Words and Visions of a Talking Crow

Hamid Mir Lies, Libels Army and Promotes TTP Viewpoint

2009-10-25T00:07:00.000-07:00

Back when the Bajaur operation was happening, in order to support the democratard anti-army agenda and the delusions that the Army's work in FATA was not neccesary and inevitable, Hamid Mir gave an interview in which he spread panic, perpetuated Taliban proaganda and libeled the Army.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eP1KZfvME8

GEO News journalists have made a profession out of this kind of negative sensationalism against the Army's operation in Bajaur and other things. This is why EVERY government that has existed since GEO news came to be has had to shut up GEO news from time to time. GEO news cries about censorship, but they deserve what they get. They seem to be pushing sensationalism and their own political agenda rather than reporting the news. The above video by the way is not GEO news, but it is representative of the reporting standards of GEO news front-men like Hamid Mir.

The reality of what was happening in FATA at the time is as follows:(check the dates)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWsRLpPQT4&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kudTKQ8RaU

The people JOINED and supported the Army. Hamid Mir LIED. The GEO journalists, whether libtards or conservatards, believed in conspiracy theories and were so poisonous against Musharraf and the Pak Army that they lied in favour of terrorists. They favoured the militants during the Red Masjid siege. They made insinuations about there being 800 dead and did not bother to recant when it was proven that 100 had died.

The ironic and tragically funny thing is, when the Taliban got to Buner, these same libtards pissed themselves and started supporting the Army they were libelling before. Fair weather friends and dishonest imbeciles.

These are your democratards, that brought you false heroes like Chaudhry Iftikhar and your wonderful leaders like Nawaz Sharif (dog of punjab) and Zardari (Swine of Sindh).

Enjoy what you chose. I told you so

The Cause of The Gaza Crisis

2009-01-04T08:29:00.000-08:00

Collateral Damage: Lighten Up! It's just a heathen!

Israel would have us believe that 8 months ago a beautiful ceasefire was signed that was unilaterally violated and torn up by the brigands of Hamas, who started firing terribly destrictive missiles at hapless Israeli civilians for no reason.

Israeli officials have been saying on television repeatedly that "Hamas had a chance to make Gaza a wonderful place, instead they chose terror attacks against us", loosely quoted but accurate and repeated by many Israeli talking heads. The Israelis also claim that the ossupation of Gaza came to an end years ago with Israel's pull-out.

In fact nothing is further from the truth. Israel has been stragulating Gaza and controlling it's exits and entrances with a wire garrotte. Gaza has not been allowed to import or trade even basic food-stuffs and economic items except on an emergency aid basis. The ceasefire that was signed many months ago that Hamas supposedly tragically broke, was supposed to be a live-and-let-live arrangement that could eventually lead to some tacit mutual acceptance. Israel has been claiming to be an innocent victim of the violation of this single ray of hope.

In reality Israel has continued to strangulate and Gaza with a blockade that caused the Gaza economy to totally collapse and depend on what few aid shipments Israel allowed in. Israel was starving Gaza to death, it's economy was non-existent, and for months Hamas honoured the ceasefire, reminding Israel of it's violations and trying to get the siege of Gaza's people to end. Hamas did build tunnels, and these were the only life-line for Gazan economy, as well as Hamas' weapon suppliers, but it did not, for months, attack Israel.

It was after months of intolerable strangulation and economic collpase, with complete intrasigence on Israel's side, that the cease-fire was abandoned by Hamas as a bad deal. It may be true that Hamas is a terrorist organization, but the UK dealt with the IRA with some modicum of fairness and honour to achieve some peace on Northern Ireland. Israel could not be buggered to do the same with Hamas. Instead it imposed a crippling siege on Gaza and strangled the territory into economic collapse, knowing full well that it would lead to a collapse of the ceasefire and a golden opportunity for Israel to push its bloody military agenda, and right before an election! How convenient for the government!

For their part, Hamas may have used the wrong methods, but let's face facts, those Qassam rockets are fire-crackers that so far have killed less than ten Israelis in the last two months, if that. Israel's response was to kill over 400 Palestinians, including women and children. Israel struck offices and mosques, then cynically pretended that it was Hamas' fault that it's offices were located in, of all places, office buildings! The real reason they are doing this to is collectively punish the Palestinian people for voting for Hamas and to intimidate them with the blood of their own children. Hamas offered a resumption of the ceasefire if the siege of Gaza was lifted during the aerial campaign, but Israel was too busy bathing in blood.

