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Fartwa: Is it obligatory to remove pubic hair for women?


by sheikyermami on September 22, 2011

Yes, it is obligatory for women to remove pubic hair.

and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best

Moulana Muhammad Hashim
FATWA DEPT.

CHECKED AND APPROVED CORRECT: Mufti Ebrahim Desai

Q: What is the area of shaving the pubic hair for a male and female?
A: The area immediately under the navel is not to be shaven.

The area of shaving for a person (male / female) is above and around the
private parts. If possible, it is commendable to shave around the hind
private parts as well. (Al-Kaamil, commentary of Muslim; Imaam Nawawi vol. 1
pg. 128).

Where would we be without the wisdom of Ibrahim Desai?
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After a day of last-minute appeals, including one made to the U.S. Supreme
Court, Troy Davis was executed at 11:08 p.m. Davis convinced hundreds of
thousands of people, but not the justice system, of his innocence in the murder
of off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. Though Davis's attorneys say
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Obama Administration Defends, Republicans Slam Taiwan Fighter-Jet Decision


By Patrick Goodenough <http://cnsnews.com/source/patrick-goodenough>

September 22, 2011

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Lockheed Martin calls its F-16 Fighting Falcon "the world's most capable
multirole fighter." (Image: Lockheed Martin)

(CNSNews.com) - Republican critics accuse the Obama administration of bowing
to Chinese pressure with its decision to upgrade aging Taiwanese warplanes
rather than sell the island the later generation fighters it has requested.

The administration notified Congress Wednesday of its intention to help
Taiwan retrofit its fleet of 145 F-16 Fighting Falcon A (single seater) and
B (two-seater) fighters bought 19 years ago, as part of a $5.85 billion arms
package that includes equipment, parts, logistical support and a pilot
training program.

Taiwan's government thanked the U.S. but said it would continue pressing for
its priority request, first made in 2006, to buy 66 F-16 C/D jets, to help
defend itself against potential aggression from China, which views Taiwan as
a rebellious province whose "reunification" with the mainland is inevitable.

"The upgrade of F-16 A/Bs will help enhance our defense capability,"
Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Minister Timothy Yang said during a late night
press conference. "We will continue to push for U.S. sale of F-16 C/Ds."

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Lockheed Martin calls its F-16 Fighting Falcon "the world's most capable
multirole fighter." (Image: Lockheed Martin)

Separately, Defense Minister Kao Hua-chu pledged to continue urging the U.S.
to provide new fighters, noting that the administration had not ruled out
selling F-16 C/Ds in the future. Taiwan also has F-5s that are more than 30
years old.

Earlier this week, Taiwan's deputy defense minister, Andrew Yang, was quoted
as suggesting to an annual U.S.-Taiwan defense industry conference in
Virginia that Chinese pressure was behind the holdup.

"These years, China is showing stronger and stronger reaction to U.S.-Taiwan
arms sales, and that [has] turned your country more wary with arms sales,"
he said.

The U.S.-Taiwan Business Council says the sale of the 66 F-16 C/Ds Taiwan
has requested "would help secure over 23,000 American jobs."

Critics of the administration's decision not to sell Taiwan the fighters
accused it of succumbing to Beijing.

"President Obama's refusal to sell Taiwan new military jets is yet another
example of his weak leadership in foreign policy," said GOP presidential
aspirant Mitt Romney.

"President Obama has ignored Taiwan's request and caved into the
unreasonable demands of China at the cost of well-paying American jobs," he
added.

"This deal has Beijing's fingerprints all over it," said Rep. Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

"The upgrade of older model F-16s is a modest step in the right direction
but woefully insufficient to meet Taiwan's increasingly urgent requirements
for modern combat fighters and other defensive weapons systems," she said.

Ros-Lehtinen said the decision to exclude F-16 C/Ds from the arms package
called into question its "commitment to longstanding policy to ensure that
Taiwan is able to defend itself from mainland China, as legislatively
mandated in the Taiwan Relations Act."

The 1979 Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) commits the U.S. to provide Taiwan with
the help it needs to defend itself against unprovoked aggression.

Also expressing disappointment was the Formosan Association for Public
Affairs, a Washington-based Taiwanese-American lobby, whose president Bob
Yang said it was "regrettable that the Obama administration is letting the
PRC [Peoples Republic of China] set the terms for U.S. relations with a
democratic Taiwan."

"This decision simply means that if push comes to shove in the Taiwan
Strait, the U.S. will have to bear a much heavier burden in keeping China at
bay, as Taiwan will simply not have adequate means to defend itself," Yang
said.

"It is well known that China has been engaging in a major military buildup,
while aging F-5 aircraft in Taiwan's air force are falling out of the sky.
Such an imbalance invites aggression."

In its 2010 annual report on Chinese military power, published last month,
the Pentagon said China has a total of 1,680 fighter aircraft, 330 of which
are based within range of Taiwan; Taiwan has 388 fighters.

"The majority of [Chinese Air Force and Navy] aircraft are based in the
eastern half of the country," the report stated. "Currently, 490 aircraft
[fighters, bombers and others] could conduct combat operations against
Taiwan without refueling. However, this number could be significantly
increased through any combination of aircraft forward deployment, decreased
ordnance loads, or altered mission profiles."

'Reverse the pattern of neglect and inattention'

Administration officials speaking on background on Wednesday said the
upgrade of Taiwan's existing F-16s would essentially give them the same
capabilities as the later model variants Taiwan wants - more quickly and at
a lower cost. At the same time they pointed out that they were not saying
that "this is as good as the F-16 C/Ds."

The officials said that, with this deal included, the U.S. will have sold
more arms to Taiwan on Obama's watch than during the previous four years,
adding that Taiwan's request for the F-16 C/Ds was "still under
consideration."

The officials also confirmed that the Chinese ambassador had earlier
Wednesday protested the arms package "and indicated that there would be
consequences for the relationship, but did not specify them." Previous
Chinese reactions to Taiwan arms sales have included a freeze on
military-to-military ties.

A week ago, Ros-Lehtinen introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at
enhancing the TRA, including a requirement to provide Taipei with "the next
generation of F-16 fighters to defend the skies over the Taiwan Strait."

The Taiwan Policy Act of 2011 also supports official visits to the U.S. by
senior Taiwanese politicians, inclusion of Taiwan in a visa-waiver program,
and negotiations towards an eventual free-trade agreement.

An important symbolic provision would permit Taiwan to fly its national flag
over its office in Washington DC, and would allow Taiwan's government, if it
wished, to change the name of that office from the current Taipei Economic
and Cultural Representative Office to Taiwan Representative Office.

(The Obama administration in July 2010 allowed the Palestine Liberation
Organization to begin flying the Palestinian flag at the office it has
maintained in Washington since 1994, and to change its name to PLO
Delegation to the United States.)

"Taiwan is one of our closest and most important allies, and it is time
again for our foreign policy to reflect that," Ros-Lehtinen said when
introducing the bill.

"This legislation seeks to reverse the pattern of neglect and inattention by
the Obama administration toward critical U.S.-Taiwan issues. China must not
be allowed to dictate U.S. policy in the Pacific."

More congressional pressure on the administration comes in the form of a
Senate bill, the Taiwan Airpower Modernization Act, which would require the
U.S. to sell Taiwan the fighters it wants.

The U..S-Taiwan Business Council is urging Congress to pass the legislation,
which was introduced last week by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Robert
Menendez (D-N.J.), with bipartisan co-sponsorship.

"This Act and this sale is a win-win for the national security interests of
both the United States and Taiwan, as the new fighters would address part of
the airpower imbalance by modernizing Taiwan's fighter fleet," said council
president Rupert Hammond-Chambers in a statement. "The sale also plays a
vital role for the United States, in expanding forward-deployed capacity
building with a key Asia Pacific security partner."

Accusing the administration of treating Taiwan in a "deplorable" manner,
Cornyn has also threatened to introduce an amendment to a trade bill now
under Senate consideration - which Obama supports - that would mandate the
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Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:57 Soeren Kern


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"...critics say that theocrats in Tehran intend to use the mosque to
establish a recruiting center for the militant Shia Muslim group, Hezbollah
in Europe..."

The city council of Copenhagen has given its final approval for the
construction of the first official "Grand Mosque" in the Danish capital. The
mega-mosque will have a massive blue dome as well as two towering minarets
and is architecturally designed to stand out on Copenhagen's low-rise
skyline.

Copenhagen_Mega_Mosque_by_IranUnlike most mosques in Europe, which cater to
Sunni Muslims, the mosque in Copenhagen pertains to Shia Islam. The mosque
is being financed by the Islamic Republic of Iran; critics say that
theocrats in Tehran intend to use the mosque to establish a recruiting
center for the militant Shia Muslim group, Hezbollah in Europe.

Critics of the Shia mosque have warned local politicians that the building
will be owned by the Iranian regime for use as a propaganda center as well
as a platform from which to recruit impressionable Muslim immigrant youths
for service to Hezbollah. But the Copenhagen city council states that who
pays for building the mosque is none of its concern.

The Copenhagen mosque is, in fact, being built by Ahlul Beit Foundation
<http://www.aimislam.com/> , a radical Shia Muslim proselytizing and
political lobbying group run by the Iranian government. Ahlul Beit already
runs around 70 Islamic centers around the world, and has, as its primary
goal, the promoting of the religious and political views of the Islamic
Republic of Iran.

Ahlul-Beit is opposed to all brands of Islam that compete with the form of
Islam dictated by theocrats in Iran: the organization has called for the
persecution of Sunni Muslims, Sufi Muslims, and Alawites as well as all
secular and moderate Muslims. The organization is also vociferously opposed
to the integration of Muslim immigrants into their host societies.

Ahlul Beit is especially focused on spreading Islamic Sharia law beyond the
Middle East; its centers in Africa and Asia, for example, have been used to
radicalize local Muslim communities. In a typical quid-pro-quo arrangement,
the organization offers money to the poor who then convert to Shia Islam and
are subjected to religious training by Iranian-backed Imams. The group has
been banned in at least a dozen countries.

In Europe, Ahlul Beit mosques are usually presented to the general public as
centers for cultural and sports activities, but in practice they are often
used by Iranian intelligence to monitor Iranians living abroad as well as to
harass Iranian dissidents.

