Money As Debt - 47 min - Feb 12, 2007 Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ...all » Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States.

Michael Moore message

Friends,

Everyone said the bill would pass. The masters of the universe were already making celebratory dinner reservations at Manhattan's finest restaurants. Personal shoppers in Dallas and Atlanta were dispatched to do the early Christmas gifting. Mad Men of Chicago and Miami were popping corks and toasting each other long before the morning latte run.

But what they didn't know was that hundreds of thousands of Americans woke up yesterday morning and decided it was time for revolt. The politicians never saw it coming. Millions of phone calls and emails hit Congress so hard it was as if Marshall Dillon, Elliot Ness and Dog the Bounty Hunter had descended on D.C. to stop the looting and arrest the thieves.

The Corporate Crime of the Century was halted by a vote of 228 to 205. It was rare and historic; no one could remember a time when a bill supported by the president and the leadership of both parties went down in defeat. That just never happens.

A lot of people are wondering why the right wing of the Republican Party joined with the left wing of the Democratic Party in voting down the thievery. Forty percent of Democrats and two-thirds of Republicans voted against the bill.

Here's what happened:

The presidential race may still be close in the polls, but the Congressional races are pointing toward a landslide for the Democrats. Few dispute the prediction that the Republicans are in for a whoopin' on November 4th. Up to 30 Republican House seats could be lost in what would be a stunning repudiation of their agenda.

The Republican reps are so scared of losing their seats, when this "financial crisis" reared its head two weeks ago, they realized they had just been handed their one and only chance to separate themselves from Bush before the election, while doing something that would make them look like they were on the side of "the people."

Watching C-Span yesterday morning was one of the best comedy shows I'd seen in ages. There they were, one Republican after another who had backed the war and sunk the country into record debt, who had voted to kill every regulation that would have kept Wall Street in check -- there they were, now crying foul and standing up for the little guy! One after another, they stood at the microphone on the House floor and threw Bush under the bus, under the train (even though they had voted to kill off our nation's trains, too), heck, they would've thrown him under the rising waters of the Lower Ninth Ward if they could've conjured up another hurricane. You know how your dog acts when sprayed by a skunk? He howls and runs around trying to shake it off, rubbing and rolling himself on every piece of your carpet, trying to get rid of the stench. That's what it looked like on the Republican side of the aisle yesterday, and it was a sight to behold.

The 95 brave Dems who broke with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd were the real heroes, just like those few who stood up and voted against the war in October of 2002. Watch the remarks from yesterday of Reps. Marcy Kaptur, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Dennis Kucinich. They spoke the truth.

The Dems who voted for the giveaway did so mostly because they were scared by the threats of Wall Street, that if the rich didn't get their handout, the market would go nuts and then it's bye-bye stock-based pension and retirement funds.

And guess what? That's exactly what Wall Street did! The largest, single-day drop in the Dow in the history of the New York Stock exchange. The news anchors last night screamed it out: Americans just lost 1.2 trillion dollars in the stock market!! It's a financial Pearl Harbor! The sky is falling! Bird flu! Killer Bees!

Of course, sane people know that nobody "lost" anything yesterday, that stocks go up and down and this too shall pass because the rich will now buy low, hold, then sell off, then buy low again.

But for now, Wall Street and its propaganda arm (the networks and media it owns) will continue to try and scare the bejesus out of you. It will be harder to get a loan. Some people will lose their jobs. A weak nation of wimps won't last long under this torture. Or will we? Is this our line in the sand?

Here's my guess: The Democratic leadership in the House secretly hoped all along that this lousy bill would go down. With Bush's proposals shredded, the Dems knew they could then write their own bill that favors the average American, not the upper 10% who were hoping for another kegger of gold.

So the ball is in the Democrats' hands. The gun from Wall Street remains at their head. Before they make their next move, let me tell you what the media kept silent about while this bill was being debated:

1. The bailout bill had NO enforcement provisions for the so-called oversight group that was going to monitor Wall Street's spending of the $700 billion;

2. It had NO penalties, fines or imprisonment for any executive who might steal any of the people's money;

3. It did NOTHING to force banks and lenders to rewrite people's mortgages to avoid foreclosures -- this bill would not have stopped ONE foreclosure!;

4. It had NO teeth anywhere in the entire piece of legislation, using words like "suggested" when referring to the government being paid back for the bailout;

5. Over 200 economists wrote to Congress and said this bill might actually WORSEN the "financial crisis" and cause even MORE of a meltdown.

Put a fork in this slab of pork. It's over. Now it is time for our side to state very clearly the laws WE want passed. I will send you my proposals later today. We've bought ourselves less than 72 hours.

