Dive, Dive,Dive!

"Israel fitting nuclear missiles on German-built subs"...so pants CBS with last years news.

Have we got a nuke on board? Oh, fuck it...we'll fire one off at
you know who and see.

(Credit: AP Photo/TARA TODRAS-WHITEHILL)

A Kuwaiti Crime Is? Having An Opinion!

Kuwaiti gets 10 years for Twitter blasphemy!

I was in a wee, sweaty desert day dream. I was
in a free country...like Israel...and my Tweetie finger just
tickled the Tweet launch button...

The written verdict was delivered by Judge Hisham Abdullah. The judge found Hamad al Naqi guilty of: Insulting the Prophet (PBUH), the Prophet’s wife and companions (RA), mocking Islam, provoking sectarian tensions, insulting the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and misusing his mobile phone to spread the comments.

Like a twit, I tweeted a tad too much about...you know...about our esteemed Messenger from Doomsville. You know...that bloke....the founder of our Death Cult Crew. And I suppose I did wander a little down the path of giving the, swirl-on-this you 7th century goons. 

Hm...looks like I've dropped a camel's bollock. Still...as there's no gay fellas in our land of the sweltering sun, I've every confidence that my ass will still be intacted ten years from now. (Twitter Logo:Copyright Control)

I See No Ships!

Where’s the Flotilla to Syria, Eh?

Just another day of death.

So...where's The Left, the bongo band Sisterhood and the Soros sponsored rag-tags of OWS?  WOT? lost your sea legs? Oh...you've only got a Gaza compass! You predictable tossers are such double-dyed hypocrites. 

But what's that I spy hoving too, ship-shape an' Bristol fashion, on yonder dark horizon? Ah...it's a Rusky arms shipment for Assad Jr; and look there, me 'arties. There, off the port bow! I'll give ye gulpers 'o me rum ration if it ain't an Iranian boaty; weighed down to the gunnel's wae all manner o' goodies for Bashar's bonfire. (Photo: Copyright Control)

Arab Like Me: An Honest Perspective...

Arab Hatred Of Israel Is Driver By
Envy And Fear.
by L. Habeeb

There are two kinds of Arabs in this world. Those who hate Jews, and those who don’t. And in my life, I have met more of the former than the latter. I am not proud to say that. Arabs will not like me for admitting it. But it is true. And it is something I wish the Obama administration understood. It is something Americans should know as the “Arab Spring” enters its second year.

I didn’t know much about any of this as a Lebanese kid growing up in New Jersey. But I found out about it when I wrote my first pro-Israel column for my college paper as a young student journalist. I defended Israel on some point I’ve long forgotten, but what I’ll never forget is the backlash I received from fellow Arabs. Some were Americans, others were students from Arab countries, many of whom I counted as friends. I also explained that many of my Jewish friends did not like my column. Most were liberals from New York or northern New Jersey who assumed I was with them on the politics of the Middle East, that I was in agreement with the governing thesis. Not so!

Arabs don’t all look alike or think alike. But we are often pushed into a kind of groupthink, a kind of self-censorship that hinders our development and our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. 

But some of us believe in a simple universal truth: that every Arab deserves to live in freedom, wherever he or she might call home. Some of us want Arab countries to be more like America and Israel, places where the individual can flourish.

Say those words to many Arabs and they are shocked and angered. Soon, words like imperialist are thrown about, and the subject turns to Israel. Always, it seems, it turns to Israel.

Why the anger when I hint that America and Israel might have something to teach the Arab world? I thought about it for the longest time, and only recently stumbled upon the answer.


Arabs fear they will never measure up to America or Israel. 
It is all about Arab self-doubt. It is all tied to a profound lack of cultural self-confidence, and a deep-seated fear that maybe, just maybe, Arabs won’t be very good at the self-governance thing. That Arab nations won’t be capable of building democratic cultures that engender the flourishing of human freedom, and that these nations won’t have the ability to tap the God-given talents of their people the way Americans and Israelis do.

Better, goes the logic, to cling to anger over the plight of the Palestinians. Better to cling to international policy disputes and to a deep-seated hatred of Israel. Better to play the role of victim, and the role of self-righteous critic, than to do the hard work of lifting up the conditions of your people.

An Arab American friend of mine who works for a large NGO is a case in point. He is Jordanian, he’s well educated, and he speaks five languages. But mention the word Israel, and watch his blood boil immediately. He will go into a lengthy diatribe about the injustices perpetrated against the Palestinians by Israel. When Prime Minister Netanyahu’s name is mentioned, I worry that he will have a seizure on the spot.

Fear and Envy:

Why is this? Why is all of his passion, all of his anger and rage, directed at this one country, this one people? Why is it not directed at Syria, I ask him? By all accounts, the Syrian government orchestrated the assassination of one of the Arab world’s great men of peace, former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri. And President Assad continues to terrorize his own people.