In Germany, the Imam Ali mosque in Hamburg was linked to the September 1992
assassination of four leaders of the Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party at the
Mykonos restaurant
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykonos_restaurant_assassinations>  in Berlin.

In Britain, the Ahlul Beit mosque in London has been involved in issuing
death threats against the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. The mosque
has also been used to recruit terrorists and to spy on Iranian exiles living
in Britain.

Mohammed Mahdi Khademi, the man who is set to become the main imam at the
new mosque in Copenhagen, is a former military officer who ran the ideology
department of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps until 2004, when he was
hand-picked by the Iranian regime to move to Denmark. Many Iranian exiles
believe Khademi has close ties to Iranian intelligence and fear the new
mosque will be used against them.

Some members of the Iranian democracy movement say the Copenhagen mosque is
about far more than just the issue of freedom of religion. They say it is
about Iran's desire to establish a political-religious foothold for
extremist Islam in northern Europe.

Farrokh Jafari, an Iranian exile who recently organized a protest against
the mosque, told the Copenhagen-based Berlingske daily newspaper
<http://www.b.dk/koebenhavn/demonstration-mod-stormoske-i-koebenhavn>  that
he is not opposed to having a mosque in the city, but that he wants to draw
attention to Ahlul Beit's dubious intentions.

"We are protesting against Copenhagen's plans for a Grand Mosque, which is
being paid for by the Iranian theocracy. We fear that the mosque will not
serve its religious purposes, but simply camouflage Iran's extended arms in
Denmark," Jafari said.

He continued: "We are not afraid of the mosque itself. We are supporters of
religious freedom, and Muslims in Denmark should naturally also have a
proper mosque. But we fear that this mosque, which is being built by Ahlul
Beit, will spread fear among democratic Iranians in Denmark, launder money,
and help the regime's people transfer money out of the country, which they
have stolen from the Iranian people. This is the experience from England,
South Africa and France, where Ahlul Beit is also present.

"Ahlul Beit claims that the funds for the Grand Mosque come from private
individuals in Iran and from collections in Denmark. We do not believe that.
Ahlul Beit is controlled directly from Iran. It is idiotic to think that an
association which uses enormous amounts of money to run religious centers in
large parts of the world is exclusively run by private donations from a
country that is under economic sanctions."

Socialist politician Lars Weiss, who is involved with urban planning for the
city of Copenhagen, said on Danish public radio that funding of the mosque
is a matter for the police, not the city council
<http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/stormoske-godkand-i-kopenhamn> . "If there
is a funding problem, it is a matter for the police or, in the last resort,
the Danish Security and Intelligence Service. We do not assess funding in
connection to other construction projects either," Weiss said.

The dimensions of the new mosque are enormous by Danish standards. The 2,000
square meter (21,500 square foot) Imam Ali mosque (see here for a
computerized rendering of the mosque
<http://www.b.dk/koebenhavn/demonstration-mod-stormoske-i-koebenhavn> ) will
feature a massive prayer room for 3,000 Muslim worshippers at a time,
amphitheatre, conference room, library and ample living accommodations for
visiting imams from Iran. The mosque, which will be built in the Vibevej
district in northwestern Copenhagen, will cater to the 80,000 Shia Muslims
who now live in Denmark.

In addition to approving the building permit for the mosque, the Copenhagen
town council also approved a new plan to enlarge the original design of the
mosque, which will now be accompanied by two 32-meter (105-foot) minarets,
according to the Danish public broadcaster DR
<http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Andre_sprog/English/2011/08/26/082529.htm> .

The Copenhagen town council is dominated by left and far-left political
parties; approval to build the mosque was decided with votes from the Social
Democrats, the Radikale Venstre (literally: the Radical Left), the
Socialistisk Folkeparti (a socialist green party founded by members of the
former Communist Party of Denmark) and Enhedslisten (a Red-Green alliance of
the Left Socialists, the Communist Party of Denmark and the Socialist
Workers Party). The Conservatives and center-right Danish People's Party are
opposed to the mosque plans.

Separately, the Copenhagen city council has also approved the construction
of a second mega-mosque (see here for a computerized rendering of the mosque
<http://www.business.dk/ejendomme/jysk-rigmand-taettere-paa-gigantisk-moske-
projekt> ) to be located on Amager island in Copenhagen; it will cater to
Sunni Muslims. The city has set aside land for the mosque, but the project
has been stalled over a dispute about who will pay for the construction
costs. One option would have Saudi Arabia pay for the mosque, but some local
Muslims say the project should be financed exclusively by the local Muslim
community in Denmark.

Hudson NY  Danish Mega-Mosque Funded by Iran by Soeren Kern, September 22,
2011 at 5:00 am

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Soeren Kern <http://www.soerenkern.com/>  is Senior Fellow for Transatlantic
Relations at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic
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Iran's Ahmadinejad Blasts US for 9/11 Attacks, Zionism


Thursday, 22 Sep 2011 01:54 PM

UNITED NATIONS - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Thursday accused the
United States of using the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks as a pretext to launch
wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ahmadinejad, in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly that
prompted a walk-out by U.S. and other western diplomats, called the Sept. 11
attacks "mysterious" and said the United States and its allies "view Zionism
as a sacred notion and ideology."

"By using their imperialistic media network which is under the influence of
colonialism they threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust and the
September 11 event with sanctions and military actions," he said.

Ahmadinejad attacked Western powers for a catalogue of misdeeds, but his
address to the United Nations failed to mention Tehran's disputed nuclear
program.

The U.S. delegation walked out when Ahmadinejad said "arrogant powers"
threatened anyone who questioned the Holocaust and the Sept. 11 attacks on
the United States with sanctions and military action. Other Western
delegations soon made their exit.

Ahmadinejad made only a passing reference to the Palestinian issue which has
overshadowed this year's U.N. General Assembly and did not comment on the
Palestinian plan to ask the U.N. Security Council to recognize their nascent
state.

He accused the United States of using the "mysterious" Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks as a pretext to launch wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. The United
States and its allies "view Zionism as a sacred notion and ideology," the
Iranian leader said.

Mark Kornblau, spokesman for the U.S. mission at the United Nations,
condemned Ahmadinejad's remarks.

"Mr Ahmadinejad had a chance to address his own people's aspirations for
freedom and dignity, but instead he again turned to abhorrent anti-Semitic
slurs and despicable conspiracy theories," Kornblau said in a statement.

Ahmadinejad's address also passed in silence over the pro-democracy
uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year, including Syria, Iran's
closest Arab ally.

U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations Wednesday that Iran and
North Korea risked more pressure if they pursued nuclear programs that
flouted international law.

"There is a future of greater opportunity for the people of these nations if
their governments meet their obligations. But if they continue down a path
that is outside international law, they must be met with greater pressure
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SPENGLER
Cairo, Egypt and Cairo, Illinois
By Spengler

Only half of the 51 million Egyptians between the ages of 15 and 64 are
counted in the government's measure of the labor force, which is why the
official unemployment rate stands at only 11%. America's labor force of 153
million, by contrast, comprises three-quarters of the population aged 15 to
64. If Egypt's labor force were counted in the same way as America's, the
unemployment rate would be 40%. The effective unemployment rate is even
higher, for three-fifths of Egyptians live on the land, while the country
imports half its caloric consumption.

Agriculture productivity in Egypt is so poor that most farm labor must be
considered disguised unemployment. 30% of Egyptians of the relevant age,
moreover, attend university, while only half
graduate, and of those, few find employment. Perhaps an additional 3 million
Egyptian unemployed are warehoused in the university system.

More than half of Egypt's population has nothing to do, and lives on one
form or another of public subsidy. The world economy does not want them.
With a 45% rate of effective illiteracy, Egyptians are unfit for modern
factory work, and the products of the university system mostly are
unqualified for engineering or administrative jobs. As Egypt's state
finances disintegrate under conditions of unrest, the position of the
redundant half of the country's people is becoming desperate. It is hard to
see how a catastrophe can be avoided now that Egypt's tourism industry has
dried up.

Cairo, Egypt - the site of President Barack Obama's effusive address to the
Muslim world in June 2009 - is becoming the world's epicenter of despair.
Five years earlier, as a candidate for Illinois State Senate , Obama also
spoke in Cairo, Illinois, at the southern tip of the state where the Ohio
and Mississippi Rivers converge. It merited a mention in his campaign book
The Audacity of Hope: "We discussed what might be done to restart the area's
economy and get more money into the schools; we heard about sons and
daughters on their way to Iraq and the need to tear down an old hospital
that had become a blight on downtown."

A third of Cairo's population lives below the poverty line and its
unemployment rate is 12%. Three-fifths of its people are African-American.
Obama singled it out as a subject for hope and change. There is a component
of the American population whose marginalization compares to Egypt, and that
is African-Americans aged 16 to 19 years. Their official unemployment rate
is 46.5%, although the effective rate is much higher, for only 13% of blacks
in that age bracket actually have jobs. Only a quarter of black high school
seniors will graduate college.

Cairo, Egypt and Cairo, Illinois have another thing in common: their
economic misery is the outcome of political models that warehouse the poor
rather than prepare them for productivity. Like most Third World dictators,
the rulers of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak kept most of their people poor,
illiterate, and down on the farm, while employing the putative higher
education system as a political pressure valve. Starting with the Johnson
administration, America's incipient welfare state made the poor, and
especially the African-American poor, dependent on a political regime that
encouraged economic dependency.

That is why the people of Cairo, Egypt and Cairo, Illinois are starving in
the midst of plenty. There are plenty of jobs for people who can read the
new edition of the manual. Just 4% of Americans with a four-year college
degree or better are unemployed, a remarkable fact given the mediocre
quality of American university graduates. Evidently, basic reading
comprehension, basic math and the ability to produce work on time are
sufficient qualifications for a job in corporate America.