Yours, Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com MichaelMoore.com

List of Names who bought Phony Degrees

My friend Omaro from #Palestine (MIRC - Dalnet) told me about this, here is a list of people who bought Phony Degrees online LOL.

Diploma mill degree recipients

Almost 10,000 people spent $7.3 million buying phony and counterfeit high school and college degrees from a Spokane diploma mill. The complete list of buyers, which the U.S. Department of Justice has refused to release to the public, has been obtained by The Spokesman-Review and published July 28.

READ MORE HERE

(HELPPPPP) Blogger Spacing Problem

Salam, 2 years ago I did something to my Blogger to be able to migrate it to my own domain. Now I have this spacing problem, each time I blog anything the formatting disappears and the whole post is condensed into one big paragraph. Anyone know how to fix that? HELP

LESSONS LEARNED (by Mazin Qumsiyeh)

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LESSONS LEARNED

RANDOM LESSONS LEARNED FROM 15 Years of activism by Mazin Qumsiyeh Everything that happens in life is exactly as it is supposed to happen. Our free will gives us the ability to react to it in different ways. That is freedom which no one can take away from us. Further, watch carefully these things that happen in your presence for it is sometimes the prepared mind that captures the opportunities that are presented to us. I cannot count the times (in the thousands) where I found success by paying attention and following the clues left for us (by God or fate or mere chance) You can sometimes learn far more from someone who never finished high school (e.g. Bill Hill who drives the Wheels of Justice bust tour) than from a president of a university or a governor. Change is good. Life is good. The two are inseparable. Some people can take away our jobs, our family members, our friends, our homes, our lands, our belongings and much more but as long as we do not get infected with their hate and fear, we will continue to love and be content and hopeful. In this lies the fact told by many philosophers that secrets of our happiness is within us not in those ephemeral things that happen to us. You can think those who do evil things are guided by evil forces (Satan) or you can think they are guided by their own upbringing and circumstances. In either case if you reflect rationally on the causes of their actions and cannot convince them of the errors of their ways then what can justify hating them or fearing them. Isn't that the only real way they can harm you and rattle your tranquility. Corollary: things and events and people cannot make me lose tranquility or happiness.. only I can do that! No person is worth more than any other. Some people are more fun and far more worth hanging around with (to me) but this is due to my own circumstances and life. Just like if you have food and do not share with those who need it, it is also with having "wisdom". But it is always wise to remember to be humble and that the old teachers taught us well only when we wanted to learn. There are really very few people who know how to live with love. Love makes them act in courage and speak truth to power. These are the teachers we should learn from. Some people can eat a tortured lamb while treating their cats and dogs better than children are treated. Others go pray in a church to the prince of peace (Jesus who asked us to love our enemies) and then drop a 1000 pound bomb on a city obliterating hundreds of lives. We could cite hundreds of other such things that make good material for stand-up comedy (or drama). But my responsibility is to reflect on my own behavior. Strive to live life free from hypocricy, envy, self-indulgence, jeolousy, vanity, and frivolty. When given a chance to eat good food- do it When given a chance to drink good drinks- do it When given a chance to dance- do it When given a chance to have fun- do it When given a chance to help others- do it when given a chance to do all the other things that life gives us to do (love, share, laugh, etc), do it! As the sages wrote "eveyone dies but not everyone lives" so live life to the fullest. Activism is the best antidote to despair. A good friend is great to have. A good spouse and a good child also. Having a spouse and a child who are also best friends and confidants are gifts beyond words. A million dollars can make some men feel poor while a few essential belongings or a good meal can make another feel rich. Thus it is not what I have but how I feel about what I have. No one and no comfort or pain can make me feel as happy or as unhappy as I can make yourself. It is all under my ultimate control. Correct your errors, repent (and if harmed others provide correct recompense and apology) and then forgive yourself. If you are able to do that and understand your circumstances then why would you ever think ill of anyone else. To quote Howard Zinn "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." Howard Zinn (You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A personal history of our times, p. 208) Don't take yourself too seriously :-) Having many good friends that you can trust with your life (and vice versa) means you have learned to be a true friend and that you have learned to let go of your ego. There is evil and goodness in all human traditions and strains of thought (e.g. Judaism, Christianity, Western Civilization, socialism, capitalism). If we learn to look honestly at each thing on it own and not on the box it was contained in at one time, we will not be in the least bit harmed but be enriched by the knowledge. An old saying in the fight against segregation in the South was "free your mind and your ass will follow". Shakespeare wrote: "assay the power within you, our fears make traistors of us all" Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote: “Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.” The highest purposes in life is doing our duty as human beings, part of this social network of human beings. That is why doing something good for another should n=be its own reward. Looking for and receiving thanks and recognition actually diminishes the goodness of the act. When tempted by our petty egos to do that, it is best to remember that these things do not add one thing to what you gave. When death comes and afterwards, all these things will be forgotten only the ripple effect of the actual action might persist. First do no harm, second, third.. and last do no harm. In between do some good. A touch or a tear is far more powerful than any statement in expressing the emotion behind it. Do not thus be afraid to let your emotion express itself in the best way it can. Most of us are more scared of our abilities than disabilities. We are scared of success more than of possible failure. Failure is used an excuse but it is only a lesson. We can do far more than what we even imagine if have courage (in its true decent sense). Many of these lessons were available to me as child if I chose to see how for example my grandfather lived. It is the nature of things that we absorb things with age and only fully understand them when the ripeness of time and with other experiences they come to to the forth and become clearer (just like a binoclar focuses on an a fuzzy objects in the distance). Making many mistakes is the price of learning. It is for a good reason that many religions and traditions hold patience and hope as the highest virtues (ofcourse when accompanied with doing what you are able to do). For the alternative vices of impatience and dispair only lead to destruction. Further, patience and hope are virtues associated with freedom because the outside world can enslave us only if we internalize our external difficulties and exude the negative. Negative waves can only be countered with positive ones. Those who support racism (though think of themselves as not racist) and those who support war crimes (though they justify it in their mind) need to be challenged with facts and figures but if they chose to remain where they are then we should neither assign blame to them or to us for failing to convince them. They are like patients who refuse to recognize their illness or its treatment, they are only to be looked it with compassion. This is true even when those people try all sorts of techniques to cause us harm. For again, they can only alter the circumstances external to us and if we are well grounded, they cannot cause us any harm (a real harm is one that I can only inflict on myself by accepting that which I claim to reject). Others may hate me, despise me, be jeolous of me but these things should only concern me if they are based on a real defect in my behavior. In that case, that should not distress me since I could/should correct such defects. If they are not based on real defects, then that also should not cause me distress. Similarly, some may love me and admire me. If that is based on real good characters in me then why should that please me. Isn't having good character a reward in itself. And if they are mistaken then also why should that please me? Do not seek the convoluted explanations. Sometimes the simple ones and the first ones are more correct. That is Occam's razor. It applies also to your thinking about others and their behavior. Make sure to increase your love and diminish your hate. Increase your kindness and diminish your selfishness. Increase your hope and decrease your scepticism. This will make you live better. Real change and the one that is most significant is what happens within us. Change in our circumstanced is of far less importance. Because of this it is also true that people can change circumstances of other people but only people themselves can affect the more important change within ourselves. For those who were there along our path and whose actions helped us reach the correct internal change, our debt is great. As the Buddhists say: let us work to "have joyful participation in the Sorrows of this world". Doing our duties and expecting nothing in return other than the privilege of participation IS our path to joy. Make sure you make your life a good journey; the destination is dust! Let us contemplate our lives and always strive for maximum humility. What I do not like about others, they may not like about me. As a scientist, I believe there is no certainty in anything. In fact, the defintion of scientific hypothesis (e.g. that there is gravity, that the earth is spherical, that speciation by evolution occurs) is that it is FALSIFIABLE. So if someone asks me if I have considered that what I think of this or that matter maybe entirely wrong, the answer is: yes! Maximum objectivity is not equivalent to maximum certainty. The only people absolutely certain of their positions are actually those who lead us to wars, oppression and destruction.

كيف تتلذذ بالصلاة - مشاري الخراز

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم "ألم يأن للذين آمنوا أن تخشع قلوبهم لذكر الله وما نزل من الحق" برنامج كيف تتلذذ بالصلاة؟ للداعية الشاب مشاري الخراز، يهدف البرنامج إلى بيان سبل الرُقي و السُمو في عبادة الصلاة، سوف تتغير صلاتك للأفضل بإذن الله عند مشاهدتك لكافة حلقات البرنامج

To all my peeps outside Kuwait, You have to check this brother out, he is amazing, I actually witnessed one of this lectures live. Very well put and a great topic. He started at Kifan Mosque, then was upgraded to the Grand Mosque because the crowd was overwhelming. During Ramadan he is in Kuwait TV1, I kept asking for his DVD, he is new and doesn't have them YET. A fellow Blogger posted about him and his show at youtube. Here is the link to his shows: كيف تتلذذ بالصلاة - مشاري الخراز Here is Mishary Al Kharraz site

