England Ditched its Colonies for Easy Bonanza. Since then England is Desperate for free Dollars supply Printed Outta thin-air to Monetize. England ain’t say NO to feds even if the Yanks turn Bank of England to Fish & Chips Canteen. England masterminded this Culture, enjoyed its Crime & Scam. Fucking Iran is the least England can do to tax DC.

England Ditched its Colonies for Easy Bonanza. Since then England is Desperate for free Dollars supply Printed Outta thin-air to Monetize. England ain’t say NO to feds even if the Yanks turn Bank of England to Fish & Chips Canteen. England masterminded this Culture, enjoyed its Crime & Scam. Fucking Iran is the least England can do to tax DC. It’s an insult for even the fools not to know the Yanks agenda in the Lower Gulf. It’s the Banks they are after not Iran. The Rubber Plantation Patch Boy Peter Sands thought that the feds coming after Khomeini’s ass. Dumbass. Like Mombasa Ostrich who buried her little Brainless Head in the sand and held her big cactus Butt up in the air for the feds to fuck. Peter Sands scavenged a Quarter of Trillion Dollars worth of Seigniorage Banksters Scam with Iran. Is His ticket to Buckingham Palace to be knighted by the Queen of England. Peter Sands challenged the Old Boys of the Edwardian Club Daydreaming that Rubber Plantation Patch Boy can Replace Mervyn King for Governor Bank of England after this deal. They outfucked him by calling 1-800-feds for him. Peter Sands Fantasy cost StanChart $340M in fines so far and in disgrace. What an Asshole. And yet Peter Sands still believes that whatever happened is Lawful, honest and above-board Modus Operandi. Quit Pot Dickhead! It’s Capitalism Downtime Armageddon. Eat, Shit & Die in Debt Daydreaming Rich. Lloyds TSB is next.

“If you can’t Fuck England to strike Rich. Hire Paki Bank Mercenaries to Fuck its Colonies. “ Peter Sands StanChart CEO hired 3 Louts to fuck him.

And now to the Anglosexual Pigeons, the Mayhem, and the Misinformation! Gregor Stuart Hunter, Christopher Burke of the National United Arab Emirates. Published by Al Bawaba Ltd…here you go.

Peter Sands: survivor of the financial jungle Illustration of Peter Sands. Peter Sands could have followed the path of diplomacy instead of banking after a childhood spent in Asia often the sun has set on the British empire. The chief executive of Standard Chartered was born in 1962 to British parents who ran rubber plantations. A boyhood spent growing up in newly independent countries including Malaysia and Singapore followed by a stint at Oxford’s illustrious Brasenose College almost resulted in a career as a diplomat. But Mr Sands‘s short stay at the UK foreign office after graduating soon took a different turn when he left to pursue work in the private sector. Two decades later, at the head of one of Britain’s most successful banks, the Oxford and Harvard-educated Mr Sands has remained in public life – and until this month, for all the right reasons. He had been among the loudest industry voices to admonish the banking sector as the Libor scandal gripped the City of London and Wall Street. With his thick, dark eyebrows, spectacles and white hair, Mr Sands has something of a professorial demeanour, a far cry from the gung-ho investment bankers found elsewhere in the City of London. Standard Chartered (StanChart) previously had not been linked to the Libor investigations – or any major banking scandal, save for troubles with complex investments that were relatively minor compared with those faced by other banks during the financial crisis. That all changed this month. Allegations that StanChart had allowed US$250 billion (Dh918.25bn) of prohibited transactions with Iran caught the bank by surprise. It was characterised as a “rogue institution”, with an “evident zeal to make hundreds of millions of dollars at almost any cost”, in the words of Benjamin Lawsky, New York’s superintendent of financial services. And after the bank initially mounted a vehement defence against the claims, Mr Sands cut a more contrite figure. “We made mistakes,” he said, in the midst of the crisis. “And we’re sorry. They were made in good faith and we didn’t intend to break the rules.” Settling the investigation by paying $340m in penalties within a few days, the bank’s crisis ended with a capitulation, albeit a grudging one. Nonetheless, Mr Sands may be holding his head higher than his British rivals at HSBC, which ended a similar investigation by the US Senate with an admission of all wrongdoing and full public apology. HSBC, the bank’s long-time rival and which is referred to internally as the “ugly sister”, has significantly retooled its business model over the past two years to be more focused on the same markets in which StanChart makes most of its profits. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but as a chief executive, Mr Sands requires little. During his time at the bank, StanChart has run 10 consecutive years of increasing annual profits. Mr Sands might have been raised in the British empire’s former colonies. But any associations with the old boys’ clubs of Edwardian Britain are misplaced. Joining StanChart in 2002 as the group finance director, despite his lack of a background in accounting, he was able to rise to the role of chief executive within four years. He also oversaw the hiring of the first two Indian executive directors in the bank’s history. His reputation is also partially due to having had the good fortune to be running an emerging market-focused bank during a period when the West atrophied. But he has reasonable claims to have led Britain’s rehabilitation as a force for progress in a post-imperial age – as StanChart bankrolled almost a decade of development across Africa, Asia and the Middle East and emerging markets became economic powerhouses to rival the West. Indeed, Mr Sands is more likely to be found locked in an intellectual duel with Martin Wolf in the opinion pages of the Financial Times than snapped golfing on the front of tabloid newspapers under a sensational headline about his salary. While western banking titans were being downgraded, StanChart was one of the few whose credit rating improved. That has not stopped allegations of smugness, of course. Nevertheless, it is hard to see the British banking establishment rallying around other heads of British lenders in the same way they backed Mr Sands in the wake of the New York regulator’s actions. The Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King explicitly criticised the actions by New York regulators for making public statements ahead of the completion of their investigation, while Boris Johnson, the London mayor, decried American “protectionism”. To many in the London establishment, Mr Sands was not just defending his bank but Britain’s competitiveness in trade finance. After all, who were these Americans to tell the rest of the world who to deal with? The robust defence of StanChart is further complicated by the fact that it is something of an oddity in the United Kingdom where it is headquartered but maintains no high street presence. In the UAE, where the bank has operated since the days of the Trucial States, it is far more visible with a retail franchise and the second-biggest investment banking business in the region. Mr Sands cuts a large public profile in the UAE, having attended the groundbreaking in March last year of the bank’s new $140m Dubai head office alongside Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the chairman of Emirates Group. “This is a strategic investment, demonstrating Standard Chartered’s long-term commitment to our customers, clients and the community in the UAE,” Mr Sands said at the time. The point was clear: StanChart, unlike British lenders nationalised during the financial crisis such as Lloyds Banking Group or Royal Bank of Scotland, was in no hurry to slim down its Middle East operations. To illustrate this, it is one of the few international banks in the region to have quietly hired staff during the past few years. But its “Here for Good” branding always sat uneasily during the years the lender maintained operations in Zimbabwe, even if it did so alongside other international banks. But the worst the bank faced were charges of hypocrisy. Allegations that StanChart played a role as a conduit for Iranian trade may prove harder to shake as further investigations remain pending with the US federal authorities. More unpleasant details could yet surface. But Mr Sands has so far survived the first major crisis of his 10 years in banking with his job intact. Still, the reputational damage may be hard to erase. StanChart’s squeaky-clean image following the financial crisis helped Lord Mervyn Davies, Mr Sands’s predecessor as the chief executive, secure a position as a UK minister for trade and investment. Before the bank’s imbroglio with regulators, Mr Sands had been rumoured as a potential candidate to succeed Sir Mervyn King as the head of the Bank of England. That notion may well now be dead. In past centuries, a British businessmen whose reputations were sullied in the City could always depart to find a new life in the colonies. Mr Sands, whose name has been made from the resurgence of those territorial possessions as dynamic emerging markets, may not have that option. ghunter@thenational.ae

