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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia on Tuesday canceled a concert by Canadian rock singer Avril Lavigne, saying it may taint the Muslim-majority country's independence day celebrations after the Islamic opposition slammed her show as being "too sexy."

The Arts, Culture and Heritage Ministry said it had decided not to permit Lavigne's show because it was unsuitable to Malaysian culture and could not be held on Aug. 29, two days ahead of independence day.

Last year, R&B singer Beyonce moved her show from Malaysia to Indonesia, and Christina Aguilera skipped the country on an Asian tour after a controversy erupted over a dress code for foreign artists.

Malaysia requires all performers to wear clothes without obscene or drug-related images and be covered from the chest to the knees. They must also refrain from jumping, shouting, hugging and kissing on stage.

Tags: muslims, islam, islamofascism, freedom

Amazing Language Facts

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:37:04 GMT

clipped by: tanjazaric

Clip Source: www.amazingposts.com

There are more than 2,700 major languages spoken throughout the world.

There are over 583 different languages and dialects spoken in Indonesia

More than 2,000 languages are spoken in the entire continent of Africa.

The language spoken by the people most is Mandarin

The most difficult language to speak is Basque. It is not related to any language in the world.

The Berbers of Northern Africa have no written form of their language.

The only country where Latin is the official language is Vatican City.

The Cambodian alphabet is the world’s largest alphabet, with 74 letters.

The world’s shortest alphabet, used in the Solomon Islands, has only 11.

The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words.

There are more than 7,000 dialects in the world.

Esperanto is an artifical language devised by a Polish eye doctor, L. L. Zamenhof, introduced in 1887.

The language with the largest number of consonantal sounds was that of the Ubykns in the Caucasus, with 82.

Tags: language

French Pwned

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:43:33 GMT

clipped by: bmeuppls
clipper's remarks: Zing!!!

Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American.

During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done?

He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?'

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck.

We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'

The Blurbs on the McCain and Obama Children's Books

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:42:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he wasn't quite like anybody else, but through his journeys he found the ability to listen to Hope and become what he was meant to be: a bridge to bring people together.

This is the moving story of an exceptional man, as told by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Bryan Collier, both winners of the Coretta Scott King Award. Barack Obama has motivated Americans to believe with him, to believe that every one of us has the power to change ourselves and change our world.

So McCain's book is written by his daughter and Obama's is written by strangers?

This cult of Obama is a marketing and PR fiction of the highest magnitude...

Even the image on the cover... he's holding his hands out like pics of Jesus portray. Disgusting.

Clip Source: boortz.com

Born the son and grandson of military men, Senator John McCain from Arizona was destined for a life serving his country in the armed forces. Like many great men, he occasionally struggled with authority, but once he found his true calling -- flying naval aircraft -- his ideals and commitment to his country took him far.

From the low point of five years as a prisoner of war to the high points of raising a large, happy family and being chosen as the Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election, Senator McCain has lived an incredible life driven by a love of his country and a desire to serve it to the best of his ability.

This picture book biography, written with great love and insight by his oldest daughter, writer Meghan McCain, shows us the public John McCain and the personal John McCain in a way we've never seen before -- making this American hero come to life before young eyes.

Tags: politics

Will The Real Barack Obama Please Stand Up?

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:39:10 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Without a TelePromTer staring him down, he's an inarticulate, bumbling mess. He lies continuously about his past and his present, including important details concerning his upbringing and personal associations. He shamelessly takes all sides of all issues, changing his public positions to suit what he thinks people want to hear -- far in excess of the boilerplate, mendacious blather put forth by most other politicians.

Subjected to a rootless upbringing by a self-absorbed, radical leftist mother, and abandoned by a self-absorbed, hard-drinking philandering father, he sought refuge, meaning and personal grounding in drugs and in the hateful words and destructive ideologies of men like Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger and William Ayers.

What are the odds that the Times's Nicholas Kristof will release the tape recording of that Obama interview so that language experts can determine whether or not Obama's Arabic accent is indeed "first rate?"

Clip Source: antiprotester.blogspot.com

Seriously, just who exactly is this guy? Anyone in either the Press or the Democratic Party care to investigate him? He calls himself a "citizen of the world," even though there is no country called "The World." He committs gaffe after gaffe, exhibiting a shocking lack of knowledge on current events, history, economics and foreign policy.

From an AP photo taken by Tatan Syuflana. Highlights are mine. Hat tip to Texas Darlin, a hardcore pro-Clinton, anti-Obama blog:

Photo caption reads: This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro into the Catholic school made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The document lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his Muslim step-father listed the boy's religion as Islam. (AP Photo/ Tatan Syuflana)

Tags: barry soetoto, barack obama, fransiskus assisi, jakarta, indonesia, catholic school

Obama's Indonesian Registration Document and Media Cover-Up

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:29:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Reasons for censorship?
The Associated Press and the rest of the mainstream media probably had this photo of the registration document in their hands or databases but refused to touch it. After CNN published the facts that FOX incorrectly reported that the school was a madrassa, the entire issue of Barack Obama's name of 'Barry Soetero' was side stepped. It was probably decided that this material or photo shouldn't be available to the general public. (The same idea was probably applied to any audio or visual media related to a separate issue concerning an interview between Barack Obama and Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.) Therefore the image lay untouched and untranslated in the Daylife.com photo repository for 18 months.