Why not at Hezbollah, which orchestrated the takeover of Lebanon? Why not at Hosni Mubarak when he was in power? Or Saddam Hussein? Why not at the ways in which Islam degrades women in the Middle East, trapping them in a life of servitude? Why not at the ways some Muslims are persecuting Christians throughout the Middle East, as reports pour in about atrocities upon atrocities? Why not a critique of the Koran itself, which regrettably finds little separation between mosque and state, thus relegating the majority of Arabs to life under theocratic regimes?

To the dismay of Arabs around the world, Jewish people turned an ancient piece of real estate in the Middle East into a thriving oasis of intellectual, political, religious, and commercial activity, where people are free to do as they please. One of the oldest places on earth — a place where Abraham walked — Israel is as thoroughly modern as any place on earth, with a functioning government that respects religious and economic freedom.

A young person in Israel can choose to work in some of the best high-tech companies in the world, or can pursue a life dedicated to Talmudic studies. A woman has an equal right to pursue any career she likes, and people of different sexual orientations are not driven underground — or worse.

The fact is, the God-given talents of the people of Israel are allowed to flourish in ways Arabs should want to emulate, and replicate.

Benjamin Netanyahu once gave a speech in which he pointed at a map of the Middle East. He rattled off many of the countries in the region, and the relative size of those nations to Israel. Jordan is four times the size of Israel, Iraq 20, Egypt 46; Saudi Arabia is nearly 90 times the size of Israel. “Big countries,” he said. “But small accomplishments.”
He then went on to describe Israel, which is just slightly bigger than one of America’s smallest states, New Jersey. “Little country,” he concluded. “But big accomplishments.” And there you have it, in one perfectly formulated binary.
Today, Arabs are at a crossroads. The “Arab Spring” is an opportunity like none the region has ever seen. The people who live there are no more or less capable than the people of Israel or the United States. But it is up to them to build functioning democracies, and a culture that breeds and rewards hard work and success. It is up to Arabs themselves to take advantage of their newfound freedom, and unleash the productive capacities of their people.
Countries aren’t built on spite and hate, but on love, trust, shared sacrifice, and hard work. Maybe, just maybe, Arabs in the Middle East will be so busy working, yearning, and striving to make their own lives better that they will have little time left to burnish old grievances.
(C) L.Habeeb.(Photos: Copyright Control)

Is Doris The $ Yesterday's Gal?

Citigroup Launches Yuan Bank Accounts In London!

Sorry babe: You're yesterday's gal...
I'm trading you in for ma new hottie, Yuan.

With yet more news on the forward march of the Chinese yuan: Citigroup has just announced that it will offer customers of its London branches yuan-based bank accounts, for the first time ever.

It won’t be long before you see the same thing happening here in the United States: Bank accounts offered in Chinese yuan. You may not need one or want one, but that’s not the point. The point is simply this: The forward march of the yuan is occurring at a very rapid pace. Indeed, in the past several weeks, we have seen:
— Chinese banks get the green light to open branch offices in the U.S.
— Taiwan cut the U.S. dollar out of the middle in its trade with China
— London’s major banks enter into a joint effort with Beijing to make London a major yuan trading center
— Japan and China sign a deal to trade yuan directly, eliminating the U.S. dollar as an intermediary
And now, Citigroup offering yuan-denominated bank accounts in London. We’ve even seen the International Monetary Fund and our own Treasury Secretary Geithner officially back Beijing’s bid to make the yuan a reserve currency. This is all part and parcel of an evolutionary process that will see the U.S. dollar eventually lose its role as the world’s reserve currency. (C) Larry Edelson

THAT Soda V Bam-Pot Bloomy!

The Center for Consumer Freedom is fighting back against York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal, announced Thursday, to ban sugar-sweetened drinks more than 16 ounces in size from restaurants, movie theaters and a variety of other venues in the city.

Who the fuck's Bloomberg?

Politicians will never get it. You can't legislate for all the 6 brain cell, thicko folk out there...and you will never stop them stuffing a Mack Truck Burger with everything down their drain pipe three times a day. Can they ever be educated in the hunter/gatherer department? Nope. But a touch of the genetic modification, creating a rampant desire to deep throat a stock of celery might just do it. (Photo:Copyright Control, Getty) 

Law Enforcement? Obama's Beyond Belief!

If you agree that the police and other law enforcement agencies should understand the doctrine of jihad, how jihad motivates acts of terrorism and that they should be versed in who the Muslim Brotherhood is…its history… its goals…leaders… and affiliated organizations in America. And are you concerned that political correctness is too often keeping this vital information from law enforcement professionals?

Photo: Copyright Control)

The Obama administration insists that our sole enemy is “al Qaida.” As a result, the administration is purging every reference to radical Islam, such as jihad, from its counterterrorism threat assessments and training materials! 
Act for America  have a solution: by bringing all the relevant information together onto one new web site! It’s called “The Thin Blue Line Project.” and you can read all about it and get involved by clicking the link below 
http://www.actforamerica.org/