Here is a perfect example of the massive campaign of lies and deception by Hezbollah, involving supposed "Israeli spying", to 1) detract attention away from the second massive explosion to rock a Hezbollah-associated weapons storage in south Lebanon (last week in Tyre), and 2) to continue, against all reason, to justify the existence of Hezbollah's secessionist, heavily-armed, state-within-a-state in Lebanon on behalf of its patron Iran.
Within days of a massive explosion in the residence of a Hezbollah official in Tyre, Lebanon, Hezbollah suddenly discovers an "Israeli wiretapping cable" between the towns of Houla and Mais al-Jabal near the Israeli border. Why would the discovery of a wiretapping cable also explode like a bomb is hard to understand, but that is the story that Hezbollah is propagating in order for people to forget the Tyre blow-up last week and last July's explosion in a Hezbollah ammunition depot, also in south Lebanon. The explosion of the so-called wiretapping cable is probably yet another Hezbollah weapons accidental blow up that Hezbollah is trying to camouflage. But the Lebanese people are not idiots to take any of these assertions at face value.
It seems that as the money from deteriorating Iran is drying up (18 billion dollars destined for Hezbollah were seized last week traveling in a truck between Turkey and Syria coming to Lebanon from Iran) and the noose continues to tighten around its neck, Hezbollah is finding it exceedingly difficult to operate, train, and deploy its weapons in the overcrowded Lebanese south, without running into accidental explosions. Yet, instead of getting the picture, Hezbollah is now on a suicidal path of inevitable doom: The Lebanese people reject its political-military program, the United Nations is watching its every move, Syria is engaged into a process that will inevitably lead to a split with Iran and a breakup with Hezbollah, and the only option left for Don Quixote Hassan Nasrallah to survive is to wage a final war: No macho Shiite big-balls like him would ever think of giving up his "resistance" without a grandiose act of bloodshed and disgusting "martyrdom" of which Shiites are so enamored.
The sad thing in all of this is how the impotent, castrated Lebanese army, which operates like a lackey of Hezbollah, continues to support Hezbollah and accept the ongoing violations by Hezbollah of every principle of State sovereignty that the Lebanese army should stand for. After decades of Syrian brainwashing and Hezbollah infiltration, the Lebanese army has become exactly what the Syrian and Iranian armies are: tools in the hand of the political authorities.
Hanibaal
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News report:
Hezbollah: We discovered Israeli wire taps
Lebanese media report that the blast heard near towns of Houla and Mais al-Jabal that 'was caused by discovery of breach in Hezbollah telecommunications network.' According to report, two cables found – one for listening, one for broadcast Hezbollah claimed that it uncovered cables used by Israel to tap Hezbollah telecommunications near the town of Houla in southern Lebanon. Lebanese media reported that an explosion was heard between the towns of Houla and Mais al-Jabal "was caused by the discovery of a breach in Hezbollah's telecommunications network."
According to the reports, two cables, each 50 meters (164 feet) long, were found near an Israeli outpost along the northern border. Lebanese media outlets reported that one of the cables was used for broadcasting and the other for tapping. Following the explosion, the Lebanese army and a UNIFIL were dispatched to the area.
Residents of the surrounding area fled to the streets in a panic. It was also reported that the Lebanese army opened fire at Israeli unmanned drones flying near Marjayoun.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Hezbollah Goes Boom Again, and Continues to Lie
Another one of those suspect explosions associated with Hezbollah cooking up bombs and explosives in an around homes throughout Lebanon, and guess who the Lebanese blame? Israel! Easy. Who's gonna say no when you accuse the boogeyman?
But Hezbollah must think the Lebanese are idiots, so when an explosion kills 10 people and reduces a 3-story building to rubble in Tyre, 20 miles from the Israeli border and three years after the 2006 war, Hezbollah says the explosion was due to unexploded ordnance that a Hezbollah official "found" while strolling with his wives and herd of children and brought home, and it just exploded in his face while he was checking it out in his garage. No big deal, really, and Hezbollah is investigating, so everyone rest assured, please.
Does it matter that Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's Barking Dog-in-Chief, claims to have 40,000 rockets pointed at Israel? Heck no.
Does it matter that 20,000 UNIFIL troops are supposed to prevent Hezbollah from playing with their war toys in the south? Not really.
Does it matter that tens of thousands of Lebanese have been killed because Hezbollah's love of Palestinians or hatred of Jews (no one really knows) makes the Lebanese cheap cannon fodder for the religious Fascists. Of course not, all those dead Lebanese are "martyrs" having all kinds of sex with virgins, as we speak, up in God's heavenly mythical places like al-Janna and al-Firdaous where Islam, the idiot believers are told, allows sexual promiscuity while it bans it here on earth.
Does it matter that a Hezbollah weapons depot blew up a couple of months ago near the Israeli border, again with Hezbollah blaming Israel? No one in their right mind would dare to say so.
Fact is Hezbollah is a criminal enterprise, a religious Mafia, an Islamic Cosa Nostra, that has been blackmailing the Lebanese people into death for decades...just because Iran tells it to. If this is not treason worthy to put Hassan Nasrallah on the gallows, I don;t know what would be treason.
The entire country of Lebanon is hostage to Hezbollah. Thousands killed, thousands refugees in Israel, thousands exiled... For what? Because the Islamic Fascists of Hezbollah and their Sunni brethren in Lebanon and throughout the fucked up Muslim world must have Palestine for themselves alone. That the Muslim armies took it from the Christians (Byzantines, Romans) in 638 by force is of no consequence. Somewhere in the tortuous history of that fucked up piece of land, the Muslim Fascists forget all of the history when Palestine was not Arab, and was not Muslim. And because of this selective and primitive interpretation of history - like all religious fanatics do - Lebanon must suffer for 50 years to "liberate" Palestine. Not that the Israeli Jewish Fascists are any better: Remember, they claim the land is theirs because "God gave it to them" and they slaughtered the indigenous Canaanites to take it. And now after 2,000 years, they came back to take it back. This whole barbaric religious view of life is the cause of so much suffering. It is sickening.