I find it interesting that when Hezbollah kidnapped Israeli soldiers (not civilians, uniformed soldiers of an army it had never declared peace with) Israel saw fit to murder a thousand lebanese, mostly civilians, and then claim that Hezbollah was at fault for having offices in, of all places, cities. Hezbollah's actual military assets were located in the countryside, but that didn't matter. You can see why Chutzpah is a Jewish expression.

And interesting contrast is that when Georgia invaded a willingly seperatist region, bombing and shelling civilians and firing on Russian peacekeepers, a Russian military reply was called "disporportionate" and even "criminal". Yet when Israel massacred hundreds of lebanese civilians because of some Israeli soldiers, less than five, killed or captured in the line of duty, it was the beautiful "birth pangs of a new middle-east" according to America's national harpie, Condoleeza Rice.

Now we see again, in exchange for firecrackers the blood of children is flowing freely and homes are being demolished. I guess when the Ashkhe-NAZIs say "never again" they only mean for themselves. A cynical Israeli government with no value for the blood of anyone but Jews and the "good gentiles" (you know, those civilized ones they left behind in Europe that look like them and have the same sounding names) is scoring election points by freely killing innocents. India's been doing something similar in Kashmir for a long time. I guess dead innocents only matter if they are "proper people" to begin with. Nothing wrong with a few stiff rag-heads, thought Joe Sixpack. Apparently Israel agrees.

America's stance, leaving sarcasm behind, has been predictable and appalling. Yet again Israel can do no wrong and the innocent dead of the other side are mere "collateral dammage".

It is sickening. Expecially thinking how the exactly equivalent situation in Georgia was interpreted by this same America. Might is right. This is what America's current government stands for. Unfortunately, because Washington is institutionally beholden to AIPAC and the religious bigotry of the Evangelical Christians of America who believe that ethnic cleansing, colonization and murder are pure and justified if done by The Chosen People (who are supposed to convert after WW3, mind you) at the behest of Christian America. America's bias is almost hardwired. Obama will make no difference. Bush and Obama are the cream and chocolate of the same cake.

I do not support Hamas in principle, but in resisting the Israeli invasion, I wish it well. I hope that there can be peace along the 1967 lines, but Israel simply does not want that any more than Hamas, hence this vile atrocity we are witnessing. I hope that America wakes up and stops urinating on its own Establishment Clause and I hope that Israel is humbled into accepting a fair peace and realizing that the blood of other peoples is as valuable as their own.

Musharraf and Pakistani Politics Now

2008-06-13T23:09:00.000-07:00

Well well well, my dear Pakistanis, it’s time to take stock of your decisions and your Holy Democracy.

Yes the same Holy Democracy that gave you near economic collapse and Benazir and Nawaz Sharif. The same that gave you a non-existent tax net, bankruptcy, analogue central government and no free media.

The same Holy Democracy that operates on more than half the population living under feudal waderas telling them which way to vote and the rest either illiterate or voting on conspiracy theories.

Well, now we see these wonderful long marches, lead by vindictive vengeful politicians that cried like jackal babies when they were in custody, and made deals to run away from the country and then broke their own deals.

We have rampant inflation and massive overpricing of basic goods and during the day we only get electricity on alternate hours. All of this was blamed on Mushy and Shaukat Aziz earlier, and NOW we blame macro-economic unpredictability and we blame the global economic recession.

People said that at least wheat should be cheap, but they were too short sighted to realize that global increases in prices not just of wheat, but of fuel and other servies and commodities that are used to produce wheat would drive the prices up. Back then it was Mushy’s fault, now it is ok.

Intellectual dishonesty much?

And ofcourse we seem to be forgetting all about how before 911 and American aid Shaukat Aziz rescued us from bankruptcy and provided us with an economic plan of our own that even the economist praised. No. We decided to believe in conspiracy theories when a stock bubble burst instead.

We forget who actually freed the media after 10 years of Benazir and Nawaz not doing it.

We forget who established Nadra or established our first proper tax base so we could actually collect revenues and not go bakrupt. We forget who gave us the local government system.

