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[The Prosperity Co-Op - A Science of Mind Center - Western North Carolina - Waynesville - Haywood County - Rev Frank Kish] As every school kid knows, human beings have five senses. They are taste, touch, smell, hearing and sight.

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[I Am Bored] 9 Extraordinary Human Abilities - Listverse: In fact, until now, ive often wondered how ANYONE could enjoy the bitterness of coffee. It is interesting to note, however, that I greatly enjoy coffee flavored products, such as ice cream and candy, and don’t taste any bitterness in those instances.

[MomStart] Lysol Healthy Touch: The No Touch Hand Soap System #Giveaway ...: Introducing the new LYSOL® Healthy Touchâ™ No-Touch Hand Soap System. It helps stop the spread of bacteria because it automatically senses your hands and dispenses antibacterial soap with germ-killing power, killing 99.9% of bacteria.

[Etsy Stalker] Elli Beauty: Solo Exhibit (With Giveaway!): Using rejuvenating and moisturizing ingredients like sweet almond oil and mango butter, Elli Beauty creates products to make your daily routine truly luxurious. Here’s a peek at her whipped cream soap which is both a conditioning cleanser and a creamy lather perfect for shaving.

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[Eye on Soaps] Eye on Soaps » OLTL Spoiler Commentary: Kim needs to pony up the whole truth about how drugged-up Sky rejected Stacy for Gigi, so she can see who really cared enough NOT to sleep with her sister, and let Gigi know that Rex already knows that the baby isn’t Sky’s either (in Rex’s defense, one good turn deserves another, but I can’t stand him sooooo much more than I’m disappointed in Sky). Hopefully, Gigi will be done with Rex if she finds out that he let Sky make medical decisions for Sierra Rose when he knew that Sky had no legal right.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Thieves Steal Drug-Sniffing Dog: First off, posing as a police officer to steal this particular dog is a pretty good sign that the thieves knew what they were doing. Otherwise, why not pose as a veterinarian or as a health department official, either of which would incur far less severe penalties if caught (not to mention deniability -- "I just wanted a nice dog!

[Cafferty File] Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - Dems ...: As a Houston,Texas democratic woman voting for Hillary, I can tell you that there is a tremendous amount of movement for Hillary being generated on a grass roots level by supporters like me who are calling nonstop to get out the vote and convince undecideds that she is the candidate who will make a difference on everything that matters to Texans. Also, women are moving in a big way to make the vote they can tell their daughters and granddaughters about in the future.

[Latest RSS Content for All Communities | Second Life] Second Life Blogs: Features: Can you hear me now? 7 VOICE CHAT ...: What you are suggesting without a bit of forethought directly falls under wiretapping laws as well as people's right to privacy, so unless you notify ALL parties that you are recording the conversation, (and this does include people that may come and go through the area, as well as region / estate depending on the voice channel settings) you are committing what is considered a felony if I am not mistaken here in the US... US laws require that you notify all parties involved in a conversation that you are recording it, and when not conducted face to face, such as a conference table, you must cause an audible tone to be played periodically to remind people that they are being recorded...

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Even McCain admitted that one of the best Presidents was a long-sitting governor of Arkansas with little foreign policy experience (Clinton.) He also couldn't being himself to actually SAY Palin is qualified for President, because she (and cohort Todd) is not. The thought of them having access to secret documents and the nuclear code before she can even pronounce the word is what's driving Dems to the polls.

[Oh! How Lovely! { shops }] Oh! How Lovely! { shops } » Blog Archive » etsy adore: pure intox: Both my sister and I are into natural care. I had an idea that we should create some natural body products based around the whole cocktail idea. From there, we researched the business and the need. We made Bahama Mama Body Frosting favors for my sister’s best friend’s bridal shower, it was a hit! Shortly after, we came up with new scents and products, then launched our product.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Republicans cry and cry less Goverment but yet They want the Goverment to tell a woman what her personal choices should be,They want the Goverment to tell people who they can love and marry SARA PALIN IS A FAR RIGHT WING RELGIOUS NUT! LISTEN UP REPUBLICANS KEEP GOVERMENT OUT OF PEOPLES PRIVATE AND PERSONAL MATTERS, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS STOP TRYING TO CONTROL PEOPLE THE FAR RIGHT WANT TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE!!!!!!

[Canonist] Canonist » Blog Archive » M. Tendler Open Thread X: We have obtained a SLAPP ruling against New York rabbi Mordechai Tendler, who brought proceedings first in Ohio and then in California to try to identify several anonymous bloggers who commented on charges that he abused his position of relgious authority to get sexual contact with women who had come to him for counseling. After we got into the case to get the subpoane quashed, he dropped the case, got the clerk to take the SLAPP motin off calendar, and even filed a motion to “substitute counsel”

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Summerside The Journal Pioneer: Sports | KISH, Rural take 'A' crowns

[The Journal Pioneer: Sports] Charlottetown police have a new website. Would you like to see Summerside police posting crime information and videos on a site?

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[The Journal Pioneer: News] Summerside The Journal Pioneer: News | Westisle relay raises hope ...: ELMSDALE - There was still money trickling in on Sunday, leading Westisle Relay for Life co-ordinator Nancy Hamill to speculate the high school's second annual relay will bring in $113,000 for the fight against cancer.

[The Guardian: Local News] Charlottetown, The Guardian: Local News | Rain soaks Queens Relay ...: Denise Boulter from Charlottetown, PE writes: I would just like to take this opportunity to thank each and every survivor, participant, volunteer and supporter for making the 2009 Queens County and Area Relay for Life such an incredible success. Everyone made the best out of a wet situation and I had the opportunity to talk with many smiling & happy people.

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Iraqi Shiites Hold Key to Election Results | NewsBag

[NewsBag] Iraqi forces raided the Al Buratha Mosque here in 2007 amid allegations that it was being used as a home-base for Shiite death squads. The mosque’s top cleric, Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, is a controversial cleric and a leading member of the armed militia of one of the country’s leading Shiite parties, the Islamic Supreme Council in Iraq.

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[Dinar Daddy's Tidbits] * Iraqi elections: America's final hurdle | Dinar Daddy's Tidbits: To block the emerging Sunni challenge, Shiite parties banded together and pried an endorsement from their normally tight-lipped religious leadership in the Holy Shiite city of Najaf. Shiite clerics - including the highly respected Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - quietly approved of what became known as the “Shiite List.”

[Conservative Viewpoint Blog] Radical Cleric Makes Surprise Endorsement of Iraqi Elections as ...: The Kurdish Alliance, made up of the main Kurdish political parties who dominate in their self-rule northern region, won’t form the government in this Shiite-majority country, but their political unity means they will likely help decide who does. Key to their negotiations will be the future of Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that is claimed by both Arabs and Kurds.

[Fiza News] High turnout in Iraq polls despite violence | Fiza News: At least 19 people died in northeastern Baghdad after explosions leveled two buildings about a mile apart, and mortar attacks in western Baghdad killed seven people in two different neighborhoods, police and hospital officials said. In Mosul, police said unidentified gunmen threw a grenade on a polling center, wounding six voters.

[All Stories | The Aiken Standard] Obama: Iraq vote was 'important milestone' | Aiken Standard ...: The election was seen as a crossroads where Iraq will decide whether to adhere to politics along the Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish lines or move away from the ethnic and sectarian tensions that have emerged since the fall of Saddam's iron-fisted, Sunni-minority rule.

[MashTrends] Car bomb rocks Iraq shrine city on eve of elections | MashTrends: “You must go to the voting centres because it is your duty,” said Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Jorani, Sunni imam of the Al-Hai mosque in the central city of Baquba, where 33 people were killed in three suicide .Ahmed al-Safi, a representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, the country's revered top Shiite cleric, said the election was a “huge vital issue,” essential to ensuring Iraqis can “draw their own future.” .

[The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment] Iraqi voters undaunted by attacks that kill 36 | The Daily Caller ...: An electoral worker walks past piles of ballot boxes at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 8, 2010. The conclusion of Sunday's vote does not spell an immediate end to Iraq's political uncertainty, as it could be days until results come in and with the fractured nature of Iraqi politics, months to form a government.

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[World] Iraqis look forward to vote but fear chaotic aftermath with no ...: The U.S.-backed leader also faces intense pressure from his former Shiite allies ”” the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council and the Sadrist Trend led by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ”” who are closely allied with Iran and have teamed up in a separate alliance. 22, 2006, bombing of a golden domed Shiite mosque north of Baghdad, blamed on Sunni insurgents, set off months of sectarian bloodletting.

[The Great One's Blog...] Iraqi voters undaunted by attacks that kill 36 « The Great One's Blog”¦: An Interior Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media said a total of 35 people died in Baghdad but did not have a breakdown of where the deaths occurred. In the city of Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad, a bomb inside a polling center killed a policeman, bringing the day’s total to 36.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Sunday, Bloody ...: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is fighting for his political future against a coalition led by mainly Shiite religious groups ”” the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and a party headed by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He also faces a challenge from secular alliance led by Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister and secular Shiite, who has teamed up with a number of Sunnis in a bid to claim the government.