The world economy, meanwhile, can't get enough qualified labor, while it
ignores the untrained, semi-literate victims of state dependency. A 2011
survey by the Manpower Group, the world's largest human resources firm,
reports:
Despite the slow and uneven recovery from the global economic downturn and
lingering high levels of unemployment in many markets, organizations around
the world still report that they cannot find the talent they need when they
need it. They are looking for evermore specific skill sets and taking longer
to fill job vacancies as they wait for the economy to fully rebound and
their businesses to get back to ''normal.'' But global economic forces have
strained existing models and systems to such a point of tension that they
are no longer sustainable. There will be no return to the pre-recession
''business as usual.''
The Manpower Group survey adds:


ManpowerGroup research reveals employers in India, the United States, China
and Germany report the most dramatic talent shortage surges compared to last
year. In India, the percentage of employers indicating difficulty filling
positions jumped 51 percentage points. Nearly one in four employers say
environmental/market factors play a major role in the talent shortage -
employers simply aren't finding anyone available in their markets. Another
22% of employers say their applicants lack the technical competencies or
''hard'' skills needed for the job.


The unemployment catastrophe in the two Cairos evidently has little to do
with demand for labor as such. The world economy has changed and left the
semi-literate and barely-educated behind, perhaps permanently. A rising tide
does not lift all boats. It swamps the ones that are anchored to the sea
floor. We need to reach back to the 18th and 19th centuries to find a
comparison. As I wrote in a 2006 essay, What do you do with all the
farmers?, Asia Times Online, September 26, 2006:


Every great advance in productivity of agricultural in history left in the
lurch a superfluous population that was ground up in war. The Carolingian
Renaissance of the High Middle Ages brought the horse collar, the steel
plow, windmills for swap drainage, and three-field rotation. The Teutonic
Knights shifted some of the excess population to the Baltic and Eastern
Europe, eradicating the local population in the process. The Crusades
absorbed more of the surplus, until the Black Death of the 14th century made
people scarce again. The Napoleonic Wars dealt with the peasants made
redundant by the agricultural revolution of the 18th century, and World War
I repeated the exercise a century later.


Emerging Asia has raised the bar for all the economies of the world, as
dramatically as the Industrial Revolution did two centuries ago.

The Industrial Revolution improved the lives of British workers by every
available measurement - life expectancy, consumption, and so forth. But that
was true only for those who survived the agricultural revolution to become
industrial workers. The agricultural revolution that prepared the industrial
revolution displaced a large proportion of agricultural labor. Starvation,
emigration and war consumed the redundant population.

The Napoleonic Wars alone killed 188,000 British men, in a population of
less than 9 million, the equivalent of 6.3 million in today's American
population. An additional 225,000 were transported as criminals to America
(60,000) and Australia (165,000), not counting perhaps 1 million voluntary
emigrants during the 19th century from England, Wales and Scotland.

Altogether, the attrition rate of the English and Welsh population at the
turn of the 18th century amounted to 15%. Scotland must be considered
separately, because the English deliberately cleared the Highlands of people
after the 1746 Stuart rebellion. About half a million Highlanders were
displaced, almost a third of the Scots population. Whole villages were
transported to North America.

While conditions of life improved for British workers, machine-spun cotton
destroyed more than a quarter of India's cotton manufacturing industry, and
by 1860 had displaced more than half a million workers, leading to
starvation in Bengal, the historic center of India's cotton weaving.

The last time a vast improvement in industrial productivity upended the
lives of millions of people around the world, a large proportion of the
affected populations did not survive, at least not in their own homes, and
many not at all.

In Cairo, Illinois, the lives of the unemployment are not at risk, because
America's social safety net will remain in place. But the lives of the Arab
poor in Cairo, Egypt and similar cities are in urgent peril, and the scale
of the problem is so great that it is hard to envision a solution. It should
surprise no-one that Middle Eastern politics have taken on a new,
apocalyptic tone.

Spengler is channeled by David P Goldman. He is the author of two new books,
How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too), published by Regnery
and a collection of essays, It's Not the End of the World - It's Just the
End of You (Van Praag).






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The World According to Ahmadinejad
9:00 AM, SEP 22, 2011     . BY ASH JAIN

As Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's prepares to speak at the United
Nations, it is tempting to dismiss his anti-American rants as just another
propaganda stunt. But what makes his remarks difficult to ignore is that
large segments of the Iranian population will buy into them. And that
Ahmadinejad, along with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini and Iran's
clerical leadership, appear to believe what they are saying - fueling a
narrative that drives Iran's reckless international behavior.

The notion that the U.S. government deliberately conspired to attack its own
people on 9/11 as a pretext for global warfare-a notion Ahmadinejad famously
peddles-strikes most reasonable observers as preposterous. Yet such an
account fits seamlessly into the overarching worldview of Iran's leaders.
This worldview, articulated in letters, speeches, and statements at home and
abroad, is marked by several attributes:

The United States is a sinister power, bent on global oppression. Routinely
described as the "Great Satan" and the "devil incarnate," the United States
is perceived as a cruel, greedy, and oppressive power seeking global
domination. This view is grounded in a reading of history that sees
America-the leading force behind a liberal, democratic world order-as
overwhelmingly responsible for the immoral and corrupt state of mankind. As
Ahmadinejad has stated, "the arrogant regime in the United States is the
biggest obstacle against the cause of the prophets."

The U.S.-led capitalist system is on the brink of collapse. Believing that
capitalism is the cause of social ills facing the West, including poverty,
drugs, and inequality, Iran's leaders see the ongoing global economic
turmoil as proof that the capitalist system is approaching its demise.
Capitalism has "produced nothing but frustration, disappointment and a dark
future" for humanity, according to Ahmadinejad, and will "soon join history
in the future."

U.S. alliances in the Middle East are crumbling. Iran's leaders rejoiced at
the downfall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak - seeing it as vindication
of its long-held belief that the days of U.S.-backed dictators are numbered.
Similarly, Iran sees Israel - America's strongest regional ally - as
fundamentally illegitimate and destined to collapse. With Israel seemingly
on the defensive, Tehran believes it is just a matter of time before it will
succeed in forcing the "Zionist leaders to return to their homes, and to
restore Palestine to its original owners."

Iran's Islamic revolution is heralding a new global order. Central to this
worldview is the notion that the Iranian revolution provides universal
inspiration for a new international system. Ahmadinejad has called for
"setting up a new international economic order based on human and moral
values and obligations." While vague in describing its form, Iran's leaders
have made clear this new world order would limit American and Western
influences, replacing it with one in which Iran and its followers would be
predominant.

Looking at current events, it is easy to understand why Iran's leaders might
exude so much confidence. The West continues to be mired in high levels of
debt and unemployment, Israel is struggling in the face of diplomatic
isolation, and the Arab Spring rolls on. Recent headlines from Iran's
PressTV capture the sentiment:  "US, Israel Cannot Stop MENA Uprisings,"
"US Moving Towards Total Collapse," and "Capitalism on Death Bed."

Superficially, such events may reinforce the Iranian narrative. But viewed
in context, Tehran's perceptions are utterly devoid from reality.  True, the
global economy continues to sputter, but does anyone else really believe
that capitalism and democracy are on their way out? Israel may be outvoted
at the U.N., but the region's strongest military power is not about to
disappear. And the Arab Spring lives on in Syria - a close Iranian ally -
while the Iranian revolution has played virtually no role in any of the
recent Middle East uprisings.

So does it really matter that Iran's leaders seem to truly believe in this
stuff? Absolutely. The warped worldview reflected in Ahmadinejad's remarks
is what drives Iran's confrontational posture toward the West - and serves
as the inspiration for its dangerous nuclear ambitions. Given the Islamic
Republic's far-reaching ambitions, a nuclear weapons capability could be
particularly devastating.

Consequently, Iran must remain at the top of the national security agenda.
The U.S. must be more pro-active in countering Iran's propaganda machine and
breathing new life into the suppressed Green Movement. At the same time, the
United States must be prepared to ramp up sanctions and take all necessary
actions to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Given their
irrational exuberance, Iran's leaders could use a dose of reality.

Ash Jain is a former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff
and author of "Nuclear Weapons and Iran's Global Ambitions: Troubling
Scenarios," published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.



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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
Why China Is a Financial Midget
Beijing's economic model will prevent the yuan from replacing the dollar as
the world's reserve currency.
By JONATHAN ANDERSON

The title says it all: "Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic
Dominance." Arvind Subramanian's new book is a good example of a more
aggressive line of argument regarding China-that it's a matter of whether,
not when, China will take over economic leadership of the world. But China's
road to real financial influence promises to be far longer and rockier than
the GDP numbers would suggest.

The argument for dominance has two prongs. The first is that China's economy
will very soon be larger than either the U.S. or the EU. And second, as this
happens the yuan will also naturally replace the dollar as the global
reserve currency, with profound consequences for international markets.

On the first issue, there is little debate. China already has a $7 trillion
economy, roughly half the size of the U.S. or the EU. If it can continue to
grow even at 6% to 7% a year, not even at 10% or 11% as it did through much
of the 2000s, then in five years the Chinese economy could easily pass the
$15 trillion mark, where the U.S. is today. By the end of this decade, China
should already be larger than the U.S. and equal to Europe.

The future of China's financial role is murkier. Within 10 years the yuan
will probably play only a marginally more important global role than it does
today. It won't replace the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency, and
it may not even challenge the Japanese yen or the pound sterling.

Why? It's one thing to hold the yuan for trade invoicing, but if you're
going to hold it as a liquid "safe haven" portfolio investment choice, you
need free and unfettered access to deep domestic fixed-income markets. This
is what the dollar and euro offer, and essentially so do the yen and other
G-10 major currencies.

But not China, which maintains one of the most closed capital account
regimes in the world. That is true in comparison to developed markets and to
lower-income neighbors in Asia and other emerging regions.

The bigger problem is that China can't open its capital regime, at least not
fast enough to matter. For more than two decades, China's philosophy of
monetary management and financial development has been based on a
closed-economy system: maintaining low and stable interest rates without
having to worry about external arbitrage, breezily adopting economic
stimulus when needed without concern about the banking system's asset
quality, propping up banks with historically high nonperforming loan ratios
and fixed-cost pricing, and keeping iron-clad control over the exchange
rate. All of these only work when foreign portfolio funds cannot influence
asset prices, and when locals have nowhere else to go.

While China's GDP may be 10 times larger than it was in 1995, its external
capital controls are still similar to what they were back then. China has
opened a few windows at the margin, but it has never seriously opened the
doors. If anything, the financial crises of 1997-98 and 2008-09 have taught
the authorities to be as slow as possible in making adjustments.

Even if China were to remove external controls, this still leaves the lack
of deep domestic markets. Put simply, there's nothing to invest in. You need
a local bond market, and China doesn't have one. Relative to its size, China
has a much less mature fixed-income market than most of its major
emerging-market peers.

