Online Dating: AN Article

Dating manuals thick as telephone directories can be written on the subject of selecting the right dating partner. The key to the selection process is not to focus on our potential dating partner, but to focus on our ingrained human instincts. What are these human instincts? Imagination and desire are our enemies!

As we approach dating relationships from our own point of view, many individuals fall short in reaching their goals. There are countless reasons why most individuals finish in last place when commencing to build healthy dating relationships. Imagination and desire will cripple a dating relationship before the relationship starts, and before you know it, you are right back at the starting gate with a new dating partner or wish you were!

Beginning the dating process, we often focus on what we want in our dating partner and not his/her present composition. Captive is our rational self by our imagination and blinded by desire. The moment we are introduced to someone, or view some photos, profiles or personal ads online – we immediately enter an imaginary world, especially if he/she is physically attractive. It is our own little world constructed by our imagination; at this point, we lose all sense of reality. Reality is what exists now and imagination is what we want to exist, which is the total opposite. Our reliant on our intoxicated senses, intoxicated by imagination and desire leads us into total darkness. As a result, our objectivity fades away into the background.

This unreal portrayal depicts a fictional fairytale hero that originates from the desire to realize the storybook romance. On the surface, the storybook romance syndrome appears to be harmless. When individuals attempt to convert their imagination into a dating reality, total destruction visits the dating relationship, leaving the residue of psychological devastation behind. The storybook romance syndrome has defaced the truth about dating relationships, retarding them from ever having a chance of realizing success.

To achieve a blissful dating relationship with the hope of achieving a long lasting marriage, you must not select a dating partner based on your imagination. You must remain focused on reality; you must also focus on objectivity and not subjectivity. In the absence of an objective criteria to resort to in selecting your dating partner; your only alternative is to turn to a sincere, trusted family member or friend for help in the selection process. They will be more incline to exercise an objective approach. Remember this, when you are in the picture, you can’t see the picture! Investigate patiently your potential dating partner and never rely on your own senses, you may finish first in the race to a healthy dating relationship. Good Luck!
 
As Iraqis stand up, Americans will stand down...or not!

President Bush's portentous phrase intoned this summer past may turn out to be an iconic pain in the *** as it becomes increasingly clear what the potential time-scales, costs and difficulties of withdrawal for America and its allies could be. The difficulties are political, military, economic, logistic and diplomatic. Politically, they must leave behind a government with support from all the major factions in the country. Militarily, they must leave behind military and policing forces capable of dealing effectively with the threat of native rogue militia and imported Islamic terrorists. Economically, they must leave behind a country whose infrastructure has been restored as efficiently and effectively as it was destroyed. Logistically, they have the ongoing headache of refreshing troop strength and maintaining military supplies lines in the face of ongoing insurgency while gradually peeling back from the frontline to allow Iraqi forces to take their place yet still 'hand hold' where necessary and respond effectively to serious incidents. Finally, diplomatically, they have the burden of convincing the rest of the world they are doing the right thing and keeping allies on board in face of very direct threats to the lives of their citizens. The apparent lack of a detailed withdrawal plan over and above the phrase quoted above is worrying for Americans, worrying for their allies, worrying for the Iraqis and probably worrying the Bush administration as well. The recent swell in pro-withdrawal support and reports of poor troop morale do not augur well for an administration which wants to end on a high note. More concerning is the seeming lack of contingency planning. What if it is not possible to stand down? What of Iran? What if Saturday's vote on the constitution proves to be an exercise in non- participation or even rejection by the Sunni, raising the possibility of civil war? Equally confusing is the British response. Prime Minister Tony Blair told the Iraqi President British troops will stay "as long as he wants them" and Britain will not be intimidated by Iran. While Foreign Secretary Jack Straw argued against setting a date for withdrawal yet stated that he hoped the troops' task would be completed "within a very limited number of years". He also ruled out as "inconceivable" military action against Iran. Also, while it is unlikely that Britain would withdraw unilaterally, the same cannot be said for other allies who can, have and probably will do so again. One suspects all parties of playing a game of 'suck it and see' and, in particular, that Bush and Blair are hoping for a soft center. Finally, above everything, Vietnam, that grim ghost of America's Christmas Past, reaches out to choke the life out of any meaningful internal political dialogue or foreign diplomatic effort - especially since Vietnam saw precisely the kind of long drawn out struggle being predicted by the pessimists followed by an equal and embarrassingly swift, politically destructive withdrawal. The conclusion is not yet.
 
