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IT IS TIME TO FIRE THE OPENING SHOTS OF A NEW GLOBAL POLICY WHICH THE UMMAH NEEDS TO TREAD UPON. LET US BE CLEAR THAT THE PREDICAMENT OF THE MUSLIM WORLD IS CENTRED ON SUBSERVIENCE TO THE NWO ESTABLISHED ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF COLONIAL EMPIRES POST WORLD WAR 2 WHICH WERE REPLACED BY A NEW PRISONPLANET. HOWEVER 1.8 BILLION MUSLIMS CAN NO LONGER ADOPT A POLICY OF COWARDICE AND SURRENDER TO IT'S NONMUSLIM AGGRESSIVE HEGEMONISTIC ENEMIES ENGAGED IN A GLOBAL WAR OF TERROR ON ISLAM AND MUSLIMS. IN TERMS OF NEW LEADERSHIP IT IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL THAT FEAR OF AND SURRENDER TO THE ENEMIES NEEDS TO BE DISCARDED BY THE NEW GENERATION OF MUSLIMS OF WHICH CIRCA 70% ARE UNDER 30 YEARS OF AGE. THE FUTURE IS THERE TO BE SHAPED RATHER THAN BE SWEEPED AWAY BY EVENTS.
THERE ARE TWO DIMENSIONS TO COWARDICE. THE EXTERNAL ONE WHEN FACING AND CONFRONTING THE ENEMY. THE OTHER DIMENSION IS INTERNAL IN WHICH THE MINDSET AND MENTALITY OF MUSLIMS IS COMPROMISED AND SUBVERTED. WHAT THIS MEANS IS SELLING OUT THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF ISLAM AT THE ALTAR OF MAMMON AND FEAR OF DEATH.. THIS IS NOT JUST HYPOCRISY BUT SPIRITUAL TREACHERY. THIS EXPLAINS THE CONDITION OF THE UMMAH AND CONTEMPORARY MUSLIMS. MUSLIMS NEED TO RE-ESTABLISH THEIR ISLAMIC IDENTITY FULLY AND COMPLETELY. THIS MEANS REJECTION OF RELIGION AS A SET OF DOGMAS AND RITUALS. IT NEEDS TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO ESTABLISHING THE ISLAMIC SHARIAH AND THE MADINA ISLAMIC GOVERNANCE MODEL. THIS INCLUDES THE SHARIAH LAWS PERTAINING TO PEACE AND WAR IN THE CURRENT CONTEXT. AS WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED BY ENEMIES THE TIME TO RESPOND TO AND ANSWER AGGRESSION BY THE ENEMIES OF ISLAM HAS ARRIVED. THEIR SATANIC PLOY INCLUDES ALIGNING ISLAM WITH TERRORISM COMMITTED BY THEIR OWN HANDS. THIS IS TO DEMONISE ISLAM AND MUSLIMS AND JUSTIFY ISLAMIC COUNTER TERRORISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA.
WE SHOULD NOTE THAT WE ARE LIVING AT A TIME WHEN THE OPPRESSION OF MUSLIMS AND ISLAM DOES NOT REGISTER ON GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE NONMUSLIM WORLD BEHAVES LIKE THE DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND. THE TIME TO ANSWER AND RISE AGAINST THIS HAS ARRIVED AS THERE IS NO HIDING FROM THIS FACT AND NO MATTER WHAT THERE CAN BE NO TURNING BACK.
THE PROPHETIC COMMAND OF UPHOLDING JUSTICE AND ENDING OPPRESSION MEANS ARMED RESISTANCE AND JIHAD. PEACE CAN ONLY BE ESTABLISHED IF INJUSTICE AND OPPRESSION IS ELIMINATED. THIS IS THE COMMAND OF THE QURAN AND PROPHETIC MODEL AND EVEN THE UN UPHOLDS THE RIGHT OF SELF DEFENCE AND SELF DETERMINATION. THE GLOBAL PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN BY NONMUSLIM POWERS PRESERVING THE UNJUST STATUS QUO NEEDS TO BE REJECTED TOTALLY. THEIR NARRATIVE NEEDS TO BE SHREDDED AND FUEL THE BONFIRE.
THE LEGACY OF KHALID BIN WALEED, MUHAMMAD BIN QASIM, TARIQ BIN ZAYED, YUSUF BIN TASHIFEEN, BAYEZIT, NURUDDIN, SALAHUDDIN, SULTAN MEHMET , TIPU SULTAN, IMAM SHAMIL, ILTUTMISH, SHIHAB UD DIN GHAURI HAS TO BE RESURRECTED. IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THIS LEGACY IS THERE IS A NEED FOR A CRASH COURSE ON GHAZWAT IN ISLAMIC HISTORY. MORE DETAILED RESEARCH WILL BE DEVOTED TO THIS. MUSLIMS NEED TO LEARN HOW TO FIGHT FOR THEIR SELF DEFENCE, DIGNITY AND RESPECT. LIVING ETERNALLY FOR ONE DAY IN DEATH AND SACRIFICE THAN CHAINED TO THE OPPRESSION OF NONMUSLIMS. IN THE CONTEXT OF INDIAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR WITH OVER 100 DAYS OF CLAMPDOWN AND CURFEW IN THE KASHMIR VALLEY PEACE CAN ONLY BE TALKED AFTER THE LAST SINGLE ARMED INDIAN SOLDIER IS FORCED TO DEPART KASHMIR. MODI THE BUTCHER NEEDS TO BE GIVEN 48 HOURS TO LEAVE OCCUPIED KASHMIR AND IF HE DOES NOT THE PAKISTAN ARMY NEEDS TO BE ORDERED TO ENGAGE IN THE NOBLE ETERNALLY BLESSED JIHAD TO LIBERATE AN OPPRESSED MUSLIM PEOPLE SEEKING LIBERATION FROM THE CRUELTY AND OPPRESSION OF AN INVADER SEEKING TO ELIMINATE THEIR IDENTITY. THE AGE OF DAJJAL AND ITS MACHIAVELLIAN POLITICS OF COERCION NEEDS TO BE CHALLENGED BY THE MORALITY OF JIHAD. THERE IS NO OTHER SOLUTION FOR MUSLIMS IN THE CURRENT ERA BUT TO MOBILISE THE UNITED STATES OF ISLAM ARMY. THE LIFE AND DIGNITY OF A MUSLIM COMMITTED TO ALLAH'S SOVEREIGNTY IS MOST PRECIOUS AND OPPRESSIVE NONMUSLIM RULERS NEED TO DESIST OR FACE JIHAD. LET US BE CLEAR THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR AL BAGHDADI'S ISIS 2.0 WHICH IS A USA-NATO-ISRAELI PROXY. WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS THE REAL MCCOY. THIS FORCE IS ABOUT TO MATERIALISE AS THE WORLD IS IN DIRE NEED OF THIS JUST LIKE A SCORCHED DESERT AWAITS THE IMPENDING RAINSTORM TO ERUPT. HASBUNALLAH AND TAWAKULLAH.
GENERAL HAMEED GUL'S ABDULLAH GUL, COMPLETE SPEECH IN TLP CONFERENCE
at Minare Pak Lahore on Nov 2, 2019
KHITAB ALLAMA KHADIM HUSSAIN LIVE
LABBAIK YA RASOOL ALLAH CONFERENCE
from Minar e Pakistan Lahore
MUKAMMAL KHUTBA E JUMMAH MUBARAK
ALLAMA KHADIM HUSSAIN RIZVI
HUM KASHMIR KE SATH KHARAY HAIN AUR KASHMIR KA TAMASHA DAIKH RAHY HAIN
WE ARE STANDING WITH KASHMIR OR ARE WE JUST WATCHING THE KASHMIR DRAMA?
ISLAM KBI B JUNG ME PEHAL KI IJAZAT NAI DETA MU TOR JUWAB
ISLAM IS NOT FOR AGGRESSIVE WARFARE OR DOES IT ORDER A JAW BREAKING RESPONSE
ALLAMA KHADIM RIZVI VS IMRAN KHAN
Dr ABDUL QADEER KHAN KO SADRE PAKISTAN BNAEN GE
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRYWjCV2mIA][/url]
KHADIM HUSSAIN RIZVI BAYAN
MUKAMMAL KHITAB YAKJEHTI KASHMIR RALLY
BABRI MOSQUE AND KARTARPUR CORRIDOR DETAILED ANALYSIS
Zamana Gawah Hai Ep 182
IS KASHMIR BECOMING PALESTINE?
MODI's KASHMIR GAMBLE
[video=youtube]http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qil7fzd0G_M [/video]
2019 LOOKS AS THOUGH INDIA UNDER MODI HAS MOVED TO BECOME A HINDU RASHTRA- WHAT ARE IT'S IMPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES FOR MINORITIES ESPECIALLY INDIAN MUSLIMS. ALSO IN THIS DAY AND AGE IT IS ALSO RELEVANT FOR MUSLIM NATIONS TO ESTABLISH A POLICY FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS AS MANY OF THESE PEOPLE ARE THE FLOTSAM OF CIRCUMSTANCES INTERNATIONALLY. THIS WILL BE REVIEWED HEREAFTER .
INDIA UNDER MODI IS MOVING SYSTEMATICALLY WITH A SUPREMACIST AGENDA SAYS PM IMRAN
https://www.dawn.com/news/1521876/india-...s-pm-imran
Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Thursday that India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been moving systematically with a Hindu supremacist agenda.
The prime minister was referencing the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill passed by India's upper house amid protests on Wednesday. The bill will let the Indian government grant citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants who entered India from three neighbouring countries before 2015 — but not if they are Muslim. Modi's government — re-elected in May and under pressure over a slowing economy — says Muslims from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan are excluded from the legislation because they do not face discrimination in those countries.
Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister Imran stated that the bill was the latest of Modi's attempts to promulgate his supremacist agenda, "starting with illegal annexation and continuing siege of IOJK [Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir]; then stripping 2 million Indian Muslim in Assam of citizenship, setting up internment camps; now the passage of Citizenship Amendment Law; all this accompanied by mob lynchings of Muslims and other minorities in India".
He warned that bowing down to a "genocidal supremacist agenda", propagated by Nazi Germany, had once before lead to World War II. "Modi's Hindu supremacist agenda, accompanied by threats to Pakistan under a nuclear overhang, will lead to massive bloodshed and far-reaching consequences for the world," he warned. "As in Nazi Germany, in Modi's India dissent has been marginalised and the world must step in before it is too late to counter this Hindu supremacist agenda of Modi's India [that is] threatening bloodshed and war."
The Citizenship Amendment Bill, seeks to grant Indian nationality to Buddhists, Christians,
Hindus, Jains, Parsis and Sikhs who fled Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh "because of religious persecution" before 2015. It does not, however, extend to Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled persecution in Myanmar.
Home Minister Amit Shah said it was not anti-Muslim because it did not affect the existing path to citizenship available to all communities. Amnesty India, however, said the legislation legitimised discrimination on the basis of religion and stood in clear violation of the India's constitution and international human rights law.
AS INDIA BECOMES A DE FACTO HINDU RASHTRA ,
BJP LOOKS FOR NEW WAYS TO POLARISE VOTERS
The opposition's surrender to Hindutva has only raised the bar for what can polarise voters. Enter NRC and CAB.
https://theprint.in/opinion/india-becomes-de-facto-hindu-rashtra-bjp-looks-for-new-polarisation-ways/331220
INDIA's CITIZENSHIP BILL HAS ONLY ONE AIM: PROTECT NON-MUSLIMS AND HARASS MUSLIMS
https://www.dawn.com/news/1521496/indias...ss-muslims
TUMULT IN INDIA
https://www.dawn.com/news/1523502/tumult-in-india
OVER the past week, Hindutva backed by the brute force of the state has bared its fangs in India. Hundreds have taken to the streets to protest the BJP-led government's ill-planned moves of passing the Citizenship Amendment Act — which allows only non-Muslim refugees from some of India's neighbouring states to apply for citizenship — and the introduction of the National Register of Citizens, widely seen as a fig leaf for stripping Indian Muslims of citizenship.
Clearly, there is an Islamophobic agenda behind these diabolical moves by the Modi clique, which is why India's Muslims as well as conscientious citizens from other communities are protesting. Violence continued on Friday; at least 13 people have been killed in various cities so far, while hundreds have been temporarily detained as the state tries to put a lid on the protests. Curfew has also been enforced in certain areas, while the internet has been shut down in many cities.
While the Sangh Parivar was largely shunned in the post-independence era, because M.K. Gandhi's assassin was an ideological child of the RSS, in today's India, the storm troopers of Hindutva control the levers of state. It is no surprise then that ever since coming to power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought to remake India in the image of the Sangh — a Hindu rashtra to be built on the model of a fabled Vedic golden age. In this programme, there is no place for minorities, specifically India's Muslims, hence the legal efforts to disenfranchise the community. However, though the Sangh ideologues are trying their best to label Indian Muslims as 'outsiders', history points to another reality. Islam has existed in the subcontinent for over a millennium, while Muslims have been living in what is now India for centuries. That should remove any lingering doubts about the right of India's Muslims to citizenship of that country. No bigoted law can be allowed to deprive them of their identity and dispossess them from the land of their ancestors.