As with capital controls, this is part of the financial model. China's
unique prevalence of undisciplined state-owned borrowers and reliance on
quantitative macro-credit measures makes it imperative to keep financial
flows concentrated in the banking system.

This explains why the bond market failed to outgrow GDP for much of the
2000s. And it explains why, after the unbridled explosion of corporate paper
in the past two years, the authorities are now back-pedaling to bring down
exposures, precisely to preserve bank asset quality and leverage ratios.

One common rejoinder is that China has no option but to open up its capital
markets and make reforms to pave the way for yuan convertibility, since the
alternative is to continue to accumulate hundreds of billions of dollars per
year in questionable foreign assets-a trend that is increasingly unpalatable
to China's leadership.

This argument makes no economic sense. As long as China's domestic saving
rate is above its domestic investment rate-as long as it is running external
current account surpluses-it will continue to accumulate foreign assets.

If the yuan were the world's reserve currency, China might be able to stop
accumulating claims denominated in dollars and euros and generate claims in
its own currency instead (as the U.S. is able to borrow in dollars abroad
today). But we're still talking about an ever-increasing pile of claims on
questionable sovereign borrowers in the West, regardless of the currency
those debts are kept in.

In short, making the yuan into a true global reserve currency doesn't solve
any of China's current problems and could create very painful new ones along
the way. Which is why it's not going to happen any time soon. China may be
an economic giant on the world stage, but in this sense it will remain a
financial midget.

Mr. Anderson is a global emerging-market economist at UBS.






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9/23/2011 05:13 PM


Will China's Rise Spoil the Trans-Atlantic Relationship?


By Daniel M. Kliman and Andrew Small

A new survey by the German Marshall Fund finds that China's rise is leading
Americans to turn their attention away from Europe and to view China as more
of a threat than Europeans do. But how much do these factors threaten the
trans-Atlantic relationship, and how well can it adapt to changing
circumstances?

Strategic circumstances and brute economic realities are starting to push
Europeans and Americans into different places when they think about China's
and Asia's rise. New polling released this month suggests not only a growing
divergence in threat perceptions, but also a trend in US public opinion that
places Asia, rather than Europe, at the center of Americans' interests.
Without a conscious effort to construct a partnership that is attuned to
these new realities, Asia's ascendance threatens to lead to a long-term
drift in trans-Atlantic relations.

The German Marshall Fund's <http://www.gmfus.org/>  Transatlantic Trends
survey <http://trends.gmfus.org/>  makes it clear that Europe faces a future
in which, for the first time, it can no longer count on enjoying a central
place in the minds of Americans. Whereas 52 percent of the Europeans
surveyed identify the United States as being of the utmost importance to
their national interests, only 38 percent of Americans felt the same way
about Europe. Instead, the survey shows a slight majority (51 percent) of
Americans viewing the countries of Asia as more important. Likewise, this
percentage only grows as the sample group grows younger, with three out of
every four young Americans now looking across the Pacific rather than the
Atlantic.

Differing Views on China

There is also a division opening up in public perceptions of China. Surveys
have long shown that Americans see China as more of a military threat than
Europeans do, but this increasingly applies in the economic sphere, as well.
The Transatlantic Trends survey now shows a plurality of Europeans viewing
China as an economic opportunity rather than threat. In the United States,
on the other hand, 63 percent see China as an economic threat, up from 49
percent just a year ago.

What's more, some of the most favorable shifts in opinion were seen in
European countries in which the media gave significant coverage to Chinese
investments and bond purchases.

These developments are partly a matter of public opinion catching up with
reality. As a Pacific power, the United States is strategically present in
Asia in a way that Europe is not, and its role in dealing with shifts in the
regional balance of economic and military power is qualitatively different.

However, what should worry the trans-Atlantic partners are emerging splits
over China. Since 2004, when efforts to lift the EU arms embargo on China
triggered a fierce trans-Atlantic dispute, Europe and the United States have
more often than not spoken with one voice, whether in responding to China's
newfound assertiveness or in bringing joint cases against China before the
World Trade Organization (WTO).

As the crisis in the euro zone intensifies, that unity is now showing signs
of weakening. China is making a serious effort to increase its investments
in Europe during an exceptionally fragile time for the European Union and
the entire European project. This is beginning to translate into political
credit and public goodwill toward China. Indeed, the Transatlantic Trends
survey shows the first serious uptick in Beijing's numbers in Europe for
many years.

Natural Partners in Asia , Too

It will be to the detriment of both sides if trans-Atlantic outlooks drift
further apart. Economically, Europe's role in the Asia-Pacific region is as
big as the United States'. It leads the way in negotiating free-trade
agreements, and there are crucial shared interests on issues ranging from
the protection of intellectual property to managing a new wave of inbound
investments by state-owned enterprises.

In the military realm, the US security role in Asia is a public good that
also benefits Europeans, who have a vital interest in regional stability.
Europe may not play a meaningful military role in the Asia-Pacific region,
but it is still important to achieve congruence in strategic thinking about
the world's most dynamic region.

This is not just a matter of reinforcing Europe's aversion to lifting the
arms embargo on China or restraining the export of dual-use technologies.
Europe's willingness to take on greater burdens in its own neighborhood, as
it did in Libya, would do much to facilitate the strengthening of American
commitments in Asia that will be required in the coming years. On
values-based issues -- from human rights to democracy promotion -- Europe
remains America's natural partner in Asia and beyond.

Compared to the Soviet threat, the Balkan wars of the 1990s or post-9/11
Afghanistan, Asia provides seemingly fewer natural opportunities for
cooperation. In fact, there is still a strong crossover in values and
interests. But drawing out these commonalities will be a challenge in a
region in which the kind of common threats that have necessitated
trans-Atlantic collaboration are less apparent.

Still, the news is not all bad. The fact that security threats in Europe are
no longer pivotal to US concerns is more of a cause for celebration than for
anxiety. But a failure to head off emerging differences could threaten a
slow withering of the trans-Atlantic partnership as Asia rises.

Daniel M. Kliman and Andrew Small are fellows at the German Marshall Fund of
the United States (GMF), a non-partisan American public policy and
grantmaking institution dedicated to promoting better understanding and
cooperation between North America and Europe on trans-Atlantic issues.





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<http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/23/327015/fbi-library-and-online-
training-resources-stocked-with-islamophobic-material/> FBI Library And
Online Training Resources Stocked With Islamophobic Material

By  <http://thinkprogress.org/author/eclifton/> Eli Clifton on Sep 23, 2011
at 12:55 pm

  <http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pipesspencer.jpg>
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Spencer Ackerman's
<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/fbi-islam-101-guide/> reports on
<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-islam-qaida-irrelevant/3/>
Islamophobic training
<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-muslims-radical/all/1> sessions
at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have sent the Bureau into damage
control mode. On Thursday, the FBI held a conference call with Muslim civil
rights groups to apologize for the offensive training materials, which
Ackerman has published over the past week.

The FBI has promised a "comprehensive review of all training and reference
materials," but Ackerman,
<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-islam-domination/all/1> in an
article published today, reveals that the work of well-known Islamophobes
permeates the FBI's training culture and the internal reference resources
available to FBI agents.

Ackerman reports that the mandatory online orientation material for the
FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs), included the following
description of Sunni Muslims:

Sunni Muslims have been prolific in spawning numerous and varied
fundamentalist extremist terrorist organizations. Sunni core doctrine and
end state have remained the same and they continue to strive for Sunni
Islamic domination of the world to prove a key Quranic assertion that no
system of government or religion on earth can match the Quran's purity and
effectiveness for paving the road to God.

An examination of the FBI's library in Quantico, which is not open to the
public, revealed that the Bureau stocks a wide range of resources on Islam
but includes a number of books by well known anti-Islam authors
<http://thinkprogress.org/daniel-pipes-founder-middle-east-forum/> Daniel
Pipes and
<http://thinkprogress.org/robert-spencer-co-founder-stop-islamization-of-ame
rica-director-jihad-watch/> Robert Spencer.

Pipes and Spencer are featured prominently in the Center for American
Progress' new report, "
<http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/islamophobia.html> Fear,
Inc.," which outlines the small but influential group of individuals and
institutions who help promote anti-Muslim hatred in the U.S.

Spencer, who claims that "Islam is not a religion of peace" and has
suggested that President Obama may be a Muslim, gained notoriety after it
was revealed that Norwegian terrorist Anders Brevik's manifesto included
<http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/07/25/278677/islamophobic-right-wing
-blogger-breivi/> 162 references to Spencer and his blog Jihad Watch.

Pipes famously observed that "all immigrants bring exotic customs and
attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most." He also plays
a key role in the Islamophobia echo chamber by repeating the falsehood that
Obama is a former Muslim who "practiced Islam."

The combination of Islamophobic presentation and the FBI's apparent
endorsement of noted anti-Muslim "experts" like Spencer and Pipes raises
serious questions about the FBI's counterterrorism training and the Bureau's
understanding of Muslim Americans.

Earlier this month,
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016171004_copworkshop11m.h
tml> the Seattle Times reported on a disastrous presentation by an FBI agent
at a community outreach workshop. The failed presentation offers insights
into how federal law enforcement officers' training has seriously hampered
their ability to engage with Muslim communities.





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Muslims are trying really, really hard to be the victims, and the media are
trying really, really hard to make their wish come true.

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September 24, 2011


Islamizing the Hospitals: Muslima Cries "Religious Discrimination" after
Hospital Refuses to Engage in Gender Discrimination


More demands and special accommodations for Islamic supremacism in the
workplace -- this is nothing more than forcing, imposing Islam on the
secular marketplace.

Muslim Convert Janice Brown Cries
<http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/09/muslim-convert-janice-brown-cries.h
tml> "Religious Discrimination" after Hospital Refuses to Engage in Gender
Discrimination Answering Muslims

Muslims are trying really, really hard to be the victims, and the media are
trying really, really hard to make their wish come true.