“If you can’t Fuck England to get Rich. Hire Paki Bank Mercenaries to Fuck its Colonies. “ Peter Sands StanChart CEO

When the Yanks hit the Lower Gulf. The Rubber Plantation Patch Boy Peter Sands thought that the feds coming after Khomeini’s ass. He executed a quarter of Trillion Dollars worth of Seigniorage Banksters Scam with Iran like Mombasa Ostrich who buried her little Brainless Head in the sand and held her big cactus Butt up for the feds to fuck. Peter Sands challenged the Old Boys of the Edwardian Club Daydreaming to Replace Mervyn King Governor Bank of England. That fantasy cost StanChart $340M in fines and disgrace so far. What an Asshole. And yet Peter Sands still believes that whatever happened is Lawful, honest and above-board Modus operandi. Quit Pot Dickhead! It’s Capitalism Downtime Armageddon. Eat, Shit & Die in Debt. Daydreaming Rich. Lloyds TSB is next.

“If you can’t Fuck England to get Rich. Hire Paki Bank Mercenaries to Fuck its Colonies. “ Peter Sands StanChart CEO

And now to the Anglosexual Pigeons, the Mayhem, and the Misinformation! Gregor Stuart Hunter, Christopher Burke of the National United Arab Emirates. Published by Al Bawaba Ltd…here you go.