As India drops the facade of a secular democracy and champions the politics of hyper-nationalism, the international community needs to speak up. Under the Modi regime, Muslims have been lynched by vigilante mobs on suspicions of consuming or transporting beef and the world has kept silent. Under the BJP dispensation, India-held Kashmir has been under lockdown for months and its people held prisoner, but the world has looked away.
Now, as New Delhi lights the fires of communalism by disenfranchising millions of Muslim citizens, will the international community still keep silent? Moreover, questions of identity and citizenship are best left to academics to discuss. If zealots — guided by imagined histories — are put in charge of such sensitive matters, and worse, given the legal powers to decide who is and who is not a citizen, disaster is sure to ensue.
ITS NOW OR NEVER: WHY YOUNG, URBAN INDIAN MUSLIMS PLUNGED INTO THE ANTI-CITIZENSHIP ACT PROTESTS
https://www.dawn.com/news/1523363/its-no...t-protests
Rehan Sheikh had been disturbed by the prospect of a nationwide National Register for Citizens since April when he first heard Indian Home Minister Amit Shah announce plans to bring in the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Addressing a public meeting then, Shah said the legislation would grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and then flush out "infiltrators" through the NRC. In the following months, as the NRC was implemented in Assam and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government became more vocal about a nationwide citizenship register, Sheikh realised how closely it was linked to the passing of the Citizenship Amendment Bill.
Yet, when the Bill was passed by Parliament and became an official Act on December 12, Sheikh was taken by surprise. "It happened so suddenly," said Sheikh, a 30-year-old investment advisor working with a bank in Mumbai. "I always knew this was going to be a dangerous law, but I did not expect to be passed so quickly after they tabled it in Parliament." Since then, like almost every other Muslim he knows, Sheikh has been brimming with feelings of anger, indignation, dread and a sense of urgency. These feelings have intensified after December 15, when the Delhi police unleashed an unprovoked assault on students of Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi, and students around the country began to protest in response.
For young, urban, middle-class Muslims like Sheikh, who had been more invested in their community's educational and economic development than politics, the Citizenship Amendment Act and the police crackdown on protests have been an eye-opening jolt. "We have been silent about a lot of things for the sake of peace, including the Supreme Court verdict about the Babri Masjid," said Sheikh, referring to the court's decision on November 9 to hand over the disputed land in Ayodhya to the Hindu side. "But now it is a question of our very existence in this country. We have to speak out now."
'I cannot believe this is happening'
This "now or never" sentiment was palpable at Mumbai's August Kranti Maidan on Thursday, when thousands of people across communities turned up to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act. Several protesters had never considered stepping out on the streets to raise slogans before, but now, for the first time, they felt compelled to raise their voices. "My family has never been interested in politics before," said Alam Khan, a travel agent in his 30s. "My wife did not watch the news even when the Ayodhya verdict came out or when Article 370 was removed [in Jammu and Kashmir]." "But this time our community is directly being targeted, so many of my family members wanted to protest," he said.
Khan's personal desire to be vocal is rooted in both fear for his community and a rising sense of patriotism. "Muslims from my grandparents' generation were not literate enough to preserve documents. How will people like us show proof of residence in India from the 1950s and 70s?" he said. "I cannot believe this is happening in my country – we cannot let it happen." Firdos Farooqui, a medical doctor from South Mumbai, said that the protest at August Kranti Maidan was only the second time she ever felt the need to participate in a public agitation. "I had protested triple talaq last year because it is an un-Islamic practice, and now I am protesting CAA and NRC because they are against India," she said. "I did not expect that the law would be passed so easily, without much opposition in the Parliament." Like Farooqui, Farzana Khan, who had travelled for the protest all the way from the northern suburb of Mira Road, was also rattled by the idea of Indian Muslims being asked to prove their citizenship. "My father was a freedom fighter who won medals for this country," she said. "What more do I need to prove?"
Wearing religion on one's sleeve
According to 39-year-old Javed Sayed, it is the support of non-Muslim Indians that helped Muslims across the country to step out in large numbers and protest visibly in public. "I think Muslims had resigned themselves to a lot of injustice towards the community, so there were hardly any protests against NRC in these last few months," said Sayed, a graphic designer from Mumbai. "But after CAA [Citizenship Amendment Act] was passed, when so many non-Muslims came out to speak for us and to support the students of Jamia, we found it easier to protest."
Indian Muslims' discomfort with public dissent is rooted in a history of bitter experiences with street protests, particularly since the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992. But some Muslims are now ready to discard the past and take control of their narratives. Journalist Humaira Ansari, for instance, said that after the Citizenship Amendment Act was passed, she decided to "stop giving a damn" about how other people perceive her political stances. "Earlier, whenever there were terror attacks and Muslim groups went out of their way to condemn the violence, I always felt uncomfortable about it," she said. "I always questioned, why should we have to do it? Why should I have to wear my religion on my sleeve?" Ansari, 33, has had sleepless nights since the Act was passed. "Now I feel it is time for us to embrace our religion, to step out and say yes, I am a Muslim and I have a problem with the way Muslims are mistreated and targeted in this country."
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AT A TIME WHEN THE ISLAMIC WORLD DEMANDS AND NEEDS A CONCERTED VOICE INDEED NO MORE OR LESS THAN A MUSLIM BLOC WHICH ADVOCATES, DEFENDS AND CHAMPIONS ISLAMIC INTERESTS GLOBALLY. WHY DID IMRAN KHAN HAVE AN EMERGENCY MEETING WITH MBS AND KOWTOW TO HIM AND WITHDRAW FOR THE MALAYSIAN SUMMIT? THE ANSWER IS CLEAR AND WILL BE DISCUSSED SOON. THIS DENTS ANY ISLAMIC WORLD LEADERSHIP THAT PAKISTAN ASPIRES TOWARDS. LEADERSHIP REQUIRES VISION, COURAGE, STRENGTH AND ABIDING BY PRINCIPLES.
HOWEVER, MUSLIM LEADERS LIKE MAHATHIR, ERDOGAN, ROUHANI AND TAMIMI HAVE COME FORWARD. THERE IS A BELATED REALISATION THAT THE MUSLIM WORLD IS BESET BY A CRISIS WHICH IS UNDERMINING ISLAMIC CIVILISATION AND IDENTIFYING ISLAM AND MUSLIMS WITH FAILURE, TERRORISM, BAD GOVERNANCE AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT. ALSO THE MUSLIM WORLD IS DEPENDENT ON NONMUSLIMS POLITICALLY, ECONOMICALLY AND MILITARILY AND NEED TO CHART A NEW ROUTE TOWARDS SELF DETERMINATION AND SELF RELIANCE. THE CURRENT MODEL IS FAILING AND IS A FAILURE AND NEEDS A NEW MODEL. THE MESSAGE OF THE KUALA LUMPUR SUMMIT NEEDS A CAREFUL ANALYSIS HEREAFTER.
MUSLIM COUNTRIES MUST FOCUS ON NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SAYS DR MAHATHIR MOHAMMAD IN KL SUMMIT KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr MAHATHIR MOHAMMAD SLAMMED OIC ABOUT THEIR STANCE AGAINST KL SUMMIT
KUALA LUMPUR SUMMIT
ERDOGAN : 94% OF PEOPLE KILLED IN CONFLICTS ARE MUSLIM
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left Kuala Lumpur following his address to a gathering of more than 450 Islamic leaders and intellectuals in that country. The meeting is aimed at finding solutions to the problems facing the Muslim world. As TRT World's Hasan Abdullah finds, some leaders are calling for the western world to take action.
PAKISTAN WITHDREW FROM MALAYSIA SUMMIT DUE TO PRESSURE FROM SAUDI ARABIA , SAYS ERDOGAN
SAUDI ARABIA HAS STOPPED IMRAN KHAN TO GO TO MALAYSIA TO SUMMIT - ERDOGAN
SAUDI ARABIA CORRECTED THE STATEMENT OF TURKEY ABOUT KL SUMMIT
IMRAN KHAN's MALAYSIA KL SUMMIT 2019 LIKELY TO BE CANCELLED
https://www.pmo.gov.my/2019/12/closing-r...ummit-2019
file://Media-Copy-Closing-Remarks-by-YAB...r-2019.pdf
https://shaykhabdalqadir.com/2019/12/25/...gold-dinar
https://crescent.icit-digital.org/articl...gold-dinar
INDIAN OCCUPIED KASHMIR FACES A DOUBLE LOCKDOWN SINCE AUGUST 2019 WITH THE UNILATERAL REVOCATION OF ARTICLE 370 AND 35A ENDING THE REGION'S AUTONOMY AND NOW THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC. NOW THE REST OF US KNOW WHAT IT FEELS BEING UNDER LOCKDOWN. THE VIDEO BELOW ON KASHMIR IS A PANORAMIC OVERVIEW OF THE REGION'S HISTORY IN ENGLISH AND IS USEFUL. APPARENTLY IT WAS ISSUED ON AUGUST 5 2019 WHEN ARTICLE 370 WAS ABROGATED. ALTHOUGH IT IS PRODUCED BY AN INDIAN CHANNEL WITH INDIAN MUSLIM PRODUCTION STAFF THE FINAL EDITORIAL STAMP OF APPROVAL AND CONTROL IS IN NONMUSLIM HINDU HANDS.
ALTHOUGH IT IS BEING POSTED HERE THERE ARE SEVERAL RESERVATIONS. FIRSTLY ANY REFERENCE TO KASHMIRI MUSLIM FREEDOM FIGHTERS AS TERRORISTS HAS TO BE DISMISSED OUT OF HAND AS PROPAGANDA. THE STRUGGLE IS THAT OF SELF DETERMINATION NOT TERRORISM. IT IS NOW A STRUGGLE AGAINST AN INDIAN HINDUTVA FASCIST STATE WHICH IS ONLY ONE STEP AWAY FROM GENOCIDE. IN FORMER TIMES IN ISLAMIC HISTORY THAT WOULD BE TRIGGER FOR A GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST OPPRESSION AND KASHMIR REMAINS THE TRIGGER FOR WAR IN THE REGION. SO LET US NOT BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH AT WHAT IS AT STAKE HERE.
SECONDLY ANY PAKISTANI OR MUSLIM HISTORY OF KASHMIR CAN NOT AFFORD TO BE JUST OBSERVATIONAL. AS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A MAINLY MUSLIM PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER THE JACKBOOT OF AN OCCUPYING INVADING AND OPPRESSIVE NONMUSLIM POWER. THIRDLY THE HISTORICAL OVERVIEW REMAINS SILENT ON EVENTS SINCE AUGUST 2019 WHICH ARE THE WORST VIOLATION OF KASHMIRI HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE 1947. THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND AN ALTERNATIVE PAKISTANI HISTORICAL OVERVIEW IN ENGLISH WILL BE SOURCED FOR BALANCE.
KASHMIR THE STORY ON THE HISTORY AND TIMELINES OF KASHMIR VALLEY
A TIMES NOW Exclusive, this documentary series gives an insight into the conflict-ridden region, showcasing facts as they are. The purely observational piece of storytelling is an honest attempt to showcase life in the Kashmir valley.
MR. JINNAH: THE MAKING OF PAKISTAN
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed presents the 20th Anniversary Edition re-release of the historical documentary film, "Mr. Jinnah: The Making of Pakistan." The documentary was part of Ambassador Ahmed's 1990s Jinnah Quartet of projects about the founder of Pakistan, which also included "Jinnah," a feature film starring Christopher Lee, an academic book, and a graphic novel. The documentary features unique material and interviews with Jinnah's contemporaries and people close to him, including an unprecedented and rare interview with his daughter, Dina Wadia. This edition of the documentary is accompanied by two specially commissioned introductions by Nafees Akbar Ahmed, the daughter of the creator of the Jinnah Quartet who played young Dina in the feature film "Jinnah," and Frankie Martin, Ibn Khaldun Chair Research Fellow at American University.