[mcclatchydc.com: Homepage] In Najaf, Iraq's Shiite clerics push for direct elections | McClatchy: The credibility of Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani and his colleagues has grown in the past two years, both for what he said and for the timing of his utterances -- in particular his repeated admonitions to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr to lay down his arms. Sadr, who's been studying theology in Iran, ignored the advice until Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki cracked down on his Mahdi Army militia, but he now appears to be toeing the line of the Marjaiya, Iraq's supreme Shiite religious authorities, who consist of four high-ranking grand ayatollahs.

[NBF NEWS, FREE HOT NIGERIAN NEWS ONLINE FROM NEWSPAPERS, NIGERIA BEST FORUM BLOG] IRAQ PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION HIT BY INSURGENT ATTACKS | NBF NEWS ...: In Azamiyah (northern Baghdad), Walid Abid, 40, cast his vote to the crumple of mortars exploding not far away. In a rare public appearance, radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, speaking in neighbouring Iran, urged Iraqis to vote and to reject violence.

[arabnews - frontpage] Iraqis defy intimidation to vote, attacks kill 26 - Arab News: In the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in northern Baghdad, Walid Abid, a 40-year-old father of two, was speaking as mortars landed several hundreds yards (meters) away. Police reported at least 20 mortar attacks in the neighborhood shortly after daybreak and mortars were also launched toward the Green Zone - home to the US Embassy and the prime minister's office.

[mcclatchydc.com: Top Story] Iraqis vote despite explosions, but now comes the hard part ...: Analysts and foreign diplomats agree that the coalitions most likely to win are the self-proclaimed nationalist slate led by Iraq's incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, a Shiite Muslim; the secular, mixed-sect ticket of former premier Ayad Allawi;

[arabnews - frontpage] Iraq's vote key test for a democracy in progress - Arab News: “What you had basically was Kurds voting for Kurds, Sunnis voting for Sunnis and Shiites voting for Shiites,” said former US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad. “This time, it looks like people are moving away, not totally of course, but incrementally away from sectarianism.”

[mcclatchydc.com: Homepage] Iraqi pilgrims visit Samarra's bombed mosque once again | McClatchy: It was also the latest showcase for Muqtada al Sadr, the firebrand Shiite cleric, who's studying to become a religious leader in Iran. Iraqi officials had predicted that as many as a million pilgrims might make the trip, but then Sadr urged his followers a week ago to join the pilgrimage.

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Iraqi Shiites Hold Key to Election Results - Dispatch - WSJ

[WSJ.com: Dispatch] Iraqi forces raided the Al Buratha Mosque here in 2007 amid allegations that it was being used as a home-base for Shiite death squads. The mosque’s top cleric, Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, is a controversial cleric and a leading member of the armed militia of one of the country’s leading Shiite parties, the Islamic Supreme Council in Iraq.

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Stabroek News - Iraq's critical election

[Stabroek News] Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi, a visiting professor of law at the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, served as Iraq’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2004-2007 and was principal drafter of its interim constitution of 2004.

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[Project Syndicate] Iraq's Critical Election - Project Syndicate: Some of Iraq’s Sunni leaders might thus conclude that permanent armed opposition is their only viable strategy. True, they might not be able to topple the new regime, but they will be able to de-stabilize Iraq over the long term, in the hope of forcing a negotiated settlement of their grievances.

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] A Weak Attempt at Rebuttal: Galbraith (2009) Is Contradicted by ...: These proposals - which included the key distinction between existing and future oil fields that would later enable stronger regional influence over new oilfields in the 2005 constitution and which forms the basis for the current dispute between Baghdad and the Kurds over oil - were “accepted” by the Kurdish leadership, and then forwarded to the CPA, “as a submission by the Kurdistan National Assembly”! According to Galbraith, his own proposals became the Kurdish proposal in all its details save for one extremely minor “amendment”: “Kosrat Rasul”¦wanted to clarify that deployment of the Iraqi Kurdistan National Guard should not only be approved by the Kurdistan National Assembly, but should only occur a the request of the federal government in Baghdad”.

[Project Syndicate] The Promise of Iraq's Constitution - Project Syndicate: A second important feature of the drafting process was the extent to which the National Assembly complied with the requirements of Iraq’s interim constitution, the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL). At the time of the transfer of authority in June of 2004, many pundits predicted that an elected National Assembly would ignore an interim constitution drafted by an unelected Governing Council and promulgated by an occupying authority.

[News from The University of Texas at Austin] Symposium Explores Dilemmas Facing Framers of Modern Constitutions ...: Other participants at the symposium include legal scholar and former ambassador Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi, one of the principal drafters of the Iraqi Constitution and Iraq's ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations from 2004 to 2007; Harvard Law professor and civil rights scholar Lani Guinier;

[Latest on Indian Muslims] Reservation will not help Muslims, will only open Pandora's box ...: Rajgopalachari did vehemently support the charter of providing political safeguards to the minorities according to articles 292 and 294 of the 1949 draft constitution, but five leaders out of seven, namely Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Maulana Hifzur Rehman, Begum Aizaz Rasul, Hussainbhoy Laljee and Tajammul Hussain opposed it.

[SyriaComment.com] SyriaComment.com: Asad's Visit to the UN: Why the US Needs to ...: The president is in a situation not be envied, he has to lobby groups that don’t think too highly of his government but ironically enough they hold more power in converting the highly damaged mainstream American view of Syria than any Syrian individual or organization can. And your comment “why not support the Sunni majority to take out Bashar's regime!?” can only come from a person who is so enriched with sectarian prejudice that has to always divide a country on religious grounds (But your Lebanese so your excused).

[Pakistan Politics] Zardari Accused Saudis For Benazir's Assassination? « Pakistan ...: some leaders like wali khan used to say it is american war no body was listening.now afganis hate pakis as they think that we have destroyed AFGH.Saudis are pupets ,helped pak to build traing camps in shape of madrasas but how many hospital or schools they have built for us.they suported sadam to fight agains iran new revoltion , iran didnt have any choice except to buy weapons from israel.saudis responsible for kiling shias in pak.responsible for taliban.As far zardari can i ask you one question when he was in jail for 10 yrs why he was not proved quilty , why the money was not taken from him , our justice system is same corupt as zardai.what about chaudry , faisal hayat, sherpao.why there is no major issue in india because of groomed politician and secularism.religiuos people are killing in mosques.taliban says it is right to slaughter people because they r quoting weak hadit

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Dinar Discussion December 2008: " The statement added that the Central Bank "expressed great satisfaction to cancel the external debt burden of more than 100 billion dollars, in the light of the success of the country's economic policies adopted by the monetary, financial and the general economic policy over the past three years." The Paris Club to reduce the rate of 60% of Iraq's foreign debts on Iraq according to the first support (SPA), which ended in December 2007, and was scheduled to expire at the end of the second December in December 2008, and Iraq required a tight monetary policies to reduce another 20% External indebtedness, to be 80% of the total debt written off. The Finance Minister Bayan Jabr said in October last October that the director general of the International Monetary Fund told him that the Fund will hand over a report the Paris Club the end of the year for the deletion of Iraq's foreign debt and the remainder representing 20% (30 billion dollars) reduction rate of 80% .

[Hikmatun] Kenali pasukan Dajjal dan simbol-simbol mereka « Hikmatun: Abu Bakar Kaakyama Mayanja, and Rajat Neogy editor of the magazine _Transition_, were arrested in November 1968 and charged with having “brought into hatred or contempt the President, Dr Obote” by repeating a “rumor that the appointment of Africans to the Uganda judiciary had been held up, mostly for tribal reasons.” In a letter in _Transition_, Abu Mayanja had at least gone through the motions of dismissing the rumor of such a sidelining of the recommendations of the Judicial Service Committee for appointments, but he had assailed Obote’s government as “happy to retain colonial laws to suppress freedom of association and expression.” His own fate certainly bore that out: his January 1969 trial found him not guilty, but he was only rearrested under the new emergency regulations and _Transition_ ceased to appear [[Colin Legum and John Drysdale, _Africa Contemporary Record: Annual Survey and Documents 1969-1970_ (Exeter: Africa Research Limited 1970) pp. 216-217]].

[Che Det] SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - Che Det: Sept.11 2001 WTC collapsed occurs about 9 year ago and I cannot recalled what had been aired on TV vividly.But then,I used to view lot of documentaries pertaining to these incidences.After you narrated the way and pattern these 2 blocks collapsed,it brings logic that this is indeed a conspiracy by the Jews of America.As I can flimsy recalled,on the day the mishap occured,it was reported that all Jews on both blocks were not presence at their workplace.Either they went on medical,annual leave or they came late to their offices.If it were coincidences,it could only happened to a handful of these Jews of the World Trade Center.But what was reported in one of the documentaries I viewed is that all of the Jews were safe from these catastrophes.Anyway Tun,since you have the access to verify my statements,please do so and please don't believe it gullibly.Thank you Sir and have a nice day.

[United Against Islamic Supremacism] AfPak Notes - Week 3 - 2009 « United Against Islamic Supremacism: A week later, on June 6, 2008, the Taliban announced their 12 point demands for FATA’s Darra Adam Khel’s submission. Dawn reported the Taliban demands included: “withdrawal of security forces from Darra Adam Khel, payment of compensation for damage caused to houses of militants, release of their men, health and education facilities, special quota for Darra tribesmen in engineering and medical colleges, payment of royalty for the Kohat Tunnel, exemption from toll tax, reduction in CNIC and passport fees, establishment of a medical college in Darra Adam Khel, construction of small dams, afforestation of the area and unhindered supply of electricity.”

