YESTERDAY'S POST...UPDATED WITH VIDEOS - "ROCKET LAUNCHING FROM RESIDENTIAL HOUSE" AND "QANA"

Doctored photograph of Lebanon Burning as published in the Star on the 7th of August.

-- See where it is manipulated
-- Reuters drops Lebanese photographer over doctored image.

Now that there is a bid to stop bloggers from overstepping the line, the Warong kopi wonders if this threat is also applicable to our Barisan-Main Stream Media (B-MSM) even as it continues to spew hogwash for their political and religious masters.
And in an attempt to divert the attention of the Malaysian Street on the now smoldering crisis in UMNO, their B-MSM has actively spearheaded half truths by publishing a daily diet of “hate-line” news on Israel coupled with their usual clarion call of - let’s come together to hate - the “negara yang terhina”.
As in all forms of evil, this hate fest orchestrated, natured and sanctioned by the state will slowly but surely take root in our multi ethnic society and will continue to seek a life of its own. Malaysia will one day by human or even by divine intervention, reap with dividends the hatred that we have sown for others. It is still never too late to stop this insidious form of evil.

Israel creates more enemies
Star

GLOBAL TRENDS BY MARTIN KHOR
It was another week of ‘hell’ for Lebanon as Israel backed by the United States and Britain ignored continuing global demands for a ceasefire and intensified its ground .....

U.N. Chief Accuses Hezbollah of 'Cowardly Blending' Among Refugees

The U.N. humanitarian chief accused Hezbollah on Monday of "cowardly blending" among Lebanese civilians and causing the deaths of hundreds during two weeks of cross-border violence with Israel.
The militant group has built bunkers and tunnels near the Israeli border to shelter weapons and fighters, and its members easily blend in among civilians.
"Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," he said. "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men."

Hezbollah launches from residential houses - The evidence!


New Addition.

Green Helmet acting as cynical movie director in qana

GUNS AND RELIGION MAKE AN 18% REPRESENTATION -- A MAJORITY

Yet again another imbecilic knee jerk reaction from the UMNO youth on the crises in the Middle East and this comes from the ambitious SIL of Pak Lah .. a man supposedly endowed with superior intellect. His statement of “Israeli aggression” would have many of his detractors nodding in agreement and warmed many an Islamist heart.
Surely he would have known that it was the Islamist Hezbollah who provoked the attack by kidnapping 2 soldiers from Israeli soil. Hezbollah has only an 18% representation in the Lebanese government and yet they have traitorously hijacked and plunge Lebanon into a war they can never win for their political masters, Syria and Iran.
The representatives of Malaysian government should not be making half-ass populist remarks but should instead press for the total implementation of UN resolution 1559 some of which are -

"· Reaffirms its call for the strict respect of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity, and political independence of Lebanon under the sole and exclusive authority of the Government of Lebanon throughout Lebanon;
· Calls upon all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon;
· Calls for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non- Lebanese militias;
· Supports the extension of the control of the Government of Lebanon over all Lebanese territory."

Force Israel to stop, urges Umno Youth
Source

Umno Youth has urged the superpowers, especially the United States, to force Israel to stop its aggression on Palestine and Lebanon.
Its vice-chairman Khairy Jamaluddin said the aggression could prompt certain parties to carry out counter-attacks against Israel or its allies in other parts of the world. “We are asking superpower nations to act fast to force Israel to stop the aggression in Palestine and Lebanon. We also ask the United Nations to do its duty in putting a stop to the aggression,” he said here yesterday.

Quotes from prominent Lebanese on the current situation :

.... Walid Jumblatt (Druze Leader) : Hezbollah Played a Very Dangerous Game by Kidnapping the Soldiers; It is Raising the Stakes, With the Support of Iran and of Syria - Which in the Past Year has Become a Satellite State of Tehran.
.... Lebanese Communications Minister: Syrian VP Gives Commands, Hezbollah Carries Them Out.
.... Former Lebanese President Amin Jumail told Al-Jazeera on July 12, 2006: "What occurred today is something very dangerous... We all know that decisions relating to war and peace are sovereign decisions that need to be taken by the government. The initiative that was taken [by Hezbollah] will entangle the country in controversial military actions... This is a great danger to Lebanon, since it is not willing to be the spearhead of the Arab-Israeli conflict so long as Syria's borders are calm and not a single shot [is being fired] from Syria on the Golan Heights."

