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Fresh tunnel dug from Pak to RS Pura to push fidayeens detected
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Arabia
Saudi-Israeli Ties Unmasked: Abandoning of Palestine, Turning to Fight Iran
[ALMANAR.LB] Israeli media reported recently that a high-level Zionist delegation headed by a top official had visited Riyadh several weeks ago, and that the military censorship does neither allow talking about the, nor about its goals.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
it was not the first time that media reports talk about meeting between Gulf or Saudi officials with Zionists, which reflects confidential ties between Gulf regime, mainly Al-Saud, and the usurping Israeli entity.

In addition to the Israeli statements, pictures and information were being published between now and then, in a form of meetings and hand-shakings, about a certain relation combining Israelis and some Gulf figures, such as the photo of former Israeli President Shimon Peres wandering around "Waqef Market" in the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
i capital of Doha, and the media leaks about the possibility of opening a new subsidiary for International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Abu Dhabi, provided that 'Israel' would have an official representative office in the Emirati capital.

Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Israel: Normalization or Coalition

During his speech on Martyred Leaders commemoration, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah pointed out that some people are trying to portray the Zionist entity as a defender of the "Sunnis" in order to exploit circumstances and developments and to move some relationships from under the table to above of the table...

"How a sane Sunni could accept that the Zionist entity presents itself as his friend, his ally and his protector," Sayyed Nasrallah asked, adding: "What a fraud and deception practiced by Arab media and Arab spiteful and ignorant rulers?" wondering that how can anyone accepts the Zionist entity as a friend, ally and protector after it had committed all that sins so far.
Posted by: Fred || 03/04/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Abandoning the Paleos and turning to fight the Persians? Finally a little 'silver lining' to the Carter-caused-cloud of the rise of the mad mullahs.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/04/2016 7:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Really? SA and Egypt subsidized Israel to contain the Palestinioids now they want them to push back against Iran? Really?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/04/2016 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Egypt has been receiving subsidies for years, not giving them out.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/04/2016 12:02 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Scientific paper sez the human hand was designed by a 'Creator' sparks controversy
[Independent] A recent scientific paper on the movement of the human hand has faced strong criticism for referring to a 'Creator' throughout.

The paper, titled: 'Biomechanical characteristics of hand coordination in grasping activities of daily living' was written by a team of four researchers, three from Huazhong University in China, and one from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.

Published in the PLOS ONE journal, the fairly conventional study looked at the mechanics of how we grasp things, and involved the measurement of the hand movements of 30 participants.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IMO, Plos is yellow press of scientific journals. It's where all the kzinrettes (of both genders) inflicted on us by affirmative action/collegiality publish their brilliant (due to pissing against the wind) theories.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/04/2016 4:33 Comments || Top||

#2  We can't figure it out -> magic.
or
We sort of kind of explain it but it involves forcing the universe into a really really complicated Ptolemaic model, even then bits and pieces don't quite fit.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/04/2016 8:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Or it came from a million years of flippers grabbing tree branches.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/04/2016 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Or maybe they are right. The human hand was designed by The Creator.
Posted by: jvalentour || 03/04/2016 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  God, Garden, gorilla, and gimmick:
If He is the monkey we mimic,
No wonder we're handy,
The better, when randy,
To swing down and pluck Charlie Dimmock.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 03/04/2016 16:22 Comments || Top||

#6  To paraph former POTUS BUSH41 = Gee whizzzz, I dunno, I once a childhood dream or vision where I saw a Giant Hand [God = Allan?] hold the entire Earth + Milky Way in its palm, does that count???

One must listen to Madonna's Videos-Music to find out what God did next.

But I digress ... ...
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/04/2016 19:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Strange Case Of The Campus Cry-Bully
h/t Instapundit
The oxymoron "Cry-bully" has become a popular way to describe the schizophrenic contemporary college student.

Today’s students, especially on elite campuses, pride themselves for being cultural warriors. They are determined to make their college experiences referenda on the alleged race, class, and gender inequities of American society more broadly. In pursuit of that noble end, they feel they are entitled to use almost any means necessary to raise social awareness about perceived injustice.

...Deliver a college lecture that includes the Israeli perspective on Middle-East tensions, question the Ferguson "hands up, don’t shoot" mythic narrative, or entertain views contrary to the idea of apocalyptic man-made global warming, and one is likely to be labeled by campus activists as a colonialist, racist, or enemy of the environment deserving to be silenced for the greater good. The end of civil liberties on campus is coming about not suddenly with an authoritarian bang, but insidiously with an egalitarian whimper.

Though campus warriors appear to be hardened would-be revolutionaries, they are more accurately defined by their faint hearts. At Brown University, students claimed that they were traumatized by the inability to square the circle of being full-time social activists and full-time students, and therefore became depressed and stressed out--driving them to counseling and anti-depressants. According to one student, "There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on." Throughout the year, this student has worked to confront issues of racism and diversity on campus. His role as a student activist has taken a toll on his mental, physical and emotional health: "My grades dropped dramatically. My health completely changed. I lost weight. I’m on antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills right now. Counseling and Psychological Services counselors called me. I had deans calling me to make sure I was okay."

...Are today’s students, then, brave reformers or fragile hothouse campus plants? Do they want to wade into freewheeling debate and battle all ideological comers, or do they insist on being protected by surrogate faculty parents, who must provide them the same cozy emotional embryos that they enjoyed in junior high school?

...To make matters worse, college students are not even receiving a high quality education. Courses that enrich liberal education and lead to mastery of written and spoken English are often squeezed out by therapeutic "studies" courses--Gender Studies, Asian Studies, Africana Studies, Chicano-Latino Studies, Environmental Studies, Community Studies, Cultural Studies, Leisure Studies, Media Studies, and on and on. The latter courses often require less work, result in easier grades, grant psychological rewards for ideological uniformity, and provide little in terms of a classical education. For such a revolutionary cadre of students, eager to battle America’s inequities, students have almost no interest in demanding a quality education at a reasonable price.
And what happens to scientific education is has to be seen to be believed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/04/2016 04:56 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Cry-bully" has become a popular way to describe the schizophrenic contemporary college student.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/04/2016 9:12 Comments || Top||



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