Tidbits and notes posted on FB and Twitter. Part 173

Brazil: Lula doesn’t even own this triplex and never lived in it to be condemned to 12 years prison term. Brazil capitalist class run for maintaining itself among the emerging nations shouldn’t prevent millions of poor classes Not to eek a living.

The flu virus can stop your heart. Scientists concluded can actually increase your risk of having a heart attack by a factor of six.

Scientists and medical professionals from every corner of the world meet in Switzerland to select 4 potential flu viruses that might be active the next year in order to produce a unified vaccine

Syria ambassador Al Jaafari annihilated Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Kingdom, USA, France and Britain in their claim they can participate in writing a Constitution to the Syrian people through military intervention and engagement.

Jordan and Saudi Kingdom are Not the beacon for democratic processes, Turkey has been the main support of infiltrating all the terrorist factions into Syria since 2011, and the colonial powers are constantly intent on destabilizing Syria and the Middle-East.

Turkey claims is attacking ISIS, but ISIS presence is encircled by Syria army and Not by Turkey terrorist factions.

Since the advent of “Islamic” revolution in 1979, hundreds of homosexuals were hanged in public places in its early establishment

I am under the impression the deal is: attacking Afrin to allow Syrian army to take control of this province, while the real target of Turkish incursion is Menbej. The USA had promised Turkey that the Syrian Kurdish forces will withdraw from Menbij after liberating it from ISIS, but did Not. (Turkey has entered Afrin and the looting is under way)

Trump is awfully upset: The Palestinians are Not respecting him or his pronouncement on Jerusalem. Go figure

Daniela Blei writes in the Atlantic, “From nature’s variety came an abiding preoccupation with the differences between people. As soon as anthropologists applied Linnaeus’s taxonomy system to humans, the category of race, together with the ideology of racism, was born.”

With the exception of the Moon tiny meteorites, all solar meteorites (billion of years old) are pure iron blocks. Why? Is iron the final state of any stone before appearing in our orbit?

If the Constitution give the President of Lebanon the rights in deciding on certain issues, it doesn’t prohibit him to test the ground with the other “political powers structure”, such as Parliament head Berri, who is the chief of the militia leaders who retained their political power after the 13 years of civil war.

In Lebanon, it is Not about the Constitution stupid. All political decisions are known and discussed among political party heads, long time before execution. Nabih Berri wants to wage an election war against the Tayyar, period.

Ma fhemt shi min khitab 3ali Hassan Khalil: plain generalities wa dayaa3

Intissar 7assem la Souriya fi Vienna: manassat Moscow to3dem wathicat Washington al khourafiyat bi intidaab UN 3ala sha3b al Souri.

You cannot select al sawt tafdili min lista okhra ghair allati sawatetet laha.

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 170

La survie est une affaire personnelle. Les grandes souffrances et douleurs ne resserrent pas necessairement les liens dans une famille. On souffre pour l’illusion d’un amour a venir.

Mike Pence the idiot (Vice my ass) is a “Christian” Fundamentalist who believe the next coming will arrive as Jerusalem is converted to Judaism

Artificial intelligence is helping police combat gang violence in London. By applying predictive analytics in collaboration with Accenture, London police were able to turn raw data into risk scores that guide safety efforts and resource allocation.

Bolstered further by drones and bio-metrics, smart policing programs are growing worldwide—from San Francisco to Singapore—and have become a proving point for institutions and companies looking to invest in intelligent innovation.

Christine Lagarde (IMF chief) quoted Leonard Cohen: “There is a crack in everything and that is how the light gets in.” referring to women rights. She then asked each panelist to identify the cracks they see, to an engrossed audience.

“Whoever controls the data, controls the world.” Everyone from Modi to bankers to law enforcement officials at cyber-security events kept repeating that phrase at Davos 2018

The village of Souwayri in central Bekaa3, close to the border with Syria, is daily experiencing dozen of frozen dead Syrian refugees trying to flee  into Lebanon. The extremist factions in south-west Syria, close to the Lebanese border, have been vanquished and no food supply is reaching the people from Israel, as during the past 4 years. 

According to a global survey of more than 30,000 people, government officials are now less credible than journalists, for goodness’ sakes.

Alfo lejnat lel nazar fi ma3ayeer moukata3at Israel, kabel ma al siyassiyeen yedlo bi mawakefhom

Nifayaat 3ala shate2 Sami ejet min nifayaat Beit Chabab, Cornet al Hamra wa Mazra3at Yachou3. Hal baladiyyat bit kebb nifayatouha 3ala majra Nahr al Kalb wa al shetteh al ghazeer  bit jamme3a bil nahr

 

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 168

 

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 167

With over 150,000 slaves, Mauritania ranks first globally as the country with the largest de-facto and legal slave population in proportion to its barely densely population. (It is reported that a third of the population are slaves)

In Jordan, child labor is huge with some 30,000 children working, mainly in shops, cafes, and restaurants.

