Category Archives: Middle East

Just Like That

June 20, 2012 – 11:14 pm

v=rhu-YgCyPz4 Those that don’t remember history are doomed to not remember the past. Forget the part about mistakes, because many fools think that knowing the past permits the attempt to succeed where others have failed in a horrible fashion. On 6 October 1981 Egypt’s Sadat was attending a ceremony celebrating his army’s triumphant crossing of […]

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The Fall of the Mighty

June 20, 2012 – 10:20 pm

Thais and farangs living in Thailand are accustomed to the sight of police blocking a major thoroughfare or highway for the passage of a royal personage. Every intersections are sealed by police for the speeding cavalcade of luxury vehicles and security escorts. No one complains about this noble right of passage. Big people do what […]

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Welcome to Palestine

April 16, 2012 – 6:51 pm

An Israeli soldier has been suspended after video footage showed him hitting a foreign pro-Palestinian activist in the face with his gun during a bicycle rally in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military. This weekend at dinner in Montauk Richie Boy addressed my old lead about the one-state solution for Israel. “Israel […]

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Unfreedom Of Speech

March 1, 2012 – 12:25 pm

The US Constitution’s First Amendment guaranteed Freedom of Speech to all Americans. The restrictions on this liberty have been few. Treason, child pornography, and endangerment are considered beyond the frontiers of our inalienable rights. In truth we are free to say what we want as long as everyone else is saying the same thing. Governments […]

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66 Days

February 21, 2012 – 10:45 am

Khader Adnan has terminated his hunger strike after 66 days without any solid foods. The 33 year-old baker from the West bank has spent most of his current imprisonment shackled to his hospital bed to prevent his escape from custody. Israel authorities will end his ‘administrative detention’ April 17, unless new evidence emerged that link […]

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