Nay, our Holy democracy is already destroying local governance and trying to clip the local Nazims and make the police not accountable to only the provincial govs AGAIN, like in the bad old days.

And now we have the shitty world economic recession WITHOUT any decent economic expertise. All we have is the ball throwing jock Imran Khan who could not keep his dick in his pants, hold his family together, or anything else, making speeches on the long march.

Now all we have is the retarded ape Nawaz with his fake hair making vengeful speeches about he will fry musharraf. But I knew all of this was going to happen.

Check out my predictions. They are coming true one by one. Sorry democratards. You do not have a functioning democracy and you have corrupt graft-addicts like Zardari and Nawaz running the show now. You have the dysfunctional South Asian democracy that has kept our friends India and Bangladesh the gutters of the world comparable to sub-saharan Africa in poverty. Sure India has a wealthy middle class, and then the plurality, the masses below living in abject poverty and stagnation.

We had a chance to have our own Mahathir or Deng Xiaopeng, He may not have been perfect, but he was better than the animals you chose. He was not personally corrupt, he was patriotic and from a decent family. Unlike Zardari.

Yet you chose to believe in conspiracy theories. Sherry Rahman, our national bitch, said Brig Cheema’s report was “dangerous lies”, yet Scotland yard said the same thing and then she had to lick back what she had spat. You fools. And now they want the stunt of a UN investigation, that will never happen, but if it does, it exposes us to espionage by anyone and it puts us on the same level as countries like Somalia that have their internal functions being handled by the UN.

As far as Al Qaeda and Taliban go, most people want to continue believing they are not all that bad, or that we should not fight against them aggressively. That we had a choice, ever. Fools. And if we must fight them, why not alongside America? And it’s not like America will give us a choice. That war will continue, and PPP and PML-N will eat their own spittle and cooperate in it too. You fools.

What else is left? O yes…Nawaz Sharif the LION!

That always makes me laugh. That jackal pilla was crying in jail and he cut a deal to run away to Saudi. Musharraf is a real man. An army man, SSG no less. He has balls of brass. He will not run away. That is another prediction and like the others you will see it come true.

O and your corrupt nepotist CJ who was trying to make money off privatization? He’s gonna prove to be bad news soon too. Lol. I have the guilty pleasure of saying “I told you so” so far over and over, and I will have it again, and again, in the future soon. Within the next 6 months.

Welcome back to the 90s retards!

But this is your country to ruin, so go ahead. I will laugh at you. Watching the news and the politics of hate and vengeance and dysfunction that you people support makes me sick, but at least I can laugh at you and tick off on my list of predictions! J

O, btw…Aitezaz Hassan…. Another hateful hero of the moment, he defended Zardari VIGOROUSLY in court, and now when it suits him, he is accusing Zardari of graft! Then why was he defending him?? Is his judgement so impaired or is he evil? Why do you always support the retards?

Again, I watch you with amusement. You had the choice of choosing the path of Malaysia or 70s/80s South Korea. Instead you chose the path of Bangladesh. At best you can be a “better gutter” like India with a rich middle class and the rest still rotting underneathe in squalor even dogs do not have to tolerate in the West.

But it’s your choice! I respect your choice. Ten years from now you will all be mumbling that Musharraf was not that bad, that something was actually done in his time, like people mumble about Ayub Khan. But when the time came you could not control yourselves. Losers.

P.S. Nice article about those misunderstood heroes Taliban + al-qaeda at stratfor: http://squeak.preeminent.org/blog/C1759582745/E20080613063835/index.html

You can get it through an exploit in opera browser. Just search it and click the google link. As I said, the War on Terror policy was inevitable. The best we could do was cleanse ourselves of the internal cancer of extremism and grow stronger in the long run so we could better pursue Muslim causes. But you choose stupidity. LMAO.

Excellent Comics and Artists

2008-03-30T23:40:00.000-07:00

Well, I could not in good conscience go without recomending some excellent "comic" book artists and their work to you. When most of you think of comics you think of either juvenile super-hero nonsense or something like Archie. There are comics and graphic novels, however, that are intelligent, witty and excellent. My first reomendation for the day is Zach Weiner. He's a brilliant artist who originates the sharp and witty single-panel comic "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal". He is also working as the author, with other artists, on the excellent web-comics "Captain Excelsior" and "Grumps".