Hanibaal
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Conflicting Reports about Explosion at Hizbullah Official's House
While security sources said as many as nine people vanished in the explosion that ripped through a garage of a Hizbullah member's home in south Lebanon on Monday, the Shiite group denied any fatalities but said one person was wounded.
The sources said the explosion at around 8:30pm Monday knocked down a three-story building that might have been used to store weapons.
Reuters news agency quoted Lebanese security sources as saying that five people had been killed, including a Hizbullah official, in a munitions explosion in his home.
It quoted Hizbullah spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi as saying that one person was wounded and the cause of the blast was under investigation.
A Lebanese army communiqué issued Tuesday said, however, that one person was wounded in the blast that was caused by a projectile explosion.
But al Liwaa daily on Tuesday, citing an official security report, said nine people were killed and several others were wounded in the explosion that was the result of a left-over Israeli projectile from the 2006 war.
An-Nahar newspaper, for its part, quoted security sources as saying five people were killed in the blast that tore apart the house of Hizbullah official Nasser Issa in Teir Felsay east of the port city of Tyre.
It said the first story was blackened by a fire.
The security sources said Issa found the projectile near a river in Teir Filsay and brought it home. The blast occured as Issa tried to empty the shell from the explosives, the sources added.
They said Issa, a Hizbullah member, was rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
Meanwhile, the Voice of Lebanon radio station reported a different version of the story. It quoted its correspondent in south Lebanon as saying that the explosion was the result of a blast that ripped through a rocket launcher at Issa's garage.
Spokeswoman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon Yasmina Bouziane said UNIFIL was aware of the blast and was in contact with the Lebanese army.
"We are looking into the circumstances of the incident," Bouziane said.
Regardless of Hizbullah's denial, the Israeli army said in a statement the explosion "proves again the presence of weapons forbidden in southern Lebanon" under U.N. Resolution 1701.
"The Israeli army has asked the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to launch an investigation," the statement said.
A July explosion in an abandoned building in Khirbit Selim in southern Lebanon was said to have been caused by a fire in a secret Hizbullah arms depot. Hizbullah said at the time that the building housed ammunition leftover from Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
Beirut, 13 Oct 09, 08:02
But Hezbollah must think the Lebanese are idiots, so when an explosion kills 10 people and reduces a 3-story building to rubble in Tyre, 20 miles from the Israeli border and three years after the 2006 war, Hezbollah says the explosion was due to unexploded ordnance that a Hezbollah official "found" while strolling with his wives and herd of children and brought home, and it just exploded in his face while he was checking it out in his garage. No big deal, really, and Hezbollah is investigating, so everyone rest assured, please.
Does it matter that Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's Barking Dog-in-Chief, claims to have 40,000 rockets pointed at Israel? Heck no.
Does it matter that 20,000 UNIFIL troops are supposed to prevent Hezbollah from playing with their war toys in the south? Not really.
Does it matter that tens of thousands of Lebanese have been killed because Hezbollah's love of Palestinians or hatred of Jews (no one really knows) makes the Lebanese cheap cannon fodder for the religious Fascists. Of course not, all those dead Lebanese are "martyrs" having all kinds of sex with virgins, as we speak, up in God's heavenly mythical places like al-Janna and al-Firdaous where Islam, the idiot believers are told, allows sexual promiscuity while it bans it here on earth.
Does it matter that a Hezbollah weapons depot blew up a couple of months ago near the Israeli border, again with Hezbollah blaming Israel? No one in their right mind would dare to say so.
Fact is Hezbollah is a criminal enterprise, a religious Mafia, an Islamic Cosa Nostra, that has been blackmailing the Lebanese people into death for decades...just because Iran tells it to. If this is not treason worthy to put Hassan Nasrallah on the gallows, I don;t know what would be treason.
The entire country of Lebanon is hostage to Hezbollah. Thousands killed, thousands refugees in Israel, thousands exiled... For what? Because the Islamic Fascists of Hezbollah and their Sunni brethren in Lebanon and throughout the fucked up Muslim world must have Palestine for themselves alone. That the Muslim armies took it from the Christians (Byzantines, Romans) in 638 by force is of no consequence. Somewhere in the tortuous history of that fucked up piece of land, the Muslim Fascists forget all of the history when Palestine was not Arab, and was not Muslim. And because of this selective and primitive interpretation of history - like all religious fanatics do - Lebanon must suffer for 50 years to "liberate" Palestine. Not that the Israeli Jewish Fascists are any better: Remember, they claim the land is theirs because "God gave it to them" and they slaughtered the indigenous Canaanites to take it. And now after 2,000 years, they came back to take it back. This whole barbaric religious view of life is the cause of so much suffering. It is sickening.
Hanibaal
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Conflicting Reports about Explosion at Hizbullah Official's House
While security sources said as many as nine people vanished in the explosion that ripped through a garage of a Hizbullah member's home in south Lebanon on Monday, the Shiite group denied any fatalities but said one person was wounded.
The sources said the explosion at around 8:30pm Monday knocked down a three-story building that might have been used to store weapons.
Reuters news agency quoted Lebanese security sources as saying that five people had been killed, including a Hizbullah official, in a munitions explosion in his home.
It quoted Hizbullah spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi as saying that one person was wounded and the cause of the blast was under investigation.
A Lebanese army communiqué issued Tuesday said, however, that one person was wounded in the blast that was caused by a projectile explosion.
But al Liwaa daily on Tuesday, citing an official security report, said nine people were killed and several others were wounded in the explosion that was the result of a left-over Israeli projectile from the 2006 war.