Peter Sands: survivor of the financial jungle Illustration of Peter Sands. Peter Sands could have followed the path of diplomacy instead of banking after a childhood spent in Asia often the sun has set on the British empire. The chief executive of Standard Chartered was born in 1962 to British parents who ran rubber plantations. A boyhood spent growing up in newly independent countries including Malaysia and Singapore followed by a stint at Oxford’s illustrious Brasenose College almost resulted in a career as a diplomat. But Mr Sands‘s short stay at the UK foreign office after graduating soon took a different turn when he left to pursue work in the private sector. Two decades later, at the head of one of Britain’s most successful banks, the Oxford and Harvard-educated Mr Sands has remained in public life – and until this month, for all the right reasons. He had been among the loudest industry voices to admonish the banking sector as the Libor scandal gripped the City of London and Wall Street. With his thick, dark eyebrows, spectacles and white hair, Mr Sands has something of a professorial demeanour, a far cry from the gung-ho investment bankers found elsewhere in the City of London. Standard Chartered (StanChart) previously had not been linked to the Libor investigations – or any major banking scandal, save for troubles with complex investments that were relatively minor compared with those faced by other banks during the financial crisis. That all changed this month. Allegations that StanChart had allowed US$250 billion (Dh918.25bn) of prohibited transactions with Iran caught the bank by surprise. It was characterised as a “rogue institution”, with an “evident zeal to make hundreds of millions of dollars at almost any cost”, in the words of Benjamin Lawsky, New York’s superintendent of financial services. And after the bank initially mounted a vehement defence against the claims, Mr Sands cut a more contrite figure. “We made mistakes,” he said, in the midst of the crisis. “And we’re sorry. They were made in good faith and we didn’t intend to break the rules.” Settling the investigation by paying $340m in penalties within a few days, the bank’s crisis ended with a capitulation, albeit a grudging one. Nonetheless, Mr Sands may be holding his head higher than his British rivals at HSBC, which ended a similar investigation by the US Senate with an admission of all wrongdoing and full public apology. HSBC, the bank’s long-time rival and which is referred to internally as the “ugly sister”, has significantly retooled its business model over the past two years to be more focused on the same markets in which StanChart makes most of its profits. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but as a chief executive, Mr Sands requires little. During his time at the bank, StanChart has run 10 consecutive years of increasing annual profits. Mr Sands might have been raised in the British empire’s former colonies. But any associations with the old boys’ clubs of Edwardian Britain are misplaced. Joining StanChart in 2002 as the group finance director, despite his lack of a background in accounting, he was able to rise to the role of chief executive within four years. He also oversaw the hiring of the first two Indian executive directors in the bank’s history. His reputation is also partially due to having had the good fortune to be running an emerging market-focused bank during a period when the West atrophied. But he has reasonable claims to have led Britain’s rehabilitation as a force for progress in a post-imperial age – as StanChart bankrolled almost a decade of development across Africa, Asia and the Middle East and emerging markets became economic powerhouses to rival the West. Indeed, Mr Sands is more likely to be found locked in an intellectual duel with Martin Wolf in the opinion pages of the Financial Times than snapped golfing on the front of tabloid newspapers under a sensational headline about his salary. While western banking titans were being downgraded, StanChart was one of the few whose credit rating improved. That has not stopped allegations of smugness, of course. Nevertheless, it is hard to see the British banking establishment rallying around other heads of British lenders in the same way they backed Mr Sands in the wake of the New York regulator’s actions. The Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King explicitly criticised the actions by New York regulators for making public statements ahead of the completion of their investigation, while Boris Johnson, the London mayor, decried American “protectionism”. To many in the London establishment, Mr Sands was not just defending his bank but Britain’s competitiveness in trade finance. After all, who were these Americans to tell the rest of the world who to deal with? The robust defence of StanChart is further complicated by the fact that it is something of an oddity in the United Kingdom where it is headquartered but maintains no high street presence. In the UAE, where the bank has operated since the days of the Trucial States, it is far more visible with a retail franchise and the second-biggest investment banking business in the region. Mr Sands cuts a large public profile in the UAE, having attended the groundbreaking in March last year of the bank’s new $140m Dubai head office alongside Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the chairman of Emirates Group. “This is a strategic investment, demonstrating Standard Chartered’s long-term commitment to our customers, clients and the community in the UAE,” Mr Sands said at the time. The point was clear: StanChart, unlike British lenders nationalised during the financial crisis such as Lloyds Banking Group or Royal Bank of Scotland, was in no hurry to slim down its Middle East operations. To illustrate this, it is one of the few international banks in the region to have quietly hired staff during the past few years. But its “Here for Good” branding always sat uneasily during the years the lender maintained operations in Zimbabwe, even if it did so alongside other international banks. But the worst the bank faced were charges of hypocrisy. Allegations that StanChart played a role as a conduit for Iranian trade may prove harder to shake as further investigations remain pending with the US federal authorities. More unpleasant details could yet surface. But Mr Sands has so far survived the first major crisis of his 10 years in banking with his job intact. Still, the reputational damage may be hard to erase. StanChart’s squeaky-clean image following the financial crisis helped Lord Mervyn Davies, Mr Sands’s predecessor as the chief executive, secure a position as a UK minister for trade and investment. Before the bank’s imbroglio with regulators, Mr Sands had been rumoured as a potential candidate to succeed Sir Mervyn King as the head of the Bank of England. That notion may well now be dead. In past centuries, a British businessmen whose reputations were sullied in the City could always depart to find a new life in the colonies. Mr Sands, whose name has been made from the resurgence of those territorial possessions as dynamic emerging markets, may not have that option. ghunter@thenational.ae

Looosers are looosers. Heroic Defenders had tears in their eyes when Kim Jong-Un invited the Islanders for a mugshot. Got it? Dickheads. Even When Kim Jong-Un Smiles Foes Scared Scat. And now to the pigeons, the mayhem, and the misinformation! From Huffington Post:

Looosers are looosers. Heroic Defenders had tears in their eyes when Kim Jong-Un invited the Islanders for a mugshot. Got it? Dickheads. Even When Kim Jong-Un Smiles Foes Scared Scat.

And now to the pigeons, the mayhem, and the misinformation! From Huffington Post:

Kim Jong-un looked relaxed and happy during visit to military units on an island southwest of country’s capital, Pyongyang. However in PR disaster for Supreme Leader, North Korean family chosen to pose with him looked absolutely petrified. One member of alarmed-looking group looks close to tears, while another hunches over fearfully. According to South Korean news website, Chosun Ilbo, Kim Jong-un’s island tour included a visit to unit which attacked South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island in November 2010. A South Korean soldier was killed and 13 others injured after North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells at island in one of most dramatic exchanges since end of the Korean war. The North Korean leader Kim described unit as a “heroic defender,” during visit according to the state news agency KCNA.