Iraqis and Americans

As Iraqis stand up, Americans will stand down...or not!

President Bush's portentous phrase intoned this summer past may turn out to be an iconic pain in the *** as it becomes increasingly clear what the potential time-scales, costs and difficulties of withdrawal for America and its allies could be. The difficulties are political, military, economic, logistic and diplomatic. Politically, they must leave behind a government with support from all the major factions in the country. Militarily, they must leave behind military and policing forces capable of dealing effectively with the threat of native rogue militia and imported Islamic terrorists. Economically, they must leave behind a country whose infrastructure has been restored as efficiently and effectively as it was destroyed. Logistically, they have the ongoing headache of refreshing troop strength and maintaining military supplies lines in the face of ongoing insurgency while gradually peeling back from the frontline to allow Iraqi forces to take their place yet still 'hand hold' where necessary and respond effectively to serious incidents. Finally, diplomatically, they have the burden of convincing the rest of the world they are doing the right thing and keeping allies on board in face of very direct threats to the lives of their citizens. The apparent lack of a detailed withdrawal plan over and above the phrase quoted above is worrying for Americans, worrying for their allies, worrying for the Iraqis and probably worrying the Bush administration as well. The recent swell in pro-withdrawal support and reports of poor troop morale do not augur well for an administration which wants to end on a high note. More concerning is the seeming lack of contingency planning. What if it is not possible to stand down? What of Iran? What if Saturday's vote on the constitution proves to be an exercise in non- participation or even rejection by the Sunni, raising the possibility of civil war? Equally confusing is the British response. Prime Minister Tony Blair told the Iraqi President British troops will stay "as long as he wants them" and Britain will not be intimidated by Iran. While Foreign Secretary Jack Straw argued against setting a date for withdrawal yet stated that he hoped the troops' task would be completed "within a very limited number of years". He also ruled out as "inconceivable" military action against Iran. Also, while it is unlikely that Britain would withdraw unilaterally, the same cannot be said for other allies who can, have and probably will do so again. One suspects all parties of playing a game of 'suck it and see' and, in particular, that Bush and Blair are hoping for a soft center. Finally, above everything, Vietnam, that grim ghost of America's Christmas Past, reaches out to choke the life out of any meaningful internal political dialogue or foreign diplomatic effort - especially since Vietnam saw precisely the kind of long drawn out struggle being predicted by the pessimists followed by an equal and embarrassingly swift, politically destructive withdrawal. The conclusion is not yet.
 
What is Bad Debt-AN ARTICLEE

We imagine that when we borrow money or owe money and fail to pay, we become a bad debt.

But when we see a bank making a profit of $10.64 billion, whilst boasting $3.28 billion of bad debts, we can be puzzled.

When the top brass of that bank tells us, that they are in the business of making money and only made $10.64 billion instead of $13.92 billion, we then understand, that a bad debt to a bank, is a failed fraud.

Banks have a monopoly business of issuing new money as credit.

This is a very lucrative business of making money out of nothing. Even if the fraud doesn't work, because the credit does not turn into money, a lot of money is still made. Someone accepts credit as a loan of money and then does not redeem the loan. The bank calls it a bad debt, even if the interest paid on the credit is an amount greater than what is owed.

When we realise how much money the banks spend on seducing us into debt, we can understand what the banks mean, when it gets a bit difficult to seduce us, as fast as they desire.

They then say that the economy is in a decline, that interest rates are too high, that recruitment of useless and destructive bureaucrats has cooled off a bit, that home seekers are outbidding each other with cheap money, with a little less frenzy and Douglas Flint of HSBC warns his shareholders that the rat race might slow a little, the runners getting weak, and difficulties lie ahead.

To HSBC bad debts are the debts they failed to establish. The loss of a few billion from a failure to redeem some of those loans, is dismissed as mere "upstick".