[Pakistan Politics] Visitors News & Views - Week 2, May 2008 « Pakistan Politics: (2) All orders made, proceedings taken, appointments made, including secondments and deputations, and acts done by any authority, or by any person, which were made, taken or done, or purported to have been made, taken or done, between the twelfth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, and the date on which this Article comes into force (both days inclusive), in exercise of the powers derived from any Proclamation, President’s Orders, Ordinances, Chief Executive’s Orders, enactments, including amendments in the Constitution, notifications, rules, orders, bye-laws or in execution of or in compliance with any orders made or sentences passed by any authority in the exercise or purported exercise of powers as aforesaid, shall, notwithstanding any judgment of any court, be deemed to be and always to have been validly made, taken or done and shall not be called in question in any court or forum on any ground whatsoever.

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Iraqi Dinar Discussion: July 13, 2006 ...: that should make you have a very intense pucker factor..If you have a different view of how the Iraqi politicians are going to react...considering it is the shiites being attacked by Israel and the Iraqi politicians power is build solely within a shiite political base both in population and positions of strength within the Iraqi government...please feel free to give it here....if you were an Iraqi politician what would you do...when the shiite population and your shiite cabinet members started putting pressure on you .

[1 MUSLIM NATION] How Ataturk Destroyed Islam in Turkey « 1 MUSLIM NATION: Caliphate bougth the home to England in 1920s..Caliphate declared all the Turks who fight with enemies as ateist..And after the independence the public killed the men who helped enemies like caliphate..So the last sultan of Ottoman got afraid and he escaped to Maltha…here %99 muslims and when he removed caliphae nobody rebelled..Åžeyh Said was a traitor kurd who helped for England to occupy Musul..If he didnt rebel,we would get Musul…but he became difficulty for Turkish Army to help english soldiers…And according to kemalist secularism noone can interfere on the other ones..for example i donr drink but i cant say anythÄ±ng my friend who drink..noone can cut head of people for Allah..and the women didnt have to wear Ã§arÅŸaf..in any case Ä±n Quaran there isnt carÅŸaf..Ataturk removed carÅŸaf..it made women ..Ataturk gave women the rights of marriage,divorce,working,inheritance…his clothes Ä±s not about not only language and clothes..Ä±n ottoman %1 knew writing-reading..and only they could read Quaran..arabic letters was very hard for turkish society!today %89 know writing-reading..and they can read Quaran!and Ä±t Ä±s forbidden to use Islam Ä±n politics…politicans must Ä±nterest our economic,cultural,social,humanistic,educational,militarily problems..we have a master of religional subjects..Ali BardakoÄŸlu…he is duty on religional subjects..our president mustn get vote by using people’religional emotions..they mustn make ostentation..and this geography nationalism is an obligation..i said ”i am a Turk”among my european friends but among my arabic friends i say ”i am a muslim”..meanly Turkish nationalism protects us from imperialism..we are very very happy here..Ä±n Turkey Islam Ä±s holy.because Ä±t Ä±s special..i learned my prophet’s life Ä±n Ataturk’s schools..i learned Islamic history Ä±n his schools…i learned also the events before Ä±slam and after Ä±slam Ä±n turkish history..thanks to ataturk..i am proud of being muslim and i think i am luckier to live Ä±n democratic,free,secular the Republic of Turkey..

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WPR Article | Likely Scenarios for Iraq's Elections

[World Politics Review: Articles] Its two largest parties, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and Muqtada al-Sadr's "Sadrists," have been at each other's throats for years, and only joined forces to check Maliki's growing dominance. The INA also includes other smaller parties and independents that have also had differences with ISCI.

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[RealClearWorld - Articles] RealClearWorld - After Vote, Can Iraq Form a Government?: Accordingly, the Kurdish leadership seeks guarantees regarding the future of Kirkuk, the distribution of oil revenue, the final borders of the Kurdish Regional Government, and the status of the peshmerga fighters. And they are unlikely to compromise much given the impending U.S. withdrawal and the perception that they must get the best deal they can while American forces are still on the ground.

[Dinar Daddy's Tidbits] * Key to Iraqi Stability Lies in Resolution of the Conflicting ...: Much will also depend on the results of the upcoming March 7 nation-wide elections. Significant divisions have emerged not only between Sunni and Shiite political blocs, but also among the Kurds - with Kurdish Islamist parties as well as the new Gorran Party (a splinter group that broke away from Jalal al-Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) promising to run separately from the previously hegemonic Kurdish List. If more statewide political alliances emerge across sectarian lines after the elections, the dialectic of Kurdish-Arab disputes might recede a little as well. Alternately, Kurdish parties in stiffer competition with each other may feel less able to compromise on core issues like Kirkuk and control of oil resources in Kurdistan.

[openDemocracy] The softening tone of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq ...: Following his father's death and his appointment as the new leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq or ISCI, Ammar al-Hakim, has made several changes to his party's policy. During a press conference held in Amman on .

[FSI Stanford News, Events, Publications] Iranian Strategy in Iraq: Politics and "Other Means" - FSI Stanford: Badr received training and weapons from the IRGC”QF and Lebanese Hizballah to attack both the Iraqi regime and the Mujahidin”e Khalq Organization (MKO), an Iranian terrorist group. Numerous senior individuals in the Badr Corps during the 1990s play critical logistical roles funneling weapons to militants in Iraq today, including Abu Mustafa al”Sheibani-the first major Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) smuggler-and Abu Mahdi al”Muhandis, the terrorist and former Badr Corps commander who was elected to the Iraqi parliament before fleeing to Iran.

[Arab News Blog] Arab News Blog » Is US-Iran rivalry Driving the Exclusion of ...: Since the Iraqi constitution specifies that the single party or party-coalition that has the largest number of seats will be given the first shot at forming a government, al-Maliki could only get a second term if Da’wa does unprecedentedly well and outpolls almost all the other Shiite parties together. Worse for Shiite interests, you could imagine a situation where Da’wa gets 65 seats and the Iraqi National Alliance gets 70, but where some other coalition gets 73.

[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] FACTBOX-Who has eye on Iraq prime minister post? - Investor's Iraq ...: His political bloc, the Iraqi National List, has fractured but he formed a new alliance, under the Iraqiya banner, with prominent Sunni politician Saleh al-Mutlaq and Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tarek al-Hashemi. That cross-confessional alliance has been dealt a blow by an independent panel's decision to ban Mutlaq from the election for alleged links to Saddam Hussein's Baath party.

[Inside CFR Events (Audio)] Iraqi Elections: Political Tremors? - Council on Foreign Relations: The United States must be careful not to intrude upon the sense of national sovereignty that began to emerge in Iraq over the past two years. The Iraqis will work much of this out themselves (as they must), and the U.S. should play a supporting role, assisting when asked from behind the scenes, but generally staying out of the ring--lest we bloody our own nose.

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » Has Washington Decided to Focus on ...: Unlike in the past two parliamentary elections, al-Maliki declined to join the big coalition of Shiite religious parties, now called the Iraqi National Alliance, which includes the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and the Sadr Movement. Since the Iraqi constitution specifies that the single party or party-coalition that has the largest number of seats will be given the first shot at forming a government, al-Maliki could only get a second term if Da'wa does .

[Iraq and Gulf Analysis] Reactions to the Occupation of Fakka: A Barometer of Pro-Iranian ...: Meanwhile, the US ambassador in Baghdad, Christopher Hill, sounded bullish about the emerging Iraqi official reaction: “It does speak to the overall view here that they are not going to be pushed around by Iran.” This seemed like an echo of his predecessor, Ryan Crocker, who never tired of telling us that the anti-Iranian stance of Iraqi Shiites during the war in the 1980s constitutes a veritable guarantee against excessive Iranian interference - never mind that Crocker focused his Iraq diplomacy precisely on those Shiites and Kurds that fought on the Iranian side, like Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim and Masud Barzani. But these days Maliki and not the Hakim family seems to represent the focus of attention for the optimists in Washington, and given the slightly more critical perspective on the Iranian operations on the State of Law website, maybe Hill was right?

[Middle East Progress] Middle East Progress » Blog Archive » The Iraqi Provincial Powers Law: The COR approved the law on February 13, but Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi of the Islamic Supreme Council in Iraq party (ISCI), and a member of the presidential council delayed its final approval. The presidential council consists of the .

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » The Key to an Honorable Exit from Iraq: He adds that a common misreading of the 2009 provincial elections has it that the federalist idea was undercut by the victory of centralists, a fact owing more to the incompetence of the ISCI, which was effectively branded a handmaiden of Tehran. But it is important to remember that no elections were even held in the key region of Kurdistan or the contentious province of Kirkuk, which together make up a fifth of the entire country.

[Baghdad Bureau] Election: Preliminary Results - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: Tawafiq/Iraqi Accordance Front: A coalition of Sunni Islamist parties dominated by the Iraqi Islamic Party, a long time opponent of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party. The main Sunni coalition dominated by Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi and Adnan al-Dulaimi.