CANTOR BROTHEL IN JESUS BATHTUB: Zionist Paparazzis hit Gold Outta US Congress DNA & Porno Videography. as Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) apologized I can smell in his breath Preteen Boys Feces over used Condom and Seminal Fluid with Saliva Vomited allover Galilee.

CANTOR BROTHEL IN JESUS BATHTUB: Zionist Paparazzis hit Gold Outta US Congress DNA & Porno Videography. as Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) apologized I can smell in his breath Preteen Boys Feces over used Condom and Seminal Fluid with Saliva Vomited allover Galilee.

And now to the legends, the mayhem, and the misinformation! Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan Unusually Unboring from Politico:

The FBI probed a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee that involved drinking, numerous GOP freshmen lawmakers, top leadership staff — and one nude member of Congress, according to more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses. During a fact-finding congressional trip to the Holy Land last summer, Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) took off his clothes and jumped into the sea, joining a number of members, their families and GOP staff during a night out in Israel, the sources told POLITICO. Other participants, including the daughter of another congressman, swam fully clothed, while some lawmakers partially disrobed. More than 20 people took part in the late-night dip in the sea, according to sources who were participants in the trip. “A year ago, my wife, Brooke, and I joined colleagues for dinner at the Sea of Galilee in Israel. After dinner I followed some Members of Congress in a spontaneous and very brief dive into the sea and regrettably I jumped into the water without a swimsuit,” Yoder said in a statement to POLITICO. “It is my greatest honor to represent the people of Kansas in Congress and [for] any embarrassment I have caused for my colleagues and constituents, I apologize.” Travis Smith, Yoder’s chief of staff, told POLITICO “Neither Congressman Yoder, nor his staff, have been interviewed by the FBI.” These GOP sources confirmed the following freshmen lawmakers also went swimming that night: Rep. Steve Southerland (R-Fla.) and his daughter; Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and his wife; Reps. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.), Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) and Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.). Many of the lawmakers who ventured into the lake said they did so because of the religious significance of the waters. Others said they were simply cooling off after a long day. Several privately admitted that alcohol may have played a role in why some of those present decided to jump in. The Sea of Galilee, a Christian holy site, is where Jesus is said in the Bible to have walked on water. The FBI looked into whether any inappropriate behavior occurred, but the interviews do not appear to have resulted in any formal allegations of wrongdoing. But Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who was the senior most GOP lawmaker in Israel on the trip, was so upset about the antics that he rebuked the 30 lawmakers the morning after the Aug. 18, 2011, incident, saying they were distracting from the mission of the trip. Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was also on the privately funded excursion, which means two of the three top House Republicans were a part of this trip. Neither Cantor nor McCarthy went swimming that night, the sources said. Some of their staff did. The account of that August 2011 night in Israel was pieced together for the first time by POLITICO based on interviews with more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses, as well as public records of the trip. A Cantor spokesman confirmed that the majority leader dressed down his Republican colleagues and that a staffer was later interviewed by FBI agents. “Twelve months ago, [Cantor] dealt with this immediately and effectively to ensure such activities would not take place in the future,” said Doug Heye, Cantor’s deputy chief of staff. Heye added: “Last year, a staffer was contacted by the Bureau [FBI], which had several questions, the staffer answered those questions and that appears to have been the end of it.” The FBI’s questions focused on who went into the water that night, and whether there was any impropriety, according to multiple sources. The American Israel Educational Foundation, a group related to AIPAC, the prominent pro-Israel advocacy group, sponsored the trip, which ran from Aug. 13 to Aug. 21, 2011. The trip cost AIEF upwards of $10,000 per person, according to records filed with the House Ethics Committee. More than 60 people took part in this AIEF trip. These trips to the Holy Land are a rite of passage for members of Congress, as they visit the most sacred sites in the Jewish and Christian faiths – while their Israeli government hosts drive home the huge importance of U.S. support of Israel. That’s partially why, when the trip devolved into drinking and merrymaking, Cantor was livid. In a Congress that has already sunk to new lows in public-opinion polls, and seen a bipartisan wave of scandals, this latest controversy could only further damage that image. Since the start of the 112th Congress, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) resigned following the revelation that he was sending naked pictures of himself to women he met on the Internet. Former Rep. Christopher Lee (R-N.Y.) quickly left office after he was caught sending a topless photo of himself to an online acquaintance. Former Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) stepped down after an “unwanted” sexual encounter with the daughter of a longtime friend. Former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) resigned after having an extramarital affair with the wife of an aide and then trying to cover it up. On the Israel trip that included the late night swim, the group of lawmakers on Aug. 18 departed the posh David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem for Tiberias, a historic seaside town located on the banks of the Sea of Galilee. On the night in question, the GOP group checked into Scots Hotel, where rooms could run up to $1,000 each night. At 8:45 p.m., they headed to Decks, a popular restaurant located on the sea, according to an itinerary filed with the House Ethics Committee. As dinner was winding down, Cantor and McCarthy left the restaurant, but the most of the other lawmakers and staff stayed behind, and the drinking continued, according to several sources who attended the dinner. After what they describe as a “long, hot day,” more than 20 lawmakers and senior aides decided to jump into the sea, sources said. Some went in wearing all their clothes, although others partially undressed. Yoder removed all his clothes, the only person to do so, according to multiple sources. Senior aides also jumped into the Sea of Galilee. They included Steve Stombres, Cantor’s chief of staff; Tim Berry, McCarthy’s chief of staff; Laena Fallon, Cantor’s former communications director and Emily Murray, McCarthy’s top health care aide. Kristi Way, a top Cantor staffer, was also on the trip. Few offices responded to requests for on-the-record comment about the incident. However, numerous Republicans discussed what occurred on the condition of anonymity. Some of those present took photographs of the group right after the late-night swim, sources said. After the lawmakers and staff returned to the United States, FBI agents questioned congressional staff about the trip, specifically about what happened in Tiberias. The FBI declined to comment on its probe, saying its standard policy was not to comment on such matters. Patrick Dorton, a spokesman for AIEF, defended the group’s trip to Israel, saying it was substantive and rigorous. “As part of the trip, and after of day of meetings including with the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, and briefings on Hezbollah and the border with Lebanon, trip participants traveled to the shore of the Sea of Galilee,” Dorton said in an emailed statement. “This location made it possible to visit a series of Christian holy sites the next day. After dinner that evening, some in the group went swimming in the biblically significant sea. While AIEF has not been contacted by any government agency, we would certainly be willing to answer any questions or respond to any government inquiry on this event or the overall trip.” The AIEF trips to Israel are a fixture of Washington. Both staff and lawmakers travel with the group to the Holy Land, and schedules are filled with boldfaced names. On this trip, lawmakers met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his office and huddled with his top aide Ron Dermer over dinner at 28 King David, a posh banquet facility in Jerusalem. They ate breakfast separately with the Washington-based Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, and Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat. Israeli President Shimon Peres had the group gathered at his residence, and later that day, they met with Tzipi Livni, the opposition leader. Dan Shapiro, the American ambassador to Israel, had the large group to his home in Herzliya for dinner. On the day of the swimming incident, they met with Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Authority prime minister, according to the itinerary filed with the House. CORRECTION: The Sea of Galilee is a lake. An earlier version of this story mischaracterized it.