An-Nahar newspaper, for its part, quoted security sources as saying five people were killed in the blast that tore apart the house of Hizbullah official Nasser Issa in Teir Felsay east of the port city of Tyre.
It said the first story was blackened by a fire.
The security sources said Issa found the projectile near a river in Teir Filsay and brought it home. The blast occured as Issa tried to empty the shell from the explosives, the sources added.
They said Issa, a Hizbullah member, was rushed to hospital with serious injuries.
Meanwhile, the Voice of Lebanon radio station reported a different version of the story. It quoted its correspondent in south Lebanon as saying that the explosion was the result of a blast that ripped through a rocket launcher at Issa's garage.
Spokeswoman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon Yasmina Bouziane said UNIFIL was aware of the blast and was in contact with the Lebanese army.
"We are looking into the circumstances of the incident," Bouziane said.
Regardless of Hizbullah's denial, the Israeli army said in a statement the explosion "proves again the presence of weapons forbidden in southern Lebanon" under U.N. Resolution 1701.
"The Israeli army has asked the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to launch an investigation," the statement said.
A July explosion in an abandoned building in Khirbit Selim in southern Lebanon was said to have been caused by a fire in a secret Hizbullah arms depot. Hizbullah said at the time that the building housed ammunition leftover from Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
Beirut, 13 Oct 09, 08:02
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The Whorehouse Called Lebanon
The Lebanese claim to be citizens of a "sovereign, independent, and free" country, a "nation", with deep roots in history.... Yet, as the Naharnet news report (see below) shows, Lebanon's government is being cooked by too many cooks, except the Lebanese themselves, and too many cooks spoil the broth - Kitrit at-tabbakheen shawshatit at-Tabkha! Since the June elections, the country has been unable to put a government together.
Lebanon is not free, sovereign or independent; it is not even a country. The fact is Lebanon is more like a whorehouse, a place in a state of constant rape, enslavement, and political bondage. Yes, Lebanon is a whorehouse, and here is why:
In the Lebanese whorehouse, there are 18 whores, each dressed and groomed appropriately, who are the 18 religious sects: Maronite, Shiite, Sunni, Druze, Greek Orthodox, Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Alawite, Assyrian, Chaldean, Armenian Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Protestant, Coptic, Ismaili, Jewish, Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox)
Naturally, a whorehouse with so many prostitutes has to be managed, and so several pimps or madams run the show (Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, France, the US, the UN, and others with various degrees of influence). Most times, the pimps and madams run the whorehouse from a distance, but they occasionally stop by and stay for a while (France, Syria, Israel, the UN...)
Given this set of characters, the general ambiance in the whorehouse called Lebanon tends to fluctuate with how well all these characters get along. Generally, the whores are open (no pun intended) for business and work well together - sharing the patrons and visitors amicably - when the pimps and the madams get along.
But when the pimps and the madams are in dispute, business at the whorehouse slows down, is severely impeded, or shuts down altogether. Many times in the recent and distant past, the bickering between the pimps and the madams got so bad that the whores suffered in their precious bodies (lost limbs, poked eyes, and other graphic details that cannot be discussed on this family-oriented blog).
There are, of course, clients who always make it to the whorehouse, even when the situation is very tense and the airport is closed. You have clients like Robert Fisk of the Independent who, even when he despises his girls at the whorehouse, always manages to pay visits and stay for a while. I guess the turpitude of the place puts some zest in his otherwise boring English life.
Since last June when the whores voted for a parliament, which in this decadent and avirtuous democracy ought to have clarified the air from all the soiled sheets and stained carpets. Yet, the whores cannot agree on a government. They brought a virgin in to become the new Prime Minister Whore, Saad Hariri, but she does not have the experience (if you know what I mean), although the powerful Saudi Madam is behind her, and Lebanon has been without a government for nearly 5 months.
One may argue, from a business perspective, that a whorehouse operating somewhat autonomously, may be a successful model in which a central government is not really needed. Each whore is free to frolic and generate income by sleeping with whomever she pleases, and once in a great while pretend to be part of a unified whorehouse. The best example to that is the Shiite whore Hezbollah - because she is often bearded and veiled, no on knows really what charming weapons she hides in her arsenal under the beards and the veils - but she seems to have very dedicated pimps back in Tehran and Damascus protecting her.
I think the Lebanese have the potential of running any business very successfully. It's just that prostitution, especially since they all claim God as their Ultimate Pimp, may not be for them. But then again, if they are not good at whoring together, maybe they can stay in the prostitution business but be better off whoring separately instead of pretending to be that unified House of the Rising Sun by the Mediterranean where clients from all walks of life can come in and take a dip (again, no pun intended). Maybe then, they can claim to be virtuous democracies, and more importantly (a) respected nation(s).
Hanibaal
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From Naharnet:
No Cabinet before Syrian-Saudi Summit
As France seemed to be pushing forward toward the issue on government formation, Saudi and Syrian influence over Lebanon also was back on track with reports that no Cabinet deal would be reached before a Syrian-Saudi summit.
While An-Nahar newspaper quoted an Opposition source as ruling out any progress toward a Cabinet lineup before Saudi King Abdullaha's visit to Damascus on Tuesday, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat, citing well-informed sources, said no new government is likely to be announced before mid next week.
Senior Opposition figures, however, told al-Hayat that the government formation process would take "a week or so" since talks between PM-designate Saad Hariri and heads of the parliamentary bloc require extra efforts to ensure an agreement.
They said information available to them pointed out that Hariri's visit to Damascus during the Syrian-Saudi summit is unlikely, a sign that the premier-designate's trip to Syria would take place after government formation based on a formula that would enjoy the blessing of Syria.
Opposition sources told an-Nahar that no new date, at least not over the weekend, has yet been set for talks between Hariri and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun.
