United States condemn Hamas in the Israeli air attack in Gaza that resulted in the hundreds of Palestinians killed and injured.
"Hamas rocket attacks that berterusan must be stopped. Hamas must stop the activity terorisnya so that the future of Palestinian citizens guaranteed," said Gordon Johndroe, the National jurubicara security agency (NSA) in statemennya.
"All associated with Hamas will be the target. You can interpret it to you," said Israeli military spokenman as quoted by Reuters.
Israel Defense forces said the operation would "continue to be, expanded, and more diintensifkan as necessary."
A series of Israeli air attacks strike Gaza on Saturday, causing at least 155 Palestinian citizens killed and 200 more injured.
Hamas directly to counterattack with rocket fire with the result of a citizen of Israel killed and four other injured.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
United States Be at Fault Hamas Attacks in Israel
Hamas: We Won't Give Up!
Victims of Palestinian attacks Israel to be growing 208 people. However, Hamas is a target attack Israel will not surrender even a neck.
"We will not leave our land. We will not wave the white flag and will not kneel except to God," said Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh of dilansir such as Reuters, Sunday (28/12/2008). Haniyeh also stressed that Hamas will never give up and suggests that Israel will attack useless without results.
"There is blood everywhere, many are injured and become martyrs in every house and every street. Gaza today decorated blood. Martir that can grow and be more hurt. But Gaza will never destroyed and will never surrender , "Haniyeh firm.
Israel launch attack on Saturday 27 December 2008 yesterday, the target group Hamas police. When it happens, Hamas are the inauguration Taruna police have passed.
Victims increases
Meanwhile, official data issued Palestinya claim victim died attack Israel reached 208 people, and injured victims reached 700 people.
Meanwhile, on the part of Israel, 1 person was killed and several other injured due to reply Hamas rocket attacks.
UN, OKI, and The Arab League Can Only Criticize Israel attacks
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon demanded cessation of violence followed the attack on the Gaza-Israel air Zionis to topple the Gaza Strip more than 200 Palestinian residents.
As reported AFP News Office, Office Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, in statemennya states, Ban berlanjutnya fears of violence in Gaza and bloodshed in the region that occurred yesterday Saturday.
In the statement mentioned that the Secretary General of the United Nations demanding cessation of violence and diperbolehkannya truck-truck carrying humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza area.
Also reported, Chairman of the Foreign Policy and Security EU states kekhawatirannya top condition lately in Gaza following a large-scale attack Israel to the region. Spokesman it stressed that the EU demanded an immediate cease-fire.
Secretary General of Islamic Conference Organization (OKI), Ekmaleddin Ehsan-Oghlu and Secretary General of Arab League, Amr Mousa, explicitly criticize Israel Zionis brutal action against the people of the Gaza Strip mengugurkan more than 200 residents in the region.
Oghlu soon ask the council of the Executive Committee of the OKI ministerial level to discuss brutalitas Zionis Israel of late. The same is also emphasized by Amr Mousa. Arab League Secretary General digelarnya ask for an emergency session to discuss the conditions of late in Gaza.
Meanwhile, from the Arab world, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who first launch brutal attacks on the chin Zionis Israel to the Gaza Strip. He called the Arab world to take firm stance against Israel, and urged that the border-opened the border in Gaza.
At the same time, helicopter-helicopter Israel still hover over Gaza after the slaughter of more than 200 people of Gaza. Gaza's estimated number of people who fall will be a martyr because there are still hundreds of people who are injured and light weight.
However, Israel says the military will conduct military operations to Gaza and the possibility that the attack will be greater than the attacks yesterday. Israel targets serangannya to the north and south Gaza, especially the city of Khan Younis and Rafah who claimed to be the main basis for Hamas.
The BBC reported, hospitals in Gaza are full of the victims. While hospitals that do not have a lot of supply of drugs due to blockade Gaza Strip to Israel. Meanwhile, mosques in Gaza through loudspeakers on residents of the Gaza mendonorkan for blood to help victims of injuries.
Gaza is the grief of mourning for the Islamic world. Towards the Islamic new year, our brothers dizalimi by Zionis illegal regime of Israel. Ideally we offer prayers for people of Gaza and ponder how far back we remember the suffering of our brethren in faith Gaza Strip.
Israel Jets Also Strike Gaza Tunnel
Israeli jets also strike tunnel-lane tunnel in Gaza frequently used to smuggle goods including Palestinian population needs food.
Blitz conducted on Sunday (28/12) afternoon in the second operation conducted after the previous zionis Israel killed about 292 people and harm the Palestinians, more than 600 others.
The tunnel in the Southern Gaza connected with Egypt is the only way for the Palestinian people to survive for about 18 months in a blockade of Israel.
Avital Leibovitch, jurubicara Israel army said, "Air Force we just attack more than 40 tunnels in Gaza."
"We believe the tunnel is used to smuggle weapons, explosives, and the people," he added.
Ayman Mohyeldin, Al-Jazeera reporter in Rafah reported a martyr and the other 42 injured in attacks against Israel in the tunnel-tunnel Gaza.
"Israel has announced it will resume attacks on Gaza," he said.
Pain frustrating start to grow in the hearts of Palestinians residing in Rafah, the Palestinian fighter-combatants are excited to struggle and now the army of Egypt to provide support, they combine with the self-combatant Palestinian combatants.
On Sunday afternoon, Israel attacked the Gaza East region, precisely in the city of Khan Yunis and Gaza in the city of North Jabaliya.
Police post and factories participate destroyed buildings in addition to the mosque. The attack is also directed to the TV station al-aqsa in the evening.
Reuters reporters said a missile strike office Ismail Haniya, Hamas leader, but he is not in place during the incident.
Ehud Barak, Defense Minister of Israel said the air attacks will be followed by a raid on the mainland.
"We are ready with everything. If needed, the ground forces we were ready to defend the people of our country, "said jurubicara Ehud Barak.
Israel Television reported, hundreds of troops ashore with a layer of steel has been a vehicle preparing the border area.
Mustafa Barghouti, a member of Palestinian Legislative Council of the government of Israel reject the claim that the air attacks that they do is a form of self-defense.
"This is the most bloody attack since 1967," he said as spread al-Jazeera. "This is attack to Gaza residents."
20 Killed and 50 Injured in Operation Istisyhad in Khost
Istisyhad an operation carried out by an Islamic Mujahid Imarah Afghanistan successfully killed 20 American soldiers and Afghan terrorists and injure 50 others, Sunday morning (28/12/2008).
The attack occurred about 10:30 am local time.
A Mujahid intrepid Imarah Islamic Afghanistan, Qari Hamidullah demolish a vehicle load 1500 kg of explosive materials to the Afghan puppet government building in Ismail Khil district, province of Khost.
In at least 20 attacks in the United States and terrorist army soldier dolls killed and more than 50 soldiers wounded. It also destroyed the building.
A day earlier, istisyhad attacks also occurred in Baghpol district, Kandahar province. 7 killed in attack of terrorists in Canada and 9 puppet army.
We pray to God I hope that our brother is received at his side with the martyr in 'Illiyin (a high level in jannah). Puja and praised all the property of Allah only.
Israel Continue Attack on Gaza, Victims Civil growing
Israel brutal terrorist still attacks occurred until hours of Sunday at various locations in the Gaza Strip since the number of victims of brutal terrorist attacks of Israel on Saturday reached 303 martyrs and 1000 injured, 180 in serious condition.
Israel Air Force attacked a metal workshop and a house in the al-Zaytun area in Gaza City, which killed a man and a woman.
An in-Nuseirat, Israel terrorist bomb that killed a vehicle two Palestinian residents, medical sources said. They also attacked the Gaza border at Rafah and Egypt.
An Islamic University student dormitory and daughter in Gaza also no escape from the terrorist target bombardment of Israel.
Director of the Palestinian emergency, Muawiyah Husnain said, currently there are about 15 that killed the martyr unknown identity.
Meanwhile, there are about 80 other martyrs who have dievakuasi to a number of hospitals in Gaza and dozens of others are still buried under the ruins of buildings which collapsed due to Israeli air attacks.
Husnain reveal, the most worrying thing is menipisnya backup drugs and equipment and lack of emergency equipment for surgery.
He urges Arab countries and the international association for the doctor to send medicines to the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.
The majority of victims are generally very worrying. They may not be transferred to outside Gaza, but if conditions have improved start. Tim Emergensi also ask to be sent helicopter handling of victims more quickly.
