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    • Ancient Med Pot Prescription from 1,550 BC

      As many of you know the Ebers Papyrus (named after George Ebers) is not just an ancient Egyptian medical text (era 1,550 BC). It’s the oldestknown (complete) surviving medical text book know in existence.

      The Ebers Papyrus From Ancient Egypt Was Dated Around 1,550 Years "Before Christ Was Even Born"

      Well anyway, thanks to the University of Leipzighburg in Germany, We have finally have been able to obtain a color digital copy of a couple of pages from it that mention Medical Marihuana (known then as Sum-Sum-et). To our knowledge these are the oldest (museum confirmed) written medical knowledge and information about medical marihuana - cannabis around.

      Actually the Mesopotamians have older written MMJ Information, but none of their information is complete. And only broken bits and pieces have ever been found to date.
      As many of you know the Ebers Papyrus (named after George Ebers) is not just an ancient Egyptian medical text (era 1,550 BC). It’s th... more

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    • Ancient Egyptian boat - hemp rope

      CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.

      The 4,500-year-old vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces from another pit in 1954 and painstakingly reconstructed. Experts believe the boats were meant to ferry the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid in the afterlife.

      Starting Saturday, tourists were allowed to view images of the inside of the second boat pit from a camera inserted through the a hole in the chamber's limestone ceiling. The video image, transmitted onto a small TV monitor at the site, showed layers of crisscrossing beams and planks on the floor of the dark pit.

      "You can smell the past," said Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

      Experts will begin removing around 600 pieces of timber in November, said professor Sakuji Yoshimura of Japan's Waseda University, who is helping lead the restoration effort with the antiquities council.

      The discovery of the boat pits more than 50 years ago by workmen clearing a large mound of wind-blown debris from the south side of the Great Pyramid is considered one of the most significant finds on the plateau. They are the oldest vessels to have survived from antiquity.

      The reconstructed ship is on display in a museum built above the pit where it was discovered. It is a narrow vessel measuring 142 feet with a rectangular deckhouse and long, interlocking oars that soar overhead.

      The cedar timbers of its curved hull are lashed together with hemp rope in a technique used until recent times by traditional shipbuilders along the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

      The unexcavated boat, made from Lebanese cedar and Egyptian acacia trees, is thought to be of similar design, but smaller and less well preserved.

      John Darnell, an Egyptologist at Yale University, said new research into the second boat could fill in some blanks about the significance of the vessels and help determine whether they ever actually plied Nile River waterways or were of purely spiritual import.

      "In Egypt, almost everything real had its counterpart meaning or significance in the spiritual world. But there's a lot of debate as to whether these vessels ever were used or not," Darnell said.

      Those who argue the vessels may have touched water point to rope marks on the wood that could have been caused by the rope becoming wet and then shrinking as it dried.

      But Hawass believes these were symbolic vessels, not funerary boats used to bring the pharaoh Khufu's embalmed remains up the Nile from the ancient capital of Memphis for burial in the Great Pyramid, the oldest and largest of Giza's pyramids.

      He said solar symbols found inside the second pit offer more evidence that those who disassembled and buried the boats believed Khufu's soul would travel from his tomb in the pyramid through a connecting air shaft to the boat chambers and that he would use the boats to circle the heavens, like the sun god, taking one boat by day and the other by night.
      CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground c... more

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    • Climbing the Great Pyramid with Japanese Know-How

      For nearly 5,000 years, the Great Pyramids of Egypt have instilled wonder and awe in mankind. In the last half a dozen centuries, they have also become a tempting lure for many to climb them - especially the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Pyramid climbing has been a temptation ever since the limestone casing of the Great Pyramid collapsed from an earthquake during the Middle Ages. Among some of the more famous climbers of the past was Mark Twain. He climbed up to the top in the mid-Nineteenth Century or rather he was dragged and carried up to the top by enterprising locals for a small bit of baksheesh (tip money). Financially and physically, Twain came off better than modern British author Graham Hancock.

