http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3762677.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3762875.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3762217.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3761027.stm
Do you know what all these headline news in BBC today has in common? There are 4 different countries with seemingly nothing in common.
[Saudi Arabia] One country is the largest exporter of oil to the US & ruled by people installed by the British for their common convenience - now they have terrorists don't know for what reason.
[Venezuela] Another is the 2nd largest exporter to the US but whose popularly elected President decided that saving the poor was more important than enriching the oil magnates - now he is not popular don't know for what reason.
[Iraq] The third has the potential to be 2nd largest exporter to the US - it was recently whacked by the US and British don't know for what reason.
[Afghanistan] The last offered a path for the Americans & their cronies to build their pipelines to the rich oil fields in Central Asia that used to be controlled by the Russians and a potential source of oil for India & China - it was whacked by the US and British don't know for what reason.
Don't know who come up with such things. Don't know for what reason....
Monday, May 31, 2004
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Where are Thee, My Fella Nolah?
The world has lost and will continue to lose its natural heritage because of actions by supposed decendents of the great fella Nolah. Despite all their proclaimed God-like nature (albeit borne out of incest), man has yet to recognise that. Let alone control their actions & behaviours to stop/reverse the trend.
As a result, people like me really wish that our great Nolah fella can do an encore of his great feats. Then I'll be really impressed. But the 'smarter' Nolah-likes always say I cannot tell their Big Boss & Nolah what & when to do things otherwise I will be the Big Boss. Smart logic but other than say 'have faith lah' what better idea or solution to this
destruction do these 'smarter' Nolah-likes have? If history is any indication, not for another 2 thousand years at least!
By then bye bye to more life forms. But the good news is that any future Nolah need only to build a small tubby boat which won't need a hundred years to build. Unlike our poor last fella (may be the kinder Big Boss took pity on our last fella).
Just mere passing knowledge....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3700079.stm
p.s. anyone interested in getting a copy of my cheap bible on Nolah can request through e-mail to http://us.f416.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=cheekhiaw@yahoo.com&YY=29333&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b
As a result, people like me really wish that our great Nolah fella can do an encore of his great feats. Then I'll be really impressed. But the 'smarter' Nolah-likes always say I cannot tell their Big Boss & Nolah what & when to do things otherwise I will be the Big Boss. Smart logic but other than say 'have faith lah' what better idea or solution to this
destruction do these 'smarter' Nolah-likes have? If history is any indication, not for another 2 thousand years at least!
By then bye bye to more life forms. But the good news is that any future Nolah need only to build a small tubby boat which won't need a hundred years to build. Unlike our poor last fella (may be the kinder Big Boss took pity on our last fella).
Just mere passing knowledge....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3700079.stm
p.s. anyone interested in getting a copy of my cheap bible on Nolah can request through e-mail to http://us.f416.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=cheekhiaw@yahoo.com&YY=29333&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
After That Then What?
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_733662,0008.htm
When I shared my admiration of the landing of probes in Mars early this year, someone of a certain religious following asked me rhetorically: "so what's next? All that is going to be mere passing knowledge". As if he had found something more permanent and more important.
I did not ask him what 'knowledge' he would consider as non-passing but assumed it is what 'knowledge' he gains from his sacred book
Then I thought, jeeze, these fellas are going to live their lives through eternity (they believe that they will be in Heaven with God for eternity, you know) contentedly with knowing only what they read from that one book?
Phew, that should be real boring, isn't it? I mean, for God.
Imagine billions of these fellas sticking around the Big Boss talking only about what is written in that one book which the Big Boss supposedly wrote?
But I guess that's just a passing question.... unimportant.
But that great being has only one miserable 300 pager of knowledge for all these fellas to admire through eternity? Not a very knowledgeable Being.
Perhaps God has to a lot more to offer that will fill up many books. It's just that because these fellas would not be able to appreciate them, God had left all of them out of it. That's why God wrote only ONE miserable book. The rest He pass off as mere 'passing knowledge'...
When I shared my admiration of the landing of probes in Mars early this year, someone of a certain religious following asked me rhetorically: "so what's next? All that is going to be mere passing knowledge". As if he had found something more permanent and more important.
I did not ask him what 'knowledge' he would consider as non-passing but assumed it is what 'knowledge' he gains from his sacred book
Then I thought, jeeze, these fellas are going to live their lives through eternity (they believe that they will be in Heaven with God for eternity, you know) contentedly with knowing only what they read from that one book?
Phew, that should be real boring, isn't it? I mean, for God.
Imagine billions of these fellas sticking around the Big Boss talking only about what is written in that one book which the Big Boss supposedly wrote?
