Archive for October 23, 2006
Pearlstein, Philip, Mr and Mrs Edmund Pillsbury, 1973.
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
“Nearly 50 per cent of Americans believe that a glorious Second Coming is imminent, and some of them are doing their damnedest to bring it about. But Dawkins could have told us all this without being so appallingly bitchy about those of his scientific colleagues who disagree with him, and without being so theologically illiterate. [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
OUTSOURCING (thanks Mouin)
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
“Gulf Arab states are giving up on America” (Don’t bet on it).
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
Hajj Isma`il. Who would have known. Abu Mazen, we read, has brought back Hajj Isma`il (Jabr) from retirement, and appointed him chief of all PA security forces in West Bank. He was previously dismissed from his position in a token campaign against corruption. Those of us who lived through the Lebanese civil war, knew of [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
“An Israeli-American man pleaded guilty to calling in a bomb threat to the Long Beach Airport after he arrived too late to board his flight, authorities said.” (If he was Arab, he would already be in Guantanamo).
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
This is quite hilarious in fact. You read this blasting headline about “an American” report in this Israeli newspaper. You read further and discover that the “American” report was issued by none other than the research arm of the Israeli lobby. This is like the Saudi government citing the Saudi embassy in Washington, DC. Hilarious.
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
“The return to government of Avigdor Lieberman, who has called for Israel’s borders to be redrawn to exclude its Arab citizens, signals a more hawkish policy.” (If the excluded group is non-Arab, the Guardian would have called it racist not “hawkish” policy.)
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
“Despair of Baghdad turns into a life of shame in Damascus: Young women fleeing war and poverty fall prey to sex traffickers“
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
Alexis de Tocqueville: “The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise. . . . They unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
My past connections with the North Korean government. When I was 7 or 8, the Lebanese government recognized the North Korean government. The latter government quickly established an embassy in Beirut, and bought an entire building in Ramlat Al-Baydah for that purpose. It also bought whole pages in Lebanese newspapers (especially in the leftist, Arab [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
Do you see pictures of Muhammad Bradi`i (spelled Baradeeieieieieie in the Washington Post) with Condoleezza Rice? Does his smile not bother you? It bothers me a lot. And when you see him with Rice, does he not look like he is about to bow down and shine her shoes? Really. And did he not get [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
“”It is just a waste of time. You cannot have dialogue with someone shooting at your head,” said Mohamed Haidar, 48, a British-based financial consultant prominent in London’s Lebanese community, who was in Lebanon during the war.”
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
I have not posted elaborately on the new decision by King `Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to form a special committee for bay`ah (acclamation) of future kings and crown princes. It is clear, and opinions among Saudi dissidents agree, that the King is asserting his authority vis-a-vis the Sadayri brothers. But the new committee does not [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
I have posted on the Mecca declaration before. It reflects the insensitiveness and fanaticism of the House of Saud. In its first article of the Declaration for example it says that “the blood of Muslims, and their money and honors are prohibited on you.” So the fanatical clerics assembled by House of Saud have no [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
Dharfur groupies. I know that rich kids need safe causes so that they can feel good about themselves, and their parents can pretend that their kids are doing good for the world, and most importantly, they can list work-for-a-safe-cause on their resume. It used to be “send-buckets-of-tears” to women in Afghanistan, and I am noticing [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
“QUESTION: Do you have any comments on the remarks made by Mr. Alberto — Alberto Fernandez and how does the State Department and you feel about the — what he said?MR. MCCORMACK: Well, I think he himself addressed it. He originally told his colleagues that he had been misquoted. He went back and looked at [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
“The United States (53rd) has fallen nine places since last year, after being in 17th position in the first year of the Index, in 2002. Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext of “national security†to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his “war on [...]
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad
Press Freedoms Wordwide:The rankingN°CountryScore1Finland0,50-Iceland0,50-Irland0,50-Netherland0,505Czech Republic0,756Estonia2,00-Norway2,008Slovaquia2,50-Switzerland2,5010Hungary3,00-Latvia3,00-Portugal3,00-Slovenia3,0014Belgium4,00-Sweden4,0016Austria4,50-Bolivia4,50-Canada4,5019Bosnia-Herzegovina5,00-Denmark5,00-New-Zealand5,00-Trinidad and Tobago5,0023Benin5,50-Germany5,50-Jamaica5,5026Namibia6,0027Lituania6,50-United Kingdom6,5029Costa Rica6,6730Cyprus7,5031South Korea7,7532Greece8,00-Mauritius8,0034Ghana8,5035Australia9,00-Bulgaria9,00-France9,00-Mali9,0039Panama9,5040Italy9,9041El Salvador10,00-Spain10,0043Taiwan10,5044South Africa11,2545Cape Verde11,50-Macedonia11,50-Mozambique11,50-Serbia and Montenegro11,5049Chile11,6350Israel12,0051Japan12,5052Dominican Republic12,7553Botswana13,00-Croatia13,00-Tonga13,00-United States of America13,0057Uruguay13,75….
Posted on October 23, 2006 by As'ad