I) UNEMPLOYABLE? THEN BE A TEACHER AND II) PLEASURES OF THE FLESH AKA THEY CANNOT "TAHAN"

The Warong kopi does not know whether to laugh or to cry. This NUT-Profession Secretary General will probably earn herself a datukship for so gladly accepting unemployable garbage to the teaching fraternity. The profession of teaching is a special one. Only the best and most dedicated should be employed. Sadly today, the dedication and the skills of some teachers are very much in suspect and this has led to deterioration in the performance standards of their students.
The education of our children is far too important and there is absolutely no excuse for the government to lower the jobless rate by making these unemployables into "teachers".

Civil service may be able to absorb 30,000 grads
Source

The number of unemployed graduates will be cut by half if they take on the 30,000 jobs now available in the civil service....
The Public Service Department and Public Services Commission would be told to expedite the hiring process as there were an estimated 60,000 graduates in different categories of unemployment, he added.
"If we can speed up recruitment, we can reduce the number of unemployed graduates, and also increase the efficiency of the civil service," Najib said at a Press conference after chairing the first meeting of a special committee formed to address the problem of unemployed graduates.
The committee also agreed on the following:.......
• Shortage of teachers: May be filled with jobless graduates keen on becoming teachers, if the Education Ministry finds it needs to review the teacher-student ratio.

Now that Islamists have barred thirsty Muslims from the devil's coffee shop then they should also bar Muslims from hanging around hotels. Heaven knows all the fornication, adultery and drinking that is taking place behind those closed hotel doors.

Kelantan bars Muslims from coffeeshops selling liquor
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Muslims in Kelantan have been barred from patronising coffeeshops which sell beer or other liquor.
Kota Baru Municipal Council secretary Nazran Muhammad said operators selling liquor must from now stop selling to Muslims or face closure.

Nazran said this after a dialogue when...An operator had complained that although he had a licence to sell liquor, his entire stock of beer was seized from his shop in Jalan Padang Garong.
“They were high handed as it was found that the operator indeed had a licence,” he said.

ON EDUCATED ILLITERATES, BACK TO THE PAST AND THE FIFTH COLUMN WITHIN.

Does it really matter statistically if 30% or even 70% of our local graduates are not employed? The important thing is -- they are unemployable. Members of the Warong kopi have interviewed many of these graduates. We say this in all candor, many of them do not have the ability to think independently and have no desire to want to better themselves.
Everyone ought to know that the problem is found within our "jaguh kampung" system of education - Garbage in Garbage out. No one will want to employ garbage.

Finding exact number of jobless grads
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The Federal Government wants to know exactly how many graduates are unemployed in the country and for this it must first streamline figures from three sources.He was commenting on a recent report that some 70 per cent of graduates from public universities and institutes of higher learning in the country are unemployed.
In fact, there are two categories of graduates applying for jobs - one group register as those who really have no jobs at all and the other group is those who are currently employed but register themselves as unemployed to look for better-paid jobs for career advancement.
However, he admitted that the type of skills possessed by the graduates is also taken into account when it comes to employment. Another reason, he said, is due to the courses taken by the graduates in university.
But looking at the profiles of unemployed graduates, Mustapa said graduates holding degrees in every field like engineering, ICT, business, Islamic Studies, accounting and history, among others, are jobless.

Listen to what the learned scholars of Islam have to say "Islam should not be debated openly by non expert". These "experts" are about to hurl Muslims and non-Muslims back, way back to the "dark ages" when knowledge was the sole property of the religious establishment.
As these local experts have so often characterized themselves to be victims of the so called global Islamophobia, would it not be so much better --- if open and frank discussions can be instituted to clear up differences between them "the learned" and the barbaric ignorant infidels?

