tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88553072011-11-01T11:28:26.701+03:00kwtianoreply@blogger.comBlogger3331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-83544787765295699812009-05-08T08:08:00.001+03:002009-05-08T08:10:12.675+03:00

On Leave

kwtianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-9238507045858098322009-04-18T11:15:00.004+03:002010-02-13T11:35:24.629+03:00

I hope it's the frenzy of the dying that has made the religious right, and all the people duped and terrified by them, ratchet up the forceful increase in 'shut up and disappear' tactics. You know, the ones they use instead of trying to make a point through reason and calm argument.You tell them the earth has been around for billions of years and we are just a minuscule dot in an otherwise

kwtianoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-58762154924104649132009-04-01T15:27:00.001+03:002009-04-01T15:34:39.713+03:00

Interesting

kwtianoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-85139351305554725782009-03-02T14:41:00.003+03:002011-02-25T12:41:16.541+03:00

A friend described him as a 'national treasure'... I might have to agree.

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Donald Macintyre says we should be '..very Afraid' of the Israeli elections... One candidate plants a tree in occupied territory as an election ploy (and that isn't his worst behaviour)... Another is in the lead thanks to his racism and his ability to publicly say things like the Egyptian president can "go to hell". And Gaza knows too well what another bunch of candidates did to gain votes...Well

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-35077961297706606912009-01-20T10:51:00.000+03:002009-01-20T10:52:00.312+03:00

This girl's photo is one I can't stop coming back to... A sense of guilt and shame, at the world community which has fiddled as Gaza burned and our impotence in the face of these crimes, makes me unable to make her invisible..===See photos of Gaza from the relief organization Care.And Photos of Gaza from Save the Children==="The front page of the Beirut daily As-Safir said it all yesterday.

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A very dear friend is writing an excellent poem/song, to deal with the frustration and horror at what is happening in Gaza... and to hopefully move people to feel things they should feel at this disgusting display of human cruelty.I am afraid I can't be as articulate. The frustration cripples the mind, and the outrageous and vicious statements made everyday to justify the slaughter of civilians

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-35122542406549153232008-12-16T14:55:00.001+03:002008-12-16T15:20:21.439+03:00

It is with no small irony, after watching a film like Taxi to the Dark Side, that this should be the first thing on a loop all over the news...The Oscar winning film unfurls all the ugliness and savagery of the war prisons, set up by the US, piece by piece till you see the whole damnable picture. It really makes you wonder "how little outrage there is" at these crimes.The film is full of footage,

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-66637295244782652602008-12-13T11:55:00.000+03:002008-12-13T11:55:00.664+03:00

Can't get enough of this, so I thought I'd share...Greenland, the big bear of the north, is rattling in its chains.. I must visit soon.Yay! Patrick Fitzgerald is back :) .. (remember him)Here is a current film that is related to the whole 2005 drama.Here are the comedians on the 2008 scandal.And talking of things you shouldn't pick...Picking your nose can lead to this...And talking about all

kwtianoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-33611449830025617582008-12-06T15:46:00.001+03:002008-12-06T15:57:03.868+03:00

I am winning the battle against cat scratch fever, or maybe that is the hopeful delirium that comes at the end...The cat and I have worryingly similar notions of playfulness, but while I spend my time-between swatting and wrestling- biting my nails, she has a rigorous routine of honing her wolverine paws to the point where it's just dumb of me to go near her. But apparently I do dumb well. And do

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-74941469611945885152008-11-22T18:51:00.002+03:002008-11-22T19:42:11.923+03:00

If you are anything like me (and believe me these days I would recommend anything but) then your heart races a little faster every time you hear that creaky little voice coming from the mighty and deadpan Ms. Sarah Vowell...So as I debate whether allergies or closed coffin-like rooms are more palatable, and whether it would be annoying for people if I eat a LOT of nachos at the movies tonight, I

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-60203430633844880792008-11-09T11:30:00.003+03:002008-11-09T14:58:22.865+03:00

There must be some love stories left in the world after all... And then there are those loves you wish could be explained... And still other pleasures you wish didn't sound like this.I guess we'll be seeing everyone Tuesday on that lawn we all know so well..Have a peek at The Crisis and What to Do About it, by George Soros in the NYRBIf you feel like hunting for expensive art pieces that will be

kwtianoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-53444006153905652742008-10-25T15:00:00.000+03:002008-10-25T15:02:22.047+03:00