But I guess that's just a passing question.... unimportant.
But that great being has only one miserable 300 pager of knowledge for all these fellas to admire through eternity? Not a very knowledgeable Being.
Perhaps God has to a lot more to offer that will fill up many books. It's just that because these fellas would not be able to appreciate them, God had left all of them out of it. That's why God wrote only ONE miserable book. The rest He pass off as mere 'passing knowledge'...
Why So Many Idiots
Attached is BBC's chronology of events for Vietnam War.
Even a respectable news agency dare not document the fact that France agreed to free elections that the Americans sabotaged. Worse than that, the nationalistic fervor of the Vietnamese is simply brushed off and 'communist insurgency' used as excuse for causing the death of 6 million people.
I guess, the good news is that idiots can say it is not their fault if they don't know....
Even a respectable news agency dare not document the fact that France agreed to free elections that the Americans sabotaged. Worse than that, the nationalistic fervor of the Vietnamese is simply brushed off and 'communist insurgency' used as excuse for causing the death of 6 million people.
I guess, the good news is that idiots can say it is not their fault if they don't know....
Zorro is Just Another Cowboy
Another hour of the Tonto (Spanish for idiot) for those that live in their own surreal world of American Zorros....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3685043.stm
(news report on abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British & American troops in jails)
Background on 'Tonto' :
In the 1960s, we kids used to eagerly watch an American TV show called 'The Lone Ranger' where the hero is a single American cowboy doing good deeds fighting against bad guys (typically crass looking Mexicans and Red Indians with an occasional sprinkle of bad whitemen) with the help of a Red Indian side kick by the name of Tonto. Only decades later did I find out that the word Tonto means 'fool' in Spanish. Those bastards had no qualm wtih openly using such a derogatory for the people who were helping them and whom they killed and robbed for centuries. Such arrogance...
Meaning of 'cowboy' :
A term used to mean 'one who shoots from the hip'; do things before thinking
(New report)
US President George W Bush is to appear on Arab TV channels on Wednesday in an attempt to regain trust after US forces were caught in an abuse scandal.
Photographs have emerged showing inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad stripped naked and humiliated. Mr Bush will say the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is "shameless and unacceptable", his spokesman said. The US military has admitted to 25 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, including two murders.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president would offer 10-minute interviews to the US-sponsored al-Hurra television network and the Arab network al-Arabiya.
Al-Arabiya is a mainly Saudi-owned pan-Arab satellite channel. Across the Arab world, al-Arabiya probably has about 20 million viewers, as compared to al-Jazeera's 35 million.
Like al-Jazeera, the channel has been accused by US and Iraqi officials of encouraging attacks on US troops, giving too much prominence to anti-US attacks and providing a forum for opposition to the occupation. Al-Hurra TV is also a satellite channel. It is funded by the US to the tune of $62m and broadcasts from Springfield, Virginia. Anecdotal evidence suggests that about 20 to 25% of Iraqis have access to satellite TV. Damage limitation "This is an opportunity for the president to speak directly to the people in Arab nations and let them know that the images that we all have seen are shameless and unacceptable," Mr McClellan said.
"These images do not represent what America stands for, nor do they represent the high standards of conduct that our military is committed to upholding," he continued.
Mr Bush's appearances are the latest attempt to limit the damage from the scandal, which has caused anger in Arab states and shock and condemnation around the world. US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave an interview to al-Arabiya on Tuesday in which she expressed "the United States' deep sorrow over the US troops' abuses against the Iraqi prisoners". She told the channel that President Bush was "disturbed by the distressing pictures". Deaths in custody Also on Tuesday US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said those responsible for the "unacceptable and un-American" conduct would be brought to justice.
The Pentagon has confirmed that criminal charges have been filed against six US soldiers in relation to the photos, while six senior officers have been reprimanded.