AL QUDS DAY RALLY TAKES PLACE IN TEHRAN
IRAN MARKS ANNUAL AL QUDS RALLY ONLINE DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/...irus-video
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran is marking annual Quds Day rally in an online event rather than marching through the streets to avoid the spread of coronavirus.
Rallies to mark Quds Day are held every year in towns and cities across the country and aim to show of support for the Palestinians. But due to an international pandemic this year the Quds Day rally and conference will be held online. Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, head of the Intifada (Uprising) and Quds Center at Iran's Islamic Propagation Coordination Council, General Ramezan Sharif, said that this year's Quds Day rallies was going to be commemorated with other methods since the situation is not normal in the wake of the outbreak of COVID-19.
The International Quds Day is an annual event during which demonstrators express their solidarity with the Palestinian people and opposition to the occupation of the Palestinian territories by the Zionist regime of Israel. The day is seen as the legacy of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, who officially declared the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as International Quds Day back in 1979.
AYATOLLAH KHAMANEI TO DELIVER SPEECH ON INTERNATIONAL QUDS DAY
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/05/2...i-Quds-Day
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is to deliver a speech on the occasion of International Quds Day. Ayatollah Khamenei's speech on Friday will be aired live on local and international radio and television channels. Zionist regime understands nothing but force. The Leader, meanwhile, posted a series of tweets on Wednesday, censuring the Israeli regime for its crimes, including appropriating Palestinian lands, and disregard for international law.
Ayatollah Khamenei also said that only the Palestinian people are the ones rightfully entitled to choose their government through a referendum. In another post, the Leader added that the Islamic Republic supports any nation or group opposing and fighting Israel.
Every year on International Quds Day, millions of Muslims hold rallies worldwide to reaffirm their call for the liberation of Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and denounce the Tel Aviv regime's acts of aggression against the Palestinian people. However, this year, street demonstrations have been canceled in Iran due to the coronavirus pandemic and replaced by online events.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said last week that the country will hold Quds Day events in compliance with protocols set to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. He said Quds Day will take place without its usual annual rallies and will instead be held within the perimeters of Friday prayers, which coincide with Quds Day. The late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, designated the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan as Quds Day to mark solidarity with the Palestinian cause. The event, which is marked worldwide, is viewed as an opportunity for all freedom-seeking nations of the world to express their outrage at the Israeli regime for its decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories.
This year's Quds Day is highly significant amid pro-Israel policies adopted by President Donald Trump's administration. In December 2017, Trump officially declared the disputed city of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's capital, despite warnings from around the world that the measure risks triggering a fresh wave of violence in the Middle East. In January, Trump alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also unveiled the so-called deal of the century without the presence of Palestinians.
The scheme calls for the creation of a Palestinian state with limited control over its own security and borders. It also bars Palestinian refugees from returning to their homeland, enshrines Jerusalem al-Quds as "Israel's undivided capital" and allows the regime to annex settlements and the Jordan Valley.
Resistance front leaders to deliver speech to mark Quds Day
The Quds Day Commemoration Committee in cooperation with the Islamic Radios and Televisions Union (IRTVU) is scheduled to hold a virtual speech ceremony for the leaders of the Palestinian resistance front and various personalities on Wednesday.
The speakers are as follows:
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah
Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Hamas resistance movement
Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, leader of Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement
Ziyad al-Nakhalah, leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement
Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, Bahrain's most prominent Shia cleric
Sheikh Qais al-Khazali, leader of Iraq's Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement
Atallah Hanna, the archbishop of Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem al-Quds
Sheikh Dr. Abdul-Latif al-Hamim, head of the Sunni Endowment of Iraq
The speech ceremony is to commence at 17:00 local time in the cities of Jerusalem al-Quds, Baghdad, Sana'a and Beirut. It starts at 18:30 local time in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
WHO PROFITS FROM THE BEIRUT BLAST ?
Making the case that the explosion resulted from an attack
https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-profits-beirut-blast/5720678?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles
The narrative that the Beirut explosion was an exclusive consequence of negligence and corruption by the current Lebanese government is now set in stone, at least in the Atlanticist sphere. And yet, digging deeper, we find that negligence and corruption may have been fully exploited, via sabotage, to engineer it. Lebanon is prime John Le Carré territory. A multinational den of spies of all shades – House of Saud agents, Zionist operatives, "moderate rebel" weaponizers, Hezbollah intellectuals, debauched Arab "royalty," self-glorified smugglers – in a context of full spectrum economic disaster afflicting a member of the Axis of Resistance, a perennial target of Israel alongside Syria and Iran.
As if this were not volcanic enough, into the tragedy stepped President Trump to muddy the – already contaminated – Eastern Mediterranean waters. Briefed by "our great generals," Trump on Tuesday said: "According to them – they would know better than I would – but they seem to think it was an attack." Trump added, "it was a bomb of some kind." Was this incandescent remark letting the cat out of the bag by revealing classified information? Or was the President launching another non sequitur? Trump eventually walked his comments back after the Pentagon declined to confirm his claim about what the "generals" had said and his defense secretary, Mark Esper, supported the accident explanation for the blast. It's yet another graphic illustration of the war engulfing the Beltway. Trump: attack. Pentagon: accident. "I don't think anybody can say right now," Trump said on Wednesday. "I've heard it both ways."
Still, it's worth noting a report by Iran's Mehr News Agency that four US Navy reconnaissance planes were spotted near Beirut at the time of the blasts. Is US intel aware of what really happened all along the spectrum of possibilities?
That ammonium nitrate
Security at Beirut's port – the nation's prime economic hub – would have to be considered a top priority. But to adapt a line from Roman Polanski's Chinatown: "Forget it, Jake. It's Beirut." Those by now iconic 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate arrived in Beirut in September 2013 on board the Rhosus, a ship under Moldovan flag sailing from Batumi in Georgia to Mozambique. Rhosus ended up being impounded by Beirut's Port State Control. Subsequently the ship was de facto abandoned by its owner, shady businessman Igor Grechushkin, born in Russia and a resident of Cyprus, who suspiciously "lost interest" in his relatively precious cargo, not even trying to sell it, dumping style, to pay off his debts.
Grechushkin never paid his crew, who barely survived for several months before being repatriated on humanitarian grounds. The Cypriot government confirmed there was no request to Interpol from Lebanon to arrest him. The whole op feels like a cover – with the real recipients of the ammonium nitrate possibly being "moderate rebels" in Syria who use it to make IEDs and equip suicide trucks, such as the one that demolished the Al Kindi hospital in Aleppo. The 2,750 tons – packed in 1-ton bags labeled "Nitroprill HD" – were transferred to the Hangar 12 warehouse by the quayside. What followed was an astonishing case of serial negligence.
From 2014 to 2017 letters from customs officials – a series of them – as well as proposed options to get rid of the dangerous cargo, exporting it or otherwise selling it, were simply ignored. Every time they tried to get a legal decision to dispose of the cargo, they got no answer from the Lebanese judiciary. When Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab now proclaims, "Those responsible will pay the price," context is absolutely essential.
Neither the prime minister nor the president nor any of the cabinet ministers knew that the ammonium nitrate was stored in Hangar 12, former Iranian diplomat Amir Mousavi, the director of the Center for Strategic Studies and International Relations in Tehran, confirms. We're talking about a massive IED, placed mid-city. The bureaucracy at Beirut's port and the mafias who are actually in charge are closely linked to, among others, the al-Mostaqbal faction, which is led by former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, himself fully backed by the House of Saud.
The immensely corrupt Hariri was removed from power in October 2019 amid serious protests. His cronies "disappeared" at least $20 billion from Lebanon's treasury – which seriously aggravated the nation's currency crisis. No wonder the current government – where we have Prime Minister Diab backed by Hezbollah – had not been informed about the ammonium nitrate. Ammonium nitrate is quite stable, making it one of the safest explosives used in mining. Fire normally won't set it off. It becomes highly explosive only if contaminated – for instance by oil – or heated to a point where it undergoes chemical changes that produce a sort of impermeable cocoon around it in which oxygen can build up to a dangerous level where an ignition can cause an explosion.
Devastating Beirut Explosion: An Accident or Something More Sinister?
Why, after sleeping in Hangar 12 for seven years, did this pile suddenly feel an itch to explode?
So far, the prime straight to the point explanation, by Middle East expert Elijah Magnier, points to the tragedy being "sparked" – literally – by a clueless blacksmith with a blowtorch operating quite close to the unsecured ammonium nitrate. Unsecured due, once again, to negligence and corruption – or as part of an intentional "mistake" anticipating the possibility of a future blast. This scenario, though, does not explain the initial "fireworks" explosion. And certainly does not explain what no one – at least in the West – is talking about: the deliberate fires set to an Iranian market in Ajam in the UAE, and also to a series of food/agricultural warehouses in Najaf, Iraq, immediately after the Beirut tragedy.
