LOL. Dear Poop, I ain't Slavic and I ain't Moslem.

Born in Lewisham, raised in Mt Druitt, St Clair, Kirribilli, Ashfield, Quakers Hill, Sunshine Caravan Park, West Brunswick, Box Hill TAFE carpark, Yarra River Heliport carpark, Cape Schanck National Park, Scotts Heads Caravan Park, Macksville, Nambucca Heads, Macquaire Fields (x3), Petersham, Ambarvale (x2), Rosemeadow and been around New Zealand numerous times (x6) as well.

I'm just an Oceanian who enjoys his occasional Diving amongst other things.

Down Under ...but also a Day Ahead.

Have been on the dole in my younger, naive days. But luckily it wasn't for long. Since then I've paid my own way - even if it meant doing some job that is considered 'gay' for a male to do and cleaning poo from peoples arses at the cost of a bad back and apprentice-like pay. Nah, I don't think I'm a Doley.
If I remember rightly, when I was on the Dole: I could barely afford a loaf of bread and a bottle of milk ...I even had to jump backyards and raid the compost heaps/bins for food. No, I don't think I would wish the Dole upon anyone.

Pak Minister wants Obama to be ''leader of all Muslims''
http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4337606
Islamabad, Sep 2 (PTI) A Pakistani minister wants US President Barack Obama to offer Eid prayers at Ground Zero in New York and become the "Amir-ul-Momineen" or Caliph of Muslims.

Minister of State for Industries Ayatullah Durrani, who belongs to the ruling Pakistan People''s Party, said the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr festival, expected to be observed on September 11, would be a "golden opportunity" for Obama to offer Eid prayers and declare himself the leader of all Muslims.

"In this way, all the problems of the Muslim world would be solved," Durrani told The Nation newspaper.

Durrani, a former member of the Pakistan Ideological Council, contended that the Muslim world is in "dire need" of a Caliph and occupying this distinguished slot would provide Obama "exemplary titles" like "Mullah Barack Hussain Obama" or "Allama Obama".

He said: "The time is approaching fast. Barack Hussain Obama must act now. This is a golden opportunity, Muslims badly need it."
Obama''s elevation to the Islamic Caliphate would be the "key to success, he claimed but did not offer any explanation for his remarks.

     




Between the lines



By Joseph Farah

When Mark Twain visited the Holy Land in the 19th century, he was greatly disappointed. He didn't see any people. He referred to it as a vast wasteland. The land we now know as Israel was practically deserted.

By the beginning of the 20th century, that began to change. Jews from all over the world began to return to their ancestral homeland – the Promised Land Moses and Joshua had conquered millennia earlier, Christians and Jews believe, on the direct orders of God.

That's not to say there wasn't always a strong Jewish presence in the land – particularly in and around Jerusalem. In 1854, according to a report in the New York Tribune, Jews constituted two-thirds of the population of that holy city. The source for that statistic? A journalist on assignment in the Middle East that year for the Tribune. His name was Karl Marx. Yes, that Karl Marx.

A travel guide to Palestine and Syria, published in 1906 by Karl Baedeker, illustrates the fact that, even when the Islamic Ottoman Empire ruled the region, the Muslim population in Jerusalem was minimal. The book estimates the total population of the city at 60,000, of whom 7,000 were Muslims, 13,000 were Christians and 40,000 were Jews.

"The number of Jews has greatly risen in the last few decades, in spite of the fact that they are forbidden to immigrate or to possess landed property," the book states.

Even though the Jews were persecuted, still they came to Jerusalem and represented the overwhelming majority of the population as early as 1906. And even though Muslims today claim Jerusalem as the third holiest site in Islam, when the city was under Islamic rule, they had little interest in it.

As the Jews came, drained the swamps and made the deserts bloom, something interesting began to happen. Arabs followed. I don't blame them. They had good reason to come. They came for jobs. They came for prosperity. They came for freedom. And they came in large numbers.

Winston Churchill observed in 1939: "So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population."

Then came 1948 and the great partition. The United Nations proposed the creation of two states in the region – one Jewish, one Arab. The Jews accepted it gratefully. The Arabs rejected it with a vengeance and declared war.

Arab leaders urged Arabs to leave the area so they would not be caught in the crossfire. They could return to their homes, they were told, after Israel was crushed and the Jews destroyed. It didn't work out that way. By most counts, several hundred thousand Arabs were displaced by this war – not by Israeli aggression, not by some Jewish real-estate grab, not by Israeli expansionism.

In fact, there are many historical records showing the Jews urged the Arabs to stay and live with them in peace. But, tragically, they chose to leave.

Fifty-four years later, the sons and daughters and grandsons and granddaughters of those refugees are all-too-often still living in refugee camps – not because of Israeli intransigence, but because they are misused as a political tool of the Arab powers.

Those poor unfortunates could be settled in a week by the rich Arab oil states that control 99.9 percent of the Middle East landmass, but they are kept as virtual prisoners, filled with misplaced hatred for Jews and armed as suicide martyrs by the Arab power brokers.

