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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Wes Shermantine, drug use, and victimless crimes
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2012 15:34 || Comments || Link || [336064 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems analogous to hoplophobia. Banning a substance only cedes it's ownership to criminals.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/13/2012 18:48 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Raids on Offices of American NGOs Reveal Scheme to 'Partition' Egypt
By Muhammad Dunia

Translated By Nicolas Dagher


Over the past few days, some Western media have begun to revisit the old idea of a plan to partition Egypt based on the American-Zionist project to divide the country into four states.

The first would be in the Sinai, east of the Nile River delta, under Jewish influence. The second, with Alexandria as its capital and extending South to Asyut, would be Christian. The third would be in the Nubia region, and the fourth would be a Berber state with Cairo as its capital.
And there is no fourth!
Up to now, some thought the ravings about this suspicious plot were for domestic political consumption only. But during the investigation into illegal funding of non-governmental organizations by Egyptian justice, maps were found inside an American non-governmental organization [the International Republican Institute] laying out plans to partition the country.

The subject wasn't really a secret, as a scheme to divide Egypt into an Islamic State in the North and a Christian one in the South was leaked on the Internet not long ago. This is particularly dangerous because some international media have exploited the protests at the Maspiro TV station [by Coptic Christians - 27 were killed]. Certain analysts and researchers of Middle East affairs sought to revive the notion by posting partition maps on the Web. This demonstrates both foreign and domestic hands behind what is happening now in Egypt.

Let us return to the partition maps, which confirm the existence of the scheme, and which turned up during a raid on the American NGO headquarters.
Planted by the local leader of the Muslim Brotherhood...
The plan can be traced back to a British Middle East scholar of Jewish origin, Bernard Lewis. It was Lewis who came up with the most detailed plan for partitioning the Arab and Islamic world from Pakistan to Morocco. The plan was published in the U.S. Defense Department magazine. So who is Bernard Lewis?
Someone the Islamicists hate with a particular passion, as you'll read...
An expert on military strategy, General Sameh Sayf al-Yazal, says that according to the information available, Lewis was born in London in 1916, is a British Middle East researcher of Jewish faith, and a Zionist. He is a U.S. citizen who graduated from the University of London in 1936, where he taught Oriental and African studies. He delved deeply and frequently into the history of Islam and Muslims, writing negatively about it - and became a recognized expert on the subject.

In 1980, when the Iran-Iraq War was raging, U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Bzerzhinsky said that the dilemma for the United States would be how to correct the borders agreed to under the Sykes-Picot Agreement by triggering a second Gulf War. This would be waged along the sidelines of the first one - the Iraq-Iran War. After Bzerzhinsky made this statement, the U.S. Defense Department commissioned Zionist conspirator Bernard Lewis to draw up his now famous scheme to individually dismantle the constitutional unity of Arab and Muslim states, including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states and the nations of North Africa. The new nations would be partitioned along ethnic, religious, sectarian and tribal lines. He included detailed maps with his plan, which were drawn up under his direct supervision.
The maps exist alright. They're a model of clarity. It makes for entertaining thoughts on how the world would be. Lewis recognized that the entire region was unstable in part because various minorities had been thrown together by history; be that history Islamic conquest, Byzantine adventurism or British imperialism. Lewis believed that you wouldn't get peace until each of the ethnic and religious subgroups had a homeland of their own with defensible borders. Call the man crazy...
Regarding the details of the U.S.-Zionist project to partition the Muslim world, General Sayf al-Yazal adds that according to Bernard Lewis, Egypt is destined to be divided into four states. The first would be comprised of the Sinai and east of the Nile River Delta and be under Jewish influence in order to achieve the Jewish dream of a land spanning from the Nile to the Euphrates. The second would be a Christian state with Alexandria as its capital. Its area would extend south of Bahr Yusuf to southern Asyut, stretch westward to include al-Fayum, and follow the line of the desert through Wadi al-Natrun to make the new nation contiguous with Alexandria. It would also be widened to include part of the coastal area stretching to Mersa Matruh. The third state of Nubia, which would run along the border with North Sudan and the Sahara Desert, would have its capital in Aswan and would connect up with the southern part of Egypt, also known as Upper Egypt. Nubia would share a border with the Berber state, which would extend from southern Morocco to the Red Sea. This would essential comprise Islamic Egypt with Cairo as its capital, and would include all the remaining parts of Egypt. This nation, too, would be destined to be under Israeli influence, and would be within the purview of the Greater Israel coveted by the Jews.
And notice: no state for Arabs! Bwha-ha-ha-ha. What evil genius!
Posted by: tipper || 02/13/2012 04:54 || Comments || Link || [336094 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Arab Mind
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2012 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  "The Nubia region" is usually knows as the Sudan. Nuba being the old Egyptian word for "slave"
Posted by: mojo || 02/13/2012 10:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I haven't been able to find a copy of this proposed Lewis map of a divided Egypt - the ones floating around conspiratorial anti-neocon sites are all variants on breaking up Southwest Asia, not North Africa. It's all "how do we break out Kurdistan and an autonomous Alawi state" and how to chop up the Iranian empire - what the hell is Quashqaistan?
Posted by: Mitch H. || 02/13/2012 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Here it is.
Posted by: newc || 02/13/2012 15:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like a Biden plan
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2012 15:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Drat, uncovered Operation Biden Time. Still, don't see what is wrong with newc's map...

Quashquai are nomadic horse people, time of the Khans, as I understand no friends of tehran, and you want on your side.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/13/2012 15:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Used to be, when I was in college, forty-plus years ago, the anthro people, the poli sci people, and the history people, all bitched about how yurps drew lines on maps without regard to the people, or The Peoples, through whom the lines went.
Now, not so much.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 02/13/2012 16:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Good old Arab nutbaggery and paranoia. It never seems to go out of season.
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/13/2012 21:14 Comments || Top||


Arabia
'Arab Spring? That's the Business of Other Countries'
One year ago, Arab Spring protests briefly gripped the tiny Gulf country of Bahrain. Just as quickly, however, they were crushed. SPIEGEL spoke with Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa about the need for reform, whether democracy is right for his country and what exactly a king does.
Posted by: tipper || 02/13/2012 07:43 || Comments || Link || [336063 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Media Matters: erratic behavior, close coordination with White House, news organizations
David Brock was smoking a cigarette on the roof of his Washington, D.C. office one day in the late fall of 2010 when his assistant and two bodyguards suddenly appeared and whisked him and his colleague Eric Burns down the stairs.

Brock, the head of the liberal nonprofit Media Matters for America, had told friends and co-workers that he feared he was in imminent danger from right-wing assassins and needed a security team to keep him safe.

The threat he faced while smoking on his roof? "Snipers," a former co-worker recalled.

"He had more security than a Third World dictator," one employee said, explaining that Brock's bodyguards would rarely leave his side, even accompanying him to his home in an affluent Washington neighborhood each night where they "stood post" to protect him. "What movement leader has a detail?" asked someone who saw it.

Extensive interviews with a number of Brock's current and former colleagues at Media Matters, as well as with leaders from across the spectrum of Democratic politics, reveal an organization roiled by its leader's volatile and erratic behavior and struggles with mental illness, and an office where Brock's executive assistant carried a handgun to public events in order to defend his boss from unseen threats.
Posted by: Beavis || 02/13/2012 08:50 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
The Forgotten Man
We don't often have an explanation of his intention from the artist himself.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2012 11:14 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under:



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