Mohammad Hasan

Ramadan Kareem everybody

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:33:50 GMT

All eyes on Iran

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:39:14 GMT

I was watching Obama carefully choosing his words regarding Iranian elections. He was thinking of every sentence before speaking it out. It was actually impressive.

While watching Obama doing a nice job speaking like a wise president, I read the written news beneath : " McCain calls iran vote results 'corrupt' " !

Obama's speech in Cairo University

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:26:31 GMT

Cairo University

Obama is comming to Cairo tomorrow. I really don't know what Obama will say tomorrow in his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world in Cairo. But it seems just about everybody has got an opinion on what he should say.

Meanwhile, security is tight in the Egyptian capital. Police will be stationed across the city and heavy security will be in place at the airport where Obama will be greeted by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:29:03 GMT

Written by Feshfesh in http://omraneya.net/node/86432

“I have been avidly following up the news about the discovery of a Hizballah cell in Egypt. The issue has the Arab (and Muslim) world divided into pro-Hizballah, pro-Hamas and pro-Iran camp and then the pro-Egypt camp. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank, draws the bigger international picture of this issue and how Egypt might be trying to impact the way the US approaches Iran in a very interesting report. ( http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3044 )

Now, that's all scary and regional warsey and all, but it's entertaining too. You see, amid all of the rumbling in the Egyptian media, one cliche came to dominate. Everyone is now referring to Egypt's national security as a khat ahmar (a red line). I think we should have gone with a totally different cliche and I'll tell you why. First, anyone who has ever been to the great city of elCairo knows that a. we don't have traffic lights b. when we do, they aren't working and c. if we have them and they are working, we don't really stop when it's red. That, in my opinion, takes away from the scariness of the color red. The cliche should have used black instead of red. After so many years of being waved to the curb by bodyguards of government officials whooshing by in black convoys, we fear black. There's always that urban legend of this one dude, who dared to get close by to The Black Convoy and was riddled with bullets. You don't want to be that guy, do you?

Second, what's with the 'line'? We don't like lines in elCairo. No one stays in their lane, no one queues and no one stops before the pedestrian crossing, you have to stop halfway thru it; that's how you show the pathetic pedestrians who's boss. But if we stay with the traffic metaphor for a second here, the cliche should have used the most notorious creature on the road: a microbus. We all fear the microbus and they know that we fear them, so it's their game, really. We know that you never cross a microbus, but a 'line'? bah.

So yeah, if tomorrow an official government statement said: Egypt's national security is a black microbus, a crazy, black microbus. I'd shit my pants. Seriously. “

For more info about the matter, check this article ( Israeli article ) : http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1239488121019&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

3-year jail for Iraqi man who threw shoe at Bush

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:58:42 GMT

The Iraqi reporter who hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush was convicted of attempting to assault a foreign leader on Thursday and jailed for three years, dismaying many Iraqis who regard him as a hero.
Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, told the Baghdad court: "What I did was a natural reaction for the crimes committed against the Iraqi people."
Outside the courtroom, wails erupted from Zaidi's family and other supporters when they heard the verdict. One of his brothers fainted and his sister Ruqaiya burst into tears, shouting: "Down with Maliki, the agent of the Americans."

3 years ?? Hitler spent less time than that in jail after the failure of his coup of the government.

Egypt: Death sentence for 10 gang rapists

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:12:33 GMT

Cairo, 5 March

Ten men have been sentenced to death by hanging in Egypt, after being convicted of raping an 18 year-old woman two years ago.

The death sentence by hanging was handed down on Wednesday by a court in the northern governorate of Kafr el-Sheikh. Only eight of the sentenced men appeared before the court, while two others allegedly involved in the gang rape are still fugitives.

A 15-year-old youth who collaborated in the attack was sentenced to 15 years in jail. During the court proceedings, police were forced to intervene to stop protests by family members of the accused.

The court was told the ten men, who were all armed, raided a home in 2006 during the night and threatened all the family members.

After firing a few shots in the air, they kidnapped a woman and took her to an open field, where she was repeatedly raped for three hours until she lost consciousness.

Egyptian daily al-Ahram said the barbaric attack was aimed at punishing the woman's husband, who had reportedly refused to marry the sister of the group's leader.

The judge said that the court had chosen such a severe punishment because it learned about "the necessity to eradicate the roots of sin, and cleanse society."