No Barbara. It’s kosher in Ramadan to wear Wedding Ring on Obama’s Penis and Wristwatch over Potus Condom.

RAMADAN IS OVER. BITCH! HAPPY EID.

Did President Obama stop wearing his wedding ring and wristwatch for Ramadan? By Urban Pegeons Barbara and David P. Mikkelson.

No Barbara. It’s kosher in Ramadan to wear Wedding Ring on Obama’s Penis and Wristwatch over Potus Condom.

And now to the legends, the mayhem, and the misinformation!

President Obama stopped wearing his wedding ring and wristwatch in observance of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

WEDDING RING BEING REPAIRED, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WATCH

In a press conference last week Obama was not wearing his wedding ring nor was he wearing his watch. When noticed, his staff said his ring was out for repairs.

No reason was given for the missing watch. So it’s just a coincidence that Muslims are forbidden from wearing jewelry during the month of Ramadan??? (think about that one) Can’t possibly be that, because although he hasn’t gone to a Christian church service since entering the White House, we know he’s a committed Christian ’cause he said so during the campaign. And how convenient to be “on vacation” in Hawaii over Christmas so he doesn’t have to have the Christmas photograph of him and his family attending Christmas services with a Bible in his hand &  his ringless and watchless hand.

Ain’t Fringe Philosophy no mo, unless you consider Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mark Steyn or Geert Wilders & Michele Bachmann irrelevant, which really shouldn’t.

Ain’t Fringe Philosophy no mo, unless you consider Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mark Steyn or Geert Wilders & Michele Bachmann irrelevant, which really shouldn’t.