As if I needed another reason to recoil at having to touch elevator buttons: radioactive scrap from India was used to make buttons for Otis elevators in France. It makes me worry where we are getting our scrap from, considering we are in that part of the world where people like Larry Summers think dirty industries should be transferred.See his old notorious creepy memo.---Yemen is flooded by a

kwtianoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-15879594939785068082008-10-13T19:18:00.001+03:002008-10-13T19:19:47.633+03:00

Since misery loves company, the planet and the economy in meltdown should offer some sort of comfort to my dwindling sanity... but planet you are gonna have to come up with a lot more crazy to make me feel matched.Where do we start...oh where do we start?The IMF said the "global financial system was on the brink of meltdown" which is triggering descriptions like "utter carnage" and "a titanic

kwtianoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-20466159621341206332008-10-03T10:25:00.002+03:002008-10-05T09:29:07.735+03:00

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kwtianoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-46088185307712871952008-08-30T23:20:00.001+03:002008-08-30T23:28:28.675+03:00

That icy rush you feel is just brain freeze from the new republican VP.We can look forward to hearing more frozen-in-time comments that will still manage to warm the toes of those dinosaurs who disrespect all the science and history and philosophy that has blown such huge holes in their mythologies. It's been great news for those frozen relics who belittle all the rights that our beautiful human

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-8016119775674017702008-08-28T12:28:00.000+03:002008-08-28T12:46:09.251+03:00

In our current days of darkness and superstitions... A little history goes a long way.Science already known BCE/BC:1- 500BCE/BC : Pythagoreans taught that Earth is a sphere2- 470BCE/BC : Anaxagoras suggests that materials are made of "seeds"(atoms) (Near Izmir in Turkey)3- 445 BC/BCE: Leucippus suggests possibility of indivisible atoms (Turkey)4- 384-322 BC/BCE: Aristotle said it was common

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-17683517755955640762008-08-25T13:35:00.010+03:002008-08-25T21:39:22.706+03:00

Nuclear waste containers likely to fail, warns 'devastating' reportAugust 2008Power madness: With spiralling costs, leaky reactors and dangerous cost-cutting at plants..Jeremy LeggettGreenpeace files complaints on Areva nuclear leaksReuters - Jul 31, 2008100 employees at French nuclear site contaminatedBusinessWeek - Jul 23, 2008Spanish nuclear plant closed after fire in electrical generatorAFP

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Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook? And 'meet your meat'Forget about the ad for PETA at the end, that's not the point...It's just that:"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." Ralph Waldo Emerson

kwtianoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-11123121545526874062008-07-28T11:01:00.002+03:002008-07-28T13:38:29.141+03:00

Kuwait plans to flex its muscles on web offenders... playground rules...This is the week of explosions, what is going on? Bangalore, Gaza, Istanbul, Ahmadabad, China, Qantas, Greece, Queens... And weeks and endless weeks for Iraq.Want to see serious competition for our local brand of ignorance and hatred? Watch this film.And blowing through our dusty landscape are some cries for justice, that

kwtianoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-27456982754159669682008-05-28T16:27:00.001+03:002008-05-28T16:43:59.362+03:00

When did it become ok for a magazine to edit (by inserting more errors) and dumb down your articles without letting you know?I have a growing suspicion that certain editors are actually robots that can't compute more than one layer of meaning in a text.I will have to get myself a metal detector.What was the fast moving white blur that just settled over everything and then went away?I am tired of

kwtianoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-9230586475988573042008-05-17T01:53:00.002+03:002008-05-17T02:18:44.561+03:00

My slightly unsteady hand just put my voting card and every document anyone could possibly ask me for into my overstuffed bag...ready for my first ever vote.I managed to find three candidates in my really frighteningly regressive district that were pleasantly surprising. So even if me and the two other voters in my house are the only support they will get, it will be a small victory against the

kwtianoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-89568419647428231532008-04-26T12:44:00.001+03:002008-04-26T12:55:02.303+03:00

Who no longer trusts the weather here?I find myself having to chaperone open windows...Dust pneumonia, you haunt me.===The second most abundant element in our universe was first discovered on the sun, and so was named after the sun God Helios...It is the second element on the periodic table...It is produced from radioactive decay...It is used to help rockets take off and microchips come to

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-50304415045033438412008-04-03T11:37:00.006+03:002008-04-03T13:23:06.023+03:00