The court's decision to impose the death sentence, however, will be sent to the Egyptian mufti who must then ratify it before it is carried out.

The last execution in Egypt took place in 2006. In December 2008 the Egypt's general assembly voted against a moratorium on the death penalty.
Source : http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3074308354

The world is a much better place without these guys.

Windows 7

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:25:54 GMT

Trial version of Windows 7 is now available for download

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

Different opinions about Windows:

Will Install Needless Data On Whole System.

1. Microsoft gives you Windows - OS/2 give you the whole house.

2. A computer without Windows is like a fish without a bicycle.

3. Windows and DOS: A turtle and its shell.

4. Bang on the left side of your computer to restart Windows.

5. Windows: The colorful clown suit for DOS.

6. Error #152 - Windows not found: (C)heer (P)arty (D)ance.

7. Windows 3.1: The best $89 solitaire game you can buy.

8. Windows NT: Insert wallet into Drive A: and press any key to empty.

9. I'll never forget the first time I ran Windows, but I'm trying.

10. I still miss Windows, but my aim is getting better

11. My lastest screen-saver: Curtains for Windows.

12. Double your drive space: Delete Windows!

13. OS/2. Opens up Windows, shuts up Gates.

14. Out of disk space. Delete Windows? [Y]es [A]solutely [O]f Course!

15. How do you want to crash today?

Unable to post something funny

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:19:25 GMT

My posts are usually funny posts unless there is very important news to tell. But lately I have been unable to post anything funny because I'm always sad because of the crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, right next to Egyptian borders where palestian people have only one option, to stay there and die.

Venezuela kicked the Israeli ambassador out of the country because of Israel's crimes in Gaza while the Israeli ambassadors in some Arab countries including Egypt are probably dancing and celebrating in their houses.

I dare not tell a joke and laugh at it while I know that maybe a hundred children were killed today, another hundred will be killed tomorrow, and thousands are disabled or dead already.

There is nothing we can do to the dead people, but there are millions of people who desperately need help. Hell, they can be helped. They must be helped.

Obama is losing a battle he doesn't know he's in

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:37:59 GMT

The president-elect's silence on the Gaza crisis is undermining his reputation in the Middle East

Barack Obama's chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, appear to diminish with each new wave of Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza. That seems hardly fair, given the president-elect does not take office until January 20. But foreign wars don't wait for Washington inaugurations.

Obama has remained wholly silent during the Gaza crisis. His aides say he is following established protocol that the US has only one president at a time. Hillary Clinton, his designated secretary of state, and Joe Biden, the vice-president-elect and foreign policy expert, have also been uncharacteristically taciturn on the subject.

But evidence is mounting that Obama is already losing ground among key Arab and Muslim audiences that cannot understand why, given his promise of change, he has not spoken out. Arab commentators and editorialists say there is growing disappointment at Obama's detachment - and that his failure to distance himself from George Bush's strongly pro-Israeli stance is encouraging the belief that he either shares Bush's bias or simply does not care.

The Al-Jazeera satellite television station recently broadcast footage of Obama on holiday in Hawaii, wearing shorts and playing golf, juxtaposed with scenes of bloodshed and mayhem in Gaza. Its report criticising "the deafening silence from the Obama team" suggested Obama is losing a battle of perceptions among Muslims that he may not realise has even begun.

"People recall his campaign slogan of change and hoped that it would apply to the Palestinian situation," Jordanian analyst Labib Kamhawi told Liz Sly of the Chicago Tribune. "So they look at his silence as a negative sign. They think he is condoning what happened in Gaza because he's not expressing any opinion."

Regional critics claim Obama is happy to break his pre-inauguration "no comment" rule on international issues when it suits him. They note his swift condemnation of November's terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Obama has also made frequent policy statements on mitigating the impact of the global credit crunch.

Obama's absence from the fray is also allowing hostile voices to exploit the vacuum. "It would appear that the president-elect has no intention of getting involved in the Gaza crisis," Iran's Resalat newspaper commented sourly. "His stances and viewpoints suggest he will follow the path taken by previous American presidents... Obama, too, will pursue policies that support the Zionist aggressions."

Whether Obama, when he does eventually engage, can successfully elucidate an Israel-Palestine policy that is substantively different from that of Bush-Cheney is wholly uncertain at present.