Thank you article to Expats in Kuwait from a Kuwaiti citizen

أنا كويتي.. وأنت وافد الأربعاء 20 أغسطس 2008 - الأنباء

ذعار الرشيدي كم نحن عنصريون، خمسون عاما وهم يعملون معنا ويشاركوننا بناء بلدنا ولم نقل لهم شكرا، نصف قرن أفنى غالبيتهم زهرة شبابه يعمل ويذهب صباحا إلى عمله الذي يعود في النهاية نفعه أيا كان حجمه في دائرة تنمية البلد، تزوجوا هنا وأنجبوا أولادهم هنا، حتى أن أولادهم اعتقدوا أو يتملكهم اعتقاد أنهم كويتيون، وهم فعلا كويتيون بالمولد، لم نكن لنقفز هذه القفزات الكبيرة خلال خمسين عاما لولا أنهم جاءوا إلى بلدنا وشاركونا البناء والتعمير والتأسيس. خمسون عاما وهم في جميع القطاعات الحكومية والخاصة، مهندسون وأطباء وصيادلة ومحامون وعمال وميكانيكيون وأساتذة جامعة ومدرسون وطباعون وبناءون ومقاولون وبائعو فاكهة وخضار وملابس وفنيون واستشاريون بل وحتى «طقاقات» وبائعات في سوق «واجف». خمسون عاما عانوا مما عانيناه وربما أكثر، فعندما استيقظت الحكومة يوما وأرادت أن تعدل التركيبة السكانية لم تضرب على أيدي تجار الإقامات ولكنها توجهت إلى الوافدين ووضعت قيودا وشروطا عليهم وعلى أقاماتهم ووضعت التأمين الصحي على أدمغتهم «ذلك التأمين الذي لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع»، فلكي يعيش أحدهم مع زوجته وثلاثة من أطفاله عليه أن يتحمل تأمينهم الصحي وتكاليف إقامتهم بمبلغ يفوق الحد الأدنى لراتبه رغم أنه لا توجد حدود دنيا للرواتب في الكويت ولم تحدد يوما، وكأن الحكومة عندما أرادت أن تكحل التركيبة السكانية أعمت عيون الوافدين، كانوا ولا يزالون الحلقة الأضعف والطريق الأسهل لأي قرار أرادت به الحكومة تعديل أخطاء تجار الإقامات من المواطنين الذين يتحملون المسؤولية الكاملة عن كل أخطاء التركيبة السكانية منذ عام 1980 وحتى اليوم. بدلا من أن تضرب الحكومة على أيدي تجار الإقامات، ضربت الوافدين بقرارات جعلت البلد أقرب إلى بلد من المغتربين العزاب. 50 عاما والوافدون يأتون ويرحلون، يبنون ويعمرون ويشاركوننا العمل والبنيان، ولم تتكون لدى العامة من المواطنين فكرة سوى أن هؤلاء الوافدين جاءوا بحثا عن الدينار وكأن المواطن ملاك منزّل لا يأكل ولا يشرب ولا يبحث عن الدينار «ألم نقم الدنيا ونقعدها وحُل مجلس أمتنا الماضي بسبب 50 دينارا؟». في نظرة أخرى للوافدين نقول عنهم «جاءوا ليشاركوننا لقمة عيشنا ويأخذوا وظائفنا»، رغم أن دستورنا كفل لنا التعليم والصحة والتوظيف وهم «يا بخت» من يجد منهم وظيفة بالكاد تسد رمقه حتى آخر الشهر. 50 عاما وأغلبهم سمع هذه الجملة «أنا كويتي...أنت وافد... هذي ديرتي»، نفس عنصري عالي النبرة، ونسينا أن من يلوح لنا بالعلم الأحمر في الطريق أثناء الإصلاحات به كحماية وتنبيه لنا هو وافد يقف في عز الظهيرة بينما نحن نستمتع بهواء مكيف سياراتنا، ونسينا أن من علمنا ودرسنا وافدون ومن بدأ حركتنا الفنية من الوافدين ومن أسس صحافتنا «الحديثة» وافدون، ومن عالجنا وافدون، ومن أعلى البنيان هم من الوافدين. 50 عاما واستكثرنا خلالها حتى أن نقول لهم شكرا. من القلب شكرا لكل وافد جاء أو عاش في هذا البلد حتى ولو لم يفعل سوى أن دق مسمارا في لوحة إرشادية على جانب طريق مظلم.