الصقر: «التصويت والفرز» إلكترونياً.. أفضلHmm.. Really hope it's not these machines though...or these...or these...or these...or these...or these...or these... or these... or these...--YouTube:Should electronic voting machines be outlawed?-CNNDemocracy at Risk: Ohio Voting Machines Flawed- CNNComputerized Voting Machines: Who is Counting your Votes?- Google Tech TalksVoting Machine Failures-

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"Kurzweil is 60, but he intends to be no more than 40 when the singularity arrives."hmm... read on.-----------------------Manga does the Bible-----------------------"Today, our public discourse is dominated by people who have been wrong about everything" damn skippy...-----------------------While we are too busy deciding whether people kissing on the cheek is a sin... The world continues on...---

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-68653890398552150022008-03-24T16:00:00.000+03:002008-03-24T16:12:52.528+03:00

I can barely think through these new allergies I have developed in this country but here are some things for you to look at that might give you allergies too..Or worse.It’s the ‘Oh Shit!’ Moment on Iran by Dave LindorDrying Up Palestine- Watch this short online film about water issues in the Occupied Territories. (Great site called The Hub)Iraqi Refugee Children and Prostitution2 Schools in

kwtianoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-2027214813794021892008-03-20T14:27:00.003+03:002008-03-20T15:21:34.014+03:00

The petty parliament is finished, here's to the coming scramble. Are we going to be given the chance to hope, or just some more of the same clatter around our aching heads?Obama is running on a platform of change, and everyone desperate enough to want it is following his pied piper tune even if they don't always know what it's saying...I think maybe we are desperate enough to become addicted to

kwtianoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-85301780097107484572008-03-04T12:15:00.004+03:002008-03-04T15:16:58.928+03:00

Gideon Levy of the Israeli Paper Ha'aretz writes:" Two days earlier Israel killed more Palestinians than have been killed by all the Qassams over the past seven years. Among the dead were four children and an infant. The next day Israel killed another five boys. And who is the victim? Israel. And who is cruel? The Palestinians."------------------Ira Chernus Writes:"Palestinian deaths this week

kwtianoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-33739406595217761392008-03-02T15:44:00.002+03:002008-03-02T15:50:27.202+03:00

3:15 pmAUK has been evacuated after a bomb threat...Or some kind of threat that is still not clear.Check on your family and friends.The authorities are at the university.All is fine so far.Earlier in the day, witnesses say, there was an apparent threat at a bank, some say Burgan.Hell and a hand basket, we know you well.

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I need to recharge the fuel that is sapped by the depression of being dunked daily in the vat of ignorance and regressive philosophies of this manufactured majority...the majority created by decades of ensuring that education is no more than recitation... like those ads, these days, that suggest if children learn pages and pages by heart their parents' yellow brick road to heaven will be paved..

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I'm stuffed with rice krispie treats and jalapeno peppers and some organic ketchup... I realise, only faintly, that it might sound sickening, to some of you, but frankly if you can stand being here without flying away forever or flying out a window, then you can handle my eating habits.Are you tired of being controlled by sex obsessed, self-hating, repressed apes who have no idea that their

kwtianoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-16299945513328337052008-01-08T15:01:00.000+03:002008-01-08T23:47:05.943+03:00

The clouds today wrapped round the blue sky like a belt, a line of white all around the horizon... If you tilt yourself upside down it would look like a real sky with all the pieces where you thought they should be.Sorta like if you were upside down, this country might look like a real country...Not the kind of country where universities are expected to be prisons, and straitjackets and where

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It's late. I'm tired... but my eyes are too swollen to shut so you are going to be lucky enough to get a post after all this time. And of course lucky means get ready for some news you are not going to like, because that's just the way it is.Take this quiz or this one, then let's drown our sorrows together because the candidate most likely to match us and, in my opinion, save the world, will

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When will the price be too high?.When will "democracies" believe in everyone's rights?.Will this Exodus be remembered forever in rituals?.When are we going to start feeling shocked?.

