Longtime hidden from the British Public....

Hitler's Style...Shahid malik Video,see it @ YOUTUBE,

& IN FRONT...

A must hear Video On the new Plans to"How invade Europe & the the entire world"with extrimism",a new ...lets say Crusade... without photos this time but, with violente response to Isabelle La Catholique,a new way to read the Bible from the End to the beginning with the Coran  replacing the Holy grail; the Kaaba replacing jerusalem.
But the extreme right is rising again...&lifiying; there will probably be clashes ...hope that moderation from all parties will help them all to live in peace & avoid the "Clash of Civilisation". 

les femmes... du Pollen... qui vole autour etc...

Un bon moyen de faire du Fric !

04 novembre 2009

Si tu veux amasser un paquet de fric en peu de temps, tu dois investir dans un Laboratoire "ADN" au Liban, spécialisé dans le certificat de "Paternité" ! En France, 1 gosse sur 30 n'est pas l'enfant du mari de sa pute de mère !

Au Liban, tu vas voir les pères courir au laboratoire pour une analyse en Paternité !!!! et payer des fortunes pour être rassurés !! ...et tu vas voir en même temps le nombre incalculable de gonzesses galoper à plat ventre jusqu'au Labo pour y refiler le bakhchich nécessaire à un "bon" résultat !!! Et comme les toubibs sont aussi pourris que les autres, ils empocheront les petites "enveloppes" et se donneront bonne conscience en affirmant haut et fort que c'est pour la paix des ménages !

Et bizarrement tu verras le nombre de crimes d'honneur remonter en flèche !

Don Diego

P.S. Tu pourras très vite ouvrir des succursales en Syrie, Jordanie et même en Arabie Saoudite, car faut pas croire que là bas les femmes ne trompent pas leur mari !!!!

Talking John Birch Society Blues,By Bob Dylan - I had this Unique -of 3 pre-issued-DJ Copies albums-But It was stolen By a Crook,a thief,a SOB named SAMIR ATTIEH...Classify this name & watch Ur bak!

This song is a 4 minutes 15 ' performed in Studio,then 3.30'Performed in public
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues by Bob Dylan
Songfacts: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page. Dylan wrote this about the John Birch Society, an ultraconservative political organization formed in 1958 to fight Communist threats in the US.
This is a parody of the organization, which Dylan thought was a threat to free speech because they accused anyone they didn't like of being a communist.
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In the '50s and '60s, many famous musicians, including Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Doors and The Rolling Stones, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. Dylan never did, and this is the song that kept him off. On May 12, 1963, he was scheduled to appear on the show, but refused to go on when they would not let him perform this.

Advance copies of the album Freewheelin' Bob Dylan included this song, but it was removed prior to the official release. It did not officially appear on an album until Bootleg Series in 1991. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL)

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Comments:

"the john birch society is the neo cons that love power and love to abuse power." The following comment tries to link Neoconservatives with the John Birch Society. Anyone who knows anything about the American conservativism knows this is simply NOT true. The John Birch Society is a group of radical Paleoconservatives. Neoconservativism arose out of the writings of ex liberal, mostly Jewish intellectuals in the 1960s, and has consistently been opposed by Paleoconservatives. Back to the song, it is just plan funny.

- Mike, Louisville, KY

"People who are truly to the left support free speech in all forms." Trust me, I was once a newspaperman--the most leftist profession perhaps known to man--and I know this isn't so. I was unceremoniously forced to leave the college paper over a scandal--which, long story short, boils down to me and my archconservative views ruffling too many feathers. If they don't like what you say, write, or draw, or if you dare to criticise the Great and Mighty Party, liberals label it "racist", "sexist" and "hate speech", brand you "crazy", "neocon", or "dangerous", and seek to silence you. I've written and spoken of my journalism experience many times: the bitter rivalries, the power grabs, the rumormongering and backbiting. I set one story at a junior high school rag because I felt it best exemplified the childish atmosphere of it all, by people who are ostensibly educated mature adults. Incidentally, do you know what A.C.L.U stands for? All Criminals Love Us.... ;)

- Jonathan, Armorel, AR

fantastic dylan. he always sang the truth. if people didn't like he didn't care. the john birch society is the neo cons that love power and love to abuse power.

- rick, tuscola, United States

how ironic that a song which criticizes a anti-democratic organization (which was against free speech) was buried by censorship for almost 30 years...

- Petter, Ã?ngelholm, Sweden

This isn't even a protest song. In the true definition of one Dylan never did write one. This is just making fun of the society. Hes not trying to say its bad or wrong. In none of his songs doesn he want to change something he just is providing his view on certain subjects (Listen to Master's of War a bit closer next time). And don't mention the ACLU again. They accuse someone of hate speech and then give them a lawyer they hired to direct there case. And if they lost they'd accuse the jury of racism...

- Chad, Reading, PA

People who are truley to the left support free speach in all forms. The ACLU even provides lawyers to Klan memders accused of hate speach.

- John Dylan, Blah, MS

"...which Dylan thought was a threat to free speech because they accused anyone they didn't like of being a communist." So nowadays we have left-wingers attempting to use PC speech codes to shut down people they claim are using "hate speech."

- Wes, Springfield, VA

Good job Songfacts with the choice of having a piece on this Dylan obscurity. It's a great protest song, and it reminds or teaches people that early on Dylan was a pretty funny guy.

- craig, madison, WI

The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 Live 1964 contains a kick ass version of this song. The entire album is amazing. If you like Dylan, you'll really dig this album.

- blind boy grunt, anywhere, LA

A Paris...2 Novembre 2009

Non,ce n'est pas l'arabie, c'est a Paris et avec l'accord du Maire de Puteaux

Puteaux, FRANCE : "avec l'aimable autorisation de la mairie"



2 novembre 2009


La ville de Puteaux (92) est à la lisière ouest de Paris.
« Nous vous informons que la prière dans la rue est possible avec l’aimable autorisation de la mairie de Puteaux, ainsi que la collaboration de la police municipale qui ferme la rue tous les vendredis pendant toute la durée de la prière. » (source)

Chaque vendredi, la rue Saulnier est barrée, la circulation des véhicules y est interdite, afin que les musulmans puissent prier en plein air, sur une longueur de plus de cent mètres.

Des haut-parleurs diffusent la prière, en arabe, à très fort volume, dans toute la rue.

La mairie de Puteaux, dirigée depuis avril 2004 par Joëlle Ceccaldi-Raynaud (UMP), ancienne suppléante de Nicolas Sarkozy à l’Assemblée nationale, a donné son autorisation à ce blocage de la rue Saulnier par les musulmans.

A l’inverse de ce qui se passe dans le quartier islamisé de Barbès (Paris, 18e), où ce sont des responsables de la mosquée qui, en toute illégalité, barrent les rues avec des barrières (voire avec des voitures), à Puteaux c’est la police municipale qui bloque la rue.

PRIERES MUSULMANES DANS LES RUES DE PARIS

Rue Leon...Il y a meme des retardataires qui eloignes les barrages...lol

The "boule de neige"effect"

LES MINARETS INTERDITS EN SUISSE!!
Démocratie directe (sur les minarets suisses) : les Français en ont une énorme envie!

Les 2.100 réactions postées en un peu plus d'un jour pour commenter le vote des Suisses sur les minarets ont fait retentir une salve d'applaudissements : très majoritairement, les lecteurs venus sur lepoint.fr ont célébré le "courage", "l'esprit de résistance" ( Vlfr ), la clairvoyance transfrontalière. Les raisons de cet engouement vont bien au-delà d'un repli identitaire.

Laissons de côté les commentaires extrêmes que le respect de la loi et le bon sens nous imposent de supprimer - notons qu'ils sont un peu plus nombreux que de coutume - et voyons les analyses des internautes qui ont conclu à la justesse de la décision majoritaire en Suisse dans laquelle le peuple "a voulu dire non pas qu'il rejetait l'islam en tant que religion, laquelle comme les autres a droit au respect et à la liberté inaliénable du culte, mais qu'il redoutait l'extension en Suisse, comme ailleurs en Europe, d'un islam radical qui veut imposer des lois et des coutumes en contradiction totale avec les droits de l'homme (et de la femme) tels que nous les concevons et qui ne sont pas négociables" ( philippe 01 ).

Premier argument, le principe de réciprocité , maintes fois avancé : pas question de favoriser le culte musulman tant que, dans les pays musulmans, les chrétiens seront rejetés, que ce soit "en Indonésie, le plus grand pays musulman du monde, où plus de trois cents églises ont été détruites récemment dans l'indifférence générale et les chrétiens dissuadés de poursuivre leurs activités" ( Tioman ), "en Arabie saoudite, où essayez donc d'aller construire une église..." ( Arn le templier ), en Bosnie ou au Kosovo où "les églises serbes sont perdues au milieu de territoires musulmans" ( laquestion ). "On ne peut construire d'églises ou de temples bouddhistes en terre musulmane, on ne peut même pas y obtenir de citoyenneté si l'on y est né sans être musulman" ( septimus severus ). Delnogal a beau opposer que "si l'islam est un obscurantisme, ce n'est pas en éteignant nos Lumières qu'on y verra plus clair", pour la majorité des commentateurs, la dissymétrie n'est pas acceptable. "L'Europe se sent un peu colonisée, pacifiquement, mais colonisée tout de même" ( ml ).

Argument corollaire, le minaret est vu non comme un simple élément architectural, mais comme un "symbole politico-religieux" ( chloé ), qui figure la volonté de conquête de l'islam, son "prosélytisme" ( jeanmi ), son "expansionnisme" ( le cors@ire ). La thèse universaliste est avancée, et on célèbre une "défaite des tenants du relativisme culturel" ( kaourant ).

On voit que les commentaires des internautes du point.fr prennent position contre l'édification de nouveaux minarets au nom des valeurs républicaines : la liberté , l' égalité (dans la réciprocité), la préservation de la tolérance , la sauvegarde de la laïcité ..., la "modernité du rationalisme " ( jim ).
Et c'est ici qu'apparaît la distance qui sépare le "peuple" des "politiques" - et de "bien des médias". Les responsables politiques sont perçus comme défenseurs jaloux d'une démocratie représentative qui leur garantit des fonctions privilégiées et les rend progressivement sourds à la voix du "souverain" (le peuple). Alors, la démocratie à laquelle on aspire, parce qu'on a l'impression de ne plus jamais être entendu, est un régime direct. Comme dans les votations suisses.
"C'est le pays réel qui a gagné, c'est une belle leçon de démocratie" ( panam ). "Le peuple suisse montre le décalage qu'il y a d'une part entre les gouvernants, les médias, les intellectuels, et d'autre part le peuple d'en bas qui en bave tous les jours" ( OSS007 ). "Nos politiques se disent tolérants. Mais quand on n'est pas de leur avis, ils vous laissent entendre que vous n'avez pas toute votre tête" ( Alroanise ). "Pour eux, le peuple a le droit de s'exprimer, mais uniquement dans le sens qu'ils ont décidé préalablement" ( Ammien Marcellin ). "Jamais la cassure n'a été aussi nette entre les Français de racines et leurs prétendues élites. Mais ces dernières se croient d'une essence tellement supérieure... Leur rêve est de mettre Brecht en pratique : le peuple ayant mal voté, le gouvernement a décidé de dissoudre le peuple et d'en nommer un autre" ( Z Marcas ).

Populisme ? Limites de la démocratie directe ? Faiblesses de la vox populi ? Les commentateurs sont conscients de ces dangers : "Méfiez-vous tout de même de la vox populi, souvent exprimée sous le coup de l'émotion ou de l'humeur du moment" ( Un monde parfait ). "Le populisme tient aujourd'hui lieu de pensée universelle : les minarets, c'est musulman, donc c'est pas nous... à ce train-là, on est bon pour refaire les croisades." ( Jc ) "Avec ce refus, on atteint les limites de la démocratie directe et de son exercice au cours duquel les minorités ne sont plus entendues ; alors que la démocratie, c'est aussi et surtout la reconnaissance et la protection des minorités, et religieuses et culturelles et ethniques" ( serge uleski ).

Mais le principal écueil n'est pas là. Il est dans le fonctionnement jugé décevant de la démocratie représentative : "La démocratie représentative que nous vivons fonctionne mal et ne tient pas ses promesses, pis elle fait souvent le contraire de ce qu'elle promet. Je préfère de beaucoup ce qui est péjorativement appelé par les pédants qui nous gouvernent populisme , c'est l'émanation directe et démocratique de ce que souhaite le peuple" ( chouchou ). Il est aussi dans la perception d'une inefficacité du pouvoir : "Cela fait des mois qu'ils réfléchissent, qu'ils pensent, qu'ils pèsent, qu'ils soupèsent pour savoir s'il faut envisager de peut-être réfléchir à penser qu'il serait souhaitable de s'interroger, etc." ( la vigie ). Il est enfin dans une contestation du style du pouvoir : "Populisme ! s'indignent les amis du désastre ! Hé bien, mieux vaut le populisme que le peopolisme niaiseux" ( antigone ).

La surprise déclenchée par le résultat de la consultation en Suisse inspire à Alroanise cette apostrophe facétieuse et provocatrice aux politiques : " Bienvenue chez nous ! "

As long as Americans don't see the true drama..it's ok...but...if they do blame it on the press...

Photo of Dying Marine Draws Fire from PentagonBy Matthew Shaer
Scroll to base of page to view photographsSeptember 05, 2009 "CSM" -- - Defense Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the Associated Press decision to release a photograph of a US Marine wounded during a battle in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.

The Marine, Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. He later died of his wounds.
In the AP photograph, Bernard is pictured lying on his side on a sandy slope. The image is blurry, but Bernard appears to be bleeding; two other Marines stand over him, attending to his wounds. The caption, titled “Afghanistan Death of a Marine,” identifies the location as the village of Dahaneh. The photographer is Julie Jacobson, who also took the image at the top of this post. The AP reports that Bernard later died on the operating table at a nearby field hospital.
“AP journalists document world events every day.

Afghanistan is no exception,” Santiago Lyon, the wire services’ director of photography, said in a statement. “We feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there, however unpleasant and brutal that sometimes is.” In a story on the ambush, the AP reported that Bernard’s death came during the “deadliest month of the deadliest year since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
According to the AP, Bernard’s parents had twice asked the image not be released.
Fallout
“I cannot imagine the pain and suffering Lance Corporal Bernard’s death has caused his family,” Gates wrote in a letter to Thomas Curley, AP’s president and chief executive officer.

“Why your organization would purposefully defy the family’s wishes knowing full well that it will lead to yet more anguish is beyond me. Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image of their maimed and stricken child on the front page of multiple American newspapers is appalling. The issue here is not law, policy or constitutional right – but judgment and common decency.”
The leader of the largest veterans association in the US has also criticized the AP’s decision, Reuters reports.
“The lack of compassion and common decency shown by the Associated Press in releasing this photograph is stunning,” said American Legion National Commander Clarence E. Hill, a retired Navy captain. “Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard is a hero who gave his life for his country. His family is understandably offended.”
White House responds to anger over Obama school speech
“I think we’ve reached a little bit of the silly season when the President of the United States can’t tell kids in school to study hard and stay in school,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporter
Death of a Marine in Afghanistan
September 4th, 2009 - NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press is distributing a photo of a Marine fatally wounded in battle, choosing after a period of reflection to make public an image that conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.
Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard, 21, of New Portland, Maine, was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.
The image shows fellow Marines helping Bernard after he suffered severe leg injuries. He was evacuated to a field hospital where he died on the operating table.
The picture was taken by Associated Press photographer Julie Jacobson, who accompanied Marines on the patrol and was in the midst of the ambush during which Bernard was wounded. She had photographed Bernard on patrol earlier, and subsequently covered the memorial service held by his fellow Marines after his death.
“AP journalists document world events every day. Afghanistan is no exception. We feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there, however unpleasant and brutal that sometimes is,” said Santiago Lyon, the director of photography for AP.
He said Bernard’s death shows “his sacrifice for his country. Our story and photos report on him and his last hours respectfully and in accordance with military regulations surrounding journalists embedded with U.S. forces.”

Thursday afternoon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called AP President Tom Curley asking that the news organization respect the wishes of Bernard’s father and not publish the photo. Curley and AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll said they understood this was a painful issue for Bernard’s family and that they were sure that factor was being considered by the editors deciding whether or not to publish the photo, just as it had been for the AP editors who decided to distribute it.

Jacobson, in a journal she kept, recalled Bernard’s ordeal as she lay in the dirt while Marines tried to save their comrade with bullets overhead.
“The other guys kept telling him ‘Bernard, you’re doing fine, you’re doing fine. You’re gonna make it. Stay with me Bernard!’” As one Marine cradled Bernard’s head, fellow Marines rushed forward with a stretcher.
Later, when she learned he had died, Jacobson thought about the pictures she had taken.
“To ignore a moment like that simply … would have been wrong. I was recording his impending death, just as I had recorded his life moments before walking the point in the bazaar,” she said. “Death is a part of life and most certainly a part of war. Isn’t that why we’re here? To document for now and for history the events of this war?”
Later, she showed members of his squad all the images taken that day and the Marines flipped through them on her computer one by one.
“They did stop when they came to that moment,” she said. “But none of them complained or grew angry about it. They understood that it was what it was. They understand, despite that he was their friend, it was the reality of things.”

U.S. Marine Cpl. Braxton Russell, left, tells one of his Marines to “light it up” if he sees any movement from a pomegranate grove where Taliban are believed to be lying in wait less than 100 yards away while on patrol through the village of Dahaneh, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Shortly after, Taliban fighters opened fire with a rocket propelled grenade which killed Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard who was on point.

(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)In this photo taken Friday Aug. 14, 2009, U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, patrols on point through the bazaar in the village of Dahaneh in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Less than an hour later Bernard’s squad was ambushed by Taliban fighters waiting in a pomegranate grove. Bernard was hit with a rocket propelled grenade and later died of his wounds. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 14, 2009, Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard is tended to by fellow U.S. Marines after being hit by a rocket propelled grenade during a firefight against the Taliban in the village of Dahaneh in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was transported by helicopter to Camp Leatherneck where he later died of his wounds. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
In this Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 photo, U.S. Marine Lt. Jake Godby pays his respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was mortally wounded during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
In this Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 photo, U.S. Marine Cpl. Braxton Russell pays his respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was mortally wounded during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14.

(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

In this Aug. 27, 2009, photo U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, left, and 2nd MEB Sgt. Major Hooph pay their respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Marines on the front lines across southern Afghanistan, who also fought in Iraq, told The Associated Press in late August 2009, that the enemy in Afghanistan is a smaller, smarter force, not as religiously fanatic as its Iraqi counterparts, that tends to spread out, and use anonymous attacks, like hiding in fields or planting IEDs on roads.

(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson/File)

A U.S. Marine from Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF, holds dog tags for Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard while paying respects during a memorial service for him at a forward operating base Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was killed in action during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14.

(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

U.S. Marines salute during the playing of Taps during a memorial service for Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was killed in action during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)


U.S. Marines listen to comments by commanding officers during a memorial service for Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was killed in action during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)U.S. Marine Cpl. Vessely pays his respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service for him at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was mortally wounded during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

This undated photo provided Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 by the US Marine Corps shows Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard, 21. Bernard was hit with a rocket propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Friday, Aug. 14, 2009 in the village of Dahaneh in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. He later died of his wounds. (AP Photo/USMC

Dylan on GPS for Detroit city ?

On GPS, Bob Dylan Might Guide Lost Drivers Home
Dylan said on his BBC radio show two carmakers want his voice. (AP)
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By Paul FarhiWashington Post Staff

Writer Thursday, August 27, 2009
Bob Dylan: folk-rock legend, poet-spokesman of his generation . . . and GPS voice?
Maybe.

The enigmatic troubadour said on his satellite radio program that he is negotiating with two car manufacturers to be the voice of their in-car navigation systems. Insert your own Dylan-lyric pun here about "no direction home" or "there must be some way out of here" or "how many roads . . . ."
The wonder of this might not be that Dylan is selling out -- he has already done that by appearing in ads for Victoria's Secret, Pepsi, Cadillac and others, and he'll be singing "Here Comes Santa Claus" on a forthcoming Christmas album -- but that his famously raspy and mumbly voice would be suited for directions-challenged drivers.
Dylan himself wasn't even so sure about that.

On his BBC radio show he gave listeners a preview of his would-be GPS vocals: "Left at the next street. No, right.

You know what? Just go straight."
He also noted: "I probably shouldn't do it because whichever way I go, I always end up at one place -- on Lonely Avenue. Luckily, I'm not totally alone. Ray Charles beat me there."
As with much about Dylan, it's not exactly clear what he means.

But as Dylan himself put it in his voice-over for a Cadillac Escalade commercial in 2007: "What's life without the occasional detour?"

...Et celà vous étonne "qu'ils" aient "DéTRUIT" l'iraq...d'abord???

Iran "Rebel" Says US Ordered Attacks
By Arab Times & Agencies

August 26, 2009 "Arab Times" --

ZAHEDAN, Iran, Aug 25, (Agencies):

A top Sunni rebel who is awaiting execution in Iran said on Tuesday that his militant group received orders from the United States to launch terror attacks in the Islamic republic.Abdolhamid Rigi, brother of shadowy Jundallah (Soldiers of God) group leader Abdolmalek Rigi, told reporters his brother was an Al-Qaeda point man in Iran six years ago but that later the group broke off ties with him.

“The United States created and supported Jundallah and we received orders from them,” Rigi said in Iran’s restive southeastern city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan.“They (US officials) told us whom to shoot and whom not to. All orders came from them. They told us that they would provide us with everything we need like money and equipment.”

Wearing normal clothing, and not a prison uniform, Rigi addressed reporters in a government building in Zahedan, amid relatively light security.Iran has accused Jundallah of launching several attacks inside the country, mainly in Sistan-Baluchestan.The group also claimed a May 28 bomb attack on the Shiite Amir al-Momenin mosque in Zahedan in which more than 20 people were killed and 50 wounded.That attack came just weeks before Iran’s June 12 presidential election which returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.

Iran has in the past blamed US and British agents based in neighbouring Iraq and Afghanistan for launching attacks on border provinces with significant ethnic minority populations.The day after the mosque bombing, officials accused the United States of “hiring” those behind the attack, linking it to the presidential election.

Washington rejected the accusation.“We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said. “We do not sponsor any form of terrorism in Iran.”Before Tuesday’s news conference began, reporters saw a group of people who reportedly had relatives killed in attacks launched by Jundallah.An AFP correspondent said that as Rigi sat down to address reporters, some of the victims’ relatives called out, denouncing him as a murderer.Video footage of the aftermath of attacks allegedly launched by Jundallah was also shown at the news conference.

The images included gory executions of several handcuffed and blindfolded people — scenes which provincial officials told reporters had been filmed by Rigi himself.The officials said some of those shown being killed, who were not identified, had been captured by Jundullah in 2006 and later executed.

Sistan-Baluchestan has a large ethnic Sunni Baluch minority, and also lies on a major narcotics-smuggling route from Afghanistan and Pakistan.Iranian officials have said Abdolhamid will be executed for his role in several attacks in the country.

ForgivenessOne of Iran’s most prominent pro-reform figures admitted fomenting unrest and asked for the country’s forgiveness Tuesday during the mass trial of activists detained in the postelection crackdown in a confession that the opposition said was coerced.The courtroom statement by Saeed Hajjarian — who is considered one of the reform movement’s top architects and who was shot in the head in a 2000 assassination attempt — was the latest dramatic confession in the month-old trial that the opposition has compared to Josef Stalin’s “show trials” of opponents in the Soviet Union.

More than 100 defendants are on trial, accused of trying to overthrow Iran’s clerical leadership in a “velvet revolution” by fomenting huge protests over the disputed June 12 presidential election, which the opposition says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by fraud.Also among the defendants who appeared Tuesday was Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American academic. The prosecutor read out charges against him including espionage, contact with foreign elements and acting against national security.Speaking before the court, Tajbakhsh appeared to try to speak broadly about foreign interference in Iran, saying “undeniably this was a goal of the U.S. and European countries to bring change inside Iran” and that “the root cause of the riots are found outside the borders.”Several aides to former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami were put on trial on Tuesday on charges of masterminding post-election unrest and plotting a “soft coup” in the Islamic republic.