Janice Brown is a convert to Islam. Based on her reading of the Qur'an, she
believes that it would be a sin to take off her clothes in the presence of a
male doctor. Hence, when she needed treatment for hemorrhoidal bleeding, she
requested a female doctor. The hospital, however, refused to discriminate
based on gender. That is, they refused to seek out a female doctor for Brown
when a perfectly capable male doctor was available. The result? Brown is now
claiming that, by refusing to discriminate against a doctor based on gender,
the hospital discriminated against a Muslim based on religion. The media are
supporting her, and the hospital is launching an investigation.

Now for the hilarious part. In the video below, Brown quotes from the Mohsin
Khan translation of Surah 24:31 to explain why she can't take off her
clothes in front of a male doctor. Apparently, no one over at Fox News
bothered to read the entire verse when they decided to take Brown's
discrimination claim seriously. The verse reads:

And tell the believing women to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden
things), and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual acts, etc.)
and not to show off their adornment except only that which is apparent (like
palms of hands or one eye or both eyes for necessity to see the way, or
outer dress like veil, gloves, head-cover, apron, etc.), and to draw their
veils all over Juyubihinna (i.e. their bodies, faces, necks and bosoms,
etc.) and not to reveal their adornment except to their husbands, their
fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husband's sons, their
brothers or their brother's sons, or their sister's sons, or their (Muslim)
women (i.e. their sisters in Islam), or the (female) slaves whom their right
hands possess, or old male servants who lack vigour, or small children who
have no sense of the shame of sex. And let them not stamp their feet so as
to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And all of you beg Allah to
forgive you all, O believers, that you may be successful.


Notice that this translation commands Brown to cover her face (except for
one or both eyes). Yet when she's being interviewed for her anti-Muslim
discrimination clip, she wears a simple hijab:


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Notice also that the translation she quotes never says it's okay for female
doctors to examine her. The Mohsin Khan translation only allows certain men,
Muslim women, female slaves, and children to see Brown's "adornment." Hence,
her request to the hospital should have gone something like this:

"I need to see a doctor. But I will only allow a doctor to examine me if the
doctor is my husband, or my father, or my husband's father, or my son, or my
husband's son, or my brother, or my brother's son, or my sister's son, or my
sister in Islam, or my female slave, or an old male servant who lacks vigor,
or a small child. And if you do not provide me with such a doctor, you are a
hate-mongering, Islamophobic bigot who is discriminating against my
religion!"


On a side note, I have to ask a question. What's more disturbing: (a)
letting a trained male medical doctor treat your hemorrhoidal bleeding, or
(b) letting your son, your stepson, your nephew, old men, and young children
look at your vagina? According to Brown, (b) is perfectly acceptable, while
(a) is an abomination.

Strange religion she converted to.

Muslim Woman: Hospital Mocked Her Faith: MyFoxPHILLY.com
<http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/muslim-woman:-hospital-mocke
d-her-faith>


FOXNEWS--A Muslim woman says she was forced to leave Abington Memorial
Hospital without the care she needed, after a hospital staffer insulted her
religion.

Janice Brown, 25, is a convert to the Islamic faith. And she suffers from
periodic hemmoroidal bleeding, dating back to the birth of her daughter.

Late Thursday night, that bleeding led brown to the emergency room at
Abington Memorial.

Brown says she'd called ahead, verifying that she'd be examined by a female
doctor.

As a Muslim, it would be a sin for Janice to allow a non-related man to see
her uncovered genital region.

But once inside the examination room, she was greeted by a man.

"The charge nurse came in- his name was James, though he went by Jim- and he
told me that Abington Hospital does not discriminate and I'm not allowed to
choose a preference whether i see a male doctor or a female doctor," says
Brown.

The hospital's own web site includes a list of patients' rights that
includes the right to medical and nursing services without discrimination
based upon religion.

Janice's sister had joined her and confronted told the charge nurse.

"'You're asking her to go against her beliefs and commit sins because you
don't want to find her a female doctor," she said.

And he said, 'I'm sure god will forgive her.'"

"I don't know if it was more of a mocking thing coming from the charge
nurse- for him to tell me, 'oh, God's gonna forgive you.' You're not the one
to make that decision in my life," says Janice Brown.

Brown says she stormed out and ultimately drove 45 minutes to another
hospital, where she was treated without incident by a female physician.

She got home at 4 a.m.

"I think it's just a form of ignorance, basically. People not knowing or not
taking the time to know or educate themselves about other religions so they
can be sympathetic," said Brown.

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icefalcon <http://icefalcon58.blogspot.com/>  said...

Is it just me, or is it weird that she has her hijab in a knot over a
modesty issue, but she's telling the world about her hemorhoid? If I had
that problem, I would certainly not go on TV and announce this.

Here on the South Side of Chicago, this kind of behavior is known as
"showing one's a$$."

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Truth Seeker said...

bsd

I think that Ms. Geller is a champion doing champion's work in the world,
but I think that on this issue, she's made a mistake. Mind you, if the
translation of the Koran that she quotes is correct, then Ms. Geller does
have some nice jabs at Ms. Brown. But even though Ms. Geller landed some
jabs, the fight goes to Ms. Brown on this one. Discrimination is one of two
things: treating similarly situated people differently or treating
differently situated people similarly. Examples of the former: prohibiting a
black person from drinking at a "white" water-fountain. There is no reason
to distinguish in this situation based on skin color. I'm sure that most
Atlas readers would agree that affirmative action is also an example of this
kind of discrimintaion (as would I) -- the amount of melanin in one's skin
is not a distinguishing factor in academic ability or any other
college-related ability (melanin does make a difference, say, in blocking
some of the sun's rays). Examples of the latter type of discrimination:
giving a father the same amount of time for paternity leave as a mother --
these people are differently situated (she had the baby, for cryin' out
loud) and thus ought to be treated differently. Same would go for
limitations on, say, women in the fire department perhaps -- statistics can
show that men and women, generally, are differently situated when it comes
to things involving physical strength, and since such things are relevant to
being a firefighter, it would be discrimintory to treat men and women the
same vis-a-vis the fire department. Having said this, a male medical
professional and a female medical professional are NOT similarly situated --
there is a difference depending on the patient -- and it is thus not
discrimnation to treat them differently. Generally speaking, we think it's
relevant and reasonable to separate men and women when it comes to exposure
of private parts, both physical and emotional. We expect separate restrooms
for men and women, separate locker rooms, and perhaps find it normal if a
woman would prefer a female therapist to a male. It seems to me completely
reasonable for a woman to request a female medical professional, for
religious reasons or otherwise. Plus, it seems as if Ms. Brown (if we can
believe the reporting) called ahead to the hospital to ensure that she would
be treated by a woman. Sorry, I have a hard time understanding why the
hospital is in the right to say it would be discrimination to tell the male
practioner that he is not allowed to see the private area of a woman who
does not desire such. The male is not like the female in this instance. It
is certainly not discrimination to tell the man to stand aside when there is
a female patient (in fact, it is conceivable that a male practitioner could
argue that it would be discriminitory to force him to care for female
patients should he desire not too!).
In any case, I think it is important to highlight issues about Islam (and
there are many) that are truly clear-cut and beyond the pale. In the war
against encroaching Islam, the war effort is undermines when we pick battles
over issues that are not egregious at best, or that in fact put Islam in the
right at worst. I'm afraid that this issue is one where "Islam" is right. We
have to be intellectually honest here. (I am happy to be shown in error, by
the way -- I just don't see it at this point).

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Stephen Rohaty <http://profile.typepad.com/rohaty>  said...

Abington is one of the richer suburbs of Philadelphia, so they can afford to
fight this attempted extortion. Tactics? A Private Investigator can learn
where she goes for Friday prayers. See her imam. ASK if she violated HIS
teachings by prancing about with her naked face WITHOUT a male relative. If
she so sinned, ask him how many lashes he will give her. If her imam is not
that orthodox, place an ad saying, roughly, "Orthodox imams wanted. Huge
witness fee!" Their EXPERT testimony will get her case kicked out of court,
even if it's presided over by a mohammadan judge.

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Liana Gabriel <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002809127314>
said...

Well she definitely displayed her modesty by declaring her name,her medical
issue and pict to the media for the whole world to see.
Grab that 15 mins of fame to be forever remembered as the muslim chick with
a bloody butt.There's modesty,dignity and self respect Islam style for ya,it
goes out the window when a chance to sue pops up.

1.it was a reoccurring medical condition ,not a sudden onset nor life
threatening .

2.then she had a regular Dr. who diagnosed the condition .She should have
called that physician.

3.it was not an emergency if she could walk out,drive to two hospitals,make
demands,argue,,waste 45 mins between hospitals and sit in the waiting room
until her demands were met.

4.emergency rooms are not for demanding personal attention,special requests
or preferential treatment .They are for life and death EMERGENCIES .

5.if someone that was critically ill or injured died while the hospital
wasted time on her selfish demands,she should be sued.

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JB said...

To the initiator of this blog... I read from that version of Quran for the
sake that it should be read in English. The Arabic Quran does not have
parenthesis that put people's interpretations of the previous sentence.
There is NO obligation to the Muslim woman to cover their face. The Quran
explains the meaning of the hijab in which the hair, neck, and ears should
be covered and that she should be dressed modestly. I could have chosen to
not wear the hijab at all in which I would still wear pants and long sleeve
shirts in order to adhere to a modest dress. I love how everyone is all of a
sudden an expert in the Islamic religion since this story aired. Regardless
of how you feel about Muslims wanting to be given exceptional treatment, I
am an AMERICAN. A citizen of the USA in which I am entitled to the same
rights as any other American regardless of how I dress. Any woman should
have the right to be examined by a female doctor. You complain that Muslims
are always drawing attention and trying to sue and blah blah blah well it's
nice to see it's working. I clearly have received the attention of everyone
who responded to this ridiculous blog!

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Radegunda said in reply to JB...

Study some history (not just Islamic fables). Muslims have been trying to
force everybody else to follow Islamic rules (or pay tribute) for just about
1,400 years. There are neighborhoods in London where the Muslims put up
signs saying "this is a sharia zone" -- even though they're supposed to be
governed by British law. In Scandinavia, "infidel" women sometimes shroud
themselves so the Muslim men won't rape them.

If you think you joined such a wonderful "religion," see what happens if you
decide you want to convert out of it.

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Liana Gabriel <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002809127314>  said
in reply to JB...

JB,
No one care what a book says,what you believe or wear.No one cares what
religion you are.That is not the issue.

The issue is not citizenship.

