YORK — Mohammed Yusef Mullawala wanted a license to transport hazardous materials and to learn how to drive commercial tractor trailers. There was nothing unusual about that, until he told his teacher that he only wanted to learn how to drive forward, and he wanted to learn fast......
Mullawala, a 28-year-old citizen of India who is of Pakistani descent, is now in federal custody in Massachusetts on immigration violation charges....
By Liza Porteus
Scores of Baghdad business kidnapped by heavily-armed gang as US senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman visit Green Zone
Debka December 15, 2006, 12:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
Around 100 gunmen in police uniforms brandishing rifles and Glock pistols issued by the US military to Iraqi forces went from shop to shop Thursday, Dec. 14, stealing cash and seizing hostages. The two influential senators called for another 15-30,000 troops to be sent to Iraq.
If Israel Falls, the West Follows
Saul Singer is Editorial Page Editor and author of the weekly column “Interesting Times” for the Jerusalem Post.
In particular, many people seem not to buy the analogy with Hitler and the 1930s, in terms of the nature of Iran's threat to world peace.
Hitler did not have the potential of leading a billion people, but the Iran/Hezbollah/Hamas/Al Qaeda axis could conceivably come to dominate a billion Muslims. Hitler also never managed to build nuclear weapons; Iran could.
Unfortunately, it seems the West is waiting for a major disaster or deterioration of the situation before rising to its own defense, as if 9/11 and subsequent attacks were not enough.
The irony is that the West has many ways to win, while has Iran has only one: Depending on the West volunteering not to defend itself.
Washington Post
Israeli Economy Sees Record-Breaking Positive News
The Israeli economy has seen a series of record-breaking positive statistical indicators in 2006. Bank of Israel economists credit ex-Finance Minister Netanyahu with the 2003-4 economic revival.
read it all.Israel National News
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Famous Quotes
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)
"In the end, everything is a gag."
- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone (1899-1947)
"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."
- Gloria Leonard
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."
- Revelations 6:8
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
- Irving Kristol
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"a single blow must destroy the enemy...without regard of losses...a gigantic all-destroying blow..............." Adolf Hitler,
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. —Mikhail S. Gorbachev
In Our Hearts . . .
. . It remains
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
U.S. List Of Friends Being Bakerized ?
A Lebanese Girl Blogger Speaks Up from her Vantage point
My country is being torn apart like Lego blocks. Some select fuckheads who think they can decide for the fate of a whole country, a whole people, a whole section of the globe, are playing a game of Risk on my country.
read it all here .. Rasha
Guerrillas Guerrilla'd
posted by Mustapha
Monday, December 11, 2006
A liar, a thief, a rapist, and a murderer. That’s not a man. Take it away.
Response to Kofi Annan’s farewell speech
While Kofi Annan is admittedly not a rapist or murderer, he is a liar who may have knowingly tolerated theft, murder (genocide in Darfur and Rwanda), and child rape during his tenure as Secretary-General. He is not anything that a decent person would recognize as a man, and it is high time for him to be taken away as well.
It's Up To Bush
Baker à la Carte How Bush will pick and choose from the 79 varieties of recommendation.
It's all up to the president now. But as the James Baker-Alan Simpson Steel Wheels tour and vaudeville act drags on and ultimately passes into well-deserved oblivion, the problems that they failed seriously to address will remain.The Baker group and many of Bush's advisors have failed the president. It's up to the commander in chief now. by Robert Kagan & William Kristol
Syria is expanding its long-range missile manufacture and anti-tank rocket deployment on Golan
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Feelings Hurt
A Q&A with Al-Jazeera Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Sheikh:
Q: Do you mean to say that if Israel did not exist, there would suddenly be democracy in Egypt, that the schools in Morocco would be better, that the public clinics in Jordan would function better?
A: I think so.
Q: Can you please explain to me what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has to do with these problems?
A: The Palestinian cause is central for Arab thinking.
Q: In the end, is it a matter of feelings of self-esteem?
A: Exactly. It’s because we always lose to Israel. It gnaws at the people in the Middle East that such a small country as Israel, with only about 7 million inhabitants, can defeat the Arab nation with its 350 million. That hurts our collective ego.
Those numbers should give pause to those who think Arab states to be the underdogs in this particular conflict. thanks to Tim B and WorldPoliticsWatch
Even If We Leave Now, We'll Be Back
The Coming Of Gulf War III By David Rothkopf
Strategic redeployment. Phased drawdown. Exit strategy. However one phrases it, Washington seems to be turning a page in the story of Iraq..it seems quite possible that a Democratic president may be the one compelled to wage the Third Gulf War.