Among the 20 or so people in the dock in the revolutionary court in Tehran were a former minister and a number of other top political figures as well as reformist journalists and academics, local media reported.The prosecution charged that some political groups “with the cooperation of Western media and colonial embassies disrupted the situation and misused the supporters of defeated candidates to launch a soft coup d’etat,” the state broadcaster said.

WarnedBritain and Israel warned Iran on Tuesday that it faced tougher international sanctions if it failed to cooperate on its disputed nuclear programme.

The United States, Britain, France and Germany are expected to ask Russia and China in talks on Sept 2 to consider a fourth round of UN sanctions, possibly targeting Iran’s oil sector, if Tehran does not accept negotiations on its nuclear programme.“If there is no further progress immediately then I believe the world will have to look at stepping up sanctions against Iran as a matter of priority,” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said at a news conference in London with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The United States and its allies, including Britain, accuse Iran of trying to develop atomic weapons, while Iran says it only wants nuclear technology to generate electricity.Asked about the prospect of Iran developing nuclear arms, Netanyahu said: “Time is running out, it is late in the day, but it is not too late.”“If the resolve of the responsible members of the international community is strong and firm, then however late the hour, the future can be secured and this is our preference,” added Netanyahu.

OutputIran has put more machines on line to enrich uranium yet its output is stagnating, diplomats said Tuesday, adding that could mean Tehran may be running out of the ore that serves as the base for nuclear fuel — or the fissile core of warheads.The diplomats — who demanded anonymity because their information was confidential — emphasized that the possibility Iran was running short of uranium oxide was only one of several possible explanations of why it had not substantially upped production of enriched uranium since May.But they said it seemed unlikely the Islamic Republic had deliberately decided to curb its production.

They noted that, despite the stagnation in output, Iran continued over the past three months to expand its capabilities by installing and running hundreds more of the centrifuges that spin uranium hexafluoride gas derived from uranium oxide into enriched uranium.With Iran under strict UN embargoes and on an international watch list meant to cripple its ability to import nuclear materials illegally, it could find it difficult to procure enough uranium oxide to feed its enrichment program. That, in turn, could reflect the success of UN sanctions by dealing a blow to its stated goal of expanding enrichment to the point where it can supply fuel for a nationwide nuclear network.The International Atomic Energy Agency and independent experts believe that Iran’s rapidly expanding uranium enrichment program has been built on 600 tons of so-called “yellowcake” or uranium oxide imported from South Africa during the 1970s as part of ambitious plans by the former regime of Shah Reza Pahlavi to build a network of nuclear reactors.

In the enrichment process, uranium oxide is processed into uranium hexafluoride, which then is spun and re-spun to varying degrees of enrichment, with low enriched uranium used for nuclear fuel and upper-end high enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.Iran denied it was running out of yellowcake.

“It is not true,” said Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehran’s chief delegation to the IAEA, while adding that he could not make a substantial comment before the agency publishes its next report on his country’s nuclear program sometime this week.

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Sometimes the best way to get people fired up about a cause—be it environmental, political, or anything else—is to get them angry.

But

instead of trying to piss citizens off, a Brazilian environmental group is trying to get the country’s residents to, well........., urinate in the shower.
The group says that if a single household flushed the toilet just one fewer times a day, it would save a whopping 1,157 gallons of water each year. The organization has even come out with a video touting the idea. Urine is sterile, so peeing in the shower is harmless (except if someone has a disease that can be transmitted through their pee, such as hepatitis).
The AP reports:
The spot features cartoon drawings of people from all walks of life - a trapeze artist, a basketball player, even an alien - urinating in the shower.
Narrated by children’s voices, the ad ends with:
“Pee in the shower! Save the Atlantic rainforest!”
Watch it here:
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Beyrouth avec commentaires...pris d'un forum sur fesse-book

Beyrouth, à savourer comme un mezze
Le plaisir d'un moutabal, caviar d'aubergine à la crème de sésame, sur une table de campagne.
Elue première destination mondiale pour 2009 par le « New York Times » et dans le top 10 des villes « à voir » par le guide « Lonely Planet », Beyrouth a le vent en poupe. Ceux qui en reviennent ne jurent que par ses fêtes, ses plages, l’inégalable sympathie de ses habitants et l’excellence de sa cuisine. Tant de louanges, est-ce bien mérité ? Voici notre verdict.
Cécile Guéret - Paris Match
Cela commence par un murmure. « Taboulé, fattouche, hommos, wara’ariche... » Le maître d’hôtel énumère les spécialités. Attentif, il faut hocher la tête, dire « eh » (oui) plus que « lah » (non), indiquer les quantités. Avec l’arak, alcool anisé, voilà le premier round : le cru.

Une corbeille de légumes, des olives, un tourbillon de moutabal (caviar d’aubergine), du foie extra-frais... Deuxième round : le cuit. Artichauts, cervelle au citron, kebbé (gâteau de viande), petits oiseaux à la grenade... Troisième round : les grillades. De poisson, si vous avez les pieds dans l’eau ; de viande si vous êtes en montagne. Chacun picore à son rythme, une feuille d’endive ou un bout de galette (lo’meh) en guise de cuillère. On fait une pause, fumant le narguilé. Le temps s’étire au rythme des dizaines de plats qui s’accumulent sur la table. Parce qu’un mezze « se monte », on ne débarrasse pas. On fait durer le plaisir. Deux, trois heures.

« Partager un mezze, éclaire Kamal Mouzawak, ardent défenseur du patrimoine gastronomique libanais, c’est être avec des gens, se faire goûter l’un à l’autre, avoir du plaisir à être ensemble. » L’occasion de se retrouver en famille, de philosopher avec ses amis, et d’accueillir l’étranger avec faste. Un moment de convivialité et de générosité à l’image du Liban, mosaïque de goûts, d’influences et de couleurs.
La nourriture a l’art de réconcilier les communautés
Ainsi, la mouhamara, crème de noix et de piment, rouge brique, est arménienne. Le falafel égyptien, le chiche-kebab d’origine ottomane. Dans ce pays composé d’une vingtaine de communautés religieuses, la nourriture a l’art de réconcilier tout le monde.

Cliché inévitable, Beyrouth est aussi, bien sûr, la ville des contrastes. Partout où le regard se pose cohabitent le beau et le laid, le riche et le pauvre, l’exubérance et la pudeur. Une promenade sur la corniche donne une petite idée de la tectonique des plaques à l’échelle libanaise. A l’extrême est, le Saint-Georges, hôtel dont la façade soufflée par l’attentat contre l’ex-Premier ministre Rafic Hariri, rappelle les heures sombres. Sinistres flashs d’actualité que tout le monde ici, au regard du calme dans lequel se sont tenues les dernières législatives, espère relégués au passé.

Un peu plus loin, des piscines privées, avec ponton pour l’arrivée des yachts, montrent que le tourisme repart. Golden boys du monde entier, beautés bronzées et siliconées, le futile à quelques pas du tragique. En fin d’après-midi, tricycles et chaises pliantes assaillent le bord de mer, la corniche redevient familiale et populaire.

On prépare du café dans les coffres ouverts des voitures, autoradio à plein volume. Les filles en voiles multicolores côtoient les joggeurs, les vendeurs de kaaks (petits pains ronds) et les enfants lorgnant sur les barbes à papa.
Enfin, la nuit venue, la ville se fait effervescente, prête à danser jusqu’au petit ­matin. « Beyrouth est une éprouvette, assène le musicien Khaled Mouzanar. Un mélange d’anarchie, de non-sens, de sublime et de ­précaire. Nous avons hérité de la guerre un sentiment d’urgence, une soif de vivre, qui nous pousse autant à faire la fête qu’à monter des projets. Tout est possible ! »

Une intensité à vivre curieusement contagieuse car il y a ici une énergie qu’on ne trouve pas ­ailleurs. Un peu du meilleur des grandes villes du monde, saupoudré sur un petit Beyrouth que l’on découvre chacun à son rythme et à son goût. Comme un assortiment de mezze.
Vos commentaires
Je connaît très bien cet endroit et c’est féerique, c’est a Batroun une des plus vielles villes au monde. Je viens de passer un séjour a Beyrouth et cet article représente ce que j’ai vécu pendent deux semaines. Rony
Rony Zibara -
Rony, les gens ici s'en fichent un peu de ce que tu penses. Ils se doutent bien qu'un Libanais ne va pas critiquer son propre pays. Laissons plutôt les étrangers, qui ont eu du plaisir à visiter le pays du Cèdre, nous faire part de leur agréable expérience.
Charles-Henri Sursock -
C'est un endroit paradisiaque ! je vous conseille aussi Byblos à quelques km de Beyrouth, une ville de 7000 ans d'existance!!
Bouchra -
i wonder why there is a picture of such a place in batroun while the article is about beirut, and while there are much more presentable pictures to show about the sea and the beach.
FISH -
www.batroun.com THIS IS BATROUN !! u ignorants ! :p
Le White n'est pas du tout odieux, mais tout au contraire! et il ya aussi le Skybar, l'endroit ultime pour passer une superbe soiree!
rebecca moukarzel -IL YA UN LIBAN MAIS IL N'Y A PAS DE LIBANAIS.......LES LIBANAIS ONT VENDU LEUR PAYS ! LE LIBAN EST BEAU, LES LIBANAIS SONT LAIDS (SANS ETHIQUE)
GIAZY -

la beaute du Liban et des libanais n'est pas meme a comparer et surtout pas a vendre! some things in life u simply can not put a price tag on!
Le liban est un pays qui a subi mais qui se redresse toujours, et c'est la force de ceux qui composent ce pays, j'aimerais voir comment un pays comme la france pourrait aussi bien s'adpater que le liban n'a su le faire ?
Cécile H -
Beyrouth a tjrs ete feerique,acceuillante ,lieu de rencontre de ttes les civilisations,aimee...aimee...convoitee ...jusqu au point quils ont a un moment donne voulu letouffer .et grace DIEU elle a survecu et la voila de nouveau le bijou de lorient .nhesitez pas a venir la visiter ,vos vacancessaont garanties...abientot ..
lody chamoun -
LE LIBAN EST UN TRES BEAU PAYS --- MAIS LA MAJORITEE DES LIBANAIS DONNES A CE PETIT PARADIS L `IMAGE D `UNE GRIMACE !
triste mais vrai -
Celui qui n'a pas vu le Liban, n'a rien vu. Vous ne pouvez pas ne pas tomber sous son charme. Il y a un peu de tout au Liban; le climat, la cuisine, les nuits de folie, les plages, les montagnes, les sites historiques datant de plus de 7,000 ans, les rivieres, les grottes, TOUT QUOI. Il y a de la beaute partout au Liban, y compris les gens. Le Liban est tout simplement INCOMPARABLE.
Nancy A-J -

Charles Henri quelle honte et perte de temps de répondre au gens de la sorte , Rony connait cet endroit tant mieux pour lui ou est votre probleme?
lila - Beyrouth , la ville du luxe , le charme de l'Orient et la perle de l'Histoire
H.J -
la photo est bien artistiquement parlant mais pourquoi cette photo qui ne represente pas du tout ni le charme ni l'elelegance des plages libanaises ...meme les plages les plus debrailles sont mieux que ca !!!!
tulina -Voici les liens des plages du Liban : - http://k53.pbase.com/o4/47/240747/1/59144224.116EddeSandsVIPtentsforparties.jpg - http://image58.webshots.com/158/4/55/11/400045511lUfwJf_fs.jpg - http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-03/45624101.jpg - http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/2c/a7/44/pool-and-view.jpg
http://k53.pbase.com/o4/47/240747/1/59144224.116EddeSandsVIPtentsforparties.jpg http://image58.webshots.com/158/4/55/11/400045511lUfwJf_fs.jpg http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-03/45624101.jpg http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/2c/a7/44/pool-and-view.jpg
Lila, merci d'avoir répondu a Charles Henri. Je confirme tout vos commentaires et enthousiasme pour notre pays qui a subi tellement.
Cyril Haddad -
Quelle ironie !!! Un tel article pronant la beaute du LIBAN merite une photo beaucoup plus expressive exposant sa vraie beaute naturelle!!!
Joëlle A. -
Mr Giazy,il y a toujours des libanais Beaux et pas du tout laids comme vous le pretendez,des Libanais qui s accrochent toujours a leur pays,qui veulent continuer a vivre chez eux et a y investir malgre les pertes enormes qu\'ils ont subies,que ce soit des etres tres chers ou des biens materiels...
Rena Abboud jamhouri -
Oui, la photo est nulle. Mais le texte est bien. Je suis francaise et je vis au Liban depuis un an. Franchement c'est un pays merveilleux. Un melange anarchique unique. Une envie de vivre contagieuse. Au Liban, on vit! J'encourage tout le monde a visiter.
Anne -
Bande d'Aounistes qui foutent la merde, puis vont crier dans le monde entier que leur pays sous-développé, sans autoroutes, ni électricité, ni eau courante, est le plus beau du monde ;
Charles-Henri Sursock
Un des plus beaux pays du mone !! . Je suis francaise, j'ai passe des vacances incroyables. Je penses meme a m'y installer definitivement...Un passage a Byblos est un "must". Grillades de poissons, Homous, taboule et arak.
Aurelie Clement,Paris
We just came back from Beirut. We were there for almost 2 weeks..we really enjoyed this country and its diversification. We went with some friends to a special event at "White" it was the Launching of toywatch..we really liked the place its really gorgeous !! Afterwords we went to Cassino, another crazy place to visit !!
Andrew, London Les plus belles femmes du monde sont a Beirut !! Capitale de l'extravagance, du reve et du surealisme !! Beirut est en chantier continu. Les immeubles poussent comme des champignons. Les Libanais, ce peuple incroyable qui a sut relever tout les defis .

Bravo a vous Libanais et a la prochaine , car c'est sur je reviens chez vous !
Elodie Barriere, Nice Baalbeck et ses colonnes !! Voila un patrimoine de l'humanite a sauvgarder ! Les douces nuits chez Mounir, restaurant Libanais culte de la montagne. Deguster un mezze de reve berce par les chants des grenouilles ! Le lendemain depart vers Orchid..La plage en "blanc" , l'endroit parfait pour une parfaire relaxation avec vue direct sur la mediterannee
Michel Leblanc, Strasbourg
Je voudrais vous feliciter pour cet article sur Beirut !. Vous avez vraiment vise juste. Je suis Francais et j'etais en vacances a Beirut chez des amis. Un peuple aimable, aimant vivre et faire la fete. Les nuits Beiroutines sont magiques. La cuisine est parmis les meilleures du monde, d'ailleures je la classerais deuxieme apres la francaise bien evidement
Jerome, Saint Denis J'ai passe des vacances au Maroc il y a de cela un an. La, je reviens de Beirut. Je dirais que la comparaison est enorme .Tout d'abord la culture des Libanais est impressionante!. Leur cuisine , la meilleure du monde ! la convivialite fait partie integrante des moeurs de ce peuple. Leur femmes, les plus classes..(rien a voir avec les marocaines).

A voir absolument : Baalbeck!

GEANT.
Jerome, BordeauxJ'ai passe des vacances au MAroc il y a 2 ans.

La je reviens du Liban. Est bien je dirais que la difference est enorme.A commencer par la conviviabilite Libanaise. La cuisine est une des meilleures du monde. Les Libanaises rendraient jalouses les Italiennes par leur classes et leur elegances (je dirais pas de meme des Marocaines..). A voir absolument : Baalbeck et ses ruines..
Jerome, Cergy Pontoise Beirut, O capitale de lumiere que je t\'aime..
Alice, Marseillesle Liban ne se réume pas à Raouché et les femmes voilées il fallait partir du côté d'Achrafieh et de Jounieh .
carlouche
il y'a beaucoup d'autre photo a mettre..!! pour le minimum une photo de Mezze a Beyrouth pour aller avec le titre..! :)
Maroun TERS
ACID Nightclub Real Clubbing in Lebanon.. since 11 years! http://www.acidnightclub.com/ whether you like it or not, but you cannot pretend you never heard about it..!
Rabizzzzers -
Charles-Henri Sursock , mais c'est incroyable... le seul qui a ouvert question de politiques dans un forum ou l\'ont parle de la beauté du Liban c toi. Qu'est ce que ca peut te foutre si c un Aounist, un Fallangist, un partisan du Hezb, de Haraket Amal ou du mouvement du Future qui fait l'eloge du pays du Cedre. Si tu n'aime pas le Liban...ok...rentre en egypte,ton pays d'origine, mais laisse les autres partager leur amour
Charles-Henry Sursock, tu es une honte pour le Liban et pour la famille Sursock!!! Si tu n es pas content, tu peux parler sans agresser les gens! chacun parle comme il veut ss repondre aux autres!!!! Je suis française, et je vie au Liban depuis 2 ans! Les Libanais sont GENIAUX! Ils sont généreux et sociables, et sont tous patriotiques!
Isabelle -
Le Liban est merveilleux en tout! et les femmes encore mieux! memes les moches elles savent montrer le charme! c\'est le pays de la mode, de bonne nouriture, de nuit , sport, de nature... tout! et a prospos du white , vous y passrez les plus soiree de votre vie , seulement n\'y allez pas les vendredi et samedi.
jabs -
Je suis Allemande et je vis au Liban depuis plus de 12 ans, Le pays est merveilleux!!!! tout es merveilleux!!! Tout ce que je demande c'est que les pays arabes, les EU, l'Europe, ... tous, laisser ce pays en paix! Laisser le vivre ind!!! Ficher lui la PAIX!!! C'est le plus bo PAYS!!! je l'adore!
Maria
Salut tous! STP Charles-H, essayer sans politique! Je suis Franco-Libanais, et je peux vous dire que le Liban est merveilleux, le jour comme la nuit! Beyrouth ne dors JAMAIS! 24h/24 7j/7! Juste venez visitez le LIBAN surtout en AOUT!!!!!! Nous vous attendons!
Fadi - Hi, I am from GB, and I am in Lebanon right now for 2 mth, It is really gr8 specially the women here are incredible!!!! For all women lovers, you just have LEBANON!!! go Lebanon go!!!!
Marc
Salut, je suis Francaise et je suis en vacances o Liban!!! C'est Merveilleux surtout les MECS!!!! La plage, Les boites, Les resto, Les pubs, C extra!!!! A tous les FRANCAIS(ES): Le Liban n est pas cher du tout!!! C 'est vraiment BO! Venez essayer ! A bientot!
Elodie -
Le texte est bon mais la photo vraiment nulle, pourquoi???
Tina -
Most beautiful place on earth !!. Love you lebanese people !!!
xavier leduc, Monaco -
L\'article est plaisant à lire et la photo est bien choisie... D'apres moi cette dernière represente un excellent moment que Cecile a vecu devant la mer, le calme, l'air frais, la baraque, juste l'essentiel.
jawz -
Quelle aggressivite Tres cher Charles Henry, D'abord permettez- moi de vous dire que vous attaquez bien la journee .... c'est prometteur !!! Desolee , vs faites erreur ... les echanges entre internautes sur des sujets bien precis est la preuve d'un interet commun a debattre , d'autre part detrompez-vous le Liban est bien souvent tres ou trop critiqué par des Libanais .... et vous etes d'origine Egyptienne..juste cent ans au Liban...
Sylvie -
Ma petite Isabelle, avant de vous signaler que vous êtes une honte pour la France (vivre est un verbe du troisième groupe, et ne prend donc en aucun cas un "e" à la première personne du singulier, cf Grammaire Classe CE2), je voudrais vous féliciter pour votre défense à bras-le-corps des Libanais. (Suite au prochain post)
Charles-Henri Sursock -
Par contre, attention à vos attaques sur la famille Sursock ! Cette famille a un certain pouvoir sur les locaux (encore une tare majeure de pays), et je pourrais vous faire traquer et exclure du territoire en vingt-quatre heures (j'ai ce pouvoir, et je déteste en avoir conscience). Restez impersonnelle dans vos attaques contre des Libanais, vous pourriez le regretter.
Charles-Henri Sursock -

Charles Henri,va te faire foutre toi les sursock e,les saad et les trad,les kettaneh ou les fattals,les De Freij( freiji d'irak d'origine) tous egyptiens ou irakiens...pas contents rentrez chez vous,les villas dans lesquelles vous habitez sony ottomanes achetées pour une bouchée de pains oux turcs lors de la chute de l'empire Ottomans...alors ne soyez pas tellememt fiers et pas trop de fanfaronnades...

joe e.rihan
Odieuse photo de l'article! Montrez nos belles plages,VOUS IGNORANTS des beaux sites! a Jbeil(7000ans de civilisation)Phenix de Byblos-Edde Sand's..A batroun chez Jammal dej et diners pieds ds l'eau ! chez Maguy peche du jour! A Jiyeh Orchid,Guava,Bamboubay etc..Diner,danser,s'eclater au White et Skybar a Beyrouth!
Mireille K. -
www.tributetoagreatnation.com More than a Brand, it\'s a Fashion Statement! One that tells the story of a Great Country labeled with...Red, White and Green!
George - Jeudi 30 Juillet 2009 14h10
A tribute to Lebanon! www.tributetoagreatnation.com More than a Brand, it\'s a Fashion Statement! One that tells the story of a Great Country labeled with...Red, White and Green!
George - Jeudi 30 Juillet 2009 14h15
IL VAUX MIEUX ATTRENDRE LE RETOUR DES JOURS DES FRANC-TIREURS - CAR LA `- CETTE UNE BONNE OCCASION DE SE DEBARASSER DE DE TOUTES PERSONNES NON DESIREES ...

ET NON LES FAIRE TRAQUER ET EXCLURE DU TERRITOIRE LIBANAISE EN VINGT-QUATRE HEURES ....

la chasse est une des privileges des grandes familles libanaises,d'origine egyptienne......non ?
impersonelle -
odieux Charles -henry tu n'es pas digne de ta famille ni du LIBAN et meme pas digne d'etre un Libanais tu nous fais honte
MIRA -
ok avec charles henry j'en ai aussi maarre de ces gens qui disen des compliments du liban alors qu'i ya bcp de chose à construire encore .c vrai que je suis un chiite ayant vécu en cote d'ivoire, et mêm la bas, les infrastructure st plus développées!

Mais cela nous EMPECHE PAS d'aimer le liban
ali -
yeah, that's a far better image indeed ! M. SURSOCK, je trouve ce que vous dites trop intéressant et si vous voulez me contacter pour continué la discussion please send an email at georges_elkhoury@hotmail.com
Georges -
Pauvres incrédules et enfants sans coeurs .. tel le Liban qui s'est fait détruire par ses enfants ...
Anonyme -

Il y a des pays où les gens ralent à cause du strict respect des règles .. comme en France, il y a d'autres qui critiquent la désorganisation d'un pays tel le Liban ... ça c'est la démocratie. Arrêtez vos messages sans fin qui n'ont de sens que de faire fuir les gens.
Anonyme -
bonjour malgrer les guerre est les probleme beyrouth restera beyrouth la chic la plus belle mon pays est magique ces les milles est une nuit je t aime mon cher liban est notre nourrture est tres bonne
elissa -
moi je vis au Liban depuis 12 ans et j adore. c est vrai que pour le carnet d adresse il y a mille et uns autres endroits mais on ne peux pas tous les citer. pour le white c est vrai ce n est pas odieux du tout enfin un article sympa et leger qui presente le Liban joyeux ...marre des articles qui ne parlent que de guerr rre , attentats , et conflits ......le Liban c est aussi joie de vivre
valerie Prie Mroue -
BonJour Elissa ! Il faut dire que votre francais est vraiment tres special, - comme un nouveau dialect - mais on peux - avec beaucoup de phantasie - detecter - quel est le sense - de votre message !!!