To maintain the hardline US posture of placing the blame for all current troubles squarely on Hamas, to the extent of repeatedly blocking limited UN security council ceasefire moves, would be to end all realistic hopes of winning back Arab opinion - and could have negative, knock-on consequences for US interests in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gulf.

Yet if Obama were to take a tougher (some would say more balanced) line with Israel, for example by demanding a permanent end to its blockade of Gaza, or by opening a path to talks with Hamas, he risks provoking a rightwing backlash in Israel, giving encouragement to Israel's enemies, and losing support at home for little political advantage.

A recent Pew Research Centre survey, for example, showed how different are US perspectives to those of Europe and the Middle East. Americans placed "finding a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict" at the bottom of a 12-issue list of foreign policy concerns, the poll found. And foreign policy is in any case of scant consequence to a large majority of US voters primarily worried about the economy, jobs and savings.

On the campaign trail, Obama (like Clinton) was broadly supportive of Israel and specifically condemnatory of Hamas. But at the same time, he held out the prospect of radical change in western relations with Muslims everywhere, promising to make a definitive policy speech in a "major Islamic forum" within 100 days of taking office.

"I will make clear that we are not at war with Islam, that we will stand with those who are willing to stand up for their future, and that we need their effort to defeat the prophets of hate and violence," he said.

As the Gaza casualty headcount goes up and Obama keeps his head down, those sentiments are beginning to sound a little hollow. The danger is that when he finally peers over the parapet on January 21, the battle of perceptions may already be half-lost.

Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/04/obama-gaza-israel

When rules lose their power

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:18:31 GMT

No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets.
No animal shall drink alcohol to excess.
Four legs good, two legs ~~bad~~ better!
No animal shall kill another animal without cause.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Joseph Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel 'contre Stalin'.

The Seven Commandments in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell were a list of rules or laws that were supposed to keep order and ensure elementary Animalism within Animal Farm. The Seven Commandments were designed to unite the animals together in a common cause against the humans and to prevent animals from following the humans' evil habits.

The story takes place on a farm somewhere in England. The story is told by an all-knowing narrator in the third person. The action of this novel starts when the oldest pig on the farm, Old Major, calls all animals to a secret meeting. He tells them about his dream of a revolution against the cruel Mr Jones. Three days later Major dies, but the speech gives the more intelligent animals a new outlook on life. The pigs, who are considered the most intelligent animals, instruct the other ones. During the period of preparation two pigs distinguish themselves, Napoleon and Snowball. Napoleon is big, and although he isn't a good speaker, he can assert himself. Snowball is a better speaker, he has a lot of ideas and he is very vivid. Together with another pig called Squealer, who is a very good speaker, they work out the theory of "Animalism". The rebellion starts some months later, when Mr Jones comes home drunk one night and forgets to feed the animals. They break out of the barns and run to the house, where the food is stored. When Mr Jones sees this he takes out his shotgun, but it is too late for him; all the animals fall over him and drive him off the farm. The animals destroy all whips, nose rings, reins, and all other instruments that have been used to suppress them. The same day the animals celebrate their victory with an extra ration of food. The pigs make up the seven commandments, and they write them above the door of the big barn.

They run thus:
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill another animal.
All animals are equal.