Meanwhile, Elysee Secretary-General Claude Gueant is expected to visit Damascus on Sunday on a mission linked to Cabinet formation as well as to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem's stay in Paris.
Diplomatic sources have said that Gueant's mission to Syria would tackle among other topics, the outcome of contacts between Syrian officials and Lebanese leaders. They said Gueant would also urge Damascus to facilitate a Cabinet lineup no longer than 10 days.
On Saturday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's top advisor Henry Guaino brought to Lebanon a message of friendship and support for the country.
Guaino told MTV that the "problem is not just Lebanon's current situation but that of the Middle East as a whole."
Beirut, 04 Oct 09, 08:12
Lebanon is not free, sovereign or independent; it is not even a country. The fact is Lebanon is more like a whorehouse, a place in a state of constant rape, enslavement, and political bondage. Yes, Lebanon is a whorehouse, and here is why:
In the Lebanese whorehouse, there are 18 whores, each dressed and groomed appropriately, who are the 18 religious sects: Maronite, Shiite, Sunni, Druze, Greek Orthodox, Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Alawite, Assyrian, Chaldean, Armenian Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Protestant, Coptic, Ismaili, Jewish, Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox)
Naturally, a whorehouse with so many prostitutes has to be managed, and so several pimps or madams run the show (Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, France, the US, the UN, and others with various degrees of influence). Most times, the pimps and madams run the whorehouse from a distance, but they occasionally stop by and stay for a while (France, Syria, Israel, the UN...)
Given this set of characters, the general ambiance in the whorehouse called Lebanon tends to fluctuate with how well all these characters get along. Generally, the whores are open (no pun intended) for business and work well together - sharing the patrons and visitors amicably - when the pimps and the madams get along.
But when the pimps and the madams are in dispute, business at the whorehouse slows down, is severely impeded, or shuts down altogether. Many times in the recent and distant past, the bickering between the pimps and the madams got so bad that the whores suffered in their precious bodies (lost limbs, poked eyes, and other graphic details that cannot be discussed on this family-oriented blog).
There are, of course, clients who always make it to the whorehouse, even when the situation is very tense and the airport is closed. You have clients like Robert Fisk of the Independent who, even when he despises his girls at the whorehouse, always manages to pay visits and stay for a while. I guess the turpitude of the place puts some zest in his otherwise boring English life.
Since last June when the whores voted for a parliament, which in this decadent and avirtuous democracy ought to have clarified the air from all the soiled sheets and stained carpets. Yet, the whores cannot agree on a government. They brought a virgin in to become the new Prime Minister Whore, Saad Hariri, but she does not have the experience (if you know what I mean), although the powerful Saudi Madam is behind her, and Lebanon has been without a government for nearly 5 months.
One may argue, from a business perspective, that a whorehouse operating somewhat autonomously, may be a successful model in which a central government is not really needed. Each whore is free to frolic and generate income by sleeping with whomever she pleases, and once in a great while pretend to be part of a unified whorehouse. The best example to that is the Shiite whore Hezbollah - because she is often bearded and veiled, no on knows really what charming weapons she hides in her arsenal under the beards and the veils - but she seems to have very dedicated pimps back in Tehran and Damascus protecting her.
I think the Lebanese have the potential of running any business very successfully. It's just that prostitution, especially since they all claim God as their Ultimate Pimp, may not be for them. But then again, if they are not good at whoring together, maybe they can stay in the prostitution business but be better off whoring separately instead of pretending to be that unified House of the Rising Sun by the Mediterranean where clients from all walks of life can come in and take a dip (again, no pun intended). Maybe then, they can claim to be virtuous democracies, and more importantly (a) respected nation(s).
Hanibaal
_________________________________________
From Naharnet:
No Cabinet before Syrian-Saudi Summit
As France seemed to be pushing forward toward the issue on government formation, Saudi and Syrian influence over Lebanon also was back on track with reports that no Cabinet deal would be reached before a Syrian-Saudi summit.
While An-Nahar newspaper quoted an Opposition source as ruling out any progress toward a Cabinet lineup before Saudi King Abdullaha's visit to Damascus on Tuesday, pan-Arab daily al-Hayat, citing well-informed sources, said no new government is likely to be announced before mid next week.
Senior Opposition figures, however, told al-Hayat that the government formation process would take "a week or so" since talks between PM-designate Saad Hariri and heads of the parliamentary bloc require extra efforts to ensure an agreement.
They said information available to them pointed out that Hariri's visit to Damascus during the Syrian-Saudi summit is unlikely, a sign that the premier-designate's trip to Syria would take place after government formation based on a formula that would enjoy the blessing of Syria.
Opposition sources told an-Nahar that no new date, at least not over the weekend, has yet been set for talks between Hariri and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun.
Meanwhile, Elysee Secretary-General Claude Gueant is expected to visit Damascus on Sunday on a mission linked to Cabinet formation as well as to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem's stay in Paris.
Diplomatic sources have said that Gueant's mission to Syria would tackle among other topics, the outcome of contacts between Syrian officials and Lebanese leaders. They said Gueant would also urge Damascus to facilitate a Cabinet lineup no longer than 10 days.
On Saturday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's top advisor Henry Guaino brought to Lebanon a message of friendship and support for the country.
Guaino told MTV that the "problem is not just Lebanon's current situation but that of the Middle East as a whole."
