Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on Saturday, January 28, held out a hand to vanquished Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu
Mazen) for a national partnership serving the welfare of the Palestinian people, asserting that resistance in no way contradicts the political game.
"Our top priority now is consulting with Fatah and Abu Mazen who helped render the Palestinian legislative elections a success to reach
a national partnership," ... " we need each other to serve our people and cause and not to achieve personal gains." Meshaal told a press
conference in the Syrian capital Damascus, two days after his group swept the polls.
Meshaal asserted that the electoral victory came as no surprise to his group, attributing it to "good organization and planning."
Hamas swept the parliamentary elections, winning 76 seats in the 133-seat Palestinian Legislative Council, nearly 57.6 percent of the
seats up for grabs.
Under the law, President Abbas must ask the largest party in the new parliament to form the next government ...
Israeli MP calls for assassinating all newly elected Hamas deputies!!!
Occupied Jerusalem - An Israeli member of parliament has called for the assassination of all newly elected Hamas Movement candidates to the Palestinian Legislative Council elections ... more
Jan 28, 2006, 18:52
If you ever wondered how the Greeks could have dreamed up their mythical
Harpies, the evil half woman half bird creatures, read the story below ...
it's about 8 young Israeli settler women who vent their racist? hate against peaceful Palestinians harvesting olives ...
4 young Israeli women were indicted for attacking Palestinian olive harvesters in the village of
Sinjil, north of Ramallah.
According to the indictment, the 4, who were with another 4 young women that the Palestinian
complainant could not identify, "began to shove the farmers, hit them with sticks and threw stones at them."
An Israeli soldier on duty protecting the Palestinian olive harvesters, tried to intervene, at which point
"the accused Israeli women attacked the Israeli soldier and beat him with their fists."
The women are also accused of pulling the headscarves off the Palestinian women harvesters,
punching one in the face, and taking a walking stick away from an elderly harvester and pushing him.
(Haaretz)
As well as "fortress settlement paranoia" perhaps the observations of Chaim Nardi shed some light on the Israeli settler women's unacceptable behaviour:
Chaim Nardi, a sociologist at Tel Aviv University, links sex-slave trafficking in Israel to machismo attitudes in Israeli society, which he said "allow men to consider women their toy."
"WAR REPRESENTS A TOTAL FAILURE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT"
American television continues to present war as a bloodless sandpit in which the horrors of conflict — the mutilated bodies of the victims of aerial bombing, torn apart in the desert by wild dogs — 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 (which is exactly what war is) or "dishonor" the dead whom we have
just killed.
Don't let us mince our words or change their descriptions or run mealy-mouthed from the truth because viewers, listeners or readers don't want to know or prefer a different version from reality.
Let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall. 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. (adapted from Robert Fisk)
Arik Sharon's much-ballyhooed withdrawal from Gaza left 1.4 million Palestinians in what is
essentially the world's largest prison, condemned to whiling away their lives in a series of disconnected
Bantustans, ghettos and reservations entirely at the mercy of Israel.
That's not peace! As Crazy Horse or Sitting Bull would have recognized at a glance, it's an attempt to
pacify an entire people by bludgeoning them into subhuman irrelevance. Nothing short of genocide
-- for which Sharon's formula was merely a kind of substitute -- would persuade the Palestinian people to
quietly accept such an arrangement ...
(adapted from Saree Makdisi )
A Palestinian boy taking part in a celebration in the Gaza refugee camp of Rafah after Sharon's sudden collapse ...
"Hopefully, the news that the criminal of Sabra and Chatila has joined his ancestors is final," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said ...
Whether you love Arik Sharon or hate him, the incompetency of the doctor that sent him home on a blood thinning drug is not in doubt!!!
It was tantamount to turning a person with weak blood vessels in his brain with the potential to rupture under high blood pressure into a haemopheliac!!!
Perhaps some doctors are playing at being God? It's interesting to note that Arik seems to have got no better result from his medical care than Yasser Arafat ...
The Jews in Israel will tell you they have greened the desert and turned a
land that was being neglected by the Palestinians into a bountiful food bowl ... That is total hogwash!
Palestine was already a bountiful country under the stewardship of Palestinian farmers whereas the Jews
even have trouble making ends meet with donations of up to $3,000,000,000 a year from US taxpayers ...
A luxury the Palestinians never had ... more
Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed a three-year-old girl inside her home in central Gaza,
eyewitnesses and medical sources said.