3-F-Y

Back in the states I used to sleep the minute my head touched my pillow and wake up around 5 AM. In Kuwait I still fall asleep as fast, but I wake up like 2 to 4 times at night, I check on the kids, drink water, watch some TV, check my email..... I think this has to do with a lot of issues. 1- Mentally, I'm not in peace with my self as I used to. 2- Dealing with people, in the stats people are more forward and direct with you. Here I have to deal with morons & bullies, I usually take the high road and move on. 3- Work is consuming most of my energy, I'm working my ass off and trying to establish a good base for my career, it kills me to see people around me slack off and get away with murder, and no one can say or do something about it. I have made a pack with myself to stick with it for 3 years and then things should look better. It has been one year so far. The funny thing at work people are happy with me because of my hard work, but I'm not because I always have to look the other way and occupy myself with my work so I dont get in trouble. Was I in the states? I would be screaming my lung off 24/7. God bless the US. So, to help me survive my job I have created a motto: 3-F-Y Yupe, 3 F. Years.

Bored!

Hello people, Although I won't be blogging as often, I would be using this blog to blow some steam. Wow, I have developed thick skin from living among Arabs. My driving skills has become more aggressive. I'm not as social as I used to be, as a matter of fact I try to avoid going out, I can't stand teenagers, traffic and "ignonts". I have been here for over a year now, things are moving slowly.. Did I make the right decision moving out of the states?! I think so. Are the kids Happy? although they enjoy mingling with their cousins, they still say the states is better, I don't blame them. Any plans to go back? not before 2010. This is the funniest thing I heard since I moved here, it a conversation between me and a close friend in the states: Me: Whats cracklackin baby? Abdullah: hey man, when are you moving back? Me: not before 10 years. Abdullah: why? it only takes 7 years to clear your credit! LOOOOOL OK maybe not as funny to you, but it made me laugh. Omar's first day at KG was yesterday. So what's up with the Arab stock Markets? is it because of Ramadan? Why do people stop working in Ramadan?! I think we are enslaving Indians. OK, as you can see I'm so bored, will write when I have something good to post about. Peace out peeps.

Guess who is back?

HONEY I'M HOOOOMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Radio Hoax Reveals US Anti-Muslim Sentiment

In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent Fri Dec 1, 9:05 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters)- When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly. The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him and added: "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country ... they are here to kill us." Another said that tattoos, armbands and other identifying markers such as crescent marks on driver's licenses, passports and birth certificates did not go far enough. "What good is identifying them?" he asked. "You have to set up encampments like during World War Two with the Japanese and Germans." At the end of the one-hour show, rich with arguments on why visual identification of "the threat in our midst" would alleviate the public's fears, Klein revealed that he had staged a hoax. It drew out reactions that are not uncommon in post-9/11 America. "I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL (http://www.wmal.com/), which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland "For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people's bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver's license on their passport or birth certificate is disgusting. It's beyond disgusting. "Because basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen ... We need to separate them, we need to tattoo their arms, we need to make them wear the yellow Star of David, we need to put them in concentration camps, we basically just need to kill them all because they are dangerous." The show aired on November 26, the Sunday after the Thanksgiving holiday, and Klein said in an interview afterwards he had been surprised by the response. "The switchboard went from empty to totally jammed within minutes," said Klein. "There were plenty of callers angry with me, but there were plenty who agreed." Click here to read the entire story Thanks to Intifada Boy & Yahoo News Peace

Banat & Shabab Amman

Salam,

Here are 2 funny posters of Banat ew Shabab Amman.