But there have been concerns that the mistreatment is more widespread. A senior army official said there had been investigations into 25 cases of death and 10 of abuse in US custody in Iraq or Afghanistan since December 2002. Of the 25 deaths, 12 were found to be either of natural or undetermined" causes, one was a "justifiable homicide", and two were murders. Ten inquiries are taking place, he says. Fresh allegations of US brutality against Iraqis emerged on Wednesday. The UK's human rights envoy to Iraq, Ann Clwyd, said she has for months been pursuing the case of a 73-year-old woman who claims she was taken to a prison, hooded, made to go on all fours, told she was a donkey and was then "ridden" by her tormenters. Deepening scandal The abuse scandal has deepened with the revelation that a report into mistreatment at Abu Ghraib was commissioned in January and completed in early March, but had still not been read by Mr Rumsfeld as of Tuesday. The report by Maj Gen Antonio Taguba found evidence of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses of Iraqi prisoners", including sexual abuse. Members of the US Senate Armed Services Committee have demanded to know why they were kept in the dark about the report, and have called for an opportunity to question Mr Rumsfeld. The BBC's Nick Childs in Washington says there's no hiding the dismay in the Bush administration and the Pentagon over the political fallout from this controversy. He adds that it is puzzling why, when it knew some weeks ago that these photographs were going to be published, that it didn't do more to try to pre-empt the furore.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3685043.stm
(news report on abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British & American troops in jails)
Background on 'Tonto' :
In the 1960s, we kids used to eagerly watch an American TV show called 'The Lone Ranger' where the hero is a single American cowboy doing good deeds fighting against bad guys (typically crass looking Mexicans and Red Indians with an occasional sprinkle of bad whitemen) with the help of a Red Indian side kick by the name of Tonto. Only decades later did I find out that the word Tonto means 'fool' in Spanish. Those bastards had no qualm wtih openly using such a derogatory for the people who were helping them and whom they killed and robbed for centuries. Such arrogance...
Meaning of 'cowboy' :
A term used to mean 'one who shoots from the hip'; do things before thinking
(New report)
Bush appeal to Arabs in abuse row
5 May 2004US President George W Bush is to appear on Arab TV channels on Wednesday in an attempt to regain trust after US forces were caught in an abuse scandal.
Photographs have emerged showing inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad stripped naked and humiliated. Mr Bush will say the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is "shameless and unacceptable", his spokesman said. The US military has admitted to 25 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, including two murders.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president would offer 10-minute interviews to the US-sponsored al-Hurra television network and the Arab network al-Arabiya.
Al-Arabiya is a mainly Saudi-owned pan-Arab satellite channel. Across the Arab world, al-Arabiya probably has about 20 million viewers, as compared to al-Jazeera's 35 million.
Like al-Jazeera, the channel has been accused by US and Iraqi officials of encouraging attacks on US troops, giving too much prominence to anti-US attacks and providing a forum for opposition to the occupation. Al-Hurra TV is also a satellite channel. It is funded by the US to the tune of $62m and broadcasts from Springfield, Virginia. Anecdotal evidence suggests that about 20 to 25% of Iraqis have access to satellite TV. Damage limitation "This is an opportunity for the president to speak directly to the people in Arab nations and let them know that the images that we all have seen are shameless and unacceptable," Mr McClellan said.
"These images do not represent what America stands for, nor do they represent the high standards of conduct that our military is committed to upholding," he continued.
Mr Bush's appearances are the latest attempt to limit the damage from the scandal, which has caused anger in Arab states and shock and condemnation around the world. US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave an interview to al-Arabiya on Tuesday in which she expressed "the United States' deep sorrow over the US troops' abuses against the Iraqi prisoners". She told the channel that President Bush was "disturbed by the distressing pictures". Deaths in custody Also on Tuesday US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said those responsible for the "unacceptable and un-American" conduct would be brought to justice.
The Pentagon has confirmed that criminal charges have been filed against six US soldiers in relation to the photos, while six senior officers have been reprimanded.
But there have been concerns that the mistreatment is more widespread. A senior army official said there had been investigations into 25 cases of death and 10 of abuse in US custody in Iraq or Afghanistan since December 2002. Of the 25 deaths, 12 were found to be either of natural or undetermined" causes, one was a "justifiable homicide", and two were murders. Ten inquiries are taking place, he says. Fresh allegations of US brutality against Iraqis emerged on Wednesday. The UK's human rights envoy to Iraq, Ann Clwyd, said she has for months been pursuing the case of a 73-year-old woman who claims she was taken to a prison, hooded, made to go on all fours, told she was a donkey and was then "ridden" by her tormenters. Deepening scandal The abuse scandal has deepened with the revelation that a report into mistreatment at Abu Ghraib was commissioned in January and completed in early March, but had still not been read by Mr Rumsfeld as of Tuesday. The report by Maj Gen Antonio Taguba found evidence of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses of Iraqi prisoners", including sexual abuse. Members of the US Senate Armed Services Committee have demanded to know why they were kept in the dark about the report, and have called for an opportunity to question Mr Rumsfeld. The BBC's Nick Childs in Washington says there's no hiding the dismay in the Bush administration and the Pentagon over the political fallout from this controversy. He adds that it is puzzling why, when it knew some weeks ago that these photographs were going to be published, that it didn't do more to try to pre-empt the furore.
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