Rahma Ibrahim Abu Shamas was reportedly inside her home in Dair al-Balah in central Gaza on
Wednesday when a bullet struck her in the head, killing her instantly.
Palestinian sources said Israeli soldiers manning an army watchtower at the nearby colony of Kfar
Darom opened machinegun fire randomly on Palestinian homes around dawn on Wednesday.
An Israeli army spokesman acknowledged the killings, saying soldiers thought that Palestinian
resistance activists were present in the neighbourhood and the army was looking into the "incident".
However, the Israeli-state run radio, Cal Yisrael, said no Palestinians fighters were present in the area
when the shooting took place.
PA security officials in the Gaza Strip condemned the killing, calling it "another hideous crime".
(Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Wednesday 26 January 2005 4:41 PM GMT) The Israeli army and paramilitary Jewish Talmudic settlers have killed more than 650 Palestinian
children and minors since the outbreak of al-Aqsa intifada against the Israeli occupation ... (Click photo for detail) "Imagine how Israel would react if a Jewish child was killed and yet they are killing our children in cold
blood," Abu Muammar, a Palestinian security official in Dair al-Balah, said.
The Israeli army routinely denies its soldiers target Palestinian children.
"the olives commander? did you kill them too?"
In Memory of Iman Al-Hams, shot dead in cold blood at point blank range by an Israeli Defense Force commander ...
One soldier told the Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper : "The company commander approached her, shot two bullets into her, walked back towards the force, turned back to her, switched his weapon to automatic and emptied his entire magazine into her. We were in shock. We couldn't believe what he was doing. Our hearts ached for her. Just a girl of 13."
Other soldiers said if the commander was not dismissed they would refuse to serve under him.
"It is a disgrace that he is still in his position. We want him kicked out."
FULL STORY
Israeli Commander Cleared of Cold-Blooded Killing of Palestinian Girl??? The Israeli army captain "R" accused of riddling Iman Al-Hams body with bullets after he had already shot her twice was cleared by the Israeli Southern Command Military Court of any wrong doing. (Tuesday, November 15, 2005)
"At that point, Captain R, Givati company commander at the Girit outpost close to Rafah on October 5 2004, took the unusual decision to leave the post in pursuit of the girl. He shot her dead and then “confirmed the kill” by emptying his magazine into her body." (The charges against Captain R were dropped when ONE of the soldiers under his command withdrew his testimony ...)
"Although the soldiers who identified the child repeatedly told the captain not to shoot, he chose to do so anyway and then walked away and back again to the child's body for a verification killing. In covering for his captain R, Brigadier General Shmuel Zakai, former commander of the Golani Brigade and considered to be an outstanding man in service to his country, not only perpetuated a lie about the willful destruction of a child's body, but in doing so he put the word of his commanding officer and Commander in Chief General Moshe Ya' alon, in disrespect and jeopardy. General Ya'alon, basing his report upon the word and honor of the commanding officer in charge reported to Knesset that Iman had probably been sent to draw out soldiers for terrorists and that he was satisfied with his officier's report. According to her mother and the reporting soldiers watching her progress, she was on her way to school , got caught in gunfire , panicked and ran in the wrong direction."
Captain R (after killing the girl) ...
"Anything moving in 'the zone', even a three-year-old, needs to be killed"
THOUGHT FOR THE NEW YEAR
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplet of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism is incapable of being conquered."
(Dr Martin Luther King 4th April 1967)
Here's another spark, like a flame in the darkness of a cave ...
Sixteen-year-old Farris Hassan from Fort Lauderdale in Florida did not tell his parents when he used his
savings to buy a ticket to Iraq, arriving in Baghdad on Christmas Day.
Although he does not speak Arabic he says he wanted to write about Iraq first-hand as part of an
"immersion journalism" project.
The guy is brilliant, such spirit, what incredible initiative!!! Well done Farris, if you want Dr Hesham Tillawi to interview you
about your exploit and what lead you to achieve it, please contact him tillawi@currentissues.tv .
After his second night in Baghdad Farris contacted the Associated Press (Bad move Farris!) saying he had come to Iraq to do research and humanitarian work. A staff member of the Associated Press called the U.S. Embassy, which sent U.S. soldiers to pick him up ... (Predictable!)
Farris should have been fêted as a hero, and been given an escort/translator to show him around Iraq ...