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Palestinian Pundit: Blair Warned in 2000 Iraq War was Illegal

[Palestinian Pundit] March 02, 2010 "The Independent" -- An invasion of Iraq was discussed within the Government more than two years before military action was taken - with Foreign Office mandarins warning that an invasion would be illegal, that it would claim "considerable casualties" and could lead to the breakdown of Iraq, The Independent can reveal.

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[res88's blog] res88's blog » Iraq war takes centre stage at Oscars: Seven years after Michael Moore was booed off the Oscars stage for protesting the invasion of Iraq, a film depicting the conflict is poised to take the top prize at the Academy Awards. Tom O'Neil, an awards season pundit with the Los Angeles Times, believes “The Hurt Locker” has succeeded where others failed because Bigelow shied away from making any kind of political statement about the war in Iraq.

[OneRiot Hot Topics] OneRiot.com - Iraq to Bring Back 20000 Saddam Era Officers: An invasion of Iraq was discussed within the Government more than two years before military action was taken - with Foreign Office mandarins... www.independent.co.uk/.

[The American Pundit] It's Time To Recognize Taiwan | The American Pundit: And while we may sell arms to the Taiwanese in an attempt to deter a possible Chinese invasion, we don't officially recognize the sovereign rights of the island nation to defend itself from a separate mainland country. Taiwan offered to send troops to assist in the war in Iraq.

[Shadow Government] Moving on from Iraq too soon | Shadow Government: This is winding down the American military commitment in Iraq, which was begun by people in the last administration who did not count its cost at the start and are not doing it now. Meanwhile the rest of the administration, including the President, are devoting time and attention to subjects other than the daily affairs of one, mid-sized Arab country.

[Wake Up America!] Britain's Inquiry into the Iraq War and the Israel Lobby Taboo: Specifically, Professor Mearsheimer and I made it clear in our article and especially in our book that the idea of invading Iraq originated in the United States with the neoconservatives, and not with the Israeli government. But as the neoconservative pundit Max Boot once put it, steadfast support for Israel is ”˜a key tenet of neoconservatism.’ Prominent neo-conservatives occupied important positions in the Bush administration, and in the aftermath of 9/11, they played a major role in persuading Bush and Cheney to back a war against Iraq, which they had been advocating since the late 1990s.

[MashTrends] Addicted to Force, Addicted to Failure | MashTrends: Nor was serious attention paid when, before the invasion of Iraq, millions of people worldwide poured into the streets of global cities to say loud and clear: Don't do it! It'll be a catastrophe!

[Wots Hot Right Now] Iraq war takes centre stage at Oscars | Wots Hot Right Now: HOLLYWOOD (AFP) - Seven years after Michael Moore was booed off the Oscars stage for protesting the invasion of Iraq, a film depicting. Tom O'Neil, an awards season pundit with the Los Angeles Times, believes “The Hurt Locker” has succeeded where others failed because Bigelow shied away from making any kind of political statement about the war in Iraq.

[Journal] AlisonWeir.org - Journal - Britain's Inquiry into the Iraq War and ...: Writing in “The Independent” on November 28 and December 12, columnist Richard Ingrams wondered whether the Zionists' links to the Iraq invasion would be brushed aside. His comments on this issue on December 12 included a favorable .

[The Best Defense] Iraq isn't as bad as you thought - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense: I think so, and the reason is probably that he, like many Americans, viewed the situation in Iraq with a strong preconception of what political "reconciliation" had to look like. Nothing close to it was visible in 2008 (or is visible now), which meant that the reduction in violence that followed the surge couldn't last -- a conclusion that does not follow, though as I suggest above what is true now may not be five years from now.

[Rapid Fire Rightness] That's Right - Articles, Headlines, and Conservative Commentary ...: On the differences between Germany/Japan and Iraq/Afghanistan, I would start by noting that early 20th century Germany and Japan were technologically modern functioning societies compared to 21st century Iraq and Afghanistan. We can banter day and night over how “secular”

[Stephen M. Walt] Blair, Bush, Israel and Iraq | Stephen M. Walt: He mentioned the "Israel issue" in the context of the considerations in going to war, but that could just as easily refer to the effect launching the war would have on other Mideast peace prospects (his comments suggest they were concerned with broader Mideast issues) and how it would "play" in the rest of the region, as well as whether there would be a repeat of attacks on Israel as a result of a coalition attack against Iraq, and what to do with Israel in terms of its potential response. THAT would be a more logical interpretation of what Blair meant and why he and Bush would consult with the Israelis, i.e., to make sure they would play ball in terms of staying on the sidelines as they did in Gulf War I and thereby avoid turning the opinion of other Arab states against the U.S./British efforts.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Every Rose has its thorn: Rose did NOT substantially question The Moustache of Freedom's summary of why the Iraq invasion was “worth it” (We had to hit 'them' .in that region ”¦ to show that we were serious) - paraphrasing, but that 's the gist of Tommy's defense of our action.

[Opinionator] Zuckerman Unbound - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: These isolated quotations don’t do justice to the melodramatic, borderline-hysterical tone of Zuckerman’s writing about the imminent threat supposedly posed to the United States by Iraq. When the next chance to attack a country comes up, I personally would prefer to have as many non-hysterics in the Senate as possible.

[Oscar Unofficial Blog] Iraq war takes centre stage at Oscars :: Oscar Unofficial Blog: Seven years after Michael Moore was booed off the Oscars stage for protesting the invasion of Iraq, a film depicting the conflict is poised to take the top prize at the Academy Awards. With less than a week to go until the Oscars are handed out at the Kodak Theater, Kathryn Bigelow's gritty "The Hurt Locker"

[ISLAM TRIBUNE] Iraq war takes centre stage at Oscars | ISLAM TRIBUNE: Yet the critical and awards season success of the low-budget “Hurt Locker” has forced analysts to revise the conventional wisdom that any movie that attempted to depict an unpopular conflict was destined for failure. Related article: Newcomers light up Oscars red carpet

[Ezra Klein] Ezra Klein: The Political Is Personal: And at the end of this fight, I don’t expect that we’ll have a more leftist Democratic Party, but one that can at least begin to get beyond checklist liberalism."At the end of the day, we elect people to act as our agents, people who will make the decisions we would make, if we were in that position and well-informed. And, in no small part because of the mindless and close-eared way the Democratic political leadership lined up behind the Iraq invasion, a sizeable portion of the Democratic base just doesn't trust the present Democratic leadership (or the DLC or TNR) to behave in the way it would in those positions.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » What?: (I think this one is delusional and this one is defensive dishonesty, but YMMV. Such attitudes call into question a pundit's fundamental judgment, values and understanding of the world.

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Rumour: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...

[Kotaku Australia] Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too 'hot' to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to .

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[Cool-O-Rama] Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: ... Controversial Iraq War Game quot;Finishedquot;, Ready For Release”//aSix Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too “hot” to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be released. ...

[Geek 3000] Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: It also suggests that developer Atomic Games remains operational in some capacity, despite reports that it had closed down following Konami’s refusal to publish the title. The game caused controversy when first announced, with some believing it was “too soon”

[Cool-O-Rama] Rumor: Six Days in Fallujah finished, ready for 2010: piSix Days /iwas torn apart by mainstream media within 48 hours of being announced, and Konami chickened out of publishing it because it somehow wasn’t prepared for backlash from a game set in Iraq. Hopefully whichever publisher dares to take the game on won’t agree to take it on, only to get cold feet later and leave the game hanging.

[XboxSold.com BLOG] Rumor: Six Days in Fallujah finished, ready for 2010| XboxSold.com ...: Six Days was torn apart by mainstream media within 48 hours of being announced, and Konami chickened out of publishing it because it somehow wasn’t prepared for backlash from a game set in Iraq. Hopefully whichever publisher dares to take the game on won’t agree to take it on, only to get cold feet later and leave the game hanging.

[NNN Forums] Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release [Politics] - Yesterday, 10:45 PM

[VGTribune.com] Konami drops “Iraq war” game « VGTribune.com: sixdays 150x150 Konami drops Iraq war game IGN is reporting that Konami has decided to drop “Six days in Fallujah” from it's release schedule.Ã‚ The controversial first person shooter is to be based off of the first six days of the Iraq .

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy - Co-ed Combat - Physical Sex Differences ...: If there is concern about chemical or biological agents, as at the outset of the Iraq war, soldiers may have to wear stifling protective gear, which imposes greater physiological stress on women than on men. Then, of course, comes the infantryman's .

[EpicBattleAxe] EpicBattleAxe » Blog Archive » EBC Skirmish 055: Imagine Dress ...: How long will it take for people to finally realise that we are not living in a good world.Let’s face it,we live in a world where a 12 years old kid can willingly witness a bondage rape as long as he has access to internet,where 20000 people die everyday because of the lack of food(while america/europe produces enought food for the whole planet),where gun-selling is one the most unpunished crime,where there is war-like situation in most of the world,where a dictature running on 1/3 contry,and where the so called right of man are ignored every time they can,and yet,despite all that,they are still people ignorant/stupid enought having time to bash video games about violence/nudity,instead of facing the real deal.

[digoBlog: news on tech & games] digoBlog: news on tech & games » Blog Archive » Rumor ...: Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release .Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too "hot" to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be .

[Game Prowl] Game Prowl » Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready ...: Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too “hot” to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be released. “I can promise you that game is still coming out and it is finished”, a source told the video games website, reminding us all of a promising project that had been .