The last two are roughly narrative, the former being about a "jerk" superhero and his family (think Increadibles gone horribly wrong) and the latter is about about some senior citizens in a nursing home who have not yet stopped living it up, but have ceased to have anything resembling balance, not that anyone else has any in their world! Here's a link to get you started on Zach Weiner:

SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/

Grumps: http://www.grumps.ca/

The second comic that I want to recomend is a really nice Australian one created by Trudy Cooper and a few of her cohorts. It's excellent because of the aesthetically pleasiing, mildly realistic and sexy art style as well as the slightly strange humour.

Here where to get started:

http://www.platinumgrit.com/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_Grit#Creators

Do look these up! They deserve your attention!

Listen to Lissie!

2008-03-23T08:47:00.000-07:00

Well, I've discovered a new voice out there that I love! I wonder how many of you have heard of Lissie? She's a relatively new independent musician. She is brilliant. She may live in California, but she is not the typical new female voice you find American music producing. I've been sick to the point of nausea at seeing new female "talents" who offered nothing more than the typical mixture of sacharine-pop and R&B-lite ulation. Lissie is different.

She's sounds deep, different and intelligent. She's intense yet mellow, and not overly sweet. She's a true artist, and though she is as unique as someone like Amy Winehouse, thugh she seems like a more reasonable and likeable person.

How can I describe her voice? Slightly velvety, slighty country-ish, a bit pop-like (but she does not scream or yell in cliched and unnecessary endings to stanzas or songs), and spiritual, yet simple and independent. Her spirituality is due to a vague and hard to quantify quality, not any heavy handed new-age pretensions. She has melody, but in a slightly strange sense of the word. And she manipulates her voice and accent in a way that is subtle and new to me. She feels independent and strong, with a subtly implied strength of character.

As I said, she's a true artist. You only need to listen to her songs "The Longest Road" (both the original and the Deadmau5 remix) as well as "All my Life" which is particularly beautiful and brilliant. Her simpler songs are sweet but not overly and tritely so. She also happens to write most of her own music and lyrics.

Besides this, in her written and video blogs she has a nice habit of addressing her audience as "friends" rather than "peeps" or "hey everyone!" or something more typical all the time. I found that somehow endearing. Here are some essential links to get you started:

http://www.indie911.com/index.php?cID=7603

http://www.youtube.com/user/lissiemusic

Check her out! She's brilliant!

China and Tibet: Recent Protests

2008-03-16T09:17:00.000-07:00

Tibet has been part of China for most of the last few centuries. The leaders of Tibet formally accepted the relationship. Why is murder and pogroms of the Hans and the Muslim Hui Chinese acceptable to the West as "freedom fighting"? Are riot police not supposed to supress violent riots and pogroms??

And why are the Palestinian terroriststs evil for resisting an artificial state created by european Jewish settlers if the Tibetans are noble for killing Hui and Han Chinese?

The US assisted the breakaway of Texas from Mexico at the behest of the Anglo-Saxon minority there, later chaging it into an Anglo-Saxon territory through settlement. The West has accepted the continuous rape of the Kashmiris and stood by while the Bosnians were decimated, yet rather magically, China is evil for defending a territory that has been associated with the Chinese state for centuries?

China has spent billions on Tibet, with the world's highest railways, schools and modern facilities, and yet it is evil!

The West supported the artificial settlement and carving up of Palestine at the behest of european Jews who were not even semitic and, at best, who's ancestors had been in Palestine 2000 years ago, helped by a little known Jewish terrorist campaign duriong the British mandate.

It seems that only the terrorists you don't like are the "bad" (anti-Western) ones!

It is quite obvious to me that the US and its allies are merely using "human rights" as a pretext to back-stab and sabotage an upcomming political and economic competitor. After all, a more equitable distribution of resources in the world would lead to lower living standards in the West. There is only so much to go around! It would also lead to the loss of its political dominance. The coddled, lazy and luxurious "first world" would cease to exist.

Talk about hypocrisy. And these riots are so nicely timed, right before the olympics. I wonder if foreign elements were involved? I would not be surprised.

I am not saying that China's treatment of Tibet is valid or even that Tibetan independence is illegitimate, but why are the Tibets opressed by pro-Western or Western countries acceptable? Why is it that occupying another nation is only wrong when it's done by a country that is an economic and political competitor to the West?