Canadian journalist Doug Saunders’ MUST-READ new book, The Myth of the Muslim Tide (Knopf), promises and delivers an impartial examination of the notion that Muslim immigration urgently threatens Western civilization. Balanced as it is, though, it reads mostly as a thorough, fact-dense and convincing debunking of that notion. For those inclined to be reassured, it does so very efficiently. The theory, which has sold millions of books and is appreciated by at least one admitted mass-murderer, holds that Muslims are fundamentally different than previous immigrants. Their religion is politically evangelical — it demands the installation of Islamic law — and is their primary source of loyalty. It is inexorably linked to extremism. And high Muslim birth rates, along with non-Muslims’ low ones, will soon effectively put them in charge. It is by no means a fringe philosophy, unless you consider people like Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mark Steyn or Geert Wilders irrelevant, which you really shouldn’t. Mr. Saunders’ most basic argument is, simply, that there is no Muslim Tide. Population projections from the Pew Research Center suggest the Muslim population of the European Union might expand from 4.5% in 2010 to 7.1% in 2030. In the United States, the figure might be 1.7%; in Canada, 6.6%. In France, Germany and elsewhere, studies show that the birth rate among Muslims plummets toward the national norm beginning in the second generation. Those numbers just aren’t big enough to worry about. Individual extremists can wreak plenty of havoc, of course, but aren’t an existential threat. Are Muslims uncommonly devout? French government research shows only “8% to 15% regularly attend religious services”; 42% supported banning the hijab in public schools. Pew found that American Muslims are no more devout than Christians, and no more likely to identify themselves primarily by their religion. Are Muslims bent on remaking their new countries? Pew found 63% of American Muslims see “no conflict being a devout Muslim and living in modern society”; the figure for Christians was identical. Mr. Saunders notes that British Muslims lag behind those in other nations in respecting homosexuality and other indicators of social tolerance. (An “alarming” if small minority would prefer to live under religious law.) But he suggests this is no evidence of disloyalty. London think tank Demos found a higher percentage of Muslims (83%) said they were “proud to be a British citizen” than the national average. Studies show French, British and American Muslims are no angrier and no less comfortable among fellow citizens of other religions than non-Muslims. Do Muslims support terrorism? A famous Gallup poll found 8% of Muslim Americans believe violence against civilians is “sometimes” or “often” justified” — disturbing on its face. But the overall figure was 24%! “Across the Western world,” Mr. Saunders writes, “support for violence and terrorism among Muslims is no higher than that of the general population, and in some cases it is lower.” And in any case, a 2008 study of hundreds of extremists by MI5 found most were “religious novices,” untutored by clerics and motivated by perceived injustice rather than scripture. It concluded they are not unlike “other counter-cultural, subversive groups of young men” that have periodically sowed terror in the West. Perhaps most compellingly, Saunders shows the remarkable extent to which fears of excessive Muslim influence mirror past fears about Catholic and Jewish immigrants — the same accusations of religious loyalty superseding nationalism, and of seeking undue political influence; the same paranoia about birth rates; even similar acts of political terrorism that were seen as religious: the Fenian bombings in London in the late 1800s; the assassination of president McKinley by a Catholic anarchist in 1901. This presents a certain irony: Much of the research Mr. Saunders cites can be accessed with a few clicks of a mouse — a trip to the library at most. In a connected age, it should be more difficult to whip up false fears of an immigrant invasion. And perhaps it is. It seems likely a 19th-century 9/11 would have produced a much bigger backlash against the perpetrators’ co-religionists. But anyone who has visited a particularly virulent Muslim Tide blog knows that easy access to information can have the opposite effect as well. Facts are beside the point. The entire body of evidence Mr. Saunders disputes is simply taken as read. Ultimately, then, one has to wonder how many minds a book like this is capable of changing. One can practically see the rebuttals to each point appearing on the Islamophobic websites. Pollsters? They’re just part of the “dhimmi” conspiracy. Or their Muslim respondents simply lied so as not to give the game away. Or both. MI5? Dupes. Nice job stopping the July 7 bombings. Think tanks? Academic studies? Puh-lease. Leftist stooges. Mr. Saunders suggests mainstream media could make a better effort to “correct false claims about Muslim immigrants, their population growth and their degree of integration.” But the denizens of these blogs don’t believe what they read, hear or see in mainstream media anyway. They’re more likely to dismiss it out of hand because it’s in a liberal rag like the National Post. Fortunately, there don’t seem to be all that many truly dangerous people who subscribe to the Muslim Tide ethos. Unfortunately, it only takes one: Anders Breivik’s manifesto quotes heavily from all the mainstream proponents of the Muslim Tide theory, and while his actions were, to say the least, extreme, Mr. Saunders argues he “followed a line of reasoning that, by 2011, had … been playing out on the bestseller charts, blog sites, opinion pages and 24-hour news networks … for a decade at least.” It’s pointless to blame these authors: If their beliefs aren’t honestly held, if they’re just spouting off to gain publicity, then they’re beyond help. In Canada, at least, they seem to have a fan base that’s more loyal than it is large — perhaps because, according to an American study Mr. Saunders cites, Canada assimilates Muslim immigrants considerably better than the United States, and vastly better than European nations like Spain and Italy. Or perhaps it’s because our tolerance hasn’t yet seriously been put to the test. Ultimately, Mr. Saunders’ book provides a perverse sort of hope: Catholics and Jews overcame precisely the same sorts of suspicions Muslims now face to become more or less unquestioned members of Western societies. By the time Muslims are supposed to be taking over the entire Western world, perhaps they will instead join hands with their fellow citizens in worrying about the next wave of immigrants — or better yet, not.

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Bankrupt France Forgives Islamic Ivory Coast Debt Worth $4bn …
By sheikyermami
Alassane Ouattara was in Paris on Thursday, meeting with Francois Hollande, France’s president, two days after the agreement to cancel the debt by the former colonial master. That deal stems from an earlier decision by a group of Western …
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Ouattara also thanked Hollande for France’s cancelling of nearly all Ivory Coast’s debt — part of an international effort to grant the country debt relief as it seeks to rebuild its economy.
“This will allow us to strengthen investments in social sectors and I would like to say a big thank you,” Ouattara said after the two emerged from talks.
The countries signed a deal Wednesday that will see France cancel 99.5 percent of Ivory Coast’s debt, or about three billion euros ($3.7 billion), after Western creditors announced a $6.5 billion write-off last month.