      Hancock, the author of Fingerprints of the Gods, believes that a very ancient civilization pre-dating the Egyptians built the pyramids on the Giza Plain long before Cheops, or Khufu, as the Ancient Egyptians called him, was even born. Unlike Twain, Hancock had to climb the Pyramid under his own steam while paying out close to $300 in bribes.

      Pyramid climbing had been permissible up to the 1980s until Egyptian authorities forbade it following the deaths of several climbers. Despite the ban, the Great Pyramid is still climbed periodically as author Hancock had done, generally in the dead of night. Sometimes guards are bribed and guides hired to show intrepid climbers the way up. Other climbers prefer to forgo paying unnecessary bribes and find ways of avoiding opportunistic guards.

      Interestingly enough, the leading nationality of these thrifty nocturnal climbers are the Japanese. Young Japanese travelers in Egypt have made Pyramid Climbing virtually a profession. They even have a handwritten book about how to do it in one of the hotels in Cairo.

      "Never Give Up!" is the Japanese climber's motto for surmounting the Pyramid, or as it is written in their book: "Never Up Give!"

      The temptation to climb the Great Pyramid proved too great even for me to ignore despite my academic background in historical preservation and, more importantly, my fear of heights. I had climbed pyramids in Mexico and a minor pyramid or two in Egypt but Cheops just laughed at me. After all, what were these pitiful things compared to the Great Pyramid?

      At 450 feet (135 meters), the Great Pyramid is nothing to sneeze at, especially when you’re clinging to the side of it for dear life in the dark, 200 feet up and a sneeze would send you tumbling to the ground in a broken bloody heap.

      Before going, I diligently consulted the Japanese book for the necessary information. The book was a compilation of various personal accounts and advice from successful climbers written in both Japanese and English. In addition there were detailed maps on how to sneak into the area and which side to climb.

      For nearly 5,000 years, the Great Pyramids of Egypt have instilled wonder and awe in mankind. In the last half a dozen centuries, they... more

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    • Ancient Egyptian pharaoh's boat to "sail" once more

      Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.

      The 4,500-year-old vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces from another pit in 1954 and painstakingly reconstructed. Experts believe the boats were meant to ferry the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid in the afterlife.

      Starting Saturday, tourists were allowed to view images of the inside of the second boat pit from a camera inserted through the a hole in the chamber's limestone ceiling. The video image, transmitted onto a small TV monitor at the site, showed layers of crisscrossing beams and planks on the floor of the dark pit.

      "You can smell the past," said Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

      Experts will begin removing around 600 pieces of timber in November, said professor Sakuji Yoshimura of Japan's Waseda University, who is helping lead the restoration effort with the antiquities council.

      The discovery of the boat pits more than 50 years ago by workmen clearing a large mound of wind-blown debris from the south side of the Great Pyramid is considered one of the most significant finds on the plateau. They are the oldest vessels to have survived from antiquity.

      The reconstructed ship is on display in a museum built above the pit where it was discovered. It is a narrow vessel measuring 142 feet with a rectangular deckhouse and long, interlocking oars that soar overhead.

      The cedar timbers of its curved hull are lashed together with hemp rope in a technique used until recent times by traditional shipbuilders along the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

      The unexcavated boat, made from Lebanese cedar and Egyptian acacia trees, is thought to be of similar design, but smaller and less well preserved.

      John Darnell, an Egyptologist at Yale University, said new research into the second boat could fill in some blanks about the significance of the vessels and help determine whether they ever actually plied Nile River waterways or were of purely spiritual import.

      "In Egypt, almost everything real had its counterpart meaning or significance in the spiritual world. But there's a lot of debate as to whether these vessels ever were used or not," Darnell said.

      Those who argue the vessels may have touched water point to rope marks on the wood that could have been caused by the rope becoming wet and then shrinking as it dried.

      But Hawass believes these were symbolic vessels, not funerary boats used to bring the pharaoh Khufu's embalmed remains up the Nile from the ancient capital of Memphis for burial in the Great Pyramid, the oldest and largest of Giza's pyramids.