The hard graft of the Credit Trade creates a rising tide of prosperity for all banks. They are urged to unite in measures to set their frauds in solid gold.
 
The Cost Of Petrol

We now pay £4-50 per gallon of petrol.

I remember paying four shillings and sixpence for a gallon of petrol and groaning at the cost.

If anyone had told me what would happen to the price of petrol back in those days, I would not have sold my horse.

Do we ever stop and wonder how it is, that petrol, instead of getting cheaper as more and more is sold, which is the general rule, in the physical universe; petrol does the very opposite.

Listen to all the reasons given for this hype in the price of petrol. Ask yourself whether, when petrol was four shillings and sixpence a gallon and you complained at the price of petrol rising to ten pence per litre and you were told it would rise to £1 per litre, because of all those reasons, you would have said "rubbish, the world would have to go mad, for that to happen". The world has gone mad.

Wisdom and madness are rather different. With wisdom, in use by leadership in the world, it would be a very different place.

Therefore we are perfectly safe is saying the world's leaders, including our own, have been psychotic.

If only we could see the truth of that statement we would not tolerate some of their more obvious acts of folly, which we have justified by saying, we cannot know everything, leave it to the Experts.

Let us assume that the inhabitants of territory, the natives of a country, should have some benefit of their birthright and share in the natural resources of their homeland.

If we believe it is right to conserve the ecology of that territory, we must surely value human life, highest of all resources. We should not indulge in genocide, so as to grab most of those resources for ourselves. We do not even belong there, other than as guests.

What we find in reality, is territory with wealth beyond man's wildest dreams, lying below its surface, being literally stolen from the natives, and corrupt or psychotic leaders aiding and abetting the thieves.

With the peoples of Earth floundering in their inability to understand money, it is almost inevitable that some natural resource would be used as a symbol of money or even as a substitute for money. Gold was a good example and a fat lot of good the natives of Africa got out of the gold in their territory.

Oil is another commodity used as a substitute for money. The natives are never allowed to prosper. Because their leaders cannot understand money, their leaders cannot understand a substitute for money even less. As a result the whole world is held to ransom by a few oil moguls who become a disgrace to the human race.

We pay for their palaces etc at our petrol pumps. We also pay the fat cats of our own administration with ridiculous levels of taxation. The natives live in abject poverty.

If Fair Trading existed and the ordinary people like you and I, the natives of a country or territory, that had oil to be used for the benefit of the whole of mankind, we should see poverty vanish and insane leaders given asylum.

If we want to get serious concerning the price of petrol, then we need to get to know and understand money and reintroduce Fair Trading.

If fair trading existed in the world today, it would be possible to calculate that the price of petrol could be and should be about five bob a gallon.

That would be a fairly reasonable return for the natives of those countries who will live on the natural resource of oil as their main means of survival.

Because Monetary Reform will give you petrol at a reasonable price, help me to go for it.
 
Army recovers terrorists’ bodies from avalanche-hit areas in South Kashmir

As the death toll in the avalanche-hit Jammu and Kashmir is increasing day by day, the security forces have recovered the bodies of few terrorists who had taken shelter in the foothills of Pir Panjal mountain ranges to escape the clutches of security forces. Little did these terrorists know that they wouldn’t be able to escape Nature’s fury even if they hide from the army.These terrorists were also buried alive with hundreds of other civilians in the avalanches that stuck in a big way in three Qazigund villages situated in the foothills of Pir Panjal.

Though the army in Kashmir is not confirming these reports, however the sources told The Statesman that a few bodies with weapons and AK-series guns were recovered from the areas in Kapran which had come under heavy snow. Kapran in South Kashmir is heavily militancy-infested area and it touches the areas in the South of Pir Panjal.

“Yes, we have also heard these reports that few bodies of terrorists have been recovered but there is no confirmation as yet,” said Colonel Batra, the Public Relations Office, 15 Corp of Indian Army based in Badami Bagh, Srinagar.

Not only that, five terrorists who were rescued by the Indian army in its rescue and search operations from the area, have also surrendered after seeing the humanitarian work of the forces. The Union Defence minister Mr Pranab Mukherjee told the media at the technical airport late last evening that this was significant as they were moved by the work being done by the army for the people.