Beirut, 04 Oct 09, 08:12
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Poem of Liberation
One of my all-time favorite poems
(English translation follows)
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Prière d’un petit enfant nègre
(Guy Tirolien)
1961
Seigneur
je suis très fatigué
je suis né fatigué
et j’ai beaucoup marché depuis le chant du coq
et le morne est bien haut qui mène à leur école
Seigneur je ne veux plus aller à leur école ,
faites je vous en prie que je n’y aille plus
Je veux suivre mon père dans les ravines fraîches
quand la nuit flotte encore dans le mystère des bois
où glissent les esprits que l’aube vient chasser
Je veux aller pieds nus par les sentiers brûlés
qui longent vers midi les mares assoiffées
je veux dormir ma sieste au pied des lourds manguiers
je veux me réveiller
lorsque là bas mugit la sirène des blancs
et que l’usine
ancrée sur l’océan des cannes
vomit dans la campagne son équipage nègre
Seigneur je ne veux plus aller à leur école
faites je vous en prie que je n’y aille plus
Ils racontent qu ‘il faut qu’un petit nègre y aille
pour qu’il devienne pareil
aux messieurs de la ville
aux messieurs comme il faut;
Mais moi je ne veux pas
devenir comme ils disent
un monsieur de la ville
un monsieur comme il faut
Je préfère flâner le long des sucreries
où sont les sacs repus
que gonfle un sucre brun
autant que ma peau brune
Je préfère
vers l’heure où la lune amoureuse
parle bas à l’oreille
des cocotiers penchés
écouter ce que dit
dans la nuit
la voix cassée d’un vieux qui raconte en fumant
les histoires de Zamba
et de compère Lapin
et bien d’autres choses encore
qui ne sont pas dans leur livre .
Les nègres vous le savez n’ont que trop travaillé
pourquoi faut il de plus
apprendre dans des livres
qui nous parlent de choses
qui ne sont point d’ici .
Et puis
elle est vraiment trop triste leur école
triste comme
ces messieurs de la ville
ces messieurs comme il faut
qui ne savent plus danser le soir au clair de lune
qui ne savent plus marcher sur la chair de leurs pieds
qui ne savent plus conter de contes aux veillées
Seigneur je ne veux plus aller à leur école.
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[English Translation]:
A Little Negro Boy's Prayer
(Guy Tirolien)
1961
Lord, I am very tired
I was born tired
And I have long walked since the rooster's call
And that hill taking me to their school is high
Lord, I no longer want to go to their school.
I beg of you, don't let me go there anymore.
I want to follow my father deep into the cool ravines
When the night still looms over the mystery of the woods
Where the spirits come a gliding, chased by the dawn
I want to go barefoot through the burning trails
That run alongside the thirsty ponds.
I want to slumber a nap at the foot of the laden mango trees.
I want to wake up when, over there
The siren horn of the white people wails
And the factory, berthed in an ocean of sugar canes
Voids its negro crew into the countryside
Lord, I no longer want to go to their school.
I beg of you, don't let me go there anymore.
They say that a little negro boy should go there
To grow up like the city gentlemen
The well-respected gentlemen.
But I, I don't want to become, as they say
A city gentleman
A well-respected gentleman
I prefer to wander by the sugar factories
Where the full bags are
Gorged with their brown sugar
As brown as my skin
I prefer around the time when the amorous moon
Whispers to the ear of the leaning coconut trees
To listen in the night
To the broken voice of an old man
Telling as he smokes
The tales of Zamba and the mischievous hare
And so many other things
That are not in their book.
Negroes have, as you know, worked a lot.
Why then, should they also
Learn in books
That tell us of things
That are not from here?
And then, their school is just too sad
Sad like those city gentlemen
Those well-respected gentlemen
Who no longer know how to dance
In the evening under the moonlight.
Who no longer know how to walk on the flesh of their feet.
Who no longer know how to tell stories at evening gatherings.
Lord, I no longer want to go to their school.
I beg of you, don't let me go there anymore.
(English translation follows)
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Prière d’un petit enfant nègre
(Guy Tirolien)
1961
Seigneur
je suis très fatigué
je suis né fatigué
et j’ai beaucoup marché depuis le chant du coq
et le morne est bien haut qui mène à leur école
Seigneur je ne veux plus aller à leur école ,
faites je vous en prie que je n’y aille plus
Je veux suivre mon père dans les ravines fraîches
quand la nuit flotte encore dans le mystère des bois
où glissent les esprits que l’aube vient chasser
Je veux aller pieds nus par les sentiers brûlés
qui longent vers midi les mares assoiffées
je veux dormir ma sieste au pied des lourds manguiers
je veux me réveiller
lorsque là bas mugit la sirène des blancs
et que l’usine
ancrée sur l’océan des cannes
vomit dans la campagne son équipage nègre
Seigneur je ne veux plus aller à leur école
faites je vous en prie que je n’y aille plus
Ils racontent qu ‘il faut qu’un petit nègre y aille
pour qu’il devienne pareil
aux messieurs de la ville
aux messieurs comme il faut;
Mais moi je ne veux pas
devenir comme ils disent
un monsieur de la ville
un monsieur comme il faut
Je préfère flâner le long des sucreries
où sont les sacs repus
que gonfle un sucre brun
autant que ma peau brune
Je préfère
vers l’heure où la lune amoureuse
parle bas à l’oreille
des cocotiers penchés
écouter ce que dit
dans la nuit
la voix cassée d’un vieux qui raconte en fumant
les histoires de Zamba
et de compère Lapin
et bien d’autres choses encore
qui ne sont pas dans leur livre .
Les nègres vous le savez n’ont que trop travaillé
pourquoi faut il de plus
apprendre dans des livres
qui nous parlent de choses
qui ne sont point d’ici .
Et puis
elle est vraiment trop triste leur école
triste comme
ces messieurs de la ville
ces messieurs comme il faut
qui ne savent plus danser le soir au clair de lune
qui ne savent plus marcher sur la chair de leurs pieds
qui ne savent plus conter de contes aux veillées
Seigneur je ne veux plus aller à leur école.
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[English Translation]:
A Little Negro Boy's Prayer
(Guy Tirolien)
1961
Lord, I am very tired
I was born tired
And I have long walked since the rooster's call
And that hill taking me to their school is high
Lord, I no longer want to go to their school.