Clip Source: www.daylife.com

18 months ago: This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro into the Catholic school made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The document lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his Muslim step-father listed the boy's religion as Islam.(AP Photo/ Tatan Syuflana)

Clip Source: blog.changeandexperience.com

Verification:

A quick search through Google reveals that there is an actual Associated Press photographer by the name Tatan Syuflana. It appears that this photographer specializes in the Indonesian region of the world. The above photo which is hosted on Daylife.com was uploaded about 18 months ago. The upload timeframe would have been around February 14, 2007 about 2 or so weeks after the document was released according to the photo caption from Daylife.com that states that the document was made available on January 24, 2007.

Tags: barack obama, barry soetoro, associated press, media cover-up, indonesian school, step-father, lolo soetoro

Meet Barry Soetoro

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:52:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What It Means

This AP photo is compelling evidence of the following assertions, which have been set forth on this blog:

1. Barack Obama had Indonesian citizenship

2. Barack Obama had the legal name Barry Soetoro

3. Barack Obama was a Muslim, despite his “fight the smears” claim that he never has been. (see new story that we just posted on this topic).

Clip Source: texasdarlin.wordpress.com

Breaking Photo Documents Barry Soetoro: Indonesian Citizen, Muslim Religion [Updated x 2]

We just received this photo of a school registration form, courtesy of reader “curious,” taken by Tatan Syuflana, an Indonesian AP reporter and photographer. ~~To my knowledge, the AP has not written a story about this~~. [revision: There was an AP story story in Jan. 2007, but it did not include this photo]. The photo has become relevant now in the context of other revelations reported on this blog. Here is the AP folder where Syuflana’s photo was found: www.daylife.com.

“This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro into the Catholic school made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The document lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his Muslim step-father listed the boy’s religion as Islam.

The Perfect Send Off

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:53:35 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

BUNTU KALANDO, INDONESIA -- The last king of Toraja was 93 when he took his final breath in July 2003. Five years later, he's still part of the family, quietly residing in a small room in his former palace, shaded by two red parasols decorated with colored beads and gold fringe.

By Torajan tradition, he isn't really dead. He's just sick. The late monarch won't be gone for good until he has been laid to rest with traditional rites featuring the slaughter of scores of water buffaloes, at least one of them a rare spotted specimen.

It is central to the culture of Torajans, an ethnic group in southern Sulawesi island whose customs are a hybrid of ancient tribal traditions and Protestant Christianity.

The dead wait months, even years, for their last rites while relatives negotiate funeral arrangements, everything from the right timing to allow mourners to travel long distances, to where they will stay and who will feed them.

Most Dangerous Waves in the World

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:30:12 GMT

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Clip Source: matadortrips.com

1. Cyclops (remote south coast Western Australia)

2. Teahupoo (Tahiti)

3. Shipsterns (Tasmania, Australia)

4. Dungeons (Cape Town, South Africa)

5. Pipeline (Oahu, Hawaii)

6. Desert Point (Lombok, Indonesia)

7. The Cave (Ericeira, Portugal)

8. Lunada Bay (California, USA)

9. Gringos (Arica, Chile)

10. Tarqua (Lagos, Nigeria)

Tags: surf

ebuddy

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:07:15 GMT

clipped by: globalpinoy

Clip Source: www.ebuddy.com

Clintons vs Obama = McCain.......AGAIN

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:00:08 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Century, the American Strategic Energy Fund. Let’s use our logo to make some flags we can give out. Let’s add flag symbols to the backgrounds.”

A video on the internet of Hillary, is reported to have her saying something like ‘her’ supports should be heard at the convention, [...] Seeing how they ran their campaign against Barack Obama, and a fellow American and fellow Democrat and now this latest article -- it is just heart breaking.

Once this report is made public, Senator John McCain’s camp, I’m sure, will use these words made by the Clinton camp by showing them in commercials saying something like, “Even President Clinton and Hillary think Obama’s not patriotic or American enough to run our nation.

Clip Source: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

Mark Penn’s suggestions to Hillary Clinton during her primary campaign to be reported in The Atlantic soon is just one more way, in my humble opinion, for the Clintons to help Senator John McCain beat Senator Barack Obama

The magazine reports Penn suggested getting much rougher with Obama in a memo on March 30, after her crucial wins in Texas and Ohio

"Does anyone believe that it is possible to win the nomination without, over these next two months, raising all these issues on him? ... Won’t a single tape of [the Reverend Jeremiah] Wright going off on America with Obama sitting there be a game ender?"