The animals also agree that no animal shall ever enter the farmhouse, and that no animal shall have contact with humans. This commandments are summarised in the simple phrase: "Four legs good, two legs bad". After some time, Jones comes back with some other men from the village to recapture the farm. The animals fight bravely, and they manage to defend the farm. Snowball and Boxer receive medals of honour for defending the farm so bravely. Also Napoleon, who had not fought at all, takes a medal. This is the reason why the two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, often argue. When Snowball presents his idea to build a windmill, to produce electricity for the other animals, Napoleon calls nine strong dogs. The dogs drive Snowball from the farm, and Napoleon explains that Snowball was in fact co-operating with Mr Jones. He also explains that Snowball in reality never had a medal of honour, that Snowball was always trying to cover up that he was fighting on the side of Mr Jones. The animals then start building the windmill, and as time passes the working-time goes up, whereas the food rations decline. Although the "common" animals have not enough food, the pigs grow fatter and fatter. They tell the other animals that they need more food, for they are managing the whole farm. Some time later, the pigs explain to the other animals that they have to trade with the neighbouring farms. The common animals are very upset, because since the revolution there has been a resolution that no animal shall trade with a human. But the pigs ensure them that there never has been such a resolution, and that this was an evil lie of Snowball. Shortly after this decision the pigs move to the farmhouse. The other animals remember that there is a commandment that forbids sleeping in beds, and so they go to the big barn to look at the commandments. When they arrive there they can't believe their eyes, the fourth commandment has been changed to: "No animal shall sleep in bed with sheets". And the other commandments have also been changed: "No animal shall kill another animal without reason", and "No animal shall drink alcohol in excess". Some months later a heavy storm destroys the windmill, which is nearly finished. Napoleon accuses Snowball of destroying the mill, and he promises a reward to the animal that gets Snowball. The rebuilding of the mill takes two years. Again Jones attacks the farm, and although the animals defend it, the windmill is once again destroyed. The pigs decide to rebuild the mill again, and they cut down the food rations to a minimum. One day Boxer breaks down. He is sold to a butcher, but Napoleon tells the pigs that Boxer has been brought to a hospital where he has died. Three years later, the mill is finally completed. During this time Napoleon deepens the relations with the neighbouring farm, and one day Napoleon even invites the owners of this farm for an inspection. They sit inside the farmhouse and celebrate the efficiency of his farm, where the animals work very hard with a minimum of food. During this celebration, all the other animals meet at the window of the farm, and when they look inside they can't distinguish between man and animal.

The Last Commandment
By the end of the book, Squealer reduces all of the commandments into a singular law to control the other animals completely, while appearing to keep within the old boundaries of the Animalism laws:

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Robert Fisk: Why bombing Ashkelon is the most tragic irony

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:48:05 GMT

Robert Fisk: Why bombing Ashkelon is the most tragic irony

How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.

That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza. They – or their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren – are among the one and a half million Palestinian refugees crammed into the cesspool of Gaza, 80 per cent of whose families once lived in what is now Israel. This, historically, is the real story: most of the people of Gaza don't come from Gaza.

But watching the news shows, you'd think that history began yesterday, that a bunch of bearded anti-Semitic Islamist lunatics suddenly popped up in the slums of Gaza – a rubbish dump of destitute people of no origin – and began firing missiles into peace-loving, democratic Israel, only to meet with the righteous vengeance of the Israeli air force. The fact that the five sisters killed in Jabalya camp had grandparents who came from the very land whose more recent owners have now bombed them to death simply does not appear in the story.

Both Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres said back in the 1990s that they wished Gaza would just go away, drop into the sea, and you can see why. The existence of Gaza is a permanent reminder of those hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who lost their homes to Israel, who fled or were driven out through fear or Israeli ethnic cleansing 60 years ago, when tidal waves of refugees had washed over Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War and when a bunch of Arabs kicked out of their property didn't worry the world.

Well, the world should worry now. Crammed into the most overpopulated few square miles in the whole world are a dispossessed people who have been living in refuse and sewage and, for the past six months, in hunger and darkness, and who have been sanctioned by us, the West. Gaza was always an insurrectionary place. It took two years for Ariel Sharon's bloody "pacification", starting in 1971, to be completed, and Gaza is not going to be tamed now.

Alas for the Palestinians, their most powerful political voice – I'm talking about the late Edward Said – is silent and their predicament largely unexplained by their deplorable, foolish spokesmen. "It's the most terrifying place I've ever been in," Said once said of Gaza. "It's a horrifyingly sad place because of the desperation and misery of the way people live. I was unprepared for camps that are much worse than anything I saw in South Africa."

Of course, it was left to Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to admit that "sometimes also civilians pay the price," an argument she would not make, of course, if the fatality statistics were reversed. Indeed, it was instructive yesterday to hear a member of the American Enterprise Institute – faithfully parroting Israel's arguments – defending the outrageous Palestinian death toll by saying that it was "pointless to play the numbers game". Yet if more than 300 Israelis had been killed – against two dead Palestinians – be sure that the "numbers game" and the disproportionate violence would be all too relevant. The simple fact is that Palestinian deaths matter far less than Israeli deaths. True, we know that 180 of the dead were Hamas members. But what of the rest? If the UN's conservative figure of 57 civilian fatalities is correct, the death toll is still a disgrace.