Consul-General Richard Hermann says he is pleased the boy (young man)has been safely flown home to his parents (Wasting all the planning, initiative
and money it took Farris to get to Baghdad in Iraq).
"The State Department and the embassy strongly warn US citizens against travel to Iraq, which remains
very dangerous," Richard Hermann said. (Perhaps it is more dangerous for the US government to have young
inquiring US minds speaking to average Iraqi citizens)
Farris was not wasting his money and life on drugs and alcohol, his mother Shatha Atiya should be proud of him.
Shatha Atiya said: "He is very driven and he is very patriotic. He believes in democracy ... He is a member of a Republican Party club at school, and has conservative opinions ..."
Officials at the private Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, where Farris is a junior honors student, threatened to expel him when they heard about his trip ...
Just shows how out of touch with reality those officials are ...
Send a message of support for Farris: SUPPORT FARRIS
Farris Hassan video ... If Bagdhad is as dangerous as
this newscast makes it out to be, how do the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who live in and around the city manage to go about their daily lives without being blown up or shot?
The violence, poverty and lack of normally accepted infrastructure for the working of a big city can
be laid squarely on the shoulders of successive US administrations and some expatriate
Iraqis who have encouraged the US in their folly ... It's not surprising they hide their heads in their "fortress green zone" ...
(download this video to your Pocket PC)
!!!Asmaa Mohamed Ali beaten by Government thugs?!!!
"I was taken blindfolded by people in civilian clothes near a polling station in northern Cairo to an unknown place where I was insulted and beaten by two female thugs till I lost consciousness," an Egyptian journalist said, her voice breaking.
(Asmaa Mohamed Ali works for Cairo's new Al-Karama (Dignity) newspaper) Thugs hired by the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and police have intimidated judges and voters alike in the run-offs of the second phase of Egypt's parliamentary election, which took place on Saturday, November 26, forcing the judiciary to cancel voting in some constituencies.
Some 137 Egyptian judges have supported a written testimony of a fellow judge accusing authorities of "flagrant falsification" of election results, in favor of the NDP.
The third and last round of Egypt's legislative elections turned bloody Thursday, December 1, after security forces killed 1 citizen wounded more than 70 others and blocked thousands of voters from casting their ballot, prompting judges supervising the process to threaten a walk-out.
Judge Abdel Wahid Mohiddin, who monitored voting in the northeastern city of Al-Sharqiya, said he and other voting staffers were locked inside a school used as a polling station.
“Police banned voters from entering the polling station, and fired tear gas cannisters to disperse an angry crowd and deter the judges when they tried to protest the flagrant police interference.
“A meager 90 voters out of a total of 30,000 had cast their ballots in consequence,” he added.
Deputy Attorney General Ahmed Abdel Khaleq had his arm broken when policemen assaulted and kicked him for insisting on being present during vote counting.
Hazem Salah, a court chief, said police only allowed in people carrying NDP IDs, prompting other voters to climb the back walls of the polling station.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch lambasted the US administration's favorable comments on the Egyptian elections, saying the remarks were "utterly disconnected from the reality of what is happening in Egypt today."
The United States Constitution was drawn up to prevent such barbaric acts being perpetrated on US citizens by their government ... It is just as relevant "In times like these" as when it was written ...
Stand behind The Constitution
Below are some articles of amendment to the Unites States Constitution ratified in the time of the founding fathers ...
Do you think the current US government is being faithful to the spirit in which they were drafted?
Article [VIII.]
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Article [VI.]
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime
shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to
be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses
against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the
Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Article [II.]
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Article [IV.]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
(Amendments to the
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PROPOSED BY CONGRESS, AND
RATIFIED BY THE LEGISLATURES OF THE SEVERAL STATES, PURSUANT TO THE FIFTH
ARTICLE OF THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION (See Note 12)
Note 12: The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States (and two others, one
of which failed of ratification and the other which later became the 27th amendment) were
proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the First Congress on September 25, 1789.
The first ten amendments were ratified by the following States, and the notifications of
ratification by the Governors thereof were successively communicated by the President to
Congress: New Jersey, November 20, 1789; Maryland, December 19, 1789; North Carolina,
December 22, 1789; South Carolina, January 19, 1790; New Hampshire, January 25, 1790;
Delaware, January 28, 1790; New York, February 24, 1790; Pennsylvania, March 10, 1790;
Rhode Island, June 7, 1790; Vermont, November 3, 1791; and Virginia, December 15, 1791.