Mujahidin Palestinian Rocket Kill Israel Soldiers
Israel terrorist a soldier killed and five other injured when a rocket was launched Mujahidin Palestinian land near the border, on Monday 29 December 2008.
Israel says the military terrorist, an Israeli soldier died yesterday due to rocket attacks. He was the first soldier who died in this conflict. Five other injured, one in serious condition, according to military statements.
Previously, early Monday killed a citizen of Israel and several other injured in the exact environment in the Nahal Oz border with northern Gaza Strip due to rocket attacks launched Mujahidin Palestine.
Rocket attack also killed a construction worker in the city of Ashkelon Israel and harm the other eight.
Altogether, five people died due to attack Israel from Gaza rocket attack since Gaza on Saturday ago. The amount is still very small compared to thousands of Palestinian Muslims and injured a martyr.
Regarding Those Who Say The Mujahideen Turn Away From The ‘Ulema
The Commander, the Fighting Scholar, the Adviser, the one whom Allah chose for an escape from America’s toughest prison, Abu Yahya al-Libi, حفظه الله, said:
“I am sure that you know that the most difficult of affairs faced by the Mujahidun is in the arenas of Jihad, is the lack of - if not total absence - of truthful scholars who practice what they preach, those who were supposed to stand side by side with their sons. So that they can drink from their fountain, taking from their knowledge, learning from their manners, taking advice from their guidance and following the guidelines of their verdicts.
The Mujahidun, by the grace of Allah, without a doubt trust in your likes. Those who stand firm upon the truth in face of opposition, they love you and respect you. You may not know what they feel in their hearts, when they are told of your supportive words and advices.
How would it be if you were with them, in each others sight, listening to your advice without intermediaries ?
By Allah, O noble Shaykh, the arenas of Jihad with your sons and your loved ones. You will find the utmost respect, that which you have seen nor heard of.
By Allah! And I reiterate, by Allah!
You will find that your knowledge and foresight, on top of what Allah has already given you will be multiplied greatly. Our noble Shaykh, may Allah increase you in your virtue and raise your station in both worlds. Indeed the arenas of Jihad are filled with new unheard of issues. Most of which require a speedy response, not able to be postponed.
The Mujahidun are in much need of good scholars of your likes, to refer to in these manners. And you are the ones able in this, and we think there is much good in you.
If not, then at least we must be able to seek your counsel, refer to you, seek your opinions and verdicts in the issues we face.”
["A Message to a Scholar," As-Sahab Media]
Scores Dead in Zionist Raid on Gaza
At least 200 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli aerial bombardment on Hamas security installations. Israel launched air attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday, threatening that further operations would be carried out.
Emergency services said that at least 300 people had been wounded. Witnesses reported heavy damage as at least 30 missiles were fired. Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, said that the operation would not be short.
"The operation will go on and be intensified as long as necessary," he said on Saturday. An Israeli military spokesman added that any "Hamas target is a target".
As dusk fell, Israel continued to bomb the strip, firing on a metal foundry in the south.
Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, condemned the attack and demanded an immediate cessation.
Hours after the Israeli assault, Gaza fighters fired home-made rockets into southern Israel, heeding calls by Hamas and other affiliated Palestinian groups to avenge the attacks, unprecedented in their scale.
One Israeli was killed in the rocket fire, medics said.
Taher al-Noono, a Hamas spokesman, described Israel's operation as a "massacre", adding: "However, our resolve cannot be dented and cannot be shaken. We will continue our struggle with absolute strength and steadfastness."
Islam Shahwan, a Hamas police spokesman, said a police graduation ceremony in Gaza City was struck by Israel. Among those killed was Tawfiq Jabber, the Gaza chief of police.
The Hamas-run interior ministry said all security compounds in the Strip had been destroyed.
Gaza is densely populated. Its 1.5 million residents area already experiencing shortages in medicine, power and basic supplies due to 18 months of an Israeli blockade.
Israel in ‘all-out war’ with Hamas
Israel's military is in an "all-out war" with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Ehud Barak, the defence minister, says. Palestinian medical sources say at least 345 Gazans have been killed and another 1,450 wounded in three consecutive days of Israeli bombardment in the heavily-populated territory.
"We have nothing against Gaza residents, but we are engaged in an all-out war against Hamas and its proxies," Barak said on Monday. There were also growing fears that a ground offensive was being planned after Israel declared a "closed military zone" around the Gaza Strip. Israel says the creation of a buffer zone along the border will help protect it from rocket attacks.
Civilians, including journalists, could be banned from an area between 2km and 4km deep under the policy. On previous occasions, such a move has sometimes been followed by military operations.
"This operation will expand and deepen as much as needed," Barak said. "We went to war to deal a heavy blow to Hamas, to change the situation in the south."
Trapped Palestinians
Tanks and troops have been massed in the area since the attacks, referred to by the Israeli military as Operation Cast Lead, was launched on Saturday.
Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza City, said that there was little the residents of Gaza could do to prepare for any possible ground assault.
"In a city that is so densely-populated, a ground offensive would mean urban warfare, street-to-street fighting ... leaving many Palestinians in the crossfire," he said.
"Unlike other conflict zones where there is the possibility to flee the war zone, Gaza itself has become the war zone. There is nowhere for the population to go, they are in the middle of all these attacks."
Israel said it began pounding the Gaza Strip with missiles fired from warplanes and helicopter gunships in order to halt the rocket and mortar attacks by Palestinian fighters.
"Military officials said yesterday that this operation will go on until Hamas stops firing missiles into southern Israel," Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel Hamid, reporting from southern Israel, said.
"They are also very much aware that they wouldn't really be able to stop that, but at least they will try to degrade the capability of Hamas."
Israeli justification
Scores of rockets have hit southern Israel since the offensive got under way.
On Monday, an Israeli Arab was killed and eight others wounded when one of the missiles hit a construction site in the city of Ashkelon.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, said the Israeli offensive was aimed at Hamas and not the Palestinian people.
"We tried to avoid this. You know that Israel accepted the truce that was initiated by the Egyptians in order to create peace and quiet. We adopted the truce. What we got in return? We got in return daily attacks, we got in return smuggling of weapons to Gaza Strip with long-range [capabilities]," she said.
Livni also appealed to Palestinian civilians to leave for safer places within the Gaza Strip and advised them against staying in places close to Hamas infrastructure.
Support for Israel came from the US, with the White House saying Hamas must halt cross-border rocket fire.
"In order for the violence to stop, Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel and agree to respect a sustainable and durable ceasefire," Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman said.
Egyptian gesture
On Monday, Egyptian authorities allowed ambulances carrying several wounded Palestinians to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing for medical treatment. Hospitals in Gaza have been overwhelmed by casualties since Israel started its aerial blitz on the territory.
Egypt also allowed lorries loaded with humanitarian aid to enter its border crossing with the Gaza Strip. Lorries with food and medical supplies have been lining up outside the Egypt-Gaza border since early morning.
The UN relief and works agency said on Monday that at least 51 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, were confirmed to be among those killed in the Gaza Strip. An UNRWA spokesman said the figure, which was based on visits to hospitals and medical centres was "conservative" and "certainly rising".
Four young girls from the same family in the northern town of Jabaliya and two young boy from Rafah were among those killed in the latest raids, Palestinian medics said.
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros said the situation at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City was chaotic as the territory's health system struggled to cope with the more than 1,400 people injured.
"Hundreds of people are just waiting outside ... the problem is that there simply aren't enough beds to cope with the number of injured," she said.
"Medical sources here are telling us they are running out of everything, from gauzes to saline solutions, and critically now they are running out of almost every type of blood."
a six-month truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip ended on December 19.
Friday, December 19, 2008
The U.S. Health Care Crisis
New statistics are in on the quality of health care in the United States, and the news is bad.
A 2008 report on international health care rankings by the World Health Organization (WHO) demonstrates that inadequate health care is a major American problem. We Americans pride ourselves on having the best health care system in the world. In fact, we have only the most expensive system.
According to researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical School, the United States spends 44 percent more per capita than Switzerland, which has the second most expensive system. We spend 134 percent more per capita than the median for industrialized states in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Yet the high price of US medical care has not bought us the best system – not by a long shot. According to the WHO report, the United Sates ranks 27th internationally in healthy life expectancy at birth and 39th in infant mortality.
Deficient health care is a national problem that requires a national solution, especially given the current fiscal constraints on the states. Although Obama did not commit to such a plan during the presidential campaign, the only real solution is universal health care coverage for all Americans through a single-payer system.