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Sarah Jessica Parker plan to host a dinner party for Barack and “Mee-shell Oh-bah-mah” to which two lucky raffle winners will be invited. Parker seconded the invitation during the MTV Movie Awards, where she called Obama “that guy.”
Here is the Rest of Madness:
The few remaining skeptics of the idea that there is an American ruling class—comprising the perversely overcompensated men and women in finance, law, media, and entertainment who through a bizarre, osmotic alchemy determine the boundaries of social and political correctness—need only glance at the president’s schedule. The Washington Examiner counts no less than 28 celebrity fundraisers for Obama held over the last year. Indeed, the incumbent’s reliance on celebrity money, endorsements, solicitations, and other forms of that self-congratulatory alternative energy known as “star power” not only reveals the financial and ideological core of the Democratic party, but also the attitudes and agenda of the milieu in which Obama is most comfortable. Those attitudes are obnoxious and that agenda is totally unrelated to the daily struggles of millions of Americans—which is why no amount of bleating from Carrie Bradshaw will help the president in November. This was the week when the Obama campaign finally turned into an episode of Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live. It started with an endorsement literally from the devil herself, Anna Wintour, who—draped coquettishly in an Obama 2012 neckerchief—said she and Sarah Jessica Parker plan to host a dinner party for Barack and “Mee-shell Oh-bah-mah” to which two lucky raffle winners will be invited. Parker seconded the invitation during the MTV Movie Awards, where she called Obama “that guy.” Then came a trio of New York City fundraisers alongside Bill Clinton, including stops at the Upper East Side den of hedge fund billionaire Marc Lasry, the Waldorf Ballroom where rock star and presidential hitchhiker Jon Bon Jovi wheezed through some of his greatest hits, and the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway where the two presidents, Angela Lansbury, Doogie Howser, First Lady Abbey Bartlet, and Darth Vader took the stage in between performances of Mary Poppins. The jolly holiday came to a show-stopping finish with the president’s trip to California, where the ranks of celebrity attendees at three fundraisers included Willie Mays, Cher, Mister Sulu, and half the cast of Glee. That many of the participants at these events understood how easily they could be caricatured as limousine liberals only heightened the dramatic tension. Munching on “grilled Coho salmon with sea beans, purple artichokes, and lemon caper sauce,” San Francisco super-lawyer and Obama donor Martin Checov said that “the other candidate’s travel schedule is no more oriented to the masses,” using language better suited to an aristocrat than a Democrat. (Credit pool reporter Todd Gillman for this tasty morsel.) Later, outside the Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, as CBS president Leslie Moonves and his reality-show host second wife “waited patiently for their wristbands” to hear Obama tell a dirty joke, the media mogul acknowledged that “partisanship is very much a part of journalism now,” but don’t get the wrong idea: “I run a news division. I’ve given no money to any candidate.” The Los Angeles Times reporter who related Moonves’ comments neglected to mention whether he was chuckling at his own blatant hypocrisy or simply so completely self-possessed that he told this joke un-ironically. It’s unclear which would be more damning. Running concurrently with the never-ending Obama benefit gala is the Michelle Obama show. Recently the first lady racked up IMDB credits with appearances on The View and The Late Show to complement turns on The Tonight Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Rachael Ray, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The BET Honors, The Biggest Loser, and the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. Her husband, too, is no stranger to screens large and small, most recently “slow jamming” the news with Jimmy Fallon. Together, they are on track to be the most televised first couple of all time. Pretty soon they’ll be helping Ernie Brown Jr. catch snapping turtles on Call of the Wildman. Yet the Obamas have been slow to learn that the currency of celebrity depreciates easily. Their notoriety has been a sort of Roman candle, rising quickly before bursting into a hundred tiny flames. After he released The Audacity of Hope in 2006, Obama entered the celestial ranks of the truly famous. People traveled from every direction, and waited in line for hours, to see him. The crowds grew as he ran for the White House. He was able to fill entire stadiums by the time he was the Democratic nominee for president. The so-called “Barack Star” was more analogous to Bruce Springsteen and Bono than to John Kerry and John McCain. The scene in Grant Park on Election Night 2008 seemed like it could have been shot on a back lot in Burbank. Not only were Scarlett Johannson and Will.I.Am on his side back then; the American people were, too., there comes a point at which fame and admiration are no longer freely given but must be earned, lest one risk becoming nothing more than a tawdry reality television star. Much of the president’s early fame was a function of his unusual status as a national symbol. He represented promise, reconciliation, and renewal. What he delivered was different. No number of television interviews or guest spots or addresses could make the stimulus effective or the health care overhaul popular. No signs of support from Beyoncé or Lady Gaga or Deepak Chopra could make the president seem decisive or in control as the public debt has mounted. Dave Matthews and Ben Harper could give a million concerts, but the American public still would disagree with the president’s decision to scuttle the Keystone Pipeline.

U.S. Troops Suicides Surge at the Rate of ONE SOLDIER PER DAY. They are Unemployable Elites Join US Army to Kill Elders, Women, and Children and Fuck each other overseas. They fucked up their Life instead by Narcotics, Alcohol, Rape, Sadism, Cruelty and most of all Financial Shortcoming Predicament.