Peace

Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do

Sunday, November 26th, 2006 Friends, Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II. That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad. And we haven't even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to took us to sweep across North Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the South Pacific, and liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3 and 1/2 years, even take over a single highway and protect ourselves from a homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-minute ride. And that doesn't even include a friggin' helmet. Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That's because no amount of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever going to "win" the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a right to be won, lost because it was started by men who have never been to war, men who hide behind others sent to fight and die. Let's listen to what the Iraqi people are saying, according to a recent poll conducted by the University of Maryland: ** 71% of all Iraqis now want the U.S. out of Iraq. ** 61% of all Iraqis SUPPORT insurgent attacks on U.S. troops. Yes, the vast majority of Iraqi citizens believe that our soldiers should be killed and maimed! So what the hell are we still doing there? Talk about not getting the hint. There are many ways to liberate a country. Usually the residents of that country rise up and liberate themselves. That's how we did it. You can also do it through nonviolent, mass civil disobedience. That's how India did it. You can get the world to boycott a regime until they are so ostracized they capitulate. That's how South Africa did it. Or you can just wait them out and, sooner or later, the king's legions simply leave (sometimes just because they're too cold). That's how Canada did it. The one way that DOESN'T work is to invade a country and tell the people, "We are here to liberate you!" -- when they have done NOTHING to liberate themselves. Where were all the suicide bombers when Saddam was oppressing them? Where were the insurgents planting bombs along the roadside as the evildoer Saddam's convoy passed them by? I guess ol' Saddam was a cruel despot -- but not cruel enough for thousands to risk their necks. "Oh no, Mike, they couldn't do that! Saddam would have had them killed!" Really? You don't think King George had any of the colonial insurgents killed? You don't think Patrick Henry or Tom Paine were afraid? That didn't stop them. When tens of thousands aren't willing to shed their own blood to remove a dictator, that should be the first clue that they aren't going to be willing participants when you decide you're going to do the liberating for them. A country can HELP another people overthrow a tyrant (that's what the French did for us in our revolution), but after you help them, you leave. Immediately. The French didn't stay and tell us how to set up our government. They didn't say, "we're not leaving because we want your natural resources." They left us to our own devices and it took us six years before we had an election. And then we had a bloody civil war. That's what happens, and history is full of these examples. The French didn't say, "Oh, we better stay in America, otherwise they're going to kill each other over that slavery issue!" The only way a war of liberation has a chance of succeeding is if the oppressed people being liberated have their own citizens behind them -- and a group of Washingtons, Jeffersons, Franklins, Ghandis and Mandellas leading them. Where are these beacons of liberty in Iraq? This is a joke and it's been a joke since the beginning. Yes, the joke's been on us, but with 655,000 Iraqis now dead as a result of our invasion (source: Johns Hopkins University), I guess the cruel joke is on them. At least they've been liberated, permanently. So I don't want to hear another word about sending more troops (wake up, America, John McCain is bonkers), or "redeploying" them, or waiting four months to begin the "phase-out." There is only one solution and it is this: Leave. Now. Start tonight. Get out of there as fast as we can. As much as people of good heart and conscience don't want to believe this, as much as it kills us to accept defeat, there is nothing we can do to undo the damage we have done. What's happened has happened. If you were to drive drunk down the road and you killed a child, there would be nothing you could do to bring that child back to life. If you invade and destroy a country, plunging it into a civil war, there isn't much you can do 'til the smoke settles and blood is mopped up. Then maybe you can atone for the atrocity you have committed and help the living come back to a better life. The Soviet Union got out of Afghanistan in 36 weeks. They did so and suffered hardly any losses as they left. They realized the mistake they had made and removed their troops. A civil war ensued. The bad guys won. Later, we overthrew the bad guys and everybody lived happily ever after. See! It all works out in the end! The responsibility to end this war now falls upon the Democrats. Congress controls the purse strings and the Constitution says only Congress can declare war. Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi now hold the power to put an end to this madness. Failure to do so will bring the wrath of the voters. We aren't kidding around, Democrats, and if you don't believe us, just go ahead and continue this war another month. We will fight you harder than we did the Republicans. The opening page of my website has a photo of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, each made up by a collage of photos of the American soldiers who have died in Bush's War. But it is now about to become the Bush/Democratic Party War unless swift action is taken. This is what we demand: 1. Bring the troops home now. Not six months from now. NOW. Quit looking for a way to win. We can't win. We've lost. Sometimes you lose. This is one of those times. Be brave and admit it. 2. Apologize to our soldiers and make amends. Tell them we are sorry they were used to fight a war that had NOTHING to do with our national security. We must commit to taking care of them so that they suffer as little as possible. The mentally and physically maimed must get the best care and significant financial compensation. The families of the deceased deserve the biggest apology and they must be taken care of for the rest of their lives. 3. We must atone for the atrocity we have perpetuated on the people of Iraq. There are few evils worse than waging a war based on a lie, invading another country because you want what they have buried under the ground. Now many more will die. Their blood is on our hands, regardless for whom we voted. If you pay taxes, you have contributed to the three billion dollars a week now being spent to drive Iraq into the hellhole it's become. When the civil war is over, we will have to help rebuild Iraq. We can receive no redemption until we have atoned. In closing, there is one final thing I know. We Americans are better than what has been done in our name. A majority of us were upset and angry after 9/11 and we lost our minds. We didn't think straight and we never looked at a map. Because we are kept stupid through our pathetic education system and our lazy media, we knew nothing of history. We didn't know that WE were the ones funding and arming Saddam for many years, including those when he massacred the Kurds. He was our guy. We didn't know what a Sunni or a Shiite was, never even heard the words. Eighty percent of our young adults (according to National Geographic) were not able to find Iraq on the map. Our leaders played off our stupidity, manipulated us with lies, and scared us to death. But at our core we are a good people. We may be slow learners, but that "Mission Accomplished" banner struck us as odd, and soon we began to ask some questions. Then we began to get smart. By this past November 7th, we got mad and tried to right our wrongs. The majority now know the truth. The majority now feel a deep sadness and guilt and a hope that somehow we can make make it all right again. Unfortunately, we can't. So we will accept the consequences of our actions and do our best to be there should the Iraqi people ever dare to seek our help in the future. We ask for their forgiveness. We demand the Democrats listen to us and get out of Iraq now. Yours, Michael Moore www.michaelmoore.com mmflint@aol.com ---

