“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
No doubt while denying the one that already happened. Sorry for no audio, I had a really rough time viewing this file. It seems that about 50% of people can see the original file from the MEMRI site no matter what their gear is, and about half the people cannot. So here is at least the video portion. Ill try and find it complete with the ranting in Farsi
Eeyore
From Europe News
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, also known as EuroMed, has been pretty much under the radar for 15 years. When it caused some public discussion in 2007, it was renamed ”Union for the Mediterranean”, and quietly permitted to proceed. Not much was heard of it, but now EuropeNews has the scoop: It is being established now – and we have a window of merely 14 days to protest it.
The news is tucked away in this discreet ANSAmed news item:
MED UNION: JORDANIAN MASADEH APPOINTED AS SECRETARY
Quote:
Ahmad Khalaf Masadeh, Jordanian ambassador to Brussels, has today been appointed as secretary general of the Mediterranean Union.
It is remarkable that an ambassador of a non-democratic nation has been appointed to head the Union. Now, it should not be assumed that the European Union, run by a non-elected Commission and having a non-elected President, should care too much about such details.
But since the 16 non-EU states of the Mediterranean Union does include decent democracies (Israel, Croatia) as well as more dubious ones (Albania, Bosnia, Turkey), it would seem appropriate to appoint a representative from a democratic country to head the Union.
There are more remarkable passages in that piece.
Quote:
A statement will be circulated tomorrow amongst the 42 Foreign ministers of the countries which make up the Mediterranean Union, with any comments to be made within 15 days. With the exception of surprise opposition, today’s appointment will be definitively approved by a process of tacit consent. “Today we have made history.”
There we have… Read More.
Islamic states love to defile western nations, yet it has been these same western nations for the most part, and their agencies who have come to the aid of the Haitian people. Not one Islamic state has offered help. Here are the nations who have offered aid and support to the suffering people of Haiti:
From The Sydney Morning Herald
World Bank
$US100 million ($108.2 million).
International Monetary Fund
$US100 million.
European Commission
€3 million ($4.7 million).
World Food Program
15,000 tonnes of food.
Medicins sans Frontieres
Inflatable field hospital, including two operating theatres, 100 beds, medical staff.
International Red Cross
40 tonnes of medical supplies.
US
$US100 million.
Washington is sending ships, helicopters, planes, rescue teams, a floating hospital and more than 5000 troops.
The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier was to arrive later in the day with destroyers and more Coast Guard ships were en route and 5000 troops on standby.
Australia
$10 million.
Japan
$US5 million.
China
50 Chinese soldiers, who brought three sniffer dogs with them, and a rescue team, plus 20 tonnes of aid.
Canada
Willing to match its citizens’ donations up to a combined total of $C100 million ($105 million). Ottawa also readied two warships, helicopters and planes with supplies, as well as a large relief and rescue force. Rescue team and relief supplies.
Britain
Close to $US10 million, rescue team and relief supplies.
France
Two teams of firefighters with trained dogs, rescue team and relief supplies.
Belgium
Rescue team and relief supplies.
Germany
Rescue team and relief supplies.
Italy
Rescue team and relief supplies.
The Netherlands
Rescue team and relief supplies.
Portugal
Rescue team and relief supplies
Poland
Rescue team and relief supplies.
Russia
Rescue team and relief supplies.
Spain
Rescue team and relief supplies.
Switzerland
Rescue team and relief supplies.
Cuba
30 doctors.
Brazil
$US10 million.
Dominican Republic
Rescue team.
Venezuela
Rescue team.
Chile
Promised help.
Colombia
Promised help.
Guatemala
Promised help.
Mexico
Promised help.
Peru
Promised help.
Taiwan
Offered aid.
South Korea
Offered aid.
New Zealand
Offered aid.
What is Islam’s contribution to the world this week? Certainly not helping the people of Haiti, as they are preoccupied with throwing a Kenyan maid from the top floor of a window, shooting and burning a Buddhist couple, and preaching hate at the London School of Economics, etc., etc. Nice. Way to go. The Religion of Peace.
Your efforts to improve the world have been duly noted.
Thanks to KitmanTV here are some really important videos which, if you have not already seen them, really need to be seen by all. Undercover Mosque is a TV documentary by England’s #4 where reporters were sent into major UK Mosques where they recorded secretly what was being said, often in mosques and by clerics who receive large government money for ‘interfaith dialogues’ and multi-faith programs’.
First, the actual documentary:
Dispatches – Undercover Mosque from Ole Olsen on Vimeo.
Here is a laughable attempt by the left and Muslim community to mitigate the damage done by exposing the hate taught daily at British Mosques
Here is a follow up interview with Abu Husama, another attempt to deflect:
Download ]Police excuse their behaviour towards the film makers:
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Police stepped up security after the United States Embassy in Malaysia warned on Friday that criminal and terrorist groups were planning attacks against foreigners in the Borneo island state of Sabah.