Un cas pour Mr. Ch.H. Sursock, pour vous corriger....haha...
impersonelle -
aggressives les uns contre les autres. Chacun a le droit de penser comme bon lui semble et de l'exprimer. Permettez juste au soleil de briller sur le Liban, et montrez au monde entier que les Libanais ne se resument pas tous a etre des gens superficiels, "pseudo-bourgeois" et "hypocrites" qui adorent faire la guerre entre eux et le crier fort. Montrez leur le vrai potentiel du Liban. Salut
Marylise Andraos -
Hahahahaha les libanais!!!!! vous avez trouver kelk chose pour vs bagarer dessus meme dans un article et une photos...Au lieu d'etre fiere de cet article ecrit par un francais... Dommage
n'importe -
Article incomplet, photo impersonnelle, et commentaires pour la plupart déplacés. Que ceux qui détestent ce pays aillent ivre ailleurs.
M.B. - Les libanais...se garder de faire des commentaires sur cet article...vous polluez le forum...
RM, Liban - D'accord avec "n'import", gardons nos inevitables jeremiades, nos interminables chamailles et nos incontournables differends pour nous... et cessons de nous donner en spectacle et de nous tourner en ridicule aux yeux de la planete entiere.
Isabelle -
D'accord avec "n'import", gardons nos inevitables jeremiades, nos interminables chamailles et nos incontournables differends pour nous... et cessons de nous donner en spectacle et de nous tourner en ridicule aux yeux de la planete entiere.
Isabelle - Charles-Henri Sursock, I would have recommended a psychiatric but I believe you are hopeless. Consider suicide; that would be a very good option since we have enough idiots in the world, especially in Lebanon, we can spare one like you.
Thomas S. -CH.H.S. take a silkrope and rest in peace....
none I love my country and i miss it so much but i hardly think that an article in ''Paris Match'' about our excellent cooking can make up for all the bad publicity we created by our ignorance and corruption. Lebanon is beautiful and the Lebanese are charming, this is what the tourists see and it is true!!! but the reality is, for us, it is business as usual.
Sharbel Nasr -
The thing that makes me sad is that althoug

h we are capable of so many marvellous things all we did lately was fighting each

other and destroying our identity. The worlds perception of lebanon is that it is a wonderful place as long as the Lebanese are not killing each other.
Sharbel Nasr -

Loving your country is hardly an achievement, everyone else loves their countries, it is the love for your country men that makes the difference because only with such love a country can be built. I hope one day we can realise that and maybe then \'\'Paris Match\'\' will have more than Hommos and Tabouleh to write about.
Sharbel Nasr - Lundi 3 Août 2009 14h49
Le Liban, pays merveilleux. Soit ! L’article lui-même est une simple opinion. Expression libre dont le titre est clair: « Beyrouth, à savourer comme un mezze ». Pourquoi parler de Baalbek ?.. Mais encore une fois, les Libanais n’ont rien compris. Malheureusement. Je suis d’accord avec vous, Charles-Henri Sursock. Malheureusement…
Jane KHOU. Beirut - Lundi 3 Août 2009 15h44
Le Liban, pays merveilleux. Soit ! L article lui-meme est une simple opinion. Expression libre dont le titre est clair: « Beyrouth, à savourer comme un mezze ». Pourquoi parler de Baalbek ?.. Mais encore une fois, les Libanais n ont rien compris. Malheureusement. Je suis d accord avec vous, Charles-Henri Sursock. Malheureusement
J\'ai vecu toutes les guerres au LIban, je n\'ai jamais quitté mon pays que j\'adore et je ne le quitterais jamais, un pays ou le Christ est passé et qui a plusieurs Saints ne mourira jamais et restera le Liban pour tous. Aimons-nous, acceptons-nous et vivons pour Un Liban unique. I Love Lebanon.
Oh couillon! TOUT LE MONDE IL EST GENTIL. Un cocktail détonnant en sorte...
Le Liban c\'est le pays ou il fait Bon VIVRE. Dit-elle la MARTINE ? Surtout qu\'un jour, le LIBAN appartiendra à ISRAEL.
Pour avoir connu les affres de la découverte de Beyrouth à pied, où le piéton tient lieu de gibier pour safari automobile, je suis en recherche d\'un mécène pour financer l\'opération \"sauvons les trottoirs de Beyrouth\". Cette réserve mise à art, les libanais sont adorables, une fois leur volant lâché,et le pays est réellement fascinant
Carlita, aussi dérangée et simplette que son nom peu gracieux (à l'image de ces arabes-bédouins de Libanetoks) ...

pauvre chérie
Beyrouth est incontestablement une ville fabuleuse!! Il y a tant a voir... www.silverplateservices.com


Jerome, Cergy Pontoise -J\'ai passe des vacances au MAroc il y a 2 ans. La je reviens du Liban. Est bien je dirais que la difference est enorme.A commencer par la convivialite Libanaise. La cuisine est une des meilleures du monde. Les Libanaises rendraient jalouses les Italiennes par leur classes et leur elegances (je dirais pas de meme des Marocaines..). A voir absolument : Baalbeck et ses ruines..
Jerome, Cergy Pontoise - Beirut, O capitale de lumiere que je t'aime..
Alice, Marseilles -le Liban ne se réume pas à Raouché et les femmes voilées il fallait partir du côté d\'Achrafieh et de Jounieh .
carlouche - il y'a beaucoup d'autre photo a mettre..!!

pour le minimum une photo de Mezze a Beyrouth pour aller avec le titre..!
Maroun TERS -

ACID Nightclub Real Clubbing in Lebanon.. since 11 years! http://www.acidnightclub.com/ whether you like it or not, but you cannot pretend you never heard about it..!
Rabizzzzers -
J'ai vecu toutes les guerres au LIban, je n\'ai jamais quitté mon pays que j'adore et je ne le quitterais jamais, un pays ou le Christ est passé et qui a plusieurs Saints ne mourira jamais et restera le Liban pour tous.
Aimons-nous, acceptons-nous et vivons pour Un Liban unique. I Love Lebanon.

On n'est pas déjà assez enc...par les Arabes ? et a l'ouest ... a l'est c'est les roumaines,slaves,russes etc..

Beirut, the Provincetown of the Middle East
Bryan Denton for The New York Times
Dancing goes on until dawn at Acid, one of the city’s best-known gay clubs.
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: August 2, 2009
THE pre-party began at 9 p.m. in Bertho Makso’s room at the Bella Riva Suite Hotel, and by 9:05 p.m. the air was awash in cologne, hair spray, cigarette smoke and gossip about the night ahead. Would a certain 20-something from West Beirut be at the beach party?

Had the two men from Cairo arrived yet? Was the cute D.J. from Bardo, a gay bar here, going to be spinning? And did anyone need condoms?
The last question came from Bertho, a 28-year-old Lebanese tour operator who was the host of the main event that Thursday night in June: the Bear Arabia Mega Party, at the Oceana resort about 30 minutes south of Beirut.

Scores of gay men — most of them “bears,” a term used the world over for heavyset, hairy guys usually older than 30 — were coming from across Lebanon and the Arab world, as well as Argentina, Italy, Mexico, the United States and elsewhere.

Bertho had been picking them up at the Beirut airport since morning, and he looked exhausted as he handed out fistfuls of condoms to the dozen men in the room.
“So many questions today about what ‘gay Beirut’ is like,” he told me. “I’m just like, ‘Wait and see, you’ll like it, you’ll like it!’ ”
Tipping back a Red Bull on the sofa was Roberto Boccia, who was in from Rome for the event.

In his 40s, wearing a white T-shirt and khaki shorts, Roberto said he was surprised by the brio of Beirut compared with gay life in Rome, and said he was going to spread the word back home. “Some of my friends are still scared to come here, because of the wars, and because it’s harder to be gay here than in Europe,” he said.

“But I say, we have to win this. We’re gay, we overcome things.”
At that moment Bertho’s boyfriend, Rob, a very young Justin Timberlake look-alike, stumbled in from a side bedroom. He lifted his T-shirt, which read “Maniac 65,” to show off a sliver of his toned, tanned torso, and flashed a dazzling smile.
The room went quiet.
“O.K.,” Bertho said to no one in particular, “we should probably leave soon.”
While homosexual activity (technically, sexual relations that officials deem “unnatural”) is illegal in Lebanon, as in most of the Arab world, Beirut’s vitality as a Mediterranean capital of night life has fueled a flourishing gay scene — albeit one where men can be nervous about public displays of affection and where security guards at clubs can intercede if the good times turn too frisky on the dance floor.

But even more than the partying, Beirut represents a different Middle East for some gay and lesbian Arabs: the only place in the region where they can openly enjoy a social life denied them at home.
Asu, a 35-year-old gay man visiting from Damascus — who, like many men interviewed in Beirut, asked that his surname not be published — said that only two close friends in Syria knew that he was gay and that there were no bars, clubs or cafes in Damascus where gay Syrians felt at ease.
“I thought I would meet other gay men at university in Syria, but it didn’t happen, and then I thought as an adult man living in Damascus that it would happen, but it hasn’t,” said Asu, who was nursing a club soda at Wolf, a gay-friendly bar near the American University in Beirut. “I’m 35 years old. I feel very lonely at home.
There’s only the Internet for me, to e-mail with other gay men. The Internet, and Beirut. I try to come here every year now, because it is a relief.”
While homophobia is not a rampant problem in Jordan, according to Abdul-Azeem, a gay man from Amman, he has not found enough openness to start a relationship with a man. Instead, he said, he has been dating a Beirut man long-distance for the last nine months.
“We met on my last trip here,” said Abdul-Azeem, who is 25, and spoke during a visit to the new Beirut Arts Center on a 90-degree afternoon in June. “I hope we will be in love in the future.

But I had to travel here to find a man who maybe I will love. I wish we were together every day.”
Gay life in this city is still inching out of the shadows, to be sure, but it seems to have developed a steady forward momentum since the end of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war in 1990 — and especially in the calm that has followed the brief 2006 war between Hezbollah forces and Israel.
Bars have opened, and old ones are into their fifth or sixth year of sponsoring annual parties and music festivals. Some yacht clubs and hotel pools have gained a reputation as popular spots for gay men to hang out and flirt. Internet chat sites like Manjam (www.manjam.com), self-described as “a gay social network for dating, work and travel,” have taken off; several gay men here had no inhibitions telling me their Manjam profile screen names.

And, by anecdotal accounts, gay men and women from other Arab countries and the West are increasingly vacationing here — a choice that is all the more sexy and thrilling for some because they feel they are living on the edge and discovering a gay culture that is freshly evolving.
During the mid-1990s, a few small cafes in Beirut became popular gathering places for gay men — not only for groups of friends, but also for men who had chatted on the Internet and wanted to arrange a safe place to meet. One such spot, Café Sheikh Mankoush in the Hamra district, also installed computers that gay men used to chat online with others in Beirut, Bertho said.
In the years since, Lebanon has become one of the most liberal Arab counties when it comes to sexuality and sexual behavior, according to Michael T. Luongo, the editor of the 2007 book “Gay Travels in the Muslim World,” which was translated and printed in Arabic this summer by a Beirut publishing house, Arab Diffusion.

(Travel guides to Beirut are not plentiful, particularly ones that might be helpful for gay and lesbian travelers, but one useful publication is “A Hedonist’s Guide to Beirut,” published by Hg2 Guides. It can be bought on Amazon for $14.78.)
“What’s interesting is that the Arab areas that were once controlled by the French, like Lebanon, are the ones with laws against homosexuality, because the French felt comfortable talking about sex,” Mr. Luongo said, “while the areas controlled by the British didn’t have those laws because they didn’t talk about sex.

As a result, flowing from that French history is a relative familiarity with homosexuality in places like Lebanon. You have more gay life where the laws exist against it.”

...On se paie la chine ?

1 600 pandas envahissent Paris... Ségolène Royal conseille de fraterniser !
Quelle aurait été sa réaction si elle avait assisté aujourd'hui à la réunion de 1 600 pandas, devant les locaux parisiens - au coeur du bois de Boulogne - de l'organisation WWF (Fonds mondial pour la vie sauvage) ?

Oui madame, 1 600. Une véritable gay pride version nounours en noir et blanc. Elle serait devenue folle, la Chantal!
Bon, en fait, il ne s'agissait pas de vrais pandas (ceux qui craignaient l'invasion peuvent souffler). 1/ Parce que les pandas vivent majoritairement en Chine, et que Air Panda vient de mettre la clé sous la porte 2/ parce qu'à ce jour, on ne dénombre plus que 600 pandas sauvages dans le monde (les 1 000 autres sont dans des zoos et ne peuvent donc pas sortir facilement). Bref, impossible à organiser. Surtout qu'avec le passeport biométrique, c'est tout un périple pour obtenir un visa...
Pourtant, ce serait une excellente idée, un club de rencontre pour pandas. Car avec l'une des fécondités les plus faibles du monde animal, ces petits ont bien du mal à assurer leur descendance (comme Céline Dion et René... mais c'est une autre histoire).
Vous comprenez désormais le pourquoi de la protection des pandas, de l'organisation WWF, des chansons de Chantal et du merveilleux film Kung-Fu Panda.
Alors comment sauver les pandas ? Voilà une question importante. Une philosophe, assez récente celle-là, experte en matière de causes perdues, nous dirait de fraterniser. Vous voyez pas de qui je parle hein ?! Et si je dis "Frat-ter-ni-sons" ?! Oui, Ségolène Royal !

Il nous faut fraterniser afin de sauver nos amis.
L'idée : acheter l'Himalaya aux Chinois ! On fait une grande quête sur Facebook, on achète ce lopin de terre et on le laisse aux pandas Easy !

La vraie question est de savoir combien les Chinois en voudront...

........Vive la Veuve Paluche.........

Les animaux se masturbent aussi
N'est-ce pas merveilleux, quand science et religion se rejoignent? Mon collègue de Slate William Saletan a écrit qu'un récent article

lance les bases d'une défense pro-life de l'onanisme.

Selon l'obstétricien David Greening,

un programme rigoureux de masturbation quotidienne

peut réellement améliorer la qualité du sperme chez les hommes atteints de problèmes de fertilité. (Les échantillons collectés à la fin du programme montraient moins d'ADN endommagé et une

plus grande mobilité du sperme que ceux du groupe de contrôle).

Puisque la masturbation peut vous aider à faire des enfants, avance Saletan, elle doit aussi servir les «buts procréatifs et unitifs» décrits dans le Catéchisme.
Poussons plus loin le raisonnement.

Si ce «dangereux supplément» [dixit Rousseau] est moralement acceptable pour l'homme, qu'en est-il des oiseaux et des autres animaux?

Sûrement, ce qui fonctionne pour Dieu vaut aussi pour la nature: puisque la masturbation améliore la fertilité, alors elle doit être un objectif primordial de la sélection naturelle.
Cela signifie que tout animal développant la capacité ou une inclination pour le plaisir solitaire aura un sperme de meilleure qualité, et davantage de descendants, que ses rivaux. En fait, en prenant au sérieux la théorie de l'évolution -comme c'est le cas de l'église catholique depuis février dernier- alors on peut s'attendre à ce que tous les animaux se masturbent, ou au moins tous les animaux équipés d'un système reproductif suffisamment proche du nôtre.
Bestiaire des onanistes
Certes, le paluchage est chose courante dans le royaume animal (Wikipedia propose un bon résumé de la chose).

Les chiens, les chats, les lions, les ours et un bon nombre d'autres mammifères se stimulent avec leurs pattes avant; les morses chauds lapins utilisent leurs nageoires.

Les chevaux et les ânes, dont les pratiques masturbatoires ont été particulièrement bien étudiées, font quant à eux «rebondir, appuient ou glissent en rythme le pénis en érection contre leur abdomen» [PDF]; les cerfs font de même.
Le physiologiste du XIXe siècle Karl Friedrich Burdach a même décrit un phénomène se rapprochant de l'éjaculation féminine chez les juments solitaires, qui «se frottent contre tous les obstacles qu'elles trouvent, produisant souvent un mucus blanc et visqueux».

Le taureau se stimule en faisant aller et venir son sexe dans son fourreau pénien, alors que certains élans peuvent éjaculer simplement en frottant leurs bois sur la végétation.

Selon des observations faites à l'University of Buffalo dans les années 1940, les porcs-épics mâles et femelles manipulent leurs organes génitaux avec des objets inanimés -et ne se privent pas de «saisir, enfourcher et chevaucher des bâtons dans leur cage».
Bien évidemment, de nombreux animaux s'adonnent aux relations bucco-génitales en solo.
Nos cousins les singes figurent parmi les masturbateurs les plus ardents et les plus assidus: des orangs-outangs femelles ont été vues fabriquer des godemichés primitifs à l'aide de bâtons ou de bouts de lianes, tandis que les mâles s'excitent avec des morceaux de fruits, de feuilles ou d'autres objets.

Bien que l'on puisse lire parfois que seuls les mammifères se masturbent, nous avons des preuves très claires d'autoérotisme chez les oiseaux, qui frottent leur cloaque sur tout ce qu'ils ont sous la patte. Et on a vu des tortues faire exactement la même chose.
La course au meilleur sperme
Malgré ce bestiaire de l'autoérotisme, les scientifiques ont consacré relativement peu de temps à chercher pourquoi les animaux ont pu évoluer jusqu'à la masturbation. À première vue, cette pratique semblerait relever d'une mauvaise adaptation.

Tout d'abord, il y a toute cette énergie gaspillée dans la production de semence non utilisée-on estime que les macaques, par exemple, consacrent entre 1 et 6 % de leur métabolisme quotidien à la production de l'éjaculat.

Ensuite, la pratique distrait l'animal de tâches plus importantes: trouver de la nourriture et éviter les prédateurs, sans parler de l'accouplement, évidemment.

La littérature équestre nous apprend qu'un étalon qui se masturbe prend parfois «une apparence de transe et les yeux vitreux».

Quoi de plus attirant pour un ours affamé?
La découverte récente que la masturbation améliore la qualité du sperme humain renforce l'idée qu'il s'agit d'une caractéristique issue de l'évolution et pas seulement d'un effet secondaire de notre physiologie.

Selon une branche de la théorie de l'évolution appelée «compétition spermatique» développée à la fin des années 1960, la sélection naturelle peut tout à fait produire ce genre de changement dans le comportement reproductif.

Cette théorie se concentre sur les espèces polyandres, c'est-à-dire celles dans lesquelles une femelle a des partenaires multiples et où le sperme de plusieurs pères potentiels peut se retrouver en concurrence pour fertiliser le même ovule.

Dans ces conditions, la qualité relative de l'éjaculat détermine très clairement quels gènes seront transmis à la génération suivante.
Apparemment, la théorie de la compétition spermatique s'applique aussi chez les animaux. La taille des testicules, par exemple, est liée à la promiscuité sexuelle avec les femelles pour des espèces aussi variées que les insectes et les primates.

C'est tout à fait logique: quand plusieurs mâles sont en compétition pour fertiliser la même partenaire, celui qui a les plus grosses valseuses (et par conséquent le plus de sperme) aura un grand avantage.

Alors quel pourrait être le lien entre compétition spermatique et masturbation?

...Toutes les photos pour plus tard...et des belles.!

Ces Libanais qui ont envahi la mode
Les robes sont échancrées, les décolletés plongeants, les talons vertigineux, et les nombrils parfois s'exposent avec autant d'arrogance que les chutes de rein. En plein coeur d'un monde arabe où le vêtement féminin va en général du discret au répressif, le Liban, pluriel, schizophrène et fou de mode, a donné naissance à une quantité impressionnante de stylistes à la réputation internationale qu'on s'arrache désormais en Occident.

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"Le nom de Liban a toujours été synonyme de guerre, mais pour ce qui est de la mode... Nous sommes vraiment très fiers de nos stylistes!", s'exclame Laura Seikaly, 39 ans, en train de bronzer sur une plage bondée du nord de Beyrouth: "Je crois que ça vient de la société elle-même, de la manière dont s'habillent les Libanaises.

Elles sont très courageuses, même plus que les Européennes".
Le plus connu de ces créateurs, leur icône, c'est sans aucun doute Elie Saab: catapulté super-star en 2002, lorsque la sculpturale actrice Halle Berry accepta son Oscar moulée dans une de ses somptueuses robes brodées lie-de-vin:

c'était alors une première pour un styliste du Pays du Cèdre.
Mais la liste est longue: Zuhair Murad, Robert Abi Nader, Georges Chakra, Georges Hobeika, Abed Mahfouz ou encore la New-Yorkaise Reem Acra, connue pour ses délicieuses robes de mariée à broderies, qui habille des "people" comme Eva Longoria, Kate Beckinsale et Jill Biden, l'épouse du vice-président américain.
La mode libanaise est à l'image du pays: une société pluraliste et multiconfessionnelle avec 18 appartenances religieuses différentes, une population musulmane à environ 60%, contre 40% de chrétiens,

le seul pays arabe dont le chef d'Etat est chrétien...
Et aussi le cosmopolitisme d'une société urbaine et dynamique, un goût d'Europe, un héritage colonial français, une tradition de tolérance, une vaste diaspora, estimée à environ huit millions de personnes, soit deux fois la population du pays, éparpillée aux quatre coins du monde, aussi loin que le Brésil ou l'Australie.
"Les Libanais sont éduqués, modernes, et ils voyagent beaucoup(...)

Tout ça contribue à les rendre talentueux dans de nombreux domaines", estime Zuhair Murad, vite devenu un des chouchous d'Hollywood: c'est dans une de ses robes en soie bleu électrique que la jet-sautteuse Paris Hilton "Miss Vagina"s'est faite remarquer cette année aux Golden Globes.

Une consécration, en somme...
Il estime que les créateurs libanais, qu'on s'arrache aujourd'hui, viennent de loin.

Difficile de s'imposer quand on vient d'un si petit pays toujours en conflit, qui a survécu à une interminable guerre civile (1975-90), une invasion israélienne (1982) puis une nouvelle guerre Israël-Hezbollah en 2006:

"C'est difficile pour nous de nous présenter à la presse, aux clients, aux nouveaux marchés, comme les Américains et Européens.

Rien que de faire un défilé, c'était un rêve, de créer une collection et de la présenter au public", explique Zuhair Murad.
Au Proche-Orient, la réputation de Beyrouth capitale de la mode n'est plus à faire.

On s'y met sur son trente-et-un pour un rien, le glamour est une seconde nature, les femmes consacrent énormément de temps et d'argent à leur maquillage, leur coiffure et à leurs accessoires, et aiment à dévoiler des quantités invraisemblables de peau dénudée.

Et si c'est principalement surtout le cas des chrétiennes, les musulmanes ne sont parfois pas en reste.

Quant aux hommes, ils ne résistent pas aux accessoires griffés: lunettes, chaussures, stylos, briquets, portefeuilles...
"Les Libanais sont très élégants, même les hommes.

Ils aiment la mode", note Robert Abi Nader, parfois qualifié de roi de la haute couture proche-orientale.
Le Pays du Cèdre lui-même n'est pas en reste, d'une beauté à couper le souffle. "Je m'inspire de la culture proche-orientale, particulièrement Beyrouth, la richesse de sa culture et de son décor.

D'où ma sensibilité aux couleurs chaudes et aux tissus travaillés", explique Elie Saab.
Gamin déjà, il cousait des vêtements pour ses soeurs avec le moindre bout de tissu, rideaux ou nappes... Avant d'ouvrir son propre atelier en 1982, en pleine guerre, et d'étudier la mode à Paris.

En mai 2003, il confirmait son entrée dans la cour des grands, invité à adhérer au saint des saints de la haute couture française, la prestigieuse Chambre syndicale de la couture parisienne.
Depuis, à 45 ans, il habille Beyoncé, Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine Zeta-Jones ou encore Angelina Jolie, en robe-bustier noire cette année aux Oscars. Et la très fashionista Rania de Jordanie est une de ses plus fidèles clientes.
Saab est aujourd'hui ambitieux pour les autres: il veut faire de Beyrouth une étape sur la carte internationale de la mode, avec une Semaine de la mode en préparation.