[BadPower.com Blog] Rumor: Six Days in Fallujah finished, ready for 2010| Latest ...: Six Days was torn apart by mainstream media within 48 hours of being announced, and Konami chickened out of publishing it because it somehow wasn’t prepared for backlash from a game set in Iraq. Hopefully whichever publisher dares to take the game on won’t agree to take it on, only to get cold feet later and leave the game hanging.

[Phatboi's Blog-Roll] Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release ...: Rumor: Controversial Iraq War Game "Finished", Ready For Release .Six Days In Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq War that Konami thought was too “hot” to publish, has according to IGN been completed, and is ready to be released.

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The New York Times veers neocon -- Signs of the Times News

[Signs of the Times] Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W.

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[Republic Broadcasting Network] Israel did 9/11 | Republic Broadcasting Network: Despite his complicity in supporting Nicaraguan death squads during the Iran-Contra affair and his support of the brutal military dictatorship of General Gustavo Alvarez Mart?nez in Honduras, Negroponte’s Senate confirmation as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq went smoothly.

[The Global Realm] US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran « The Global Realm: “On or about November 25, 1985, Ledeen received a frantic phone call from Ghorbanifar, asking him to relay a message from the prime minister of Iran to President Reagan regarding the shipment of the wrong type of HAWKs,” according to Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh’s Final Report.

[Jack & Jill Politics] How Neo-Cons, Neo-Nazis And Neo-McVeighs Crashed Ron Paul's Tea ...: Like I said before, I am not defending conservatives or Dick Cheney, all I'm saying is that you can't make a headline about racism and Timothy McVeigh and try to link this all nonesense to Ron Paul and the 9/11 antiwar movement. It's ridiculous.

[Publishers Weekly - Reviews News] Nonfiction Reviews: 10/5/2009 - 2009-10-05 06:00:00 | Publishers ...: Colodny (Silent Coup) and Shachtman (Decade) hang their study on the figure of Fritz Kraemer, an obscure Pentagon analyst, whose championing of a militarized, moralistic foreign policy allegedly inspired two generations of neoconservatives. The book’s first half follows the departure of Richard Nixon and erstwhile Kraemer-ite Henry Kissinger from conservative orthodoxy in seeking a rapprochement with Communist powers.

[Stephen M. Walt] Unrealistic Advice from so-called "realist" Richard Haass ...: But now, he says, he’s “changed his mind.” He’s convinced that Iran is trying to acquire the capacity to build a nuclear weapon (a carefully worded phrase, by the way, as having the capacity to build a nuke is not the same as actually building one and Iran may merely be seeking a latent capacity akin to Japan rather than an actual nuclear arsenal). He also thinks -- from his lofty perch in New York City -- that Iran “may be closer to profound political change than at any other time since the revolution that ousted the Shah thirty years ago.” Although he doesn’t call for a U.S. invasion (which we don’t have the forces for anyway), he wants the U.S. and its allies to be more vocal about Iranian human rights violations and advocates slapping targeted sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Meanwhile, neither senior U.S. officials nor congressmen should have any dealings with the Iranian regime, and we ought to push hard for sanctions on refined petroleum products at the U.N.

[In These New Times] The Neocons-”an infection that keeps coming back.” « In These New ...: There were faces from the Iraq War, with which the neocons are inextricably linked, like former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz (making a rare public appearance) and the former civilian administrator of Iraq, Paul Bremer. Charles Krauthammer, the impassioned and highly influential neoconservative columnist at The Washington Post, and the political scientist Francis Fukuyama (a rare lapsed and repentant neocon) hadn’t spoken to each other for several years””ever since Fukuyama had taken exception to the roseate view of the Iraq War Krauthammer had offered in the American Enterprise Institute’s 2004 Irving Kristol Lecture””but Kristol’s death had briefly brought them back together, albeit in different parts of the synagogue.

[Legal Club - National Economics University] Practice to Deceive « Legal Club - National Economics University: Hemmed in by budget deficits at home and limited financial assistance from allies, the Bush administration is talking again about tapping Iraq’s oil reserves to offset some of the costs of the American presence–talk that is further inflaming the region. Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence has discovered fresh evidence that, prior to the war, Saddam moved quantities of biological and chemical weapons to Syria.

[The LA Progressive] McClintock Press Secretary Slams Eran, Eran Talks Back | The LA ...: Eran ignores the factors that actually produced the Clinton expansion: Clinton’s welfare reform act and NAFTA and the aspects of Clinton’s fiscal policy that embraced significant tax cuts, including ending the “retirement test” for social security benefits (a huge tax cut for elderly workers) and signing the largest capital gains tax cut in history which exempted owner-occupied homes from any capital gains tax and reduced government spending as a share of GDP by an amazing 3 ½ percentage points - all conservative policies that leftists like Mr.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - Patriotic Resistance] DESTRUCTION BY DESIGN AND EVIL DIRECTIONS: A "CURRENT" PERSPECTIVE ...: Bush...They did so in broad view of the American people, overturning a decision of the Florida Supreme Court and dismissing the warnings of their fellow justices, who protested in vain that the ruling would undermine the legitimacy of the judiciary and discredit the United States' claims to represent democratic principles...The very methods employed by the Bush campaign and its allies on the Supreme Court, and the overtly anti-democratic basis of their actions, reveal the nature of the policies the new administration intends to carry out. Bush speaks for the most ruthless and avaricious sections of the ruling class””those who demand the removal of all legal, political and moral limitations on the exploitation of the working class, the realization of profit and the accumulation of personal wealth.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Why Rove Failed: All that is left is a broken more obvious culturally destructive GOP, an ascendant weak and feakless Democratic party, and an empty suit the Tyrannt and Chief of a President with no track record of accomplishment and a disastrous war to ....

[Piotr Bein's blog = blog Piotra Beina] 2009 December 31 « Piotr Bein's blog = blog Piotra Beina: Zionists have been exploiting Islamism and Islamophobia for state terror, just as they have used Nazism and anti-Semitism to establish and maintain Israel; “Just as Zionist Jews subverted German society with crypto-Jewish leaders, who rose to power on a platform of anti-Semitism, Zionist Jews are subverting Moslem nations with crypto-Jewish leaders and Jewish agents, who rise to power on an anti-Zionist platform [...] Jews also commit acts of terrorism against various Moslem sects in order to artificially create sectarian strife and divisions among Moslem Peoples.” Israel’s right-wing had supported Hamas to counterbalance PLO with a competing religious alternative, believing that “Hamas and the other groups, if they gained control, would refuse to have anything to do with the peace process and would torpedo any agreements”.

[Chasing Nugan Hand] How the secret team transformed America: Another shadow government figure who would later become instrumental in the transformation of America into the fascistic Homeland is one David Addington, Cheney’s crackerjack legal mind and longtime hatchetman who has along with others such as John Yoo (a man who once said that the president had the legal authority to crush a child’s testicles were it deemed necessary) have toiled to change the law of the nation into something dark and foreign. In Addington’s world there is legitimacy to engage in illegal (at least until now) domestic spying, abduction and detention without trial, torture both physical and mental (a horrifying example is that of Jose Padilla (an American citizen who would be the precedent for future actions against other Americans) who was imprisoned and psychologically destroyed through the application of mind control techniques straight out of the infamous CIA program MKULTRA to the point where his mental capacities were that of “a piece of furniture”.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Say Hello to the Newest Member of ...: The Democrats aren't right on everything, but we have injected a lot of what I will call 'disastrous Bush Republicanism' into this country, and right now, simply ceasing to .have been getting more and more TREASONOUS, with the culmination being Iran/Contra TREASON, Poppy Bush pardoning.

[Piotr Bein's blog = blog Piotra Beina] Judeocentrics and Mass Crimes « Piotr Bein's blog = blog Piotra Beina: After Soviet disintegration, neocons called for confrontation despite Russia’s weakness, Pentagon memo “Defense Planning Guidance” (DPG 1992) by neocons Wolfowitz and Lewis Libby, advocated total US-NATO war against Russia, should Moscow threaten US security and nascent democracies in former Soviet bloc. DPG asserted Russia would not likely go atomic, but as soon as Yeltsin’s “cooperativeness” was over, Russia flexed its nuclear muscle in the Baltic region, the one DPG had emphasized.

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US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran -- Signs of the Times News

[Signs of the Times] Those poll results were either ignored by the U.S. news media or discounted as the result of fearful Iranians simply saying what their government wanted to hear. However, similar polls have been conducted in countries around the world, including during the U.S. military occupation of Iraq, and have been regarded as useful measures of public opinion.

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[The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran | The Smirking Chimp: Those poll results were either ignored by the U.S. news media or discounted as the result of fearful Iranians simply saying what their government wanted to hear. However, similar polls have been conducted in countries around the world, .