My pint is that the Western governments' concern over Tibet is insincere and hypocritical. It has more to do with hamstringing a competitor, and little else. The brutal opression of Kashmir is alright, the popular seccession of the Confederacy was unacceptable to the U.S, yet China should yield to seperatism and is particularly evil for defending what it sees as its territorial integrity? Is that fair? Your territorial integrity is sacred, but not China's?

Kosovo could be made independent because it was useful for poking Russia in the eye, but Palestine, Kashmir and Corsica, not to mention Puert0-Rico are "good" occupations. That seems a little too convenient in my opinion.

So hands-off China you germanic nouveau-riche! Back to the moors and bogs with you! China is re-awakening, you recently evolved Norsemen and Saxons. You are not in the same league. Learn some respect!

P.S. I hope Western readers enjoyed that last bit of reverse jingoism. This is what you wold have to put up with if Ann Coulter was Chinese. Consider yourself lucky that the arrogant butts are on your side!

Red Demon (Revised Edition)

2008-03-07T13:23:00.000-08:00

Well, I realized that my short story Red Demon was full of typos and the paragraphing really needed to be improved. The density of adjectives and the general flow also needed to be improved.

I uploaded an improved verision to Storiesville.com.

I hope that you enjoy this latest edit:

http://www.storiesville.com/content/view/2626/65/

As before, my advice is to print and read at a relaxed pace in two sessions. The reason is that the story is quiet descriptive and slow and sensory

Why Intelligent Design Is Not Science And Cannot Be Taught As Such

2008-02-24T04:37:00.000-08:00

I know that I have not really commented before on this blog about the evolution vs. ID debate, but I have in other places and I thought I should really establish why, as far as I am concerned, Intelligent Design is not scientific and does not belong in the science classroom.

First of all, I'd like to draw your attention to Science magazine's article about paleontologist Stephen Godfrey (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5866/1034) who had been a creationist until the evidence in the ground, logic and intellectual honesty led him reconsider his beliefs and conclude with evolution.

I went through a somewhat similar change very many years ago. You may be surprised to know that Darwin believed in something very much like Intelligent Design before his travels changed him.

So here's a little hurrah for courage and intellectual honesty!

Now... to address Intelligent Design's place vis-a-vis science. It is established that ID is not science because:

1- It is not falsifiable (since ID refuses to qualify the creator or his methods or motives)

2- ID relies on supernatural causation

3- There is no direct or positive evidence for it. Most evidence "for" ID consists of:

a) finding gaps in evolution or the fossil record
b) trying to falsify evolution.

Gaps in a theory are not falsification. Gaps exist in physics too. It would be nonsensical to say that physics is false because of the gaps that exist so far in it.

Another issue is that according to the scientific method, falsification of evolution does not lead automatically to ID. It may lead to an alternate theory of evolution (such as Lamarkian or some other mechanism) or other different things. There is no strict duality between the current theory of evolution and ID.

Hence falsification of evolution is not evidence for ID. It should be noted though that most creationist attempts at falsifying evolution have been very well answered by the scientific community. This Nova documantary will give you a small idea of the debate: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/

Many of you may have looked at the debate from the lense of creationist or ID polemicists, so be honest and take a peek at the position of science in its own words.

But let me get to the point (finally!).

Science is NOT about getting to the absolute truth no matter where it leads you. There are rules. These include:

1- Falsifiability
2- Natural causation
3- There must exist positive evidence FOR the theory
4- All science is tentative and may be revised or elaborated in the light of new evidence

So, what would science look like if ID was correct and evolution was wrong? Well, basically evolutuon would get discredited and we would NOT HAVE a scientific theory of speciation.
But ID would still not be science. It would belong in philosophy class and church. ID can never be science even if it is correct.

Even if all variants of evolution were falsified and we had no alternative, at best, a science text could say something like: "We do not have an explanation for speciation but religions posit a creator. Now on to fungi..."

That said, in reality evolution is a very strong and robust theory and is considered by the vast majority of biologists and paleontologists to be a very good explanation of speciation.

Finally, science does NOT say there cannot be a God. Evolution does not require atheism, so before getting emotional, consider that.

Ofcourse, there are those that will object and say that evolution is merely speculation that fits tghe evidence, and that ID or some flavour of creationism fits the evidence equally well.