Ratification was completed on December 15, 1791.
The amendments were subsequently ratified by the legislatures of Massachusetts, March 2,
1939; Georgia, March 18, 1939; and Connecticut, April 19, 1939. )
President G W Bush thinks he knows better than 42 US Presidents
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said ...
“There is a valid case that the provisions in this law
undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back
“It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
NO! Mr Bush it's not JUST a goddamned piece of paper ...
It has writing on it that has great meaning to us and probably most of the 42 Presidents of the USA that
came before you ...
Oh and by the way, if you think the document that certifies you hold the office of President of the USA is "just a goddamned piece of paper"
does that invalidate your presidency Mr Bush ? ...
US President George W. Bush admitted on Saturday, December 17, that he had authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to carry out domestic spying without the necessary court warrants ... story Well, as George might say "what's a warrant anyway, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!" ...
what is a sociopath Do you think the following 2 characteristics of a sociopath apply to President GW Bush? ...
1 - At all times restricts the actions and rights of others, especially those holding the sociopath accountable, [Patriot Act?]
2 - whilst aggressively protecting his or her right to do anything without being hampered by social norms or legal requirements [“It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”?]
President of the USA George W Bush told Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel to eat less, work less and exercise more in a phone call Tuesday following Sharon's release from a Jerusalem hospital after treatment for a mild stroke ... excellent advice George, but don't expect Ariel to follow it any time soon ...
NO DEAL - NO WORK!
New York transit workers brought the city to a standstill when they stopped work on
Tuesday afternoon, their first strike since 1980 ... after their leaders voted to
reject the transit authority's contract offer 28-10, with five abstentions ...
Roger Toussaint, president of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, called on New York
Govenor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to play a constructive role in
negotiations and restore state and city funds to the mass transit budget. Toussaint said that state funding has
gone from 20% a decade ago "to zero for capital funding" today
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out at union leaders for "thuggishly" turning their
backs on the city ... "You can't break the law and use that as a negotiating tactic," he said at an afternoon
news conference. "This is unconscionable," ...
Mr Bloomberg, whereas you personally won't suffer one bit from the strike it seems you are prepared to
accept such "unconscionable" working conditions for the New York transit workers that they are driven to the point of putting
their jobs and the welfare of their families on the line to stand up for a "fair go" ... the first time they have
done so for 25 years ...
"I try to put myself in their shoes," Matthew Higgs, a commuter, told the AP. "The only way you can
get what you want is to take a stand. "These guys work every day. ... Why shouldn't their kids have good
health care? Why shouldn't their kids be able to go to college?" ... (AP)
The thin end of the wedge? US workers start to fight back!
First a plane load of Iranian journalists were killed when a military transport plane crashed into a 10-story
apartment building trying to make an emergency landing near Tehran's Mehrabad airport in Iran in
December ...
Now the Head of the ground forces of the Revolutionary Guard, Ahmad Kazemi, and several
high ranking Revolutionary Guard commanders were killed when a Falcon jet belonging to the
Revolutionary Guard crashed near Orumiyeh in northwest Iran on Monday 9th January ...
So the weather was bad, other flights didn't have a problem ...
So there's a lack of spare parts, that doesn't usually present a problem to maintenance ...
If I was Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I would make sure both crashes were investigated with
the utmost thoroughness leaving no stone unturned.
Mahmoud's pure logic
V hysterical hypocrisy?
ISRAELI WAR CRIME
Photo from 6th floor of Gaza Hospital (Lebanon). At the time the Palestine Red Crescent Society ran 13 clinics and 9 hospitals - and the Israelis had selectively bombed and destroyed every single one of the clinics and hospitals - killing patients and killing doctors...
"little child be not afraid"
(Vienna Teng)
ra-MADAN
(Salif Keita)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put a couple of perfectly reasonable arguments to the Europeans:
1 - "You believe the Jews were oppressed, why should the Palestinian Muslims have to pay the price?"
2 - "You oppressed the Jews, so give a part of Europe to the Zionist regime so they can establish any government they want. We would support it"
Germany, who's supposed oppression of the Jews was a driving force in the Jews taking over the Palestinian's lands, was harshly critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements along with Israel who took the chance to repeat calls for referring Iran's nuclear program to the Security Council.