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But this scares the bejeeeezuz out of me...

kwtianoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-4268311890250677452007-09-03T16:30:00.000+03:002007-09-03T16:23:04.381+03:00

Been having "stinging eyes and sore throats and headaches" ? You are going to love reading this..And by love, I of course mean the don't bother to pack just run far, far away kinda love..-In case you need more reason to do that...here you go.-Iraq in Fragments is on dvd-Aid Agenecies that need our help in Iraq are:IMC (they have done great work in Iraq and Lebanon and all over the world) Save the

kwtianoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-44653568468178698132007-08-21T13:57:00.000+03:002007-08-22T16:14:21.341+03:00

I was really missing this country...on my month of hotel hopping and racist encounters with certain white folk... but of course the joy at being back in the arms of the fatherland was short lived...Because them arms are brutal.The pretty cozy mask we all knew was a bit too plastic fantastic is melting fast in our summer of wretchedness... Don't talk, don't be, don't complain and hope the big

kwtianoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-21287102072967772332007-07-02T22:02:00.000+03:002007-07-02T22:06:09.417+03:00

What do Kuwait, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast have in common? Yup their embassy staff in the UK commit assault, because they can...German embassy staff drive over the speed limit... tsk...them Germans.--Live Earth--This Saturday.--If you have been hibernating you may not have heard that the US is experiencing the worst drought ever... Yup even a lake caught fire...Anyway, the situation has made the

kwtianoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-40930285520605385502007-06-26T12:00:00.000+03:002007-06-26T12:33:30.820+03:00

I have been slack...in so many ways. Posting, responding to comments...sorry...and it's not just because I am practicing for the new law...akh the new law...There is no business like monkey business, and there are no monkeys like ours...Could we get them in these getups and let them find somewhere far away for them to trash and degrade...Because there is so little left to love here...especially

kwtianoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-51594728896655577742007-05-30T15:47:00.000+03:002007-05-30T17:05:41.788+03:00

Anyone who has been on these flights should get checked for TB..-Michael Moore's new film Sicko tackles the health industry...-"Colony Collapse Disorder" anyone?---We would like to congratulate Kuwait on recognizing the danger posed by ozone depletion, almost a whopping twenty years after the Montreal Protocol made it more than obvious... It's like suddenly getting all excited about bell bottoms

kwtianoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-43295518232087268262007-05-08T13:32:00.000+03:002007-05-08T13:29:28.121+03:00

Been a bit out of the loop lately, but hey we made international news today... We are one of the countries arming the criminal regime of Sudan, despite a UN embargo...And we thought we were plum out of reasons to be proud of this little troublemaker state of ours...---The Republicans are still insisting on filling the office at the top with donkeys...Which might be why so many are defecting...But

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Holy, HolySince we are hurtling to yet another barbaric stage of human conflict...History is a good teacher, who is a good pupil?

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All flights out of Dubai Airport have been grounded indefinitely...So far due to a Bangladesh bound plane having an incident that injured 14 people...--Today at 5pm this film will be showing at Layla Gallery cinema as part of this week's French Film Fest.--The sky is really pretty..---Tomorrow at Shaab cinema at 4:30 this film will be showing as part of an independent film fest...---Wednesday

kwtianoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-48341093116390815382007-03-03T13:17:00.000+03:002007-03-03T15:42:49.333+03:00

Some articles about the first Arabic production to be staged at the Royal Shakespeare Company... By a Kwti theater company with a pan-Arab cast.From The Financial Times--- The Guardian--- The BBC---As a special gift for National Day, Kuwait confirmed 20 cases of bird flu in falcons, chickens and turkeys...Then they confirmed 5-7 more cases today. We can trust that our efficient and responsible

kwtianoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1171491754310111212007-02-15T01:20:00.000+03:002007-02-15T01:22:34.336+03:00

Today there is only a poem...

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1169666222192617452007-02-05T09:57:00.000+03:002007-02-05T14:23:33.203+03:00

Sulayman Al-Bassam is in Stratford, the birthplace of Shakespeare to put on an Arabic production of Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company...---mmmmm...mmmm..we have GM crops on our shelves...---A new Islamophonic podcast at the Guardian...have a listen.---A study from the University of Chicago says that you can help fight Global warming by going vegetarian...because eating meat is worse