Et en 2006, à l'heure où les bombes israéliennes pleuvaient sur Beyrouth, les mannequins du défilé Elie Saab à Paris étaient vêtues d'or, hommage au "soleil qui brille sur Beyrouth".
Car les sirènes d'Hollywood n'ont pas remplacé celles de Beyrouth dans le coeur d'Elie Saab, toujours profondément attaché au Liban et aux Libanaises:

"Elles ont été mes toutes premières clientes.

Et ce sont toujours elles qui me font aimer l'élégance autour de moi".

...Le plus sérieusement du monde...

Sex toys
Selon le Durex Sex Survey de 2004, 20 % des Français utiliseraient des sex toys contre 43 % des Américains et 49 % des Anglais.
Le saviez-vous?: En Arizona, la loi interdit de posséder plus de deux vibromasseurs par foyer.
Quelle série a démocratisé les sex toys féminins?
Dans Sex and the City, Charlotte utilise Jack Rabbit, le lapin vibrant, un compagnon qui caresse à l'intérieur et à lextérieur, qui tourne, ondule, c'est la star des sex toys et l'un des plus efficaces du marché.
Que sont des boules de geisha?
Les boules de geisha sont deux boules attachées par une corde que l'on place dans le vagin. Chaque boule contient une bille d'acier qui sous l'effet des contractions vaginales se frottent et déclenchent ainsi un plaisir sexuel. Vous pouvez trouver des versions plus sophistiquée avec des mini-vibrateurs ou des picots. Vous pouvez les utiliser à tous les moments de la journée sans avoir de rapports sexuels.
Y a-t-il des précautions d'usage ?
Un sex toy peut s'utiliser seul (e) ou à deux

N'oubliez jamais de lubrifier vos sex toys pour éviter toutes irritations et pour multiplier le désir, choisissez en avec télécommande

Votre partenaire jouera de l'effet de surprise pour vous faire atteindre le plaisir.
Quels sont les sex toys les plus utilisés?
D'après un sondage réalisé par Sexyavenue.com,

Les sextoys les plus utilisés sont les vibromasseurs (35% des réponses), les godemichets (15%) et les boules de geisha (13%).

En moyenne, les personnes utilisent leur sextoy "quelques fois par mois", et 12% disent l'utiliser "seulement dans les grandes occasions".

Les personnes interrogées sont 88% à atteindre l'orgasme à chaque fois avec leur sextoy, et deux tiers se disent "tout à fait convaincues" par leur premier sextoy.

Si Obama est apparenté à Dick,c'est que rien ne changera dans le monde

...Surtout en Irak,Afghanistan,Iran.Pakistan... etc

Barack Obama confirme ses origines françaises auprès des Mormons
Le président Barack Obama a reçu le chef de l'Eglise mormone lundi à la Maison Blanche, pour le remercier des recherches généalogiques entreprises sur la famille présidentielle américaine.

Une occasion aussi pour le locataire de la Maison Blanche de voir confirmer ses racines partiellement françaises.
"Je suis reconnaissant pour ces archives généalogiques que la délégation mormone a apportées avec elle et j'attends avec impatience de pouvoir les consulter avec mes filles", a déclaré Obama dans un communiqué.

"C'est quelque chose que notre famille va chérir dans les années à venir".
Thomas Monson, le président de L'Eglise de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours, a apporté avec lui un registre composé de cinq livres reliés de cuir dont il ressort que Barack Obama descend en droite ligne d'un Mareen Duvall.

Ce fils de huguenot Français avait épousé la petite-fille d'un Richard Cheney, arrivé d'Angleterre dans le Maryland à la fin 1650.
Certains détails généalogiques sur les racines du président Américain étaient déjà connus comme le fait que Barack Obama et l'ancien vice-président républicain Dick Cheney partagent des ancêtres communs et qu'ils sont cousins au huitième degré.
Les Mormons ont constitué une base généalogique mondiale qu'ils conservent dans la région de Salt Lake City.

...Un coup de balai...et hop!

Les francs-maçons accusés de sorcellerie aux
Iles Fidji -

Un groupe de francs-maçons a passé une nuit en prison après que des villageois se sont plaints de sorcellerie.

14 hommes dont huit Australiens et un Néo-Zélandais tenaient une réunion de nuit sur l'île de Denerau.

Ils ont été arrêtés après que des villageois ont soupçonné des pratiques douteuses de sorcellerie.

Des baguettes magiques, des boussoles et un crâne auraient été saisis par les forces de l'ordre.

Un des hommes raconte que la réunion "a été interrompue par des coups à la porte et des villageois et la police ont exigé de pouvoir entrer".

Finalement après avoir été arrêtés, les hommes ont été relâchés le lendemain.

...Frottis...Frottas...

...Et si elle n'est pas vierge?

Une jeune fille met en vente sa virginité !
Evelyn est femme de ménage et a publié une annonce le 10 mai dernier afin de "mettre aux enchères" sa virginité.

Sur le site quebarato.com, elle assure que l'argent lui servira à continuer ses études, mais elle confie au quotidien El Mundo qu'elle veut "pouvoir payer un spécialiste à sa mère et retourner en Equateur pour s'occuper d'elle".

Lucide, la jeune femme explique :

"Je ne crois pas que mettre ma virginité aux enchères va résoudre tous mes problèmes mais ça me donnera une certaine stabilité financière".

Si Evelyn avait fixé le prix de sa virginité à 15 000 euros au départ, elle a tout de même refusé une proposition de plus de 2 millions d'euros car le prétendant voulait rester en contact avec elle par la suite.

Moi je prends le Jean...

Elle exige par ailleurs que celui qui prendra sa virginité présente un certificat médical, n'exige ni baisers ni caresses et qu'il soit attentionné.

Pratiques solitaires...en face de 400 personnes..

Un conducteur de train se masturbe aux commandes...
Grande-Bretagne -

Un conducteur de train Virgin est suspendu après s'être fait surprendre en pleine pratique sexuelle solitaire.

L'employé des chemins de fer est accusé d'avoir regardé des images pornographiques et de s'être masturbé alors qu'il conduisait l'une des lignes les plus fréquentées du pays.

C'est l'un de ses collègues qui passait non loin de sa cabine qui l'a aperçu en train de regarder des photos.
"Il était considéré comme un conducteur fiable mais il est sûr maintenant que sa carrière va prendre un coup d'arrêt".

Cela a amusé certains collègues mais il est difficile d'imaginer comment il pouvait se concentrer et réagir alors

qu'il transportait 400 passagers", rapporte une personne proche du conducteur.

La majorité des vitres des cabines de conducteurs sont teintées.

Et la vitre à l'avant est trop haute pour que quelqu'un puisse y regarder à l'intérieur. La compagnie ferroviaire Virgin se refuse à commenter les mesures disciplinaires qu'elle va prendre avant d'avoir étudié toute l'affaire.

Octuplés,sex-tu-plets...s'il te plait...lol

Comment on les fabrique à la chaine,et

...un contremaitre surveille les travaux...
Les 14 enfants de la mère qui a donné naissance à des octuplés toucheront chacun 250 dollars par jour pour être filmés .
Les 14 enfants de Nadya Suleman, qui a donné naissance à des octuplés le 26 janvier en Californie, toucheront chacun 250 dollars (176 euros) par jour pour leur participation à une émission de télé réalité, après l'accord que leur mère a signé vendredi avec la société de production européenne Eyeworks.

Cinq des enfants à leur naissance

Le tournage doit commencer le 1er septembre.

Les enfants, âgés de huit ans au plus, toucheront donc sur trois ans une somme totale de 250.000 dollars (176.000 euros).

Le contrat a été conclu au tribunal de grande instance de Los Angeles.
C'est la première fois au monde que des octuplés restaient tous en vie après leur naissance.

B2 Bomber,stealth plane,ou avion invisible,il est d'origine allemande

Deux reacteurs de "V2" servent comme moteurs

Le premier avion antiradar-Stealth,invisible,quoi!- (ne soyons pas tellement discrets, c'est l'original des avions invisibles,que les americains on copié,et si en 1940 les ingénieurs allemands avaient pu finir cet avion,on serait sur Mars actuellement!) aurait été construit par les nazis à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. D'après une équipe d'ingénierie qui a reconstruit le Horten Ho 2-29 avec les plans et le materiel de l'époque, si l'armée allemande avait réussi à mettre l'appareil au point plus rapidemment, cela aurait pu changer l'issue de la guerre.

...Archéologie Nazie...

Un étudiant a fait cette découverte lors d'une promenade, avant de ramener l'objet à son appartement dans le centre-ville.
Il trouve un obus de 30 mm datant de la première guerre mondiale et décide de le ramener chez lui, inconscient du danger.

C'est ce qui est arrivé à un jeune homme de 20 ans,

Avant que son quartier du centre-ville de Nancy ne soit bouclé !

Tout commence quand le jeune homme fait une promenade en forêt:

il découvre un obus et d'autres pièces d'artillerie qu'il pense neutralisés, d'après Le Figaro.

Et les ramène dans son appartement.

Curieux, il appelle un ami militaire pour avoir quelques détails sur les pièces ramassées. Ce dernier lui conseille vivement de prévenir la police:

sa description des engins montre qu'ils sont potentiellement dangereux.

Les autorités débarquent sur les lieux dans la foulée et bouclent le quartier Saint-Nicolas en attendant l'intervention d'une équipe de démineurs dépêchée de Metz.

L'alerte n'a été levée que 6 heures plus tard.De trop grosses précautions?

Non! Les artificiers ont confirmé que l'obus de 30 mm n'était pas désamorcé.

L'ensemble des pièces d'artillerie entreposées dans l'appartement ont été saisies pour être neutralisées.

En plus...

Six tonnes de munitions ont été découvertes sur le chantier du futur terminal du tramway de Brest,

révèle Ouest-France.
A cet endroit, de nombreux bunkers avaient été construits durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, servant pour la plupart de dépôts de munitions.

Soixante ans après, plus personne ne savait que les deux abris avaient servi de poubelles, selon le journaliste de Ouest-france.
Les entreprises de travaux publics ont démoli le toit des bunkers, et vidé l'intérieur rempli de terre,rien encore...
Quinze jours plus tard, les démineurs étaient appelés pour « un obus ».

Des ouvriers de travaux publics ont démoli le toit des bunkers, et on aperçu, dans la terre, un objet suspect : un obus datant de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale.
Tout de suite, les spécialistes ont compris qu'ils avaient affaire à « un gros problème ». « Le tas de terre est truffé de munitions. En onze jours, on en a trouvé six tonnes. »

Les démineurs travaillent comme des archéologues. Ils ratissent la terre. Ils ont l'oeil : les plus petites munitions ressemblent à des cailloux enrobés de terre.Les démineurs ont tamisé les deux tiers du contenu d'un bunker.

Ils en ont un deuxième à traiter.

Les travaux ont été arrêtés, sans trop de conséquences pour l'instant. Les chantiers du futur tramway ne manquent pas ailleurs.
Brest est une ville qui fut, en France, l'une des plus bombardées durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale par toutes les parties.

À chaque grand chantier, la ville s'est habituée à la découverte de grosses bombes enfouies sous la terre.

À chaque fois, il a fallu évacuer la population, le temps de neutraliser ces bombes.

...a propos "Les moustiques ont des dents...

Moustique aedes

Comment se protéger des moustiques ?
Les moustiques prolifèrent, c'est bien connu, dans les eaux stagnantes. A la maison, commencez donc par éliminer tous les réservoirs extérieurs susceptibles de constituer un site de reproduction.

C'est le cas des réservoirs pour la récupération des eaux de pluie et de tous les récipients artificiels : soucoupes, cache-pots, jouets ....
Souvenez-vous que les moustiques sont plus actifs à la tombée du jour. Pour profiter des longues soirées estivales, portez des vêtements longs et de couleurs claires. Et n'oubliez pas de couvrir les parties sensibles, comme les bras et les chevilles.
Vous pouvez également recourir aux répulsifs, en les appliquant directement sur la peau (en insistant sur le visage et la nuque) mais également sur les vêtements. L'Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) recommande principalement ceux qui renferment du DEET (N-diéthyl-3-méthylbenzamide), de l'IR3535 (esther éthylique de l'acide 3-[N-acétyl-N-butyl]-aminopropionique) ou de l'icaridine (1-piperidinecarboxylic acid, 2-(2-hydroxyethyl)- 1-méthylpropylester).

Recherchez donc ces produits dans la liste des composants avant de faire votre choix.
Toujours selon l'OMS, les spirales anti-moustiques et autres vaporisateurs (à la citronnelle par exemple) « peuvent aussi réduire les piqûres à l'intérieur des bâtiments ». Et pour dormir tranquille enfin, l'idéal reste d'entourer votre lit (ou celui de votre enfant) d'une moustiquaire imprégnée d'insecticides.
Le paludisme tue un enfant toutes les 30 secondes
Paludisme et toxoplasmose : vers un candidat-médicament ?
Paludisme : l'OMS inquiète des résistances au traitement
Un paludisme vraiment trop sucré
Paludisme : moins de morts, toujours autant dinégalités

Les Françaises baisent mieux que d'autres?

Les fantasmes
Quel est le fantasme que la majorité des Françaises aimeraient réaliser?

Pour 63% des Françaises, faire l'amour sur une plage au clair de lune et pour 54% dans une clairière au soleil!
Quelle est la position préférée des Français?
La levrette qui remporte 37% des suffrages loin devant le missionnaire (23%). Les Italiens préfèrent eux "la fille au dessus".
Est-il possible de faire l'amour en apesanteur?
A deux, pas vraiment! D'après Harry Stine, dans "Living in Space" un simple coup de rein envoie votre partenaire à l'autre bout de lanavette! La solution, qu'un troisième personne tienne un des deux partenaires!
La sodomie est-elle appréciée des Françaises?
En France, 37, 3% des femmes déclarent avoir expérimenté au moins une fois la sodomie dans leur vie.

La part de celles qui la pratiquent régulièrement tombe à 9,2%. Les plus assidues sont les 40-49 ans avec une participation qui s'élève à 12,5%.
Le sperme fait-il grossir? Non!

Une éjaculation de 4 à 6 millilitres de sperme en moyenne est composée d'environ 20 millions de spermatozoïdes par millilitres ou un taux égal ou supérieur à 40 millions de spermatozoïdes par éjaculation.

La valeur calorique d'une éjaculation moyenne varie entre 15-30 calories.

Bon appétit les filles !

Nights in white satin...

En images : l'éclipse totale de Soleil la plus longue du XXIe siècle a eu lieu cette nuit en Asie
Asie - Peu après le lever du jour en Asie, le ciel s'est assombri de nouveau lors d'une éclipse solaire totale.

C'est un phénomène unique pour ce XXIe siècle et il faudra attendre 2132 pour assister à un tel spectacle de nouveau.
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L'éclipse solaire totale a débuté à 5h28, heure indienne. Des millions d'habitants situés sur une bande de territoire large de 250 km et traversant la moitié du globe ont alors pu admirer ce phénomène unique du XXIe siècle.

A certains endroits, la lumière du Soleil a été masquée par la Lune pendant plus de six minutes, faisant de cette éclipse la plus longue d'ici à 2132.

C'est au-dessus de l'Océan Pacifique que cette éclipse totale a atteint sa durée maximum : six minutes et trente-neuf secondes.

Pendant ce temps, les scientifiques ont pu observer la couronne solaire, constituée de gaz entourant l'astre. C'est une vision très rare qu'ils ont enfin pu analyser.

D'autres milliers de curieux étaient rassemblés sur différents sites importants des pays d'Asie pour admirer le spectacle. Fidèles à leurs croyances, certains Indiens en ont profité pour se baigner dans le Gange(la merde quoi!), espérant ainsi obtenir le salut.

Les habitants du Bangladesh, du Népal, du Bhoutan, de la Birmanie et de Shanghai ont ensuite pu regarder à leur tour ce phénomène astral exceptionnel. Le Doyen de l'Institut indien d'astrophysique de Bangalore a insisté sur le fait que cette éclipse est "la plus longue du XXIe siècle".

Il a également expliqué qu'il s'agissait d'un "évènement important pour des expériences scientifiques" : "sa durée prolongée nous donne l'occasion de faire des expériences très complexes.

" Vivez l'éclipse comme si vous y étiez : http://www.maxisciences.com/%e9clipse/l-039-eclipse-solaire-totale-la-plus-longue-du-xxie-siecle-en-asie_art2955.html

..........Une autre Mona Lisa ?

Un documentaire sur l'histoire de la Madone de Laroque, attribuée par une experte à Léonard de Vinci, a rencontré dans l'Archipel un succès exceptionnel.
Depuis trois jours, la saga de la Madone de Laroque est devenue un conte de fées qui s'écrit en japonais. Le 18 juillet, elle a été exposée au dernier étage emblématique de la tour Fuji à Tokyo (Japon).

Seule dans une petite cage en verre sécurisée et climatisée, elle fait face à la curiosité passionnée de milliers de Japonais qui, depuis l'automne dernier, se sentent imprégnés de la belle histoire de ce petit tableau peint sur des planchettes de peuplier dans l'atelier milanais de Léonard de Vinci autour des années 1500.
En octobre 1998, au moment de son acquisition, c'était juste un petit tableau de pas grand-chose affiché à 1 500 francs (230 euros) dans une petite brocante du village de Laroque, proche de Ganges (Hérault).

La lumière particulière de cette Vierge aux deux enfants avait attiré l'œil de trois copains amateurs d'art. Après l'avoir achetée, à force d'observer le tableau, ils se sont rendus à l'évidence que cette œuvre était très ancienne. Ils se sont lancés dans de grandes investigations picturales.

Cette enquête visant à retrouver l'auteur de cette peinture dure depuis onze ans. Elle n'est toujours pas bouclée. Elle a été menée à compte d'acquéreurs. « Nous avons payé de notre poche toutes les expertises. Y a-t-il un seul tableau sur le marché qui subisse autant d'enquêtes historiques et d'analyses scientifiques ? » questionne François Leclerc, l'un des trois propriétaires.

Depuis le 18 juillet, la Madone est présentée dans une petite cage en verre sécurisée et climatisée à Tokyo.

Le petit tableau qui représente cette énigmatique madone avec deux enfants n'a jamais été exposé en France. Il a été montré une seule fois, symboliquement dans l'église de Santa Croce du village de Vinci, là où le grand maître Léonard avait été baptisé en 1452.

Pendant toutes ces années, les experts du Louvre ont toujours refusé d'examiner le tableau.Le scepticisme n'a pas empêché les copains d'avancer, sans jamais forcer les informations et les affirmations qu'ils ont récupérées au fil du temps jusqu'au moment où, à l'automne dernier, une historienne d'art, Maïke Vogt-Lûerssen, a catégoriquement établi que ce tableau était bien de la main de Léonard.

Elle affirme qu'il a ainsi reproduit le visage d'Isabelle d'Aragon, l'une de ses proches pendant la période 1496-1515.
Une audience exceptionnelle
Si les autres experts estiment que le tableau a bien été réalisé dans l'atelier du grand maître, elle est la seule à ce jour à franchir le pas. Qu'importe la certitude picturale ? En novembre dernier, des Japonais ont surtout découvert la fabuleuse histoire des trois Cévenols : François Leclerc, Guy Fadat et Jacques Proust.

La chaîne japonaise Fuji-TV a consacré en prime time un film documentaire à cette histoire. L'émission a connu une audience exceptionnelle. Au Japon, l'histoire de cette Madone a un plus grand succès que le Da Vinci Code. Les Japonais ont besoin d'éléments scientifiques pour se passionner.

Tous les ingrédients sont présents dans cette histoire. L'audience de cette première émission, l'intérêt et la curiosité qu'elle a suscités dans le grand public ont fait naître l'idée d'exposer pour la première fois cette Madone à Tokyo.

François Truffard, réalisateur de cinéma mais aussi l'homme qui a établi le lien entre les trois Français passionnés d'art et les producteurs japonais. D'ici au 31 août, plus de 400 000 admirateurs sont attendus au pied de la Madone de Laroque, ce tableau qui recommence à vivre et à respirer après cinq siècles d'indifférence.

...The U.S. ARE MURDERERS....YES OR NO.....Yesssssssssss says Col.Lawrence Wilkerson

The US Assassinates People All The Time!

By Rachel Maddow interviews Col. Lawrence Wilkerson"We're killing the wrong people and ... we're killing the wrong people in the wrong countries" Like in lebanon.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, was chief of staff to Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell.

He says he heard “echoes” of the program from US ambassadors abroad, who informed him that clandestine military teams were being dispatched to their countries.
“It’s laughable [the idea] that the CIA has never lied to Congress,” Wilkerson quipped.

“They lie to Congress on a routine basis,” said Wilkerson. Historically, it’s presidents that take the fall when the CIA lies to Congress. Wilkerson says it’s unprecedented for a vice president to fill that role as Cheney appears to have done.
This video is from MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast July 14, 2009.
CIA Was a Long Way From Jason Bourne

The agency tried to assemble a team of anti-terrorist assassins. But officials could not solve logistical problems, including how to get close to targets while keeping U.S. involvement secret.

In movies, the CIA has so many prolifically lethal assassins roaming the world that the main problem often seems to be reining them in.But details that spilled out this week about a real CIA assassination program indicate that when the plotting is being done by spies instead of screenwriters, the obstacles are not so easy to surmount.

According to current and former U.S. intelligence officials, the CIA spent seven years trying to assemble teams capable of killing the world's most wanted terrorists but could never find a formula that worked.The struggles came during a period in which the agency had been given unprecedented authority and resources, and a cause -- responding to the Sept. 11 attacks -- with broad public support.

But officials could not solve daunting logistical problems, including how to get teams close to their targets while keeping U.S. involvement secret and being able to extract them safely if they succeeded in killing a terrorist.

In interviews, current and former U.S. intelligence officials said the aim of the effort was broader than has been described in newspaper accounts this week.In particular, officials said, ambitions for the program expanded to include creating teams that were made up not only of CIA personnel but counterparts from other countries, presumably Pakistan; and to be capable not just of killing high-value targets but also executing raids and other operations to gather evidence and intelligence that might lead to elusive Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri.

Former officials said support for the program persisted in recent years largely because it could compensate for a crucial shortcoming in the ongoing campaign of Predator strikes. The drones had emerged as a potent weapon against Al Qaeda in Pakistan but had failed to bring the agency closer to Bin Laden.

"The bottom line is that you've still got No. 1 and No. 2 out there," one former high-ranking U.S. intelligence official said.

"If all you do is blow stuff up and burn stuff up, you never get information that could lead you to the prize."

As a result, CIA leaders continued to pursue the idea of elite paramilitary teams that could mount lethal operations on short notice but also quietly capture lower-ranking Al Qaeda members and raid sites struck by Predator missiles to gather any intelligence material left behind.

"If I can just get in there and get information off the ground, I might find one piece of information that's going to lead me to the prize," the former official said.

The broader dimensions of the program may account for why some lawmakers, particularly Republicans, have been critical of CIA Director Leon E. Panetta's decision last month to kill it.

House Democrats, angry that the program was kept secret from Congress, at least partially at the urging of former Vice President Dick Cheney, have threatened an investigation.

Lawmakers on Wednesday continued sparring over Cheney's role and whether Congress had been properly briefed.

The CIA said the program was never of substantial value to U.S. efforts.

"The program [Panetta] killed was never fully operational and never took a single terrorist off the battlefield," said George Little, a CIA spokesman.

"We've had a string of successes against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, and that program didn't contribute to any of them.

"The broader objectives of the program may also help to explain why top counter-terrorism officials saw a need for the CIA to develop its own elite paramilitary teams, rather than relying on U.S. military special operations troops deployed across Afghanistan.

Former intelligence officials said there were intermittent discussions about having special operations troops assigned to the CIA as part of the program, but it was not clear how far those plans progressed.

