yazeez's feeds » May 10, 2008

Feeds

19242 items (16 unread) in 85 feeds

• yazeez
• ** MiYaFuSHi **
• . (1 unread)
• »CyberRowdy«
• 2:48AM [The B-Sides]
• A.U.R.O.U.S
• A3N: Alien 3aba6 Network!
• Alien Memoirs
• All q8 Shabab Concern
• AmoOora
• ananyah.COM
• Annals of a Space Cowboy
• Area 77
• Arsenal News Review (2 unread)
• Bella Color
• Charming-79
• DB23's Blog
• DeeM
• Desperately Wandering
• DiiGMaa
• do0da
• Erzulie: Seeing Red
• eshda3wa
• EXzombiesm
• Fairy Diary
• Flamingoliya
• Fluent Thoughts
• Fonzation (2 unread)
• Forza Kuwait
• Frankom
• God Help Us All...
• Honey Alba
• Hussa-G
• iDip
• iKuwait
• IMMORTALIZATION
• Isolated Serenity
• iTalal
• Jabriya Za7ma
• Jacqui
• Jewaira's Boudoir
• K.TheKuwaiti.com
• Kuwait Hubris
• KUWAIT UNPLUGGED
• Kuwaiti Femme
• Kuwaitism
• Laialy_q8
• MacaholiQ8
• MAZE-OF-THOUGHTS
• Missy♥
• My Final Haven
• My Life As MishMisha
• No3ik
• Nothin to Say
• Papillona ®
• Photo Matt (1 unread)
• Praxis
• Q80.com زوايا وابعاد
• Saudi Jeans
• Savior Machine
• Shopaholic Q8eya
• Some Like It Haute
• SpiKeD Q80 (1 unread)
• TAT THE DON
• The One
• The Sky is Blue
• The Stallion's Stable of Thoughts and Experiences
• The Swair Blog
• The Ultimate
• Yara's Memoir
• Z District (1 unread)
• بـلا نــيــلــه
• The Purgatorian Collection
• KHLOUD
• Kinan's Little Place Online
• Kuwaiti Cosmopolitan
• طاخ طيخ (1 unread)
• The Six-K Club
• Anything Goes (1 unread)
• Serendipity
• Arsenal-Mania.com | The Arsenal Website For Arsenal Fans (5 unread)
• Kuwait-Style.com
• Financy
• ChiKapaPPi
• Fantasized Reality (1 unread)

• May 11, 2008
• 9:02

  Mango

   » ‎ Z District
  Tis the season to eat mango, I want to continue the song but its a bit to cliche. The past few weeks I have been devouring mango after mango with no end in sight. I love mangoes, but you only have a few weeks to enjoy that very satisfying sweet taste. I was having this [...]

• 7:57

  The World’s Smallest USB Modem

   » ‎ Frankom

  Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has released the world’s smallest USB modem, the E230, which will support 4.5 Mbps high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA).

  

  أجمل خبر لهذا الصباح

• 6:21

  New Speeding Cameras???

   » ‎ Z District
  Ok people, we need to clarify this ASAP. I saw this on the street between Bida’a and Salwa by the seaside. These look like strange new speeding cameras or some sort of surveillance. This never went to the news or what exactly they are doing with these. There is a stop that says you have [...]

• 4:58

  on lebanon part deux

   » ‎ God Help Us All...
  Beirut on the Brink
  By RANNIE AMIRI
  
  
  “If we wanted to stage a coup, you would have woken up this morning in prison, or in the middle of the sea. We do not want that. It is a political issue, with a political solution through early elections.”
  
  - Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, in comments directed tothe U.S.-backed Lebanese government, Al-ManarTV, 8 May 2008.
  
  As Hezbollah’s men returned to their neighborhoods after Friday’s show of force when their authority was extended over the whole of West Beirut, many residents began to realize just how close to the precipice of civil war their country stood. And fears of it have yet to recede.
  
  The events of the past several days were intended to send a clear message from Lebanon’s opposition to the ruling March 14 Coalition government led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and allies Walid Jumblatt, Rafiq Hariri and Samir Geagea: our patience with you is wearing thin.
  