Lebanon – boasting assets and real estate worth trillions of dollars – is a juicy peach for global finance vultures. To grab these assets at rock bottom prices, in the middle of the New Great Depression, is simply irresistible. In parallel, the IMF vulture would embark on full shakedown mode and finally "forgive" some of Beirut's debts as long as a harsh variation of "structural adjustment" is imposed. Who profits, in this case, are the geopolitical and geoeconomic interests of US, Saudi Arabia and France. It's no accident that President Macron, a dutiful Rothschild servant, arrived in Beirut Thursday to pledge Paris neocolonial "support" and all but impose, like a Viceroy, a comprehensive set of "reforms". A Monty Python-infused dialogue, complete with heavy French accent, might have followed along these lines: "We want to buy your port." "It's not for sale." "Oh, what a pity, an accident just happened."
Already a month ago the IMF was "warning" that "implosion" in Lebanon was "accelerating." Prime Minister Diab had to accept the proverbial "offer you can't refuse" and thus "unlock billions of dollars in donor funds." Or else. The non-stop run on the Lebanese currency, for over a year now, was just a – relatively polite – warning.
This is happening amid a massive global asset grab characterized in the larger context by American GDP down by almost 40%, arrays of bankruptcies, a handful of billionaires amassing unbelievable profits and too-big-to-fail megabanks duly bailed out with a tsunami of free money.
Dag Detter, a Swedish financier, and Nasser Saidi, a former Lebanese minister and central bank vice governor, suggest that the nation's assets be placed in a national wealth fund. Juicy assets include Electricité du Liban (EDL), water utilities, airports, the MEA airline , telecom company OGERO, the Casino du Liban.
EDL, for instance, is responsible for 30% of Beirut's budget deficit. That's not nearly enough for the IMF and Western mega banks. They want to gobble up the whole thing, plus a lot of real estate. "The economic value of public real estate can be worth at least as much as GDP and often several times the value of the operational part of any portfolio," say Detter and Saidi.
Who's feeling the shockwaves?
Once again, Israel is the proverbial elephant in a room now widely depicted by Western corporate media as "Lebanon's Chernobyl."
A scenario like the Beirut catastrophe has been linked to Israeli plans since February 2016. Israel did admit that Hangar 12 was not a Hezbollah weapons storage unit. Yet, crucially, on the same day of the Beirut blast, and following a series of suspicious explosions in Iran and high tension in the Syria-Israeli border, Prime Minister Netanyahu tweeted , in the present tense: "We hit a cell and now we hit the dispatchers. We will do what is necessary in order to defend ourselves. I suggest to all of them, including Hezbollah, to consider this."
That ties in with the intent, openly proclaimed late last week, to bomb Lebanese infrastructure if Hezbollah harms Israeli Defense Forces soldiers or Israeli civilians. A headline – "Beirut Blast Shockwaves Will Be Felt by Hezbollah for a Long Time" – confirms that the only thing that matters for Tel Aviv is to profit from the tragedy to demonize Hezbollah, and by association, Iran. That ties in with the US Congress "Countering Hezbollah in Lebanon's Military Act of 2019" {S.1886}, which all but orders Beirut to expel Hezbollah from Lebanon.
And yet Israel has been strangely subdued.
Muddying the waters even more, Saudi intel – which has access to Mossad, and demonizes Hezbollah way more than Israel – steps in. All the intel ops I talked to refuse to go on the record, considering the extreme sensitivity of the subject. Still, it must be stressed that a Saudi intel source whose stock in trade is frequent information exchanges with the Mossad, asserts that the original target was Hezbollah missiles stored in Beirut's port. His story is that Prime Minister Netanyahu was about to take credit for the strike – following up on his tweet. But then the Mossad realized the op had turned horribly wrong and metastasized into a major catastrophe.
The problem starts with the fact this was not a Hezbollah weapons depot – as even Israel admitted. When weapons depots are blown up, there's a primary explosion followed by several smaller explosions, something that could last for days. That's not what happened in Beirut. The initial explosion was followed by a massive second blast – almost certainly a major chemical explosion – and then there was silence. Thierry Meyssan, very close to Syrian intel, advances the possibility that the "attack" was carried out with an unknown weapon, a missile -– and not a nuclear bomb – tested in Syria in January 2020. (The test is shown in an attached video.) Neither Syria nor Iran ever made a reference to this unknown weapon, and I got no confirmation about its existence. Assuming Beirut port was hit by an "unknown weapon," President Trump may have told the truth: It was an "attack". And that would explain why Netanyahu, contemplating the devastation in Beirut, decided that Israel would need to maintain a very low profile.
Watch that camel in motion
The Beirut explosion at first sight might be seen as a deadly blow against the Belt and Road Initiative, considering that China regards the connectivity between Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon as the cornerstone of the Southwest Asia Belt and Road corridor. Yet that may backfire – badly. China and Iran are already positioning themselves as the go-to investors post-blast, in sharp contrast with the IMF hit men, and as advised by Hezbollah Secretary-General Nasrallah only a few weeks ago.
Syria and Iran are in the forefront of providing aid to Lebanon. Tehran is sending an emergency hospital, food packages, medicine and medical equipment. Syria opened its borders with Lebanon, dispatched medical teams and is receiving patients from Beirut's hospitals. It's always important to keep in mind that the "attack" (Trump) on Beirut's port destroyed Lebanon's main grain silo, apart from engineering the total destruction of the port – the nation's key trade lifeline.
That would fit into a strategy of starving Lebanon. On the same day Lebanon became to a great extent dependent on Syria for food – as it now carries only a month's supply of wheat – the US attacked silos in Syria. Syria is a huge exporter of organic wheat. And that's why the US routinely targets Syrian silos and burns its crops – attempting also to starve Syria and force Damascus, already under harsh sanctions, to spend badly needed funds to buy food. In stark contrast to the interests of the US/France/Saudi axis, Plan A for Lebanon would be to progressively drop out of the US-France stranglehold and head straight into Belt and Road as well as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Go East, the Eurasian way. The port and even a great deal of the devastated city, in the medium term, can be quickly and professionally rebuilt by Chinese investment. The Chinese are specialists in port construction and management.
This avowedly optimistic scenario would imply a purge of the hyper-wealthy, corrupt weapons/drugs/real estate scoundrels of Lebanon's plutocracy – which in any case scurry away to their tony Paris apartments at the first sign of trouble. Couple that with Hezbollah's very successful social welfare system – which I saw for myself at work last year – having a shot at winning the confidence of the impoverished middle classes and thus becoming the core of the reconstruction.
It will be a Sisyphean struggle. But compare this situation with the Empire of Chaos – which needs chaos everywhere, especially across Eurasia, to cover for the coming, Mad Max chaos inside the US. General Wesley Clark's notorious 7 countries in 5 years once again come to mind – and Lebanon remains one of those 7 countries. The Lebanese lira may have collapsed; most Lebanese may be completely broke; and now Beirut is semi-devastated. That may be the straw breaking the camel's back – releasing the camel to the freedom of finally retracing its steps back to Asia along the New Silk Roads.
THE BEIRUT BLAST.
"AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE GEOPOLITICAL FORCES AT WORK"
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar
Global Research, August 09, 2020
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-beirut-blast/5720600
Four days after the Beirut Blast of 4th August 2020, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, has attempted to explain what caused the largest explosion since the end of the Second World War. He attributes it to either the accidental ignition of 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate (AN) stored in a warehouse at Beirut port or a planned attack by some external entity. There is maybe a nexus between the two causes.
If the blast was an accident, its impact has been devastating. More than a 160 people have died so far and at least 6000 have been injured. Most observers agree that the storage of the fertilizer did not adhere to safety procedures. Negligence and incompetence appear to have scarred the 6 year storage of the AN. Besides, it is alleged that fireworks were also stored close to the warehouse recently.
A number of officials connected to the port and customs have been arrested. The elected government made up largely of representatives from the Shia and Christian communities is determined to show that it will not tolerate gross dereliction of duty and ineptitude. At the same time it is aware that it should not scapegoat any individual or group in order to protect the real culprits behind the blast.
It is quite conceivable that the real culprits are linked to the second likely cause — a planned attack. This theory which has different variations has been advanced by some respected commentators. One such variation by the French writer, Thierry Meyssan argues that "Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu authorized a strike against a Hezbollah arms depot using a new weapon that has been tested for seven months in Syria." The weapon which "is a missile with a tactical nuclear component in its warhead – causes a smoke mushroom characteristic of nuclear weapons " but "is obviously not an atomic bomb in the strategic sense. "It has also been deployed against Iranian military vessels in the Persian Gulf
Israel has of course denied that it was behind the Beirut blast. The Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has also insisted that his group has no arms depot at the Beirut port. In this regard it should be noted that it was Netanyahu who in a speech at the UN General Assembly on 27 September 2018 alluded to alleged Hezbollah arms at a warehouse in Beirut port. The allegation has never been proven.
This is why there has to be an impartial inquiry into the Beirut Blast of 4th August President Aoun and the Hezbollah are against internationalizing the inquiry. They fear that given US and Western influence within the international system such an inquiry will be manipulated to exonerate Israel. A way out of this situation would be for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres to establish a small Committee of Inquiry comprising a representative each from the US, France, China and Russia with the UNSG as the chair whose main objective would be to determine who was responsible for the blast. The Committee will report its findings directly to the UN General Assembly.