Your Vote Needed at CNN website!

Salam, Here is the story about Muslims being kicked out for praying. Airline checks claim of 'Muslim while flying' discrimination POSTED: 10:42 p.m. EST, November 21, 2006 MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- US Airways said Tuesday it is investigating the removal of six Muslim imams who were passengers on a Monday flight heading to Phoenix, Arizona. Read more..... There is also a poll asking you to vote: QUICK VOTE Which statement best sums up your reaction to six imams being removed from a plane because of nervous passengers? Muslims should expect closer scrutiny. X Non-Muslims should be more understanding. Your vote is needed. We are loosing 31% to 69% Peace

I'm not on iToot :-)

I like this banner, Once I'm done with migrating to wordpress I'm gonna add it to my new (not good enough for iToot) Blog. Thanks Gr33n Data & Ha Ana Za! Peace

How to start your own blog (in Arabic)

Salam, For those who speak Arabic and not very good in English here is how to start your own blog. http://bmadvice.blogspot.com/

Peace

امتحان شهادة الدراسة الثانوية العامة لعام 2006-2007

اسم الطالب: والله لنطلعك ناسي اسمك صورة الطالب الشخصية: الفرع: علمي علمك التاريخ: 01/01/2006 المبحث: اللغة العربية هذا الامتحان برعاية كوكاكولا ملاحظة: اجب عن الأسئلة التعجيزية التالية و عددها ( 6 ) إجباري و ( 1 ) اختياري على أن يكون مجموع الأسئلة (7) ملاحظة: هذه الأسئلة لا علاقة لها بمسابقة - مـن سيـربـح المـلـيـون – لذلك تمنع مساعدة الصديق أو أي وسيلة أخرى (بضم الهمزة. السؤال الأول (20 علامة) قال كاظم الساهر معبرا عن مشاعره و أشواقه، وواصفا محبوبتة : 1- نزلت للبحــــر تتشمـــس الحلــــوة رفقــــا بالبشـــر بنــت حــــــــوا 2- نـزلت لبحــــر يا محــــلا مشيتـــها أنــــا و البـحـــر (نـتـمنى لمســــتـهـا) 3- موسيـقى بـيتـهـوفن عيــني يا ضـحكـتـها غزالــة عــالرمل (و بدلــع تتـلـــــــوى) 4- عـروس و تـريـد أمـي و سـيـدة لـبـيــتـي و علـى أيــدك أريــد اخــتـم عـزوبــتـي 5- أنـا قـصـدي شريـف و صـادقـة نـيـتـــي سكـتـي و السكـوت مــن الـرضـا هـــــو الأسئلة: 1-اشرح الآبيات الخمسة الأخيرة فقط من النص بما لا يقل عن 90 سطرا باختصار شديد (9 علامات) 2- لماذا أكد الشاعر على القصد الشريف و النية الصادقة ، و علام يدل سكوت المحبوبة؟ (3 علامات) 3- أعرب ما تحته خط إعراب دبكات، و ما بين قوسين إعراب فيدو كليب (3 علامات) 4- استخرج من البيت الثالث صورتين فوريتين مبينا نوع الكاميرا (3 علامـات) 5- ما هي صفات العروس التي تريدها ام الشاعر (2 علامـة) مساحة خالية للإعلان- ت: اثنين صفر وثلاثة خضر --------------------------------- السؤال الثاني ( 8 علامات) أعط أسباب ما يلي مع شرح وافي (إذا ما لقيت وافي، سمير ماشي حاله) : 1- تم نقل السوق المالي إلى سوق السمك ؟ (2 علامـة) 2- إقبال المشاهدين على قناة الجزيرة الإخبارية؟ (2 علامـة) 3- إغلاق شبكة الأخبار PNN بعد زواج شارون ستون ؟ (2 علامـة) 4- أسباب اندلاع الحرب بين ..... ما فيش فرق، اختر أي حرب، ماهو انت راسب راسب ؟ (2 علامـة) *** أخي الممتحن أقلب الصفحة: والله لتندم عالساعة اللي خشيت فيها المدرسة *** السؤال الثالث –اختياري- (5 علامات) اكتب الاسم المستوفى من السؤال ما اسم عم إيزابيل الذي هجرها في الحلقة السابقة من المسلسل المكسيكي الذي عرض يوم السبت ورد ذكره في مسلسل كاساندرا أيضا ؟ (5 علامــات( _________________________________________________________________ فاصل إعلاني: اشتري عبوة سير يلاك و اربح علبتين بامبارز مجانا العرض ساري حتى نهاية الامتحان _______________________________________________________________ السؤال الرابع (8 علامات) ورد في التلفزيون السوري دعاية "رقائق أبو اللبن" للمخرج فواز جابر: " عبالك اوزي، تنتين بتعوزي، عيار الرز و اللحمة مفرومة يا سوزي، بازيلا صنوبر و رشة بهار...." الأسئلة 1- اذكر وصفة الطعام المختلفة التي وردت في كافة دعايات "أبو اللبن" و "ساراميكس" (4 علامــات( 2- اضبط بالبهارات ما تحته خط (2 علامـــة) 3- أين تجد رقم هاتف سوزي في دليل هاتف يأخذ بأول الأسماء، متبعا القاموس المحيط؟ (2 علامـــة) --------------------------------- السؤال الخامس (20 علامة) موضوع تعبير قال أحدهم: "ام احمد، شو صار، واحد صفق واحد طار، أبو وصفي لا تحتار، اقعد و شوف عالمكشوف، ما حنقلك شو حتشوف. اكتب موضوعا عن عائلة ام احمد، و بين فيه علاقة فرحان بكل من سمر و ام احمد و تطورها قبل و بعد ربح جائزة اليانصيب (20 علامة( المشروب الرسمي لهذا الامتحان كوكاكولا *** أخي الممتحن أقلب الصفحة أحسنلك *** السؤال السادس ( 19 علامات) اجب عن أربعة فقط من الأسئلة التالية 1- ما رأيك بتصرفات "أبو طراقة" و "ابن الوهاج" في مسلسل الجوارح (5 علامــات) مبينا رأيك بمنجزات الباشق و أسامة و عقاب. 2- ما رأيك بموقف "الكاسر" من "شقيف" في مسلسل الكواسر (5 علامــات) 3- من برأيك أقوى وأفضل بوكيمون - هل هو – بيكاتشو ؟؟؟ (5 علامــات) 4 – اذكر أسماء أبطال كابتن ماجد، مع بيان فريق كل منهم. وما عدد الأهداف التي سجلها الكابتن ماجد في كأس العالم الأخيرة في فرنسا 1998. (4 علامـات) _______________________________________________________________________ عرض فاست لينك الجديد من سمعان أبو رنه ، اشترك في موبايلكم واربح ساعتين فاست لينك مجانيتين _______________________________________________________________________ سؤال المساعدة ( لرفع العلامة ) ( 20 علامــة) أ – اذكر أسماء 3 من رؤساء بلدية لقرية يوكوزوهريتاشاناتا اليابانية من ثلاثة مقاطع مع عدد السنوات التي ترأسوا فيها البلدية ب – أذكر أسماء زوجات 5 ممن ماتوا في قصف مدينة هيروشيما اليابانية عام 1945 بالقنبلة الذرية على أن تكون إحداهن شقراء.

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Bush to announce the resignation of Rumsfeld!

Salam, Now that we are hanging Saddam, let's get rid of Rumsfeld as well.

Good Riddance!

Peace

The relationship between US elections and M.E major events!

Salam, Disclaimer: I'm happy to see Saddam gets his punishment on earth for all what he did towards his people. Now that I got that out of the way, have you ever wondered why major M.E events occur usually on the eve of major U.S elections?! In 2004 Presidential elections, the night before the major elections when the democratic party was gaining on the republican a video tape of Bin Laden comes out of the blue admitting for the first time that Bin Laden is the mastermind behind the September 11th, and with this new fact the American voters were reminded once again of the big bad guy and we all know when in fear vote for Bush. Back to 2007 primary elections, howcome it took the new Iraqi government all this time to hang Saddam?! Why on the week of the elections? is it another boost for the republican party? Don't mind me I'm just thinking loud, maybe it's all just a figment of my imagination. Peace