[Lexington Universal Circuit] The Severity of Iran's Nuclear Program: Rubbish or Real ...: The advancements in Iran’s nuclear program between the fall of the Mossadegh regime and the Islamic revolution were exceptional. Strong diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran served as Iran’s impetus to move forward with nuclear development. These advancements would not have materialized without cooperation and assistance from the United States. Iran sought American universities, engineers, and scientists to bolster its nuclear program. In this regard, the United States was overwhelmingly generous. Massachusetts Institute of Technology was among the universities chosen (as well as Harvard University and Columbia University) by Iranian government to specially train nuclear engineers [7]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s consideration to this matter sparked debate throughout the campus as students protested the program fearful that Iran had a nuclear proliferation agenda. If political concern was heartfelt by students, it was the academic integrity of the institution and the prestige of its degrees that troubled some of its faculty. Rising concern about Iran’s nuclear objective seemed to diffuse the M.I.T. community and the nation when Professor Kent Hansen argued that it was advantageous for the institution to adopt this program as a medium to gain exposure in foreign countries [8]. He believed that world could benefit from American education asserting that international students will return to their countries and become powerful public figures. Providing fair opportunity to these international students in the United States would reap benefits in the future when they reflect on their education.

[The Race for Iran] Gates Says U.S. Must Turn to “Pressure Track” « The Race for Iran: Striking Iran is a fantasy for those who are concerned with loss of US global hegemony and some Los Angeles based expatriate green revolutionaries who fantasies a green revolution is coming this group constantly fails to mention what would the second day of striking Iran looks like, what if Iran retaliates in any possible way it could, they also need to explained what kind of collation would be formed would the NATO courtiers be willing to contribute which one of the neighboring countries are willing to be in this coalition it is clear a sea based only operation is impossible to mount even with 4 carriers so therefore a land base operation is required who would be the host country at what price. And what would a 2nd day of strike looks in the global energy markets and if by any chance Iran retaliated would US becomes engaged in a declared or not declared war with Iran, would that effect the current 1.6 trillion deficit and if increased could that be financed may be Wig Wag is Zig Zaging this answers we all need to hear from his group.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Rathered: If this is true then Ron Suskind just got hit with the exact same trick that brought down Dan Rather: take a damaging true story (in this case, that the administration fabricated documents that made it look like Iraq had contact with al Qaeda and sought yellowcake from Niger) ....

[AlterNet.org: Health and Wellness] Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back ...: When these Republicans deflect criticism from their failed policies onto a group like illegal aliens and then try to brainwash the middle class of Americans that this group is the culprit, we are only to blame ourselves if we buy this stupidity. Lastly, give it up if you think America would have universal health care or a better social system if their were no illegal aliens.

[PULSE] President of Cant « P U L S E: Nothing grated more on international opinion than the lack of requisite unction with which Bush and Cheney all too often went about their business, exposing allies and audiences otherwise well-disposed towards American leadership to inconvenient truths they would have preferred not to hear. Historically, the model for the current variant of imperial Presidency has been Woodrow Wilson, no less pious a Christian, whose every second word was peace, democracy or self-determination, while his armies invaded Mexico, occupied Haiti and attacked Russia, and his treaties handed one colony after another to his partners in war.

[The Plum Line] Congressional Dems Have No Message On National Security; Getting ...: Words of support were meaningless when Republicans sent them into war inadequately equipped and wanted to forget about them and their families after their service ends or they were injured/killed in the line of duty. Democrats are the true supporters of the troops, Republicans just like to talk about it.

[The Global Realm] US Media Replays Iraq Fiasco on Iran « The Global Realm: Ghorbanifar also had dangled the possibility of Reagan’s national security adviser Robert McFarlane meeting with high-level Iranian officials, including Mousavi. In May 1986, when McFarlane and White House aide Oliver North took their infamous trip to Tehran with the inscribed Bible and the key-shaped cake, they were planning to meet with Mousavi.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Chock-a-block with traitorous radicals: of war, of terror, of suffering and monumental overreaction. I feared that I was witnessing the opening act of a global spasm of terror, of endless war, .

[The American Conservative] The American Conservative » Secession in the Air: In 1814, Timothy Pickering, another veteran of the revolution and secretary of state to both George Washington and Adams, was a force behind the Hartford Convention, which argued for New England’s secession and reuniting with Great Britain. Massachusetts opposed Madison’s War of 1812 that had caused the British blockade that destroyed their trade and prosperity.

[Common Sense Political Thought] Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archive » For some people ...: That policy was applied directly against the Iraqi and Taliban regimes, but had indirect effects across the world: there were some liberalizations in Libya and on the local level in Egypt, there were free elections in the Palestinian areas, and even the Iranian people have been encouraged, though their regime is still trying to suppress dissent.

[Britannica Blog] Rescuing U.S. Foreign Policy (5 Questions for Leslie Gelb ...: If you recall Iran and the U.S. started some sort of relationship in 1986 (by President Regan through Robert McFarlane) but radicals in Iran leaked the information then the Iran-contra affair mess happened in the US since that time Americans were reluctant to seriously come close to Iranians and it’s understandable. Although after 9/11 Iran and US worked briefly during war in Afghanistan and a little early attacks to Iraq and it almost stopped there because the U.S. had Iran as the next target in the list.

[Rethink Afghanistan War Blog] Bacevich On Weaning America From The Folly Of Constant War ...: Were there any lingering doubt on that score, Barack Obama, the self-described agent of change, removed it once and for all: by upping the ante in Afghanistan he has put his personal imprimatur on the Long War.

[The Truth About Cars] S&P Sticks With “Buy” Rating For Toyota Stock | The Truth About Cars: And even tho those news stories will also have a short statement by a happy Toyota owner, the public will get the impression that for every happy owner there’s another owner who had this problem, when in fact a very small number of owners have actually experienced any throttle issues at all. Not to mention the number of stations that will do an examination of the pedal mechanisms like that done here on TTAC, only shabby and sensational instead of careful and thoughtful.

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Intute - Full record - Teheran Bureau: news on Iran and the ...

[Latest Internet resources added to Intute: Social sciences] The Teheran Bureau is an online newsroom founded by Kelly Golnoush Niknejad, in November, 2008. In September, 2009, the site entered into an editorial partnership with FRONTLINE, the PBS public affairs series.

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[Enduring America] Iran Document: Interview with Hossein Karroubi (11 February ...: Februar 2010, 8:16 Uhr EST (14:16 Uhr Ortszeit Deutschland) Referenziert von: Enduring America Übersetzung Englisch-Deutsch: Julia, bei Weiterveröffentlichung bitte Link [...]

[Iran News Digest | Stay Informed. Stay Green.] TEHRAN BUREAU: Iran's Bus Drivers Union Calls for Green-Labor Unity: We Appeal to the Iranian People and to the Democratic Green Movement–of which we consider ourselves a small part–to join us by creating a deliberate traffic jam in all directions leading to Valiasr Square.”

[Enduring America] Iran Analysis: The Assembly of Experts Mystery | Enduring America: Abbas Djavadi, associate director of broadcasting at RFE/RL, has published an interesting (and personal) article about the difference between a marja and a supreme leader, contrasting the views and position amongst his followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s highest Shi’ite authority, and the tradition that Ayatollah Khomeini initiated in Iran, continued by Ali Khamenei.

[Iran News Now] Not Defeated | Iran News Now: Muhammad Sahimi, wrote in a piece for Tehran Bureau of the necessity for “dynamic tactics” and “strong organization.”

[Infowars Ireland] The Old Man And His Sea : Infowars Ireland: by TDI Bureau www.thedailyindian.com February - 23 - 2010 It is interesting how the Western media utilises 'Zeros' (or the lack of. Ali Jawad, a Tehran based political expert says, “In its coverage of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the language of the West is indelibly coloured with imperial hubris and Euro-centric prejudice.

[KUOW 94.9 Puget Sound Public Radio] Iran, Israel And The United States: Resolving The Nuclear Impasse: Muhammed Sahimi analyzes Iranian politics for Teheran Bureau at PBS' Frontline. His articles have also appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post.

[Enduring America] The Latest from Iran (21 February): Catching Up | Enduring America: If Tehran remains determined to go nuclear and preventive attacks prove too risky or unworkable to carry out, the United States will need to formulate a strategy to contain Iran. In doing so, however, it would be a mistake to assume that containment would save the United States from the need to make tough choices about retaliation.

[UNHCR | Refworld | Latest Updates] UNHCR | Refworld | Attacks on the Press 2009 - Iran: Authorities clamped down on foreign media coverage, jamming the BBC's Persian television and radio service and the U.S. government-funded Radio Farda, and shutting the Tehran bureau of Dubai-based, pan-Arab Al-Arabiya television indefinitely after accusing the station of bias.

[Why We Protest - IRAN] Iran's Bus Drivers Union Calls For Green-Labor Unity - Why We ...: On February 12, a statement appeared on various Iranian websites, including Balatarin which is one of the largest Persian-speaking community websites in the world, in the form of a poster. The poster called for solidarity with the imprisoned leader of Tehran’s bus drivers union, Mansoor Osanloo, through acts of civil disobedience beginning on March 4 around Tehran’s Valiasr square.

[The Lede] Feb. 11: Updates on Demonstrations in Iran - The Lede Blog ...: Rafsanjani was close to the founder of Iran’s Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and still holds two important positions within Iran’s theocratic government. However, his support for the opposition has been somewhat muted in public and his political rivals, Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and ruling cleric, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appear to have ignored his attempt to shake their hold on power.