A “warden notice” posted on the embassy’s website (malaysia.usembassy.gov/), dated Friday, said resorts located in isolated areas of eastern Sabah, a state bordering the southern Philippines, were of “present concern.”
It identified areas of eastern Sabah including Semporna and the islands of Mabul and Sipadan, as well as travel to and from the area.
The warning said there were indications criminal and terrorist groups “are planning or intend acts violence against foreigners,” notwithstanding the Malaysian government’s ability to detect and prevent such attacks.
“Please avoid or use extreme caution in connection with any travel in these areas or locations,” it said.
The state’s island resorts are popular with tourists.
The warden notice said the Philippines-based, al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militant group had kidnapped foreigners in eastern Sabah in the past. Criminal elements were also responsible for kidnapping and piracy, it said.
Malaysia’s deputy police chief, Ismail Omar, said his officers were taking all necessary steps.
“I have alerted all my officers in Sabah to boost security at all these places,” he told Reuters.
A U.S. embassy spokesman in Kuala Lumpur said such statements were issued periodically and the latest warning was posted “to enable people to make informed decisions about their security.”
The spokesman said there was a possibility the warning would be upgraded into an official travel advisory that would be issued by the U.S. State Department.
The Abu Sayyaf, known for kidnapping and beheading hostages, was nearly eliminated after the death of its founder and leader, Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, in the late 1990s.
It sprang back to life when about 20 Malaysian and Western tourists were kidnapped on Sipadan island in 2000. Analysts have said that proceeds from kidnappings may revive the small but deadly group.
(Editing by Paul Tait)
I must say, the rest of the world could learn a few things about how to handle Muslims from the Kenyans. It appears they managed to get the better of the deal with a gang of rioting Muslims demanding that the Kenyan nation give in to all their demands. If only Western governments would allow regular people to defend thier own cultures, beliefs and societies then we could probably fix the problem of Islam in the west in a week. [I bolded the text below]
Eeyore
Published on : 15 January 2010 – 2:23pm | By International Justice Desk
The protesters, chanting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) and some holding the flag of Somali rebel group al Shabaab, were blocked by police with dogs as they tried to march through the heart of Nairobi after prayers at the downtown mosque.
Some Kenyans, angry the attempted protest had taken place at all, joined forces with the security forces and began hurling stones at the marchers, squeezing them back towards the mosque.
“This is not an acceptable behaviour. The man who is supposed to be deported is not a Kenyan and his presence is not in the interest of Kenya these days,” said bystander Richard Odibo.
A helicopter clattered overhead and police also used water cannon to contain the clashes. Many protesters, some carrying pictures of Faisal on placards, were eventually corralled in the mosque but small groups continued hurling stones nearby.
A Reuters witness saw two policemen and four protesters injured by stones.
Faisal was visiting the east African nation for a preaching tour. Kenyan intelligence officials have said they fear his speeches could stoke radicalism in a country that has suffered two al Qaeda-linked attacks.
Faisal was deported from Britain in 2007 for preaching racial hatred and urging his audiences to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners. He was arrested in Kenya on Dec. 31.
Kenya’s immigration minister Otieno Kajwang has declared Faisal a prohibited immigrant. Attempts by Kenya to deport him failed last week because Nigeria refused to give him a transit visa to Gambia.
Police sources told Reuters Faisal was being held at Nairobi’s international airport. Another source said the government would hold him in custody until he could be deported straight to Jamaica.
“One person, a Jamaican, how can he make the whole country shut down? One person, how come no one in Jamaica is defending him,” said a man in a group that charged the Muslim protesters.
“These demonstrators, they can go back home to Somalia if they want to,” he told Reuters Television.
Kenya hosts some 300,000 Somali refugees in refugee camps and there is a significant Somali community in Nairobi. There have been reports of rebel supporters recruiting fighters and young suicide bombers from the diaspora within Kenya.
Al Shabaab, a rebel group that Washington accuses of links to al Qaeda, is battling to overthrow the Somali government and impose their own hardline version of sharia law.
REUTERS
Here is a Vladtepesblog and Tundra Tabloids original. The heavy lifting was Tundra who translated this video, and VTB titled and edited it. Here is a rather excellent example of the train wreck that occurs when political correctness meets Islam. Despite the overwhelming evidence this 12 minute documentary shows about Islamic violence and dominance of women, Finnish state TV felt the need to have 2 minutes of propaganda about how Islam does not condone violence and especially against women.
Here at Vlad we decided to take that bit out and instead, put in a few verses from Koran and Hadith about women that explain the actual facts rather better.
Untitled from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.
Below, another video on honour killings in Turkey, in case anyone thinks this still is not Islamic
TORONTO (JTA) — Canada is redirecting its Palestinian aid away from a United Nations agency and toward specific projects.
The shift in Canadian policy was announced this week by Vic Toews, president of Canada’s Treasury Board, who wrapped up a five-day trip to Jordan, Israel and the West Bank.