The Committee should look deeply at the two causes which President Aoun referred to. In examining the second possibility— an external attack — the Committee one hopes will have the courage and the principles to reveal why Lebanon has been under tremendous pressure in the last few months, both economic and political, aimed at emasculating the government in Beirut and bringing about a regime change that will benefit Israel and Western interests
Without such an understanding of the geopolitical forces at work in the region where Lebanon is located, it will not be possible to fathom why the Beirut Blast occurred.
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE UAE RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL NEEDS URGENT
ATTENTION. NOT ONLY IS THIS ANOTHER MARKER OF THE RISING POWER OF GREATER ISRAEL BUT THE SURRENDER, SUBSERVIENCE, HUMILIATION AND DEGRADATION OF THE ARAB MUSLIM NATIONS IN FRONT OF THEIR ARCH ENEMY. IT IS CLEAR THAT THE SATANIC DAJJALIC ZIONIST IMPERIALIST AND RACIST STATE IS A CANCER WHICH HAS BEEN IMPLANTED BY THE WEST AND SUPPORT OF CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS. THIS BRUTAL CONQUEST AND COLONIALISM IS NOW CROWNED WITH NOTHING LESS THAN ARAB CAPITULATION. HOWEVER, IT HAS OPENED UP ANOTHER NEW CHAPTER IN ISLAMIC HISTORY WHEN NON ARAB MUSLIMS WILL LEAD ISLAM BACK TO VICTORY NO MATTER WHAT THE ENEMIES CONSPIRE. LIKE THE CRUSADERS BEFORE THEY WILL BE BLOWN AWAY BY HISTORY.
THIS HAS BEEN MENTIONED CLEARLY IN ISLAMIC ESCHATOLOGY AND MAYBE IT IS TIME TO REHEARSE THE FATE OF THOSE PEOPLE INHABITATING THE ARABIAN PENINSULA IN END TIMES. SUFFICE TO SAY THAT ISLAMIC ESCHATOLOGY DOES NOT AND WILL NOT REST IN THE HANDS OF A PEOPLE OR NATION UNFIT FOR GLOBAL ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP. AS ALLAH SWT HAS PROMISED TO RAISE THE BANNER AND POWER OF ISLAM IN THE HANDS OF OTHERS WHO ARE NOT ARABS. WHAT IS TAKING PLACE IS NO LESS THAN IDENTIFICATION OF THE TWO SIDES IN THE FORTHCOMING GLOBAL BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL AND JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE.
AS THIS HAS BROUGHT OUT INTO THE OPEN WHAT HAS BEEN CONSPIRING IN THE BACKGROUND FOR DECADES. THOSE IN THE UMMAH WHO ARGUE THAT THIS REPRESENTS TREASON AND BETRAYAL ARE SPOT ON. THIS BODES ILL FOR THE ARAB MUSLIM NATIONS WHO ARE ACTING ON FEAR COWARDICE AND LOVE OF MATERIALISM. THIS IS ALSO DIVIDING NON ARAB MUSLIM NATIONS FROM THE ARAB STATES AS ARAB NATIONS ARE BEING SEEN TO BE ALLIED TO THEIR ARCH ENEMY AND SURRENDERING JERUSALEM AND AL QUDS.
THE LINES ARE BEING DRAWN IN THE SAND AND WE WILL SOON SEE WHO GOES DOWN THE QUICKSAND. WHAT CAN BE CLEARLY DEMARCATED IS THAT IT IS NOT GOING TO BE A PRETTY SIGHT. WHILST THE ZIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES MAYBE SMILING NOW THEIR FATE WILL NOT BE DISSIMILAR.
ISRAEL IS GOING TO ESTABLISH MILITARY BASES IN ARAB COUNTRIES
ISRAEL AND SAUDI ARABIA WILL BECOME SECURITY
PARTNERS IN FUTURE
SAUDI ARABIA WILL RECOGNIZE ISRAEL AFTER UAE -
JARED KUSHNER HINTS
RESPONSE OF SAUDI ARABIA TO PAKISTAN ON BEHALF OF ARAB NEWS
Dr ISRAR AHMAD GREAT PREDICTIONS ABOUT NEW MUSLIM BLOC
CONSEQUENCES OF US LED REGIME CHANGE WARS IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST(the Muslim World).
KASHMIR A FLASHPOINT IN THE ROOF OF THE WORLD WHICH WE IGNORE AT OUR PERIL
365 OF 370 – THE ECHOES OF FREEDOM
Kashmir Documentary
ATTEMPTS AT ISLAMIC UNITY SINCE THE ABOLITION OF THE KHALIFATE IN 1924 NEED TO BE REVIEWED URGENTLY. THERE WAS THE FAMOUS KHILAFATE MOVEMENT IN THE 1920s WHICH WAS SPEARHEADED BY INDIAN MUSLIMS DURING BRITISH INDIA. IT'S OBJECTIVE WAS TO RETAIN THE OTTOMAN KHILAFATE BUT DISSIPATED AFTER MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK DISMANTLED IT.
THEN THERE WERE 3 URGENTLY CONVENED PANISLAMIC SUMMITS HOSTED IN 1926-1931 TO WORK OUT WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN THEREAFTER BUT FIZZLED OUT. THEY NEED TO BE REVIEWED AND ESTABLISH WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. THEREAFTER IN THE EARLY 70S ALMOST 50 YEARS LATER THE LAHORE ISLAMIC UNITY CONFERENCE TOOK PLACE ALBEIT IN THE FRAMEWORK OF INTRA NATION STATE ISLAMIC SOLIDARITY. ONCE AGAIN IT FIZZLED OUT AND IT WAS CLEAR LEADING CHAMPIONS WERE REMOVED, ASSASSINATED OR KILLED.
ALMOST ANOTHER 50 YEARS HAVE PASSED AND 100 SINCE THE FATEFUL 1924. SO HOW IS THE INEVITABLE ISLAMIC UNITY GOING TO MANIFEST ITSELF AGAIN ON THE WORLD STAGE. THE CHALLENGE IS STILL THERE BUT WHO, WHERE AND HOW WILL THE LEADER AND MUTAQQI LEADERSHIP EMERGE?
THE WORLD'S MUSLIMS AND UMMAH HAS BEEN OPERATING WITHIN THE DAJALLIC SECULAR POLITICAL NEW WORLD ORDER SINCE 1924. THIS FOLLOWED THE DEFEAT, COLLAPSE AND DISMEMBERMENT OF MUSLIM EMPIRES:- SAFAVID EMPIRE, MUGHAL INDIA IN 1857 AND OTTOMANS IN 1924. IT CAN BE ARGUED THAT THE WEAKNESS AND ROT IN THE MUSLIM WORLD WAS MUCH DEEPER AND HAD STARTED EVEN EARLIER.
SO IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR MUSLIMS TO UNDERSTAND OUR PREDICAMENT AND THE CHALLENGES WE FACE FROM A
HOLISTIC ISLAMIC DIAGNOSIS AND PRESCRIPTION. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND KHILAFATE MEANT THE END OF DAR AL ISLAM AND THE COMING OF POWER OF SECULARISED WESTERNISED TURKISH NATIONALISTS WITH THEIR CONTROLLING JEWISH ZIONIST MOVEMENT. WHILST THE HEJAZ UNDER THE SAUDI WAHABBI STATE SURRENDERED TO THE UN. THE HAJJ WAS DESTROYED AND THERE WAS NO DARUL ISLAM NOW AS THE MUSLIM WORLD REVERTED TO THE PRE-HIJRI JAHILIYYAH ERA WHICH CAN BE DESCRIBED AS THE AGE OF DAJJAL.
l908 YOUNG TURKS COME INTO POWER
1916 LOSS OF MAKKAH AND MADINAH IN HEJAZ BY THE FIRST
ARAB REVOLT UNDER THE BRITISH PUPPET SHARIF HUSSEIN
1916 SYKES PICOT AGREEMENT CARVING THE REGION INTO
ANGLOPHONE AND FRNACOPHONE SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
1917 NOVEMBER 2 2017 BALFOUR DECLARATION
1917 CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM IN DECEMBER 30 2017
BY BRITISH GENERAL ALLENBY
1924 ABOLITION OF KHILAFATE BY MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK
1926 10 JANUARY 1926 ABDUL AZIZ DECLARED HIMSELF
KING OF THE HEJAZ AND IN 27 JANUARY 1927 HE TOOK
THE TITLE KING OF NAJD
1930 THE 2 KINGDOMS OF THE HEJAZ AND NAJD WERE UNITED AS THE "KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA"
1932 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
WHAT ALL THIS MEANT WAS THAT THE BRITISH AND
GLOBAL KUFR ENSURED THAT THERE WAS NO KHILAFAH
AND KHILAFATE CONTROLLING THE HEJAZ. THE LINKAGE BETWEEN THE KHILAFATE AND THE HAJJ WAS BROKEN PERMANENTLY. BY CRIPPLING THE KHILAFATE ISLAM WOULD BE POWERLESS.
SO POST WORLD WAR 1 LED TO THE GLOBAL KUFR CONTROL OF JERUSALEM AND SAUDI WAHABBI CONTROL OVER THE HEJAZ AND HAJJ. THE DAJALLIC NWO INAUGURATED GLOBALLY BOTH EAST AND WEST WTHOUT ANY OPPOSITION.
THE LINK BETWEEN THE UMMAH'S DAR AL ISLAM, KHILAFAH AND CONTROL OF HEJAZ AND HAJJ WAS TERMINATED COMPLETELY. ISLAMIC POWER AND FAITH WERE SEPARATED AND BROKEN. ISLAM WAS DEFEATED AND THE UMMAH SURRENDERED TO THE DAJALLIC NWO.
THE FAILED RESPONSE
THERE WERE 3 RESPONSES BY THE MUSLIM WORLD TO THIS DEFEAT IN 1926 AND 1931
1926 CAIRO'S AL AZHAR INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC KHILAFAH CONGRESS MOTAMAR AL KHILAFAH
THE ATTEMPT FOR A NEW KHILAFAH WAS SABOTAGED
1926 MAKKAH'S WORLD MUSLIM CONGRESS
MOTAMAR AL ALAM AL ISLAMI
ADVOCATED SECULAR TERRITORIAL MUSLIM NATION STATES OPERATING UNDER THE UN. AFTER IBN SAUD's DEFEAT OF SHARIF HUSSAIN THE DEFEATED ARAB KHILAFAH AND KING OF THE ARABS WAS SENT INTO EXILE. IBN SAUD PROCLAIMED THAT THE HEJAZ BELONGED TO THE UMAH AND HE HELD IT AS A TRUST. SAUDI ARABIAN EXPEDIENCY AND DECEPTION HAS ENSURED THAT NO ATTEMPT TO RESTORE THE ISLAMIC KHILAFATE HAS BEEN ALLOWED THEREAFTER.
1931 JERUSALEM's GENERAL ISLAMIC CONGRESS
THIS WAS HELD AT THE MASJID AL ALAQSA AS A LAST DITCH ATTEMPT WHICH FIZZLED OUT AND HAD THE KHILAFAT MOVEMENT SUPPORT. SO IN 1926 AND 1931 THE MUSLIM WORLD WAS UNABLE TO RESPOND TO THE IMPOSITION OF POLITICAL SECULARISM OF NATION STATES REPLACING DAR AL ISLAM AND PAX ISLAMICA. THE DESTRUCTION OF ISLAM'S UNITARY KHILAFAH STATE WAS REPLACED BY A FRAGMENTATION OF SECULAR STATES UNDER THE ZIONIST CONTROLLED NWO.
THIS WAS ACHIEVED BY A DAJALLIC CONSPIRACY OF THE ZIONIST JEWS, BRITISH AND SAUDI WAHABBIS. THE PROXY SECULAR SAUDI WAHABBI STATE IMPOSED A SECULAR ISLAM AND DEPOLITICISED AND RITUALISED THE HAJJ SO IT'S UNIQUE SPIRITUAL AND POLITICAL DYNAMISM WAS DESTROYED.
THE SECULARISATION OF THE GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE MUSLIM WORLD IN TURKEY AND SAUDI ARABIA CREATED SECULAR NATION STATES IN THE SEAT OF THE KHILAFAH AND HEARTLAND OF ISLAM.
THE DESTRUCTION OF ISLAM'S UNITARY KHILAFAH STATE WAS REPLACED BY A FRAGMENTATION OF SECULAR STATES CONTROLLED BY A ZIONIST CONTROLLED UN NWO. THIS COULD ONLY BE ACHIEVED BY A DAJALLIC CONSPIRACY HATCHED BY THE ZIONIST JEWS, BRITISH AND SAUDI WAHABBIS.
THIS MEANT THAT THE WORLD OF ISLAM IS WITHOUT POWER TODAY. THE KHILAFAH IS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE RESTORATION OF ISLAMIC POWER, AUTHORITY AND CONTROL. THERE IS A NEED TO ARTICULATE, RESURRECT AND ESTABLISH A NEW DAR AL ISLAM( ISLAMIC PUBLIC ORDER] AND PAX ISLAMICA(ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL ORDER) FOR THE CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM WORLD.
FOR THIS CHANGE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IT IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS ARE MET HEREWITH : -
THE HIJAZ MUST BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTROL OF THE SAUDI WAHABBI AXIS
POWER, AUTHORITY AND CONTROL CAN ONLY BE RESTORED WITH THE LIBERATION OF THE HARAMAIN
AND HAJJ FROM THOSE WHO DESTROYED THE KHILAFAH
THIS WILL HAPPEN WITH THE BREAKDOWN OF THE SAUDI
WAHABBI ALLIANCE AND MUSLIM STATES WITHDRAWING
FROM THE DAJALLIC NATION STATES MODEL AND ISLAMIC
PARTIES WITHDRAWING FROM ELECTIONS.
LET US BE CLEAR THAT SAUDI ARABIA HAS EFFECTIVELY BANNED THE HAJJ IN 1441/2020. THIS MEANS THAT THE CORONA VIRUS- COVID 19 SATANIC DAJALLIC PLANDEMIC IS BEING USED AS A COVER FOR A DIRECT ASSAULT ON
THE HAJJ, ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, ISLAM AND ISLAMIC CIVILISATION. 2.5 MILLION HAJJIS WERE EXPECTED GLOBALLY TO PERFORM THE HAJJ THIS YEAR. THE SCALING BACK TO 1000 LOCAL HAJJIS IS JUST TOKENISM AND CANNOT ERASE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS HISTORIC DECISION. EFFECTIVELY THE HAJJ HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND IT IS LEADING TO THE ABANDONMENT OF THE HAJJ THE FIFTH PILLAR OF ISLAM.
IF THIS IS NOT ESCHATOLOGICAL I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS. BY EXECUTING THIS DECISION LET IT BE CLEAR THAT THE SAUDI REGIME HAS UNDERMINED IT'S LEGITIMACY AS BEING THE CUSTODIANS OF THE HARAMAIN. THEY ARE NOTHING BUT A TRIBAL OLIGARCHY BROUGHT TO POWER AND PAID FOR BY NON MUSLIM WESTERN IMPERIALISTS AFTER THE TREACHERY LEADING TO THE DEMISE OF THE OTTOMANS IN WW1.
THE ENDGAME HAS COMMENCED AND THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL AS THE SAUDIS CAN NO LONGER CLAIM THE RIGHT TO BE CUSTODIANS OF THE HARAMAIN NOR DO THEY HAVE ANY POLITICAL LEGITIMACY BY SERVING THE INTERESTS OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM AND THE DAJALLIC NWO.
AS THE HOUSE OF CARDS BUILT ON SAND DISSOLVES IN FRONT OF OUR EYES THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WILL BE REVIEWED HEREAFTER.
1974 CONFERENCE OF OIC LOOKED QUITE PROMISING BUT THEN THIS HAPPENED
WHO IS KING FAISAL OF SAUDI ARABIA?
OTTOMAN CALIPHATE AND THE KHILAFATE MOVEMENT
THE ABOLISHMENT OF THE KHILAFAH: 3rd MARCH 1924