But I think if you calmly look at the logic and explanations of both sides and read the scientific explanations and answers to creationist criticisms from their sources. If you read the actual scientific material, and not through the lense of ID-ists presenting it to you, I think you will clearly see that Evolution is the correct interpretation of the data.

That's why Darwin, the head of the Human Genome Project (who is devoutly religious), Godfrey and many many others all came to the same conclusion even though all of these people had good emotional and religious reasons to WANT creationism to be true.

That's why the vast majority of scientists, including religious ones, favour evolution. The evidence is vast. Read science directly, not through creationist polemicists.

On the Recent Elections in Pakistan

2008-02-19T08:54:00.000-08:00

The Seeds We Sow

Well...except for karachi (which is owned by MQM gangsters, they were gonna rig that regardless of anything) it seems that the election has been fair.The results bear that out. (and Stratfor has confirmed it)

Mushy may be gone in 6 months. The MQM will be the ally of WHOEVER is in power; no one can get rid of them, and they have already said they are willing to enter a coalition with PML-N and PPP. And...well...it's back to the 90s. Time for Mr. 10% Zardari or Mr. Mongoloid Sharif to rule. But this is rule of law. This is democracy (of the illiterate, and the feudally cooerced serfs)!

One thing will NOT change, inspite of the opposition's promises to the contrary; Pakistan will remain in the war on terror on America's side. People will begin to realize that was inevitable... Mushy or no Mushy.

Time for the corrupt crazy politicians to come back and show us what we've been missing! Time for rowdy student wings of parties and long-marches ad-nauseam and zero economic management.

Time for macroeconomic collapse!

Ofcourse, those who were making grandiose speeches and making snarky rhetorical comments about "independence", those who disliked the only disciplined instituition in the nation, those who were in favour of a third rate corrupt nepotistic CJ, those who wanted to release high ranking terrorists in the middle of a war on the basis of "rule of law", which is a lesser priority than national survival may I add, will now see that the war on terror will continue, but with shitty people like Zardari and Nawaz on top.

By the way... anyone knows that Pakistan is and always was independent. That's why we don't allow American troops on our soil. It was Zardari who wanted the UN to run an internal investigation like we were Somalia or something, not Musharraf. But those who want illiterate and feudally distorted "democracy" can now have it.

Enjoy the fruits of the seeds you sow...enjoy, my countrymen. Especially those speechifying in America while I sit here reaping the consequences of your pretensions. But at least some good things are happening in the world:

Happy birthday my brothers in Kosovo!

Crystal Ball, Crystal Ball...

Well, now that the new (old) Pakistan is forming, here are my prognostications. You will find that I will be vindicated quite completely in time, within one year, unless mentioned otherwise. If Musharraf is removed prematurely and the Army is weakened the following will happen:

- Laws banning corrupt or uneducated candidates will be repealed as being the result of dictatorship. As a result Zardari and Sharif brothers will enter NA via by-elections.

- The war on terror continues, people who wanted negotiations with Al qaeda and Taliban will realize the terror continues and truces are temporary, and that there was never a choice, and get skull-fucked.

- Local government system will be abruptly or gradually eroded and re-centralized to provincial level. If it happens gradually, this process will take up to 2 years.

- PML-N will continue its dysfinctional relationships with smaller provinces when it is in power, dismissing provincial govs when it wants, when/if it is in power, leading to provincial disharmony.

- No one will admit that Brig. Cheema was right about Benazir's wounds, even though he has been vindicated by scotland yard. Read the report, it's on the net. Some people have voted against musharraf because of belief in the conspiracy theory that Musharraf or the security establishment had BB killed. These people will remain in lala land and not dare to blame the cancers within the Muslims, Al Qaeda and Taliban.

- Musharraf will not leave pakistan, even if he faces retribution.

- If a Democrat comes to power in the US, aid will be greatly reduced and eventually sanctions will return. When this happens good macro-economic management will become critical, but Zardari and Mongoloid Sharif cannot deliver this and the economy will deteriorate back to 90s level within the next 5 years. If there are no sanctions then the economy will merely coast, with inflation cycling according to conditions. They will then realize no one has a magic bullet for inflation. Idiots.

- Suicide bombings by AQ and the Talibs will continue.