I beg of you, don't let me go there anymore.
I want to follow my father deep into the cool ravines
When the night still looms over the mystery of the woods
Where the spirits come a gliding, chased by the dawn
I want to go barefoot through the burning trails
That run alongside the thirsty ponds.
I want to slumber a nap at the foot of the laden mango trees.
I want to wake up when, over there
The siren horn of the white people wails
And the factory, berthed in an ocean of sugar canes
Voids its negro crew into the countryside
Lord, I no longer want to go to their school.
I beg of you, don't let me go there anymore.
They say that a little negro boy should go there
To grow up like the city gentlemen
The well-respected gentlemen.
But I, I don't want to become, as they say
A city gentleman
A well-respected gentleman
I prefer to wander by the sugar factories
Where the full bags are
Gorged with their brown sugar
As brown as my skin
I prefer around the time when the amorous moon
Whispers to the ear of the leaning coconut trees
To listen in the night
To the broken voice of an old man
Telling as he smokes
The tales of Zamba and the mischievous hare
And so many other things
That are not in their book.
Negroes have, as you know, worked a lot.
Why then, should they also
Learn in books
That tell us of things
That are not from here?
And then, their school is just too sad
Sad like those city gentlemen
Those well-respected gentlemen
Who no longer know how to dance
In the evening under the moonlight.
Who no longer know how to walk on the flesh of their feet.
Who no longer know how to tell stories at evening gatherings.
Lord, I no longer want to go to their school.
I beg of you, don't let me go there anymore.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Welcome to Lebanon: Land of Domestic SLavery
I am one of those Lebanese who had the privilege of living abroad for a long while, and I know first hand how hard people work to maintain their households WITHOUT DOMESTIC HELP. Sure, only the filthy rich hire maids and servants, or people who are extremely busy. In either case, these tend to be very small minorities in industrial societies. The vast majority of people have jobs, and they do their own cooking, cleaning, and their household chores.
But in fucking Lebanon, where the bastard Lebanese have nothing to do all day except cash their government checks doled out on them by their political Zaims (boss), they have maids and concierges. Mind you, these are people who are not very rich, who generally do not work, like the woman in the household in this patriarchal society of macho men. She literally has nothing to do all day other than spend the husband's money, drive her Mercedes around, shop like a whale for cheap Western imitation crap, parade herself to show off...and the picture is not complete without the appropriately dressed maid. Literally, they dress the maids like you see in imitation nobility, cheap Mexican soaps, and the like. Somehow the Lebanese think that having a maid dressed like that reflects on them as "upper class", not like the scum around them. Also, to make sure that people who look know that the "lady" has a maid when she is driving around, the maid is always made to sit in the rear seat, even when the front passenger seat is empty. There are even Lebanese who have the maid sit on the floor of the car - not on the seat - in the back. The next step is how you would treat your animal. In fact, the Lebanese in this are identical to their Saudi "Arab" brothers who drive in their pick up trucks with their sons and other males sitting in the cab in front, while the women are herded in the back of the truck with the sheep.
The strange thing is that Lebanese women, 75% of whom who are - according to recent reports by human rights groups - abused (beatings, sexually, etc.) by their male household members, are the ones who abuse their own female maids, not the husbands. I have known 9 year old maids in Lebanon - literally sold by their fathers from the Syrian backwoods to Lebanese households - who walk around with broken arms from the beatings their "ladies" inflict on them. Don't get angry at me; I am not making this up: It happened in my own uncle's family. In fact, the broken arm episode happened around Easter, and I have the family photo of my uncle's family with the maid posing with everyone with her broken arm and anguish on her face. Nine-years old, can you imagine what it's like to be a 9-year old girl from a remote Syrian village who is abandoned for pennies by her father with people she doesn't even know who beat her senseless over dishes and floor moppings?
I despise my people for their superficiality, for their consumerism, for their show-off mentality. The Lebanese are rarely themselves; they are always imitating others or pretending to be something or someone they are not. But the abuse maids suffer in Lebanon is an epidemic of human rights abuses, and there are a few honorable human rights groups who speak up. You wonder why I rail against religions and the clergy in lebanon? The maid abuse is one reason: The Filipinas, the Ethiopian girls, and girls and young women from all over the world are CHristians, or Buddhists or Hindus... Yet, the fucking churches and mosques in Lebanon never even say one word against this abuse of innocent, poor women in search of their livelihood thousands of miles away from their homes and families. In fact, I have stories of women whose babies were taken from them by nuns (under the guise of protecting them from the war) and placed them (in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars) with European families with their names changed so the mother - who is promised to get her child back in a couple of years - is never able to track her child once she discovers the scam. I know of such a woman who to this day lives the horrible plight of having been separated from her 4 year old daughter by nuns in Lebanon. The girl is now 22 living in France and the mother was able to track her child only after the child reached the age of 18. She was not allowed legally to see her child before.
This stuff is happening and had happened by the hundreds and thousands of cases in filthy Lebanon. And they call it a good country!
Read on...
Hanibaal
________________________________________________________
LEBANON: Plight of the trafficked domestic worker
IRINnews,Wed 30 Sep 2009
Photo:
Philippine women make up a large number of the estimated 200,000 domestic workers in Lebanon
Hugh Macleod/IRIN BEIRUT, 30 September 2009 (IRIN) - Abbey was a nurse at a French hospital in Madagascar when a recruitment agency suggested to her boss that she travel to Lebanon for three years to work and learn Arabic so she could better care for the Arab sailors whose ships docked at the Indian Ocean island.
Abbey, not her real name, was presented by the recruitment agent with a three-year contract, which included transport to the Lebanese hospital, and a salary of US$1,000 per month.