Interestingly, the Army in Jammu and Kashmir is tight-lipped about this development also and nobody is coming out with any information regarding this interesting development.

The chief of army staff General Joginder Jaswant Singh however said the troops wouldn’t harm any injured militant voluntarily dropping ammunition before the personnel in the snow avalanche hit areas of South Kashmir.
 
Gobal Poverty The Killer

As Nelson Mandela told an audience of 20,000 people in Trafalgar Square, poverty is a man made condition, it does not occur in nature.

And he also told us that global poverty will become history when we stop creating it.

How do we create global poverty? We target poor people, poor nations for credit laundering.

We use people, who are the poorest in the world and entice them into accepting aid in the form of credit. These poor people must then get even poorer, by attempted to turn credit into money for the greater glory of the bankers.

There is an infinite supply of credit, because credit is manufactured out of thin air.

The trick is to say that credit is backed by huge assets. Assets which give security to the recipient of aid, by telling them that money exists somewhere, is some form or another, with which they cannot be trusted, in case they default on the loan. But they are led to believe that the credit gives them access to real money.

It is not mentioned that even the richest countries in the world are hopelessly in debt and that there is no real money left to lend to anyone.

But "Credit is Okay, don't worry".

The instant that credit is accepted as a loan, international law declares that the borrower now owes money and must pay the bankers interest, until the loan is redeemed with real money. Of course that can never happen, the borrower would have to borrow even more money to redeem his debts.

But the poor poverty stricken people, who have accepted credit as a loan of money, must pay the interest or face even worse conditions. They are forced to grow food and produce cheap goods, both for sale in an overcrowded global market and starve in the process.

This trick of getting poor people, to launder credit to create money for bankers is not seen for what it is by anyone. Not even by Nelson Mandela. Nevertheless Mandela knew that poverty is actively created and suggested wiping out all the debts and giving the poor a clean slate.

Unfortunately all that achieves in practice, is a stroke of a bankers pen, crossing off the debt, but there is no attempt to stop more aid being given as credit without a pause. The name of the game is to get credit accepted as a loan of money and the interest rolling in.

In Islam this crime is punishable by death. We infidels look up to the bankers as being the cream of society.

We in the West are so rich that we can easily borrow money to service our debts. We just accept more credit as a loan. It is rare for our poor to starve to death. They become slave labour without really knowing they are enslaved.

One hideous result of this credit based economy, is the fact that the value of our currency is pure guesswork.

The value of money is a gamble. Casinos come into existence called money markets. Insiders cream off billions of pounds for themselves, without lifting a finger to contribute to the creation of the wealth they misappropriate.

With the National kitty robbed in this manner, the lowest stratum of our society becomes impoverished.

We need Monetary Reform and that will eradicate poverty from the whole world. It is very simple, instead of allowing the banks to create money by laundering credit, we restore to the Government, the sole right to create and issue new money and instruct the Government on how to do this correctly, so that there can be no resulting inflation.

It seems to me that the Medical Profession which is in the business of saving life and reducing suffering, should lead the world out of the trap of poverty and death from starvation and preventable disease. Because it can be done, it must be done. Let us lead the way into a new Golden Age of Economics, in which the superabundance of what we can produce is properly distributed and not allowed to waste for lack of money, which like poverty is man made stuff.

We have as much money or as little money as we choose, do not choose so little, that people live and die in poverty
 
A Flatulent Financial Fraud - Integrity Gone With the Wind

Why does Labour wish to become the super capitalist, via wind turbines?

"Put your money into Wind Power and we will make it worth your while".

The pretext is to meet international demands for more renewable energy. In reality, the Brownian cunning, is to make money. Literally to create new money. Gordon Brown sees wind power as the ideal method of increasing the nation's money supply. Gordon Brown is determined to go down in history as having created more new money than any previous Chancellor.

That would be a fine achievement if done with integrity, but not by Brownian cunning.

New money can be created, by borrowing new money into existence. Enticing people and big business to invest in wind farms, is a method of borrowing money. A method of making new money.