  The situation started to unfold the morning of May 6th whenSiniora’s Council of Ministers decided to sack Beirut International Airport’s security chief Brigadier General Wafiq Shukair–a suspected Hezbollah-sympathizer–over the alleged placement of cameras in the airport thought to be capable of monitoring the movements of government officials (Dr. Franklin Lamb has since debunked this allegation. He interviewed the director of the private construction company Jihad al-Bina, Qassim Allaq, who indicated that the cameras have been there for over 20 years. The containers hiding them and land on which they are placed are owned by Allaq’s company and have not been a source of contention until now).
  
  The cabinet simultaneously declared that the telecommunication network maintained by Hezbollah posed a threat to national security and deemed it “illegal and unconstitutional.” It should be noted that during Israel’s July 2006 invasion of Lebanon, this network remained impenetrable to Israeli intelligence and was indispensable to the defense of the country by providing the only secure means of communication for the resistance.
  
  The following day, the General Labor Union staged a general strike to protest the government’s failure to increase the minimum wage in light of rising food and commodity prices. Hezbollah and Amal, two of the main parties in opposition to the government backed the strike, but protests quickly degenerated into civil strife as demonstrators burnt tires, erected barricades and blocked roads, causing the airport to close and the capital to shut down.
  
  On May 8th, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah held a rare press conference via video link to respond to the allegations against Hezbollah, Shukair’s termination, the alleged illegality of the group’s communications network and the crisis at hand.
  
  He said, “Our communication network is a regular telephone network, and is the most important weapon in any resistance. In the July War, our strongest point was control because communication between leadership and field battles was secure, and this was confessed by the enemy … this is how we ensured success. (Our network) is related to defending the country against Israel.”
  
  Describing the cabinet’s ruling to dismantle it as “…tantamount to a declaration of war and a start of war on the resistance and its weapons in the interest of America and Israel,” he issued no call-to-arms himself.
  
  Nonetheless, street battles ultimately erupted along sectarian lines, with Shiites supporting the opposition and Sunnis backing the government. Eighteen people were reported killed in the clashes – the worst sectarian violence Lebanon has seen since the bloody 1975-1990 civil war.
  
  The irony of Siniora’s Council of Ministers’ characterization of Hezbollah’s phone system as “unconstitutional” cannot be overlooked. Since the resignation of five Shiite ministers from Siniora’s cabinet in November 2006, the government itself may be considered unconstitutional. The Lebanese constitution requires that all confessional groups be represented in the cabinet. This continues to be a source of contention among the parties.
  
  And let us not forgot the actions that this “cabinet,” minus the five ministers, have taken over the past several years.
  
  Ha’aretz correspondent Avi Issacharoff, author of Spider Webs - The Story of the Second Lebanon War writes:
  
  “For the first time, we reveal…that moderate Arab states and the people close to the Lebanese government have conveyed messages to the Israeli government via different sides demanding Israel continue the war until Hezbollah was completely crushed.”
  
  It was Saad Hariri, parliamentary majority leader, head of the Future Movement and son of the late Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who released radical Salafi militants from jail or granted them amnesty in order to unleash them on Hezbollah. Such was the case with Fatah al-Islam. The deal apparently backfired and resulted in the fiasco at Tripoli’s Nahr al-Barad refugee camp in 2007.
  
  Seymour Hersh writes in this piece “The Redirection” (The New Yorker, 3 March 2007):
  
  “In an interview in Beirut, a senior official in the Siniora government acknowledged that there were Sunni jihadists operating inside Lebanon. ‘We have a liberal attitude that allows Al Qaeda types to have a presence here.’ ”
  
  In his press conference, Nasrallah aptly remarked, “This is not a government, this is a gang.”
  
  The opposition is pushing for a power-sharing agreement with the ruling coalition, one in which its ministers may wield veto power over cabinet decisions. This seems reasonable, in light of the actions of a prime minister who cut deals with the Israelis while they were killing and maiming his country’s citizens. This demand has become the primary obstacle in electing a new president and establishing a functional government in Lebanon.
  
  Unsurprisingly, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt called for an emergency meeting of the Arab League this week. It is these countries – all monarchies or dictatorships – that feel most threatened by Lebanon’s crisis. The root of their fear is embodied in Nasrallah’s statement quoted at the beginning of this article calling for a political solution: accountability of the government, a check on its actions, and elections. All are anathema to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah of Jordan and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, lest their own people should one day make similar demands.
  