You can see women Dr.'s all you want.Pick up the phone book and call one or
look in your insurance book.Call your female OB/GYN,primary care Dr.

An EMERGENCY ROOM is for life threatening medical conditions.People in car
accidents,stroke victims and people bleeding to death do not enter a
hospital and place their order for nurses and physicians like a
cafeteria.Someone with an injured child doesn't review Dr's by sex,race or
religion to treat their child.

I have suffered a hemorrhage and i promise you this case was not a medical
emergency or crisis.You selfishly wasted valuable time that Dr.'s may have
needed to save an injured child's life.It is irresponsible
,childish,obnoxious and self-indulgent to act like your religious ideals
supercedes everyone else's rights to medical treatment .

You got attention all right.Now everyone can laugh at how ridiculous you
are.Next time have your slave put ice on your ass.

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RacerJim said in reply to Liana Gabriel
<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002809127314> ...

Liana Gabriel,

Thank you for the plain and simple truth of the matter.

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Bronson said...

"no sense of the shame of sex"

That about sums it up.

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rufnkiddinme said...

holy fn crap!!!!
"not to reveal their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers,
their husband's fathers, their sons, their husband's sons, their brothers or
their brother's sons, or their sister's sons, or their (Muslim) women (i.e.
their sisters in Islam), or the (female) slaves whom their right hands
possess, or old male servants who lack vigour, or small children who have no
sense of the shame of sex. "

i think they left out el gamal, the raufies AND the pork 51 mosqueteers

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Alice <http://profile.typepad.com/6p00e5539122028833>  said...

So, apparently it IS OK for her to be naked in front of old men and little
boys...according to the Qur'an...

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mk750 said...

FYI, most very religious JEWISH women would object for the same reasons.

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Jamadagnii <http://profile.typepad.com/rozchatt>  said in reply to mk750...

Judaism teaches that rules can and should certainly be broken when a life is
at stake. There would be no objections if this was a medical emergency, just
gratitude for the skill and care by the physician.

Furthermore Orthodox Jews go about their lives following their customs
without demanding sensitivity or accommodations from non-Jews.

FYI I happen to know the Abington area and you won't find nicer or more
generous or tolerant people, which makes this story even more offensive.

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RacerJim said in reply to Jamadagnii <http://profile.typepad.com/rozchatt>
...

Nice, generous and tolerant people are Muslims' favorite prey.

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Tom Billesley <http://profile.typepad.com/zeminkayadash>  said...

"....old male servants who lack vigour"
It's no secret how arab slave traders supplied male "servants" who lacked
"vigour".
I doubt if intact male doctors on the ER staff would want to undergo the
required procedure.

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madmath1 said...

Of course the doctor insulted her religion. Allah never forgives.

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Oracle said...

Mrs. Jan Brown is probably having anal-sex with her Muslim husband, which is
adversely contributing to her rectal bleeding and pain.

Muslim men are allowed to sodomize their wives, concubines, and sex-slaves
as they desire.

Muhammad ibn Abd'Allah (a.k.a. Prophet Muhammad) decreed that homosexuals
must be killed immediately after the initial discovery of their homosexual
acts. But, sodomy is not prohibited in Islam. As readers of this website are
aware, clitorectomy of women is also widely practiced in various Islamic
countries.

When a Muslim man continues anal-sex with a female partner, the woman starts
to experience severe pain due to sore bottom and bleeding from her rectum
after multiple episodes of anal-sex.

In all likelihood, newly converted Mrs. Jan Brown's Muslim husband is
sodomizing her too often.





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Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking
And No Internet
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g-and-no-internet.pdf> PDF

Most Americans do not know this, but a single EMP attack could potentially
wipe out most of the electronics in the United States and instantly send
this nation back to the 1800s.  If a nuclear bomb was exploded high enough
in the atmosphere over the middle part of the country, the electromagnetic
pulse would fry electronic devices from coast to coast.  The damage would be
millions of times worse than 9/11.  Just imagine a world where nobody has
power, most cars will not start, the Internet has been fried, the financial
system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and
virtually all commerce across the entire country is brought to a complete
stop.

Life-After-An-EMP-Attack-No-Power-No-Food-No-Transportation-No-Banking-And-N
o-Internet-250x150A nation that does not know how to live without technology
would be almost entirely stripped of it at that point.  Yes, this could
really happen.  An EMP attack is America's "Achilles heel", and everyone
around the world knows it.  It is only a matter of time before someone uses
an EMP weapon against us, and at this point we are pretty much completely
unprepared.

The sad thing is that we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars
hunting down "terrorists" in caves on the other side of the globe and we
have been told that because of "national security" it is necessary for our
private areas to be touched before we are allowed to get on an airplane, but
our government is doing essentially nothing to address what is perhaps our
biggest security vulnerability.

.         What would you and your neighbors do if the power went out and it
did not ever come back on?

.         What would you do if an EMP attack happened in the middle of the
winter and you suddenly were not able to heat your home any longer?

.         What would you do if all the electronics in your car got fried and
you simply could not drive anywhere?

.         What would you do if all the supermarkets in your area shut down
because food could not be transported across the country anymore?

.         What would you do if you were suddenly unable to call your family
and friends for help?

.         What would you do if you were suddenly unable to get the medicine
that you needed?

.         What would you do if your debit cards and credit cards simply did
not work any longer and you could not get any of your money out of the bank?

.         What would you do if all of these things happened all at once?

A single EMP attack would be the worst disaster that the United States has
ever seen by far.  An electromagnetic pulse could potentially fry the vast
majority of all the microchips in the United States.  In an instant, nearly
all of our electronic devices would be rendered useless.

Yes, the federal government knows all about this.  The following excerpt is
from an April 2008 report
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/11562771/Electromagnetic-Pulse-Attack-A2473-EMP-C
ommission>  by the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack....

"The consequences of lack of food, heat (or air conditioning), water, waste
disposal, medical, police, fire fighting support, and effective civil
authority would threaten society itself."

Most of us have become completely and totally dependent on electricity and
technology.  Without it, most of us would be in huge trouble.

The following is how an article in the Wall Street Journal
<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190331/posts>  described the
potential consequences of an EMP attack....

No American would necessarily die in the initial attack, but what comes next
is potentially catastrophic. The pulse would wipe out most electronics and
telecommunications, including the power grid. Millions could die for want of
modern medical care or even of starvation since farmers wouldn't be able to
harvest crops and distributors wouldn't be able to get food to supermarkets.
Commissioner Lowell Wood calls EMP attack a "giant continental time machine"
that would move us back more than a century in technology to the late 1800s.

It wouldn't be so bad if we had the knowledge and the infrastructure to live
the way that they did back in the 1800s, but today that is simply not the
case.

Dr. William Graham was Ronald Reagan's science adviser and the chairman of
the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack.  Dr. Graham believes that in the event
of a large scale EMP attack, the vast majority of Americans would either
freeze, starve or die from disease
<http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/emp-electromagneticpulse-William-Graha
m/2010/04/05/id/354742> .

  <http://foodsupply.shelfreliance.com/foodsupply> Food Storage
SystemAccording to Graham <http://foodsupply.shelfreliance.com/foodsupply> ,
in the aftermath of an EMP attack life in America "would probably be
something that you might imagine life to be like around the late 1800s but
with several times the population we had in those days, and without the
ability of the country to support and sustain all those people."

Would you be able to survive?

All of those big bank accounts may never be able to be recovered after an
EMP attack.  Your money might be instantly fried out of existence.

The following is what Graham believes
<http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/emp-electromagneticpulse-William-Graha
m/2010/04/05/id/354742>  would happen to the financial system in the event
of an EMP attack....

"Most financial records are stored electronically. ATMs, which depend upon
both power and telecommunications, would not be available; banks, which try
to back up records but in general aren't strongly aware of the EMP problem,
would face the problem of unprotected storage and computer systems"

This is the danger of having a financial system that is so dependent on
technology.  We may wake up one day and find that all the money is gone.

But if an EMP attack actually happened, the biggest concern for most of us
would be trying to figure out how to survive.

The president of the Center for Security Policy, Frank Gaffney, is convinced
that a single EMP attack could result in the deaths of the vast majority of
the population of the United States <http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=149117> ....

"Within a year of that attack, nine out of 10 Americans would be dead,
because we can't support a population of the present size in urban centers
and the like without electricity"

Are you starting to get a feel for the scope of the problem?

The sad thing is that so much could be done to protect this country from an
EMP attack.

Right now, most vital U.S. military infrastructure has at least some
protection from an EMP attack.

But the general population has been left completely and totally vulnerable.

It has been estimated that the entire power grid could potentially be
protected for about 20 billion dollars
<http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/emp-attack/2009/09/09/id/334894> .
Considering the fact that we have spent over 400 billion dollars in
Afghanistan, I think that we could afford it.

We have spent our national security dollars very, very badly and someday it
is going to come back to bite us in the rear end.

Right now, other nations around the world are working feverishly to develop
EMP weapons.  The following is from a statement by Dr. Peter Vincent Pry to
the United States Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland
Security on March 8th, 2005
<http://kyl.senate.gov/legis_center/subdocs/030805_pry.pdf> ....

Russian and Chinese military scientists in open source writings describe the
basic principles of nuclear weapons designed specifically to generate an
enhanced-EMP effect, that they term "Super-EMP" weapons. "Super-EMP"
weapons, according to these foreign open source writings, can destroy even
the best protected U.S. military and civilian electronic systems.

But it is not just Russia and China that have been developing "Super-EMP"
weapons.  According to Newsmax, it is believed that North Korea may have
tested a "Super-EMP" weapon back in 2009
<http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/super-emp-emp-northkorea-nuke/2011/06/1
6/id/400260> ....

North Korea's last round of tests, conducted in May 2009, appear to have
included a "super-EMP" weapon, capable of emitting enough gamma rays to
disable the electric power grid across most of the lower 48 states

Remember, all it would take is one strategically placed EMP attack to wipe
out this nation.

But an EMP weapon is not the only danger that can produce this type of
effect.  The truth is that a really bad geomagnetic storm could also
potentially produce almost as much damage
<http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/emp-electromagneticpulse-William-Graha
m/2010/04/05/id/354742> .

This is something that everyone knows is one of our biggest vulnerabilities
and it is something that we can make preparations for.