Even though it achieves universal coverage, such a plan lowers overall costs by vastly reducing administrative expenses and increasing prevention and other efficient forms of medical care. It would slash the cost of prescription drugs by mustering the full buying power of the federal government across the entire market. It would preserve the choice of medical practitioners who would be reimbursed on a fee for service basis. It would create equity across the states, diminishing the vast disparities in health care that now exist.
A single-payer system would do far more for American industry than any bailout plan by the federal government. A single-payer system would make American business much more competitive by relieving it of the enormous costs of insuring workers and retirees, costs that are not borne by our competitors abroad.
According to a report by the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences, ‘‘Between the health care that we now have and the health care that we could have lies not just a gap, but a chasm.” We cannot cross this chasm by tinkering with the present system. The Obama administration can best fulfill its promise of bringing real change to America by fundamentally reforming our terribly flawed health care system.
Liberal Media Bias (The Worst of the Week)
Certainly delivering a unique take on the Blagojevich case, in a NBC Nightly News story on why Illinois politics are so corrupt, NBC reporter Lee Cowan characterized the Governor of Illinois as a politician who “fell victim” to Chicago’s political machine. Apparently, corruption was just irresistible. Cowan contended: “The Windy City is a political stew of characters, a cast of players that even Hollywood would envy. Governor Rod Blagojevich is just the latest squeaky wheel in Chicago’s political machine. Although he promised to be different, he fell victim, prosecutors allege, to history.”
Presumably, Cowan didn’t intend to assign his own characterization — “victim” — to prosecutors, and just meant that prosecutors allege Blagojevich has taken the same path as too many of his predecessors. Cowan followed with a soundbite from a local reporter, who explained: “If there isn’t a deal behind the scenes, it almost makes life not worthwhile.”
Angst on PBS Over Too-Long Wait for Obama’s Inauguration
In the midst of a discussion about President-elect Barack Obama’s national security team, Washington Week host Gwen Ifill program sought confirmation for her theory that “what people are beginning to say is that this President-elect should be President now” as “people are saying why isn’t Barack Obama leading the fight about the auto-makers?” New York Times reporter Peter Baker agreed: “That’s right, exactly.” He proceeded to fret over how “people voted for change and this strange, odd 77-day waiting period that we impose…between our election and our inauguration” just isn’t compatible with the “hyperactive 24/7 fast-moving culture that we have today.” Baker admired how “Obama is trying to find some balance between respecting President Bush,” whom Baker conceded is “still in charge,” and “finding a way to assert leadership.”
Dan Rather: Biggest Crisis Since Pearl Harbor, So Inaugurate Sooner
Appearing on Morning Joe on MSNBC, former CBS anchor Dan Rather chided President Bush for not doing enough during his lame duck period and argued for moving Inauguration Day up in the future to December 1. And although Rather didn’t explain specifically what Bush wasn’t doing enough about (The financial crisis? The terrorist incident in India?), he did hyperbolically fret: “But, we’re in possibly, possibly the biggest crisis we’ve been in since December 7, 1941 and maybe since the time of the Civil War.” Addressing the past practice of inaugurating presidents in March, Rather lobbied: “Thank heaven, we now swear them in, new Presidents, in January. I’d be in favor of moving it up to December 1st.”
ABC on Caroline Kennedy in the Senate: ‘Exciting,’ ‘Tantalizing’
On Good Morning America, various hosts and reporters gushed over the “exciting,” “tantalizing” prospect that Caroline Kennedy could replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, should the former First Lady be confirmed as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State. ABC News political director David Chalian enthused that “on top of the new Obama administration that she was a huge proponent and supporter of, it [the appointment] would just rise to this moment of, sort of, a return to that age of Camelot.” Weekend GMA co-host Bill Weir began the segment by wondering: “And who could upstage a Clinton but a Kennedy?” Later, fellow co-host Kate Snow cooed: “So, tantalizing. Kennedys and Obamas and Clintons, all the talk.” Clearly agreeing, Weir enthused: “Exciting to talk about.”
The Physiology of Music, Part 3: Rhythm, Movement, and Physical Therapy
Music moves us emotionally, but it also moves us physically. Though the sensory-motor pathways that relay musical information from nerves in the inner ear to motor areas in the brain and motor neurons in muscles are not entirely clear, the pursuit of their discovery has cast light on several interesting aspects of human sensory perception.
The sensory elements of music that have been associated with motor movement include beat, tempo, and rhythm.While our auditory interpretation of these elements involves multiple regions of the brain, there exist three regions that are specifically involved in the perception of rhythm and beat. These three regions include the supplementary motor area, which is located in the cerebral cortex, the basal ganglia, which lie deep within the cerebral hemispheres, and the cerebellum, which is located behind the brainstem and below the occipital lobes at the back of the brain.
The cerebellum plays a particularly interesting role in influencing motor responses to external beat and rhythm cues, which often are used for the entrainment of motor responses to rhythmic patterns, in which an external rhythm stimulus is used to learn movements. For example, in musical rhythm entrainment in dancers, information about beat is relayed by neurons that extend through the brainstem and into the anterior region of the cerebellum.
It is likely that a similar neuronal pathway involving the cerebellum is established in a form of movement rehabilitation known as rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS), which is a type of physical therapy used in patients affected by Parkinson disease, stroke, and other movement disorders. In RAS, beat and rhythm serve as external stimuli, and these stimuli are used to establish a “priming pathway” of auditory signaling that cues movement.
RAS acts via the reticulospinal pathway, a nerve tract that descends from the reticular formation in the brainstem to structures in the spinal cord. This pathway plays a central role in maintaining muscle tone and in controlling voluntary movements. While some RAS patients may use a metronome to provide a clear beat, many patients choose music with a pronounced rhythm and beat that matches their initial frequency of movement. As mobility improves, tempo is increased, enabling the frequency of movements to become reestablished to levels that are closer to normal.
Today, there remain countless questions about the affects of music on the human brain and body. Researchers are on the brink of discoveries that will tell us more not only about the benefits of music in therapeutic terms but also about the intricacies of human sensory perception. And as more studies are conducted, music-based therapies such as RAS are sure to gain recognition as valuable adjuncts to traditional medicine.
‘Helicopter Ben’ to the Rescue? (The U.S. Federal Reserve Runs Scared)
There was much brave talk Tuesday when the Federal Reserve effectively cut interest rates to zero. One radio reporter said the central bank saw this as “an opportunity” to take proactive steps against the recession. Wall Street rallied. Yet the reality is that the Fed is very afraid.
Despite the hurried $700 billion bailout passed by Congress and as much as $2 trillion in largely secretive “facilities” the Fed has made available to lending institutions and who know what else, the economy is in free fall.
Credit markets remain seized up. More than 1.9 million jobs have been lost this year, punctuated by November’s sudden acceleration of 533,000. These numbers significantly undercount the real situation, leaving out those who have given up looking for work — say, in the bleeding banking sector — or the underemployed.
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‘Helicopter Ben’ to the Rescue? (The U.S. Federal Reserve Runs Scared)
Jon Talton - December 18th, 2008
Federal Reserve Bank, Washington, DC; Philip Beaurline/SuperStockThere was much brave talk Tuesday when the Federal Reserve effectively cut interest rates to zero. One radio reporter said the central bank saw this as “an opportunity” to take proactive steps against the recession. Wall Street rallied. Yet the reality is that the Fed is very afraid.
Despite the hurried $700 billion bailout passed by Congress and as much as $2 trillion in largely secretive “facilities” the Fed has made available to lending institutions and who know what else, the economy is in free fall.
Credit markets remain seized up. More than 1.9 million jobs have been lost this year, punctuated by November’s sudden acceleration of 533,000. These numbers significantly undercount the real situation, leaving out those who have given up looking for work — say, in the bleeding banking sector — or the underemployed.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who is one of the leading scholars of Fed policy during the Great Depression, is most fearful of deflation, which is now a serious danger. Deflation was one of the defining reasons why the Depression was so deep and prolonged. Back then, the smartest monetary policy makers believed the budget must be balanced and interest rates increased.
Ooops.
Although Bernanke is determined not to repeat that mistake, it’s unclear how much he can do to avoid the reckoning that I call the Great Disruption. Many of today’s best and brightest are similarly befuddled by today’s unique challenges.
Fed limited.