A second former official with extensive knowledge of the CIA effort said it was seen as crucial that the units reside within the CIA so that the U.S. government would be able to deny involvement if a team were exposed or captured.Special operations forces routinely carry out clandestine missions, but unlike their CIA counterparts they operate with the expectation that their ties to the U.S. government will not be denied if the mission breaks down."Keeping activities like this secret is the biggest challenge," said the second former U.S. intelligence official.

The vulnerability of being far removed from U.S. protection was seen as another major barrier to the success of the program.

Even if an assassination team were deployed and succeeded in killing a senior Al Qaeda figure, "what happens to the shooter?" said Mark Lowenthal, a former senior CIA official. "We don't send people on suicide missions. I'm sure they were troubled by how to get the guy out of there.

"In its initial conception, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA program was seen mainly as an effort to assemble teams capable of carrying out targeted killings.

But officials have said that it went through multiple "iterations."

Most recently, the program's focus had shifted toward intelligence collection, officials said, the latest in a series of efforts toward the end of the George W. Bush administration to find Bin Laden.

In that respect, some officials thought the program could replicate on a small scale the successful formula that the U.S. military had employed as part of the "surge" in Iraq, carrying out raids, exploiting the information gathered, and launching follow-up operations in swift succession.

However, different objectives brought different challenges, officials said, including how to get the right mix of personnel that could operate in the badlands of Pakistan without being captured or exposed.

Former officials declined to say whether the CIA had ever held discussions with Pakistan about setting up hybrid teams with members of the Pakistani military or its main spy service, Inter-Services Intelligence.

But one former official said that few officials thought the initiative could succeed solely with U.S. personnel.

"If you're born in Kansas, you're always from Kansas," the former official said. "I don't care you long you grow your beard, you're still from Kansas."

.....60 years as a broadcaster....et moi,et moi,et moi...

Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies at 92
NEW YORK – Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.
Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. with his family by his side at his Manhattan home after a long illness, CBS vice president Linda Mason said. Marlene Adler, Cronkite's chief of staff, said Cronkite died of cerebrovascular disease.
Morley Safer, a longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent, called Cronkite "the father of television news."
"The trust that viewers placed in him was based on the recognition of his fairness, honesty and strict objectivity ... and of course his long experience as a shoe-leather reporter covering everything from local politics to World War II and its aftermath in the Soviet Union," Safer said. "He was a giant of journalism and privately one of the funniest, happiest men I've ever known."
Cronkite was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.
It was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV broadcast of the soap opera "As the World Turns."
He died just three days before the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, another earthshaking moment of history linked inexorably with his reporting.
"What was so remarkable about it was that he was not only in the midst of so many great stories, he was also the managing editor of CBS News and the managing editor for America," former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw said. "Walter always made us better. He set the bar so high."
Cronkite was the broadcaster to whom the title "anchorman" was first applied, and he came so identified in that role that eventually his own name became the term for the job in other languages. (Swedish anchors are known as Kronkiters; In Holland, they are Cronkiters.)
"He was a great broadcaster and a gentleman whose experience, honesty, professionalism and style defined the role of anchor and commentator," CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves said in a statement.
CBS has scheduled a prime-time special, "That's the Way it Was: Remembering Walter Cronkite," for 7 p.m. Sunday.
President Barack Obama issued a statement saying that Cronkite set the standard by which all other news anchors have been judged.
"He invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down. This country has lost an icon and a dear friend, and he will be truly missed," Obama said.
His 1968 editorial declaring the United States was "mired in stalemate" in Vietnam was seen by some as a turning point in U.S. opinion of the war. He also helped broker the 1977 invitation that took Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem, the breakthrough to Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. He followed the 1960s space race with open fascination, anchoring marathon broadcasts of major flights from the first suborbital shot to the first moon landing, exclaiming, "Look at those pictures, wow!" as Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon's surface in 1969. In 1998, for CNN, he went back to Cape Canaveral to cover John Glenn's return to space after 36 years.
"He had a passion for human space exploration, an enthusiasm that was contagious, and the trust of his audience. He will be missed," Armstrong said in a statement.
He had been scheduled to speak last January for the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., but ill health prevented his appearance.
A former wire service reporter and war correspondent, he valued accuracy, objectivity and understated compassion. He expressed liberal views in more recent writings but said he had always aimed to be fair and professional in his judgments on the air.
Off camera, his stamina and admittedly demanding ways brought him the nickname "Old Ironpants." But to viewers, he was "Uncle Walter," with his jowls and grainy baritone, his warm, direct expression and his trim mustache.
When he summed up the news each evening by stating, "And THAT's the way it is," millions agreed. His reputation survived accusations of bias by Richard Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, and being labeled a "pinko" in the tirades of a fictional icon, Archie Bunker of CBS's "All in the Family."
Two polls pronounced Cronkite the "most trusted man in America": a 1972 "trust index" survey in which he finished No. 1, about 15 points higher than leading politicians, and a 1974 survey in which people chose him as the most trusted television newscaster.
"He was the most trusted man in America and he was a reporter. Imagine. Who could we say that about today?" said Jeff Fager, executive producer of "60 Minutes," who began working at CBS News the year Cronkite stepped down from the anchor job.
Like fellow Midwesterner Johnny Carson, Cronkite seemed to embody the nation's mainstream. When he broke down as he announced Kennedy's death, removing his glasses and fighting back tears, the times seemed to break down with him.

Walter Conkrite in 1940
And when Cronkite took sides, he helped shape the times. After the 1968 Tet offensive, he visited Vietnam and wrote and narrated a "speculative, personal" report advocating negotiations leading to the withdrawal of American troops.
"We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds," he said, and concluded, "We are mired in stalemate."
After the broadcast, President Lyndon B. Johnson reportedly said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
In the fall of 1972, responding to reports in The Washington Post, Cronkite aired a two-part series on Watergate that helped ensure national attention to the then-emerging scandal.
"When the news is bad, Walter hurts," the late CBS president Fred Friendly once said. "When the news embarrasses America, Walter is embarrassed. When the news is humorous, Walter smiles with understanding."
More recently, in a syndicated column, Cronkite defended the liberal record of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and criticized the Iraq war and other Bush administration policies.
But when asked by CNN's Larry King if that column was evidence of media bias, Cronkite set forth the distinction between opinion and reporting. "We all have prejudices," he said of his fellow journalists, "but we also understand how to set them aside when we do the job."

...ce n'est plus de l'amour ici,c'est du pousse au viol...

Grande-Bretagne -

Une brochure adressée aux écoles promet le sexe comme un moyen de rester en bonne santé. Cette campagne n'a pas manqué d'attirer les foudres de certains professionnels de l'éducation qui y voient une incitation à avoir des relations sexuelles de plus en plus tôt.

Un prospectus adressé à des élèves invoque le droit à 'un orgasme par jour'

Amours insolites
Alors que la Grande-Bretagne connaît le taux de grossesses chez les adolescentes le plus élevé d'Europe de l'Ouest, cette brochure intitulée "Un orgasme par jour évite les médecins" a fait grand bruit dans le monde de l'éducation.

L'un des auteurs, Steve Slack, a défendu sa publication en invoquant qu'il était important que les jeunes soient complètement informés sur les relations sexuelles car ils ont "droit aux relations sexuelles épanouies" au même titre que les adultes. Il a ajouté que cela retarderait les premières expériences jusqu'à ce que les jeunes soient certains de les apprécier.

Pourtant, beaucoup de spécialistes de l'éducation condamnent cette brochure sur laquelle on peut lire :

"Les experts de la santé recommandent 5 portions de fruits et légumes par jour, 30 minutes d'activité physique trois fois par semaine.

-Je ne vois pas le lien entre les deux

Qu'en est-il du sexe ou de la masturbation deux fois par semaine?".Le docteur Trevor Stammers, membre d'un groupe de pression en faveur de la famille, considère qu'une telle brochure va entraîner des comportements à risques et augmenter les maladies sexuellement transmissibles :

"Il est incroyable que cette brochure ait été envoyée dans les établissements scolaires" a t-il déclaré. Et d'ajouter que si les auteurs de cette brochure voulaient prémunir la jeunesse contre les maladies cardiaques, il serait plus avisé d'investir dans des campagnes pour la lutte contre le tabac ou la consommation d'alcool.

Le nouveau phénomène Facebook :

s'allonger dans les endroits les plus insolites

........Combattre le cancer en mangeant.........

Combattre le cancer en mangeant - et avec la baise des prix-: c’est possible !
Posté par : Iris Hartl passe en revue les aliments qui font fuir la maladie...
353 000 nouveaux cas de cancers ont été enregistrés en France l’an dernier, selon un rapport récemment remis à Nicolas Sarkozy.

Si les cancers les plus “agressifs” sont en recul grâce au diagnostic précoce, le cancer n’en demeure pas moins la première cause de mortalité dans notre pays. 145 000 personnes en sont mortes en 2008 et le taux d’incidence a fait un bond de 20% au cours des 20 dernières années. Pour se prémunir, des réflexes simples à adopter dans notre vie quotidienne. Et une recommandation plus spécifiquement pour les hommes : messieurs, comportez-vous comme des femmes !
Vous réfléchissez à organiser un barbecue ou vous comptez prendre un verre avec vos amis ce week-end ?

Ce n’est pas une mauvaise idée en soi. Mais que me répondrez-vous si je vous recommande de ne griller que des brochettes de légumes et de ne boire aucun alcool au cours de cette sauterie ? C’est pourtant un menu de soirée anti-cancer que je viens de vous décrire. Alors, soyez les premiers à lancer la tendance ! Car lutter contre le cancer, ça passe aussi par un changement de nos habitudes les plus banales.
Hormis les facteurs endogènes, ce sont aussi nos modes de vie qui peuvent conduire à l’apparition de la maladie. Les principaux facteurs de risque connus sont le tabac, l’hygiène alimentaire et l’excès d’alcool. A ce sujet, la mortalité prématurée dû au cancer est environ 20% plus élevée en France que dans les autres pays européens.

Ce n’est peut-être pas un hasard quand on sait que les Français figurent au 6ème rang des plus grands consommateurs d’alcool dans le monde.
Ceci nous ramène à notre barbecue alors que débute votre apéro entre amis. C’est là que le changement d’habitudes doit intervenir, dans notre quotidien, et plus précisément au moment où nous voulons nous faire plaisir. Les Français ont la réputation d’être de « bons vivants » amateurs de vin, de fromage et autres gourmandises.

Mais pas de panique, ne commencez pas à éteindre votre barbecue si difficilement allumé : il ne s’agit pas de se priver de tous les plaisirs gourmands, mais de se montrer plus raisonnables.
D’abord commençons par dissiper une lubie. Il n’existe pas un régime “anti-cancer” qui prémunirait à 100% contre la maladie. Mais les risques d’apparition peuvent néanmoins être circonscrits par le biais de l’alimentation. La diététicienne Katia Tardieu explique que « certains aliments contiennent des éléments protecteurs qui ont un rôle préventif de certains cancers. C’est tout particulièrement le cas des fruits et légumes dans leur globalité pour lesquels on dispose d’études allant en ce sens. »

Les aliments qui sont en revanche à éviter sont notamment les viandes rouges et les charcuteries. Il faut aussi faire attention à la façon de cuisiner. « Certains modes de cuisson impliquant des températures supérieures à 200°C, comme par exemple les grillades, le contact direct avec la flamme ou une cuisson prolongée favorisent la formation de composés cancérogènes », précise Katia Tardieu. Quand je vous dis de vous méfier de votre barbecue !
S’agissant des boissons, l’alcool accroît gravement le risque de cancer, puisque l’éthanol se transforme dans le corps en acétaldéhyde, un produit cancérogène. Un verre de vin par jour accroît la probabilité d’un cancer du pharynx ou du larynx à 168% et de 10% la probabilité de développer un cancer du sein. Plus inquiétant, l’eau potable pourrait aussi être nocive pour la santé. David Servan-Schreiber, dont les écrits sur le cancer ne font pas l’unanimité, a ainsi lancé un appel cette semaine aux autorités pour qu’elles accentuent le contrôle de la qualité de l’eau.

Il a incité les personnes qui ont une santé fragile, notamment les malades de cancer, à ne pas boire l’eau du robinet qui contiendrait trop de nitrates et autres éléments nuisibles.Autre facteur d’inquiétude : les OGM.

Alors que l’Union européenne réfléchit à autoriser ou pas la viande clonée, la question de savoir si la consommation de cette viande porte des risques pour la santé se pose toujours. Comme pour les OGM, les experts n’ont apparemment pas assez de recul pour y répondre.

Il faut encore attendre de voir les effets à long terme sur l’organisme humain.
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, chercheuse à l’Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm), est la première à déplorer ce flou des études actuelles.

Elle regrette qu’elles ne puissent pas toujours fournir des indications claires au grand public. Cette incertitude se renforce quand on sait qu’il y a rarement une causalité unique en matière de cancer. Le développement de cette maladie est presque toujours multifactoriel.

Il est par exemple particulièrement compliqué de prévenir le cancer du sein. « Il y a plusieurs facteurs. Dans 5 à 10% des cas c’est endogène, mais les autres facteurs sont difficiles à détecter”. Cette incertitude ne vaut pas pour tous les cancers. Il ne faut pas désespérer.

La recherche progresse. Des enseignements précis peuvent être formulés comme dans l’exemple bien connu du cancer du poumon : le risque d’un cancer du poumon peut considérablement être diminué quand on arrête de fumer, ça c’est sûr.»

Parole,Parole,Parole...Ceux qui sont morts ne parlerons pas...

Dick Cheney Est un connard,je l'ai toujours dis!

Feinstein suggests CIA concealment broke law
WASHINGTON – Six months into Barack Obama's presidency, his Democratic allies are pushing for twin investigations into Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies.
Two senators including the head of the intelligence committee suggested Sunday that the prior administration broke the law by concealing a CIA counterterrorism program from Congress.
The assertion that Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the concealment came amid word that Attorney General Eric Holder is contemplating opening a criminal probe of possible CIA torture.
A move to appoint a criminal prosecutor is certain to stir partisan bickering that could prove a distraction to Obama's efforts to push ambitious health care and energy reform.
Obama has repeatedly expressed reluctance to probing alleged Bush-era abuses. He resisted an effort by congressional Democrats to establish a "truth commission," saying the nation should be "looking forward and not backwards."
Regarding the 8-year-old counterterrorism program, the Bush administration's failure to notify Congress "is a big problem, because the law is very clear," said Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Congress should investigate the secrecy because "it could be illegal," Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said.
According to Feinstein, CIA director Leon Panetta told Congress late last month that "he had just learned about the program, described it to us, indicated that he had canceled it and ... did tell us that he was told that the vice president had ordered that the program not be briefed to the Congress."
"We were kept in the dark. That's something that should never, ever happen again," said Feinstein.
Feinstein said that she understands the need for strong countermeasures following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
However, "I think you weaken your case when you go outside of the law," she added.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he agreed with Feinstein that the CIA should keep Congress informed. But Cornyn said the new assertion "looks to me suspiciously like an attempt to provide political cover" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats. Pelosi has accused the CIA of lying to her in 2002 about its use of waterboarding, or simulated drowning.
"This continued attack on the CIA and our intelligence gathering organizations is undermining the morale and capacity of those organizations to gather intelligence," said Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.
Reports about the counterterrorism program, Cheney's role in directing its existence be kept from Congress and the attorney general's consideration of a special prosecutor came on the eve of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

Juste un peu de Torture...n'a jamais nuit aux iraquis...
Regarding the Bush administration's conduct in the war on terror, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said that "I've always preferred my idea of a commission of inquiry to look at all these issues."
A Justice Department official told The Associated Press that Holder will decide in the next few weeks whether to appoint a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's harsh interrogation practices. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on a pending

matter.
In response to the report, Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller said Saturday that Holder planned to "follow the facts and the law" and noted that Holder has said that "it would be unfair to prosecute any official who acted in good faith based on legal guidance from the Justice Department."
Feinstein and Cornyn spoke on "Fox News Sunday." Durbin appeared on ABC's "This Week." Gregg spoke on CNN's "State of the Union." Leahy spoke on CBS's "Face the Nation."

On rigole un Coup et on continue a boire ?

DATE RAPE DRUG WARNING
(be sure to watch instructional video at the end of this message)

Police are warning all men who
frequent clubs, parties and pubs to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink by any woman.

Many females are now using a date-rape drug commonly known as 'BEER".

'This drug is found in liquid form and is available almost anywhere. It comes in bottles, cans, or from taps and in large kegs.

BEER is used by female sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade their male victims to go home and sleep with them.

A woman needs only to get a man to consume a few units of BEER
and then simply ask him home for
no-strings-attached sex. Virtually all men are rendered helpless against this approach.

After several BEERS , most men will succumb to their desire to sleep with women to whom they would never normally be attracted.

After drinking BEER , men often awaken with only hazy memories of exactly what happened to them the night before,
often with just a vague feeling that 'something bad' occurred. At other times, these unfortunate men are swindled out of their life's savings, in a familiar scam known as a 'relationship.'
In extreme cases, the female may even be shrewd enough to entrap the unsuspecting male into a longer-term form of servitude and punishment referred to as 'marriage.'
Men are much more susceptible to this scam after BEER is administered and sex is offered by the predatory females.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING TO EVERY MALE YOU KNOW!!
If you fall victim to this
BEER scam and the women administering it, there are male support groups where you can discuss the details of your shocking encounter with similarly victimized men. To find the support group nearest you, just search for Pub's, Bars, Taverns, Night Clubs in your local phone book.

For a video to learn how BEER works
on the average male, click here:

Beer Demo

Nazi ? Non , pire que Torquemada ...

Cheney told CIA not to discuss program buzz Up!
WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
Subsequent CIA directors did not inform Congress because the intelligence-gathering effort had not developed to the point that they believed merited a congressional briefing, said a former intelligence official and another government official familiar with Panetta's June 24 briefing to the House and Senate Intelligence committees.
Panetta did not agree.
Upon learning of the program June 23 from within the CIA, Panetta terminated it and the next day called an emergency meeting with the House and Senate Intelligence committees to inform them of the program and that it was canceled.
Cheney played a central role in overseeing the Bush administration's surveillance program that was the subject of an inspectors general report this past week.

That report noted that Cheney's chief of staff, David Addington, personally decided who in Bush's inner circle could even know about the secret program.
But revelations about Cheney's role in making decisions for the CIA on whether to notify Congress came as a surprise to some on the committees, said another government official.

All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the program publicly.
An effort to reach Cheney was unsuccessful.
A former intelligence official, who was familiar with former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden's tenure at the CIA, said Hayden never communicated with the president or vice president about the now-canceled program and was under no restrictions from Cheney about congressional briefings.

The official said Hayden was briefed only two or three times on the program.
Exactly what the counterterrorism program was meant to do remains a mystery. The former intelligence official said it was not related to the CIA's rendition, interrogation and detention program.

Nor was it part of a wider classified electronic surveillance program that was the subject of a government report to Congress this past week.
The official characterized it as an embryonic intelligence gathering effort, and only sporadically active. He said it was hoped to yield intelligence that would be used to conduct a secret mission or missions in another country — that is, a covert operation.

But it never matured to that point.
The government official with direct knowledge of the Panetta briefing and the former intelligence official said the CIA has numerous efforts ongoing under its existing authorities that have not yet been briefed to Congress. He said they are not yet known to be viable for intelligence gathering.
The Cheney revelation comes as the House of Representatives is preparing to debate a bill that would require the White House to expand the number of members who are told about covert operations. The White House has threatened a veto over concerns that wider congressional notifications could compromise the secrecy of the operations.

Fils de Pute , Barbare...il n'y a pas d'adjectifs...d'accord...mais baissez le ton!

That provision, however, would have no effect on programs like this one.
The former intelligence official familiar with Hayden said Congress has a right to contemporaneous information about all CIA activities.

But he said there are so many in such early stages that briefing Congress on every one would be too time consuming for both the CIA and the congressional committees.
The New York Times initially reported about Cheney's direction not to tell Congress of the program on its Web site Saturday.

The big American & lebanese whorehouse ... on the Potomac...

& the Mom of the Year ....is...

The Big Whorehouse On The Potomac

By Paul Craig Roberts

July 04, 2009,America's Independance Day

"Information Clearing House"

As Americans celebrate July 4th, they can contemplate that the union of “free and independent states,” like the former British colonial power, has evolved into its final manifestation--a complete whore house.

While Members of Parliament in London charge their expense accounts with every personal expenditure, including the rental of adult xxx-rated films, an American newspaper put the reporting of public policy out to bids until politico.com blew the whistle.In Washington, everything is for sale, including journalistic integrity.

The Washington Post, which abandoned investigative reporting eons ago, decided to boost its sagging revenues by spreading her legs. The Post’s business division put out a flyer offering lobbyists access at the Post’s CEO’s gracious home to “those powerful few” in the Obama administration, Congress, and among the Post’s editors and reporters who decide the nation’s policies, such as health care.

The Washington Post’s flyer offered a Wal-Mart low cost of a mere $25,000 for one “salon” to interact with decision makers and $250,000 for eleven interactions. Alas, people with an old fashioned sense of integrity impugned the Washington Post’s new business model, and the Post’s boss, Katharine Weymouth, had to rescind the offer that would have rescued the newspaper by turning it into a “facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters.”

I say damn the old fashioned moralists. America would be much better served if the Washington Post was selling access to lobbyists instead of selling the US government’s PSYOPS operations in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Georgia, Ukraine, Serbia (Lebanon's elections where Saad Hariri won againt the will of the majority of the citizens by bringing brainwashed lebanese immigrants,paid by Hariri through the CIA support to vote for their people with the Mossads helping these lebanese expatriates)Venezuela, Honduras, and everywhere else, for which the paper receives a pittance: the reporter can tell his editor that he has a deep source within the government, hardly an adequate recompense for wars that cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars at a time when Americans cannot pay the mortgages on their homes.

America would be better off if the Washington Post whored for lobbyists than for the US Imperial State, which has failed to adjust its imperial ambitions to its bankruptcy.

As an example of its whoring for US Imperialism, on July 2, the Washington Post reported President Obama’s claim that Russian Prime Minister Putin is a person who lives partly in the past, with “one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new.” If Putin has “one foot in the new,” he is ahead of Obama who has both feet in the past.

Obama said that Putin needs to learn that “the old Cold War approaches” to relations with the US are “outdated.”The Post reported this as if a failure of Putin’s is endangering US/Russian relations.

The Post did not point out that it is Obama, not Putin, who has wars of aggression against three independent countries--Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, with a fourth war threatened with Iran. We know for a fact these wars originated in Bush administration lies and deception, but Obama continues the occupations and expands the wars, thus endorsing the deceptions.

It is the Washington whorehouse that unilaterally abrogated the anti-ballistic missile treaty with Russia and begin constructing anti-ballistic missile sites designed to negate Russia’s nuclear deterrent.

If Russia’s nuclear weapons can be made useless, Russia can be knuckled under to accept America’s hegemonic will, and US hegemony takes another step forward.

It is Washington that is surrounding Russia with military bases:

...an anti-ballistic missile base in Poland, an anti-ballistic missile radar site in the Czech Republic, American-made “color revolutions,” which have installed US puppet governments in Serbia, Ukraine, and Georgia, with failures in former constituent parts of Soviet central Asia.

NATO, once a European/American alliance against Soviet invasion of Western Europe is now a mercenary US force fighting for America in Afghanistan and attempting to incircle Russia from the Baltics to Central Asia.

Obama will soon be on his way to Russia to discuss whether or not Russia is willing to give in to US demands to prostrate itself before US hegemony.

Obama hopes to drive a wedge between Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev, like the wedges Washington has facilitated between the ambitious ruling ayatollahs in Iran. If Obama can get Putin and Medvedev at odds, Russia will be neutralized.

That would leave China alone as an obstacle to US world hegemony.

The US has no media.

It has Boobs ...

But it does have a Ministry of Propaganda.