This is the modern real history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. At no time did the Jews uproot Arab families from their homes. When there were title deeds to be purchased, they bought them at inflated prices. When there were not, they worked the land so they could have a place to live without the persecution they faced throughout the world.

It's a great big lie that the Israelis displaced anyone – one of a series of lies and myths that have the world on the verge of committing yet another great injustice to the Jews.

Cockney Doll wrote on Sep 5^th, 2010 at 10:38pm:


Come on Cockney Doll, that's a pretty tenuous link.

HLF was the biggest Islamic Charity in the United States for a long time, and had a long list of contributors. Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, donated to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (an organisation directly linked with HLF which also had charges brought against it).

Al-Waleed bin Talal is News Corporation's (owners of Fox News as you already know) second largest shareholder.

Which, by your logic (i.e. Fox New's logic) would suggest that News Corp and Fox News have ties to Hamas.

See the problem there.

And it's not really 'the latest news... Just in'.

It's rather old actually.

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Wake up to yourself, and learn to think beyond google.

Australian greatest intellectual dissident about September 11and and World Trade Centre.

"He is happy that what he calls that "great ugly scaleless box of a thing" no longer disfigures the New York skyline".

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/the-wrath-of-hughes/story-e6frg6z6...


FROM the windows of the Manhattan loft he has inhabited for more than 20 years, Robert Hughes, Australia's most opinionated aesthete, looked out last week at the patch of sky where the World Trade Centre used to stand.

Hughes was looking out of this window on September 11, 2001, when a hijacked aircraft flew low over his SoHo building and crashed into one of the towers.

"There were a couple of BBC producers standing with their backs to the window; we were talking about a possible film on Goya," Hughes recalled last week. "One of them said to me, 'Bob, you've got a very strange expression on your face."'

Five years later, the rest of New York continues to wallow in pained debate about how the victims of the attacks should be memorialised and what kind of buildings should be erected next to the void at ground zero. Not Hughes, though.

He is happy that what he calls that "great ugly scaleless box of a thing" no longer disfigures the New York skyline.

"deeply discombobulating". The post-9/11 view from his window was like "looking into a familiar face with a piece bashed out by some maniac with a baseball bat, which of course was the case". "But do I miss it aesthetically? Obviously not."

This was fighting talk from a New York resident on the day most of the city was weepily observing the fifth anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on the US. Yet Hughes has made a career out of the unflinching honesty of his opinions, as several prominent British artists know to their cost. As the vastly influential art critic for Time magazine for more than 30 years, Hughes was never much impressed with Brit Art celebrities such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, and he is not about to change his mind now he is ageing and injured.

Nor is he in any hurry to make peace with his biggest critics, his fellow Australians, some of whom seem to regard him as a traitorous exile devoted to pissing venom on his homeland. Further aggro may well follow the publication of Things I Didn't Know, the first volume of Hughes's memoirs.

The book opens with an embittered account of the head-on car crash that nearly claimed his life on a remote road in Western Australia in 1999. After a long legal wrangle over who had caused the crash, Hughes was eventually fined $2500 and banned from driving in the state for three years.

Hughes, now 68, still walks with a severe limp and is in near-constant pain from the injuries he suffered. He has not forgiven the Australian reporters who condemned his behaviour during his trial.

At one point, he incautiously described the occupants of the oncoming car as "low-life scum" and was then alleged to have described a prosecutor of Indian ancestry as a "curry-muncher" (a charge he has always denied). The media depicted him as an elitist bully; he accused them of making it all up.

On learning that Hughes would be returning to Australia in November to promote his memoirs, The Australian's Strewth column summed up the relationship thus: "He thinks we are an uncultured and ungrateful bunch of yobs ("Bullshit!" interjects Hughes, when I read him this passage); we think he's a grumpy old bugger who should get over it." "Well, I am a grumpy old bugger, but I don't see any need to get over it," snaps Hughes as he hobbles barefoot around his kitchen, making coffee.

It may seem odd that so distinguished an Australian intellectual, so admired by much of the English-speaking world, should be regarded with such reserve by his countrymen. Yet Hughes believes he is not alone in suffering from what he calls "the strange cluster of fantasies that cling to the word 'expatriate' in Australia". "There are at present north of 70,000 Australians living and earning their keep abroad," he says. "As far as the Australian media is concerned (he pronounces it 'meejah' with a contemptuous flourish), there are only four expats, and these are Germaine (Greer), Barry (Humphries), Clive (James) and Bob (Hughes)." According to Hughes, the Australian media has concluded that "we four form a sort of cabal whose purpose is to denigrate Australia and piss on its fair name. It's total rubbish."

Cockney Doll wrote on Sep 9^th, 2010 at 11:06pm:


I've read some serious rubbish over the past few months. That just about tops it all.

You didn't actually watch the interview, did you. He didn't "threaten America". He highlighted the risks that have unfortunately come with the radical hijacking of this issue - and the ensuing rhetoric.