Billions and billions of new pounds will be needed, to get all those new wind farms, producing electricity. Bumptious Brown will find ways and means, with tax breaks etc to get all that new money into existence.

This is fraud on two counts. Increasing the creation of renewable energy by this method, cannot influence global warming. More CO2 emissions will result from putting this facility, these turbines, into operation, than they could ever save in their working life.

Secondly creating new money as credit is a cheat. It is seducing people and big business into counterfeiting money by sleight of hand. Credit is laundered into money by getting credit accepted as a loan of money.

Gordon Brown has never been told, how to mint and print money without causing inflation. Fraud is borne out of ignorance. That is the true story of wind farms.

The curse of money illiteracy, puts dark satanic turbines standing on our hills
 
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Another perfect sunset seen from Redondo Beach, California. Since arriving here in June I’ve had the pleasure of watching many sunsets while jogging or walking along the Redondo “Strand,” and have yet to tire of the endless beauty of each individual sunset. Each one is stunning, each one is different. While jogging along this evening, watching today’s contribution to my portfolio of California memories, the thought came to me that sunsets are a lot like the day to day activities that challenge our lives.

A Redondo Beach sunset has four major components:

· The sun

· The ocean

· Clouds (or lack of clouds)

· Weather

With this combination we have the ability to put together a different sunset every evening, never repeating the same sunset. Each sunset is very different, leaving a completely different emotion to the sunset participant. In Redondo Beach, the entire waterfront area appears to pause for about 10 minutes each day to watch the sun go down, indulging in explosions of color and emotion that accompany the event. Our business lives show some interesting parallels to sunsets. In my industry, telecommunications, we also have very few basic ingredients supporting business:

Cable and air (wireless) Electricity Computers Software Packet handlers (routers, switches, modems, etc) When you think about it, each new company developing and deploying a new telecom-related product is using a combination of the above items – they are just connected and marketed in unique models needed to fulfill requirements a market or industry. Thus, whether you are an Internet Service Provider, a web hosting company, a Voice over Internet provider, or a traditional telephone company, at some point in your business case your product will include all the above components.

Thus it is not magic to understand the technical portions of a telecom business. All telecom and Internet-related companies use the above components – they are just put together and marketed in a different manner.

This also leads me to believe technology is not the discriminating factor in the success or failure of any business. That factor is more a product of understanding your market, developing a product with a well-prepared business plan, And then aggressively executing against your business plan. Technology can never stand alone, and very few successful businesses have ever been built solely around an emerging technology. The technology must be designed to solve a business challenge, or enable a new business model.

We have all gone through the exercise of taking an object, and determining what the purpose of that object may be. A sheet of paper may be a tool for recording written or printed information, it may be the raw material for a paper airplane or origami, just as it might be a tool for cleaning your teeth when you cannot find a pick or floss. The sheet of paper works well for all.

Computers and networks are similar. You ask what a computer is, and the response may be a word processor, or a communications terminal, or an emergency disk backup platform, or even a platform for playing games and entertainment. One computer may accomplish all the above, although the owner of each individual computer may give you a very different answer on how a computer should be used.

An Internet connection may be used primarily by one company for research and business intelligence, while another company may consider the Internet as a delivery system for disaster recovery backup and storage. Again, suitable for both, but very different in application.

Just as a sunset changes every day based on the presentation or conditions of its contributing components, the business must also consider technology as a tool to execute a successful business plan. It is important to first understand the business requirements, and then reach into the technology “tool bag” for the components needed to deliver.
 
An Advanc on MOney Laundering

It is possible at the present time, to actually create new money out of thin air, without being accused of forging or counterfeiting money. It is a highly profitable business and is a practice, which could be called credit laundering.

Turning credit into money has infinite possibilities, because there is an inexhaustible supply of credit. Credit can be created merely by tapping the keys of a computer.

All you need is a licence from the government to do so.

You can obtain such a licence by becoming a bank. It is one of the perks of the job. There are rules to be obeyed, so that you do not turn credit into confetti, instead of into money.

The ability to launder credit and turn it into money, does give you enormous power, because money can buy you anything, when you can pay for it.