U.S. Troops Suicides Surge at the Rate of ONE SOLDIER PER DAY. They are Unemployable Elites Join US Army to Kill Elders, Women, and Children and Fuck each other overseas. They fucked up their Life instead by Narcotics, Alcohol, Rape, Sadism, Cruelty and most of all Financial Shortcoming Predicament.
Here is something from Robert Burns AP National Security Writer
Experts unsure why they are dying about one a day Washington – Suicides are surging among America‘s troops, averaging nearly one a day this year – the fastest pace in the nation’s decade of war. The 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan – about 50 percent more – according to Pentagon statistics obtained by The Associated Press. The numbers reflect a military burdened with wartime demands from Iraq and Afghanistan that have taken a greater toll than foreseen a decade ago. The military also is struggling with increased sexual assaults, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and other misbehavior. Because suicides had leveled off in 2010 and 2011, this year’s upswing has caught some officials by surprise. The reasons for the increase are not fully understood. Among explanations, studies have pointed to combat exposure, post-traumatic stress, misuse of prescription medications and personal financial problems. Army data suggest soldiers with multiple combat tours are at greater risk of committing suicide, although a substantial proportion of Army suicides are committed by soldiers who never deployed. The unpopular war in Afghanistan is winding down with the last combat troops scheduled to leave at the end of 2014. But this year has seen record numbers of soldiers being killed by Afghan troops, and there also have been several scandals involving U.S. troop misconduct. The 2012 active-duty suicide total of 154 through June 3 compares to 130 in the same period last year, an 18 percent increase. And it’s more than the 136.2 suicides that the Pentagon had projected for this period based on the trend from 2001-2011. This year’s January-May total is up 25 percent from two years ago, and it is 16 percent ahead of the pace for 2009, which ended with the highest yearly total thus far. Suicide totals have exceeded U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan in earlier periods, including for the full years 2008 and 2009. The suicide pattern varies over the course of a year, but in each of the past five years the trend through May was a reliable predictor for the full year, according to a chart based on figures provided by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner. The numbers are rising among the 1.4 million active-duty military personnel despite years of effort to encourage troops to seek help with mental health problems. Many in the military believe that going for help is seen as a sign of weakness and thus a potential threat to advancement. Kim Ruocco, widow of Marine Maj. John Ruocco, a helicopter pilot who hanged himself in 2005 between Iraq deployments, said he was unable to bring himself to go for help. “He was so afraid of how people would view him once he went for help,” she said in an interview at her home in suburban Boston. “He thought that people would think he was weak, that people would think he was just trying to get out of redeploying or trying to get out of service, or that he just couldn’t hack it – when, in reality, he was sick. He had suffered injury in combat and he had also suffered from depression and let it go untreated for years. And because of that, he’s dead today.” Ruocco is currently director of suicide prevention programs for the military support organization Tragedy Assistance Programs, or TAPS. Jackie Garrick, head of a newly established Defense Suicide Prevention Office at the Pentagon, said in an interview Thursday that the suicide numbers this year are troubling. “We are very concerned at this point that we are seeing a high number of suicides at a point in time where we were expecting to see a lower number of suicides,” she said, adding that the weak U.S. economy may be confounding preventive efforts even as the pace of military deployments eases. Garrick said experts are still struggling to understand suicidal behavior. “What makes one person become suicidal and another not is truly an unknown,” she said. Dr. Stephen N. Xenakis, a retired Army brigadier general and a practicing psychiatrist, said the suicides reflect the level of tension as the U.S. eases out of Afghanistan though violence continues. “It’s a sign in general of the stress the Army has been under over the 10 years of war,” he said in an interview. “We’ve seen before that these signs show up even more dramatically when the fighting seems to go down and the Army is returning to garrison.” But Xenakis said he worries that many senior military officers do not grasp the nature of the suicide problem. A glaring example of that became public when a senior Army general recently told soldiers considering suicide to “act like an adult.” Maj. Gen. Dana Pittard, commander of the 1st Armored Division, last month retracted – but did not apologize for – a statement in his Army blog in January. He had written, “I have now come to the conclusion that suicide is an absolutely selfish act.” He also wrote, “”I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess. Be an adult, act like an adult, and deal with your real-life problems like the rest of us.” He did also counsel soldiers to seek help. His remarks drew a public rebuke from the Army, which has the highest number of suicides and called his assertions “clearly wrong.” Last week the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, said he disagrees with Pittard “in the strongest possible terms.” The military services have set up confidential telephone hotlines, placed more mental health specialists on the battlefield, added training in stress management, invested more in research on mental health risk and taken other measures. The Marines established a counseling service dubbed “DStress line,” a toll-free number that troubled Marines can call anonymously. They also can use a Marine website to chat online anonymously with a counselor. The Marines arguably have had the most success recently in lowering their suicide numbers, which are up slightly this year but are roughly in line with levels of the past four years. The Army’s numbers also are up slightly. The Air Force has seen a spike, to 32 through June 3 compared to 23 at the same point last year. The Navy is slightly above its 10-year trend line but down a bit from 2011. As part of its prevention strategy, the Navy has published a list of “truths” about suicide. “Most suicidal people are not psychotic or insane,” it says. “They might be upset, grief-stricken, depressed or despairing.” In a report published in January the Army said the true impact of its prevention programs is unknown. “What is known is that all Army populations … are under increased stress after a decade of war,” it said, adding that if not for prevention efforts the Army’s suicide totals might have been as much as four times as high. Marine Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia, the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently issued a video message to all military members in which he noted that suicides “are sadly on the rise.” “From private to general, we shoulder an obligation to look and listen for signs and we stand ready to intervene and assist our follow service member or battle buddy in time of need,” Battaglia said. The suicide numbers began surging in 2006. They soared in 2009 and then leveled off before climbing again this year. The statistics include only active-duty troops, not veterans who returned to civilian life after fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. Nor does the Pentagon’s tally include non-mobilized National Guard or Reserve members. The renewed surge in suicides has caught the attention of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Last month he sent an internal memo to the Pentagon’s top civilian and military leaders in which he called suicide “one of the most complex and urgent problems” facing the Defense Department, according to a copy provided to the AP. Panetta touched on one of the most sensitive aspects of the problem: the stigma associated with seeking help for mental distress. This is particularly acute in the military. “We must continue to fight to eliminate the stigma from those with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues,” Panetta wrote, adding that commanders “cannot tolerate any actions that belittle, haze, humiliate or ostracize any individual, especially those who require or are responsibly seeking professional services.”

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