  Although this conflict is often couched in sectarian terms—Sunni versus Shiite—this is just window dressing. It instead involves issues of legitimate political representation and the desire of those who oppose U.S. and Israeli designs on the region to no longer be marginalized.
  
  It would behoove Prime Minister Siniora and the ruling March 14 Coalition, after seeing not only what Hezbollah is capable of but the restraint they are able to exert, to enter into serious and genuine negotiations to form a unity and power-sharing government. Hezbollah and the opposition have restrained their hand, although the manufactured accusations against them have tested their limits and patience and served only to push Beirut to the brink of disaster.
  
  As Nasrallah himself warned: “I said, before Jumblatt, that any hand that reaches for the resistance, its arms will be cut off. Israel tried that in the July War, and we cut its hand off. We do not advise you to try us.”
  
  Rannie Amiri is an independent commentator on the Arab and Islamic worlds. He may be reached at: rbamiri at yahoo.com.
  
  http://www.counterpunch.org/amiri05102008.html

• 4:10

  Hezb Who?

   » ‎ SpiKeD Q80
  I stumbled upon some Kuwaiti blogs recently...these blogs are actually supporters of Hezballah...
  "Adnan and Lary" came out to show thier support to Hezballah.....
  These people are praising Nasrallah....
  
  So what does Hezballah have to do with Kuwait? well of course excluding that one of their guys killed Kuwaities ....They have nothing ..NOTHING to do in Kuwait...but unfortunately...some bloggers show how bad it could be in ...there are supporters in Kuwait....
  
  What if one day...that nasr allah guy ...said that Kuwait should be under hezballahs rule...what would his kuwaiti supporters do?
  
  How do the Kuwaiti she3a feel about him? I know many of the she3a are against him..one example was Hasan.b...which I read a comment from him in one of the nasrallah supporter kuwaiti blogs....but over all..how do they feel? I hope to get answers from Kuwaiti she3a...
  
  I hate Hezballah...coz they are not hezballah..bs hezb terrorism...Just like bin laden....these people are the ones who ruin our reputation...these are the ones who atheists talk about for the defense against religion...
  
  I hope hezballah is wiped off lebanon one day...and not dare come near Kuwait....And god bless lebanon..and hope you go out of tis hezballahs misery soon.......
  
  PS: This shows what some of our candidates in the elections are...vote for people who do not support terrorists...and their hearts are for Kuwait.........

• 1:46

  Château de Versailles

   » ‎ ananyah.COM
  After our picnic at the Grand Canal in Versailles, I dragged my parents into the château to view all the royal apartments, art gallery and vast gardens amongst other attractions. It is such a beautiful place, the building is amazing, some of the décor is rather gawdy but I guess it was hot back in [...]

• May 10, 2008
• 23:36

  I am back in Kuwait

   » ‎ 2:48AM [The B-Sides]
  I got back earlier tonight from Beirut (Syria actually). I have pictures to share and an adventure to write about but don’t know if I will have time tonight.

• 23:28

  u know how u can hear a ...

   » ‎ Fantasized Reality
  u know how u can hear a story and suddenly the world is an ugly place? well i just experienced that…baba was in reyadh for the weekend visiting family o he was telling us stories over dinner one of which has me sobbing till now..the story is long so i’ll spare u the details but [...]

• 23:03

  Do you hear what I hear?

   » ‎ Jewaira's Boudoir
  Part II In the previous post, I mentioned that some Kuwaitis are masters of wit and satire and they lose no time in creating jokes or in making fun of parliamentary candidates. Sometimes we judge candidates just from their campaign photos or from what other people say about them. And inevitably we form unbalanced opinions. One of [...]

• 22:30

  سماحة السيد .. إهدائي لك

   » ‎ Frankom

  توجهت الى نفس الصديق الذي كنت أعتبره ولازلت أنه عميل أو ممثل لحزب الله داخل الكويت ، كان قد أخبرني أنه يستطيع أن يدبر لي زيارة أقابل لها سماحة السيد حسن نصرالله بسبب أعتقاده أنني مولع به ولكنه لم يكن يعلم الحقيقة أنني كنت أتحايل أو أقوم بالتمثيل أنني أحبه وأكن له كل هذا الاحترام والتقدير .. المهم زرته اليوم وفور جلوسي على المقعد قلت له بالصوت العالي … طعنكم من الخلف

