Saturday, April 28, 2012

WE ARE SYNONYMOUS

The Youtube speaks for itself. To the people of BDS: If we are anything to go by, you have found a terrible enemy. My father (Bless Him) used to say "Son, don't go looking for a fight. There will always be someone bigger and stronger than you!"

Please watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGbPL_FhKfY&feature=plcp&context=C4262d24VDvjVQa1PpcFNtOly8-BqlfVCCp-uzGdJX7Sj_OVk7EYU=

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant.


1.Islamic radicals in Germany have launched an unprecedented nationwide campaign to distribute 25 million copies of the Koran, translated into the German language, with the goal of placing one Koran into every household in Germany, free of charge. The mass proselytization campaign -- called Project "Read!" -- is being organized by dozens of Islamic Salafist groups located in cities and towns throughout Germany, as well as in Austria and in Switzerland.
Salafism is a branch of radical Islam, practiced in Saudi Arabia, that seeks to establish an Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe -- and eventually the entire world. The Caliphate would be governed exclusively by Islamic Sharia law, which would apply both to Muslims and to non-Muslims. PG: And so the decline begins....It begins by appeasing a crocodile.


2.Relations between Iran and its northern neighbour Azerbaijan have also become strained, with each accusing the other of preparing “terrorist” actions. For example, last month Azerbaijan’s national security ministry said 22 Azerbaijani citizens had been arrested on suspicion of cooperating with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “to commit terrorist acts against the US, Israeli and other Western states’ embassies and the embassies’ employees.” Tehran is also unhappy over Baku’s ties to Israel, and its purchase of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Israeli military weapons and equipment. ($1.6 Billion).


3.The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it might uphold a key element of Arizona's immigration law, as justices across the board suggested the state has a serious problem on its hands and should have some level of sovereignty to address illegal immigration. The justices strongly suggested Wednesday they are not buying the Obama administration's argument that the state exceeded its authority, with Chief Justice John Roberts at one point saying he doesn't think the federal government even wants to know how many illegal immigrants are in the country. PG: More supreme court trouble for Obama?


4.In November, California voters will have the chance to vote for or against capital punishment. Two months ago the state of Connecticut became the 17th state to abolish capital punishment. Since 1973, 46,586 murders have been committed in Connecticut. Of these only 66 have led to conviction. And only nine of the convicted have received the death penalty. PG: Why bother with any form of punishment?


5.The Palestinian Authority TV children's program The Best Home featured a child reciting a poem promoting Pan-Arabism. The poem, by an Egyptian writer, included the following words: 
"Our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail." PG: Two State solution? Speak to the hand.

6.Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings brought destruction to the nations in which they occurred and that Yemen's own revolt cost the country billions of dollars in lost revenues, AP reported April 22.  PG: From the horses mouth.


7.With little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft known as drones, according to documents obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests by an advocacy group. The more than 50 institutions that received approvals to operate remotely piloted aircraft are more varied than many outsiders and privacy experts previously knew. They include not only agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security but also smaller ones such as the police departments in North Little Rock, Ark., and Ogden, Utah, as well the University of North Dakota and Nicholls State University in Louisiana. PG: Big Brother....


8.A new company backed by two Google Inc. billionaires, film director James Cameron and other space exploration proponents is aiming high in the hunt for natural resources—with mining asteroids the possible target. The venture, called Planetary Resources Inc., revealed little in a press release this week except to say that it would "overlay two critical sectors—space exploration and natural resources—to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP" and "help ensure humanity's prosperity." The company is formally unveiling its plans at an event Tuesday in Seattle. PG: There were snickers when Newt Gingrich suggested something similar. Looks like he is not alone...

9.An infant born with six legs in Pakistan had four of his extra limbs successfully removed by doctors, the International Business Times reported. Baby boy Umar Farooq had been born with a rare genetic disorder called polymelia – a condition that affects only one in a million babies.  
Polymelia is a condition in which an embryo starts as conjoined twins in the womb. One of the twins eventually disintegrates, leaving behind extra limbs that get attached to the remaining fetus.