Germany & Israel vie for hypocrite of the year, Israel because it denies it has a nuclear reactor facility that was designed for making nuclear weapons ...
and a history of racially motivated violence!!!
A key witness (BeiruElie Hobeika the Lebanese warlord who led the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians during Israel’s occupation of Beirut) to come forward for the war crimes trial of Ariel Sharon was "blown to bits" before he could disclose revelations about the case ...
Palestinian survivors of the massacre were trying to prosecute Sharon for “crimes against humanity” in Belgian courts, in which foreigners can be tried for human rights violations committed anywhere in the world ...
Chibli Mallat, lawyer for the survivors, said that Hobeika’s killing was an attempt to undermine the case ... (Now who would want that)
"At 4:30pm news arrived at the Gaza Hospital (Lebanon) that Israeli troops had invaded Akka Hospital, nurses had been raped and killed, doctors and patients shot dead."
" ... a 1948 Red Cross report details nearly 250,000 (NOT 6,000,000)
Jews died in Nazi concentration camps but found no evidence of Genocide. This is
in distinct contrast to the figure (of 6 million) touted nowadays by the mainstream media and
portrayed by Hollywood. At the time the Red Cross was a neutral body with no
political axe to grind, so why the difference? And we need to ask ourselves, not
only why there is such a difference in the numbers but also why those who ask
such questions are being silenced?"
"In August 2000, two Zionist lawyers in Germany almost succeeded in winning an injunction against publishers of the Bible in an attempt to redact the words of Jesus because they regarded them as "anti-Semitic". Family Minister Christian Bergmann eventually rejected their application to have the Bible banned or placed on the "dangerous books" list."
(Michael James in Frankfurt, Germany – 14 December 2005)
"Rumors on a possible American deal
stipulating the release of the jailed Fatah leader Marwan Al-Barghouthi in return for
setting free the American Jew Jonathan Pollard, who was accused and convicted with
espionage for Israel, has been unmasked by the Hebrew Ha'aretz newspaper ..."
ISRAELI ORGANISED CRIME IN THE USA PLAY FOX NEWS VIDEO (wait while it downloads)
Dozens of former Israeli commandos have been training Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq, supplying them with equipment worth millions of dollars, Yedioth Aharonot newspaper reported Thursday, December 1.
The Chicago Tribune revealed that the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an attempt to boost the image of the U.S. in Iraq, already tarnished by the repeated scandals involving the attitude and actions of the American forces in the war-torn country ... more
Iraqi resistance forces attacked a car owned by a foreign mercenary “security contractor” on the highway that leads from Baghdad to the southern provinces of the country. The resistance attackers destroyed one of the armor plated cars and killed four of the mercenaries in the ambush. Another two mercenaries were wounded in the attack.
"Look after your Trunk Monkey and he'll look after you"
Video appearing to show private foreign mercenary "security guards" in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet ...
British Foreign Office and the company connected to the video, Aegis Defense Services, have launched investigations into the video.
The video first appeared on the site www.aegisIraq.co.uk which carries the disclaimer that it is not an official site of Aegis, but "belongs to the men on the ground who are the heart and soul of the company." Aegis, which was recently awarded a multimillion-dollar contract by the US government to provide security in Iraq, was started in 2002 by a former Scots Guards officer, Lt. Col. Tim Spicer.
(Pocket PC compatible video) . . . (thanks for the warning Tim)
Hesham Tillawi with Cindy Sheehan distribute supplies from the Michael Moore Hurricane Katrina relief fund ...
In 1771, Sam Adams wrote in the Boston Gazette: "Power makes men wanton . . . it intoxicates the mind; and unless those with whom it is entrusted are carefully watched, . . . . "
Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me ...
the more we take the less we become ...
... a fortune for one man means less for some
Everybody is still asleep, it is impossible to tell Palestinians from Israelis from Internationals.
For the vast majority of Israelis, the idea of spending a night
on a remote hill with Palestinians - is the most frightening proposition possible!!!
For nearly 300 Israelis who spent a night, or more, in the protest camp at Mas'ha,
this is an experience that will change their views forever ...