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Sore, sore throat...maybe from screaming over the music at a wedding... or from being too cold because I said no to fur...and will keep saying hell no! to it...or maybe it's the suppressed yelps at being in this sometimes not so hopeful place...---كلام الناس. الوسطية والنحاسة الكويتيةHe keeps helping us breathe again... and also laugh again:بعد اكتشاف خلو الكويت من التطرف""(!!)--It's one of those

kwtianoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1166530146297682682006-12-20T13:44:00.000+03:002006-12-20T13:59:53.580+03:00

snocone tagged me...supposed to grab the closest book, look at page 123 and write down the 5th sentence and the following couple of sentences....ok..Page 123 in Bukowski's 'Love is a Dog from Hell' has only these lines...."a single dogwalking alone on a hot sidewalk ofsummerappears to have the powerof ten thousand godswhy is this?"-How's that?And How's about i don't tag anyone?----And how's about

kwtianoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1165907470798880872006-12-16T11:18:00.000+03:002006-12-16T15:16:19.930+03:00

A tale of two serial killers:One has molested and killed over 30 children in 2 weeks the other kills 5 sex workers in 10 days- which story is all over the front pages from the start and is in a country that respects all its victims and its public?=== George Clooney (for president) spoke about Darfur here he is in Egypt on youtube...===Congratulations to the less than 1% of people in the Emirates

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Another Russian is poisoned.... radiation is found in 12 sites linked to the poisoning of Litvinenko... it's World AIDS day...and it's a beautiful grey out...====Signora says that today's protests are a threat to democracy and Sama7a says, on Al-Manar, that Nasrallah wants nothing but democracy and an end to sectarianism...and in related flights of fancy, apparently ahl il-kahf could sleep for

kwtianoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1164492662512700192006-11-26T13:00:00.000+03:002006-11-26T01:11:05.250+03:00

wow it was kinda hot this morning, and now i need gloves to type...great great stuff to be confused by the weather...Where is that thing once known as winter?And where is that online kwti site where people sell their cars?There doesn't really need to be any relationship between the things i say...==Here are a few pardons:1- Pardon?2- Pardon?3- Pardon?And there's also a but of course...An

kwtianoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1163578247750982462006-11-16T15:20:00.000+03:002006-11-16T15:20:31.256+03:00

There is a contest to name a new batch of 7 wonders...anyone want to nominate this deal with the devil-maker?... Then Lonely Planet suggest Belfast and Beirut are 'must see' cities...anyone want to nominate this other town of tears as a tourist destination?===Germanwatch says that the US and Saudi are among the top five worst countries dealing with climate change...ahh good to know who our best

kwtianoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1163406352635363172006-11-13T10:55:00.000+03:002006-11-13T17:08:08.756+03:00

Today there is Keith Olbermann...as there should be everydayBut also there is Iran mad at GoogleAnd there is of course more Salon love for Battlestar G.There is also Jack Straw getting questions he wished he never got.Will the democrats make a difference? Larry Elliott thinks, not so much.There is a Scary new US court case that could affect the kind of news you get.And Lebanon, Lebanon...

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Today there is only a poem..

kwtianoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1162418633522934972006-11-02T01:00:00.000+03:002006-11-02T01:03:53.733+03:00

Watching too many cooking shows...and not doing any cooking. Oh Tamasin why am I obsessed with your kitchen? So let's try to look at the news a little...They admit Iraq is chaos, isn't that big of them? oh no wait the word isn't 'big', is it?...Iraq is also said to be disintegrating and, well, a whole hell of a lot of hell is up north of us...quick, quick, look somewhere else, the US says there

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When you wake up in the morning and read that a nukulur power is saying that it will "deal merciless blows" to anyone that messes with it, you know it's going to be one of those days...and maybe that's why I have been wanting to crawl back under the covers...the no-sky-all day thing we have going here doesn't help either...and neither does the fact that the Antarctic just told us, again, that

kwtianoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1160465702966776192006-10-11T00:15:00.001+03:002011-02-24T11:57:19.402+03:00

Muslims angry and insulted again, which I am sure will do a lot of good...Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for more than 4,000 days...Thirteen journalists killed since Putin came to power...Holy War between Somalia and Ethiopia? We haven't had enough of those it seems.While everyone is looking here, look what's happening here...What will they need to reverse this Foley induced fall?