On arrival there, however, she was put in a house with another Madagascan domestic worker where she was forced to cook, clean and care for three children and a newborn.
"We didn't sleep day or night; we had to be up whenever the baby cried. We didn't even have time to shower or eat during the day because we were always rocking him so he didn't cry. It was like that for two and a half years," Abbey told IRIN.
From her salary of just $150 a month, Abbey said she had to give her Lebanese employer money to buy food for her: "So basically, we were working for free."
Cases like Abbey's are not uncommon in Lebanon, which is a country of destination for women trafficked from Africa, Sri Lanka and the Philippines for the purpose of domestic labour.
Politicians are also involved in this issue and it goes underground, which is why it's difficult to get laws to protect these women In June, Lebanon was added to the US State Department's human trafficking tier 2 watch list for its failure to protect victims of trafficking or to prosecute those responsible.
Inclusion on the list, which includes neighbouring Syria on tier 3 (the worst category), for a second year could mean Lebanon faces US sanctions on non-humanitarian and trade-related aid and US opposition to loans and credits from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Deception, exploitation
Being deceived about the job she was brought to Lebanon to perform makes Abbey's case one of trafficking under the established UN definition of the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force".
However, the US State Department's 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report makes clear it considers trafficking to include the conditions a worker is kept in, including forced labour and debt bondage. That makes not only Abbey's life after arriving in Lebanon a case of trafficking but means the situation of many of Lebanon's estimated 200,000 migrant domestic workers can also be considered trafficking.
Photo: Hugh Macleod/IRIN Lebanon currently has over 5,000 domestic workers from Madagascar. The conditions many face working in the country constitute trafficking, according to the US State Department "Women from Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Ethiopia who travel to Lebanon legally to work as household servants often find themselves in conditions of forced labour through withholding of passports, non-payment of wages, restrictions on movement, threats, and physical or sexual assault," said the TIP report.
Local rights activists praised the recognition of exploitative labour conditions as trafficking.
"Working on trafficking is very difficult because of the definition set by the UN, but if you simplify it you see that there are three main components: the recruitment; deception or coercion; and then that the purpose of recruitment is exploitative. This is considered trafficking," said Ghada Jabbour, gender and trafficking specialist at Lebanese NGO KAFA.
The TIP report said that exploitation includes the specific crimes of "involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery".
After escaping from the home she was forced to work in, Abbey has spent the past 10 years working as a freelance domestic worker, facing jail if she is caught by police without the identification papers she was never issued with, and owing $5,000 in fines to the General Security Directorate, a Lebanese intelligence agency, for overstaying her visa.
Little protection
Domestic workers remain outside Lebanon's Labour Law and its protection.
Photo: Hugh Macleod/IRIN A taxi driver speaks with an African migrant worker in Beirut Last year, according to the 2009 TIP report, the Lebanese government reported no criminal prosecutions, convictions, or punishments for trafficking offences, a significant decrease from the 17 prosecutions reported in 2007.
The Lebanese Penal Code does not specifically prohibit forced labour or trafficking, but Article 569's prohibition against the deprivation of an individual's liberty to perform a task could be used to prosecute forced labour. Commercial sexual exploitation, deprivation of freedom and use of false documents are also criminalized in Lebanese law.
The TIP report urges authorities to investigate and prosecute claims by domestic workers who have escaped abusive employers, and implement the new unified contract for domestic workers created in March this year, but which rights groups say remains largely unimplemented.
Valuable trade
Activists believe the value of the trade in domestic workers is such that the political will to comply with international regulations against trafficking remains lacking.
"The money that is collected through domestic workers coming to Lebanon is millions of dollars per year. You have the residency fees, the visa and recruitment fees on both sides for the worker and the employer," said KAFA's Jabbour.
"The government takes a lot of money in the process by regulating domestic workers and there are a lot of stakeholders. Politicians are also involved in this issue and it goes underground, which is why it's difficult to get laws to protect these women."
But in fucking Lebanon, where the bastard Lebanese have nothing to do all day except cash their government checks doled out on them by their political Zaims (boss), they have maids and concierges. Mind you, these are people who are not very rich, who generally do not work, like the woman in the household in this patriarchal society of macho men. She literally has nothing to do all day other than spend the husband's money, drive her Mercedes around, shop like a whale for cheap Western imitation crap, parade herself to show off...and the picture is not complete without the appropriately dressed maid. Literally, they dress the maids like you see in imitation nobility, cheap Mexican soaps, and the like. Somehow the Lebanese think that having a maid dressed like that reflects on them as "upper class", not like the scum around them. Also, to make sure that people who look know that the "lady" has a maid when she is driving around, the maid is always made to sit in the rear seat, even when the front passenger seat is empty. There are even Lebanese who have the maid sit on the floor of the car - not on the seat - in the back. The next step is how you would treat your animal. In fact, the Lebanese in this are identical to their Saudi "Arab" brothers who drive in their pick up trucks with their sons and other males sitting in the cab in front, while the women are herded in the back of the truck with the sheep.
The strange thing is that Lebanese women, 75% of whom who are - according to recent reports by human rights groups - abused (beatings, sexually, etc.) by their male household members, are the ones who abuse their own female maids, not the husbands. I have known 9 year old maids in Lebanon - literally sold by their fathers from the Syrian backwoods to Lebanese households - who walk around with broken arms from the beatings their "ladies" inflict on them. Don't get angry at me; I am not making this up: It happened in my own uncle's family. In fact, the broken arm episode happened around Easter, and I have the family photo of my uncle's family with the maid posing with everyone with her broken arm and anguish on her face. Nine-years old, can you imagine what it's like to be a 9-year old girl from a remote Syrian village who is abandoned for pennies by her father with people she doesn't even know who beat her senseless over dishes and floor moppings?