- The people that treated Mongo(Nawaz) and the CJ as heroes will hate those very people as corrupt in a few years. But they won't realize the irony.

- Programs for renewing Balushistan will fall by the way-side and sepratism will rise again.

- Dysfunctional, chaotic, confrontational politics will continue with your heroic democratic politicians.

- The poor illiterate serfs, who are mostly told who to vote for and are the majority in your "democracy", will stay that way.

- Whoever is in power will also ally himself with MQM as necessary, and all the racist fuck-wits who accused musharraf of being an MQM stooge will not realize the irony of it.

- The same people will also forget who initially freed the electronic media.Crackdowns and disgreements now and then with the electronic media will continue, with some channels getting shut-down temporarily for crossing who-ever is in power.

- The electronic media will continue to be sensationalistic and bias/agenda driven.

- The dolts and conspiracy theorists will never give credit to Musharraf for holding a fair election. Not that they deserved one. (Stratfor confirmed)

Kosova is Free!

2008-02-17T09:21:00.000-08:00

Happy Independence Kosovo!

Now how about Kashmir? And how about Chechnya and Dagestan? And Palestine?
One can hope!

A Short Story by Me!

2008-02-11T04:18:00.000-08:00

Ok, this is my first attempt at a proper short story that was not for academic purposes. It may not be too good. It's roughly in the sci-fi genre and is somewhat inspired by the cyberpunk genre in some of its themes. It is called Red Demon. Please criticize brutally:

http://crowcaw.blogspot.com/2008/02/red-demon.html

2007-10-22T08:21:00.000-07:00

I will soon be setting up a companion blog that will host some verse I am trying out! It's at:
http://crowcaw.blogspot.com

It's called "Caw of the Wild", which is another attempt at wordplay from yours truly!

Should Turkey Raid Northern Iraq?

2007-10-19T00:34:00.000-07:00

Should Turkey raid Northern Iraq? For my money, yes.

Turkey is not perfect, or innocent, but the PKK is a terrorist organization, plain and simple. On top of everything they are Marxists. That means the only thing they offer is death to innocent Turkish civilians and tyranny to the Kurds.

Turkey should neutralize the PKK regardless of the validity or legitimacy of Kurdish separatism. Turkey's case is far stronger than America's reason for invading Iraq and it is definitely stronger than Israel's rationale for wrecking Beirut and killing hundreds of civilians en masse.

But what about non-PKK separatists? What about the legitimacy of the Kurdish separatists' cause itself? That is a more complex question. However, the Kurdish areas of Turkey were historically included in Turkey, and not just because of the Ottoman Empire, they were part of Turkiye as region within the Ottoman Empire. Furthermore the Turks and Kurds lived in peace and brotherhood for centuries without issues. It was the Arabs that sided with the British and back-stabbed the Caliphate, not the Kurds. In fact the Kurds took part in the war of independence of Turkey and when Turkey became secular they asked for the Islamic state back; they were involved in Turkey.

It does seem that the Kurds should continue to live peacefully in Turkey then, though there are other factors to consider.

Firstly, after Ataturk's Turkey was established, Islam as a unifying force was dispensed with and the state became Turkish nationalist. This aggravated the Kurds as they were not ethnic Turks. Another issue was that the national language, Turkish, was promoted at the expense of the Kurdish language and identity. This further aggravated the Kurds and drove them to a mixture of Marxism and nationalism.

While these factors do not legitimize the Kurdish separatists, I do believe that Turkey must give greater cultural and linguistic respect to its Kurds and highlight their contributions to Turkey as well as their history with Turkey.

Finally, Turkey must adopt a modern form of secularism (as opposed to the French form) that does not suppress religion and the Muslim identity of Turkey. Turkey must allow practicing Muslims to get affordable government university educations and allow government officials the right to practice their faith freely. Women must be free to dress according to orthodox Islamic rules while attending university if they are orthodox Muslims.

Turkey will find unity in honouring its Ottoman and Islamic heritage and accepting Kurdish ethnicity as equal to Turkish-speakers' ethnicity and culture.

Lastly, let me say that this does not mean that Turkey should not have a single national language. It needs a lingua-franca, and that language (Turkish) needs to be universally understood and taught and acceptable in Turkey. But at the same time other languages should also be respected and used and taught freely.