      He said solar symbols found inside the second pit offer more evidence that those who disassembled and buried the boats believed Khufu's soul would travel from his tomb in the pyramid through a connecting air shaft to the boat chambers and that he would use the boats to circle the heavens, like the sun god, taking one boat by day and the other by night.

      Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza'... more

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      7 hours ago
    • Construction resumes on phantom hotel after 16 years

      "North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind," the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world's most reclusive and destitute countries.

      According to foreign residents in Pyongyang, Egypt's Orascom group has recently begun refurbishing the top floors of the three-sided pyramid-shaped hotel whose 330-metre (1,083 ft) frame dominates the Pyongyang skyline.

      The firm has put glass panels into the concrete shell, installed telecommunications antennas -- even though the North forbids its citizens to own mobile phones -- and put up an artist's impression of what it will look like.

      An official with the group said its Orascom Telecom subsidiary was involved in the project but gave no details.

      The hotel consists of three wings rising at 75 degree angles capped by several floors arranged in rings supposed to hold five revolving restaurants and an observation deck.

      A creaky building crane has for years sat unused at the top of the 3,000-room hotel in a city where tourists are only occasionally allowed to visit.

      "It is not a beautiful design. It carries little iconic or monumental significance, but sheer muscular and massive presence," said Lee Sang Jun, a professor of architecture at Yonsei University in Seoul.

      The communist North started construction in 1987, in a possible fit of jealousy at South Korea, which was about to host the 1988 Summer Olympics and show off to the world the success of its rapidly developing economy.

      A concrete shell built by North Korea's Paektu Mountain Architects & Engineers emerged over the next few years. A proud North Korea put a likeness of the hotel on postage stamps and boasted about the structure in official media.

      According to intelligence sources, then North Korean leader Kim Il-sung saw the hotel as a symbol of his big dreams for the state he founded, while his son and current leader Kim Jong-il was a driving force in its construction.

      But by 1992, worked was halted. The North's main benefactor the Soviet Union had dissolved a year earlier and funding for the hotel had vanished. For a time, the North airbrushed images of the Ryugyong Hotel from photographs.

      As the North's economy took a deeper turn for the worse in the 1990s the empty shell became a symbol of the country's failure, earning nicknames "Hotel of Doom" and "Phantom Hotel."

      Yonsei's Lee and other architects said there were questions raised about whether the hotel was structurally sound and a few believed completing the structure could cause it to collapse.

      It would cost up to $2 billion to finish the Ryugyong Hotel and make it safe, according to estimates in South Korean media. That is equivalent to about 10 percent of the North's annual economic output.

      Bruno Giberti, associate head of California Polytechnic State University's Department of Architecture, said the project was typical of what has been produced recently in many cities trying to show their emerging wealth by constructing gigantic edifices that were not related in scale to anything else around them.

      "If this is the worst building in the world, the runners up are in Vegas and Shanghai," said Giberti."
      "North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankin... more

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    • 2 out of 3 Egyptian men harrass women

      A shocking two-thirds of Egyptian men admitted to having sexually harrassed women, the majority of whom say the women themselves are to blame for the treatment. Harrassment includes touching or ogling women, shouting sexually explicit remarks, and exposing their genitals to women. "Sexual harassment has become an overwhelming and very real problem experienced by all women in Egyptian society, often on a daily basis," said the report by the Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights, though only 2.4% of women affected report the matters to police. A shocking two-thirds of Egyptian men admitted to having sexually harrassed women, the majority of whom say the women themselves are t... more

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    • Two-thirds of Egyptian men harass women: most men blame women for it

      A survey of more than 2,000 Egyptian men and women and 109 foreign women said the vast majority of Egyptians believed that sexual harassment in Egypt was on the rise, citing a worsening economic situation and a lack of awareness or religious values.

      It said 62 percent of Egyptian men reported perpetrating harassment, while 83 percent of Egyptian women reported having been sexually harassed. Nearly half of women said the abuse occurred daily.

      Only 2.4 percent of Egyptian women reported it to the police, with most saying they did not believe anyone would help. Some feared reporting harassment would hurt their reputations.

      "The vast majority of women did nothing when confronted with sexual harassment," the survey said, adding that most Egyptian women believed the victim should "remain silent."