  كنت اتوقع أن يقول لي أن السنيورة هو المخطأ (اعتقادي الاول بسبب ولعه هو وحبه الذي قد يعمي بصيرته عن الحقيقة) ولكن سارعني بصدمة كبيرة وقال … الجميع على خطأ !!!! الهي ماذا يقول ؟ هل أرتد عن دينه ؟ أم لنه لم يعد يقتنع ببطولات سماحة السيد ؟ شيء ما لا أستطيع أن أحلله !! كانت تلك الكلمات القليلة التي أخذتها منه طوال النصف ساعة التي جلسناها معا 

  ::

  سبب قطع بث قناة المستقبل بسيط جدا … حزب الله لديه قناة المنار … نبيه بري (ممثل حزب الله) لديه أيضا قناة أسمها أن بي أن ، كلا القناتين لا يشاهدها أحد سوى المرتزقة من أتباع ذلك الحزب ، والبقية تتابع إما المستقبل أو ال بي سي .. فماذا تفعل عندما تدخل في حرب ؟ في مدرسة الحرب الابتدائية تقوم أولا بقع اتصالات العدو عن العالم وتقوم أيضا بقطع رسائله التي تقوي من عزيمة من سيواجهك لذلك سارع حزب الله الى تخريب وإتلاف هذه القناة عمدا .. ولكن قناة العربية كانت لهم بالمرصاد فرصدت كل الحقائق والاخبار والتي حاولت أيضا قناة أن بي أن التابعة لنبيه بري أن تكذبها … الا أن جميع قنوات العالم انضمت الى العربية … هاردلك حزب الله

  ::

  هناك شخصان يعيشان في بيت واحد … الاول يعيش في غرفة صغيرة طوال سنوات ويعجبه الامر وراضي به والاخر يعيش في غرفة أخرى أكبر بقليل من الغرفة الاولى .. الا أن انتصارات الاول واعتقاداه أن حامي الامة والعروبة والاسلام جعلته يطمع كثيرا لدرجة أنه يفكر في طرد الثاني من المنزل وتملكه بالقوة

  ::

  أطرف مافي الامر أن الشعب اللبناني يسقط بطلقات حزب الله ويتم تلفيق التهم على قناة المنار وأن بي أن كالتالي … لقي خمسة أشخاص مصرعهم برصاص مليشيات المستقبل … ياعالم ياهو … للغباء درجات … الرصاص لايحمل لا اسم حزب الله ولا اسم المستقبل فكيف بالله عليكم عرفتم أن المستقبل قتلت هؤلاء ؟

• 22:27

  Yes..It’s a pep talk

   » ‎ Jewaira's Boudoir
  One more week till we head to the polls to vote for the candidates of our choice for the Kuwaiti parliament. Alot of people have not made up their minds yet who they will vote for. Some people have an idea about two candidates but are not sure about the other two (we are allowed a [...]

• 20:18

  NY Times on Saudi Youth

   » ‎ Saudi Jeans
  I am often asked what does it mean to be a young man living in Saudi Arabia, and my answer has always been that this is a tough question to which I have no clear answer. So when reporters from the New York Times came to Riyadh last year to explore the question, I sarcastically [...]

• 20:11

  شعله في سماء الكويت

   » ‎ The Ultimate
  لم اتعود علي عمل الاعلانات الانتخابيه لاي مرشح لمجلس الامه حتي لو كنت معجبه بطرحه و فكره. و لقد كان ذلك سببا لنقد بعض اصدقائي (نساء و رجال) لي في السابق. و ذلك لانني اؤمن ان كل شخص له قناعاته و التي من خلالها يقوم بانتخاب من يمثله في مجلس الامه. و هذا لا يعني [...]

• 18:52

  watching king kong with baba..i luv this ...

   » ‎ Fantasized Reality
  watching king kong with baba..i luv this movie..just consumed a brownie a la mode with 2 scoops o chocolate mousse royal ice cream: CALORIES!

• 16:08

  Black iPhone Custom

   » ‎ Z District
  The iPhone is one the nicest looking products yet from Apple, you wouldn’t ever think that there is a lot of room for improvement, but a few tweaks here and there could make it look better. With this you have Knights Creation’s Black iPhone Custom, they don’t paint it for you, they upgrade the [...]