Group wants stop to open talk on Islam
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A special forum under the Malay Rulers' Council should be set up to prevent views on Islam from being discussed openly.
Kedah 2006 Ulama Conference director Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid said Islamic scholars and experts should sit in the forum.
“We should not let Islam be debated openly by non-experts, which would confuse Muslims,” he told newsmen after the conference yesterday.
Mohd Azmi said the Kedah 2006 Ulama Conference had agreed on 10 pages of resolutions to be distributed to the Malay Rulers' Council, leaders and MPs.
He said that among the resolutions were those on the understanding of apostasy, Islamic liberation, power of the Syariah Court and the conference's rejection for a plan to set up an Inter-Faith Commission.
Mohd Azmi said the resolution also covered issues on international conflicts including Iraq's invasion, Palestine and the turmoil in southern Thailand.

In the United States, hate groups have apparently inflitrated the military.
Have hate groups infiltrated the Malaysian military?
Will there come a day when they will have the ability to influence the choice of our government?

Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts
Source

A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks racist and right-wing militia groups, estimated that the numbers could run into the thousands, citing interviews with Defense Department investigators and reports and postings on racist Web sites and magazines.
An article in the National Alliance magazine Resistance urged skinheads to join the Army and insist on being assigned to light infantry units.
"Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman's war," he wrote. "It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and 'cleansed.'
He concluded: "As a professional soldier, my goal is to fill the ranks of the United States Army with skinheads. As street brawlers, you will be useless in the coming race war. As trained infantrymen, you will join the ranks of the Aryan warrior brotherhood.

Malaysia lies within the range of the Taepodong 2 and another launch is expected sometime soon. Accordingly to experts the failed launch may have targeted the waters of Hawaii.

ON BEDROOM JIHAD, DYING IN VAIN AND A DISEASE CALL LUNG CANCER

The offer of financial incentives to Islamists preachers to marry and to convert orang asli is an added twist to an old story. During the Mustapha era, land and cash incentives were given to the indigenous people of Sabah after being coerced into renouncing their religion. This had the immediate effect of widening the Muslim voter base and thus ensuring their political domination.
In Kelantan, this method of conversion is but another phase in the Islamist arsenal where bedroom jihad is being use "to bringing the infidels to their knees through an explosion in the Muslim population". Interestingly, it is the perpetrators of this state sanction rape of the orang asli who will gain financially while their 3^rd class converts remain financially and economically marginalised.
The rights of the orang asli are now being treated as a cheap commodity to be bought and the government of the day has chosen to remain quiet. But again, do we hear any protest from the so call “socialist-moderate” based Muslim opposition parties? Dark forces are gathering and it’s influences are strong.

Incentives for marrying and converting orang asli
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KELANTAN will offer RM10,000 to each Muslim preacher who marries an orang asli woman and naturally converts her as part of renewed efforts to propagate Islam among the 3,000-odd community in the state.
State Religious Affairs committee chairman Hassan Mahamood (PAS – Tawang) said the same incentive was applicable if the preacher was a Muslim woman who took an orang asli husband.
Asked if the preacher may court the orang asli as a second or third wife, Hassan said it depended on the individual.
Besides the monetary incentive, the preachers would also receive free accommodation, a four-wheel-drive vehicle and a fixed monthly allowance of RM1,000.
On criminal activities and social ills among youths, Hassan said these were due to the influence of the western media.
“Crime can only be controlled through the Syariah Criminal Procedure Code,” he said.

Will Hamas conditionally agree to hand over the soldier that they kidnapped on Israeli soil? --- Oh yes they will.
After having 8 of their ministers captured by the Israel, you can be sure that the rest of the top echelon of Hamas are now wondering who will be next. It is all right to send their foot soldiers out on suicide missions but for their top dogs to spend their time in Israeli jail. Horrors!!

Hamas conditionally agrees soldier handover
Source
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Hamas had given qualified approval for the release of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants, Egypt's al-Ahram newspaper reported on Friday.

But Mubarak, speaking in an interview with the flagship Egyptian newspaper, said agreement on a release had not yet been reached with Israel.

Smoking and Lung Cancer

This cartoonist mother was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer. She passed away last October.
This panel was drawn when he observed that many patients were still enjoying their cigarette even before their treatment.

Link : Blog on Mom's Cancer
Medical Info : Lung Cancer and Smoking