The return of German Perversion? (Or "Alice in Deutschland")

2007-10-17T18:03:00.000-07:00

I knew the Germans were a special people, along with the Japanese. It takes something special to rush head-long into self destructive war and to gas a whole bunch of pseudo-semites on the basis of conspiracy theories. And I am not talking about the usual nonsense about racism or militarism. I mean they were eccentric.

Yes, those highly efficient types sure are funny. Not insightful enough to know that foreign policy based on conspiracy theories and deity-countries is nonsense, but efficient enough to keep triplicate records of their war crimes to facillitate their own hanging later. Anyway...eccentricity...

Everyone knows about the Japanese tentacle fetish. The Japanese have made no secret of what they think about when not keeping schedules and working themselves (or POWs) to death. It's purple-haired girls with huge eyes and giant cephalopods having their way with them.

But what about the Germans? You'd almost think the Germans had gone prudish given how politically correct and benign they try to be. I mean neo-hippie techno music festivals? Whatever happened to the nation of the twisted Joseph Mengele and the pedrastic Goethe? What happened to the nation that was trying to steal Scandinavian women all the while claiming racial superiority all for itself? Those funny wankers.

Well, I got part of my answer when I discovered Rammstein, which is a German rock band if you are as clueless as me. Watching the hulking lead singer looking drugged approaching the mic with lazily distracted eyes in the video of "Amerika" was a bit unsettling, but watching 6 grown men living as the drug mining slaves of a giant, sexually abusive (and beautiful) Snow White was what really opened my eyes. The latter interesting scenario is shown in the video of Rammstein's song "Sonne", and the video has smeg-all to do with the lyrics.

Obviously Germany is back in form, and so is their particular style of efficient-nation psycopathology. It took a few years (maybe the American sunshine-in-a-bag that the Japs got in '45 gave them a kick-start?), but a famous cannibal, a butch dyke PM, lots of techno-tracks later the Germans have finally started heeding the call of those voices in their heads they've been ignoring for so long.

Get ready to trip in Wunderland!

Medieval Japanese print (before huge anime eyes came into fashion). Edited to protect the innocent.

Another adventure in "winner-ism"

2007-10-17T17:58:00.000-07:00

Again, going back to when I was 5. There was a big Nigerian boy in the bus called Kabeer. I thought he was the boss. Well, obviously i was good enough to be the boss's friend.

I had seen "Knight Rider", the movie, the day before and someone had mentioned "micro-chips" in it. I imagined little electrical devices making beeping sounds with blinking lights. I had always had a chemistry set fetish but this beat that by a mile. Micro-chips! They made cars talk!

So on the bus I told kabeer that I had micro-chips. He had some idea, I suppose, about what they were, because he was very impressed. "Yes, I make them on my table" I said matter-of-factly. I was pleased at his respectful "wow". yes, indeed I was worthy of rubbing elbows with the bus-aristocracy. I always knew I had been.

Well, that day at break I was standing around the entrance of the school building like a little chav or something. Kabeer walked out talking to his friend and was saying this: "There's this kid on my bus who's really smart, but he's really DUMB, because he thinks he makes mico-chips...". I was a bit taken aback, but nothing could change the fact that I HAD been noticed. No one could deny that, and so I found a perspective that allowed me to be pleased with myself.

All great leaders find the good in even the worst situations.

First Post

2007-10-17T17:54:00.000-07:00

When I was young there were some incidents in my life that turned out to be predictors of my future.

First there was the little Saudi girl Sana. I was a hormonal 5 years old and so was she. I did not know arabic and she did not know english or urdu. Still, I was bold in amor and I would harrass her with unwanted attentions now and then. she was quite a sport and was generally nice to me.

One day I decided to impress her. I planned the whole day the barrage of arabic that I would use to win over the woman of my dreams. When I finally ran into her on the bus home I opened up a massive broad-side of random arabic words. She was surprised, her eyes wide in, I thought, admiration. I imagined a fireball of arabic words growing ever larger as I threw in more and more random verbiage in no particular order. "ana, inti, hua, qitta, farasha, min, man, haza", you name it.

When I was quite done she turned to one of her friends and made a comment in arabic about how I didn't know jack. I understood that much. They laughed... and I sat down.

History repeats itself as farce, don't you know?