10.Kulula Airlines, based in Johannesburg, is offering a free ticket for a man's fourth wife if the entire family flies together between the city and Cape Town. The ad reads, "Not only will you get a great deal on kulula.com flights for your first three wives, but your fourth wife will fly free, mahala, on the house." The stunt, which runs until April 30, coincides with South African president Jacob Zuma's marriage to his fourth wife over the weekend. Zuma has been married six times in total, but one of his wives committed suicide in 2000, and he divorced his second in 1998. PG: What a world we live in....


The hardest person to awaken is the one already awake - Tagalog Saying

Monday, April 9, 2012

Preposterous Predictions

This blog is for fun. If 7 out of 10 predictions turn out to be correct, credit will go to the Peanut Gallery who constantly make unscientific forecasts.


1.Employment stats in the US will not improve this year. Obama will be a one term president, to be replaced by default. The Peanut Gallery predicts that whoever opposes Obama will be the next president.


2.Europe will slide into recession as their debt bubble grows. The continent is unable to compete with the emerging economies, and will struggle to prevent the Islamic influence from spreading. Expect economic unrest as the masses take to the streets. The beginning of the end for the European experiment in social democracy. Sorry folks, but socialism only works in good times and only for limited periods of time. 


3.The Arab Spring (who remembers them?) will be confirmed as another non-event created by the western media. We will witness the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood as the dominant political  force in the Middle East with the salafists snapping at their heels. Democracy takes generations and education to develop into a force. Neither of these is a priority in the Arab world.


4.Word for word what the Peanut Gallery wrote exactly a year ago "The Egyptian Military have no intention of relinquishing control of Egypt, with or without elections. They own 40% of the economic assets in Egypt, and it would be comparable to Obama announcing he won't be running for a second term." We stand by this analysis. We further stand by the analysis that the removal of Mubarak was a military coup, compounded by the ineptness of an American president's belief that Egyptians were Americans wearing different clothing.


5.The Iran - Israel crisis is a smokescreen for a much larger confrontation developing between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The US and Europe supporting the Sunni side while Russia backs the Shiites. The main battleground between the two sides will be in Syria. Regardless of how many cease-fires the UN arranges, the fighting will continue as Islam, in these regions, does not know or understand the word "compromise".


6.Oil will become just another commodity as natural gas and other alternatives replaces it as the major source of energy. Natural gas infrastructure enabling the easy transport and storage of LNG will dictate the economic priorities of most nations as fracking and other hi-tech methods of  gas production develop. Their will be a massive over-supply of natural gas undermining the importance of oil. Consequently, political winds of change will sweep the planet.


7.Climate change is and will continue to play a part, creating unrest, shortages and trickle of refugees. This trickle will eventually become a river and then a flood as humanity in these areas look for alternatives. The water line is sinking in Yemen, Bahrein, Qatar, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and The Sudan amongst others. The countries that have oil can buy their water. The others all appear to be involved in civil wars....


8. An intended consequence of the above, is that American forces will slowly abandon the Middle East and concentrate on Asia and South America, the countries where the next economic upswing is still in its infancy. The protection of trade routes is the top priority for the US economic establishment. More than 90% of commercial goods between continents do so by container ship. Fifty percent of these traverse the South China Sea. Expect to hear more about this area.


9.The forgotten people, who once assumed they were the centre of the universe, The Palestinians arabs, will continue to be forgotten, just as Israel will continue to grow in strength. The arabs of Judea and Samaria will cast their eyes in the direction of Jordan as an alternative. The rest of the world, sick and tired of the deceit and lies, will turn to the real problems of survival.


10. And finally, the greatest country to live, on the planet, Canada, will continue to prosper. Only 35 million inhabitants, enough food, water, land and raw materials for all and then some, are the envy of the planet. They will be partnered by well positioned Australia.  