      Some 53 percent of men blamed women for bringing on sexual harassment, saying they enjoyed it or were dressed in a way deemed indecent. Some women agreed.
      A survey of more than 2,000 Egyptian men and women and 109 foreign women said the vast majority of Egyptians believed that sexual hara... more

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      11 hours ago
    • 37 killed in Egypt train crash

      A collision between a train and "several vehicles" has left 37 people dead and 40 more injured, near Marsa Matruh in Egypt.

      One truck apprently failed to stop at the railway crossing, and according to security officials: "pushed several waiting vehicles into the path of the oncoming train." The force of the impact caused two carriages to topple onto two of the cars, and another two carriages to derail.

      Egypt has one of the worst road safety record in the world, with around 6,000 people being killed in collisions easch year.
      A collision between a train and "several vehicles" has left 37 people dead and 40 more injured, near Marsa Matruh in Egypt. ... more

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      5 days ago
    • Could Facebook be Censored in Egypt?

      A new draft law by the Information Ministry calls for tightening state control over the media, giving the government authority to control all audio and visual transmission in the country.

      It also stipulates the establishment of a supreme censorship authority to monitor the media.

      According to the constitution, the internet is categorized as audio and visual transmission which will subject it to censorship by the authority, igniting concerns over online blogs and websites like Facebook, which have arguably become a forum for political activists.

      Typically exercising their freedoms on Facebook, activists immediately created a group (No to Fiqi's Law) to publicly condemn the draft law and discuss it. The group has attracted some 276 members in one day and calls on people to support free media in Egypt.
      A new draft law by the Information Ministry calls for tightening state control over the media, giving the government authority to cont... more

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    • A New Start for Egyptian Cinema

      A large crowd of fans presses around the celebrities of Arab film as they emerge from one of Cairo's main cinemas after the press screening of the biggest budget movie in the history of the Egyptian film industry.

      Adel Adeeb, who spent about US $8m on Night of the Baby Doll, claims that the Arab world knows what the West thinks and feels and that it is about time that Egypt let the rest of the world in on how Arabs think.

      The film is not one of the formulaic, romantic comedies audiences have come to expect, but a politically-driven, hard-hitting film that will also reach audiences in the West.
      A large crowd of fans presses around the celebrities of Arab film as they emerge from one of Cairo's main cinemas after the press scre... more

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    • The Sphinx: whether the weather be wet

      A collection of unusual aerial photographs of the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, music by Patrick Leonard/Shenkar - "pudusu" from their CD "udistam". The Sphinx is classic in its structure and form. Its body is a beautifully proportioned carving out of one piece of limestone bedrock on the edge of the Giza Plateau, although curiously, the head of the sphinx is small. The Sphinx of Giza is about 240' long and 66' high. John Anthony West and Dr. Robert Schoch, a geologist/geophysicist, from Boston University, presented the idea that the weathering on the body of the Sphinx and walls of the Sphinx enclosure had been created by precipitation - over a long enough period of time to create the deep fissures and smooth rounded shapes you can see, particularly on the west and south walls of the Sphinx enclosure. Detective Frank Domingo, a senior forensic officer with the NYPD applied his expertise of identification techniques to compare the facial structure between the Sphinx, and the Pharoah Chephren from a statue in the Cairo Museum. The attribution of Chephren being the builder of the Sphinx is partly because of this discovery and dedication given by proxy, reports suggesting they look similar. Take a good look. Check out John Anthony West's YouTube Channels: JAWSPHINX99 and MYSTERYOFTHESPHINX. For contact re: "pudusu" from UDISTAM, udistam@yahoo.com, and Shenkar - www.myspace.com/shenkarworld A collection of unusual aerial photographs of the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, music by Patrick Leonard/Shenkar - "pudusu" fro... more

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    • Egyptian hieroglyphs found in Australia?