Israel has a huge human trafficking sector, mainly in organ extraction.

Low-level skilled workers from China, Romania, Africa, Turkey, Thailand, and Philippines, Nepal, Siri Lanka and India face forced labor conditions in the developed colonial States and oil rich Gulf States.

Many imported workers have their passports confiscated by their “sponsors,” never receive wages due to debt bondage, and face threats and physical intimidation.

Women from Russia and former Soviet states are commonly trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

In Sudan, women and children are taken captive, then enslaved, branded, and bred. Women chosen as concubines (a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives) are genitally mutilated.

In Uganda, armed factions kidnap kids to become ruthless killers, after forcing them to kill their mothers.

Human trafficking in Lebanon has developed into sex work. With Lebanon being one of the least conservative countries in the Middle East, brothels or ‘’whore houses” have found fertile ground in the spoils of the shadowy industry. Same in Israel seaside cities

La violence latente est réservée dans les archives top secret des bureaux d’intelligence. La violence declaree’ est communiqué quand le “covert operation” a terminé

Pleurer a chaude larmes après un instant Magique. C’est pour ca que les glandes lacrimogenes ont evoluées: Pour retenir l’illusion du Bonheur éternel

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 166

La faille est trop grande pour eviter la contagion dans ces lignes de partage et de demarcation entre Nord/ Sud,
coloniaux/ indigenes, lois civil/ lois ancestral, civilization/culture pittoresque, expat/immigre, dissident d’un system/opposant d’un despot…

Ce que nous appelons Avenir n’est qu’une variation du passe’. Tout de meme, le temps nous a change’ un tant soit peu

Jerusalem is the door to peace as well as to war: Religions are infamous catalysts to all kinds of mischief

A lire: “Desorientale” de Nigar Djavadi

Lebanon Foreign minister Bassil uttered an ignominy: I have no ideological problems with Israel. As if foreign people occupying a land and transferring its citizens is a purely human rights issue.

That’s the thing about life; It is fragile, precious and unpredictable and each day is a gift, not a given right

Si je raconte mes histoires personnel avec humour, ce sont les contes du petit royaume du “Je” de chacun de nous.

Lebanese university graduates are Not better off in job hunting. If they perform good in Lebanon, they are transferred oversea, mainly in the Arab Gulf States

Qatar, now on the verge of hosting the 2022 World Cup, is being accused of mistreatment of the workers  from Bangladesh, Nepal and the Himalaya States, employed to build the stadiums, or a form of slavery. Over 400 workers died so far from overwork, malnutrition and unsanitary dwelling.

Stephen Spilberg, mawt sariri bi Loubnan. The Post lan yo3rad bi Loubnana 7atta iza Al Mashnouk wa al Moustakbal badhon yo3rdou. Spilberg tbarra3 bi one $million la Israel fi 7arbha 3ala Loubnan fi 2006

Anzarna Syrian Kurds in 3afreen (north-west Syrian province) la ta7tami ta7ta mizalat al shar3iyyat al Souriyyat

Talama al Jaish al Souri bi takkadom midani, fa al oumour bi ta7asson

Bassil kan bi 7ajat la 5 sa3aat ma3 Sayyed al Moukawamat 7atta yefham shou Ideologia bte3neh

Esta3malet al mokhtaar rabou2, 7ejjat la lo2maha. “kahrabt al jaww”. (niaiserie personelle de maitresse de jardin d’enfants)

2aal shou? ellak 7a2 tetfarraj. ka2anno msharda2 etfarraj 3ala le3bha al mou3a2

Moush msharda2 erja3 3an kareeb ila Garderie. me3tebrat enno al Club her private playing ground. wa hiya al m3alimat

Kaalat enno ya7ok li bass etfarraj. 3ala shou? 3ala le3bha?

Mazbout Na3eem Kassem baddo ye 7awel Loubnan ila dawleh Islamiyyat? Khemmana Hezbollah bado dawlet moush ta2ifiyyeh?

Intakassat bayn Saad wa waziraho Al Jarra7: Saudi Kingdom badha tsakker kaman Ogero bi Loubnan 

 

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 165

Another surprise is that when it comes to purchasing course materials and answering old questions in assignments, many succeed in locating previous students who took the course. They never attempted to get an idea of the course before registering.

I have tried many teaching styles, revised several times the contents and arrangements of the course chapters, and experimented with various methods to encourage the students into reading the course materials on their own volition. Nothing worked. A few diligent students were my teaching rewards.