The Fed is limited in its ability to levitate an economy that has collapsed. To quote Alan Greenspan from a mild recession in 1991, “You can’t push a string.” In extremis, the central bank can, as Bernanke memorably said, drop shrink-wrapped pallets of dollars out of helicopters. In other words, inflate the currency. Bernanke apparently believes he can get away with it. Inflation has been tame lately. Unfortunately that is almost entirely a function of falling energy prices, itself an ominous signal of anticipated demand destruction by severe recession — and traders desperately unwinding their futures contracts to get liquidity. Also, the recent inflation numbers are backward-looking. The vast expansion of the money supply may be baking a severe inflation in the cake. This possibility could also unnerve the foreign lenders upon which the United States now depends.
Yet even zero interest rates may not resusitate the economy. Japan’s central bank took similar steps after the Japanese real-estate bubble burst in the late 1980s, and the country still endured a recession that lasted more than a decade. Nor can the Fed create value from “toxic assets” that are in fact derivatives composed of nothing tangible. In many cases they are mere swindles, little more brazen than the $50 billion Ponzi scheme alleged to have been cooked up by Bernard Madoff, one of the lions of Wall Street.
Finally, one must approach the Fed’s action with skepticism because of the way the central bank and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson have managed the crisis so far. After denying the gravity of the problem for months, the two panicked lawmakers into passing a “rescue” that independent auditors agree lacks direction or proper oversight. Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual were allowed to fail, while Paulson’s alma mater Goldman Sachs was propped up and AIG was notoriously thrown taxpayer money. And all, so far, to little effect except for continues big compensation for the big cheeses.
The immediate rally from the rate-cut may well be just a pump-and-dump on a grand scale, as the big traders try to make a day or two’s gain from one of the stock market’s two drivers, greed. The other, fear, will kick in soon enough. Consider how many wealthy individuals and institutions are willing to get zero gain in exchange for the security of Treasury notes.
The problems behind the current unpleasantness were years in the making. Among them:
* deregulation;
* a hollowed out manufacturing economy replaced by one based on fraud and house-building;
* stagnant wages for most Americans;
* over-consolidation of industries;
* Fed-generated market bubbles;
* and income inequality not seen since the eve of the last depression.
The larger issues of the Great Disruption, particularly peak oil and climate change, have yet to be addressed.
As long as policy-makers keep trying to save that which is unsustainable we won’t even have begun the long path to recovery.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Bush Throwing Shoes Avalaible in Game On Line
Incidents of stoning of shoes made a television waratawan Iraq to the United States President George W Bush, to invite the attention of many. Even online games will be made directly.
Game called Bush's Boot Camp is produced by T-Enterprise is a software company based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Players must throw shoes in the direction of the president before the bodyguard (Secret agens).
"If you see a video projection of shoes, the officers from the Secret Service did not protect the president until both shoes thrown," said Sadi Christi, managing director, T-Enterprise quoted as Telegraph.uk, Tuesday (16/12/2008).
"We hope this game as the exercise by the presidential bodyguard to anticipating attacks throwing shoes," he added.
Players use the mouse to shoot in the direction of the attacker. President Bush will diminish if the soul shot about shoes or weapons. Players are considered losers, if the indicator shows the lives of Presidents Bush zero.
T-Enterprise is a producer who often make the game background events. Previous T-Enterprise has the game to make the airport a "Terminal 5". It tells about the opening of Heathrow airport and the UK April. In addition, in March, T-Enterprise also released the game about the wife of Sir Paul McCartney. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin had also been made gamenya.
Dell Notebooks With Resilience Military Standard
Vendors from USA Dell started with stifling competition in the notebook market. This time Dell offers a portfolio of five notebook, ranging from light to the range for companies with the performance standards of resilience military.
Dell claimed notebooknya antidebu, antigores, antigetaran, antikelembapan, resistant to fire.
"Middlebury products Dell Latitude E-series Family are based on research since 1995. We want to create a user from either side of notebook innovation, productivity, portabilitas, as well as design," said Director and Country Manager of Dell India Megawaty Khie the launch of the latest range of Dell Notebooks some time ago.
Latitude E-System Family has been to bring innovation, both in the resilience of the battery, the design and color choices are more lifestyle. Target markets are set aside for professionals and executives with high mobility maupn consumer business (corporation).
The first is a series of ultra portable, which allows latitude E4200. Notebook is claimed as the most lightweight, ie, as 0,997 kilograms. Berpenampang 12.1 inches, this series is the first Dell notebook that offers a motherboard with a layer of plastic casing and cooling system that halogen-free particles. Similarly, a series of E43000, which has 13.3-inch screen size and weight of 1.54 kilograms. This series is designed specifically for young executives with high mobility. Ultraportabel notebook models also supplies packaging that 99 percent of bobotnya can be recycled.
The second is a series that presents mainstream Latitude E6400 and E6500. This model offers a screen size of 14.1 inches and 15.4 inches. Special to Latitude E6500 series targeted as a desktop replacement. Interestingly, E6400 series have been equipped with 9 cell battery and can be added with an external battery cells 12. Total series is capable of running with the usual computing for 19 hours. Eksternalnya batteries can also be used with just menempelkannya at the bottom notebook.
Promote the theme of the third series, which offers Essential Latitude E5400 and E5500 with a screen size of 14 to 15 inches. Because the features are still standard ditawarkannya with disegmennya computing device, the device Dell dibandrol this series with an affordable price.
Latitude next semi-rugged experience that focuses on the latitude E6400 ATG. This series has a notebook-sized 14.1-inch display and has been through the stage and meets military standards for resilience against dust, scratches, vibration, humidity and fire. All ports closed with a rubber material so that they can avoid or water dusting the entrance. Layarnya has been adopted because the current touch screen. Middlebury keyboardnya be light in the dark because there is a special panel to detect light.
Series is the last of a series based desc mengunggulkan Dell Precision Dell Precision M4400 and M2400. Notebooks are intended for industrial customers in engineering, media, entertainment and Bioscience to bring this 15.4-inch screen and supported 8Gb of RAM, only for the M4400 series.
"All products have been equipped with Dell ProSupport Mobility Services, a package service that helps companies protect data and assets in notebooknya. Access is tailored to the company's security policies in a way which is transparent to users," said Client Business Development Manager for Asia, Johny Dermawan.
Anti-phone technology Now Driving
This is a tool to prevent stroke undisciplined drivers who entrust the lives of passengers to chat or chat on the phone while driving a car. Key2SafeDriving name.
Wujudnya resembles a key holder, which is provided to lock the car. It will automatically start working when the car key is planted.
When the driver started the car run, the key is to use Bluetooth technology to communicate with mobile phone drivers. It sends the signal to a mobile phone drivers, and to prevent use by drivers.
When the driver opened the phone for use, the screen on the mobile phone that will arise warning message "Please do not talk while driving." All the use of mobile phones will be blocked for a light car engine.
However, for this technology, the service provider should be involved so that mobile phone users can not outsmart technology with the way off the Bluetooth in ponselnya manually.
In addition, each phone call or a text message to the mobile phone drivers will be dibalas automatically reply with the text (autoreply), which tells me that the drivers are not able to answer because it is driving the car.
However, this technology allows mobile phone to keep contact emergency numbers, such as home telephone number, or the number of police office. In addition, it can also be programmed to allow the use of mobile phone whenever operated through the handsfree device.
The guarantee that the technology is secure from the possibility diakali by the user. For example, when new users turn on the phone after the engine starts, the phone will be received.
Lock up the new block will be open when the car engine dimatika. Bluetooth technology used in the system can also be replaced by technology, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). Key2safedriving implement the findings of the patented by a scientist from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, the United States.
Curry is Wally, a doctor with the Medical Civil Engineering Professor Zhou Xuesong, who found this tool. Curry do this research was the high level of car accidents on the roads, due to carelessness experienced by teenagers in the United States.
Call while berkendaraMenurut Curry, the number of teenage drivers is only about six percent of the population. However, accidents involving teenagers more than 10 percent of all car accidents in the U.S.. "My dream, this technology can prevent all drivers using mobile phones while driving," said
Currently, this technology is still in the stage of prototypes (prototype), and the possibility of new markets can be produced in about 6 months. Accendo company plans fix the price 50 USD (approximately Rp 550 thousand) perunit, and the monthly cost of subscribing to the service.
Dutch Experience Identity Crisis Due Liberalisme
Dutch windmill country, one of the country that embrace liberalism is now experiencing a crisis of identity after implementing policies that the residents themselves
"The nation is the ideal tested by the fact that they hadirkan," said Dick Houtman, a Sociology Professor at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Houtman noted that the policies that have been applied in a long time, issues such as prostitution and drug use, has become a hot debate.