If you think this is a fairy-tale, then I can show you three letters. One from the Policy Directorate of the Labour Party, one from an MP who was a Treasury Secretary, when she wrote the letter and another from the Office of Fair Trading.

Each letter is different, with a different date and they are each written years apart.

They all say the same thing. They say that private banks are permitted to create and issue new money as credit and that this practice is perfectly acceptable.

Politicians and even Ministers of the Crown, are not permitted to launder credit in this fashion. Nor can the Lords or the Judges.

Whosoever creates and issues a Nations currency, has total power, control, dominion and sovereignty over that nation.

We do not live in a democracy, we have a financial dictatorship
 
Terrorism

With the passing of Arafat, the Middle East will take on a slightly different face, allowing the possibilities for prophetic fulfillment to speed up. The pathway is now open for renewed efforts to procure peace in the Middle East, using the avenue of the formation of the promised Palestinian State. But this window of opportunity may not remain open for long. Indeed pressure is now mounting from the United States, encouraged by Britian, to get on with the steps necessary to implement the terms of the “Road Map.” January 9, 2005 has already been scheduled for Palestinian elections. The emerging line-up of candidates all have questionable backgrounds harking back to their various roles during the Arafat era. It goes without saying, the achievement of the Palestinian goals will be a power struggle fanned by the more radical insurgents and hard-liner Islamic regimes. Hamas has already stated it is planning to increase pressure on Israel by escalating their terrorist activity in Gaza and the West Bank, whereas Islamic Jihad, Fatah, and the Al Aksa Brigade ( now being referred to as the Arafat Brigade) have issued statements they are planning to halt all atrocities until the election is over. And, while Egypt and many other Arab League countries applauded Arafat’s apparent achievements on behalf of the Palestinians, Kuwait is appalled that anyone would be so short-sighted as to give any honor to an avowed terrorist murderer. So, the Arab world has many issues to address, if they are to appear to mount a united front against the West But, will sane, cool heads prevail? Will Israel use this opportunity to take decisive steps to maintain hold on her Covenant Land, or will she instead doggedly continue down the destructive path Sharon is still insisting upon? Israel has the option of being strong in the face of her enemies, or giving in to international negative pressures. To illustrate the trap Israel is in danger of falling into, I would like to share a letter I wrote to Ruth Matar of the Women in Green, in anticipation of Arafat’s demise. REJOICE, BUT DO NOT CELEBRATE! Dear Ruth, We cannot, and we definitely ought not to bring ourselves to grieve over Arafat's death. He was a terrorist -- a heartless butcher!! He was not just a criminal murderer. He went far beyond the criminal to being an avowed monster! Even Muslim regimes, (Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia,) ousted him from their countries because he was too evil to be allowed to remain within their jurisdictions! Even so, we must not seek vengeance, because that is not within our mandate. In the Day of Judgment the L_RD will avenge. While a man is alive, there is hope for repentance, but once he has passed beyond this earthly realm, his fate is sealed, and G_d will deal with him in due time. What is most amazing is the fact that Arafat, with his impassioned intent on annihilating Israel, was allowed to enter, let alone dwell within Israel's borders! What was Israel's premise? It is best to have your enemy where you can keep an eye on him? Great idea, but it obviously did not work overly well! Instead, he was a deadly snake in Israel's fields!! But unlike the reptile version which does not strike unless threatened, he actively, and with demonic glee, coiled against his innocent victims, effectively plotting to strike with deadly venom. And, as if that was not bad enough, his subversiveness, ideology, and methodology, was perpetuated by training and grooming slithery terrorist bands to multiply his evil schemes. So yes, we must in all honesty rejoice that such an one has been silenced. But Arafat was at least one venomous snake that was positively identified, and even caged for a time in Ramalla. What is more dangerous now, and deadly, is his serpentine ''offspring." Although he is now not just defanged, but out of the picture, we must not let down our guard for even an instant. His larger than life persona, and legacy, will with misguided religious fervor, fan the fires of Islamic radical terrorism. We cannot allow ourselves the glee of celebration! If only it was a simple matter to free this world of evil by the demise of one man! Unfortunately, evil does remain. Evil breeds more evil, and the legacy of evil is multiplied evil. We cannot allow ourselves the luxury of uttering one sigh of relief, lest while we celebrate