Canada is not reducing the amount of money it gives to the Palestinian Authority, “but it is now being redirected in accordance with Canadian values,” Toews said. The move “will ensure accountability and foster democracy in the PA.”
In the past, Canadian aid earmarked for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, went into a general operating fund in the PA’s treasury. The U.N. agency runs 59 Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
In a meeting in Ramallah, Toews refused a request by the PA’s minister of planning and administrative development, Ali al-Jarbawi, for aid to be given “directly” to the PA treasury, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Among the projects receiving the redirected aid are those training prosecutors, judges and police, and shoring up the Palestinian judicial sector by building courthouses.
“If we train people properly, we will have the emergence of proper institutions necessary for a state,” the Post quoted Toews as saying. “It is obviously more difficult to monitor the use of money sent into general funds than specific projects.”
A statement from Toews’ office said Canada is “on track” to deliver on its pledge of $300 million over five years to the PA.
Toews said Ottawa needed “to ensure that [the Palestinian Authority] has less wide discretion.”
B’nai Brith Canada praised the shift away from funding UNRWA, which reportedly has been infiltrated by Hamas.
TIMESONLINE… A senior figure in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a hardline Islamist group that the Government keeps “under continuous review” and the Conservatives want to ban, is teaching and preaching at a top university.
The Times has learnt that Reza Pankhurst, who was imprisoned in Egypt for membership of the group, is a teacher at the London School of Economics and regularly preaches to students at Friday prayers.
The group is supposedly barred from organising and speaking on campuses under the National Union of Students’ policy of “no platform” for racist or fascist views. The presence of one of its prominent members as a university teacher raises new concerns about Islamist radicalisation on campus.
A new review of campus extremism began last month after it was discovered that the alleged Detroit airline bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was a former president of the Islamic Society at University College London.
The Times understands that at least two London university lecturers are either supporters or members of Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Mr Pankhurst is a postgraduate student in the LSE’s government department and teaches classes for the course “States, Nations and Empires”.
On Fridays he is one of the regular speakers at prayers organised by the students’ union Islamic Society in the college gym.
A society member told The Times: “He preaches every other week and is constantly bringing the subject around to politics, talking about Afghanistan and the need to establish the Caliphate [Islamic state].
“Only last week he was talking about the Detroit bomber and saying the guy was not radicalised in London and it was all to do with foreign policy.
“Last year he recommended we should attend a conference which I later discovered was organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir, but he never mentions the party by name.” Continue Reading →
From WWW.STRATFOR.COM
Jordan has demanded that Israel hand over some of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. The kingdom claims Israel seized the scrolls illegally from a museum in East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Israel seized the scrolls and other antiquities from the Palestinian Museum, which was managed by Jordan in east Jerusalem when it occupied this part of the city in 1967,” said Rafea Harahsheh of Jordan’s antiquities department.
The scrolls were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947. The famous parchments number 900 documents and biblical texts belonging to the Essenes, a breakaway Jewish sect that lived in the craggy hills above the Dead Sea where the scrolls were discovered.
They provide a rare insight into life in the Holy Land and the emergence of early Christian groups in the area.
The Jordanians recently asked the Canadian government to seize some of the scrolls while they were on display in Toronto.
They have also appealed to the United Nations in support of their case.
Israel has refused to discuss handing back the scrolls. Its foreign ministry told the Jerusalem Post, “Jordan’s occupation of the West Bank was never recognized by the international community and the kingdom relinquished all claims on the territories. The scrolls have no relation to Jordan or the Jordanian people.” Continue Reading →
From STRATFOR.COM
Well, I guess the UN’s AEA can expect another shiny new trophy to sit next to the one they got from Pakistan for all the help they got from the world body for their assistance in getting the bomb. I bet the UNAEA is really pissed that North Korea hasnt sent one yet. But I’m sure Iran will send one. They are good sports that way.
BBCNEWS.. Two leading US senators have urged the Pentagon to take steps to combat the threat of Islamist extremism within the ranks of the US military.
The senators called for educating military personnel about the “warning signs of extremism”.
The recommendation came in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings in Texas during which an Army major killed 13 people.
Maj Nidal Hasan, a psychiatrist at the base, has been charged with murder and attempted murder.
The 39-year-old American-born Muslim will be tried in a military court but it has not yet been confirmed whether military authorities are seeking the death penalty in this case.
The Pentagon is due to release its own internal review of the incident.
Increasing trust
Senator Joe Lieberman and Senator Susan Collins wrote to US Defence Secretary Robert Gates at the end of their investigation into the 5 November incident at Fort Hood.
The US military should train soldiers “from enlisted personnel to commanders” to recognise and report “the warning signs of violent Islamist extremism”, they said.
“Efforts by DoD [US defence department] to educate its personnel concerning what violent Islamist extremism is and what the warning signs of such extremism are – as distinguished from the practice of the Islamic faith – will increase trust between the thousands of Muslim-Americans serving honourably and their colleagues,” they wrote.
They said current procedures for dealing with such cases were not satisfactory but did not specify what the warning signs would be.