"Affairs of the Netherlands to let all kinds of freedom-income countries exceeds the other liberal."
Over the centuries the Netherlands have adopted liberal policies that exempt individuals make a choice.
In the area near the North Sea, the ownership and use of the drug is allowed. Prostitution, aborsi, Sesame type of marriage, dilegalkan in the Netherlands.
Houtman said many people from the Netherlands questioned the way of life now that their liberal adaptation.
"There is a liberalism that says ringleader of the many problems experienced by the Netherlands at this time."
Assessments in 2007 by the Court in addressing the negative effects of liberal policies in the Netherlands made the second after the UK kriminalitasnya high level in Europe.
"The debate began to discuss the end of liberal policies," said Houtman.
The debate is now occurring in the Netherlands to encourage the country to make changes to the form.
In Amsterdam, city council members plan to close the windows of prostitution and coffee stalls which made prostitution arena.
In all cities, council members have been conducting operations closing shops that sell mariyuana and houses of prostitution.
Islamic State of ‘Iraq "Knights of Martyrdom Part 5"
This is one of al-Furqan’s best releases yet. It shows three Mujahideen who carried out martyrdom operations for the sake of Allah ‘Azza wa Jall:
* Abu Usaamah al-Madanee, may Allah have mercy upon him
* Abu ‘Umar al-Najdee, may Allah have mercy upon him
* Abul ‘Abbaas al-Makki, may Allah have mercy upon him
You may have noticed, they are all from the blessed land of Jazeeratul Muhammad, sallallahu ‘alayhi wassallam. I won’t spoil the release by talking about it, so go ahead and download it and enjoy it. The ending though… I’ve never seen an ending as powerful as the one in this compared to any Jihadi release. Looking at the excitement of the people when the Murtadeen and Kuffaar are killed is always a tearful sight.
To download click http://anti-imperialist.info/vb/showthread.php?p=13104#post13104
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Civilians Return Becomes Victim Battle in Somalia
At least 6 civilians killed and dozens others injured in Mogadishu in the battle between Ethiopian soldiers supporting the government while the fighter-fighter Somalia. This happens because the army of Ethiopia does not discriminate in the conduct of view of the attacks serangannya.
Battle occurred on Thursday (11/12), one day after Syeikh Sharif Ahmed, leader of Union of Islamic Court (UIC), an opposition group in Somalia, visited Somalia for the first time after two years.
Ahmed Mogadhisu to return to the peace negotiations between the government and the UIC, also to discuss ditariknya Ethiopian soldiers out of Somalia.
Under the treaty, has a 550 seat parliament with 200 seats belong to the group Ahmed and 75 seats belong to members of the community (civilians).
However, regardless Shabaab al-Mujahidin, which has control of Somalia South refused to approve the treaty.
Ahmed, along with the followers to leave Somalia in 2006 after a successful UIC ditaklukkan by the Somali government with the support of the War Forces of Ethiopia.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Mujahidin MILF Reply Attacks AFP in Lanao del Norte
Mujahidin MILF get from the army attack the Philippines (AFP) in the area of Barangay Pantaon, Munai, Lanao del Norte, on Wednesday (10/12) at 08.30 pm. Accident on the government stronghold Philippines can not be determined because it is dark. Are not MILF stronghold in the accident.
The next day (11/12), mujahidin reply to the attack in the same place. Five soldiers killed in battle field.
MILF sources said, they rejected the truce offered during the Christmas holidays.
AFP shall not at all respect the people who run Islamic religious month of Ramadan in the past. They continue to attack the middle of the Moro Muslim worship. The civil society has requested the government to stop attacks during Ramadan. But the request was rejected.
Now, the government's request truce during the Christmas holidays, where the justice they?
Mujahid MILF also said, every military action undertaken MILF, said to AFP that the MILF will not allow any actions that AFP without answer (reply).
The Tradition Muslim People of China In Celebrate Eid-ul-Adha
For the Muslim people of China, the feast of Eid ul-Adha celebrated four full days. Including various kinds of traditions and Islamic syiar.
In majority Muslim countries, the feast of Eid ul-Adha will be ended in line with the completion of the prayer procession en animal slaughter and sacrifice, or most long after the sun surupnya day en.
However, this is not the case for the Muslim country of China. They celebrate the feast of Eid ul-Adha for four full days. During the four-day, the Muslims of the dragon is checked every day with various kinds of traditions and Islamic syiar.
In Xinjiang region that the majority of the population comes from ethnic Uighur or East Turkistan and embrace Islam, Muslims appear to have checked the feast of Eid ul-Adha day before the fall of H. When feast day arrived, they perform prayers in en masse. The mosque, the mosque looks full, and even some of those who do not have to get a place of prayer in the streets.
Also found a similar situation in the region Ninjisha located in West China Sea and the majority of the population comes from the ethnic Hui embrace Islam.
After the prayer id, and some of their feasts, such as reading verses of Scripture, kasidah cover kasidah-religious and added, in addition to exchange food, parcel, and prizes. In addition, some of the market "later", also enliven the celebration, which was held for four days in succession.
A long tradition of heredity is not evil spirit into a feast so special for the Muslims of China. Feast of the opportunity to become silih bersilaturahim and tighten the strap of brotherhood among fellow Muslim China. So, in the feast of Eid ul-Adha, the Muslim people of pilgrimage and visit each other across one another. China Daily China Daily report, some Chinese Muslims even more willing to travel long distances to be beziarah to their relatives, and to celebrate the feast of Eid ul-Adha together.
Muslim organizations based in China's capital city howl also festivity related to the feast of Eid ul-Adha this. The celebration was attended by several state officials, also by the ambassador religion of non-Muslims.
Meanwhile, Muslims in the region Guang oss kur has a tradition of not less unique. They fast on the first day of `Arafah, the day before the fall of the feast of Eid ul-Adha. Feast of fasting in the day of `Arafah apparently has become a tradition for the Muslims take strong Guang oss kur.
Just after, people of Muslim Guang oss kur away menyaiapkan various kinds of food to perayan en next day.
Eid ul-Adha tradition in China, it appears more similar to the tradition of Idul Fitri in Indonesia. Feast of Eid ul-Adha feast was more than royally from the Idul Fitri. This phenomenon also occurs in some Middle East countries. In Egypt, for example, the feast of Eid ul-Adha seemed more vibrant on the feast of Idul Fitri.
In China, there are approximately 20 million Muslims. Most of them live in the area of Xingjiang, Ninjisha, Kanshu, Shanghai, Yunan, Shanshi, also in Inner Mongolia. Unfortunately, the Muslims who live in areas of the plateau-like interior Xinjiang, Yunan, and Mongolia have not yet fully the rights of the Chinese government.
In Short Time Israel Will Attack Gaza Strip In Large-Scale
Israel Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak stated, large-scale attacks to the Gaza Strip live wait time. Currently, the military of Israel is ready for standby time to receive the attack.
"We will conduct attacks on the place and time, with full consideration and responsibility," Barak said as cited by the newspaper Haaretz, during a meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni Laos. The three leaders discussed the situation Israel is the last in the Gaza Strip.
Barak asks all parties not to talk much, especially in the political situation heats in the Gaza Strip, it will not be much help to restore the situation and determine the right time to attack the Gaza Strip a success.
"I ask all parties to stop talking, it is better to wait," said Barak.
Laos Israel Tzipi Livni also said previously that Israel can not tolerate the power of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel will take action, including military operations to suppress Hamas.
On the other hand, Prime Minister of Hamas, Ismail Haniyah called the international community to stop crimes against humanity by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
He was the world of international censure so that only "spectators" of the suffering people of Gaza as a result of the blockade regime Zionis.
Mujahidin Start to Perforate Facebook
Facebook, a social networking site that started up the leaves, as a means for self-promotion and introduction of effective. This makes the mujahidin leer Facebook to be used as a propaganda arena of contention in the virtual world.
As we know, the virtual world is very effective for use as the spread of ideas. Not infrequently, Islamic nation become a delicious meal to disbelieve dijelek-jelekkan and dipojokkan in the virtual world. Very few also, the sites to counter the spread of the libel-slander.
Al-Faloja, a forum where the qualifications to do mujahid called Facebook for the invasion to victory and the triumph of Islam. Because Facebook is a social networking site that can reach millions of people.
Through Facebook, the mujahid can avert the attack disbelieve that the media always menyudutkan and Islamic Jihad.
"ArtistPromotionsLLC Through, we can reach millions of Muslims worldwide who are members of ArtistPromotionsLLC and at the same time interact with them," said Omar Abdul Hakim, a member of al-Faloja forum.