Americans were programmed with days of propaganda that Islamic Iran, a member of the US-designated “axis of evil,” stole the election from the Iranian people,but they mentionned nothing about their intervention in Lebanese "Legal" elections,with Buck-up by England,France,Brazil,Israel,Saoudi-Arabia-United Arab Emirates-Germany-Italy etc...in favor of the actual "Legal Majority",under another legal "Eye",this of world Peace Nobel Price holder former America's President Jimmy Carter .

According to the US Ministry of Propaganda, the Iranian people are allied with the US government against the Iranian government.

Even people who are regarded as Iran experts said, without any evidence, that the elections were stolen.

One of their arguments is that three hours were not enough time to count all the votes, yet it was announced that Ahmajdinejad won.

The ignorance of “experts” made theft a certainty for American TV audiences. The “experts” who make this assertion are obviously ignorant of Iran’s electoral procedures.

For the ignorant “experts” and the Americans deluded by them, here is the way it works: There are more than 45,000 voting places, which means less than 1,000 votes per voting place, an easy number to count and report in three hours.

At each voting place there are a dozen or more observers, including every candidates’ representatives, representatives of the Guardian Council, and the local police.

The votes are counted in the presence of all, and all sign documents attesting to the count.

The vote totals are forwarded to a central office in the region that has representatives of the candidates and the Guardian Council, where they are verified by a dozen or a dozen and a half of witnesses.

From here the vote count goes to the Minister of the Interior, where the vote is announced.

Unless these procedures were not followed, and no evidence has been provided that the procedures were not followed, it is impossible to steal an Iranian election.

It is much easier to steal an American one, which happens routinely.

There are thousands, indeed tens of thousands of witnesses, perhaps hundreds of thousands of witnesses, to the Iranian vote.

Yet, only Mousavi and his corrupt supporters among the high living Iranian elite, who are fighting for personal power in Iran, contest the vote. The kids in the street were the usual dupes.

At this stage in history, how can anyone believe that there is a pure candidate that wants to bring freedom and justice to the people? Anywhere. In any country, the US included.

Ignorant “experts” made a great noise about the fact that 50 cities or towns had votes in excess of registered voters.

Again, this is a demonstration of “Iranian experts” total ignorance. In Iran, voters can vote wherever they happen to be at the day of election.

Vacationers, business people on travel, commuters, and the partial absence of distinct voting districts, can produce a vote count in excess of the local registered population.

The Guardian Council examined these differences, added them up, and noted that if every additional vote was fraudulent, the number was insufficient to affect the outcome.

The Guardian Council has agreed to post every vote count.

Did you, dear American, learn of these facts from Fox News, CNN, the New York Times, or from the CIA and Mossad bloggers?

"This -Last-photo was found on the drive of a camera in top of one othe twin towers..."Bin Laden is to blame Or Dick Cheney to start ear on Irak etc...?"

Of course not. Every time “your” media opens its mouth lies jump out that serve the US government’s hegemonic propaganda.

America’s salvation lies with Charles Pelton and the Washington Post’s business side managers. Once the American media is obviously a whorehouse, which it is, Americans might pull themselves out of their stupor and learn to recognize facts and to think for themselves.

But don’t-

This Commander can be held responsible of Compassion? hold your breath.

From what I have seen, with few exceptions, Americans are as dumb and insouciant as they come.

And they think they are the salt of the earth.

Why the old Patriarch Sfeir should resign...According to the LAU publication...by Dr sarkis

This will explain the preceeds,I mean the late publication article...

Cela chauffe entre Bkerké et les chrétiens d'un coté et le clergé traditionnaliste de l'autre

"No Ifs, Ands and Buts:

Patriarch Sfeir should resign

"This is the title of the article published by Dr. Pierre Sarkis in "The LAU Tribune",

LAU's magazine, in the "Politics" page.

Since it appeared, LAU fell under tremendous pressure to end the services of Dr. Sarkis.

And guess what?

Dr. Sarkis paid the price!

After 17 years of teaching in both campuses (Beirut and Byblos), an article was enough to stop renewing his contracts with LAU for the next semesters.

Congratulations LAU!!freedom of speech ?? ?? ??

Here is the full Article:No Ifs, Ands, and Buts: Patriarch Sfeir Should ResignBy Pierre SarkisI feel like we are living in the Dark Middle Ages when the Catholic Church was in total control of people's lives.

The Pope was the Ruler of Europe, practicing politics, striking alliances with kings, princes and feudal lords, owning wealth, riches and real estate involved in corruption and nepotism.

People were categorized as believers, worthy of grace and salvation, or non-believers, worthy of damnation, tried and sentenced to death in Roman Catholic Tribunals, better known as the Inquisition.Isn't this where Patriarch Sfeir and his clone, Bishop Bechara Al Rai'i seem to be living these days?

Bihsop Al Rai'i is judging who is a good Christian worthy of Church privileges and support, and who is not, and thus, should face the wrath of the church.This religious arbitration is simply because people oppose church interference in the affairs of the state.

Sorry Father, I find myself asking you, for the sake of this country, the Christians and all people living in this land, to simply resign.Just quit Father!

You have outlived your productive years and we are suffering because of your policies, decision-making and you opinions concerning some politicians. It is said that the Glory of Lebanon is given to you;

I say the Destruction of Lebanon is given to you!What do you exactly mean, Father, that if the opposition grabs power it would threaten Lebanon's stability and security?

If the opposition takes over after June 2009, it would have done so through free and transparent parliamentary elections, and the people would have spoken.So we, in the opposition, will be dangerous to Lebanon? Do you believe you are more Lebanese than we are?

How dare you say that 50%, maybe more of the Lebanese people who support the opposition? Are around 60% of the Christians in this country, who support the Madman of Rabieh working against the best interests of Lebanon?

Do you believe all what you read and all what the real traitors, the new independents, sovereigns and liberalists who robbed this country clean and their Syrian allies, tell you today?

Were they expressing these feelings during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, or were they cheering for Roustom Ghazali, and offering him the keys to the city of Beirut?

How could you sit and talk to the same people, who along with the Syrians held you hostage in Bkerke for 15 years? What measures of resistance, other than your so-called famous September 2000 Council of Bishops monthly statement, did you and your Dark Middle Ages Bishops call for, other than demanding Syrian's withdrawal from Lebanon?

As an objection to Syrian occupation of Lebanon, you should have conducted sit-ins at the Baabda Palace, or at Anjar, with your Bishops.

How about Civil disobedience? How soon you forget that your biggest supporter then, was the same Madman of Rabiyeh whom you consider today, to be a danger to Lebanon.

Had you had a sit-in at Anjar at the time, you would have seen all your newly-acquired allies of today, busy kissing not your hand, but the hands, feet and derrieres of their Syrian Masters. They were never Lebanese first but catered to Arab interests.

Father, allow me to refresh your tired 80+ year memory. All the people you are embracing today are mostly responsible for the situation we are in.Remember when the Palestinians ruled Lebanon from the late 1960s until the late 1980s?Their Lebanese allies were the Mourabitoun, the Socialist Progressive Party, all the Sunni Political Establishment, all the progressive parties as they were known then.

They chose to carry weapons against their Lebanese compatriots in the Phalange Party, the National Liberal Party, the Maronite Tanzim and the Guardians of the Cedars.

They chose to fight against their Lebanese brothers.As we were then members in political parties fighting against Palestinians, we were called isolationists, imperialists, fascist and more Father, simply because we decided to defend our country against Palestinian hegemony.

Where were you then, on the moon?

How dare you brand us dangerous to Lebanon, when we have put our lives on the line, to defend our country?Was your own life ever in danger in defense of this country, Sir?If yes, tell us where and when!

Then Father, the Palestinians left, and those same people switched their loyalty to their new allies, or I should say, masters the Syrians.Here, I should refresh your tired memory again.

What was your position Father, regarding Syrian bombardment of Baabda Palace, the seat of the Maronite President, when the legitimately and constitutionally appointed Madman of Rabiyeh, occupied it?You have forgotten, haven't you?

Had you supported the Madman of Rabiyeh at that time, we would not have had 15 years of Syrian occupation of out country.When we called for the withdrawal of Syrians, way before you did in 2000, we were dragged then, by your visitors today, to jails and torture chambers.You know who was the hero of that moment?

Your most beloved and cherished, self-proclaimed Christian Leader, Michel Al Murr who ruled this country for the Syrians, for at least 10 years, in his capacity as Minister of Interior.Who can forget the sight on live television, during the special Matn elections, between Gabriel AL Murr, and Mirna Al Murr, for the parliamentary seat vacated by the death of a true hero, Dr. Albert Moukhaiber?Do you remember the Gypsies, Barbarians, Tajikistanis or Turkmenistanis? Heaven knows where they came from, who showed up in different areas of the Matn, to vote for Michel Al Murr, even though he was not a candidate?You know why Father?

Because he awarded the Lebanese nationality to total strangers, while many Lebanese, mostly Christians who deserve this honor, are still fighting to get it.

Those Matn were but a small number of the thousands of people that he bestowed the Lebanese nationality on.

There is no telling how much damage this man has done to Lebanese national interests!No doubt, the likes of Michel Al Murr are your heroes especially nowadays, because he has found God and is keeping with him, as he told Marcel Ghanem on LBC, icons, crosses and religious symbols of Medigorie to protect him and his son Elias.

Did he have these when he gave orders during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, to throw opposition students in jails and dungeons?

And then, who do your other daily visitors represent such as, Camille Ziyadeh, Fares Said, Michel Mouawad, Carlos Edde, or Mansour Ghanem Al Bon? In what language do you, Micho and Carlos communicate?

What they all have in common is that they are pure losers who sell you lies and deceit.You have chosen to stray away from Christian public opinion.

The Christians have said their word in 2005 and gave their vote of confidence to the Madman of Rabiyeh, and until this situation changes, he shall remain the true and legitimate leader of the Christians, whether you, Father, Michel Al Murr, the old pro-Palestinian and pro-Syrian Lebanese heroes like it or not!

Were you no the one who declared, following the elections of 2005, that the Christians finally have a true, legitimate leader?

If I have a say in all of this, Michel Al Murr will be tried today on charges of high treason, for turning Lebanon into a Syrian protectorate, and for using his power and authority against his own people.

He boasted many times that he was Al Wazir Al Kabaday.Without Syrian support, he would have been but a mouse, running from hole to hole trying to find his piece of cheese.In the 2005 elections, he befriended the Madman of Rabiyeh like a puppy dog because he calculated he will be swamped by the Tsunami of the Madman, and will probably lose the elections.

Today, he seems to have found his piece of cheese in Bikfaya with the biggest loser of all, Amin Gemayel.

Poor Sheikh Amin! In his own lion's den, he could not beat, Camille Khoury, a total unknown.So, in order for him to feel like he is somebody, Sheikh Amin declared himself President of the Phalange Party, just to claim the presidency of something, anything.He is now another one of these sorry, pitiful nobodies, who are trying to convince themselves, that they are somebody and with your blessings, Father.

Now you know why you need to resign!You have taken sides and have become a party to the conflict and not at the same distance from everybody, as you claim to your visitors.In one of my previous articles, I had advised you to follow the footsteps of one Jerusalem Patriarch, who at 75 decided he was too old for the job, and resigned.

Father, follow suit and resign!You have done enough damage to the interests of this country as is, and much more than anyone in the opposition ranks can possibly do.It is going to take many years to fix what you spoiled.

Therefore, I believe that remaining as the head of the Maronite Church is the biggest threat this country will ever face.

In my book, you are the worst Maronite Patriarch this country has known, and will probably ever know.When you are at your summer retreat at Dimane, just trek down to the deepest part of the Valley of Qannoubine, where your predecessors prayed Father, not played politics and divided their community and their people.

Stay down there and pray for God to forgive you, and gradually slip into oblivion.

You will do us all a great favor! Oh, and before I forget, make sure you take Bishop Al Rai'i with you to the convent of Mar Antonios Qozhaya.

They will take very good care of him!Plus, life in the valley feels like the Dark Middle ages.In your last sermon few days ago, and talking about the upcoming elections, you addressed the Lebanese by saying, and I quote "If they buy you, they sell you".

Were you looking at your mirror when you said that?Father, forgive my sincerity, honesty and bold straightforwardness!

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Comment les Hariri ont, petit à petit, dominé Zahleh ?Les Sunnites enregistrés sur les listes électorales du Casa de Zahleh :En 1992: 15000 En 2009: 42000Comment ceci a pu arriver?!

Zahleh était considérée comme la capitale des Grecs-Catholiques en Moyen-Orient.

En effet, les Chrétiens étaient largement majoritaires dans le casa de Zahleh.

En 1992, avant que Rafic Hariri ne devienne Premier Ministre, les Sunnites enregistrés sur les listes électorales étaient de l’ordre de 15000.Pour se maintenir au pouvoir, Rafic Hariri savait bien qu’il devait :

1) Augmenter le nombre de votants sunnites

2) Dominer les voix chrétiennes par des majorités sunnites (via une loi électorale qui lui est convenable).

En 1994, Rafic Hariri en collaboration avec Ce traitre Grec-Orthodoxe-donc Sunnite- nommé Michel Murr donne la nationalité libanaise (MARSOUM AL TAJNISS) à 100.000 sunnites dont 13000 seront enregistrés à Zahleh.

Donc, d’un seul coup, Rafic Hariri augmente le nombre de votants sunnites à Zahleh de 13000 voix, pour atteindre approximativement 28000.Puis graduellement, Rafic Hariri transfère des votants sunnites de différentes régions et les concentre à Zahleh.

Ainsi le nombre de sunnites enregistrés sur les listes électorales devient 30000 en 2000, puis 35000 en 2005.

Donc, Hariri le père a poursuivi une politique claire et continue dans le temps afin d’augmenter le nombre de votants sunnites au Liban en général, et à Zahleh (et Beyrouth 2) en particulier.A la mort de Rafic Hariri en 2005, son fils Saad poursuit la même politique.

En effet, de 2005 à 2009, Saad Hariri a transféré 7000 votants sunnites de différentes régions à Zahleh. Ainsi en 2009, les Sunnites de Zahleh sont devenus 42000 !!!

Imaginez le changement démographique fait par les Hariri: Les Sunnites enregistrés sur les listes électorales de Zahleh étaient de l’ordre de 15000 en 1992; ils sont devenus 42000 en 2009.Dorénavant, la ville de Zahleh n’est plus la capitale des Catholiques en Moyen-Orient.

En effet, les Hariri ont réussi à l’encercler par des dizaines de milliers de Sunnites dont certains ont même adopté l’extrémisme et le terrorisme.

Le changement démographique réalisé délibérément à Zahleh par les Hariri , et s’il est répété dans d’autres régions, signifie pour les chrétiens du Liban le début de la fin!

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COLUMBIA, S.C. – After going AWOL for seven days, Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit a woman with whom he was having an affair. Wiping away tears, he apologized to his family and gave up a national Republican Party post, but was silent on whether he would resign.
"I've been unfaithful to my wife," he said in a news conference in which the 49-year-old governor ruminated on God's law, moral absolutes and following one's heart. He said he spent the last five days "crying in Argentina."
Sanford, who in recent months had been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2012, said he would resign as head of the Republican Governors Association.
By leaving the country without formally transferring power, critics said he neglected his gubernatorial authority and put the state at risk. It wasn't clear how his staff could reach him in an emergency.
At least one state lawmaker called for his resignation. As a congressman, Sanford voted in favor of three of four articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, citing the need for "moral legitimacy."
Sanford described the woman who lives in Argentina as a "dear, dear friend" whom he has known for about eight years and been romantically involved with for about a year. He said he has seen her three times since the affair began, and his wife found out about it five months ago.
A newspaper published steamy e-mails between Sanford and the woman. He did not identify her. Sanford did not answer directly whether the relationship with the Argentinian woman was over.
"What I did was wrong. Period," he said. His family did not attend the news conference, and his wife Jenny Sanford said she asked the governor to leave and stop speaking to her two weeks ago. The governor said he wants to reconcile, and his wife's statement said her husband has earned a chance to resurrect their marriage.
"This trial separation was agreed to with the goal of ultimately strengthening our marriage," she said.
He did say, "I had, to the people of South Carolina, based on my boys, based on my wife, based on where I was in life, based on where she was in life, a place I couldn't go and she couldn't go."
Sanford denied instructing his staff to cover up his affair, but acknowledged that he told them he thought he would be hiking on the Appalachian Trail and never corrected that impression after leaving for South America.
"I let them down by creating a fiction with regard to where I was going," Sanford said. "I said that was the original possibility. Again, this is my fault in ... shrouding this larger trip."
Questions about Sanford's whereabouts arose early this week. For two days after reporters started asking questions, his office had said he had gone hiking on the trail.
Cornered at the Atlanta airport by a reporter from The State newspaper, Sanford revealed Wednesday morning that he had gone to Argentina for a seven-day trip.
When news first broke about his mysterious disappearance, Jenny Sanford told The Associated Press she did not know where her husband and father of their four sons had gone for the Father's Day weekend. She said he needed time away to write.
Sanford emerged Wednesday afternoon at a news conference, where he mused openly of his love of hiking and how he used to guide trips along the Appalachian Trail, and eventually tearfully apologized to his wife, his staff and his friends — but without yet saying what he was apologizing for.
"I hurt a lot of different folks," he said, occasionally choking up throughout the news conference that lasted about 20 minutes.
With those watching still wondering what he was admitting, Sanford said: "The odyssey that we're all on in life is with regard to heart."
Excerpts of e-mail exchanges between the governor and his mistress were published online Wednesday by The State. The governor's office wouldn't discuss the e-mails with The Associated Press, but told The State it wouldn't dispute the authenticity of the messages.
One from the governor read: "I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light — but hey, that would be going into sexual details."
In another: "In the meantime please sleep soundly knowing that despite the best efforts of my head my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul."
Several residents said they were disappointed in Sanford.
"He shouldn't have lied to us. He should have been up straight," said college student Gerald Walker, 19, in downtown Columbia. "It's very embarrassing for someone in a leadership role that we are supposed to respect, especially me being a young guy."
Glenn Mitchell, of Columbia, said he felt Sanford's absence showed a lack of concern for the state.
"He left the state unattended," said Mitchell, 54, out of work recuperating from surgery. "He just hasn't been there for us."
But Warren "Cubby" Culbertson, a longtime friend who said he has been counseling Sanford, said the governor was accepting responsibility for his actions.
"Any man can fall. But it takes a real man to get up and honestly, from his heart, confess that he was wrong," Culbertson said. "And he's going to try to change."
Others were less forgiving. State Rep. Todd Rutherford, D-Columbia, called for Sanford's resignation.
"There is nothing left to save," Rutherford said. "There is no reason for him to remain as governor."
Sanford, a former three-term congressman, was elected governor in 2002. He has more than a year remaining in his second term and is barred by state law from running again.
Sanford was elected chairman of the Republican Governors Association this year after he helped raise a record $10.6 million at the group's 2008 annual dinner to help elect GOP governors. The association said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour would assume the duties as chairman.
The libertarian-leaning Republican was seldom a firebrand. But he was known for salting tales of family life into policy discussions.
He criticized the $787 billion federal stimulus law and efforts by legislators to claim a share of it by saying in tough times a family would sit around the table and find ways to cut spending.
His vocal battle against the Obama administration over the stimulus money won praise from conservative pundits, but ultimately, a state court order required him to take the money.
Jenny Sanford, a millionaire whose family fortune comes from the Skil Corp. power tool company, has been central to Sanford's political career. She ran his congressional campaigns and his first race for governor. She was an almost daily fixture at senior staff meetings, and often could be seen driving a minivan away from the Statehouse in the mornings.
The two met when Sanford, who has an MBA, was trying his hand on Wall Street. She was working at a brokerage house when he entered a training program.
As governor, Sanford has had seemingly endless run-ins with the GOP-dominated Legislature, once bringing pigs to the House chamber to protest pork barrel spending. He also put a "spending clock" outside his office to show how quickly a proposed budget would spend state money.
Sanford's announcement came a day after another prominent Republican, Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, apologized to his GOP Senate colleagues after revealing last week that he had an affair with a campaign staffer and was resigning from the GOP leadership.

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Witnesses report fierce clashes on Tehran streets

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Associated Press Writers TEHRAN, Iran – Police beat protesters and fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands who rallied Saturday in open defiance of Iran's clerical government, sharply escalating the most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Eyewitnesses described fierce clashes after some 3,000 protesters, many wearing black, chanted "Death to the dictator!" and "Death to dictatorship!" near Revolution Square in downtown Tehran. Police fired tear gas, water cannons and guns but it was not clear if they were firing live ammunition.
Some protesters appeared to be fighting back, setting fire to militia members' motorcycles, witnesses said. Helicopters hovered, ambulances raced through the streets and black smoke rose over the city.
Police and militia were blocking protesters from gathering on the main thoroughfare running east from Revolution Square to Freedom Square, the witnesses said.
A massive rally in Freedom Square Monday set off three consecutive days of protests demanding the government cancel and rerun June 12 elections that ended with a declaration of overwhelming victory for hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Moussawi says he won and Ahmadinejad stole the election through widespread fraud. Moussawi has not been seen since or issued public comment since a rally Thursday.
Web sites run by Moussawi supporters had said he planned to post a message, but there was no statement by the time of the planned street protests at 4 p.m. (7:30 a.m. EDT, 1130 GMT). Some pro-reform Web sites called for people to take to the streets.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sternly warned opposition leaders Friday to end street protests or be held responsible for "the bloodshed, the violence and rioting" to come. The statement effectively closed the door to Mousavi's demand for a new election, ratcheting up the possibility of a violent confrontation.
As reports of street clashes became public, Iran's English-language state TV said that a suicide bombing at the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini about 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of central Tehran had killed one person and wounded eight. The report could not be independently confirmed due to government restrictions on independent reporting.
The channel also confirmed that police had used batons and other non-lethal weapons against what it called unauthorized demonstrations.
Amateur video showed dozens of Iranians running down a street after police fired tear gas at them. Shouts of "Allahu Akbar!" — "God is Great" — could be heard on the video, which could not be independently verified.
The witnesses told The Associated Press that between 50 and 60 protesters were hospitalized after beatings by police and pro-government militia. People could be seen dragging away comrades bloodied by baton strikes.
Police clashed with protesters around Tehran immediately after the presidential election. Gunfire from a militia compound left at least seven dead, but further force had remained in check until Saturday.
Eyewitnesses said thousands of police and plainclothes militia members filled the streets to prevent rallies. Fire trucks took up positions in Revolution Square and riot police surrounded Tehran University, the site of recent clashes between protesters and security forces, one witness said.
Tehran Province Police Chief Ahmad Reza Radan said that police would "crack down on any gathering or protest rally which are being planned by some people." The head of the State Security Council also reiterated a warning to Mousavi that he would be held responsible if he encouraged protests.
Tehran University, which sits in the heart of downtown Tehran, was cordoned off by police and militia while students inside the university chanted "Death to the dictator!" witnesses said.
Shouts of "Viva Moussawi!" also could be heard...lol. Witnesses said protesters wore black as a symbol of mourning for the dead and the allegedly stolen election, with wristbands in green, the emblem of Mousavi's self-described "Green (or tanned) Wave" movement.
All witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared government reprisals for speaking with the press. Iranian authorities have placed strict limits on the ability of foreign media to cover recent events, banning reporting from the street and allowing only phone interviews and information from officials sources such as state TV.
"I think the regime has taken an enormous risk in confronting this situation in the manner that they have," said Mehrdad Khonsari, a consultant to the London-based Center for Arab and Iranian Studies.
"Now they'll have to hold their ground and hope that people don't keep coming back. But history has taught us that people in these situations lose their initial sense of fear and become emboldened by brutality," he said.
Moussawi and the two other candidates who ran against Ahmadinejad had been invited to meet with Iran's Guardian Council, an unelected body of 12 clerics and Islamic law experts close to Khamenei that oversees elections. Its spokesman told state TV that Mousavi and the reformist candidate Mahdi Karroubi did not attend.