Holy Man Bush and his Rabbi "See No Evil" "Hear No Evil" Fleischer
Rep. Jack Brooks (Democrat – Texas):
“Instead of operating within rules and law, we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nations. Trading arms for hostages. Involving the U.S. government in military activities in direct contravention of the law. Diverting public funds into private pockets and secret unofficial activities. Selling access to the President for thousands of dollars. Dispensing cash and foreign money orders out of a White House safe. Accepting gifts and falsifying papers to cover it up. Altering and shredding national security documents. Lying to the Congress. Now I believe, that the American people understand, that democracy cannot survive that kind of abuse.”
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran stirs the caldron ...
... Palestine Behind Bars ...
In my distress I cried out to Allah . . . . . . . .
Eagles Allah answered me and put me in a wide open place.
Allah is on my side, I am not afraid! What can people do to me?
Allah is on my side as my helper.
I look in triumph on those who hate me.
It is better to take shelter in Allah than to trust in people.
It is better to take shelter in Allah than to trust in princes.
All the nations surrounded me.
Indeed, in the name of Allah I pushed them away.
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me.
Indeed, in the name of Allah I pushed them away.
They surrounded me like bees.
But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns.
Indeed, in the name of Allah I pushed them away . . .
the single mother from Ghana in Sara McLachlan's video
World on Fire
was inspired by above verses 5 - 12 from Psalm 118 (see the writing on the door to her hut)
(I replaced Yahweh with Allah .. Robert)
The world can be incredibly beautiful, just like us ... why would we want to smash someones father, mother, son, daughter to death or bulldoze their house, or rip out their olive trees ...
enjoy the world around you ... let's help out our mates, and that means everyone ... just wander through the market place, get involved ...
Put individuals before ideologies ... Robert
It takes a very special people to carry on with their everyday lives
in spite of the cruel Israeli blockades and destruction of their towns and cities which makes performing normal everyday activities
a Herculean task ...
No this is not a victim of the recent earthquake, it is an Iraqi girl whose car, house and future were destroyed by US forces
under the command of President GW Bush ...
She's wondering how the people of America could stand by and watch while the guy they made President does such cruel things ...
THANKYOU CONDOLLEEZA :)
Israel finally left the Gaza Strip in mid-September but since then has kept the gates shut to the territory, which has no seaport and a mothballed international airport that was bombarded by Israeli war planes four years ago.
Efforts to negotiate an agreement with Israel for a reopening foundered until the personal intervention of US Secretary of State CONDOLLEEZA RICE, who managed to secure a deal during a visit to the region on November 15.
CONDOLEEZZA DEAL GOES BAD ... Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided that the bus convoys between Gaza and the West
Bank, which were scheduled to start December 15, were not going to be initiated. Although the U.S. “urged”
Israel to make the deal go through, as promised to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Mofaz chose
to revert back to unilateralist policy due to “security concerns.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday, December 6, that the US has admitted it made a mistake in abducting an innocent German national and flying him to a secret prison in Afghanistan for questioning ...
German Khaled el-Masri was seized by the CIA in Macedonia in December 2003, beaten and transported to a secret prison in Afghanistan for interrogation
where he was incarcerated and tortured for 5 months before being released in the mountains of Albania!!!!
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended such operations as a tool in fighting terrorism ...
Your slipping back into the "Kurbel Zone" Condoleezza, where's your humanity woman!!!
ALL ABOUT "MARKET SHARING" NOT "SHARING"?
Thousands of ‘pilot projects’ have been seeded all over the developing world during
the past few years to find out if information and communications technologies (ICTs)
can foster development. Among these are attempts to put computers in
underprivileged schools, provide internet access to the poor, or bring ‘community
radio’ to villages.
Two years ago, as part of a nine-country Asia Pacific study on how ICTs are
influencing human development, I was desperately looking for examples of any
communications technology that has directly benefited the poor. The market-driven
mobile phone phenomenon stood out amidst many donor-driven ‘pilot’ projects that
had either collapsed or never delivered the promise.
The development community, ever anxious to coin more jargon and acronyms, now
has a collective name for these efforts: ICT4D (ICT for development).
I see ICT4D as ‘picture postcard opportunities’ for roving development workers.
There is a seductive allure in images of school children playing with a computer, a
Buddhist monk using a mobile phone, or tribal people trying out a palm-top ... They lull us into believing that we are fixing the world’s ills with geeky gadgets ... (Nalaka Gunawardene, Director of TVE Asia Pacific}
You don't need to know how many seconds it took the imploding World Trade Center 7
to completely collapse to determine if it was in free fall ...