"We will make the publication of the photographs of the mujahid, and other articles of Islam," added Hakim.
Hopefully, the mujahidin who sincerely intend to get Ridho and victory from Allah Azza wa Jalla. Amien ...
The people of Somalia Want Freedom Celebrating Eid ul-Adha
Fa'eza Ali, a Somali population that hope can feel the freedom to celebrate Hari Raya TWO FEASTS.
"I pray to God to materialize," said Ali, a student aged 20 years, as This IOL.
Same with millions of other people of Somalia, Fa'eza get news of Ethiopia pullout troops retreat from his country will be done in the near future. He always expect them to immediately exit from the country.
"I am very happy if true Ethiopian troop will be interesting from our land," he continued.
Addis Ababa has been announced in the last month, that Ethiopia will be interesting comes from Somalia at the end of this year.
The middle of this warm in a discussion between people of Somalia.
Not far from the capital, Mahmoud Ramadan, who live in refugee camps outside Mogadishu, expect the same as Fa'eza.
Mahmoud, 22, says he will not be able to feel the joy of the army of Ethiopia out of Somalia.
Ethiopian invasion into Somalia to do in the years 2006 to subdue Union of Islamic Court (UIC) in Somalia, with control throughout the country and support the government made while the West.
Despite the pullout from Ethiopian soldiers, Eid ul-Adha this time felt the same as the Idul Adha two years ago.
"I remember, Idul Adha, which we skip the first time under the occupation of Ethiopia, feels like in hell," said Mahmoud.
He adds, they have to change in all aspects of life in the country of Somalia, do not give space to every iota of Hari Raya TWO FEASTS.
"All happiness has disappeared, only one existing in our mind, which is seeking shelter from the Ethiopian military attack without the perspective of fur and often mencelakai civilians," Mahmoud information.
Since 2006, every day there is always a battle between the army of Ethiopia with Somalia mujahidin.
Leaders of Fatah al-Islam Has Martyr
Leaders of the group Fatah al-Islam who fight in the Lebanese army last year, has martyr (Insya Allah) or arrested in Syria. Until now there has been no definite news about its existence.
Throughout the summer of 2007, the Lebanese Army to fight the group Fatah al-Islam, due to the al-Qaeda. They have camps in the Nahr al-Bared.
In a statement distributed in the virtual world, Shaker al-Abssi, known as Mr.Abssi, the leader of Fatah al-Islam moves to Syria, and try to rebuild the organization there. But they (Mr.Abssi and two followers) to get attacks from Syrian agents when trying to find the supporters. Mr. Abssi may have been martyrs (Insya Allah) in the shooting. wallahualam.
Last year Lebanese officials say Mr. Abssi has died in the hours during a combat last for 15 weeks with the Lebanese army. But DNA tests on the corpse identified himself as a proven negative.
Mr. Abssi was uninspiring in Jordan in 2002 because of a plan the murder of U.S. diplomat, Laurence Foley.
Torturing Democracy
This is a document that shows the crime PBS American Muslim martyr since the 911. This shows how the government under Bush, melegalkan torture and to ratify the Convention Genewa.
One important points that we should remember, God has shown us this fact from the United States that glamorize "democracy". This document is only to increase hatred and burn our spirit of resistance against the United States and belong to destroy democracy.
We hope to God to free all Muslim prisoners, and we also hope to God to punish and humiliate the United States and sekutunya.
All the people know that someone in the United States Government will pay this as soon as possible. The death penalty is the only option for these people.
To view documents, please visit http://torturingdemocracy.org/
U.S. missile Fight Back House of the Population of Pakistan
At least six people died as a result of the U.S. missile attack that is directed to a house in South Lebanon, the area of Waziristan, on Thursday (11/12).
Pakistani intelligence claim, that they killed a Taliban fighter.
However, the other a Pakistani intelligence said one of the killed soldier is a national of Pakistan.
The identity of the victims have not known exactly.
U.S. has been sending 30 misilnya to the Waziristan region, which they suspect a cover mujahidin and the Taliban, al-Qaeda, since August 2008.
Unfortunately, however, missile-missile they always eat the victims of civil, not a mujahid Taliban or al-Qaeda as they expected. Due to their attack without planning as well.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The mosque destruction Also Happen at Idul Adha at the Serbian-Bosnian
At the time when Muslims khusuk rejoice and celebrate the feast of Eid ul-Adha 1429 H, Bosnian Muslims had little terkejutkan by the attack and destruction of mosques in the Serbian-Bosnian region triggered by the issue of racism.
As quoted Islamonline (10/12) report, the destruction of mosques is occurring in the region in the Southeast Fazlagika Kola Bosnian Serb-inhabited by the ethnic Serb majority, and occurred some time before the implementation of the prayer day Eid ul-Adha feast.
Bosnian security sources cited by the Reuters news agency stated that "persons unknown sekolompok sudden rush just come and damage the mosque, several hours before dilaksakannya Id prayers."
"For the action, almost all the mosques in damage, except menaranya only," added the source.
Action was immediately reap criticism from the Bosnian Muslims. Agung mufti of Bosnia, Syeikh Musthafa Cerich, said if such action as a "terrorist action that is intended to Muslims who feared that the country continues to spread in Serbia."
Malaysia Waive Detention Related suspected Jamaah Islamiyah
The Government of Pakistan has been exempt 3 detainees suspected linked Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), including one suspected of participating in 911 events to help New York.
Syed Hamid Albar, Minister of Home Affairs of Malaysia, on Wednesday (10/12) announced the detention-related detention of suspected JI has been released from the Kamunting prison, two weeks ago.
One of them is Yazid Sufaat, who were arrested in December 2002.
"He was arrested as a threat to public security of Malaysia, because he is one of the members of JI, which seeks enforce the Islamic government in this country," said Hamid.
"I think after memenjarakannya long enough, he has the right to return to the community but at the same time, we will monitor the move in order not to spread the militant ideology or ekstrimisme," he continued.
Nalini Elumalai, a human rights activist from the group Suaram said, they combined with the requirement is waived can only stay in the country (Malaysia) and must report regularly to local police.
Security prison say they have been released because "rehabilitated".
No Holidays For Celebrate Eid ul-Adha in the U.S.
The day, Jamal Nasir busy shopping for the various needs of the Feast of Eid ul-Adha.
"I choose truant from pekerjaanku," said Nasir with a delighted tone.
"People-I was planning to visit the house. We will prepare the traditional meal to welcome them, "he continued.
However, not all people lucky like Nasir.
Because the majority of Muslims in the United States Eid ul-Adha, one of two Day of the Muslim-owned, such as day-to-day every other year because they can not ask for leave work or school.
Usually, after praying Sunnah, such as the feast days of other people of Islam in the United States each visit one another. Wear clothes that are owned and best children waiting to look forward to the prize given by the relative family.
Hari Raya but this time only passed without something special, because they still have to go to school or work.
"How may we celebrate the day without our children?" Said Shumaila, a mother of two children still attending school.
Shumaila worry, children will not feel special day Eid ul-Adha each year.
"Child-anaku asked why all the i-get holiday on Christmas day Eid ul-Adha, but I can not holiday," said Shumaila.
"Kupikir, the Government should provide at least a two-day holiday for students and workers to be able to celebrate the Feast of us," please Shumaila.
Unity Parents of students, workers from the group Unsurprisingly, the Muslim minority, has recently tried to ask the government to provide holiday Feast of the two Islamic community property.
Some cities in New Jersey have done so. But the Education Ministry rejected their request.
The absence of public holidays to make parents do the two options, not to accompany their children to school (truant) or delay perayaannya in the final days of holiday pecan.
"We usually make a barbeque party on the outskirts of the river on weekends to celebrate Eid ul-Adha that have been through," said Ikram Ali.
According to Ali and his wife like the way it is disyukuri than they did not celebrate at all.
"We invite some relatives, and made the day of fun for our children," he continued.
In the United States, there are seven million people of Islam.
For most Muslims in the United States, the day Eid ul-Adha they felt only in a few hours. They gathered in the workplace, conducting prayer and pray. After the return to work as usual.
"One perayaanku for Eid ul-Adha is gathered with other Muslims in Washington DC, conducting prayer and pray together," said Rahimullah, one of the employees in the construction company.
"I met him and manajerku given one hour, after which it must return to work,"
Mujahidin Ghalghaycho (They) Clarify the Target of Attacks
Mujahidin from the region Ghalghayco issued a statement to clarify the target of their attacks. "Control by the Force Commander War Region Ghalghaycho emirate Kaukakus" published on the website hunafa.com.