The council has said it was prepared to conduct a limited recount of ballots at sites where candidates claim irregularities but Mousavi's supporters did not withdraw his demands for a new election.
Both houses of the U.S. Congress approved a resolution on Friday condemning "the ongoing violence" by the Iranian government and its suppression of the Internet and cell phones.
The government has blocked Web sites such as BBC Farsi, Facebook, Twitter and several pro-Mousavi sites that are conduits for Iranians to tell the world about protests and violence.
Text messaging has not been working normally for many days, and cell phone service in Tehran is frequently down.
In an interview taped Friday with CBS, Obama said he is very concerned by the "tenor and tone" of Khamenei's comments. He also said that how Iran's leaders "approach and deal with people who are, through peaceful means, trying to be heard" will signal "what Iran is and is not."
A spokesman for Mousavi said Friday the opposition leader was not under arrest but was not allowed to speak to journalists or stand at a microphone at rallies. Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf told the AP from Paris it was even becoming difficult to reach people close to Moussawi.

He said he had not heard from Moussawi's camp since Khamenei's address.

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Ten-year-old Kennedy Corpus has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from President Barack Obama.
Her father, John Corpus of Green Bay, stood to ask Obama about health care during the president's town hall-style meeting at Southwest High School on Thursday. He told Obama that his daughter was missing school to attend the event and that he hoped she didn't get in trouble.

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"Do you need me to write a note?" Obama asked.

The crowd laughed, but the president was serious.
On a piece of paper, he wrote:

"To Kennedy's teacher: Please excuse Kennedy's absence. She's with me.

Barack Obama."

He stepped off the stage to hand-deliver the note — to Kennedy's surprise.
"I thought he was joking until he started walking down," Kennedy said after the event, showing off the note in front of a bank of television cameras. "It was like the best thing ever."
The fourth-grader at Aldo Leopold elementary in Green Bay already knew what she was going to do with the note: frame it along with her ticket to the event. She said she'd make a copy for her teacher.
Kennedy said she had never seen Obama before. "He's really nice," she said.

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Bruce Springsteen astonished the Bonnaroo crowd with a passionate three-hour performance, offering sweat and rock 'n' roll to inspire, he said, in "hard times."
Springsteen was the Saturday night headliner at the Tennessee music festival, where Phish was headlining both Friday and Sunday. It was a rare festival performance for Springsteen, who said it was only the second for him and the E Street Band.
His inexperience didn't show. After all, headlining Bonnaroo is only the third biggest concert Springsteen has played this year after the Super Bowl halftime show and President Barack Obama's inauguration.
Springsteen was running into the crowd — no easy feat on Bonnaroo's massive main stage — before the first song, "Badlands," was through. Throughout the evening, Springsteen would frequently leap into the crowd, whom he asked: "Is there anybody alive at Bonnaroo?"
"We didn't come all the way down to the beautiful Tennessee hills just to rock the house," said Springsteen early in the performance. "We came down here tonight because we want to build a house. That's right. Right here in this field. ... A house of love. A house of hope."
With his full band backing him — including both Max Weinberg and his 18-year-old son, Jay, switching off on drums — Springsteen launched into a performance that he pledged would show "the power of music."
The recession was never far from his mind.
Springsteen's songs of down-and-out characters and blue collar life had particular resonance. With songs like "Jersey Girl," "Johnny 99" and "Youngstown," Springsteen painted the current economic landscape. On "Youngstown" — off his 1995 album "Ghost of Tom Joad" — he sang from the perspective of a coal mine worker: "Once I made you rich/ Rich enough to forget my name."
For the first of several encores, he sang Stephen Foster's Civil War-era "Hard Times Come Again No More," introducing it as a song that has "stayed written" for more than 150 years because of its timelessness.
"You pick up the newspaper and you look out and you seen millions of jobs here in the country lost. Hundreds of thousands of jobs every month," said Springsteen. "If anybody ever told me I'd be part owner of General Motors, I wouldn't believe it.
"But you see things that I never thought I'd see. There's many, many folks struggling out there."
Springsteen brought the show to a climactic finish, playing crowd favorites "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," "Rosalita (Come out Tonight)" "Glory Days" and "Dancing in the Dark."
Bonnaroo and other mega-festivals today aren't known for political discourse. But Springsteen wasn't the only one with the economy on his mind Saturday.
Jenny Lewis, the singer-songwriter who sometimes fronts the band Rilo Kiley, performed earlier in the day, introduced a new song titled "Big Way," noting that she comes from "a state that's totally bankrupt": California. Lewis sang, "They're gonna get you in a big way."
Lewis was joined on stage for one number ("Carpetbaggers") by Elvis Costello, who also performed solo Saturday.
Other acts Saturday included the Decemberists, Nine Inch Nails, the Mars Volta, Of Montreal, Raphael Saadiq, Booker T, Bon Iver, Robyn Hitchcock and Allen Toussaint. One stage — dubbed "Tennessee Shines" — hosted bluegrass all day with acts such as the David Grisman Quintet and the Del McCoury Band.
After torrential lightning storms Thursday and humidity Friday, Saturday was the sunniest day yet at the eighth annual Bonnaroo, which concludes Sunday night with Phish's second performance.
None got the benefit of the good weather more than Wilco, who played a scintillating sunset performance, running the gamut of their earlier material as well as songs off their upcoming disc, "Wilco (The Album)."
The band played on the main stage before Springsteen, and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy could already feel the Boss's presence.
"If anybody boos us tonight, we have a built in excuse," said Tweedy. "They're just yelling 'Bruuuuuce.'"

While the U.S IS Drowning...G.H.W.BUSH Skydives...

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End of road for 4-generation Chrysler dealer

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HOBART, Ind. – At the end of the 81-year marriage, the Isaksons said goodbye by turning off the lights. The partnership was over.The Chrysler sign went dark.It was an unceremonious finale to a four-generation bond between one family and one company, but it was not a surprise. Rob Isakson had known for weeks his dealership was on a Chrysler hit list — the cuts were part of the troubled automaker's survival strategy.

Still, when the moment arrived, he did not go gently into he night."It hurts," he says. "How do you put into words 81 years of your family's blood, sweat and tears? How many times did my father miss some family event ... because the business came first? And all of it is for nothing now."It has been a wrenching few weeks, beginning with Chrysler's notification in mid-May that the family was losing its franchise. The word came in a form letter. "How insensitive is that?" Isakson asks.

Then came futile efforts — through calls and e-mails — to find why they were being dropped, even though they say their sales were better than some dealers that survived.Last week, a judge ruled for Chrysler: The bankrupt company, having sold most of its assets to Fiat SpA, the Italian automaker, could trim about a quarter of its dealer franchises.Isakson Motor Sales was among the dealers to go. And thus ended a proud family history.

Their ties to Chrysler go back to 1928 when two Isakson brothers who were farmers invested $5,000 in an exciting new venture: the DeSoto. They opened a showroom, in the heart of what once was booming steel country, at an auspicious-sounding intersection — Front and Center.Over nine decades, the names of the cars changed (Imperial, Valiant, Cordoba, Horizon, Duster, Reliant, New Yorker, Road Runner, Challenger, Voyager, PT Cruiser), but the name of the dealership did not. It was the Isaksons. Clarence and Walter. Bill. Rob. Eric and Steve.

Father to son, father to son, selling cars and handing over the keys to one, two, even three generations of customers, making a go of it even in the leanest years."How many businesses survive their first five years, or the next five?" Rob Isakson asks, huddled in his office with his 83-year-old father, Bill, and his two sons. "We survived 81 years of ups and downs in this industry. The stock market of '29 and the Depression ... World War II and rationing, the strike years with the steel mills and we survived, the loan guarantee years, which were tough years ... and we survived that, too.""And now," he pauses, "we're surviving but Chrysler says we're not worth keeping.""Am I angry?" he asks, then quickly answers. "You're darn right I am.Recessions are not uncommon. We are accustomed to economic cycles, to booms and busts.

But the current meltdown that has caused so much pain across the country and around the world is also engineering a broad transformation of American life. Businesses that shaped their communities for generations — banks, newspapers, others — risk extinction. GM and Chrysler, once symbols of America's industrial might, filed for bankruptcy. And as part of their get-small strategies, they decided to shrink the number of dealers. Chrysler released its list first. Hundreds of dealers objected, but a bankruptcy judge approved the automaker's plan to drop 789 U.S. dealerships. (GM eventually expects to shed about 40 percent of its 6,000-dealer network.) Executives defended their moves as necessary, however painful they might be. Chrysler's president told lawmakers in a recent Senate committee hearing that the poor performance of many dealers costs the company $1.5 billion in lost sales each year. The automaker also said it wanted to bring all three of its brands — Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge — under a single roof.

The Isaksons — who sell only Chryslers and Dodges — say they can understand cuts. But why punish them? Their sales, they say, have been good (about 205 new cars, 150 used in 2008). They point out they've received high marks from customers. And as far as being a burden, Rob Isakson says that's ridiculous. "We buy our own cars, every tool ... every part," he says. "What are we doing that's costing Chrysler money? We're doing nothing. All we're doing is creating more market for them. What's wrong with that?" What has irked the Isaksons even more is the Obama administration's intervention in the auto industry.
"Starting in Washington and going to Detroit, all the way down, I blame everybody for this," says Eric Isakson, Rob's 32-year-old son. "How can someone tell us when we've done everything that we're supposed to do that we can't keep going on? It's a big slap in the face." The dealers aren't the only ones who will be taking a hit. The National Automobile Dealers Association estimates the GM and Chrysler dealer closings will wipe out more than 100,000 jobs; the average wage is between $45,000 and $55,000 a year.
Then there's the domino effect.

"How many insurance company sales people are going to be gone?" Rob Isakson asks. "How many tire stores are going to be closed? How many barber shops, how many restaurants? There's going to be a ripple effect." Add to that taxes and the gaping holes left by dealers — many of them family-owned businesses — who have been mainstays in their communities. "They're one of the few vestiges of what used to be Main Street America where businesses are locally owned Chrysler President James Press, right.and operated," says John McEleney, chairman of the dealers association. "They're the fabric of the community."
"We're the people the community goes to for support for Little League, for high school athletics, the fund drives for hospitals and colleges," he says. "If GM closes a plant, it's a huge thing. But closing 2,100 dealers is almost like closing 2,100 plants in some of these communities." Their neighbors find it hard to imagine Hobart without the Isakson dealership. The City Council passed a resolution calling them "anchors of this community," praising their charitable giving and predicting the loss of their franchise — and a second one in town — will "cause irreparable harm." There are people here who still remember Clarence Isakson, who helped found a savings and loan. Others have served with Bill and Rob served on the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary.
The family has donated to food pantries, breast cancer fundraising, the YMCA, the Northwest Indiana Symphony. And the Isaksons have been known to come through in the pinch, too, whether it's cash for July 4 fireworks or a last-minute contribution for the town's Oktoberfest. "If you've got a problem, you go to Rob and say, `I need help,'" says Mike Adams, executive director of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce. "And Rob helps." The Isaksons have not moved far since they settled here in the late 1800s.

The dealership is just around the corner from the land their Swedish ancestors tilled back then. But just as America traded horses for horseless carriages, the Isaksons, too, embraced the auto. "When oil is in your blood, it just becomes part of your life," says Rob Isakson. His grandfather, Clarence, and great-uncle Walt, both Mr. Fix-it types, started their business as the Depression loomed. Times were tough, but dealerships were sprouting up everywhere. They peaked at about 51,000 in the late 1920s, compared with fewer than 21,000 today, according to the dealership association. (Hobart, a city of almost 28,000, once had Chrysler, Ford, Chevy and American Motors dealers downtown.)
Bill Isakson, now 83, remembers his boyhood sitting along Highway 6, watching a caravan of new Dusenbergs, Pierces and Auburns arrive in Hobart. It was exciting stuff (though it didn't measure up to the day Admiral Richard Byrd, the explorer, breezed through town).
Bill was a Ford man at first. He drove his Model A to high school, then hopped back in after the last bell rang, making a beeline back to the farm to plant corn and beans, milk the cows and clean the barn.
When World War II ended, he joined his dad, Clarence, at what he still calls "the garage." He replaced his Uncle Walt, who moved on to the steel mills. This gritty stretch of northwest Indiana was once home to many of the nation's steel giants; the mills belched smoke and fire into night sky and furnished jobs that paid enough to put their blue-collar workers behind the wheel of a big, old-fashioned family car made in the USA. The Isaksons were more than happy to oblige.
Their business was, in a way, a barometer of labor peace. "If there was a (steel) strike, God help us," says Rob Isakson, a husky man with closely cropped hair and a no-nonsense manner. "If it was more than one company, it would really get tight." Rob, now 52, signed on in the early 1980s, soon after the federal government gave Chrysler about $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to avoid bankruptcy. His father, Bill, was among the dealers who lobbied for help in Washington.
Even with the automaker's near-death experience and other crises — the explosion of foreign imports, recessions, $4-a-gallon gas — the Isaksons never doubted their future.
"We just kept going along, we never struggled. We always did our thing and had customers following," says Bill, who favored green cars — the color of money, he says, and success.
The Isaksons handicap car years, just like a devoted baseball fan would rate a team's seasons. Take 1990 — a good year, with the Plymouth Acclaim and the Chrysler LeBaron. But 1979? A terrible year as Chrysler and other U.S. automakers struggled against the increasingly popular, smaller, fuel-efficient foreign cars. "They were building some ..." Rob pauses.

His father bluntly finishes the sentence: "junk."

Their memory extends to customers, too. Rob can tell you about the professor who likes to drive convertibles along curvy roads or the Army veteran who bought 20 cars in 27 years — a man, he says, who preferred the open roads to an airplane ever since he returned from World War II. Almost on cue, James Madison pops up in the showroom to offer a confession and a testimonial. "The last darn good car Chrysler made," he says, leaning in as if to share a secret, "was when Lee Iacocca was chairman of the board." He smiles.
"But I buy whatever they sell here. I trust these people."

1929 Crash of 1.000 banks help...to be repeated ? It led to WW2...

FILE - In this Aug. 15. 2008 file photo, a U.S. C-17 military cargo plane, the type to be stationed permanently at a NATO air base at Papa, northwest of Budapest, Hungary, sits on the runway to be shown to local journalists. With the U.S. looking to cut defense costs in 2009, and rethinking the way it fights wars, many contractors need overseas buyers to take the big, pricey weapons that the Pentagon no longer wants or needs fewer of

Weapons makers look overseas as Pentagon cuts back
Buzz Up
By STEPHEN MANNING, AP Business Writer Stephen Manning, Ap Business Writer –
WASHINGTON –

Foreign governments looking to kick the tires of fighter jets and cargo planes at this week's air show in Paris will likely hear a clear message from U.S. defense contractors: We need your business now more than ever.
With the United States looking to cut defense costs and rethinking the way it fights wars, many defense companies are looking for international buyers to take the big, pricey weapons that the Pentagon no longer wants or needs fewer of. U.S. contractors are chasing some lucrative deals, but could also face some legal and political hurdles as they hawk weapons overseas.
Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. are competing to sell fighter planes to countries such as India and Brazil. Boeing is trying to spark international interest in its C-17 cargo plane. Middle Eastern nations fearful of threats from Iran are bulking up on missile defense equipment from Lockheed and Raytheon Co.
"This is a world market right now," says Chris Chadwick, Boeing's president of military aircraft.
Globalization is nothing new for many U.S. industries, which often use overseas operations and sales to tap into fast-growing areas like China and as a hedge against domestic downturns. Some of the nation's biggest manufacturers, companies like Caterpillar and General Electric, make more than half of their sales overseas.
But the defense industry is closely tethered to one primary buyer — the U.S. government. It has been a lucrative relationship. Defense spending is up more than 40 percent over the past eight years, fueled in part by spending on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Much of the money flowed to defense contractors that supply the Pentagon with everything from warships to bullets.
Overseas arms sales represent a relatively small segment of defense contractor sales. But many are turning to the global markets for growth now that the appetite for big and expensive weapons is waning in the United States. The push is helped by countries worried about security threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran. Many European allies need to upgrade their aging equipment, and are turning to U.S. companies as likely suppliers.
However, budgets for big weapons are getting tighter as costs like personnel expenses eat up more Pentagon resources. Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposes spending more money on tools like unmanned drones to fight insurgencies instead of big and pricey equipment like $140 million apiece for F-22 fighters jets meant for more conventional wars.
In the 2008 fiscal year, the military spent $164 billion to buy weapons. For the 2010 fiscal year, the Pentagon proposes spending only $131 billion, though that number will probably grow when Congress adds weapons spending as it reviews the budget.
Big defense companies would take a hit. Lockheed will have to shut down its assembly line at its big Marietta, Ga. plant, putting thousands of jobs at risk. Boeing, which gets 80 percent of its defense unit sales from the Pentagon, could stop selling the $276 million C-17.
"There is a softness in the home market right now," said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst with the Teal Group.
That could grant some new life to programs that would be cut under the Pentagon's new budget.
The F-22 program is slated to end at 187 planes for the U.S. Air Force, far fewer than originally envisioned. Japan and Australia are considered potential sources of new sales, but federal law barring export of the technologically sensitive plane would have to be overturned. The prospects of that remain unclear.
Congress put eight more C-17s back into the budget. Boeing wants to make 16 per year and hopes to cover the shortfall overseas. It recently cut a deal to make four for the United Arab Emirates. The contractor is also trying to persuade foreign governments to buy the F-18 instead of the F-35, made by a team led by Lockheed.
Defense companies will display their jets, engines, missiles, pilotless drones and other hardware for several days this week at an airfield outside Paris. The show is one of the biggest that brings together contractors and militaries from around the globe to broker weapons deals.
New markets have emerged. Iraq wants to buy Lockheed fighter jets, Boeing helicopters and Abrams tanks made by General Dynamics Corp. to rebuild its military. The nation was the second largest potential buyer of U.S. military equipment last year, behind Israel, according to a March report by the Arms Control Association, a Washington think tank.
The Pentagon notified Congress it planned to sell $74.5 billion worth of U.S. military equipment to 25 countries in 2008, nearly double its proposed arms sales from 2007. Iraq accounted for $18.7 billion of that total.
Congress must approve weapons sales to foreign governments that are negotiated between U.S. contractors and foreign countries through the Defense Department. Not all notifications lead to sales and they cover mostly large purchases, but Congress has never moved to block a sale once it was formally notified.
But providing weapons to foreign governments is often politically sensitive. The Pentagon and Congress are supposed to consider the effect that helping nations increase firepower will have on regional conflicts or stability, like the rivalry between Pakistan and India or rearming Iraq in a volatile Middle East. For example, the sale of F-16s to Pakistan was long delayed due to Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons.
Regional stability could be an issue for sales to India, which is being courted by Lockheed and Boeing for the right to build 126 fighter jets, a contract potentially worth $11 billion. India already bought $2.1 billion worth of anti-submarine planes from Boeing earlier this year.
"Fighter jet sales to India would most certainly be viewed by Pakistan as a problematic development," said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association.
In Europe, U.S. defense companies will face stiff competition from suppliers like Saab, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., and BAE Systems. Lockheed, for example, is trying to hold together a coalition of nine potential F-35 buyers also being courted by makers of the Eurofighter jet.
Affordability remains an issue, especially for European buyers saddled with struggling economies. But defense analysts said European nations that need to upgrade their aging equipment and those like India that are building their militaries will provide ample markets for U.S. defense companies.
"Weapons could be the single biggest U.S. export item over the next 10 years," said Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute.

Saved By the bell ...

LIFE IN THE 1500'S

The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the1500s:

These are interesting...

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof .When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying . It's raining cats and dogs.

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt.

Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a thresh hold. (Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.

Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme,

Peas porridge hot,

peas porridge cold,

peas porridge in the pot nine days old..

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.. Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death.

This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive.

So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered as a dead ringer..

And that's the truth...

Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !

Educate someone.

Share these facts with a friend.

Tie a bell to their middle finger ...

Islamisation intégriste du Liban...Lus sur plusieurs sites et échanges sur Fesse-book!!!

Bin Abdel Aziz A-Saoud's Daughter...elle au moins n'est pas Hypocrite Beyrouth, le 14 mai –

Les consommateurs libanais se mobilisent actuellement, protestant contre l’arrêt par la chaine de supermarchés TSC de la vente d’alcool et de charcuterie.
Ainsi, selon un courriel largement distribué et intitulé « Se taire, c’est accepter » , « TSC supermarket (nom local pour supermarché) vend l'alcool dans une section fermée et bien isolée . Votre 'honteuse' bouteille d’alcool, vous devez la payer à une caisse à part ! ». Ah bon! Et qu'est-ce que foutais le proprio a maameltein,ivre comme une barrique devin?????????
Ce courriel appelle également au boycott de la chaine susmentionnée l’accusant de vouloir changer l’identité libanaise, allusion au rachat cette année de la chaine « Monoprix » par un groupe koweïtien « The Sultan Center », chaine depuis rebaptisée selon les initiales TSC-Tous sans chapeaux???.
La mobilisation se poursuit actuellement sur le site social Face Book. 2 groupes pour le boycott des TSC se sont également crées, regroupant 251 et 436 profils respectivement.

Joëlle B.

s’interroge ainsi sur ce qui a poussé les TSC opérant sous l’enseigne française Géant à vendre l’alcool à part et dans un rayon isolé. Elle constate également qu’il n’y a pas plus de jambon.

Caroline T.

Déclare ainsi que le Liban a toujours été le Paris du Moyen Orient avant d’indiquer que l’enseigne est libre de respecter les règles locales comme au Koweït interdisant la vente d’alcool et de produits dérivés du porc mais qu’ils se doivent de respecter les régulations des autres pays.

Elle s’interroge si les autorités libanaises seront poussées à instaurer des points de contrôles pour vérifier la présence d’alcool.

Jean F.

Se veut plus fataliste, indiquant s’être rendu à l’Hôtel Phoenicia qui leur a indiqué que le porc n’est plus au menu de l’établissement.
Cette polémique intervient alors que le Liban organise le 7 juin prochain des élections législatives, ou s'échangent des accusations concernant des changements démographiques entre communautés chrétiennes et musulmanes. Certains commentateurs accusent également la chaine koweïtienne d'avoir remplacé les vendeurs chrétiens par des vendeurs musulmans.
Pour rappel, lors de l'achat de la chaine à la société Admic en juillet 2008, des responsables de TSC avaient réfuté tout changement de politique sur les ventes d'alcool ou de porc, indiquait vouloir assurer une continuité avec les fournisseurs d'alors et introduire de nouvelles marques.

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Le vrai conflit !!
Par Nad , mai 15, 2009
Malheureusement je vois que personne n'a touché le cœur de ce problème, il y a des distances et encerclement religieux dans les plupart des commentaires,
soit le musulman qui venge son passé pour montrer qu'il est là, et quelle honte d'être représenté par des Koweïtien, soit des chrétiens qui flippent leurs existence et encore plus leur supériorité désormais-

Ta gueule salope,elle existe toujours,et certainement pas avec ton cul a repasser du linge sale,...pédé!- .... du passé.
Le problème, d'après moi, est que le monde arabe musulman va enfin arriver -jamais mon coco,il va tenter certainement encore et encore- à son but et ils vont nous occuper, déformer, montrer leur existance face à nous, ce peuple qui a tjs été meilleurs, et je ne me vente pas d'etre libanais.
Les Golfiens ont réussi et réussissent chaque jours, ils nous achètent, ils ont acheté bcp de nos leader (?) ils ont profité de nos égoïsme pour nous remonter l'un contre l'autre!!!
Bravo la Djellaba, tu as réussi enfin, regardez nous en train de venter sa réligion et vous nous bouffer chaque jour et sucer notre chèr pays, mais bon, peut etre on la méritait !!!!
désolé pour le pessimisme.

