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2003-12-13 Arabia

Iraq War Created New Terror Problem, Says Prince Turki

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-13 12:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Drunken Santa, Oil painting by Jaisini Lulu : Marketplace for a World of Digital Content

Drunken Santa is a work that creates a miracle of equilibrium. What seemed like a clash of an opposite spectrum's colors became the unlikely harmony in this painting. Jaisini's artistic vision here is formed from two components of physical and emotional states of being.

Freezing and heating serve as a symbol to a human need for warming up from the chill of solitude by means known to people at all times. The artist pursues his art philosophical quest for worldly knowledge that had left its traces in many of his works. A line of composition literally ignites the painting's surface with the movement. The color of this work is "phosphorescent," and it create the different planes if the subtle color nature. The warm color of purple supports the hot color of Santa's figure and an exotic fish above Santa. This hot color may represent the so-called material universe, the world of the gross senses that can be observed in a sober state. The cold, arctic blue color represents the unknown, the world of a deep state of drunkenness where real is unreal and otherwise. The only hard reality is the self, which never changes in any state. And maybe that is why Jaisini favors the painting's main hero, Santa, to possess the vivacious color of fire. Jaisini chooses this color of fire to manifest the self and the cold cerulean, cobalt and ultramarine to renounce self as a mortal entity surrounded by the eternal unknown.

While Santa drinks his feelings of frigid loneliness vanish. And so, he gets a company of some almost hallucinatory nature. A shark, a ghostly image, a profile of another prototypical drunk who is not accidentally situated in a horizontal position. An amalgam of the several female figures that consists of a woman in stockings, a nun, a big-breasted silhouette that create a shadow between.

A heat can be sensed around the hot colored Santa who has lost his beard and is holding a glass of red wine. He shows his thumb that may be just a polite substitution for the middle finger sign.

The colors of the work are balanced by a virtuoso composition of a cubist character. The picture's space is divided endlessly. More images start to appear. The world of "Drunken Santa" vitalizes to almost chaotic state. The work is a treasure. It depicts and witnesses the intangible mechanism of reality transformation. In the state of intoxication, what happens to

the solid world of sober state? Everything disappears. It is just like the dream-world, that we call unreal, because when we are awaken it is not there. Just so the solid world must be unreal because it also vanishes in the drunk or deep-sleep states. Then what is reality? In "Drunken Santa," this problem is elaborated to the triumphant conclusion. The simplicity of symbolism of the warm and cold colors. The dazzling composition of figuration superimposed to abstraction. And besides the beauty of artistic logic, Jaisini's works are marked with the rich, magnetic colors, as in "Drunken Santa" and others, strikingly attractive pictures in their intricate game of light and shadow, in their absolute congruence of visual and conceptual. Review of oil painting "Drunken Santa" by Paul Jaisini
Text copyrights by Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb All rights reserved New York, 2003

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Posted by yustas 2003-12-13 12:10:14 PM|| [http://jaisini.artbabyart] 2003-12-13 12:10:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Fred - now THIS is the true Saudi position, post-Riyadh May 14 (?). Blame everything on someone else. Hope for the LLL guilt phase to cover their duplicity, cowardice, and insane religion. Stick some fingers in the dike. Apply enough of this bubble gum and bailing wire blame game guilt to hold it all together while they continue to siphon off as much as they think their craven clan can manage. Nothing more or less to this.

yustas - fascinating post.

Posted by .com 2003-12-13 12:47:24 PM|| 2003-12-13 12:47:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn--it sure does suck when terrorism returns to the roost instead of striking only in Israel, Europe, and the US where it belongs.

So sorry, Prince, to see you Sods and other Arabs reap what you've so long being sowing. It was all meant for export, not domestic consumption.

Posted by Dar 2003-12-13 1:33:14 PM|| 2003-12-13 1:33:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "We must not forget that terrorism is a by-product and not an alien being descended on us from a distant galaxy,â

Is this the same Prince Turki who was head head of the Saudi Intelligence, whose service is infiltrated by AQ, who was directing funding AQ and Wahabist funding, who squashed the 1996 barracks bombing investigation, who is now exiled to London? Well boo hoo. Cry me a river.