[Iran News Now] Live-blog: 22 Bahman - 31st Anniversary of Islamic Revolution ...: Of course the regime will attempt to spin it in their own favor, and will use the national wealth of the Iranian people, along with their monopoly on all state broadcasting mediums to try to convince the few remaining people that still believe they have popular support. But in this protracted struggle, where the media war is just as important as the war on the ground, it appears that it both instances the Green Movement is surviving.

[Feed for Arabist.net] The Arabs' Forlorn Envy of Iranians - Tehran Bureau - Blog - The ...: All of them, without exception, react to events in Iran with fascination, confusion, and concern, reflecting self-inflicted political incoherence and mediocrity that are hallmarks of the modern Arab world. Broadly speaking, the Arab world has maneuvered itself into a lose-lose situation vis-à-vis developments in Iran, despite different views of the Islamic Republic.

[Let Us Build Pakistan] Iran gets its most wanted terrorist, Abdulmalik Rigi | Let Us ...: John Pike, the head of the influential Global Security think tank in Washington, has said: ”˜The activities of the ethnic groups have heated up over the last two years and it would be a scandal if that was not at least in part the result of CIA activity’.The intelligence minister, Moslehi, also said that Rigi had been at a US military base 24 hours before being captured and had carried an Afghan passport supplied by the CIA.Speaking to Al Jazeera, Mahjoob Zweiri from Qatar University, said: “He [Rigi] was accused of being responsible of operations which basically annoyed the government in Iran… The Iranians look at him as a tool in different hands, sometimes in American hands, sometimes in Pakistani hands, sometimes in Israeli hands.”Pakistani officials reportedly handed Rigi over to Iranian authorities.

[mcclatchydc.com: Homepage] War game shows how attacking Iran could backfire | McClatchy: By the end of the simulation, eight days after the fictitious Israeli strike, Israel's prime minister, under heavy domestic pressure, is forced to launch a 48-hour air blitz in southern Lebanon to halt rocket attacks from Hezbollah, the militant group sponsored by Iran. Israeli officials know the blitz is unlikely to achieve its objectives, and prepare a larger, costlier operation in Lebanon, including ground forces.

[The Lede] Iran Militia Halts Former President's Speech - The Lede Blog ...: On Saturday night in Tehran, members of a pro-government militia broke into a mosque where former President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist leader, was speaking, forcing him to break off before concluding his remarks.

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NST Online Envoy says smugglers not flying in from Teheran

[nst online] KUALA LUMPUR: Iran's ambassador to Malaysia is calling for joint action by police from both countries and Interpol to uproot "the international mafia gangs" who are using Iranians to smuggle drugs into the country.

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[One Wing Left] It's News To M_A - 12/18/08: Here, I only want to describe the views of Obama's NST about Iran. Sensing his victory as inevitable, the neocons and the War Party started an all-out campaign before Nov.

[AppleQuack.com] Geneious performs DNA and RNA sequence analysis (Free): : *eureka* I am gona make a slug flap/door & constuct some sort of slug resistant wall that they can't in any way, shape or form, get over!!!

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Pisani Canadian Adventures: A love letter to Canada

[Pisani Canadian Adventures] After ten years in Naperville, Illinois, and many other places before that, this blog communicates what's up with the fam and the crazy dog Duke Urlacher (now known as Duke Gretzky), things we're learning in Canada and the differences between the two countries, shared by a very long border.

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[Blog SDVR.] Blog SDVR. | PLaylist vol.1: Carl Craig's Innerzone Orchestra - People Make The World Go Round .Kish Mauve - I'm In Love With A German Film Star (4:43) 31.

[Canonist] Canonist » Blog Archive » M. Tendler Open Thread XI: like Mordy Tendler who sleep around with women from his shul and ruins people’s lives all for his own kavod and pleasure, gay politicians like Ryan Karben who expect to keep getting elected even after the most atrocious behavior becomes public, butchers who sell traif chickens to the olam for a decade before being caught, totally phony and fake non-existent yeshivas in New Square that collect millions before those frauds got caught and sent to jail…how many frum Jews gave money to the New Square bearded phonies who came around every year shnorring for the non-existent yeshiva? And in all of this no rabbinic leadership at all.

[Bowling Factory Outlet] Voss leads opening day at USBC Masters « Bowling Factory Outlet: Voss, 51, proved Tuesday night that the change to his timing paid off as he fired 1,242 for five games, an average of 248.4, to take the lead after the opening round of the 2010 United States Bowling Congress Masters at the National Bowling Stadium.

[Cafferty File] Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - Dems ...: I think the deciding factor will be Hillary’s win in these states and others…I feel by the help of God this will happen…She is definitely our next President of the United States and will be a good one…who is a true Christian and Patriot of the United States…I am concerned about Obama’s Muslim faith…after all, it has been said that the Muslims plan on destroying the United States from the inside out and that means if he wins the Presidency that could very well happen…I don’t believe Mr. Obama is telling the truth, about why he is running for the Presidency of the great USA, which we all dearly love…He never shows us he loves our country…never wears a lapel pin of the American Flag and turns his back when they are playing the National Anthem…

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: I am a Canadian ,but I always laughed whenever he came on air and was introduced as Mr independent.Any reasonable person would read through him in no time,and figure out what side he's pulling for.I thought he used to criticize and blast politicians for pandering to ethnocentric groups.What an hypocrite.

[Cafferty File] Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - Should ...: Obviously as Americans we have come to trust those in power to make decsions for us at every level of government, when that trust is broken or that power is abused we the people have the right to call for and expect the resignation of those we trusted with our country, states and districts.To deny the people anything but the best possible representation is wrong. If you cannot hold yourself personally to the values and morals of the position in which you were elected then you should not run for office.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - No ...: Democrats or your beloved president Bush???even Mccain accepted that he is not Bush,your beloved president,but Mccain voted about 95% of Bush spending proprosals,and now he said that he can balance the budget in 4 years.Give me a break,what does he think about americans, we are not that stupid as he thinked,….well accept for a few people like yourself,keep on believe what ever he said.And about Sarah Palin,she is the dumbest person that ever run for VP.What does she know??beside attacking Obama! please somebody tell me exactly what she know!

[Radio Open Source] Radio Open Source » Blog Archive » Suggest a Show: February 2006: Alternately, Lord Buckley developed other forms of presentation which drew on elements of Americana (”The Train”), pathology (”Murder”), psychology (”Subconcsious Mind”), politics (”Governor Slugwell” and “H-Bomb”), sexuality (”Chastity Belt”), and transcendence (”God’s Own Drunk”).

[Annie Mac's Blog] BBC - Radio 1 - Annie Mac's Blog: I think it is another stupid stereotype that people have come up with in order to generalise teenagers yet again, just like the 'chav' , 'goth' , 'trendy' , 'townie' , 'gangsta' , 'geek' , 'swot' etc etc.. its not a new thing so I dont know why the media are drawing attention to it and 'warning' the public about this new 'cult' for one thing I think if parents were genuinely bothered if their kids were unhappy then the kids wouldnt BE unhappy in the first place and would have no reason to self harm.

[POLITICO Top Stories] Clear Channel CEO responds to Reid - The Crypt's Blog - Politico.com: Harry - it is appropriate to call a guy (Jesse MacBeth) who claimed to be a decorated combat veteran of both Iraq & Afghanistan and made up stories about himself and other American servicemen committing attrocities, who in fact is a complete fraud who was kicked out of boot camp after 44 days, a "phony soldier." People that pretend to be soldiers, when they are not, are "phony" and disgrace those honorable men and women of our armed services who fight on our behalf. Harry Reid and the rest of the Dems better stop supporting "phony soldiers," and start supporting "real soldiers," or they'll never win another election.

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Matt Kish | Escape Into Life

[Escape Into Life] Some of the art I’m making depends on the viewer having at least some general knowledge of Moby-Dick, and I think it would probably be really hard for someone who hasn’t read the book to get the whole story simply by looking at my art. When deciding what to illustrate from a particular page, I try to focus on what seem to be the most important elements from that part of the story.

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[Drunken Koudou] Moby-Dick, One Drawing at a Time: An Interview with Matt Kish ...: Matt Kish’s project on the website is exactly what it sounds like: having picked up a Signet Classic edition of Moby-Dick, he has made it his mission to draw one picture for every page of the novel. According to his Bio page, “Maybe I should have thought things through a bit more since I’ve seen quite a few editions with around 400 pages, which would have saved me an awful lot of time.”

[biblioklept] Matt Kish Illustrates Moby-Dick, One Page at a Time « biblioklept: I'm also really digging Matt Kish's mixed-media illustrations for the book. Kish is illustrating each page of his 552 page Signet Classics Edition-the same edition I used for a graduate seminar years ago.

[Fiction] Matt Kish Illustrates Moby Dick One Page at a Time | Fiction: Artist Matt Kish has undertaken a leviathan of a project: illustrating every page of Melville's classic Moby Dick. Kish is using a variety of different media.

[Discussion Forum - Poopsheet Foundation] interview with Matt Kish (PANEL, SPUDD 64) - Poopsheet Foundation: Lots of talk about his self-imposed task of drawing one picture for every page of Moby Dick. Nice work too.http://www.drunkenkoudou.com/2010/01/moby-dick-one-drawing-at-a-time-an-interview-with-matt-kish/

[Boing Boing] Matt Kish illustrates classic literature Boing Boing: I'm in a small comic book writers/artists collective (called PANEL) with Matt, so imagine my surprise and delight when I saw him featured on boingboing today! This is such an ambitious project that he's undertaken, and despite his aversion to self-promotion and publicity of any kind, I'm glad his work is being exposed to a larger audience.