The Penn memo suggesting that the campaign target Obama’s “lack of American roots” said in part: “All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared towards showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting that in a new light.

“Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t. Make this a new American

Tags: mark penn, the atlantic magazine, hillary clinton, obama

25%+ of all Pentagon money is unaccounted for

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:28:23 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Why Bush & Co. love war.

Little known fact:

George Herbert Walker, grandfather of
George Bush Sr. and George Bush Jr, besides
being a major financier to the Nazis
along with his son-in-law Prescott Bush,
was also appointed supervisor of military
contracts by Woodrow Wilson.

Interestingly enough, it's much easier
to find out details of the family's
dealings with the Nazis than it is to
uncover the simple, biographical fact that
the Bush dynasty has been hardwired into
the finances of the Pentagon since
Day One.

Ripping off the nation via the Pentagon
is a four generation old business for
this crew.

No wonder they're so good at it.

9/11 helped then both cover their tracks
and take things to a new level.
Wow, that's a pretty good scam for some people...I wonder where all that tax money goes? It's bad enough how they rip us off legally, let alone down the rabbit hole to...?

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

[Video]

The Pentagon receives the lion's share of the US tax payer's dollars.

36% goes to current military expenses. 18% goes to what's called "past military" which includes veteran's pensions and medical benefits.

The US spends more on its military than the following countries COMBINED: China, Russia, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India, Brazil, Italy, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Indonesia.

Where does the money go?

At least 25% - and some estimates are much higher - goes down a rat hole unaccounted for and never to been seen again.

The above news report ran the day before September 11, 2001. The problem since then has become exponentially worse.

You can see the numbers here:
http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm

FBI Illegally Obtained Reporters Phone Records

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:12:56 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: by playing the "terrorism" card.

The question now is, what was going on in Indonesia (where the reporters were) that made them desperate to violate the law in order to do some surveillance? (What did they fear the reporters might be on to?) Reporters should now do some research to answer the question and they would have an important story.

Indonesia is a highly Islamic area targetted for change on the "Pentagon's New Map", and where the Tsunami took place.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

F.B.I. Says It Obtained Reporters’ Phone Records

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers’ Indonesia bureaus in 2004.

Robert S. Mueller III, director of the F.B.I., disclosed the episode in a phone call to Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, and apologized for it. He also spoke with Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Washington Post, to apologize.

F.B.I. officials said the incident came to light as part of the continuing review by the Justice Department inspector general’s office into the bureau’s improper collection of telephone records through “emergency” records demands issued to phone providers.

the records of two reporters for The Times in Indonesia, Raymond Bonner and Jane Perlez, as well as two reporters there for The Post, Ellen Nakashima and Natasha Tampubolon, officials said

Tags: fbi, phone records, spying, surveillance, reporters

Reporters Phone Records

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:54:44 GMT

clipped by: leslielykes1

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The records were apparently sought as part of a terrorism investigation, but the F.B.I. did not explain what was being investigated or why the reporters’ phone records were considered relevant.

An initial report by the inspector general last year found that the F.B.I. had violated its own policies in tens of thousands of cases by obtaining phone records in terrorism investigations through what are known as national security letters, without first getting needed approval or meeting other standards. In some cases, the F.B.I. used a whole new class of demands — emergency or “exigent” letters — that are not authorized by law. The emergency records were used in the Indonesian episode.

Tags: terrorism

Clipmarks | Indonesia Clips

Gold medels

Malaysia cancels 'too sexy' Avril Lavigne concert

Amazing Language Facts

French Pwned

The Blurbs on the McCain and Obama Children's Books

Will The Real Barack Obama Please Stand Up?

Obama's Indonesian Registration Document and Media Cover-Up

Meet Barry Soetoro

*Breaking* Photo Documents Barry Soetoro: Indonesian Citizen, Muslim Religion [Updated x 2]

The Perfect Send Off

Most Dangerous Waves in the World

1. Cyclops (remote south coast Western Australia)

2. Teahupoo (Tahiti)

3. Shipsterns (Tasmania, Australia)

4. Dungeons (Cape Town, South Africa)

5. Pipeline (Oahu, Hawaii)

6. Desert Point (Lombok, Indonesia)

7. The Cave (Ericeira, Portugal)

8. Lunada Bay (California, USA)

9. Gringos (Arica, Chile)

10. Tarqua (Lagos, Nigeria)

ebuddy

Clintons vs Obama = McCain.......AGAIN

25%+ of all Pentagon money is unaccounted for

FBI Illegally Obtained Reporters Phone Records

Reporters Phone Records

Breaking Photo Documents Barry Soetoro: Indonesian Citizen, Muslim Religion [Updated x 2]