You just need to know if the ratio of the distance fallen between say 2 seconds and 3 seconds divided by the distance fallen between 1 second and 2 seconds is about the same for the theoretical drop as the actual drop ...
AMAZINGLY!!! 80/48=1.666.... theoretical and 50/30=1.666.... measured from the video frames ... a perfect match!!!
Whoever wired up the building gets 10/10 for a job well done ...
Larry Silverstein, the smart New York property developer, who has already built a beautiful shiny new 52 story sky scraper (250 Greenwich Street) on the site of the old 47 story WTC7
tells us the story of the demolition in this VIDEO(PBS/CBS).
Larry, like me, is probably amazed that anyone could possibly think that the demise of WTC7 was anything but a
controlled implosion (wait for download) (video by Controlled Demolition Group Ltd (UK))
If you watch some of their other videos you will see how difficult it is to make a building fall straight down into it's footprint even using a controlled implosion ...
ARTICLE FROM JUNE 2001 - 3 MONTHS BEFORE 9/11 !!!
"Silverstein Properties will control the office portion of the 10.6 million-square-foot (WTC) complex, which includes the 100-story Twin Towers and two nine-story office buildings. Silverstein already owns one of the buildings in the complex, a 48-story office tower built on land owned by the Port Authority, called 7 World Trade Center.
"This is a dream come true," Silverstein President Larry Silverstein said in a statement. "We will be in control of a prized asset, and we will seek to develop its potential, raising it to new and greater heights."
Westfield America will be responsible for the more than 427,000 square feet of retail space in the concourse mall. As for the mall’s tenant mix, Westfield America CEO Peter Lowy said it was too early to say how that would change but noted that the World Trade Center mall could use more restaurants. And while the concourse mall may not have its own defined character and architecture like other centers, Lowy noted that it already has a unique quality as part of the world-renowned World Trade Center complex. The mall, which features Gap, The Limited, J. Crew and Banana Republic, should post sales of about $900 per square foot by the end of this year, according to officials at the Port Authority, making it one of the country’s highest-earning shopping centers.
The agreement represents a special opportunity for Westfield. Port Authority officials estimate that about 200,000 people pass through the mall every day, including the estimated 40,000 who work in the area.
"It’s an amazing amount of people, more than any mall we’ve ever owned," Lowy told SCT. "The key is to have the retailing there that can catch the eye of the commuter and entice them into the store. We will do the job that it demands."
Westfield officials propose adding between 150,000 and 250,000 square feet of retail space to the concourse mall, plus a new entryway, Lowy said.
"Knowing New York City, that might start sometime in the next five years," he quipped.
Silverstein Properties and Westfield America had originally submitted a second-place bid for the World Trade Center lease, trailing Vornado Realty Trust of Paramus, N.J. But negotiations between Vornado Chairman Steven Roth and the Port Authority broke off in March.
During the course of final negotiations, the lease was split into two contracts, with Silverstein agreeing to make lease payments on the office portion, and Westfield responsible for payments on the retail portion, according to Catharine Dickey, vice president of corporate communications for Westfield. Both Dickey and Lowy declined to comment on the amount of Westfield’s annual lease payments.
However, Lowy noted that after an up-front closing cost of $130 million, the current net value of the 99-year lease was $290 million."
(WESTFIELD NABS TRADE CENTER MALL By Donna Mitchell icsc.org)
E = m c2
In a few simple lines you can show that E = mc2 the most celebrated equation of all time. Since the speed of light(c) is an incredibly large number, and its square(c x c) is even larger, this means that even a tiny amount of matter(m) can release a fantastic amount of energy(E). A few teaspoons of matter, for example, has the energy of several hydrogen bombs!!!
"According to the Egyptian police, the explosives used in the attacks on Ras Shitan and on the other resort were entirely different from the material that was used to bomb the Hilton ..."
"This material is highly explosive, has a huge destructive effect, and is very uncommon in Egypt..." There is only one explosive that is "very uncommon" in Egypt ... probably the same explosive that was used in Bali, Jakarta and Beirut ... the fact that no one admitted detecting any radiation and the explosive device was probably small portable and easily concealed would seem to exclude Syria from any blame for the death of Hariri ...
Before Hariri, the last person to be killed in a massive "car bomb?" explosion in Beirut was
BeiruElie Hobeika ...