[Vol. 1 Brooklyn] Matt Kish Really Loves Moby-Dick: together with artists Shawn Cheng, Matt Wiegle, John Mejias, Sean McCarthy, and Craig Taylor. I made sure to give all of them full credit and links on my blog.

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[Virginia Hughes] Moby Dick, in pictures « Virginia Hughes: The artist Matt Kish is making his way through “Moby-Dick,” creating an original illustration for each page as he goes, at the rate of nearly a page a day. A usually fastidious artist, Kish says the project has made him looser.

[Dude Craft] Dude Craft: Every Page of Moby Dick Illustrated: Matt - No, thank you for attempting this super-human feat. I'd be entirely surprised if there wasn't a book deal waiting at the end of this project.

[Whaling Museum blog] “One Drawing Every Page of Moby-Dick” « Whaling Museum blog: Helping to get us there, a series of playful, inventive, and interpretive drawings by Matt Kish. Matt is using his Signet Classic edition from 1992 with 552 pages and planning to make one drawing for each page.

[William Landay's Blog] Drawing Moby-Dick: Matt Kish, whose bio says he is not an artist, is rereading Moby-Dick while creating a drawing for every page. I love this one, for page 109: “I will have no man in my boat,” said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of a whale.

[Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog] One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick « Drawn! The Illustration ...: One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick. John Martz | December 18th, 2009. md106_12152009. Brilliant. Matt Kish is creating one drawing for every page of Moby Dick. (via @jennipoos). Tags: Books, Illustration, Matt Kish, projects ... amazing illustrations Zak Smith created for each page of Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow". I saw them at the Whitney biennial a few years ago and was blown away. http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/... blog comments powered by Disqus ...

[Pratham Books] Pratham Books: One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick: One Drawing for Every Page of Moby Dick. Matt Kish is on a mission to draw one drawing for every page of the classic book Moby Dick.

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[Shiite News / Largest Shia news portal] According to the Shiite News Correspondent, Now the city is once again open to threat especially on Rabiul Awwal 8th, when the Shia’s take out the ”˜Chup Tazia and Imam Hassan (AS) martyrdom procession’; and Rabiul Awwal 12, when the Barelvis take out a procession to celebrate Eid-e-Miladun Nabi(SAWW).

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[Shiite News / Largest Shia news portal] Shiite News / Largest Shia news portal » Central Azadari ...: According the the Shiite News reports, Mourning period will get to its end on Tuesday that will be 8th of the Rabi-ul-Awal, which would be the last day of the mourning processions, and the Azadari procession will be taken out all over the country on the occasion of martyrdom of eleventh Shiite Imam Askari (AS). In Karachi Two Central processions will be taken out from Nishtar Park to Hussaini Iranian Imam Bargah and Rizvia society Nazimabad to Martan Road Imam Bargah.

[The Pakistani Spectator] Moharram Processions Should Be Held Indoors | The Pakistani Spectator: It is said that Masjid is the best place to be and Bazars/Markets are the worst place to be in—so opting for the worst places to offer religious processions is..well kind of way too much weird whether you are a Shia on 9th and 10th Moharram and other days Or you are Sunni on 12th Rabbiul Awwal flooding through the roads and markets creating hinderances and complication for other people —someone may even need an immediate medical attention but unable to get through the overcrowded streets and roads.

[The Dawn Blog] The Dawn Blog » Blog Archive » Tears and terrorism: @ umair sir even if we take ur suggestion seriously what guarantee is there that terrorist are not going to bomb that…remember Hyderi Masjid, Imam bargah-e-ali raza, 12th rabi ul awwal Nishtar park. Sir cant you see whats the motive behind such attacks they want us to leave all those activities and confine to our home whats the guarantee that they leave your workplace alone not even school and hospitals are safe.

[Jihad Watch] 68 killed on Shi'ite holiday in Iraq - Jihad Watch: Shi'as believe that Muhammad al-Mahdi will reappear when the world has fallen into chaos and civil war emerges between the human race for no reason. At this time, it is believed, half of the true believers will ride from Yemen carrying white flags to Mecca, while the other half will ride from Karbala, in Iraq, carrying black flags to Mecca.

[Hazaristan Times] Muharram Processions Amid Tight Security and Chilly Weather ...: wa dar zimn da bare khon rikhthan kasani ki dar roz ashura az zanjir hayi thigh dar isthefada mikona, bayad bogoyam, ki dar nazar ma amo khon khod ra ba bank khon ba nami shohadayi karbala ihda konan, Khudawand ham khosh, shuhada ham wa banda gan khudawand ki namithana khon mowrid nayazash ra kharidari kona, ham khosh (ham sod ham sawab). umid daram ki dar Ashurahayi dega bakhair in rasm thagir kona.

[Karachi Metblogs] Here comes Rabiul-Awwal | Karachi Metblogs: he insisted, whilst also calling for “uninterrupted electricity supply during Rabiul Awwal processions”, a “special cleanliness campaign” (as a part of which limestone should be sprinkled at roadsides, footpaths, grounds and garbage-dumping centres he demanded) and “high standards of law and order in the city”

[Baiganchoka] Milad-un-Nabi - Holy Prophet Muhammad Birth and Death Anniversary ...: Zainab, Ruqaiyyah, Umm Kulthum, Fatimah, Qasim and Abdullah (also known as Tahir and Tayyib) (Ridhwanullahi Alaihim Ajma’in) were born from Ummul Mumineen Khadijah (Radhiallahu Ta’ala Anha) except Ibrahim who was born to Mariyya Qibtiyyah (Radhiallahu Ta’ala Anhuma).

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » “Shi'ites and Shi'ism in Medieval Syria ...: According to the twelfth-century Shi’ite chronicler Ibn Abi Tayyi’, Nur al-Din initially “conformed to the attitude of his father (‘Imad al-Din Zangi), showing great respect for the Aleppine Shi’ites, encouraging them to practice their prayer openly according to their rite in the eastern section of the great mosque. Their muezzins continued to call the faithful to prayer from the minarets of Aleppo, using the Shi’ite formula: ‘Come to the best of works!’” The chronicler claims that in his father’s day, even the mosque of Aleppo’s famous citadel (the residence of the Sunni ruler) used the Shi’ite formula.

[Mumbai Shia News] Mumbai Shia News: Amaari in Pune: On 7th Rabiul Awwal, Thursday, the 5th March 2009 a Juloos e Amari started by Anjuman-e-Muntazir-e-Mahdi Trust, at Shivaji Nagar, Opposite Railway Station, Pune. The Juloos arranged and led by Hujjatul Islam Maulna Sayyed Faiyyaz Husain Sahab.

[Naqshbandiya Foundation for Islamic Education] Naqshbandiya Foundation for Islamic Education: Mawlid in Pakistan: Eid Milad-un-Nabi / Mawlid MubarakMawlid (Eid Milad an Nabi) (Turkish: Mevlid) (Qur'anic Arabic: Ù…ÙŽÙˆÙ’Ù„ÙØ¯Ù Ø¢Ù„Ù†ÙŽØ¨ÙÙŠÙÙ‘”Ž mawlidu n-nabiyyi, “Birth of the Prophet” Standard Arabic: Ù…ÙˆÙ„Ø¯ Ø§Ù„Ù†Ø¨ÙŠ mawlid an-nabÄ«, sometimes simply called in colloquial Arabic Ù…ÙˆÙ„Ø¯ , mawlid, mÃºlid, mulud, milad among other vernacular pronunciations) is a term used to refer to the observance of the birthday of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (saws)which occurs in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.TimingMawlid falls in the month of Rabi' al-awwal in the Islamic calendar. Sunnis observe the event on the 12th of the month, while Shias observe the event on the 17th coinciding with the birth date of their sixth Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq.

[Karachi Metblogs] Dawat-e-Islami | Karachi Metblogs: Even when I was a Muslim by virtue of being borned into a Sunni Family, I went to Shia Majalis, attended Tableeghee Ijtimah and ofcourse Dars-e-Quran by Jamaatee bhai. Personally, I don’t mind people having different religous beliefs as long as they are not trying to impose or force their ideology on others.

[Pakistani | Pakistani News | Pakistani-American News | Pakistani Blog | Pakistan Forex News | Pakistan Commodities News | Pakistan Business News | Ibrahim Sajid Malick Blog] Clearing the Air: An Interview With Wajid Shamsul Hassan ...: The judgment states, “While the CJP was still at the President’s Camp Office in Rawalpindi during the said crucial ”˜FIVE HOURS’ and when according to the CJP he was being detained there against his wishes after 12 noon and when according to the respondents he was sitting there, in the company of the intelligence chiefs examining the reference and the material available in support thereof, a notification dated March 9, 2007, was issued by the Government of Pakistan in the Law, Justice and Human Rights Division mentioning therein that since the President of Pakistan had been pleased to make a reference called a ”˜DIRECTION’ by Article 209(5) of the Constitution) to the SJC against the CJP, therefore, the President had restrained Mr Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry from acting as the Chief Justice of Pakistan or even as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.”

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