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Salon has an article about Battlestar Galactica's "intoxicating darkness"...and about season three's storyline which includes Caprica being invaded and occupied by the Cylons and the humans having to fight back, like insurgents...or like that other word with a 'T'...I keep tellin ya, scifi is 'the real world'.========mmmmm mmm...this news just deserves a direct quote:"Food from a Lancashire dairy

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This retirement business is growing on me...but then who would give you too many links to articles you wish I hadn't found?...There is a responsibility on my weak little shoulders that has been nagging and nagging...so here it goes:Wonder Woman...Joss Whedon...woweee.Ok, here it goes:When you have oil wealth overflowing like it was a heavenly river...you could go the way of Venezuela or...well,

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16th September10am-1pm and 5pm-9pmCharity BazaarZahra ComplexMezzanine LevelProceeds will all go to the IMC's work in Lebanon

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I need to come out of retirement to make sure you see thisAbout bloody time...-And watch this if you haven't already-"Tony Blair will be served notice to quit Downing Street at a meeting of the Cabinet next week" and he was called 'deluded' and 'self indulgent'...He might be competing with Bush on who can get called enough names by British politicians..=Iraq and numbers...how much can we feel for

kwtianoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1156755238043746852006-08-28T11:53:00.000+03:002006-08-28T11:53:58.073+03:00

Thanks to everyone who has been by here...this blog is now on hold...see you around.

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Chinese airlines are recruiting airline attendants 'with martial arts skills' in their attempt to make planes more secure...Ernesto is heading to the Gulf Coast...It's really hot in this country..========Enjoy Kibbeh, kufta, lamb shanks and any other sheep meat dish? Live in Kuwait? PETA wants your attention...you've seen the ads right? "Before They’re Cooked in Yoghurt and Spices, They’re

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Seymour Hersh writes in the New Yorker about Washington's joint planning with Israel and it's hope that Isreal's attack on Hizbullah will "serve as a prelude to a potential American preëmptive attack to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations" ==="It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction." John B. Orr===The Israeli writer Yitzhak

kwtianoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1155202750603939632006-08-10T11:28:00.002+03:002006-08-10T12:48:14.660+03:00

Heathrow on Red AlertIncoming Flights stoped, but outgoing flights are still on though extreme delays are expected. The tv news is saying don't bother to turn up at Heathrow unless your trip is extremely important to you.Passengers will not be allowed hand luggage and mothers with babies will be required to drink the milk they bring on the plane to prove it is in fact, milk.Wallets and purses,

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"More than 900 lives ago, we asked for an immediate ceasefire. More than 3,000 injured civilians ago, we asked for an immediate ceasefire."We asked for a ceasefire when the 1 million Lebanese now sleeping on the floors of our schools and public buildings and welcoming homes were still sleeping in their own homes - homes that for many no longer exist."Lebanese envoy, Tarek Mitri at the UNSC

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Took a few days off to get over an attack of hopelessness...-----------Smokers should not expect to be protected by anti-discrimination laws in employment. The Financial Times had a piece that quoted an employer who said 'smokers need not apply' explaining that smokers 'stink', they take more sick leave and suggested that if they were ignoring all the health warnings and facts about smoking then

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"Of the 615 people so far confirmed dead, Save The Children says that almost half are children. They make up one third of the 3,225 injured, and about 45 per cent of the nearly one million Lebanese refugees are under the age of 18, according to Unicef." The IndependentDonate by visiting www.savethechildren.org.uk/independent---------------------"The prospect of a low intensity civil war and a de

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International Medical Corps is helping out in Lebanon and Iraq...as well as in many other worthy places in the world....Donate here, every penny counts..-Positions they anticipate will open for those who want to help/work/volunteer: Communications/Information Officer, LebanonCountry Director, LebanonFinance Director, LebanonLogistics Officer, LebanonMedical Director, LebanonMental Health

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The Atlantic has an interesting piece on the strange investigation of The Monster of FlorenceAri Berman has a Nation piece on the lobby of lobbies.Human Rights Watch accuses Israel and Hezbullah of war crimes.A tale of two ways to use veto power..To prevent and to encourage war crimes..And the green lights keep coming..Democracy Now! interviews to watch with Robert Fisk on Qana, and a with

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A 48 hour pause in aerial bombardment...it's that easy, isn't it...just to stop...one wonders why we can't do it more often...Hope eveyone gave as much as they could, just for an opportunity like this where the supplies can actually get to those suffering...The buttons on the right need pressing..=====>>>=====>>> Some headlines make it a victory for Condi, maybe so that everyone that has been

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1154271691665528242006-07-30T16:59:00.001+03:002006-07-30T18:22:46.930+03:00

Haim Ramon "doesn't understand" why there is still electricity in Baalbek; Eli Yishai proposes turning south Lebanon into a "sandbox"; Yoav Limor, a Channel 1 military correspondent, proposes an exhibition of Hezbollah corpses and the next day to conduct a parade of prisoners in their underwear, "to strengthen the home front's morale." By Gideon Levy===========Qana 2006... (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser

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It is the possible sight for the Biblical Cana, where Christ is said to have turned water into wine...These days it's just where Israel insists on turning everything into blood.Qana in 1996And, today up to 56 dead...34 of them children...murdered as the building they were sleeping in collapsed on top of them after an Israeli hit...----------------------------------------Olmert: No hurry to agree

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Israel's secret war: the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Palestine By Anne Penketh in Gaza City ----MercyCorps Gaza Crisis AppealUNRWA's Emergency Appeal-----A Photographer in Gaza

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Take a look at this and this, please...---------------------------------------"Israel has never agreed to a joint investigation, and I don't think that if anything happened in this country, or in Britain or in Italy or in France, the government of that country would agree to a joint investigation," Gillerman said. By NICK WADHAMS-----Of course, Israel is blocking an investigation into events that

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Rolling Stone has an exclusive worth reading...It starts like something out of a spy film and ends like Revelations...You might need something strong to sip on while you read it.If you want to round off the story: Mother Jones' "Three Days in Rome" is an article to look at. ----------------------The T-shirt seller of Beirut -----------------------Is it possible to be this stupid? For Rummy to

kwtianoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1153911696066503942006-07-26T17:00:00.001+03:002011-02-24T12:42:43.275+03:00

'Highway Bloggers' or 'Freeway Bloggers' are in the news again, this time in the Boston Globe-Israelis, Lebanese Blog To Each Other MTV-That Dennis Kucinich is at it again, asking to put peace on the agenda...Little dreamer...-Sanayeh Relief Center has developed a map of Israeli strikes on Lebanon...Have a look, it is staggering..-Please give to UNICEF LebanonAnd to Sanayeh-"both Democrats and

kwtianoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855307.post-1153820762365125932006-07-25T12:11:00.001+03:002011-02-24T12:47:28.740+03:00

For commentary out of Beirut that comes with a satisfying blend of lucid prose and biting humour pay a visit to Anecdotes from a Banana Republic -مركز الإغاثة – الصنائع SAMIDOUN Relief Center – SanayehCLIENT NAME: GREENLINE ASSOCIATIONACCOUNT NMBR: 6189003BANK: BANK OF KUWAIT AND THE ARAB WORLDSWIFT: BKAWLBBEFor more information, please contact: +961 3 647 605, +961 3 670 783, sanayeh.center@

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"Lebanon carpenters are running out of wood for coffins. Bodies are stacked 3 or 4 feet high at the hospital morgue. The stench is spreading in the rubble.…On Thursday, the wild dogs gnawed at the charred remains of a family bombed as they were trying to escape the village."Hassan Fattah, New York Times -Lebanon's RefugeesGuardian Photos-While all this is happeningBlair's government is

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One of LBC's stations has been hit..the one that transmits the local channels, and they are now transmitting via LBC Europe...LBC is a major Lebanese local and satellite channel...They have also hit Mobile phone networks, which means people are without even phone contact...according to Al-Arabiya.-LBC is now reporting that at around 2:30 Lebanese time Israeli tanks invaded the south.10 Tanks-Is

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"How soon must we use the words "war crime"? How many children must be scattered in the rubble of Israeli air attacks before we reject the obscene phrase "collateral damage" and start talking about prosecution for crimes against humanity?" Robert Fisk- Srifa was a bustling hillside village. Then yesterday the Israeli jets came Clancy Chassay outside SrifaThursday July 20, 2006-..Photo of Abbas

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I read a letter sent from the Lebanese artist Zena el-Khalil to a mutual friend and discovered that she had a blog...she is blogging from Beirut..Her words are beautiful and heart-breaking. Stop by her blog and give her your love and support.Beirut Update

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"Members of a religious sect in central Kenya are bracing themselves for a nuclear war predicted to take place no later than 12 September 2006."BBC-And Lebanon...-..Ya Libnan Photo---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For those who feel powerless, just watching this unfold:Help out with

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"Bush: You see, the ... thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over. " IndependentBush tells Blair in the middle of stuffing his face with food at the G8, when they had no idea the microphone was on...You can watch the whole thing here'Bush and Blair's Less Than Excellent ConversationArianna Huffington-"For the second time in 48 hours

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"It will be called the massacre of Marwaheen. All the civilians killed by the Israelis had been ordered to abandon their homes in the border village by the Israelis themselves a few hours earlier. Leave, they were told by loudspeaker; and leave they did, 20 of them in a convoy of civilian cars. That's when the Israeli jets arrived to bomb them, killing 20 Lebanese, at least nine of them children.