"There was a lot Incident frighten the population by groups who Mujahidin Ghalghayco recently. Mujahidin have spread leaflets that they stop their activity or to bring them in line with Islamic Sharia. "
We are in a difficult position when joined with the Islamic emirate Kaukakus, adjust the mechanism so that all the work.
To achieve the goal we must not spread our efforts, we must concentrate on the main problems and directions for applying the Sharia the main, the principal must be implemented:
1. Kaukakus emirate full exemption from the military, police, and the divisions structural regimes disbelieve
2. Organize the understanding of Islam (Da'wah) to the emirate population
3. Protection of social life for Muslims (preferably family martyr)
4. Combating the spread of drug and alcohol
5. Combat all places of entertainment salary, prostitution, gambling.
In this information, The War Mujahidin announced Ghalghayco attacks we aimed for:
* Those who obscure the implementation of Islamic Sharia and the aktiv urged the other to fight us
* Those who benefit from drug and alcohol
* Those who benefit from the business of prostitution and gambling
If the situation has changed then we will stop our attacks.
Most of The British Troops Withdrawl from Iraq
Great Britain will begin withdrawing troop from Iraq in March 2009 future. Until mid-2009, English will be leaving only 400 troops from the 4,100 now serving in Iraq.
As the fed Reuters on Wednesday (10/12), which cite a media report that thousands of British soldiers will be replaced by its troops the United States. Air force base will also be moved outside the city to the south Bashra.
These reports also reveal that there is the possibility of British troops will be focused to help the team combined mission in Afghanistan. However, withdrawal is carried out gradually, according to the development of the condition of security in southern Iraq. There is still considering the possibility of interference security elections will be held at the provincial level in the upcoming Jan. 31.
Meanwhile, the British government is still reluctant on this information. Berkecamuk Iraq since the war in 2003 and then, when the British government under former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to send 45,000 troop.
Blair successor, Gordon Brown continue to reduce troop numbers up to now only 4,000-an army remaining. In last October, Defense Minister John Hutton said, the mission of British soldiers in Iraq will be completed at the beginning of next year.
Muslim Moro House Burned Out of the Philippines
At least 40 soldiers killed in the Philippines disbelieve fierce battle against the Moro mujahidin in Basilan, on Tuesday (9 / 12). Battle held since at 7 am in Barangay Kailih, Al-Barka, Basilan. Philippine Navy is incentive-vigorous attack on Basilan region of late.
Places evacuation (refugee) for the civilians also become a target of the attack the army of the Philippines. 4 fruit bomb investigation of the Helicopter them.
4 MILF members of martyrs (Allah) and by 6 other injuries. Battle of the new stop afternoon.
Meanwhile, the houses owned by the Muslim Moro residents burned out, to the current uncertain how many houses burned.
Thousands of civilians to leave their homes in Basilan because of fear of attack Philippine army, which not discriminate in the Province.
Philippine army brutality in the fight against Muslim Basilan, such as attacks with artillery air not discriminate, burning houses is a violation of human rights often blog list by them.
The situation in Basilan remains more days to worsen, while the army continues to pound the Philippines with armor.
Moro civilians in Basilan ask the Muslim world to predict what they experienced in Basilan, what is done by the Philippine army against them, cruelty, brutality, which continues every day without stopping.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Iraqi Parliament Passes U.S. Security Pact
Iraq's Parliament approved a security pact between Baghdad and Washington that calls for U.S. troops withdrawal by 2011.
The Iraqi Parliament has approved by majority vote a security pact between Baghdad and Washington that calls for US troops withdrawal by 2011.
Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said Thursday an overwhelming majority of the lawmakers who attended the session voted in favor of the pact.
The agreement was passed on Thursday with 144 of the 198 lawmakers present voting in favor. A total of 35 other lawmakers also voted against the agreement.
The vote was supported by the governing coalition and the Kurdish blocs as well as the largest Sunni Arab bloc in parliament, which had demanded concessions for supporting the deal.
The Thursday parliamentary session also saw scenes of disruption from lawmakers loyal to the Sadr bloc.
The US and Iraq had been at loggerheads for the past 11 months over key issues in the deal.
The pact --which had earlier been approved by the Iraqi Cabinet-- will now provide ground for the US troops to stay in the war-torn country beyond their UN mandate which expires in December.
Under the deal, US forces will pull out of Iraqi cities by June 30 and the entire country by the end of 2011. Iraq will oversee the activities of the US troops during the period.
The pact must be rubber stamped by Iraq's Presidential Council and is scheduled to be put to referendum on July 30, 2009.
100 Hostages Freed from Mumbai Hotel
About 100 people have emerged from Mumbai's Trident-Oberoi hotel which was earlier taken over by militants.
About 100 people, many of them foreigners, have emerged from Mumbai's Trident-Oberoi hotel which was earlier taken over by militants.
The police forces and army commandos freed the hostages after gunmen stormed the building nearly 36 hours ago.
Meanwhile, media reports indicate that Indian security forces are still trying to complete their operation to flush out militants holed up in Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel. Sound of heavy explosions and gun battle can be heard in the city.
Indian commandos are still battling to regain full control of the two luxury hotels and a Jewish center in Mumbai after coordinated attacks by armed militants.
About 100 commandos are going inside Nariman House for the final stages of the operation where militants are holding at least 10 Israelis. There have been three explosions at Nariman House and helicopters are circling above the building.
At least a dozen gunmen are still holding up at the three sites after a series of devastating attacks in the city. Gunmen targeted several sites across port city of Mumbai late Wednesday, killing 125 people and injuring 327 others.
“Who’s The Real Partner For Peace?”
When Netanyahu takes charge, America will be involved in more wars in the Middle East.
Binyamin Netanyahu told U.S. media: "We must cause these people despair, we must make their lives unbearable", referring to the Palestinians.
Is this your partner for peace?
When Netanyahu takes charge, America will be involved in more wars in the Middle East, as he had stated that that he wanted another round in Lebanon and wanted to go after Iran more vigorously.
Does the U.S. not have enough trouble at home and around the world than to be drawn into wars for Israel’s sake?
You've got a Russian bear running loose in your backyard with China readying itself to be the dominant economic and military power on earth in our life time. It is total incompetence to isolate yourself.
Let these people live out their Zionist dreams and concentrate on what is important to the Americans themselves. Isolating yourself with Israel is and will always be a downward spiral.
“Israel Ready to Attack Iran is Nonsense!”
Israel would be bombarded many ways if it attacked Iran; economically, politically, and militarily.
First of all, Israel does not have the capability to attack Iran effectively.
Second, they can't get there without flying over the airspace of U.S. allies and over Iraq, where they would fly over one hundred fifty thousand U.S. troops. The Iraqi Accord allows for NO use of the country for an attack on Iran.
Third, the political consequences of an Israeli attack would be devastating to Israel. Example: Right now, nearly half of Israel's military sales abroad go to India, and India is trying to build good ties with Iran to gain access to its oil and gas, including through a pipeline across Pakistan. How would India react to an Israeli attack on Iran?
Fourth, an Israeli attack will force disruption of oil into the currently bleeding world economy. How would the world react to such attack?
Finally, Israel would be bombarded many ways if it attacked Iran; economically, politically, and militarily. At the end, the Israelis would suffer more then they can imagine. This would change their position from being a master to being a slave. Will the Israelis come to their senses? Time will tell.
Eyes Wide Shut
Occupation arouses resistance, resistance arouses repression, repression means economic punishment.
The day before yesterday, two documents appeared side by side in Haaretz: a giant advertisement from the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the results of a public opinion poll.
The proximity was accidental, but to the point. The PLO ad sets out the details of the 2002 Saudi peace offer, decorated with the colorful flags of the 22 Arab and the 35 other Muslim countries which have endorsed the offer.
The public opinion poll predicts a landslide victory for Likud, which opposes every single word of the Saudi proposal.
The PLO ad is a first of its kind. At long last, the PLO leaders have decided to address the Israeli people directly.
The ad discloses to the Israeli population the exact terms of the all-Arab peace offer: full recognition of the State of Israel by all Arab and Muslim countries, full normalization of relations - in return for Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders and the establishment of the Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The refugee problem would be solved by mutual agreement – meaning that Israel could veto any solution it considered unacceptable.
I have said it before: if this offer had been made on June 4, 1967, the day before the Six Day War, Israelis would have felt as if the Messiah had arrived. But when it was published in 2002, many Israelis saw it as a cunning Arab ploy to rob Israel of the fruits of its 1967 victory.