I varied the number of quizzes, exams, assignments and lab projects, tried to encourage my university students to read research articles, investigated new presentation techniques, gave them hints on how best to read and assimilate the materials, emphasized on thinking like engineers and not memorize information, and I even assigned students to read to class:  I received basically the same observations, no matter how I change the course. A few diligent students (2 to be precise) were my teaching rewards.

Many university students don’t bring any paper or pen to take notes, many refuse to redo their assignments for a couple extra points or for closure sake, and most of the redone works (even after correcting them in class) show no improvement.

One of my constraints for homework: the end product has to be hand written, including tables, charts and figures.  I can manage to read physicians’ prescriptions better than their handwriting assignment.

Zionist Ashkenazi Jews (including Neocons) who obey only the Talmud (and never the Torah), have formed a world power banking, extortion cult of war and death that has little or nothing to do with being devout adherents of Judaism. These are the folks who think nothing of breaking the law, lying (Kol Nidre), stealing, graft, corruption, assassination, blackmail, extortion or destroying tens of millions of people to get their way.

There is this couple of students who demonstrate this want to learn: it is always refreshing to feel that a few students are serious about the money invested by their parents for them to learn at universities.

Slavery is rampant in most countries, especially in West Africa (Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Gambia…), Yemen, Sudan and the Far East. Slavery is even practiced on its own citizens. Other countries abuse the “imported” work force to subjugate them into a state of slavery. (East European highway truck drivers consider themselves slaves to western Europeans capitalists)

Slaves were first “imported” from Madagascar, Sudan, East Africa and the current States bordering the Sahara Desert to Sultans in Morocco and the Ottoman Empire. Saudi Arabia is highest in that practice and the UN is declining to broach this indignity.

In the 18th century, the European colonial powers and the USA shipped slaves from West Africa for several centuries.

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 164

Hatred for Capitalism is basically theoretical. Hates were turned towards the other strangers, the “apostates”, the slaves, mother, father… 

So England is considering another referendum to join the EU: Could Not suffer being viewed as stupid as Trump.

Jack Bennett asked the homosexual Sami Davis Jr how much it costs him to be in that condition. He replied: “I’m one-eyed blind, Black and Jew. Is that handicapping enough?” I wonder why he decided to become a Jew. 

A month ago, Trump pronounced Jerusalem Capital of Israel. Since then 30 Palestinians were killed and thousands injured and hundreds administratively detained.

60,000 US psychiatrists declared Trump terribly mentally sick. Today, Trump’s private doctor said that this ailment is Not that dangerous.

“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.” Martin Luther King Jr.

“We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad”.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Same fake narrative (as colported during the recapture of Aleppo) has now found its way to Idlib as the Syrian Army has been conducting an operation to clear the Nusra jihadist-held province of terrorists. Turkey and USA are Not happy with the quick progress of Syrian army.

Even Tellerson (US State Department) is siding with idiocy: He wants diplomatic as well as military presence in North Syria (against the wish of the Syrian government)

The responses generated in class to my query whether the students have any idea about this course prove that they have No knowledge whatsoever of Human Factors in engineering discipline, which is to design products and services with health, safety, and ease of use of consumers in mind.

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 163

A Secular State main function is to enact civil laws that agree with the basic common denomination in the belief system of values, of facilitating the process for any individual to ask for a review of a law, to codify how organizations and individuals are entitled to demand their rights…

A Secular State main responsibility is to deny religious clerics to impose abstract laws

A secular State is expected to protect individual rights for freedom of expression, for learning and reading any published documents, for getting engaged in discussions that affect any power structure.

Democracy is fundamentally the process of instituting a credible civil and secular community.

«Avoir peur? C’est impossible. J’avais peur pour les autres, pas pour moi.» C’est ce que répond Françoise de Bourbon-Lobkowicz quand on lui demande si l’idée de faire demi-tour aurait pu traverser son esprit, lorsqu’elle menait des convois de médicaments vers les victimes de bombardements au Sud-Liban, en 1985. (Israel avait envahi le Liban et entrait a Beirut, et ne quita le Sud-Liban qu’en l’an 2,000.)

Ces petites mesquineries parmi des gens “mures”. Et tu te sens pas different des jardins d’enfants. Comme si on change beaucoup de nos habitudes mesquines d’enfance.

Tout club de gens mures et plutot seniles doit elire une committee’ pour negocier les problemes des mesquineries d’enfants

Transsexual operations in many countries are acceptable: a person has to have a definite genders (male or female). Homosexuality is Not just a shame for the family and community: It is an impossibility of nature. Being a lesbian is totally normal, a very natural feeling among women living together.

Cost of killing a Yemeni on average is $50,000,000 (in millions). That is enough money to pay the schools of all the Arab world and become the hero you want to be.