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Brittons Drive salt/sand container nearly empty
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Tree tilting badly and undermining footpath
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Hold rails down steps
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Pole holding chevron damaged
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Pothole on left side
Needs refilled
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Damage to Bus stop
Overhanging Tree branches that pose safety issue
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Southwest Airlines posted a $224 million profit last week for their 2nd quarter and guess what?
That's actually down from last year. Not terribly so but it is down.
By any observation, Southwest is flying with record passenger loads and increasing their revenue regularly.
So why are profits down?
I have a sneaky feeling that Southwest is suffering operationally. From my own anecdotal observation over the past few years, this airline seems to find it very hard to get an airplane ready to depart on time now. The planes are flying nearly 100% full on major routes and that presents problems that Southwest, as an airline, isn't designed to handle well.
I even wonder if Southwest's staffing for its operations is adequate to the current job.
And I wonder more and more if Southwest is making the AirTran merger become another version of its IT problems. In other words: Is this a problem that Southwest isn't solving?
Speedier integrations into one system allow everyone to start marching to the same drummer faster. Marching to the same drummer, even if you do it sloppily at first, is better than being in a disconnect.
An airline that takes several years to solve IT problems, merger problems and even labor problems is not an airline that is behaving "agile" and it isn't setting itself up to succeed.
No, this isn't an announcement of Southwest Airlines serving its first international destination. Puerto Rico, you see, is a United States Territory. Airtran already serves Puerto Rico (and several international destinations) and this is an announcement of Southwest replacing Airtran service with Puerto Rico with Southwest service.
That said, it should provide some real experience to Southwest in serving an off-shore destination and help them identify weaknesses in preparation for serving true international destinations. One wonders if Southwest taking advantage of the human capital it has in Airtran for doing international services.
Southwest Airlines has now been awarded a single operating certificate for itself and the Airtran brand as of Thursday of this week. This means that Southwest can begin truly blending the operations by turning Airtran aircraft into SWA aircraft, moving crews into Southwest operations and operating SWA or Airtran aircraft on routes as they wish.
So far, Southwest gets a good report card on its integration efforts in that it has seen most labor groups come to a quick agreement on seniority integration and it has achieved this single certificate on time. Smooth integrations yield the results expected from a merger and this would appear to be working in Southwest's favor.
Going forward, we'll see a steady transition with more and more routes being served in SWA colors and more crew and staff transitioning into SWA operations. I would expect little, if any, drama at this point and that includes the SWA mechanics who threw their small temper tantrum but who have much to lose if they hold off too long and force the seniority integration into binding arbitration.
The core of Southwest's reservations systems dates back to a system developed by Braniff International called "Cowboy". It is nearly 50 years old and Southwest bought it from Braniff in the 1980′s and just kept patching things onto it.
As a low cost strategy for an airline in the 1980s or 1990s, that made sense. The problem is that the 1990s started more than 20 years ago.
Southwest has been severely impacted in code share relationships as well as international flying as a result of their antiquated system. They began investigation of a replacement system after they began to realize their inability to codeshare in a North American pact between themselves, WestJet and Volaris. That work was put on hold coinciding with the Airtran merger announcement.
Now, Southwest has already figured out it can use the Airtran system to facilitate international flying for the interim. In fact, Southwest has *added* international flights to the Airtran network while removing domestic flights (to be replaced by Southwest flights) at the same time. As an interim solution, that works.
But over the next 2 years, we'll see Southwest evaporate Airtran domestically and that may leave a tiny international airline in place (Airtran) to help with international flying. The problem is, they're no closer to being able to integrate with Airtran's reservations system than they are with any other airline.
Cobbling together systems and doing things low cost is fine and even the right thing to do in many ways today. However, it is *not* the way to handle reservations for an airline that the 10th largest in the world (by traffic) and which has a fleet of nearly 700 aircraft and almost a 100 destinations. It isn't the way to handle reservations for an airline that is now consistently *missing* revenue opportunities with partner airlines such as Volaris. In fact, Southwest was actually kind of good in pioneering codeshares with other quirky airlines and making it work. Now, not so much.
So why is Southwest willing to invest Billions (with a "B") on buying new aircraft from Boeing but not into a reservations system that it really needed now and which isn't really being looked at for anytime in the near future?
I think there are 2 main reasons. First, the Airtran merger which is occupying a vast amount of resources and will be doing so for the next 2 years. Southwest quite rightly recognizes that it has an exceptionally big task to complete in this area and that losing focus could cost them. They'll innovate as much as they can in the meantime but that job is just way bigger for way more people in the organization.
Second, a new reservations system is scary. Many have tried to build them, very few have ever succeeded. Much of what exists out there today is fairly antiquated. American Airlines has reportedly had monumental problems with the new system being designed for it by HP, for instance. There is a reason why several airlines have migrated from half baked systems to SABRE, for instance. Two of those have been Virgin America and jetBlue. I suspect that Southwest looks at that landscape littered with failures and half successes and doesn't relish the job. I wouldn't.
So what's the solution? I would try to figure out if the Airtran system could be scaled up to Southwest's needs. That's the Navitaire Open Skies system that many have left. The alternative is to bite the bullet and build an IT infrastructure around SABRE (or a similar legacy reservations system.) The options are limited until someone builds a new, modern reservations system that works. SABRE is one choice but other legacy systems such as Worldspan and Galileo still exist.
My point is that no one has built a new, ground up system for airlines capable of handling all the needs of a major airline in the world in decades. All systems are systems conceived of in the late 1960s or early 1970s which have been patched, added to and migrated over the years. Anything remotely new is inadequate to the scope and scale that these same huge airlines operate from.
Oddly enough, I think that Southwest would be wise to find a partner in this system. It's an airline that prefers it's own ways, yes, but sharing that risk with other major airlines would be a wise move today, tomorrow and a decade from now.
Southwest is doing something interesting with Airtran. They are not only absorbing the airline, they're using it as a proxy for getting heavily involved with international flying to the markets that should be very interesting to Southwest in the first place.
The latest announcements are for routes to Cancun from Denver and Austin on Airtran equipment. The knowledge base is there for flights to Mexico and the Caribbean from Airtran staff and Southwest has the strong bases in cities that Airtran has hardly flown to. This is a powerful combination and it should work very, very well for Southwest.
It does bring to my mind a few questions. Does this mean Southwest will adopt Airtrans' reservations system? Or does it mean that it is finally working hard to build its infrastracture for a newer, better reservations system? Southwest needs this more than it needs an early delivery of the 737MAX.
So far, I like how Southwest is using their acquisition for international travel and it may well end up being one of the truly great benefits to come from the merger.
Quite a few cities are getting surprised by who is going to retain Southwest Airlines service and who isn't. The analysis by most is that it's all about whether or not the city is big enough to retain service by Southwest's standards and while that's true on the surface, there is more to the story.
It's about who's running the airport and who is running the city. If the city has an airport board and director who knows how to make a business case to an airine, Southwest will listen. If those people know how to supply valid data to Southwest, the airline will listen.
It's also about what city is willing to partner up with Southwest and even encourage local business to use Southwest for mainline service.
But even then, Southwest is smart enough to look at what it can change in the existing airline model for a city. A great example is Wichita, KS. Southwest knows that it can provide service to other Southwest cities that make far more sense for travelers from Wichita than the current Airtran service from Wichita to Atlanta.
Yes, it's about the money but it is also about who wants to get or keep Southwest service and make the business case. A good airport board and airport business director can make all the difference.
Southwest Airlines has decided to change its seating on its Boeing aircraft to a thinner, lighter seat that permits an additional 6 seats on its airplanes. Now, instead of 137 seats on its 737-700, they will have 143 seats. I'm sure the "upgrade" will occur on its soon to arrive 737-800 aircraft as well.
It's a reasonable move on the part of SWA. First, most trips on SWA are less than 2 hours in length which means even a slightly less comfortable seat is OK and probably doesn't impact the customer much at all. And we don't know that the seats are less comfortable. The truth is, the modern seating being offered for airliners looks uncomfortable but usually ends up retaining the same comfort levels. This new seat doesn't require SWA to reduce its seat pitch and that's a good thing from my perspective.
The additional 6 seats potentially offer more profit for Southwest and it could use more profit. While they continue to be the most consistently profitable airline, their costs are now in line with legacy airlines (mostly) and adding more profit to each full flight helps offset those costs. Based on my own flights with Southwest, those 6 extra seats will contribute heavily to their bottom line as it has become rare for me to see a flight less than completely full. In addition, Southwest's load factors have soared over the past few years when they have traditionally been substantially less than legacy airlines. Again, more seats helps here.
Southwest is also making its moves to integrate the Airtran system into the SWA system. We're now seeing Southwest announcing flights into Airtran cities on routes that are either the same or nearly the same as what Airtran had. There are no surprises so far and I do think that Southwest is moving methodically along in its plans now that it has seniority agreements in place for both pilots and flight attendants from Airtran. Southwest says it will take several years to integrate. I think that Southwest will build steam quickly and end up integrating the substantial bulk of the two airlines faster than expected. All indications point to Southwest growing quickly comfortable with the Airtran system and as they do grow more comfortable, decision making will happen more rapidly.
I also notice that Southwest is already getting aggressive on flying to Mexico using Airtan. They've applied to serve new routes from several cities in the US and its notable that these routes do not seem to link up with Volaris routes in Mexico so far. In other words, it appears that Southwest is keeping Volaris on board with existing services but exploring direct travel into Mexico via Airtran. This isn't out of character for Southwest, they like to experiment when opportunities arise to do so with little risk.
I do think that Southwest needs to decide how it wants to do foreign travel. Will it be with partners or will it do it on itself? Now that it has the international expertise of Airtran in its back pocket, I think they may be more interested in doing this themselves. It is notable to me that despite the "codeshare" its doing with Volaris, Southwest hasn't really worked too hard to expand it or promote it on a national basis. That makes me wonder if both parties are less than satisfied with the relationship so far.
It has been announced by the Wichita, Kansas chamber of commerce that Southwest Airlines has indicated to them that Wichita, KS would retain service. Currently, Wichita has flights connecting it to Atlanta via Airtran and it will likely retain those flights through most, if not all, of 2012. The flights will be converted to Southwest service by 2013.
There was quite a bit of speculation that Southwest would remove Wichita from the schedule like it has several other smaller cities. I wasn't convinced as Wichita fit kind of well into the existing Southwest system which has significant flights to Kansas City, Denver, Oklahomta City and Dallas which are all at least somewhat economically tied to Wichita. Certainly more so than Atlanta is.
In addition, flying to Atlanta didn't necessarily provide connection opportunities to those cities that are economically tied to Wichita. Southwest can provide those connections and that has real value for Wichita and Southwest. For instance, let's say Southwest does provide service and starts flying from Wichita to Kansas City instead of Atlanta. From that gateway city, people of Wichita can access the entire Southwest system (including Atlanta and Florida) without feeling like they're criss-crossing the country to do so.
I expect that Southwest will connect Wichita to either Kansas City, Denver or Oklahoma City. Kansas City and Oklahoma City are very short stage lengths and Denver is right in the sweet spot for Southwest typical route length.
Earlier this week, it was announced that Southwest/Airtran was *adding* routes from San Antonio to Mexico City and Cancun. Airtran will be the "airline" that services those routes.
Yes, Airtran will grow into some routes.
Fares aren't announced until regulatory approval is gained. I do wonder if Southwest plans to use the Airtran entity for international expansion. But I wonder about a lot of things when it comes to Southwest lately. Like when are they going to introduce a reservations system that doesn't require a handcrank?
Those routes are curious to me. Southwest already has its codeshare into Mexico with Volaris but that connection is focused on the West Coast area and it offers flights from the US to Guadalajara with connections onward.
The Mexico City and Cancun flights are smarter flights. Particularly smart from San Antonio. And don't be one bit surprised to see one added to Monterrey in the near future.
Here we go, Southwest makes some moves.
Airtran has had Skywest flying 6 routes for it out of Milwaukee and one of Southwest's first moves is to dissolve that codeshare and start flying routes on its own. New routes will include flights to Des Moines, Akron-Canton and St. Louis.
As you can imagine, SWA pilots are thrilled. This goes to a central principle with Southwest, namely flying its own routes and flying routes that are profitable on their own.
I've found no information on what equipment will be used but my guess is that we'll see 717s and 737-500s re-deployed as Southwest rationalizes services out of cities that both SWA and Airtran serve. The best candidate for those new routes are 717s as they have the right capacity and they're all in reach with a 717.
The merger will allow SWA to find those new routes that many cities have been clamoring for. For the first time, Southwest has real depth when it comes to finding the route aircraft for the right route. Look for more routes developing both in the Rust Belt, Midwest and the South as time goes by. All three areas are places where SWA has had good luck and with the route overlap that exists in focus cities such as Milwaukee and Baltimore as well as in Florida, I think we'll see a number of new routes and re-deployments of aircraft as time goes by.
Southwest and Airtran: It's Done.
Southwest and Airtran are now one airline legally although both will continue to operate separately in varying degrees during their transition to one operation. Once change that will come sooner than later and one that will disappoint me at that is Airtran leaving DFW airport. Southwest isn't permitted to fly from both airlines because of a clause in the law(s) governing operations from Love Field Airport.
It disappoints me because Airtran was my "Southwest Alternative" when it came to flying to destinations on the East Coast. It was faster and easier to fly Airtran via Atlanta to many of those destinations and it was just as inexpensive. Now, those flights will have to be on Southwest which is hamstrung with the Wright Amendment law(s).
I'll also be disappointed to see Airtran's business class go away. It was a great value to upgrade to and offered what was most important (to me) which was better seating. It's not about the food or being addressed by my name or a mint, it's about being more comfortable for what was a great price.
At first glance, integrating Airtran's fleet into Southwest's operations would appear to be easy and straight forward. In fact, it isn't. Airtran operates a different floor plan and a two class cabin. All of this affects things like weight and balance of the aircraft as well as using the floor plan on Southwest flights.
So Southwest will begin slowly converting Airtran fleet over to the Southwest model one by one. Southwest will add these aircraft and, over time, take over Airtran routes. Airtran will slowly reduce in size by fleet and route at the same time until both are on the same single operating certificate and the aircraft are homogenized into the fleet.
Expect this to take longer than a year. Even converting the 737-700s is fairly straight forward but now Southwest has to decide upon how it will configure the Airtran 717 aircraft for all coach seating before it begins that integration. Since Southwest generally executes these kind of changes when aircraft already require service and maintenance, the two airline operations could co-exist for a longer than usual period of time until this work is complete.
Southwest has gotten a transition plan for its absorbtion of Airtran approved the FAA it would appear they are on track to close their merger later this spring. The transition plan calls for both Southwest and Airtran to be operating on one certificate early in 2012.
In addition, Southwest has gotten a transition agreement into place with its pilots' union which establishes the procedural framework for integrating Airtran pilots into Southwest's structure. This does not mean that we yet know how Airtran pilots will be actually integrated into the Southwest seniority list. The silence on that issue is probably an indicator that progress is being made. Unions don't usually start firing public shots at each other unless they feel like progress is being blocked.
I expect we'll see more announcements on the merger in the next few weeks and certainly after Airtran holds its vote on March 23.
On another front, Southwest's Gary Kelly has said that Southwest plans to grow further in Milwaukee. Like Airtran and Frontier, Southwest sees Milwaukee as a real opportunity and by taking over Airtran, it should have plenty of space and opportunity to continue its growth. I expect that we'll see Southwest continue its battle against Frontier in this city as well Denver where both have grown but more at the expense of United than each other. Southwest is now carrying more passengers out of Denver than Frontier.
Finally, Southwest should start flying from the NYC area's Newark Liberty International Airport. Southwest gained important slots from ContiUnited as a function of their merger and they've now got approval from the airport to begin flying from 3 gates to 2 destinations (Midway and St. Louis).
With toeholds in both La Guardia and Newark Airport as well as Long Island's Islip airport, I expect that we'll see Southwest look for other opportunities to grow each new airport's flights. La Guardia, I expect, will be the slower growth airport as slots are extremely valuable there and several airlines are vying to be New York City's airline of choice.
One wonders if service to Islip will continue in the face of this NYC area growth and I expect the answer is that the flights will stay as long as they remain profitable and there are no other better profit opportunities elsewhere. In the near term, I expect they'll stay. Islip is nowhere close to NYC and Southwest has been serving primarily East Coast destinations from Islip with Chicago Midway being the one exception to that. Chicago may perhaps be dropped but I expect that if Southwest has found it valuable to serve the airport today, it will find it to be profitable to do so in the future. Currently, Southwest's competition is US Airways at Islip.