To find both the US and Britain failing to condemn the Israeli onslaught while blaming Hamas is not surprising. US Middle East policy and Israeli policy are now indistinguishable and Gordon Brown is following the same dog-like devotion to the Bush administration as his predecessor.

As usual, the Arab satraps – largely paid and armed by the West – are silent, preposterously calling for an Arab summit on the crisis which will (if it even takes place), appoint an "action committee" to draw up a report which will never be written. For that is the way with the Arab world and its corrupt rulers. As for Hamas, they will, of course, enjoy the discomfiture of the Arab potentates while cynically waiting for Israel to talk to them. Which they will. Indeed, within a few months, we'll be hearing that Israel and Hamas have been having "secret talks" – just as we once did about Israel and the even more corrupt PLO. But by then, the dead will be long buried and we will be facing the next crisis since the last crisis.

Eating dogs

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:30:19 GMT

They eat dogs in China and some other asian countries; I used to know that but what I didn't know is how dogs were slaughtered.

Dogs are purposely slaughtered in front of other dogs, to increase their fear and stress level- as this is supposed to enhance the flavor and increase the adrenaline in their meat, which according to Chinese folklore, boosts virility. Actual physical torture and bleeding them out slowly, are other routine methods used for this purpose.

Dogs are frequently kept in cages outside of restaurants and markets until selected for slaughter, at which time, it is common for this to occur in public view, right on the street. Dogs are often caged tightly and kept in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions until butchered.

Bush flash games

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:15:32 GMT

I was waiting for this games :

1) Bush shoe throwing game:

This game is made out of the original video of Iraqi throwing the shoe.
Bush will duck randomly. Clicking on the game window makes the journalist throw his shoes. Try to click when bush is trying to stand up; it will hit right on his face
You can play the game here : http://bushbash.flashgressive.de/

2) That guy totally threw a shoe at president Bush:

In this one you can throw shoes at the iraqi president too.
Duck and take a shoe from bottom and then throw it by clicking on the president.
You can play the game here : http://www.ridiculopathy.com/crappy_flash_games.php?gamename=bushoes

Iraqi journalist throws shoes at George W Bush

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:20:44 GMT

Obama to Offer Israel 'Nuclear Umbrella' Against Iran

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:46:00 GMT

President-elect Barack Obama will offer Israel a strategic pact designed to fend off any nuclear attack on the Jewish state by Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday.

Haaretz, quoting an unnamed source, said the Obama administration would pledge under the proposed "nuclear umbrella" to respond to any Iranian strike on Israel with a "devastating U.S. nuclear response."
Granting Israel a nuclear guarantee would essentially suggest the U.S. is willing to come to terms with a nuclear Iran, the paper reported.
According to the paper's source, Obama's nuclear guarantee would be backed by a new and improved Israeli anti-ballistic missile system. The Bush administration took the first step by deploying an early-warning radar system, which enhances the ability to detect Iranian ballistic missiles.
No immediate comment from Israeli officials or the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv was offered.
Iran denies its nuclear program has military designs. But tough anti-Israel rhetoric from Tehran has spread fears that the Israelis, who are believed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, could attack their arch-foe pre-emptively.
The source, according to Haaretz, noted that the discussion of the possibility of a nuclear Iran undermines efforts to prevent Tehran from acquiring such arms.
A senior Bush administration source reportedly said the nuclear umbrella was ridiculous and lacked credibility.
"Who will convince the citizen in Kansas that the U.S. needs to get mixed up in a nuclear war because Haifa was bombed? And what is the point of an American response, after Israel's cities are destroyed in an Iranian nuclear strike?," he said.

Source : FOXNEWS http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008/12/11/report-obama-offer-israel-nuclear-umbrella-iran/

Over 500 Muslim tombs attacked in France

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:17:41 GMT

PARIS - Vandals desecrated at least 500 tombs of Muslim soldiers in northern France on Monday — an act President Nicolas Sarkozy denounced as "repugnant racism."

The desecration near the town of Arras appeared timed with the start of Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday in the Muslim calendar.

The administration for the Pas-de-Calais region said the damaged tombs were in the Muslim section of the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette cemetery, a well-groomed burial ground for World War I soldiers. Some had swastikas scrawled on the tombstone, others had lettering whose meaning was unclear.