What plausible scenarios could draw even a war-weary United States back into the Middle East, into a Gulf War III? Clearly, the confrontation with Iran -- over its regional policies, support of terrorists and desire to acquire nuclear weapons -- tops the listThe Iranian threat is magnified because it could trigger an arms race for a "Sunni bomb" to offset the "Shiite bomb." What if Jordan, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia fell into fundamentalist hands? Washington Post
CoxAndForkumSaturday, December 09, 2006
Few Take Ahmadineajad's Warning to Repent Seriously
Read Big Al's letter to Americans on CNN here
The context of this particular verse (28:67-28, Sura "Al-Qasas," or The Narration), is very clear. It follows a graphic description of destruction and devastation that will befall those who fail to repent of their injustice.
It also sets out the terms of the tradition Muslim warning to the enemies of Allah. "And never will your Lord destroy the towns until He sends to their mother town a Messenger reciting to them Our Verses." This is precisely what Ahmadinejad is doing in his letter.
Dump Bush, allow the Muslims to destroy Israel, and adopt Islam — or else you will be destroyed. This is Ahmadinejad's message.
Islamofascist allegedly plans to bomb U.S. shopping mall
BY NATASHA KORECKI Staff Reporter
A Muslim convert who talked about his desire to wage jihad against civilians was charged Friday in a plot to set off hand grenades at a shopping mall at the height of the Christmas rush, authorities said. …”He fixed on a day of December 22nd on Friday … because it was the Friday before Christmas and thought that would be the highest concentration of shoppers that he could kill and injure,” said Robert Grant, the agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office.
I am from America, and this tape is to let you guys know, who disbelieve in Allah, to let the enemies of Islam know, and to let the Muslims alike know that the time for jihad is now...be strong, oh Mujahideen...May Allah protect me on this mission we conduct...so do not cry, do not mourn for me,” he said, according to the FBI affidavit.
Posted by Bill Levinson @ 8:43 pm
Casino Fatale
Cox and Forkum
to the people over at C & F thanks for link on your front page, guys, that's forkum great!
Thursday, December 07, 2006
The Peace Of Islam
...............this piece has been made all the more timely with yesterday’s release of the Iraq Study Group Report which counsels, among other things suicidal and asinine, cooperation with Syria and Iran—cooperation with two of the powers profiting from and responsible for the ongoing carnage in Iraq. If the peace we were seeking was the peace that the mullahs or Muqtada al Sadr were interested in, there would be no Mahdi Army, there would be no Iranian shape charges piercing the armor of U.S. assault vehicles and humvees, there would be no Syrian-trained insurgents. These very simple facts have nonetheless escaped this, to be sure, considerably compensated committee of esteemed…diplomats and lawyers. And naturally, anything that reeks of U.S. defeat and debasement has all the little media vultures swarming and squawking breathlessly as if James Baker had just come down from the mountain to deliver this last, best chance of putting an end to the Iraqi quagmire—the catch is it means surrendering to our enemies. Peace with our Islamic foes, the only peace which they will countenance, is our explicit surrender—and liberals seemingly have no problem with this because in the meantime they can bask in a little temporary fame and renown as bringers of peace—temporary because soon it’ll be time to act surprised when the next catastrophe occurs—then the next demands when come, followed by the next concessions and bit by bit, and piece by piece, we will have made ourselves over in their image out pure cowardice and finally we will be at peace. We will accept our slavery gracefully and we will call it peace. by....... D.T Devareaux
Pearl Harbor 65 years Ago
But five years and counting after 9/11, there is no victory in sight. There is not even much clarity about why we are fighting, or whom we are fighting
Robert Gates’ reference to an Israeli nuclear weapon was synchronized with Baker’s exclusion of Israel from a Mid East conference
The pair is pursuing a new policy line which sacrifices the traditional US-Israeli alliance for the sake of wooing Iran, Syria and Iraq’s neighbors for help in Iraq. During his senate hearings, Gates confirmed - and indirectly justified - Iran’s quest for a nuclear weapon by declaring that the Islamic republic Iran wants the power of deterrence against “the nuclear countries surrounding them – Pakistan in the east, Russia in the north, Israel in the west and the United States in the Persian Gulf.” DEBKAfile.
Olmert refuses to recognize Washington’s policy reversal on a nuclear Iran
DEBKAfile
Cox and Forkum Unconditional Appeasement Then and Now
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by Forkum
But with today also being the 65th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, I couldn't help but recall, and be inspired by, an article in the latest Objective Standard that I linked to earlier this week: "No Substitute for Victory": The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism by John Lewis. In this excellent, must-read essay, Dr. Lewis compares today's approach to war with that of the 1940s. Here's another excerpt:In 1945, Americans knew that there was truly "no substitute for victory," as General MacArthur said in his farewell speech to Congress. In 1945, Americans also knew the meaning of "victory." In other words, continued FDR: We have learned that if we do not pull the fangs of the predatory animals of the world, they will multiply and grow in strength . . . [they] must be disarmed and kept disarmed, and they must abandon the philosophy which has brought so much suffering to the world. The CNN headline captures the essence: Bush tells Iran, Syria how they can join Iraq talks.