The Israeli government has never officially reacted to this historic offer. Public opinion and the media ignored it almost completely, walled in by the national consensus that there is no chance for peace.
Recently, the old offer woke up to new life. Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak discovered it suddenly, as if they had found a treasure in a hidden cave. Tzipi Livni discovered that it has some interesting points. That is the background to the blessed initiative of Saeb Erekat’s “PLO Negotiation Department” to publish the ad.
Israeli public reaction: nil.
The public opinion poll, on the other hand, made a deep impression. It cast its shadow over the entire political arena.
True, there are still 80 days to go before election day, and in Israel 80 days is a very, very long time. Moreover, unlike American polls, Israeli polls conducted for the media are notoriously unreliable. Nonetheless, the poll caused a shock.
It says that if the elections were held this week, the Likud would have 34 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, three times more than it has now, and become the largest faction. Kadima would get only 28 seats, one less than in the present Knesset. (Explanation: Kadima would lose many voters, who would return to Likud, but gain almost the same number from Labor.) The Labor party would come down to 10 seats, half of their present miserable number. Shas would get the same number, as would the ultra-right Liberman. Meretz would rise from 5 to 7. (In Yediot Aharonot’s competing poll, Likud got 32, Kadima 26 and Labor 8.)
The dazzling ascent of Likud is an ominous phenomenon by itself, but even more important is the general picture: the bloc of all the parties that support peace, whether by paying lip service or sincerely (called “the Left”) will have, according to the polls, 56 seats at most, as against the 64 seats of all the anti-peace parties combined (called “the Right”).
Meaning: if the election had taken place this week, the outcome would have been a Knesset devoted to the continuation of the occupation, the settlements and the annexation. Binyamin Netanyahu would be Prime Minister and would be able to choose freely between a dozen possible compositions of the next government coalition.
How did Netanyahu achieve such a status? After all, 10 years ago he was shamefully thrown out of the Prime Minister’s office by a public that had decided that they could not stand him for one more day. No other previous prime minister has attracted so much opposition, disgust and even loathing.
For several months now Netanyahu has been behaving like a model pupil. He kept silent when it was right to keep silent. He acted in a statesman-like manner. And then, like a magician at a children’s birthday party, he pulled one rabbit after another from his top hat. Every few days another personality joined Likud with much fanfare, in a well controlled selection and dosage: Binyamin Begin, a man of the extreme right and Dan Meridor, of the moderate right, Assaf Hefetz, former police chief and Moshe (“Bogi”) Yaalon, former army chief, and more and more.
Big and small stars, who gave the impression that Likud is now regarded by everybody as the coming governing party. A multicolored party, a party of renewal, headed by an experienced and responsible leader. A party in which there are many shades of opinion, but which is united by a platform that says no to withdrawal, no to a Palestinian state, no to any compromise on Jerusalem, no to any meaningful peace negotiation. And, of course: no to the Arab peace offer.
Is there a yes? I almost forgot: Netanyahu proposes an “economic peace” – to ameliorate the situation of the Palestinians in the West Bank, so that some day in the future, before or after the coming of the Messiah, Israel could perhaps reach an accommodation – and perhaps not. But economic amelioration under an occupation regime is, of course, an oxymoron. Occupation arouses resistance, resistance arouses repression, repression means economic punishment. Nobody is going to invest money in an occupied territory.
If Netanyahu is elected, we must expect four years in which we shall not only not advance toward peace by one single inch, but, on the contrary, the ongoing thrust of the settlement enterprise will push peace ever further away.
The flight of Tzipi Livni, on the other hand, is not gaining any height. That is another clear conclusion of the polls.
She has had a few months of grace. When the whole country was mesmerized by the corruption affairs of Ehud Olmert, Livni looked, in comparison, like a shining white dove. An ideal candidate: also a woman, also honest, also speaking the language of ordinary human beings, also one who believes what she says.
But after Olmert’s resignation, corruption disappeared as a central theme of the elections. So what does Tzipi have to offer?
She has no overpowering charisma. She is no orator (and that is perhaps to the good). She does not excite. She does not appeal to the emotions. She does not touch the heart of people. She is compelled to rely on rational arguments.
But what is her rationale? She is a great believer in “peace negotiations”. But “peace negotiations”, like the “political process”, can easily become a substitute for peace itself.
Livni does not offer an exciting peace message. She does not draw up a peace proposal of her own. She is “diplomatic” and keeps her cards close to her chest. No clear solution for Jerusalem (Don’t even mention it! It may provide ammunition for Bibi!), nor for the refugee problem (God forbid!).
She has promised the No. 2 spot on her list to Shaul Mofaz, who could easily find his place between Bibi, Begin and Bogi. This is not the way to change the hearts of the hundreds of thousands of indifferent and/or tired citizens, who believe that “there is no partner for peace”. Neither are there any new acquisitions: no new personalities are joining Kadima. There is no sense of an approaching victory. The chances don’t look good.
The situation of the Labor party is even worse. Much worse. The polls give Labor 10 seats at most, perhaps only 8. The party that in its former incarnations kept absolute control over the Yishuv and the new state for 44 consecutive years may shrivel in the next Knesset to the status of fifth largest faction (after Likud, Kadima, Shas and Liberman.)
No wonder. Like an aging strip-teaser, the party has dropped all its garments. It has embraced “swinish capitalism” (a Peres coinage) like the other parties. As far as peace is concerned, it limps behind Kadima, and sometimes even tries to outflank Likud on the right. It seems that its real platform is down to one single clause: Ehud Barak must remain Minister of Defense under whoever will be the next Prime Minister, Netanyahu or Livni.
It is not an attractive sight: not only the rats are leaving the sinking ship, but also the admiral himself: Ami Ayalon, former commander of the Israeli navy, announced this week that he is leaving the party. The incumbent 19 Knesset members are squaring up for a fight to the death over the few remaining “real” seats, competing with each other and with the handful of new joiners (including the director of “Peace Now”, Yariv Oppenheimer, and the journalist Daniel Ben-Simon).
Ehud Barak is a walking disaster. But he cannot be removed from the leadership of Labor before the elections. The party is crawling towards its rout with eyes wide shut.
Several men of letters, professors and political consultants, some of them refugees from Labor, have done something: they got together and announced that they would ally themselves to Meretz, in order to create a kind of super-Meretz.
They did raise an echo, but the recent polls still give the reinforced Meretz no more than 7 seats (compared to the present 5). Not quite a revolution.
Why? The initiators are well known. They are members of the Ashkenazi elite, like all of Meretz. The public got the impression that instead of the past and far-past leaders who have left the Meretz leadership one after another (Shulamit Aloni, Yossi Sarid, Yossi Beilin, Ran Cohen, all of them with positive credentials), other people are coming in, good people but not really different, with the same good but failed slogans. They have no new message for the new generation, for the Oriental Jews, for the Arab citizens, for Russian immigrants, for the secular people who want to fight against religious encroachment.
The active peace groups, with their young and enthusiastic members, were not invited, so as not to give the party a “radical” look. In the best case, the renewed party might take a few seats from Labor. As far as the general picture is concerned, that would be quite unimportant, since only changes in the balance between the two large blocs have any real effect. Many new voters must be mobilized.
There is a place for a new Left party, with a new name, a new spirit and a message of hope, that will do an Obama: arouse the masses of the young generation, infect them with enthusiasm, promise real change.
Such an experiment was conducted just now in the Tel-Aviv municipal elections with astonishing results. A new election list appeared out of nowhere, the young generation of Tel-Avivians joined it with gusto. It attracted the new voters, as well as voters who are disgusted with all politicians, people with a green agenda, people with a social conscience, gays and lesbians, and many others. Hundreds volunteered for it, their candidate attracted a third of the votes against a popular incumbent mayor.
Meaning: yes, it is possible. But it will not happen this time.
Barack Obama will enter the Oval Office twenty days before the Israeli elections. He has still got a chance to have a decisive impact on the outcome. Nobody in Israel wants to quarrel with the United States.
If the new President announces immediately after taking office that he is determined to achieve peace between Israel and the Arabs in the spirit of the Saudi peace initiative, before the end of 2009, this will influence many voters.
If Netanyahu is elected, President Obama will be faced with a dilemma: either to enter into a serious conflict with the Government of Israel, with all the American domestic implications, or to leave peace in the freezer, like his predecessors.
The American elections were important for Israel. The Israeli elections will be important for America, too.