There are 576 graves in the Muslim section of the cemetery, where more than 30,000 soldiers are buried.

Sarkozy, in a statement, said the "abject and revolting act" equates with "repugnant racism against France's Muslim community" and insults the memory of all World War I combatants.

It was the third time the Muslim section of the cemetery has been targeted. Last April, 148 tombs were desecrated, and a year before that 52 headstones and an ossuary were vandalized.

The French Council for the Muslim Faith, a group representing France's numerous Muslim groups, decried "these odious, revolting and scandalous acts" and said it expected authorities to find out who carried out the attack.

Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said police were investigating the incident.

If you hate George Bush ...

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:34:56 GMT

you can drag him using your mouse

Eid Mubarak

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:07:06 GMT

Eid Mubarak

Cold war is not over

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:16:53 GMT

Russia to deploy Iskander missiles on EU border.
It's not known whether the short-range missiles would be fitted with nuclear warheads.

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday November 5 2008 12.22 GMT

President Dmitry Medvedev said today that Russia will deploy missiles in territory near Nato member Poland in response to US missile defense plans.

He did not say whether the short-range Iskander missiles would be fitted with nuclear warheads.

In a state of the nation speech, Medvedev also blamed the US for the war in Georgia and the global financial crisis. He said he hoped the US president-elect Barack Obama would act to improve relations with Russia but he did not offer congratulations to the president-elect.

The missiles will be deployed to the Russian Baltic Sea territory Kaliningrad, he said, but did not add how many would be used. Equipment to electronically hamper the operation of prospective US missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic will be deployed, he said.

Medvedev singled out the US for criticism, casting Russia's war with Georgia in August and the global financial turmoil as consequences of aggressive, selfish US policies.

"Mechanisms must be created to block mistaken, egoistical and sometimes simply dangerous decisions of certain members of the international community," he said shortly after starting the 85-minute speech.

Medvedev, whose criticism of Washington echoed addresses by his predecessor Vladimir Putin, made it clear he was referring to the US.

Georgia sparked the August war on its territory with what he called "barbaric aggression" against Russian-backed South Ossetia. The conflict "was, among other things, the result of the arrogant course of the American administration, which did not tolerate criticism and preferred unilateral decisions."

Medvedev painted Russia as a country threatened by growing western military might.

"From what we have seen in recent years, the creation of a missile defense system, the encirclement of Russia with military bases, the relentless expansion of Nato, we have gotten the strong impression that they are testing our strength," Medvedev said.

He announced deployment of the Iskander missiles as a military response to US plans to deploy missile-defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic former Soviet satellites that are now Nato members.

Speaking just hours after Obama was declared the victor in the US presidential election, Medvedev said he hoped the incoming administration will take steps to improve badly damaged US ties with Russia. He suggested it is up to the US not the Kremlin to seek to improve relations.

"I stress that we have no problem with the American people, no inborn anti-Americanism. And we hope that our partners, the US administration, will make a choice in favor of full-fledged relations with Russia," Medvedev said.

Russian-American relations have been increasingly tense and were driven to a post-cold war low by Moscow's war with US ally Georgia.

Anybody but McCain

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:15:45 GMT

You know you've been spending too much time on the computer when...

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:48 GMT

You know you've been spending too much time on the computer when...

...you find yourself trying to copy and paste your work onto the computer.

...you've started to "scroll" down your textbooks.

...you've forgotten how to spell those words that you usually use on MSN: u, omg, ppl, etc...

...you've forgotten how to use your phone

...you've caught yourself saying "lol" while talking to your friends.

...you go through "withdrawal" if you're away from the computer for more than a few hours.

...the internet has become your ONLY form of research.

...you know all the keyboard shortcuts for copy, cut, and paste: (Ctrl+c; x; v)

...at school, you miss your spellcheck program while you're doing a test.

...you have over 7 different email addresses.

...you leave it on while you're at school, just so you won't have to turn it on again later.

...you practically LIVE on Facebook.

...you would rather have virtual pets than real ones.

...you have a rivalry with pop-up ads.

...you've become a patient person because your computer is so slow...

...you know how to avoid buying LimeWire Pro.

...you've named your computer.

...you spend more time on the computer than you do at school .

...you don't really go to malls anymore, you shop online.

...Tech support calls "YOU" for help.