"The blast was so strong that parts of Hobeika’s body flew 150 feet down the road while one of his bodyguards was blown onto a second floor balcony. Buildings nearby caught fire." BeiruElie Hobeika the Lebanese warlord who led the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians during Israel’s occupation of Beirut had agreed to come forward as a key witness for the war crimes trial of Ariel Sharon but was "blown to bits" before he could disclose promised revelations about the case ...
Palestinian survivors of the massacre were trying to prosecute Ariel Sharon for “crimes against humanity” in Belgian courts, in which foreigners can be tried for human rights violations committed anywhere in the world ...
Chibli Mallat, lawyer for the survivors, said that Hobeika’s killing was an attempt to undermine the case ...
Lebanon’s president, Emile Lahoud, indirectly accused Israel by saying that Hobeika was assassinated by those who did not want him to testify in Belgium. “Why now, after 20 years, does this happen to this person?” he asked
Hariri's death is being used as a weapon against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by Israel ...
Israel is the country who stands to gain by the death of Hariri.
Syria has now been cast as an evil country ripe for regime change by Israel and the USA.
The regime in Syria has enough political savvy to know that assassinating Hariri would be counter productive.
A US investigating committee found that WTC7 collapsed due to fires in the building,
so the credibility of any "investigation" instigated by the current "regime" in the USA is shot ... perhaps the USA and Israel are the countries that are ripe for "regime change"?
Bombs in vehicles do NOT dig holes in the ground, as demonstrated by these 1000lb ammonium nitrate / fuel oil (ANFO) bombs exploding in the back of two trucks ...
PALESTINIAN SUFFERING UNDER ZIONIST RULE On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood;
they even defiled the sanctuary.
Because of them the residents of Al-Quds fled;
she became a dwelling of strangers;
she became strange to her offspring,
and her children forsook her.
Her sanctuary became desolate like a desert;
her feasts were turned into mourning,
her sabbaths into a reproach,
her honor into contempt.
Her dishonor now grew as great as her glory;
her exaltation was turned into mourning.
The Palestinians are today's Maccabees Mr Bush ...
Menorah Lighting Ceremony in White House 6 Dec 2005
"The Judaization policy of Israel in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) will fail. There is now an irreversible trend in the occupied lands, as demonstrated by the intifidah. The intifidah also symbolizes Muslim - Christian unity, a clear indication of the need for a common struggle if the religious, historical and civilization significance of Al-Quds is to be preserved. Both Christian and Muslim states must intensify their support for the Palestinians in their struggle against oppression and usurpation of their land."
If any of the kids in this photo who would now be between 30 and 35 years old survived and recognise Dr Ang Swee Chai who took their photo
in Lebanon in 1982 please contact us and we will pass the message to Dr Ang Swee Chai ...
Dr Ang Swee Chai: "And suddenly a whole lot of children - Palestinian children from every where began to crowd around me, and the little girl said "Doctor can you take a picture of us?" I said "of course I will". "You must take a picture of us now because there is the Shatila camp - tomorrow maybe the camp will be destroyed and there will be no more Shatila, but al least today we are here and you can take a picture and show your friends all over the world this refugee camp and show them we are the children of Shatila". And as I began to focus the camera they decided to put their hands up and make a victory sign and said "and we are not afraid". This picture was taken in October 1982, since then I have been back to Lebanon many times, and each time I go back I carry a copy of these pictures hoping I can find them - of course I never found any of these children. But now looking back I realise they didn't ask me bring the pictures back to them - they said take the pictures and show it to the whole world, to show the whole world how the Palestinian children of Shatila camp were not afraid. So I am showing it to you now."
PRESIDENT RICE?
Questioned about which female candidate she would like to see replace her husband in the Oval Office, the
First Lady replied:
"Well, of course, a Republican woman, like maybe Dr Rice" ...
"I'd love to see her run. She's terrific"
BERLIN, January 4, 2006 – Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, is planning to expand in producing services and products aimed at Muslim clients.
"There is enormous potential for growth since the demand in this area far outstrips the supply," Hans-Juergen Koch, the director of the Swiss branch of the bank, told the daily Boersen Zeitung Tuesday, January 3.
Koch said the services should conform with Islamic law, or Shari`ah, adding that Deutsche Bank had charged its Swiss branch with developing services for Islamic clients as Geneva was, along with London, the main financial market for Muslims in Europe, reported Agence France-Presse ... more
(Man in photos is Prof Norbert Walter, chief economist of Deutsche Bank!)
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