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Trump's White House: Chaotic, Crumbling, and Ineffectual
Our infrastructure is not the only thing that is crumbling. So too is the Trump Administration. Under the weight of endless chaos, it is falling apart bit by bit, day by day dragged out in slow motion.
For six months, we have been watching a spectacle the likes of which has never been seen before. It is an Administration in total chaos. The casualty list is long, and it keeps on growing.
When Reince Priebus, Katie Walsh and Sean Spicer from the RNC were named to the White House staff at the Inauguration, the Republican establishment was convinced that they had the White House under control and could make Trump look presidential. All three of these GOP insiders are now gone – victims of Trump's disloyalty, impulsiveness and compunction to blame others for anything that might go wrong.
Flynn is gone. Attorney General Sessions is under daily fire from Trump. Secretary of State Tillerson has already told friends that it is unlikely that he will last a year either leaving because he can't function in the chaos or because the next collision with Kushner or Trump will be his demise. Secretary of Treasury Mnuchin has told friends that he expects major clashes, possibly terminal, over issues such as the debt ceiling and the budget. And the National Security Advisor, General McMaster, is complaining about being isolated and constantly at odds with one or more of the many fractured power centers in the White House.
Many in the GOP establishment continue to hope that the White House can be stabilized. General John Kelly is being touted as their savior. However, to say that the switch from Reince Priebus to General Kelley will stabilize the White House is to say that Priebus was the problem. Will Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Anthony Scaramucci, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders report to General Kelley? Will they fall in line behind him? Will Kelly have the authority to fire them for going around him? Could he fire Scaramucci for a vulgar, out-of-control screed like the one he just gave?
According to the White House, 28 people on the staff have free access to the Oval Office. Each selling his or her own ideas and promoting his or her own self-interest. Do you think Kelly will be granted the normal authority of approving and metering all access? Do you think he would even be able to cut it in half? Not a chance. Trump thrives on the cacophony.
Can Kelly control Trump's tweets? Could he walk into the Oval Office and tell Trump that he cannot be encouraging the use of excessive force by police as he just did in his speech in Nassau County?
If you think that the answer to these and analogous questions is "Yes," there is a lovely old bridge in Brooklyn that is available that you can have at a great price.
A White House cannot function with multiple power centers. Kushner, Ivanka, Bannon, Conway and Scaramucci all represent independent, competing power centers. As Sarah Sanders offered in a recent press briefing, Trump likes such competition.
Kelly stands zero chance of eliminating the chaos. Trump will never grant the necessary authority. Trump could never tolerate someone with such authority near him and, beyond that, he never would grant such authority over Kushner and Ivanka. Kelly will be lucky to last six months. The best that can be expected is that he and General McMaster will hold on for as long as they can to look like good soldiers defending our country.
At the heart of the chaos is Trump himself with his lack of understanding of the issues facing the nation and with his mortal fear of any investigation into the Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Every day members of the GOP chorus can be heard singing the tired refrain that the chaos is distracting Trump from his policy agenda. The GOP may have a policy agenda and that is debatable given their vast policy differences on healthcare. However, when it comes to Trump the appropriate question is: What agenda? The truth be told he doesn't have an agenda. An agenda implies knowledge and understanding of the issues on the agenda. Trump is devoid of any such knowledge and understanding. He has absolutely no understanding of health care, of the history and functioning of NATO, of globalism and international trade, and of just about any other issue central to governing. This is a man who learned what the nuclear triad was in the middle of a campaign debate. And he seems determined to remain ignorant. According to his own people, he doesn't like reading intelligence or policy briefs and wants verbal presentations to be as short as possible.
All Trump has is campaign talking points that he endlessly regurgitates in his tweets and in his speeches at his "rallies."
His ignorance goes well beyond the issues facing our country. To this day he doesn't understand the powers of the Presidency and their limits. He has no notion that the Judicial and Legislative Branches are co-equal with the Executive Branch. He just complained that Congress was not protecting him. Where he got the idea that protecting him was their job is unfathomable.
Being so mired in ignorance what else is he to do but tweet?
The chaos in his administration is most driven by his mortal fear of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. He seems particularly terrified by any look into his business loans, financial transactions, or other kompromat that might give Russia leverage over him. Day in and day out, he knows that Mueller, his staff and the FBI are relentlessly digging. He knows that they soon will be tunneling into the tax and business records that he has so desperately tried to shield. This is a nightmare that consumes Trump's attention.
I wonder if Trump is beginning to recognize his seminal mistake of bringing so many campaign officials and family members into his White House and Administration. This dragged in all the issues surrounding the meddling in the 2016 election. It also brought in a bunch of amateurs ill-equipped to contend either with the political fallout or with the professionalism and integrity of our intelligence and counterintelligence services.
The fiasco that he is running is slowly promoting isolation and alienation. The public is distancing itself. His approval ratings have slipped into the 36% – 39% range and easily could fall another 10 points. His own party is beginning to take its distance. Some in Congress are pinning the chaos directly on him. Some are openly warning him not to fire Sessions or Mueller or "there will be hell to pay." Others are taking positions in opposition to his. Most recently the DoD refused to implement his tweet about banning transgender persons from the military.
No administration can function in this way.
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Later developments in the various Buddhist traditions led to new innovations in yogic practices. The Theravada school, while remaining relatively conservative, still developed new ideas on meditation and yogic phenomenology in their later works, the most influential of which is the Visuddhimagga. The Indic meditation teachings of Mahayana Buddhism can be seen in influential texts like the Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra (compiled c. 4th century). Mahayana meditation practices also developed and adopted new yogic methods, such as the use of mantra and dharani, pure land practices which aimed at rebirth in a pure land or buddhafield, and visualization methods. Chinese Buddhism developed its own methods, such as the Chan practice of Koan introspection and Hua Tou. Likewise, Tantric Buddhism (also Mantrayana, Vajrayana) developed and adopted tantric methods, which remain the basis of the Tibetan Buddhist yogic systems, including the Six yogas of Naropa, Kalacakra, Mahamudra and Dzogchen.[248]
What is often referred to as Classical Yoga or Astanga Yoga (Yoga of eight limbs) is mainly the type of Yoga outlined in the highly influential Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.[234] The origins of the Classical Yoga tradition are unclear, though early discussions of the term appear in the Upanishads.[235] The name "Rāja yoga" (yoga of kings) originally denoted the ultimate goal of yoga, samadhi,[236] but was popularised by Vivekananda as a common name for Ashtanga Yoga,[note 19] the eight limbs to be practised to attain samadhi, as described in the Yoga Sutras.[237][234] Yoga is also considered as one of the orthodox philosophical schools (darsanas) of Hinduism (those which accept the Vedas as source of knowledge).[238][239]
As the number of service sector jobs has risen in developed countries, more and more jobs have become sedentary, presenting a different array of health problems than those associated with manufacturing and the primary sector. Contemporary problems, such as the growing rate of obesity and issues relating to stress and overwork in many countries, have further complicated the interaction between work and health.
The Gita consists of 18 chapters and 700 shlokas (verses),[118] with each chapter named as a different yoga, thus delineating eighteen different yogas.[118][119] Some scholars divide the Gita into three sections, with the first six chapters with 280 shlokas dealing with Karma yoga, the middle six containing 209 shlokas with Bhakti yoga, and the last six chapters with 211 shlokas as Jnana yoga; however, this is rough because elements of karma, bhakti and jnana are found in all chapters.[118]
Core: Yes. There are yoga poses to target just about every core muscle. Want to tighten those love handles? Then prop yourself up on one arm and do a side plank. To really burn out the middle of your abs, you can do boat pose, in which you balance on your "sit bones" (the bony prominences at the base of your pelvic bones) and hold your legs up in the air.
In 2008 between US$33 billion and $55 billion was spent annually in the US on weight-loss products and services, including medical procedures and pharmaceuticals, with weight-loss centers taking between 6 and 12 percent of total annual expenditure. Over $1.6 billion a year was spent on weight-loss supplements. About 70 percent of Americans' dieting attempts are of a self-help nature.[23][24] https://buzzingofferselfhelp.tumblr.com/