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Israel's army chief Dan Halutz declared that no targets in Lebanon were immune from attack. "Nothing is safe. It is as simple as that," -"The US vetoed a UN resolution last night that demanded Israel halt its military offensive in Gaza ­ the first UN Security Council veto in almost two years.Ten of the 15 countries voted in favour; while Britain, Denmark, Slovakia and Peru abstained" Independent-

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On a roof in the Old City Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight: The white sheet of a woman who is my enemy, The towel of a man who is my enemy, To wipe off the sweat of his brow.In the sky of the Old CityA kite.At the other end of the string,A childI can't seeBecause of the wall.We have put up many flags,They have put up many flags.To make us think that they're happy.To make them think

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"Israel threatened to bomb Lebanon "back 20 years"Guardian-When soldiers, who are a military target, are kidnapped...the response is attacks on civilian targets? In this upside down world, yes.-Halt the slide to war "Ehud Olmert lost no time in describing the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Lebanese guerrillas as an "act of war". ....(Earlier):"Palestinian fighters kidnapped an Israeli soldier

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...This photo is the property of ricobel.com

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After hearing everyone repeat the pledge so many times you would think that the duties of being an MP would have sunk in, especially for those that have had to do this before...but I guess it's in one ear and out everywhere else...-Money talks..and walks and sits down with you to eat and and whispers promises that make you break the ones you made..and that's been the story of our little dot on

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The letter pinned overnight to the wall of the mosque in Kandahar was succinct. "Girls going to school need to be careful for their safety. If we put acid on their faces or they are murdered then the blame will be on their parents."...100,000 students have been terrorised out of schools in the past year. The number is certainly far higher and many teachers have been murdered, some beheaded.From

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Save the internet....or else bloggers and others will be forced to use a slow lane on the internet unless they shell out large sums of money...you have AT&T and its friends to thank for the greed.."Costs will skyrocket to post and share video and audio clips, silencing bloggers and amplifying the big media companies. Political organising could be slowed by a handful of dominant internet providers

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ولكن من يقرأ ويتعظ في دولة قرر شعبها، من خلال انتخابات نيابية، وقرر سياسيوها من خلال مجلس مختار، تسليم امورنا لمجموعة من المتزمتين الدينيين الكارهين للاصلاح، حتى ولو انتموا له اسما؟ أحمد الصراف-"My peace is gone, my heart is heavy"..."The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain".Faust-Violent Islamic radicals know they are heretical The Guardian"During the 20th century, a militant piety erupted

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"Ukraine was beginning to look like a banana republic yesterday after a pro-Western "orange" coalition government that has been three months in the making disintegrated before it could even do one day's work. "continnue reading at The Independent-Dozens of people are fasting to bring the troops home to the US. Some are fasting on liquids, some for a few days and others completely and indefinitely

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Here are some headlines to warm up my re-entry into the world beyond kwti elections..Missing Votes Add to Turmoil in MexicoAbout 2.5 million ballots left out of the initial count+Mexican Election in Limbo"But if history is any lesson, Lopez Obrador is no Al Gore. He won't walk away from a stolen election without a protest. His political rise has been characterized by having to respond to dirty

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I have been in a funk...the elections, even though they got some people that fall under the label of 'reformists' into the parliament left others, who's walk actually matches their talk, un-elected. More than that, I have been disillusioned all over again by ever-present realities of politics. The anti-corruption preachers didn't refrain from shuffling people into their districts... the money

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1- Education reform: We want no more Midieval ideas that frighten students and future community members out of thinking for themselves, out of natural curiosity and out of using reason and logic. We want no more Midieval textbooks that make slugs look like they could beat us to college. We want better equipped schools, and better teachers and higher standards. 2- Healthcare: We want hospitals and

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Akkkhhh!! ya ahl il-man6iqa l'thanya...you've made your bed, now sleep in it..and good luck with the nightmares.=District three has given a message..now we'll see if it will make any difference in the coming term..=Uhm, the people who got 0 votes...didn't they even vote for themselves?=Now the real work begins and the real faces show themselves...lets not allow any of the candidates who coloured

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