I despise my people for their superficiality, for their consumerism, for their show-off mentality. The Lebanese are rarely themselves; they are always imitating others or pretending to be something or someone they are not. But the abuse maids suffer in Lebanon is an epidemic of human rights abuses, and there are a few honorable human rights groups who speak up. You wonder why I rail against religions and the clergy in lebanon? The maid abuse is one reason: The Filipinas, the Ethiopian girls, and girls and young women from all over the world are CHristians, or Buddhists or Hindus... Yet, the fucking churches and mosques in Lebanon never even say one word against this abuse of innocent, poor women in search of their livelihood thousands of miles away from their homes and families. In fact, I have stories of women whose babies were taken from them by nuns (under the guise of protecting them from the war) and placed them (in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars) with European families with their names changed so the mother - who is promised to get her child back in a couple of years - is never able to track her child once she discovers the scam. I know of such a woman who to this day lives the horrible plight of having been separated from her 4 year old daughter by nuns in Lebanon. The girl is now 22 living in France and the mother was able to track her child only after the child reached the age of 18. She was not allowed legally to see her child before.
This stuff is happening and had happened by the hundreds and thousands of cases in filthy Lebanon. And they call it a good country!
Read on...
Hanibaal
________________________________________________________
LEBANON: Plight of the trafficked domestic worker
IRINnews,Wed 30 Sep 2009
Photo:
Philippine women make up a large number of the estimated 200,000 domestic workers in Lebanon
Hugh Macleod/IRIN BEIRUT, 30 September 2009 (IRIN) - Abbey was a nurse at a French hospital in Madagascar when a recruitment agency suggested to her boss that she travel to Lebanon for three years to work and learn Arabic so she could better care for the Arab sailors whose ships docked at the Indian Ocean island.
Abbey, not her real name, was presented by the recruitment agent with a three-year contract, which included transport to the Lebanese hospital, and a salary of US$1,000 per month.
On arrival there, however, she was put in a house with another Madagascan domestic worker where she was forced to cook, clean and care for three children and a newborn.
"We didn't sleep day or night; we had to be up whenever the baby cried. We didn't even have time to shower or eat during the day because we were always rocking him so he didn't cry. It was like that for two and a half years," Abbey told IRIN.
From her salary of just $150 a month, Abbey said she had to give her Lebanese employer money to buy food for her: "So basically, we were working for free."
Cases like Abbey's are not uncommon in Lebanon, which is a country of destination for women trafficked from Africa, Sri Lanka and the Philippines for the purpose of domestic labour.
Politicians are also involved in this issue and it goes underground, which is why it's difficult to get laws to protect these women In June, Lebanon was added to the US State Department's human trafficking tier 2 watch list for its failure to protect victims of trafficking or to prosecute those responsible.
Inclusion on the list, which includes neighbouring Syria on tier 3 (the worst category), for a second year could mean Lebanon faces US sanctions on non-humanitarian and trade-related aid and US opposition to loans and credits from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Deception, exploitation
Being deceived about the job she was brought to Lebanon to perform makes Abbey's case one of trafficking under the established UN definition of the "recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force".
However, the US State Department's 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report makes clear it considers trafficking to include the conditions a worker is kept in, including forced labour and debt bondage. That makes not only Abbey's life after arriving in Lebanon a case of trafficking but means the situation of many of Lebanon's estimated 200,000 migrant domestic workers can also be considered trafficking.
Photo: Hugh Macleod/IRIN Lebanon currently has over 5,000 domestic workers from Madagascar. The conditions many face working in the country constitute trafficking, according to the US State Department "Women from Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Ethiopia who travel to Lebanon legally to work as household servants often find themselves in conditions of forced labour through withholding of passports, non-payment of wages, restrictions on movement, threats, and physical or sexual assault," said the TIP report.
Local rights activists praised the recognition of exploitative labour conditions as trafficking.
"Working on trafficking is very difficult because of the definition set by the UN, but if you simplify it you see that there are three main components: the recruitment; deception or coercion; and then that the purpose of recruitment is exploitative. This is considered trafficking," said Ghada Jabbour, gender and trafficking specialist at Lebanese NGO KAFA.
The TIP report said that exploitation includes the specific crimes of "involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery".
After escaping from the home she was forced to work in, Abbey has spent the past 10 years working as a freelance domestic worker, facing jail if she is caught by police without the identification papers she was never issued with, and owing $5,000 in fines to the General Security Directorate, a Lebanese intelligence agency, for overstaying her visa.
Little protection
Domestic workers remain outside Lebanon's Labour Law and its protection.
Photo: Hugh Macleod/IRIN A taxi driver speaks with an African migrant worker in Beirut Last year, according to the 2009 TIP report, the Lebanese government reported no criminal prosecutions, convictions, or punishments for trafficking offences, a significant decrease from the 17 prosecutions reported in 2007.
The Lebanese Penal Code does not specifically prohibit forced labour or trafficking, but Article 569's prohibition against the deprivation of an individual's liberty to perform a task could be used to prosecute forced labour. Commercial sexual exploitation, deprivation of freedom and use of false documents are also criminalized in Lebanese law.
The TIP report urges authorities to investigate and prosecute claims by domestic workers who have escaped abusive employers, and implement the new unified contract for domestic workers created in March this year, but which rights groups say remains largely unimplemented.
Valuable trade
Activists believe the value of the trade in domestic workers is such that the political will to comply with international regulations against trafficking remains lacking.
"The money that is collected through domestic workers coming to Lebanon is millions of dollars per year. You have the residency fees, the visa and recruitment fees on both sides for the worker and the employer," said KAFA's Jabbour.
"The government takes a lot of money in the process by regulating domestic workers and there are a lot of stakeholders. Politicians are also involved in this issue and it goes underground, which is why it's difficult to get laws to protect these women."
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