1) Of all the news I have read today, this is the most troubling. If Lebanon goes islamic, there is absolutely 100% no hope for the Middle East. Hundreds of people marched in Beirut on Sunday demanding an end to Lebanon's confessional system, mobilized by a call posted on Facebook."The revolution is everywhere... Lebanon, it's your turn," chanted demonstrators, most of them young people, in reference to the popular uprisings rattling regimes across the Arab world since January. Lebanon's system of government is rooted in a 1943 power-sharing agreement along confessional lines adopted after the country won its independence from France. Aimed at maintaining a balance between the 18 religious sects, the agreement calls for the president to be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament a Shiite Muslim. Other government jobs are also allocated according to religious affiliation......
2) Sultanate of Oman might be next. If nothing else, these revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, are hopefully teaching some valuable lessons in Geography and History to Westerners who know less than nothing about anything outside their own countries. The popular uprisings across the Arab world reached on Sunday Oman where police fired rubber bullets on stone-throwing protesters demanding political reform in an industrial town on Sunday, killing two people. According to a security official, two protesters were shot dead with rubber bullets and around five others wounded as Omani security forces opened fire on demonstrators who tried to storm a police station. "Two were killed after being shot with rubber bullets as protesters attempted to storm a police station," in Sohar, over 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of Muscat, the official said, requesting anonymity......
3) Al Jazeera is reporting that : In Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, life has entered a new stage of revolutionary normal. Shops have re-opened next to burnt-out regime headquarters; the main justice building still stands, but its rooms are occupied by opposition media centres, and courtrooms have become kitchen.....
4) Your last chance to see what Tripoli looks like. In a few more days, it will be a rubble of burnt down nothing.
5) Yemen too, like Libya, poised for civil war. After popular revolutions across the Arab world toppled the regimes of Egypt’s Husni Mubarak and Tunisia’s Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, scared of the possibility to face the same fate, vowed to defend his three-decade regime "with every drop of blood". Saleh, who accused on Sunday opponents of hijacking gathering protests in a ploy to split the nation, said that his opponents were trying to revive secessionist efforts that sparked a short-lived civil war in 1994.
6) Oh...that Ghadafi was quite generous to certain people. The motive of the visit to Tripoli by Mama Sarah Obama remained unclear, but other unconfirmed reports says President Obama got the wind of the visit and appeared to have been embarrassed as he is said to have phoned his cousin Saidi Obama expressing his disappointment at what was going on around his Kenyan ancestral home backyard. ....
7) Ah... and what do we have here? Iraqi Oil refinery bombed and workers murdered?
Can we start counting the days, weeks or months before their short-lived democracy is dead and buried. YES WE CAN.... because moslems simply can't do democracy.. and that's that. Even the few who come to democratic lands of the West are unable to stomach it. The head of Iraq's parliament has called for new provincial elections within three months.Osama al-Nujaifi, the speaker, made the announcement on Sunday at a news conference in the capital Baghdad. It comes as anti-government protests are held across the country, where local residents have rallied against corruption, a lack of basic services, and the perceived unapproachability of the Iraqi government based inside the fortified Green Zone where the US embassy is also based....
Also, have you noticed how the MSM keeps calling these revolutions "popular uprisings"? It's like they have all been sent a memo from somewhere to use that term and that term only. Hmmmmmm.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
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Their religion is the strong right arm, the people are the nail, and hatred of the West is the hammer, not too hard to figure out the results.
ReplyDeleteTheir leaders have been keeping them in the dark and feeding them shite for so long, and because it kept that part of the world stable, we went along with it.
African Development Bank ( AfDB ) Group Tunis, Tunisia 2010-04-30 $45,117.00
Deaf Care Society Amman , Jordan 2010-05-03 $30,214.00
Al Rwaished Women Association Rwaished, Jordan 2010-03-10 $38,631.00
Anjara Women Cooperative Ajloun, Jordan 2010-03-10 $25,031.00
Business Development Center ( BDC ) Amman, Jordan 2010-01-17 $61,886.00
Cooperative Housing Foundation ( CHF International ) Amman, Jordan 2010-01-20 $25,355.00
Deir Alla Mount Cooperative Deir Alla, Jordan 2010-03-03 $41,508.00
Democratic Association of Moroccan Women Casablanca, Morocco 2010-03-02 $74,886.00
Fédération de la ligue démocratique pour les droits de la femme Casablanca, Morocco 2010-02-02 $74,581.00
Koom Al-Raf Women's Society for Social Development Amman, Jordan 2010-02-24 $32,552.00
Ministry of National Education, Higher Education, Management Training, and Scientific Research Rabat, Morocco 2010-01-05 $80,850.00
Musa Al-Saket Development Organisation Al Salt, Jordan 2010-01-13 $30,415.00
Naba'a - Developmental Action Without Borders Saida, Lebanon 2010-02-05 $25,373.72
Near East Foundation Amman, Jordan 2010-01-18 $60,769.00
Ruwwad: The Arab Foundation for Sustainable Development Amman, Jordan 2010-03-10 $39,246.00
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ) Amman, Jordan 2010-03-24 $8,000,000.00
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ) Amman, Jordan 2010-03-24 $4,000,000.00
Women's Program Center - Aqaba Aqaba, Jordan 2010-03-14 $38,431.00
Women's Program Center - Hussein Camp Amman, Jordan 2010-01-19 $30,933.00
That's just 9 of the last 12 months, and does not include Iraq, or Afghan, or Indonesia, and don't even get me started on the rest of the UN.
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You are so right David. I just finished reading how the UK pampered and coddled Ghadafi... all because they wanted some oil contracts and his dirty money. I will be posting something on that in a little while.
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