Please read http://inctruth.blogspot.ca/2011/04/preposterous-predictions.html from last year.


Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values - Don Ward

Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Peanut Gallery

Statements, comments and forecasts that have no substance, but just might turn out to be relevant.

1.Germany is not making any dramatic shifts in its relationships, but is searching for alternative relationships. The most important alternative is Russia, which supplies energy to Germany. Russia also needs German technology and can use German entrepreneurial energy. Germany, with a declining population and a growing aversion to immigration, is looking for low labor cost locations for factories. Russia’s population is also declining, but even so has surplus labor that is unemployed or more often underemployed. Theirs is not a potential relationship, but an existing and intensifying one. Its ties with Russia may not replace Germany’s bond with the European Union, but a cornerstone relationship could develop between Russia and Berlin.


2. Saudi Arabia appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place. In the eastern provinces of this monarchy, the shiites continue their protests, supported by covert Iranian influences . But now in the Sunni south (forgive the pun) unrelated demonstrations are taking place  by forces tiring of Salafist Islamic extremism. Women's groups demanding more privileges and younger generation students pushing for more political influence have taken to the streets.  Add to that, the monarchists visible discomfort created by the continued political emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood as a political force. PG: Its raining. Lets see how the gulf monarchies avoid getting wet.


3.Russia and India will begin trading in domestic currencies in three years, Vladimir Dimitriev, the chairman of Russia's VEB bank, said March 29, Reuters reported. Dimitriev said Russia is considering trading in domestic currencies with BRIC partners. PG: this is an economic development of revolutionary proportions. What they are doing is taking the US Dollar out of the equation. Today all International transactions are transacted in USD and this is where dollar strength is centred. The party will begin when the debt comes due.


4.In the next five years, a total of $5.9 trillion in US debt will come due. The average rate of interest on the US debt is 2.2%. The average maturity on the Treasury's marketable debt is 62.8 months. The interest expense on US publicly held debt is $454 billion. The US is compounding themselves into eternity. What happens if or when interest rates rise, which they will? PG: And all Obama cares about, is his re-election. Anybody who deludes themselves otherwise, deserves what they get if he is re-elected.


5.The Indian Ocean is the world's energy interstate, across which passes crude oil and natural gas from the Arabian Peninsula and Iranian Plateau to the burgeoning, middle-class urban networks of East Asia. Though we live in a jet and information age, 90 percent of all commercial goods that travel from one continent to another do so by container ship, and half of those goods in terms of global tonnage -- and one-third in terms of monetary value -- traverse the South China Sea, which connects the Indian Ocean with the Western Pacific. Moreover, the supposedly energy-rich South China Sea is the economic hub of world commerce, where international sea routes coalesce. And it is the U.S. Navy and Air Force, more than any other institutions, that have kept those sea lines of communication secure, thus allowing for post-Cold War globalization in the first place. This is the real public good that the United States provides the world. PG: This is what makes the world go round. Not Trayvon Martin or whether contraception is paid for by government.


6.Today, for a Jewish person to buy a home or property in Judea, Samaria or Jerusalem, from an Arab, is a very complicated procedure. Under the Palestinian Authority, capital punishment is the accepted policy for those who sell property to Jews. Before the deal can become public, the Arab seller needs to relocate to another country, where he will be safe from assassins from his own community. PG: In any other non-arab country this would be a normal, unnoticed deal. The left wing media are outraged...that a Jew would have the audacity of buying from an Arab....


7. New York City police were Sunday investigating an "Occupy Wall Street" protester who made threats on Twitter about killing police as hundreds clashed the previous day with cops at Zuccotti Park. "We won't make a difference if we don't kill a cop or 2," Twitter user "Smackema1" posted about 11:40pm. PG: The truth is that these occupiers don't represent 99% or anybody else. 


People who are resting on their laurels are wearing them on the wrong end - Malcolm Kushner