Par Carmen , mai 15, 2009
Liberté et je ne sais pas quoi. Non ce n'est pas une liberté, et c'est un premier pas vers quelque chose de plus grand.
Sachez juste qu'à Saïda et à Tripoli, il n'y a plus de congé samedi-dimanche comme il est d'usage au Liban, mais c'est jeudi-vendredi. Alors ne me dites pas que l'état n'a rien à voir. Petit à petit ils tentent de donner un caractère islamique au pays. C'est dégoûtant

Commentaire d'un européen...
Par Charly , mai 15, 2009
Bonjour à tous,
Tant qu'il s'agit d'une décision privée, ne mettant en cause finalement que la chaine de supermarché mentionnée, on reste dans le cadre des libertés individuelles. Personnellement j'irai acheter alcool et cochonailles ailleurs, et par voie de conséquence, les autres denrées aussi.
Le problème serait vraiment grave si c'était un changement dans la loi libanaise (vous imaginez si on interdisait la vente de viande hallal en Europe ?).
Le drame des cochons égyptiens est plus sérieux car il remet en question l'existence d'une communauté de personnes qui vivaient de ce commerce.
De plus, que je sache, si le Coran interdit la consommation d'alcool, il n'en interdit pas le commerce ?

Idem pour le commerce de porc ????

Mais là je préfère m'en remettre aux spécialistes de la question smilies/cool.gif
Bonne journée au Liban

Le Liban est LIBRE de servir ce qu'il veut
Par Cyril , mai 15, 2009
Et alors Jawad?

TU N'AS AUCUN DROIT DE REFUSER ET DE TRANSGRESSER CE QUE VEULENT LES NON-MUSULMANS. AUCUN DROIT. TU ENTENDS ? AUCUN DROIT.
TU N'AS AUCUN DROIT D' IMPOSER TES LOIS AUX AUTRES .

AUCUN!

PAUVRE DEMAGO MALADE.
@ptdr.

Le masque de ta démocratie tombe
Par Axelle , mai 15, 2009
TSC est un supermarket :UN COMMERCE mon dieu et non pas une mosquée!Le cochon et l'alcool se vendaient avant dedans et c'est interdit maintenant.Et demain les employés chrétiens qui y travaillent est-ce qu'ils ne doivent pas faire ramadan,ne pas boire de bière,faire les 5 prières ?Et pour les employées de sexe féminin-en suivant tes thèses ultras et ahurissantes-ne doivent-elles pas mettre le HIJAB pour les desideratas du PDG kowétien qui terminera sa soirée dans une boîte de nuit imbibée d'alcool avec des putes? Nous sommes chez nous et ton jumblat et hariri aidés par des FL vendus et convertis,rétrécissent jour après jour notre liberté et notre existence.

Je suis une chrétienne fière de l'être et libre de manger et de picoler comme je veux.A chacun sa morale.Touche pas à nos cochons et à notre alcool l'intrus.Ne parle surtout pas de racisme venant de quelqu'un qui fait de l'ostracisme chiite et Cpl sa raison d'être.
Je ne décanillerai pas ...

Par Axelle , mai 15, 2009
TSC est un supermarket :UN COMMERCE mon dieu et non pas une mosquée wahhabite!Le cochon et l'alcool se vendaient avant dedans et c'est interdit maintenant.Et demain les employés chrétiens qui y travaillent est-ce qu'ils ne doivent pas faire ramadan,ne pas boire de bière,faire les 5 prières ?

Et pour les employées de sexe féminin-en suivant tes thèses ultras et ahurissantes-ne doivent-elles pas mettre le HIJAB pour les desideratas du PDG kowétien qui terminera sa soirée dans une boîte de nuit imbibée d'alcool avec des putes?

Nous sommes chez nous et ton jumblatt et hariri qui se saoulent tous les soirs et se drogues pareil) aidés par des FL vendus et convertis,rétrécissent jour après jour notre liberté et notre existence.Je suis une chrétienne fière de l'être et libre de manger et de picoler comme je veux.A chacun sa morale.Touche pas à nos cochons et à notre alcool l'intrus!

Ne parle surtout pas de racisme venant de quelqu'un qui fait de l'ostracisme chiite et Cpl sa raison d'être.
@ axelle
J'ai honte pour vous connard de Geagea.
Par Axelle , mai 14, 2009
Jawad ce n'est pas la liberté de vendre ou pas qui est mise en cause.C'est le fait que des étrangers aux liban amenés par votre Saad Saoudien viennent nous imposer chez nous leurs coutumes.Ainsi l'arrêt de la vente du cochon et de l'alcool pour des motifs religieux propres à eux,au mépris du respect de notre mode de vie,communauté et de notre pays.Et la liberté dans tout cela? Elle se retrécie à vue d'oeil depuis l'accession au pouvoir de hariri au profit de sa propre communauté minoritaire.Y en a marre car ça commence par Tous Sans Cochon et ça se termine par Tous Sans Croix ,Sans Christ et Sans Chrétiens. Boycottons TSC pour qu'elle devienne un Trade Sans Consommateurs et unTicket Sans Comeback.
Elle,au moins vis son époque...yaani 2009>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Je suis d'accord .
Par Compte à rebours , mai 14, 2009
- Pour une fois je suis d'accord avec Hélène et avec tout ce qu'elle a écrit sur ces hypocrite émirs et princes du golfe " Persique " devenu par la grâce d'Allah et son pétrole " Golfe Arabe " !! mais pas pour longtemps d'après les grandes puissances et selon le jeu des Nations (...)
LE LIBAN N'EST PAS UN EMIRAT ARABE
Par Hélène , mai 14, 2009
je trouve ignoble, voir honteux ces princes du golfs qui, de leur côté se permettent l'alcool à volonté lors de leur déplacement dans les palaces, et ils se l'interdisent devant les caméras et devant leur citoyen.
dans les hôtels de ces pays, les étages réservés aux occidentaux, sont autant remplis de djellaba blanc qui picolent bien plus que d'autre.
ces gens là restent dans toute la contradiction avec leur slogan: faites de ce que je dis, et pas ce que je fais, et ils nous donnent la fausse image des musulmans, car eux mêmes ne font que du commerce avec leur religion: coran en page d'or, pétrole grâce à dieu, et tours les plus haut possible...
quant au cochon, il suffit de le rendre hallal et leur dire: c'est de la viande hallal
Vraimment vous tombez bien bas, en quoi tsc vous interdis de manger du porc ou de boire de l'alcool?

Tsc appartient a un musulman "Koweitien" croyant et sa religion lui interdit de vendre de l'alcool et du porc, alors qu'es ce que vous voullez? vous voulez forcer les gens qui ne le veullent pas a vendre de l'alcool et du porc? C'est ça vos idées démocratique? Bientot l'interdiction du port du voile aussi pourquoi pas? on est dans un pays libre, meme si cela a l'air de vous déplaire, un homme est libre de vendre ce qu'il veut dans son magasin et si vous n'etes pas content vous n'avez qu'a faire vos courses ailleurs! Non mais vraimment vous faites fort, votre intolérance est maiprisable.
Vous etes toujours aussi a nous rabacher l'histoire des cochons d'égypte mais dois je vous rappler que l'egypte avait aussi abbatu tous son élevage de volaille durant la période de grippe aviaire?

C'est quelque chose de global,plus universel...
Par Olivier , mai 14, 2009
C'est quelque chose de global... Et qui touche - au delà du pays - dans le monde entier, à l'image d'une nation. Par exemple, la femme libanaise, mondialement connue et reconnue comme étant l'une des plus belles femmes de l'humanité ! Ce serait dommage de perdre ça aussi, en lui imposant la bourka.
Il fut un temps, dans un pays qui se permet de tirer les ficelles chez nous, où la femme perse pouvait rivaliser en beauté avec la femme libanaise !

Et cette époque est révolue, depuis qu'elles sont sous le tchador,et en Afghanistan sous la Bourka...

Par Olivier , mai 14, 2009
Tous les efforts et les achèvements réalisés pour interdire la charcuterie et l'alcool...
Vont dans le même sens que les efforts et les achèvements réalisés pour bâtir des "terrains sur la mer" de type "île des cèdres" ou "désert arabique" en lieu et place de notre splendide mer méditerrannée.
Ce ne sont pas seulement notre cuisine et notre culture du terroir qui vont disparaître, mais aussi notre propre identité.
Merci les Kowétiens
Par Axelle , mai 14, 2009
Le récent carnage des 300 000 cochons en égypte appartenant à de pauvres chrétiens avait pour prétexte l'épidémie de grippe alors que cette dernière se propage par voie humaine!

La vraie raison date depuis des années avec une volonté pressante et farouche des extrémistes sunnites d'en finir avec le porc égyptien comme avec les chrétiens.Voilà maintenant qu'au Liban la chaîne Géant devenue Kowétienne nous interdit(comme des malpropres) de manger du porc et de boire l'alcool !!!Et notre liberté,nos us et coutumes dans tout cela?

Merci les Kowétiens et surtout merci à Saadeddine Hariri qui grâce à sa double nationalité saoudo-libanaise a réussi à sunnitiser les maronites et wahhabiser nos FL, les Gemayel et le démon de Ma'araab(S.geagea) en tête.

Question à notre grand protecteur Geagea : A quand le projet de voile pour les femmes chrétiennes???

Pour l'histoire c'est chez des chrétiens au sud liban où j'ai mangé le meilleur cochon et toujours au sud liban,chez les chiites,où j'ai bu le meilleur arak et goûter le meilleur méchoui.

POURQUOI ??
Par Compte à rebours , mai 14, 2009
- Comment se fait-il que les députés d'Achrafié qui ne sont autres que les Chrétiens de services à Koraytem avec à leur tête Michel Pharaon et Solange Gémayel " femme de Béchir " ... n'ont pas réagis à cette ouverture ????
Ils auront la réponse des Acharfiotes pour cela dans les urnes le 7 juin !! Et faites confiance à Massoud Achkar , au Général Abou-Jamra et à Nicolas Séhnaoui avec les 2 candidats du Tachnaq pour FERMER cette enseigne Koweitienne et les renvoyer chez eux une fois élus le 7 juin .

OUI OLIVIER .
Par Compte à rebours , mai 14, 2009
- Tu as raison , il y avait aussi pour ceux qui se rappellent , un restaurant très fréquentés par les Chrétiens et les Musulmans Libanais , qui s'appelait " AUX PIEDS DE COCHONS " et qui se trouvait juste en face du Bain Militaire sur la corniche à Raouché bien avant que cette région devienne " quartier Ouest " ce qui veut dire , côté Musulman .
Inutile de vous dire ce qu'il servait dans ce restaurant , l'enseigne l'indique bien .., C'était une succursale ou franchise ou bien copie du fameux Pieds de cochons de Paris .
AH ces Sunnito-Salafo-Wahabites-extrémistes ...
Par Compte à rebours , mai 14, 2009
- D'abord , ce n'est pas que l'alcool que cette enseigne Koweito-Sunnito-Salafo-Wahabite interdit ! mais le porc aussi .
Ensuite , il faut savoir que ce groupe est SUNNITE et à bien l'intention d'Islamiser le Liban et surtout les régions Chrétiennes avec l'aide des Chrétiens de services de Koraytem ! puisque Saadedine hariri en est le principal actionnaire de cette chaîne !!!
Les Chiites ne feront JAMAIS une chose pareille dans les régions Chrétiennes ! Ils nous reconnaissent et respectent notre religion et croyances , contrairement à ces intégristes Sunnites qui empoisonnent le monde entier et qui sont représentés par Koraytem et ses esclaves en cols blancs sous des faux airs occidentaux qui ne trompent plus personne .
Tout cela sera éradiqué au matin du 8 juin .

Il était une fois le Liban...
Par Olivier , mai 14, 2009
Il était une fois le Liban de la gastronomie et du terroir...
Le Liban de la canette d'Almaza, du vin de Ksara, de Kefraya, de l'Arak, et de bien des alcools de grande renommée...
Le Liban des méchoués de porc, de savoureux jambons, de délicieuses ma'any2' et autres saucisses épicées, de raffinés bastermas et de bien autres viandes à base de porc...Il existe toujours ce Liban dont tu parles Olivier !!!
La gastronomie, le terroir, c'est notre culture !

Pourquoi l'amputer ?

Bin 3abdel-3azizi 'Al Saoud's daughter-

Sans commentaires
Quel faux scandal -

Non...quel faux jeton tu es ya jawad!
Par ptdr , mai 14, 2009
et bientot les femmes devront se voiler pour entrer y faire leurs courses???
Quel scandale....
Boycottons le Tsc !
Par Michel Leclercq , mai 15, 2009
Tout à fait d'accord avec le fond de cet article.
Je l'ai mis "en tête" sur mon Facebook, afin que cela se sache !
Boycott de cette grande surface,

MAIS AUSSI "BOYCOTT" DES CHRETIENS(qui veulent une chaise au parlement en attendant la chaise électrique)

"SUPPOS" de cette mascarade !
Boycottez-les le 7 Juin !

Wel Sama Zar2a !!! lol-Or "The change of alliances in lebanon"

Biden tours the Balkans
— By Michelle Austein Brooks, 20 May 2009
Vice President Joe Biden is in the middle east of a tour starting by Lebanon then of the Balkans as part of an initiative to demonstrate “intensified U.S. engagement” in the region. Yesterday he was in Bosnia-Herzegovina, today he is in Serbia and tomorrow he’ll be visiting Kosovo.
Speaking to Bosnia-Herzegovina’s parliament

May 19, Biden told the legislators that the United States has been worried about the direction of the country. “For three years we have seen a sharp and dangerous rise in nationalist rhetoric designed to play on people’s fears to stir up anger and resentment,” he said.
“You must focus your talent and energy on issues of undisputed interest to all Bosnians — creating jobs, growing the economy, educating your children,” Biden said.
In Serbia, Biden met with the country’s president, Boris Tadic. “The region cannot fully succeed without Serbia playing the constructive and leading role,” Biden said. Biden’s visit was the highest level visit by a U.S. official to Serbia in

more than 30 years.

President Obama welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House May 18 to discuss the Middle East peace process, an important issue for any presidential administration.
It is in the interest “not only of the Palestinians but also the Israelis and the United States and the international community to achieve a two-state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians areliving side by side in peace and security,” Obama said following the meeting.
The United States has “historical ties, emotional ties,” to Israel, Obama said. “As the only true democracy in the Middle East, it is a source of admiration and inspiration for the American people.”
The two leaders also discussed Iran. “Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon would not only be a threat to Israel and a threat to the United States but would be profoundly destabilizing in the international community,” Obama said.

In the coming weeks, Obama will be meeting with Palestinian and Egyptian leaders to discuss Middle East issues. What role do you think the Obama administration should play in the Middle East peace process?

Probably a close negociation with Iran will do...

La tête dans la lune et même plus loin...

Hubble telescope repaired today 22/5/2009

The crew of space shuttle Atlantis has had an exciting week in space working on its final repairs for the nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.

Among the exciting moments: a phone call from President Obama! You can hear it yourself:

click here to read and listen to Obama’s comments.

Is Obama asking for an endless war ?

A Sick Joke?

Obama Calls for Demilitarized PA "State"

By Jerusalem Post Staff May 20, 2009 " Jerusalem Post" --

Amid much speculation over US President Barack Obama's upcoming address to the Muslim world, reports published on Wednesday outlined the details of his Middle East peace plan, which are said to include a demilitarized Palestinian state.

The US president's initiative, which was formulated in consultation with Jordan's King Abdullah II during the two leaders' recent meetings at the White House, reportedly does not significantly stray from the pan-Arab peace initiative proposed in 2002.

Rather, it bolsters certain details within the Saudi-proposed plan.The Obama-Abdullah plan was put together in response to concerns from both Israel and the US that the Arab plan was too general and intransigent, and according to a report in Wednesday's Yediot Ahronot, will call on Arab countries to take trust-building measures in order to clear the air with Israel.

Obama is expected to present the initiative in an address to the Arab and Muslim world from Cairo in three weeks, and set out conditions for a demilitarized Palestinian state, with east Jerusalem as its capital, within the next four years.

Yediot reported that Obama's vision for an independent, democratic and contiguous Palestinian state would not have its own army and would be forbidden from making military agreements with other states, in order to provide for Israel's security.The matter of borders would be solved with territorial exchanges between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Old City of Jerusalem would be established as an international zone.The initiative would require the Palestinians to give up their claim of a "right of return," according to Yediot, and Europe and the US would arrange compensation for refugees, including foreign passports for those residing abroad.

Obama's plan would also promote holding simultaneous talks between Israel and the Palestinians, and Syria and Lebanon. Yediot said that when such talks come to an agreement on Palestinian statehood, diplomatic and economic relations would be established between Israel and Arab states.The report added that in his Cairo address, Obama would reiterate calls for Israel to cease all settlement construction.

Reports of the US president's new initiative came days after his meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington. During the premier's visit, Obama emphasized his commitment to a two-state solution. Netanyahu reiterated his goal to live side-by-side with the Palestinians, though he did not specifically mention a two-state solution.

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A ne plus parler d'un peuple on l'oublie...

The End of Free Speech...even from there?
Criminalizing Criticism of Israel By ...

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Counterpunch May 7, 2009On October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act.

This legislation requires the US Department of State to monitor anti-semitism world wide.

To monitor anti-semitism, it has to be defined. What is the definition? Basically, as defined by the Israel Lobby and Abe Foxman, it boils down to any criticism of Israel or Jews. Rahm Israel Emanuel hasn’t been mopping floors at the White House.

As soon as he gets the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 passed, it will become a crime for any American to tell the truth about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and theft of their lands.

It will be a crime for Christians to acknowledge the New Testament’s account of Jews demanding the crucifixion of Jesus.

Though it is called "the Jerusalem bible" corrected & printed by the jewish lobby in the occupied land...or maybe Moses never existed ...neither the hebrews left egypt under stress by the Pharaoh Ramses II

It will be a crime to report the extraordinary influence of the Israel Lobby on the White House and Congress, such as the AIPAC-written resolutions praising Israel for its war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza that were endorsed by 100 per cent of the US Senate and 99 per cent of the House of Representatives, while the rest of the world condemned Israel for its barbarity. It will be a crime to doubt the Holocaust.

It will become a crime to note the disproportionate representation of Jews in the media, finance, and foreign policy. In other words, it means the end of free speech, free inquiry, and the First Amendment to the Constitution. Any facts or truths that cast aspersion upon Israel will simply be banned. Given the hubris of the US government, which leads Washington to apply US law to every country and organization, what will happen to the International Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and the various human rights organizations that have demanded investigations of Israel’s military assault on Gaza’s civilian population?

Will they all be arrested for the hate crime of “excessive” criticism of Israel? This is a serious question. A recent UN report, which is yet to be released in its entirety, blames Israel for the deaths and injuries that occurred within the United Nations premises in Gaza. The Israeli government has responded by charging that the UN report is “tendentious, patently biased,” which puts the UN report into the State Department’s category of excessive criticism and strong anti-Israel sentiment.

Israel is getting away with its blatant use of the American government to silence its critics despite the fact that the Israeli press and Israeli soldiers have exposed the Israeli atrocities in Gaza and the premeditated murder of women and children urged upon the Israeli invaders by rabbis. These acts are clearly war crimes.

It was the Israeli press that published the pictures of the Israeli soldiers’ T-shirts that indicate that the willful murder of women and children is now the culture of the Israeli army. The T-shirts are horrific expressions of barbarity. For example, one shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a crosshairs over her stomach and the slogan, “One shot, two kills.” These T-shirts are an indication that Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians is one of extermination. It has been true for years that the most potent criticism of Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinians comes from the Israeli press and Israeli peace groups. For example, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and Jeff Halper of ICAHD have shown a moral conscience that apparently does not exist in the Western democracies where Israel’s crimes are covered up and even praised.

Will the American hate crime bill be applied to Haaretz and Jeff Halper? Will American commentators who say nothing themselves but simply report what Haaretz and Halper have said be arrested for “spreading hatred of Israel, an anti-semitic act”?

Many Americans have been brainwashed by the propaganda that Palestinians are terrorists who threaten innocent Israel. These Americans will see the censorship as merely part of the necessary war on terror. They will accept the demonization of fellow citizens who report unpalatable facts about Israel and agree that such people should be punished for aiding and abetting terrorists. A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. American university professors have fallen victim to the well organized attempt to eliminate all criticism of Israel.

Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure at a Catholic university because of the power of the Israel Lobby. Now the Israel Lobby is after University of California (at Santa Barbara,) professor Wiliam Robinson. Robinson’s crime: his course on global affairs included some reading assignments critical of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

The Israel Lobby apparently succeeded in convincing the Obama Justice (sic) Department that it is anti-semitic to accuse two Jewish AIPAC officials, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, of spying. The Israel Lobby succeeded in getting their trial delayed for four years, and now Attorney General Eric Holder has dropped charges. Yet, Larry Franklin, the DOD official accused of giving secret material to Rosen and Weissman, is serving 12 years and 7 months in prison. The absurdity is extraordinary.

The two Israeli agents are not guilty of receiving secrets, but the American official is guilty of giving secrets to them! If there is no spy in the story, how was Franklin convicted of giving secrets to a spy? Criminalizing criticism of Israel destroys any hope of America having an independent foreign policy in the Middle East that serves American rather than Israeli interests. It eliminates any prospect of Americans escaping from their enculturation with Israeli propaganda.

To keep American minds captive, the Lobby is working to ban as anti-semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world. Most of Europe has already criminalized doubting the Holocaust. It is a crime even to confirm that it happened but to conclude that less than 6 million Jews were murdered.

Why is the Holocaust a subject that is off limits to examination? How could a case buttressed by hard facts possibly be endangered by kooks and anti-semitics? Surely the case doesn’t need to be protected by thought control. Imprisoning people for doubts is the antithesis of modernity.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

Encore plus fort !!!

Infos Parisiennes - ON CROIT REVER !!!
On dit ça un "joyeux "ramadan ?
Vu sur les panneaux d'info de

la ville de Paris...
Encore un Maire qui mérite sa place
Vive la France

ALLONS ENFANTS DE LA PATRIiiiiyeux , LE RAMADAN.... EST ARRIVE !!!
Une belle bande de faux-culs, je n'ai jamais vu un panneau me souhaitant de joyeuses Pâques, un bon carême, ...

Un état laïc !!!???
Nous sommes à genoux devant le pauvre peuple musulman!
Ils ne peuvent pas nous blairer et nous les encourageons,
Nous les recevons bras ouverts pour ne pas dire cuisses largement écartées !
Pauvre France,
Pauvre Napoléon

Pauvre Gaule.

Pauvre Vercingetorix !

14/05/2009
Obama warns Netanyahu:

"Don't surprise me with Iran strike"
By Aluf Benn and Natasha MozgovayaHaaretz Correspondents
Tags: iran, netanyahu, Israel news
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. with an Israeli military operation against Iran.

The message was conveyed by a senior American official who met in Israel with Netanyahu, ministers and other senior officials.

Earlier, Netanyahu's envoy visited Washington and met with National Security Adviser James Jones and with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and discussed the dialogue Obama has initiated with Tehran.

The message from the American envoy to the prime minister reveals U.S. concern that Israel could lose patience and act against Iran. It is important to the Americans that they not be caught off guard and find themselves facing facts on the ground at the last minute.

Obama did not wait for his White House meeting with Netanyahu, scheduled for next Monday, to deliver his message, but rather sent it ahead of time with his envoy.
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It may be assumed that Obama is disturbed by the positions Netanyahu expressed before his election vis-a-vis Tehran - for example, Netanyahu's statement that "If elected I pledge that Iran will not attain nuclear arms, and that includes whatever is necessary for this statement to be carried out.

" After taking office, on Holocaust Memorial Day Netanyahu said: "We will not allow Holocaust-deniers to carry out another holocaust." Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak do not oppose American dialogue with Tehran, but they believe it should be conducted within a limited window of time, making it clear to Iran that if it does not stop its nuclear program, severe sanctions will be imposed and other alternatives will be considered. The American concern that Israel will attack Iran came up as early as last year, while president George W. Bush was still in office.

As first reported in Haaretz, former prime minister Ehud Olmert and Barak made a number of requests from Bush during the latter's visit to Jerusalem, which were interpreted as preparations for a