with even a hint of distracted abandon, the multiplied evil slithers in to destroy. If only the likes of Arafat were simply an isolated anomaly! We must count on the fact that evil loves company, and when an ideology is invoked, the one who is behind the stated mission will make certain his goals are perpetuated until accomplished by those following in his wake. Arafat obviously applied this premise, but not in the usual manner. He did not groom a successor. In not making certain there was an identified leader to fill the gap, he would be certain to further his agenda of terrorism, hoping most of it would be channeled toward Christians, Jews, and especially the nation of Israel! What is not known, is whether the next generation of bred and groomed terrorist serpents will act predictably, emulating Arafat's pattern of behavior, or whether they will exercise their own wiley intellects to become more deadly through deception. Remember Eve was deceived by the serpent, and the whole world is still living with the consequences! Serpentine deception was absolutely effective in her day, and still is!! Beware! Examine even the apparent “moderates” carefully. Jews and Christians are still prey and targets as long as even one deadly serpent remains unidentified to roam the earth. And Israel can still be "bitten!" Rejoice, but do not celebrate! Evil still lurks in the grass. Sincerely, Maureen Metcalf Along with the above, I would like to mention the following: It is a known fact that folk often present the memory of the departed in a glowing respectable light. This is an attempt to bring some positive closure and comfort to those who were close to the deceased. However, such falls short of reality when it comes to Arafat. It appears dignitaries from many nations who attended his funeral in Egypt, tried to cast a sympathetic shadow over Arafat, choosing to ignore his atrocities, capitalizing instead on his apparently noble struggles on behalf of the Palestinian people, as if he were a misunderstood champion of freedom and peace. Nothing could be further from the truth! The nations are kidding themselves by attempting to cause the masses to believe the lie that Arafat was really a good guy! Anyone who swallows their twisting of the truth, is opening themselves up to further misconceptions and manipulation. If a man committed murder, and/or incited, trained, armed, and funded others to plot and carry out atrocities against innocent, unarmed civilians, that man was a criminal!! A monster! How it was remotely possible for Arafat to have been awarded the Nobel Laureate for Peace is incredulous! Even post-humously, this award should be stripped from Yasser Arafat’s legacy! The record of his “achievements” and ‘exploits” indicate he was the embodiment of the opposite of peace and human decency! If Arafat is being hailed as the Father of the Palestinian people and future nation, then he was not a very considerate “Father!” In fact, he was abusive! He claimed Palestinians were in need of humanitarian aid, but when that aid was sent by honestly well-meaning agencies and governments, he squirreled it away in such a manner that it is now difficult to separate out the humanitarian funds from his own obviously massive fortune, or from funds illegally acquired to support terrorism, leaving many of his own Palestinian “family”still impoverished. Since no one knew what he was doing with the money, he used the deceptive leverage to claim poverty to gain even more millions! In other words, like his friend, Saddam Hussein, he withheld funds and aid from his own people so he could use their “plight” as a bargaining chip to hoodwink and fleece other nations. He took advantage of their good will! He used the Palestinians for his own ends, to further his own agenda, all the while allowing them to believe he had their best interest at heart! They ought to be decrying him for that! What loving father withholds help from his own family, especially when the funds are ear-marked specifically to help him care for their needs? This is despicable! But then, we also must remember, he is considered to be the “Father” of international terrorism, and he obviously took much of these humanitarian funds, and applied them to his terrorist agenda. As such, it seems he had no qualms about practicing humanitarian terror against innocent Palestinian families! All Yasser Arafat’s assets and accounts should be seized, analyzed by an impartial third party with expertise in international financial affairs, then every last penny (except for what his wife and daughter really need) distributed directly to each Palestinian family according to their needs. And, the use of these funds should be continually monitored to make certain they do not directly, or even indirectly, support terrorism. In fact, a great portion of his funds should be channeled into agencies which will assist the victims of his atrocities, especially Israelis who have been maimed and bereaved, or need rehabilitation or re-training! Should Arafat be celebrated? Nope!! Not by the nations, and certainly not by the Palestinians!
 
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