      The hieroglyphs are said to tell the tale of early Egyptian explorers, injured and stranded, in ancient Australia. The discovery centres around a most unusual set of rock carvings found in the National Park forest of the Hunter Valley, 100 km north of Sydney. The hieroglyphs are said to tell the tale of early Egyptian explorers, injured and stranded, in ancient Australia. The discovery centr... more

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    • Signs of division on Egypt's brow

      "The zebiba used to be the mark of an elderly Muslim man, the fruit of a lifetime's devotion, but it is increasingly seen on the faces of young Egyptians.

      Literally meaning "a raisin", the zebiba is a patch of hardened skin where the forehead touches the ground during Muslim prayers.

      Some welcome the trend as a sign of devotion, others say it is ostentatious piety.

      Worse still there are fears public displays of faith like the zebiba and the hijab, or headscarf, are spilling over into vigilantism.

      Liberals or Christians who don't conform in the workplace or on the street say they are being harassed."
      "The zebiba used to be the mark of an elderly Muslim man, the fruit of a lifetime's devotion, but it is increasingly seen on the faces... more

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      11 days ago
    • World's Oldest Ropes Found

      Discovery-News.com: Coils of nearly 4,000 year-old rope has turned up in caves on the Red Sea. Discovery News' Rossella Lorenzi digs deep to bring us a new story from ancient Egypt. Discovery-News.com: Coils of nearly 4,000 year-old rope has turned up in caves on the Red Sea. Discovery News' Rossella Lorenzi digs d... more

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    • Vote now! The World Votes For a US President: Cast your vote no matter where you l...

      Please vote for your choice of a USA President. Since the USA has a domino effect on the rest of the world, we want to know how the world feels about a new president. We will not collect any personal info and you will remain completely anonymous. This is strictly for fun and finding out the worlds decision for the most powerful leader one Earth.

      Click on the link above and vote on the poll thats on the page...

      Thank you!
      Please vote for your choice of a USA President. Since the USA has a domino effect on the rest of the world, we want to know how the wo... more

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    • Egypt stops marriage between 92 year old and 17 year old.

      The Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl, the Egyptian al-Akhbar newspaper has reported.

      The ministry of justice invoked a law which says the age gap between spouses should not exceed 25 years.

      Egypt brought in the law prohibiting the marriage of elderly men to very young girls during the Gulf oil boom.

      It was an effort to prevent wealthy men from the Gulf states seeking young poor brides from the Egyptian countryside.

      Not much is known about the 92-year-old man who tried to marry an Egyptian girl of 17 except that he is an Arab from the Gulf.

      An Egyptian justice official said by refusing to endorse their marriage it would now be impossible for the girl to travel abroad with her husband.

      However, in special cases, the justice ministry does allow foreign men to marry Egyptian women more than 25 years their junior if they deposit a very large sum of money in the name of their wife at the Egyptian National Bank.

      Both husband and wife also have to report in person to the ministry which checks their marriage is genuine to prevent any kind of trafficking in women.

      According to the al-Akhbar newspaper, 173 such marriages were allowed in the past year after the foreign husband deposited a sum equivalent to about US $8,000 and was screened.
      The Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl, the Egyptian al-Akhbar newspaper has reported... more

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    • Proof Israeli gov't are the real terrorists: Jewish hate caught on tape

      When is this madness going to stop? This 2 minute clip shows the reality of the few Jews that support their lame government in terror in order to kill people and steel land from innocent, defenseless Palestinian civilians. All these people want to do is take, take and take and never give and never share. They will go to all lengths to get what they want.

      In this next video, you will see the actual taking of houses and land from innocent Palestinian civilians as well as mourners of an American young girl who was killed by Israeli tanks as she peacefully protested the bulldozing of a home of a Palestinian family. The Israeli government concluded she wasn't seen by the soldiers despite the fact she was wearing bright orange and stood in front of the tank for quite awhile. Rachael is the reason this writer became familiar with the real story there.

      The world needs to do something about this travesty. Keep it in the news, keep blogging and by all means, contact your governments and representatives in government. Most of all, do what you can whether it be physical protests, or by joining a group that supports the fair justice in what is happening to the innocent Palestinians. Tell the jewish lobby what you think! Remember, they are only 3% of the voting public in America and their power is smaller than its thought to be. They are nothing and if we all stand up against them, they may look at the reality of what is happening because maybe they too are blinded by the greed and selfishness that is the core of this whole problem there. The Palestinians deserve to live and to have the houses and land they have had for many years before the Jews came there.