• 16:00

  Rosicky to miss Euro 2008 / Gilberto wants to stay

   » ‎ Arsenal-Mania.com | The Arsenal Website For Arsenal Fans
  Winger Tomas Rosicky has revealed that he will not miss Euro 2008 because of injury.

• 15:52

  iPhone Status: Currently Unavailable

   » ‎ Jacqui
  The past few weeks were kind of crazy in terms of the availability of the iPhone.  The minute I said I wanted to get one it started to become out of stock, must have been a sign from good ol’ Steve Jobs for me to wait for the 3G model, and trust me it worked. A [...]

• 15:37

  By the way...

   » ‎ God Help Us All...
  Palestinians are still being killed by Israel.

• 15:00

  Wenger: No one else is leaving / Webster clause is not easy

   » ‎ Arsenal-Mania.com | The Arsenal Website For Arsenal Fans
  Manager Arsene Wenger yesterday said that he wasn't expecting anyone else in the squad to be leaving, and that he hasn't received any calls for players who are supposedly already leaving.
• 14:00

  Wenger outlines transfer targets

   » ‎ Arsenal-Mania.com | The Arsenal Website For Arsenal Fans
  Manager Arsene Wenger yesterday outlined the type of players he was looking to bring into the club.
• 13:00

  The silly season has started

   » ‎ Arsenal-Mania.com | The Arsenal Website For Arsenal Fans
  The last ball of the season has not yet been kicked.

• 12:46

  Tea: the drivine drink

   » ‎ God Help Us All...
  There are 11 rules for perfect tea making, rules from which nobody should dare depart, said George Orwell.The great critic of Hitler and Stalin, was not above a bit of teatime Totalitarianism himself, it seems. Orwell said that tea - one of the "mainstays of civilization" - is ruined by sweetening and that anyone flouting his diktat on shunning the sugar bowl could not be called "a true tealover".
  
  
  18 cups lined up in 3 rows of 6. Gust of wind and 7 cups take flight across the parking lot on which I'm situated.Arse.11
  cups throws my arithmetic out. It being morning, I was going to have 12 coffee and 6 tea, now I could do 7 - 4, but is that
  going to cut the mustard?There isn't time to dwell, the wind could strike at any time so I start thrusting teabags into the
  empty cups, weighting them down with the little perforated bags.
  Like to have the tea's brewing whilst I portion out the coffee and arrange the sugar and milk.
  
  
  When the tea master met the samurai, he thought the samurai was a Ronin, and this insulted the samurai greatly. The samurai was so displeased that he challengd the team master to a dual the next morning. The tea master was terrified. He ran to the only sword master he knew and pleaded with him to train him in one night to become an able swordsman. But the tea master was a hopless student. No matter how patiently the sword master tried to teach him, the tea master remained inept. At last the sword master said to him, "Just approach your sword fight the way you approach your tea ceremonies," and gave up.
  
  The following morning, heavy hearted, his fate sealed, the tea master reluctantly went to his appointment. When he faced the samurai on the misty hill he shut his eyes tight, lifted the heavy sword above his head, then concentrated and centered himself the way he did when he performed his tea ceremonies. At that, the samurai threw down his sword, got down on his knees, and begged the tea master for forgiveness. "If I had known you were such a great swordsman," he said, "I never would have challenged you!"
  
  Behold! A camellia
  flower
  Split water when it fell!
  
  The ancient pond!
  a frog plunged . . .
  The sound of water!

• 12:12

  EVOart - 300

   » ‎ Z District
  I always liked this type of patchy art work, and this painting has my favorite. They sell it as a normal print canvas or you can have them commission the painting to be painted. I wouldn’t know where to put this painting in my house, but one thing is for sure, it is a piece [...]

• 12:00

  Bendtner: I'm staying at Arsenal

   » ‎ Arsenal-Mania.com | The Arsenal Website For Arsenal Fans
  Amidst reports of dressing room unrest and players wanting to leave, there was comfort from striker Nicklas Bendtner, who yesterday pledged his loyalty to the club.
• 11:00

  Adebayor denies contract threats

   » ‎ Arsenal-Mania.com | The Arsenal Website For Arsenal Fans
  Striker Emmanuel Adebayor has denied reports that he is threatening to leave Arsenal unless he was offered a more than 100% pay-rise.