...at school, your teacher constantly reminds you that the word " i " should be capitalized.

...someone says "What did you say?", you reply, "Scroll up. "

...you find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your parents are asleep.

...you have an identity crisis when someone is using a screen name close to your own.

...you've forgotten the difference between, you're & your, to & too, etc.

...you would rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much than the truth ( you were online all night)

...you type messages to people while you're on the phone with them at the same time.

...you wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online before you have your shower.

...you wait 6 hours online for a certain "special " person to come online.

...you don't know where the time has gone.

...10 minutes is NEVER enough time.

...you end sentences with 3 (or more) periods while writing letters by hand.

...your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have had.

...you type faster than you think.

...you want to be buried with your computer when you die.

...you actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted.

...you can actually read & follow all the names of the cast that scrolls up your TV screen at the end of a movie.

...you dream in "text".

...you've memorized how your keyboard looks and it screws you up when you see a slightly different one.

...being called a Newbie is "MAJOR" insult.

...you double click your TV remote.

...you don't even watch TV; you watch all your shows on YouTube.

...you haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

...your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

...you have an account on almost every website that allows you to have one.

...you have the same password for every single one of them.

Cheering For Deaths

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:24:18 GMT

Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmat Allah Wa Barakatuh

This is from "The Explosion", a book written by Mohamed Hassanein Heikal.

On June the 5th 1967, the Israeli army started their offense on the Egyptian land (Sinai).

During that 6 day war, Egypt lost 15,000 soliders, thousands of casualties and thousands were POW (Prisoners Of War).

Robert McCloskey (official spokesman for the US State department) said a verbal testimony about those historical moments:

"
Some of us within the situation room were pleased, and were cheering every time we see the latest Egyptian army casualty figures on our monitors.

Eugene Rostow turned to us and said: "Gentlemen, please remember... we are non-biased by words, thoughts and actions".

...and then everyone in the room burst into laughter.
"

Eid Mubarak everybody

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:08:56 GMT

A fly falls into a coffee cup.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:42:03 GMT

A fly falls into a coffee cup.

The English person throws out the cup of coffee and walks out of the coffee shop.

The American asks for two new cups of coffee.

The Mexican removes the fly, and drinks the coffee.

The Chinese person eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

The Palestinian under siege replaces the coffee with gazoline, and lights up a nearby settler.

The Israeli

Sells the coffee to the Americans;
Cries that her/his security is threatened;
Accuses the Palestinians of having planted the fly in an act of terror;
Pretends that Hezbollah, the Syrians, and the Iranians are proliferating new weapons disseminated through flies;
Describes the act of fly spreading as an affront against human rights, an anti-Semitic crime, a modern holocaust, and an act of discrimination against the passengers of Noah’s Ark, the Chosen Ones;
Demands that Mahmood Abbas stop the flies from flying, and ensure that they do not land into her/his coffee,
Reoccupies Gaza;
Cuts off electricity and water to the Palestinians and
Destroys their crops and infrastructure;
Demands, and receives, more lethal weapons from the Americans, and
Sets damages for the supposed violation at a Billion dollars, for the social prejudice that she/he has suffered when forced to discover the fly in the coffee cup.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:02:26 GMT

I've read this set of questions in pages on my f-list and thought about knowing more about my f-list. So I copied the list of questions and pasted it here. I found some of the questions weird and i didn't understand some others . Feel free to select some to answer if you like :) all comments are hidden

01. Do you have a tattoo?
02. How old are you?
03. Are you single or taken?
04. Eat with your hands or utensils?
05. What were you doing last time you daydreamed?
06. Ever seen a corpse?
07. Bob Dylan or Johnny Cash?
08. How did we meet on LJ?
09. Whats your philosophy on life and death?
11. Do you trust the police?
12. Do you like Country music?
13. What is your fondest memory of fandom?
14. If you could change anything about yourself what would it be?
15. Would you cheat?
17. Have you ever peed in a pool?
18. Would you hide evidence for me if I asked you to?
19. If I appeared on your doorstep, unexpected, what would we do together?
20. Which do you prefer - short or long hair?
21. Do you sing in the shower?
22. What's your favourite fruit?
23. If you could bring back anyone that has passed, who would it be?
24. Tell me one interesting/odd fact about you?
25. What was your first impression of me?
26. Have you ever done drugs?
27. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?