      I posted the other link below in a comment.
      When is this madness going to stop? This 2 minute clip shows the reality of the few Jews that support their lame government in terror... more

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    • Egypt Overpopulation "two children per family -- a chance for a better life"

      Overpopulation is undeniably is issue now, and is going to be more than ever in years to come. For whatever reason people don't like to talk about it.

      But I don't think having a limit is such a bad idea, I mean don't go crazy by killing babies if they come in multiples, but have everybody get snipped and clipped after the second. For both sides.
      Overpopulation is undeniably is issue now, and is going to be more than ever in years to come. For whatever reason people don't like t... more

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    • The West's weapon of self-delusion by Robert Fisk - The Independent

      So they are it again, the great and the good of American democracy, grovelling and fawning to the Israeli lobbyists of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), repeatedly allying themselves to the cause of another country and one that is continuing to steal Arab land.

      Will this ever end? Even Barack Obama – or "Mr Baracka" as an Irish friend of mine innocently and wonderfully described him – found time to tell his Jewish audience that Jerusalem is the one undivided capital of Israel, which is not the view of the rest of the world which continues to regard the annexation of Arab East Jerusalem as illegal. The security of Israel. Say it again a thousand times: the security of Israel – and threaten Iran, for good measure.

      Yes, Israelis deserve security. But so do Palestinians. So do Iraqis and Lebanese and the people of the wider Muslim world. Now even Condoleezza Rice admits – and she was also talking to Aipac, of course – that there won't be a Palestinian state by the end of the year. That promise of George Bush – which no-one believed anyway – has gone. In Rice's pathetic words, "The goal itself will endure beyond the current US leadership."

      Of course it will. And the siege of Gaza will endure beyond the current US leadership. And the Israeli wall. And the illegal Israeli settlement building. And deaths in Iraq will endure beyond "the current US leadership" – though "leadership" is pushing the definition of the word a bit when the gutless Bush is involved – and deaths in Afghanistan and, I fear, deaths in Lebanon too.

      It's amazing how far self-delusion travels. The Bush boys and girls still think they're supporting the "American-backed government" of Fouad Siniora in Lebanon. But Siniora can't even form a caretaker government to implement a new set of rules which allows Hizbollah and other opposition groups to hold veto powers over cabinet decisions.

      Thus there will be no disarming of Hizbollah and thus – again, I fear this – there will be another Hizbollah-Israeli proxy war to take up the slack of America's long-standing hatred of Iran. No wonder President Bashar Assad of Syria is now threatening a triumphal trip to Lebanon. He's won. And wasn't there supposed to be a UN tribunal to try those responsible for the murder of ex-prime minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005? This must be the longest police enquiry in the history of the world. And I suspect it's never going to achieve its goal (or at least not under the "current US leadership").

      There are gun battles in Beirut at night; there are dark-uniformed Lebanese interior ministry troops in equally dark armoured vehicles patrolling the night-time Corniche outside my home.

      At least Lebanon has a new president, former army commander Michel Sleiman, an intelligent man who initially appeared on posters, eyes turned to his left, staring at Lebanon with a creditor's concern. Now he has wisely ordered all these posters to be torn down in an attempt to get the sectarian groups to take down their own pictures of martyrs and warlords. And America thinks things are going fine in Lebanon.

      For the full article click on the link
      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-the-...
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      22 days ago
    • Luxury cotton - the real cost

      Often child labour is thought to happen in isolation in a few developing countries such as India, but an investigation conducted by The Observer newspaper has found that children as young as seven, are working on Nile Valley plantations, to supply cotton to the UK. Egyptian cotton has become synonymous with the luxury textiles industry throughout the western world and in Britain alone, the cotton industry is worth billions, but to what extent is this success down to the extreme use of child labour? Often child labour is thought to happen in isolation in a few developing countries such as India, but an investigation conducted by Th... more

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