Yet the Bush administration and the Obama administration have just stood
there and have done nothing.

Our idiocy is astounding.

General Eugene Habiger, the former head of U. S. Strategic Command, has said
the following <http://afteremp.com/>  about the possibility of an EMP attack
in the future....

"It is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when."

Remember, this is something that could cause millions times more damage than
9/11 did.

Instead of molesting old ladies at airports and chasing goat herders around
the mountains of Afghanistan, perhaps we should be addressing our largest
security vulnerabilities.

But that would require using some common sense.  Sadly, common sense seems
to be in very short supply in Washington D.C. these days.

So if the government is not going to do anything about it, that means that
it is up to you to prepare yourself and your family.  This world is becoming
very unstable and disasters can strike at any time
<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/do-you-now-understand-why-you-n
eed-to-prepare-for-emergencies-this-has-been-the-worst-year-for-natural-disa
sters-in-u-s-history> .

We all saw what happened after Hurricane Katrina.  The government response
was a nightmare.  An EMP attack would be millions of times worse and the
federal government probably would not even be able to get you and your
family any assistance.

You would truly be on your own.

So are you ready?

This is yet another reason why the number of preppers
<http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/if-everything-is-going-to-be-okay
-then-why-is-the-number-of-preppers-in-the-united-states-absolutely-explodin
g>  in the United States is exploding.  A lot of people can see how the
world is changing and they understand that the federal government is not
going to come through for them when the chips are down.

An EMP attack could end life as we know it at any time.

It is a glaring security vulnerability and the entire world knows that it is
there.

I hope that you are getting ready, because the government certainly is not.

See End of the American Dream Website
<http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/life-after-an-emp-attack-no-power
-no-food-no-transportation-no-banking-and-no-internet>





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As expected in my posting last month Mohamed Mahmoud is back and took up
fresh activities as a Salafi preacher in videos released first by german
convertite Marc-Daniel Jungnitz.

Stub and videos (german w english subtiteles) available on doms.info

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyGjAinyuWI

:One easy, in theory,fix -- that will only happen if we demand it  --  it
is a law that says:
  "*If you can't vote, you can't contribute to a candidate or party*" -- *that
takes corporations, unions, and special interest groups right out of the
contribution equation* (until they found a way to sneak in) -- it might
require, at some point. a Constitution Amendment if the Corporations (now
legal persons) sued to be able to vote -- but we could cross that bridge
when we came to it.

The only way to ever get this through would be to make it a requirement for
voter support as in "sign this pledge" -- so it would probably never happen.

Individuals could contribute with possible limits -- there would have to
safeguards against fraud -- individuals passing along money from
organizations,

Anyone interested?

--

"*Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.*" -- *Daniel
Patrick Moynihan *
"*When you come to the fork in the road, take it*" -- *L.P. Berra*
"*Always make new mistakes*" - *Esther Dyson*
"*The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of
those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have
little*." -- *Franklin D.
Roosevelt<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/franklind163168.html>
*
"*Do or Do Not. There is no Try*" ~ *Yoda*
"*Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic*"
    -- *Sir Arthur C. Clarke*
"*You Gotta Believe*" - *Frank "Tug" McGraw*


                    John F. McMullen
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According to Fairfax, a memory stick containing confidential data of
Australia's activities in the Middle East had been disappeared from a
checked-in backpack of a top military official on his way from Kuwait to
Pakistan.
Full
story:http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/11328733/secret-defence-docume\
nts-stolen/


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URL        :
http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/opcartel-and-its-transparency/
Posted     : November 8, 2011 at 09:52
Author     : th3j35t3r

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.  - Don Dokken
I am really sorry but....again it's Dick of the Week time....
@barrettbrownlol  (http://twitter.com/barrettbrownlol) - come on down.

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/11/03/Screen_shot_2011-11-03_at_4.32.24_PM\
.png
I have been watching with mild amusement the antics and desperation of
Mr Barrett Brown over the last weeks. As we know, @barrettbrownlol
(http://twitter.com/barrettbrownlol)  the largely unwelcome strung-out,
heroin lined voice of those #anonymous kids has jumped into bed with
Amazon and is writing a book about Anonymous.

Here's a link
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057884/Anonymous-spokesman-Barrett-Bro\
wn-lands-figure-book-deal.html)

The fact that he has done a deal with Amazon who have been targeted by
Anonymous themselves less than a year ago during 'operation Payback' has
drawn some very angry responses from their 'ranks'. So he's making lots
of enemies out of old friends.

Now, in an effort to garner grittier publicity for above mentioned book,
Barrett Brown fabricated a story about an 'unknown and as yet
unidentified' member of Anonymous who was supposedly 'kidnapped' by the
(rightly so) much feared Los Zetas drug cartel in Mexico. Nobody knows
who this supposed victim is and no official reports have been filed.

Come on Barrett are you fuckin high or something?....yeah I know that
was a rhetorical question.

In response Anonymous launched #OpCartel which was basically going to
name folks who 'alledgedly' have dealings with the Zetas' - After
realizing this was a really bad idea due to the fact that the Zetas'
have no problems inflicting a thousand deaths upon anyone, most of
Anonymous decided against it but Barrett has taken it upon himself to
carry on with it.

I personally don't care what Barrett Brown does, or whether he lives or
dies. But in another crazy attempt at keeping momentum and media
interest, Barrett has decided to try and draw me into his little shitstorm.

....and this will never do.

A recent tweet from @barrettbrownlol (http://twitter.com/barrettbrownlol)

RT @BarrettBrownLOL (http://twitter.com/BarrettBrownLOL) : Several
ex-military men w/ th3j35t3r been involved in leaking info on my family
for #Zetas. Don't known what else to say. #OpCartel

In response:

Firstly I work alone, it's well documented, I choose to do this for the
safety of myself and others. So there really is no 'with Jester'.
Secondly Brown was not 'doxed' his information is already freely
available all over the web due to his incessantly ridiculous ego and
delusional whacked-out need to make people notice him, even though he
doesn't actually DO anything. Just talks a lot.

@barrettbrownlol (http://twitter.com/barrettbrownlol)  - I have no
interest in you or your agendas or indeed your little #OpCartel. Do not
attempt to draw me into your world making totally false baseless claims
about me throwing you to the Zeta's - to gain yet more publicity for a
book I doubt will ever see the light of day. It's far more likely that
the members of your precious Anonymous that you have pissed off and
totally mis-represented have turned on you and dropped your dox.

Or could it be you actually doxed yourself? You are not exactly
professional in your approach to OPSEC, showing your face on webcams,
and photo's, using TinyChat which is really well known for it's security
right?

And finally, please for once show some credible evidence to back up your
claims about me, in fact, show us some evidence for the whole bullshit
kidnapping story you made up, which kick started this mess you now find
yourself in.

I can tell you for sure, that I saw many RT's of your dox, none by me,
but you chose to single out @rjacksix because you think he is 'with me'
- offering a bounty for his infos. I do believe not many months ago you
put a 'bounty' on me too.

There's plenty of people out there think you are a giant cock, (as I am
sure there's those that think same about me) anyone one of them could
have posted the original Dox tweet.- now combine that with your drugs
induced paranoia, it's anyone's guess.

Go away Brown, nobody gives a fuck about you. Quit trying to drag me
into your pathetic self promotion machine. I am not even slightly
interested in you or #OpCartel. Which is really lucky for you Brown.

Message to all. The truth of the matter is this, with Brown, it's not
about fighting Mexican injustice, it's not about a 'kidnapped' Anon,
it's not even about him having a problem with the prices he has to pay
to get high, it's not about anything except him generating interest in
his upcoming book.

#opCartel is actually #OpMarketMyBook

Peace.

http://www.dmos.info/c/nuts_111111_p40_41_BillShaw_01.jpg
http://www.dmos.info/c/nuts_111111_p40_41_BillShaw_02.jpg

http://dmos.info/c/Penthouse_Dec11_p64.jpg
http://dmos.info/c/Penthouse_Dec11_p65.jpg

It seems, after 20-year-break, Russia's technologists invented something
new a sky is no limit:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/video-ufo-filmed-hovering-over-russ\
ian-protesters-161925456.html
<http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/video-ufo-filmed-hovering-over-rus\
sian-protesters-161925456.html>





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[Plain stupid storing client data online; StratFor obviously applied a
rather high level of idiocy in it's IT OpSec. dm+]

Intelligence Service Stratfor Suffered A Devastating Hacking Attack

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-25/wall_street/30556093_1_credit-car\
ds-emails-mf-global

This Christmas will not be a happy one for George Friedman (who
incidentally was the focus of John Mauldin's latest book promotion email
blast) and his Stratfor Global Intelligence service, because as of a few
hours ago, hacking collective Anonymous disclosed that not only has it
hacked the Stratfor website (since confirmed by Friedman himself), but
has also obtained the full client list of over 4000 individuals and
corporations, including their credit cards (which supposedly have been
used to make $1 million in "donations"), as well as over 200 GB of email
correspondence.

I've just read e-letter arrived on 6th January-12, from which the following
exert is:

"The Muslim Brotherhood, which has dominated the first two rounds of voting for
Egypt's new parliament, has now declared that one of their first steps on taking
power will be to submit the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, signed more than
thirty years ago by my dear friend Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat (who was
assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood for signing it), to the nation for a
vote.  The outcome of that vote is not in question, and Egypt and Israel would
technically be at war again."

Is Stratfor aiding the enemy?

Cross-referencing Stratfor customers database, which was leaked by
cyberterrorists earlier this year, highlights a name which might be
connected to Wahhabi extremist Mevludin Jasarevic, who was taken down
when firing at the US embassy in Sarajevo October 2011 ... continue
reading at dmos.info.

Forbes' Peter Cohan cites
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/02/26/will-saudi-arabia-sup\
port-an-israeli-attack-on-iran-in-june/>  a weapons dealer who thinks
that this June Israel will be using a Saudi air base for an attack on
Iran's nuclear site.







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I highly recommend Roger's journals.



-B



From:  Roger Vleugels roger.vleugels@...



Dear intelligence specialist,



I publish two specialist email journals which might be of interest to you.

They are free of charge - Interested? Mail: START FRINGE



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[dealing with energy, rare earth, water and climate intelligence], and
Intelligence 2.0 [IT sector-generated private intelligence]. These sections
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intelligence, revealed via FOI requests.