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 162

Since 2,000, Israel killed 2027 Palestinian children.

The new Palestinian National Council will revisit all the agreements and deals that Israel failed to carry out, after Trump pronouncement on Jerusalem.

The UN voted on 84 Palestinian resolutions that have never been executed. The US has the highest number of vetoes and 43 of them vetoes were related to Palestinian rights.

I’m tired of Petanque players (boules) who want to corner you as “pointeur” in order to enjoy the “privilege” of “tireurs”. They are the worst players: can do neither task.

The excellent “tireur” in Petanque is who mastered for years the task of “pointer”. He steps in to point instead of regurgitating the beginners’ cliche’: “In this game, we must have a pointeur, a milieu and a tireur”. Desist lying to yourself and train to control your body parts movements

Frankly, I feel lucky that I lived long enough in this century to realize that books of females authors are far more interesting than their gender’s counterparts

Chez nous, on est garcon ou fille. Des codes differents regissent les deux genres. Les termes “garcon manque'” ou “fille manquee'” n’existent pas pour devenir cliche’.

Et moi, la fille qu’on expectait de naitre garcon, je me revais  adulte comme le voisin qui fumait, le torse nu, sur le balcon dans l’indifference generale.

Je fesais le pitre et sautais entre les jambes des adolescentes femelles. Ma soeur ainee’ me chuchotas en Francais: ” Franchement, on dirait que tu es Lesbienne“. Je ne savais pas ce que ce mot signifiait, mais il tomba en moi comme une goutte d’encre noire dans un verre d’eau.

Est-ce qu’etre une lesbienne veut dire avoir l’energie grisante et la gaiete’ espiegle  quand je suis entre les femelles adolescentes, et que cette sensation disparait quand je retourne jouer avec les garcons?

Can’t become secular without working actively on a secular community. Need to avoid the claim that secularism is basically an internal individual spiritual condition, a permanent discipline, an individual asceticism that refuses the domination of abstract concepts and belief-systems on the reality of life and the true needs and wants of the common people.

Citizens needs to be educated how to differentiate among abstract concepts that cannot be demonstrated, concepts that can be measured and experimented with, concept that can be made operational to be measured, evaluated and tested (such as mental and emotional abilities…), concepts that require tolerance, and concepts that we should never tolerate under any excuse.

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 161

Since 2005, and for 7 years, numerous men and women Palestinians in the village of Bilin courageously have faced Israeli forces in order to prevent further colonization of their villages, the destruction of their resources and the subjugation of their people.

Hana al-Shalabi (Hanaa2), a 30-year-old Palestinian woman from Jenin, is on hunger strike to protest her administrative detention without charge by Israel. She was subjected to beatings and humiliating treatment by Israeli forces and declared that her hunger strike will continue until her demand for freedom is met.

Women of the Middle East and North Africa are of compelling strength, boundtless courage and incorruptible dignity. History is laden with prominent female activists, poets, authors and political figures from this region who have long existed, despite the deliberate evasion of their stories and in the printing their names, and they will continue to exist.

Why lament about how others write about you; write your own histories. I personally would love to read about these female heroes.

Long ago, there was a Medieval Kingdom of Khazaria ( 652-1016 AD) that included part of modern-day Russia, Ukraine, and a sliver of what is current Kazakhstan.  When considering the choice among Islam, Christianity or Judaism the leaders of this ’empire’ decided to declare themselves Jewish. They had no understanding of the culture of the original land (Levant civilization) and simply followed the rules and prescriptions of the conservative Jews. They are the current Ashkenazim Jew who lived in central Europe, after the Russian Ivan dispersed them in the year 1,000.

The Khazaria Empire could not extend any further south because the Tatars and Turkmen proved to be about as obstinate as the Afghans have been throughout history.

The Khazarian ‘Jews’ are NOT descendants of the mythical “12 Tribes of Israel” and their world view, and of pious spiritual Judaism have created conflict within that religion ever since. They are the current day Zionist Ashkenazim Jews (including Neocons, of course) who have formed a world power banking, extortion cult of war and death that has little or nothing to do with being devout adherents of Judaism. These are the folks who think nothing of breaking the law, lying (Kol Nidre), stealing, graft, corruption, assassination, blackmail, extortion or destroying tens of millions of people to get their way.

In 1997, Christoph Meili was a security guard, who happened upon 2 carts full of Holocaust-era banking documents related to Jewish clients of UBS that were slated for destruction. Inspired by “Schindler’s List,” Meili removed several volumes of the documents from his employer’s possession. Instead of going directly to the authorities, he instead disclosed the documents to outside sources. As a result, not only did Meili lose his job, but he was also under investigation by Swiss authorities for violating Swiss law.

Since 2,000, Israel killed 2,027 Palestinian children.