Posted by ed 2003-12-13 1:44:55 PM|| 2003-12-13 1:44:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Damn! Yustas knows Malt!

craven clan

Is there an exact correlation between clan and royalty? Are all males of this particular clans princes? If not, what are they? Is this where the middle managers come from?

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-13 1:52:25 PM|| 2003-12-13 1:52:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I swear that when these Saudi princes look in the mirror, they honestly cannot see a reflection. I have never, in any articles I have read here, or anywhere else, seen real official bonifide soul searching by any Saudi leader. There is a disconnect here. They are incapable of stepping outside of themselves. The only way that they will change is by the use of strong external means, and that means their pocketbook, and that brings us back to a previous discussion today.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-13 2:04:05 PM|| 2003-12-13 2:04:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 This Yustas fellow, plugging the lulu.com site, has been infesting comments in a number of blogs, every time with delusional, incoherent crap that is off-topic of the specific post he's replying to. He's hit Damian Penny at least three times in the last two days.

Late update: Damian says the IP is 80.11.73.177. A wanadoo.fr site. Quel surprise. Is that the same guy, Fred?

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-12-13 2:37:52 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-12-13 2:37:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Ship - "Is there an exact correlation between clan and royalty?"
Absolutely. King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud was the "founder" of modern Saudi Arabia. Aziz united the 27 (or was it 26?) tribes by marrying a daughter of each of the tribal leaders.

Check out this link (look at the family tree).

There are 7 "brothers" (4 are "Royals" - sons of Abd Al Aziz; 3 are "non Royals" from other fathers - all fathers were sons of Muhammed bin Saud) today who control all money, doling it out downstream to their favored Princely proteges who dole it out to their favored flunky clans (Can you say Al Ghamdi?) etc. That's the game and the gig. Not from a well-connected tribe or clan? Tough shit, you're out unless you manage to catch someone's eye. I hope this helps! ;-)

Posted by .com 2003-12-13 3:44:53 PM|| 2003-12-13 3:44:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Funny how Turki's specious comments on Iraq mirror the specious arguments of the hopelessly cluesless in our country ("gee, look, invading Iraq has made terrorism WORSE!" -- because some idiots are know shooting RPGs at a Humvee near Ramadi).

Taking out the Iraqi regime eliminated the most likely future proliferator of WMD that was also the most reckless, immune to deterrence, and currently most vulnerable. No matter how long the pathetic dead-enders take their pot-shots, and increase the odds that their now-dethroned minority community will receive full pay-back from the majority in Iraq, the forces of global terror have been dealt a huge set-back.

True, Prince Turkey, terrorists didn't come from Mars, but as one of your worst enemies has pointed out, they also don't exist suspended in mid-air -- they are terrestrial mammals with addresses, supply and money chains, and some degree of state connivance or toleration. The US has shown it will go after them directly when it can find them (Yemen). Meanwhile, we go after states that use/tolerate them, their money, and states that might sell them exotic weapons.

A strategy so obviously sound only a Saudi intelligence chief or a presidential candidate could fail to comprehend it ....

Posted by IceCold 2003-12-13 5:09:58 PM|| 2003-12-13 5:09:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 It is ironic that his views match exactly to those of the LLL yet the LLL condems the continued US alliance with Saudi Arabia.

The prince implies that all forms of injustice result in terrorism until they are resolved. An iteresting point, but few terrorist insurgencies outside of Islamic fundementalist societies are popularly backed. The IRA is an exception. (Note - I don't what percentage of locals back the ETA or November 17th groups.)

The Black Panthers had a following in the black community but not nearly what MLK could muster.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-13 8:23:50 PM|| 2003-12-13 8:23:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 prince turkey--what a putz--islamic terrorism--99% of whats going down is definitely not an alien force--its straight outta mecca--with stops in asir and riyahd--somebody buy this useless schmuck a gps--more taquiyyah for the kufr

Posted by Anonymous 2003-12-14 3:13:24 AM|| 2003-12-14 3:13:24 AM|| Front Page Top

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