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In terms of circulation, both Fringe journals enjoy a top ranking in their
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independent email journals and mailing lists.

Sixty percent of the subscribers are intelligence specialists, 25%
journalists and 15% FOIA specialists. They live in 108 countries: 35% in NL,
5% in UK, 25% in US and 35% in the rest of the world. Fifteen percent of the
subscribers are government employees [half of whom work in intelligence
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About the editor/publisher: Roger Vleugels

In 1986, I started my own office in The Netherlands and began working as a
legal advisor and lecturer specialized in freedom of information and
intelligence. In 2001, I added the publishing of the Fringe journals.

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universities and in company. I have taught students in or from Argentina,
Aruba, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary,
Indonesia, Italy, Iran, Ireland, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, the
Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and the UK.

Since 1988, I have as legal advisor / acting lawyer filed for or with my
clients more than 4,000 FOIA requests. Most of these clients are journalists
in the Netherlands but also special interest groups, NGOs, researchers and
private persons.

As an intelligence specialist, I research and lecture on this topic. I also
comment in the press, brief members of parliament and advise journalists and
lawyers.



Surfing, searching, stringers and sources

Articles are gathered for Fringe by a small group of Dutch and foreign
stringers, some of whom work covertly. Without the work of these stringers
Fringe would not be possible. Additionally I do some of the gathering on my
own, mainly by netsurfing and maintaining a range of subscriptions, feeds
and alerts.

Some of the more specialised sources are: Access Info Europe, AIP Bulgaria,
Article 19, BeSpacific, Bigwobber, Bits of Freedom, Centre for Law &
Democracy, Cryptogram, CFOI, Cryptome, EDRi-gram, EFF, EPIC, FOIANet,
FreedomInfo, Geheim, Infowarrior, Intelforum, Intelligence Online, Memory
Hole, Mother Jones, National Security Archive, NatoWatch, NISA, Privacy
International, RCFP, Secrecy News, StateWatch, Terrorism Monitor and Wired.



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voluntary contribution however is welcome. To start a subscription, mail:
START FRINGE. [To stop, mail: STOP FRINGE.]



Kind regards,



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+ Forensic intelligence researcher

+ Lecturer and legal advisor freedom of information

+ Publisher of the Fringe journals





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Plans to introduce the super- weapons turning people into zombie were
announced quietly last week by Russian defence minister Anatoly
Serdyukov, fulfilling a little-noticed election campaign pledge by
president-elect Putin.

Full story: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a6_1333329655
<http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a6_1333329655>



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Austrian Jihad-Rapper: "Brothers united in Islam will fuck shitty Americans"

Grown up in Austria in well settled circumstances, but now becoming
islamic gangster rapper longing to die as Shahids for Islam. Yasser &
Oman, landed a hit as Jihad rappers on youtube. Yasser is the son of the
President of the Graz Islamic Centre, MD Mohammed Ezzat Gowayed of Egypt
descent and spent one year ... read on at http://www.dmos.info/

[Not a word about th3j35t3r (http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/) in this
article. Odd... dm+]

Who Is Waging Cyberwar Against the Jihadi Networks?

"The enemies of Allah who boast of their freedoms have not spared any
effort to eradicate our blessed media." After two weeks of silence, the
jihadist forum Shamukh al Islam came back online yesterday with a gloat:
an apparent cyberattack against Shamukh and four similar sites had
failed to shut it down permanently. But terrorism analysts see the event
in a different light. As they investigate the mystery of who caused the
outage and why, most can't help seeing in the blackout one more piece of
evidence that al-Qaeda is in disarray.

Websites like Shamukh al Islam perform a critical function in jihadist
circles. Loaded with videos that depict alleged Western atrocities
against Muslims, they recruit supporters, while their chat rooms and
forums allow jihadists around the globe to communicate with one another
and exchange information, including instructions on bomb construction
and chemical warfare.

http://news.yahoo.com/waging-cyberwar-against-jihadi-networks-023606054.html

http://defense-update.com/20120427_risat-1.html
<http://defense-update.com/20120427_risat-1.html>

News Desk <http://defense-update.com/author/news-desk>  April 27, 2012
13:21

The Indian Space Research Organization launched yesterday the second
radar imagery satellite, and the first indiginously built by the
country's space research organization (ISRO). The satellite named
Risat-1 successfully deployed into a polar orbit at an altitude of 480
km and orbital inclination 97.552 degrees.

Risat-1 has an expected life span of five years. The satellite will
provide high resolution radar images, obtained in day and night and also
through clouds, enabling the country to continue monitoring areas of
interest during the monsoon season.

The satellite was launched at 5.47 a.m. on the Polar Satellite Launch
Vehicle C19 (PSLV-C19). At around 17 minutes into the flight, PSLV-C19
delivered Risat-1 into an intermediate polar orbit at an altitude of 480
km and an orbital inclination of 97.552 degrees. Over the weekend the
satellite will be elevated to its final intended orbit at an altitude of
536 km. With Thursday's launch the PSLV rocket has launched
successfully 53 satellites out of 54 it carried – majorly remote
sensing/earth observation satellites both Indian and foreign – and
has been a major revenue earner for ISRO. The ISRO-made Risat-1 is the
heaviest luggage so far ferried by a PSLV since 1993.

India currently has 11 remote sensing and earth observation satellites
in orbit, providing imagery at different resolution levels, from 500
meters to about one meter resolution. These spacecraft include the TES,
Resourcesat-1, Cartosat-1, 2, 2A and 2B, IMS-1, Oceansat-2,
Resourcesat-2 and Megha-Tropiques. Risat-1 joins Risat-2 in orbit, an
Israeli SAR satellite launched in 2009. Both satellites carry synthetic
aperture radars (SAR). Risat-1 operates in C-band while Risat-2′s
SAR works in the X-band.
   <http://defense-update.com/20120427_risat-1.html>


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http://www.criticalthreats.org/yemen/yemen-crisis-situation-reports-upda\
te-137-april-26-2012
<http://www.criticalthreats.org/yemen/yemen-crisis-situation-reports-upd\
ate-137-april-26-2012> By Sasha Gordon
<http://www.criticalthreats.org/users/sgordon>
April 26, 2012


The Yemeni army is attempting to regain control of Zinjibar, a southern
city held since last May by Ansar al Sharia, al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula's (AQAP) insurgent arm. Government forces and tribesmen
are fighting Ansar al Sharia militants, who have been trying to regain
control of Lawder, a city to the northeast of Zinjibar that sits along a
main road into al Bayda governorate.

The Yemeni military pushed
<http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/04/24/yemeni-army-fights-to-center-al\
-qaida-held-city/>  into Ansar al Sharia-controlled Zinjibar and secured
several areas in the city center after a six-hour battle that killed 65
militants on April 24. The military hit
<http://www.almotamar.net/news/98859.htm>  the city with airstrikes
<http://www.almasdaronline.com/index.php?page=news&article-section=1&new\
s_id=31243>  and artillery on April 23 before sending
<http://www.elaph.com/Web/news/2012/4/731585.html?entry=homepagemainmidd\
le>  in army and security units supported
<http://www.almotamar.net/news/98828.htm>  by civilian fighters to clear
the town. Yemeni military forces moved in from multiple fronts. The
119th Infantry Brigade, approaching from the southwest, was able to
secure the outlying city of al   Kod. The 25th Mechanized Brigade,
stationed southeast of Zinjibar, cleared the southeastern approaches to
the city. The 201st Mechanized Brigade approached from the north and
cleared the surrounding areas. The 39th Armored Brigade entered the city
center from the east, securing
<http://www.26sep.net/news_details.php?sid=81218>  several buildings on
the morning of April 24. Forces moved cautiously once inside the city to
avoid mines laid by Ansar al Sharia. Yemeni troops then moved to clear
<http://www.26sep.net/news_details.php?sid=81218>  government buildings.
The 135th Infantry Brigade has been redeployed
<http://www.26sep.net/news_details.php?lng=arabic&sid=81214>  to
reinforce the troops in Zinjibar. Ansar al Sharia denied
<http://www.adenlife.net/news/10109.htm>  that the army has made any
gains, while military sources say the army is poised
<http://yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=5217>  to retake
the entire city. Yemeni forces were able to take portions of Zinjibar in
July
<http://www.criticalthreats.org/yemen/yemen-crisis-situation-reports-upd\
ate-43-july-26-2011>  and September
<http://www.criticalthreats.org/yemen/yemen-crisis-situation-reports-upd\
ate-67-september-13-2011>  of 2011, but were ultimately unsuccessful in
liberating the regional capital.

An airstrike killed Mohammed Said al Umdah, an AQAP military commander,
in Ma'rib governorate. The strike hit his vehicle
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white-house-appro\
ves-broader-yemen-drone-campaign/2012/04/25/gIQA82U6hT_story.html>  on
April 22, killing
<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i14OnppTcVCzoqzNKVDK\
jyV7KEFA?docId=CNG.a86eb6b2701ce148592ac01588b748be.171>  him and at
least two other militants. Umdah trained
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white-house-appro\
ves-broader-yemen-drone-campaign/2012/04/25/gIQA82U6hT_story_1.html>  at
al Farouq camp in Afghanistan before 2001. He was convicted in 2005 for
supporting the 2002 bombing of the Limburg, a French oil tanker, and
escaped prison in a February 2006 jailbreak, along with future AQAP
leaders Nasser al Wahayshi and Qasim al Raymi.

Violence continues in Lawder in northeast Abyan governorate as tribesmen
and the 111th Infantry Brigade battle Ansar al Sharia militants.
Thirteen militants were killed
<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i14OnppTcVCzoqzNKVDK\
jyV7KEFA?docId=CNG.a86eb6b2701ce148592ac01588b748be.171>  in an
artillery barrage on Ansar al Sharia positions by government forces
assisted <http://26sep.net/news_details.php?sid=81179>  by civilian
groups of government supporters called "Popular Resistance
Committees" on April 23. Tribesmen launched
<http://almasdaronline.com/index.php?page=news&article-section=1&news_id\
=31281>  two more attacks on Ansar al Sharia positions outside Lawder
the following day. Ansar al Sharia has been active in Lawder district
since last year, and fighting has intensified around the city since
militants attacked a military outpost in the area on April 9, 2012.








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