On Wednesday, July 17, Glenn interns had the chance to tour the Zero G drop tower. This is the largest drop tower in the world, providing 5.18 seconds of zero g as the payload drops 432 feet into the earth. A 20 foot diameter, 467 foot long vacuum chamber is located in a 28.5 foot, 510 foot long concrete shaft. The pressure in the chamber is reduced to the order of 10-5 atmospheres prior to the drop of the payload, which reduces drag to less than 10-5 g. A decelerator cart is located at the bottom of the chamber that is filled with polystyrene beads, which stops the payload in a mere 15 feet.
During the tour, the interns had the opportunity to visit the control room, which has been recently upgraded and modernized, and to take a view down the tower. Several interns were even brave enough to hold their cameras and phones over the tower opening, where a slip of the hand would almost certainly result in loss and destruction of the device.


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Barbara Jordan (née le  à Milwaukee dans le Wisconsin) est une joueuse de tennis américaine, professionnelle de la fin des années 1970 à 1987.

Alors classée  mondiale, elle a remporté l'Open d'Australie en 1979, certes en l'absence des toutes meilleures, mais en éliminant la favorite Hana Mandlíková en quarts de finale.

Ce titre est le seul qu'elle ait gagné en simple sur le circuit WTA pendant sa carrière.

Elle est la sœur aînée de Kathy Jordan, l'une des spécialistes de double les plus émérites dans les années 1980.

Palmarès

Titre en simple dames

Finales en simple dames

Titres en double dames

Finales en double dames

Titre en double mixte

Parcours en Grand Chelem

En simple dames

À droite du résultat, l'ultime adversaire.

En double dames

Sous le résultat, la partenaire ; à droite, l'ultime équipe adverse.

En double mixte

Sous le résultat, le partenaire ; à droite, l'ultime équipe adverse.

Parcours aux Masters

En double dames

Classements WTA

Classements en simple en fin de saison

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Récompenses et distinctions
 En 1975, elle fait partie des personnalités de l'année selon Time Magazine parmi « Les Américaines ». Elle est alors, avec la syndicaliste Addie Wyatt, la première femme afro-américaine à y figurer.
 Elle est inscrite au National Women's Hall of Fame.

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Naissance en avril 1957
Naissance à Milwaukee
Joueuse américaine de tennis
Championne de tennis titrée en Grand Chelem (simple)
Championne de tennis titrée en Grand Chelem (double mixte)
Championne de tennis titrée à l'Open d'Australie
Championne de tennis titrée à Roland-Garros
Personnalité de l'année selon Time Magazine
Récipiendaire de la médaille présidentielle de la Liberté
Inscrite au National Women's Hall of Fame

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Blerim Shala is an Advisor to the President of Kosovo and the Coordinator for the Brussels Dialogue in the Office of the President. He is a member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo. Mr. Shala holds a degree in philosophy and sociology from the University of Pristina. He has been associated with the weekly "Zëri" since 1987. He was a key member of the Kosovo negotiating teams in Rambouillet, Vienna, and Brussels. He was a vice-president of the Alliance for the Future of Kosova (AAK). Since 2012, Mr. Shala has been the Kosovo Coordinator for political talks between Kosovo and Serbia in Brussels. Mr. Shala has authored eleven books, among them "Kosova Years (1998, 1999)", which sheds light on the main events during the war in Kosovo. He was a member of the Parliament of Kosovo.
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"I tell people all the time, I'm licensed to cut, so don't get it twisted."
"There are people that tell me...you're wasting your time trying to save these n****as."


OK, so filling your plate with color is not as easy as it sounds. Due to our work schedules, my husband and I only eat together on weekends and one lunch a week. That means I spend much of my Sundays, usually, preparing meals for the rest of the week. Tom, who works nights, doesn't get up until 9:30 a.m. or so and downs three mugs of coffee before he even considers eating anything. I, on the other hand, have breakfast on my mind before I even leave the bedroom. After one cup of herb tea I'm ready for breakfast - one of my favorites is sauteed zucchini, onion, and mushrooms with a scrambled egg poured over it. Or a bowl of oatmeal with real maple syrup and a splash of unsweetened almond milk, or a smoothie or a piece of pumpkin or zucchini bread. By the time Tom gets his coffee down and is ready to eat, it's nearly lunchtime. This morning, for example, I can assure you he didn't have breakfast, but waited until the pot roast I had in the oven was ready at eleven o'clock. It was a huge pot roast with tons of carrots and celery and a few potatoes. He IM'd me after he had lunch and said EVEN AFTER TAKING THE FAT OFF THE MEAT WAS GOOD! Holy cow! Imagine that? My husband took his favorite part of the roast off before he ate it! Good for him! He broke the roast down into smaller containers for his lunch during the rest of the week.
Tom would rather have a second helping of meat than look for something 'more colorful.' If I leave him a note "EAT STRAWBERRIES" he will. But if the strawberries are sitting on the counter he'd likely go to the garage refrigerator, get out another container of beef and heat it up before even considering the strawberries. It's not that he doesn't like strawberries ... he just prefers beef!


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Favites pentagona is a species of stony coral in the family Merulinidae, sometimes known as larger star coral. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region and its range extends from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean to the Western Pacific Ocean. This is a common species throughout its wide range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of "least concern".

Description
Colonies of Favites pentagona are encrusting or massive, sometimes with lobes forming irregular columns. The colony may spread to about a metre (yard) across. The corallites are less than  in diameter. The corallite walls are sharply-angled and thin, and several polyps may share a common wall. The palliform lobes are clearly visible on the oral disc and there are a small number of septa. This coral is often vividly coloured, with contrasting (often green) oral discs and brown, red or purple coenosarc, the living tissue that covers the skeleton between the polyps.

Distribution
Favites pentagona is native to the Indo-Pacific region where it occurs in shallow tropical and subtropical seas. Its range extends from the Red Sea and South Africa to India, Indonesia, Japan and Australia, where it occurs both in Western Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. Its depth range is down to  and it is common on rocky reefs, outer reef channels, reef slopes and lagoons.

Ecology

Favites pentagona is a zooxanthellate species of coral. This means that it harbours symbiotic unicellular dinoflagellates in its tissues, which use the energy from sunlight to synthesize nutrients, from which the host coral benefits. It is an aggressive species of coral. At night it extends its polyps to feed on plankton, and expands its elongated sweeper tentacles armed with stinging cells well beyond the limits of its base, so as to avoid being crowded or overgrown by other organisms. It clears away sand that settles on its surface by inflating its polyps to dislodge the sediment.

F. pentagona is a simultaneous hermaphrodite, the eggs and sperm being released in well-formed bundles. In any one area, spawning tends to occur in synchrony, with all the corals liberating their gamete bundles at the same time. These rise to the sea surface and float, thus maximising the chance of successful fertilisation.

F. pentagona is susceptible to black band disease and white plague, two coral diseases which have become more common since the 1990s.

Status
Favites pentagona has a very wide range and is common over much of that range. There is no precise information on population trends but this coral faces the same threats as other species; global warming, ocean acidification and degradation of its coral reef habitats. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".

References

Merulinidae
Corals described in 1795