Bush Expresses Caution on Key Points in Iraq Panel’s Report
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and KATE ZERNIKEPublished: December 7, 2006
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — President Bush moved quickly on Thursday to distance himself from the central recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group: pulling back all combat brigades over the next 15 months and direct talks with Iran and Syria.
The report also called for the United States to open negotiations on stabilizing Iraq with Syria and Iran – a proposal advanced last month by Mr. Blair in a major policy speech.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Exclusive Video Interview With Hezbollah Agents
This thanks to NO PASARAN! we have rare footage of actual interviews with detained Hezbollah operatives who describe their activities within civilian population centers during the war.
To say they are interesting would be an under statement see for yourself . Interview Part I Interview PART II and finally Part III
Somalia Town Threatens to Behead People Who Don't Pray 5 Times Daily
A Very Funny Prank !
Someone decided to pull a prank on a telemarketer and recorded the conversation and is sharing it with us, Very funny stuff.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
WHAT TO DO IF A NUCLEAR DISASTER IS IMMINENT!
This guide is for families preparing for imminent terrorist or strategic nuclear attackswith expected severe destruction followed by widespread radioactive fallout downwind.
In a national crisis of imminent nuclear weapon attacks, read all the way through this guide first,
THEN TAKE EFFECTIVE PROTECTIVE ACTION WITH CONFIDENCE... FAST!
The only reason thinking a nuclear attack won't happen because it hasn't happen yet
US Prison Pop. Increasing By More Than 1000 Per Week
In US Increasing By More Than 1000 Per Week
A record seven million Americans - or one in every 32 adults - were behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of last year, according to the U.S. Justice Department. From 1995 to 2003, inmates in federal prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth.Once again, the moUS retains its title as the world's most prison-crazy nation, holding onto first place in both prisoners per capita and total number of people imprisoned.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Chávez easily wins a new term
CARACAS - President Hugo Chávez won his third presidential bid in eight years on Sunday, defeating career politician Manuel Rosales and boosting his ''21st Century Socialism,'' which includes widespread social projects, increasing relations with countries such as Cuba and Iran, and diminishing relations with the United States.
'US won't launch preemptive strike against Teheran'
by YAAKOV KATZ The chances of an American strike are deemed "low," according to assessments by the security establishment. Israel also believes that international diplomatic efforts to stop Iran will fail, security sources said.
Don't bet the farm on it Yaakov, Americans can rally behind a cause when it begets them, The White House Press Secretary said No Invasion of Iraq was imminent , or do you think we going to drop flyers first like the IAF did in Lebanon?
Arab citizens viewed as 'security threats' at airports ! Ever Wonder Why ?
Read the entire article here
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Symposium: China: Time Bomb Walking
As President Bush met with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the White House this week, the issue of China’s rise as a global superpower took center stage. Serious concerns are mounting in Washington in regards to China’s increasingly aggressive global posturing.
read it all here...
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Castro's Cuba
This clip is satirical and has nothing to do with the middle east except it's possible that Chavez
a US hater is aligning himself with Tehran and plans to bring the Cubans on board to a possible replay of a variation of the Cuban Missile crisis.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
French government officials estimated that Iran would reach the "point of no return" in its nuclear program spring 2007, in approximately five months
For more of Montes Cartoons go to his web site wolvertooon.com Sunday, November 19, 2006
French government officials estimated that Iran would reach the "point of no return" in its nuclear program spring 2007, in approximately five months
Iran issues death fatwa on Azeri writer
The call on Muslims to murder Rafiq Tagi, who writes for Azerbaijan's Senet newspaper, echoes the Iranian fatwa against Indian writer Salman Rushdie.
It was issued by the conservative Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Fazel Lankarani.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Iraqui Wife Reports From the Front on Pres Bush visit to Iraq
Iraqi wife reports from the front lines...on Bush visit
Papa Phobia In Turkey ?
Pope Benedict XVI, who arrived in Turkey on Tuesday, was shuttled around in a heavily armored limousine while a second, decoy limousine was reportedly deployed to confuse would-be assassins.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The Hairy Nosed Wombat Summarizes...it in 30 seconds
Please turn your speakers On and Listen! this thanks to Yoism.org
Click ..here or here or here ....to see this message from the Hairy Nosed Wombat
Why is it ? Americans Just Can't Seem to Keep A Good Secret !
...And the Highest Bidder is China....
