Not to be missed !

http://meluseena.etsy.com

defo an artist to follow !!

Bye bye Guantanamo

I have already written on Guantanamo on this blog. This is a continuation, since developments have occurred since then. Obama is to be applauded for putting the closure of Guantanamo detention center as a main priority in his initial term as president What I cannot and will never agree to is that Europe has to clean up after the USA. "We're the new Guantanamo Bay if they move to Indiana and what does that mean for us?" said Republican state Senator Marlin Stutzman, who wants detainees kept away from the prison in Terre Haute, site of the federal execution chamber.

While I agree totally for their release if they have not committed any crime, the ones who have, should be put to trial and the others repatriated or released. The problem is that most of them cannot go back to their countries of origin as they will not be accepted. Which brings us to the problem at hand, where shall they go? The United States does not want them, their respective countries don't either. Where does that leave European countries? The initiative of European countries to take detainees in sounds totally inane. Most EU countries have been against the Guantanamo Bay detention centre for years, especially when citizens of said countries where detained at Guantanamo. Now that the US has finally decided to dismantle Guantanamo, Europe is left to pick up the pieces. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but in reality, can anyone believe that the US will ever 'let go' of the suspects they detained? Can anyone honestly believe that they will not have full surveillance and God knows what else? The war on terrorism has not ended and will not with the closure of Guantanamo. Does a country like Malta, who professes to be neutral, want 'targets' such as ex detainees here? Why has the Labour Party agree to accept Guantanamo detainees? We have as yet not be given any reason what so ever. "Even those cleared of charges and deemed to be no risk at all still in my opinion do pose a risk," said the EPP's Urszula Gacek of a statement by the Pentagon last month that 61 former Guantanamo detainees appeared to have returned to terrorism.

USA solve your own mess !

Plagiarism

apparently some lazy sods are using my blog contents to copy and paste in their assignment... no reference, no acknowledgment or anything ! To make things worse, they are submitting them to the same university I studied at !! How stupid and lazy can people be? You must be really underestimating the professionals who lecture you !


I have shared my work here for knowledge and interest purposes, not for people to copy and paste it. You are wasting the education you are being offered !!! Read a book !!

January Links

Check out my January 2009 link pick:


I- Pod vs Obama :
http://shmuel.ahdut.com/2009/01/dude-fiddles-with-iphone-despite-having.html

I'm still alive :
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090123/local/im-still-alive-murderer-tells-victims-family

און ווורלד, און וורלד

As of late it seems as though it has become fashionable to be anti Jewish and pro Palestinian. But I won’t get into the merits of the never ending war ….
On a brighter note I would like to mention some influential Jews.

Musically we have had Bob Dylan, Leonard Bernstein, Barbra Steisand, Lou Reed, Beastie Boys, Leonard Cohen, Neil Diamond, KD Lang, Paul Simon, Lenny Kravitz,, Beck Hansen, Kenny G, Art Garfunkel, Irving Berlin, Billy Joel, Blackie Lawless, Adam Levine, Courtney Love, Linda McCartney, Richard Marx, Bette Midler, Pink, Joey Ramone, David Lee Roth, Neil Sedaka, Phil Spector and many more

On the movie scene you will find; David Arquette, Lauren Bacall, Yasmine Bleeth, Matthew Broderick, Mel Brooks, George Burns , Billy Crystal, Tony Curtis , Daniel Day-Lewis, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Robert Downey, Jr., Richard Dreyfuss
David Duchovny, Douglas Fairbanks, Peter Falk, Harrison Ford , Cary Grant, Seth Green , Laurence Harvey, Goldie Hawn, Dustin Hoffman , Judy Holliday, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Michael Landon, Piper Laurie, Debra Messing , Bette Midler, Paul Newman , Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Natalie Portman , Wynona Ryder, Rob Schneider, Peter Sellers , Jane Seymour, William Shatner, Alicia Silverstone, Ben Stiller, Debra Winger.. just to name a few…

On a slightly more serious note :
• Isaas Asimov
• Naomi Wolf
• Emile Durkheim
• Albert Einstein
• Sigmund Freud
• Albert Bernstein
• Levi Strauss
• Jesus Christ
• Calvin Klein
• Ralph Lauren
• Noam Chomsky

And the list continues…..
Don’t let history repeat itself…

Trying Tiring Tyres

58 euro for a new tyre. Since the day a total nut crashed into my parked car at university in broad daylight, I seem to be visiting mechanics one too many times. What's increasingly infuriating about this is that all this is no fault of mine. In the first case its the reckless driving of a spoilt brat who at 10 am on campus, in a double parked ring road with various sleeping police positioned every few metres, managed to crash into 3 cars including mine. In the 2nd case, a purely force of nature induced accident. My passenger door got dislodged when opened in a strong wind that has been sweeping over us lately. The 3rd case is due to two factors: nature and Maltese roads. You see, if you are not familiar with Maltese roads, whenever it rains in Malta, huge holes start appearing in the roads. You try to avoid one and end up in a bigger one. It's practically impossible not to encounter a couple of holes every time you drive. You may be forgiven to think that you are in Beirut in mid war ! Trying to drive at this moment is like driving in an obstacle full road. So, it was no surprise when my front tyre started to play up. I checked to see if I had a flat tyre, but it seemed to be fine. Luckily , a kind soul pointed out that I had some sort of bubble in my front tyre. Great, I said and off again to the mechanic. Verdict- change it or it might burst anytime. Now that is surely not a pleasant scenario so I headed towards the tyre shop to buy and have fixed a new tyre. According to the serene tyre man, the cause is simple : I must have driven through a hole. This made my blood boil, it's not my fault is it? C'mon a hole ! He laughed it off and said that he blessed the government for not fixing the roads properly as this kept him in business- a very profitable one. Winter must be real good for him especially when it rains.. So, thank you whoever is in charge of fixing our roads, you are keeping the economy strong - steady work for mechanics and tyre vendors. Who suffers? Us, as usual. Before you think that suing is a good idea, think again, this is Malta not the US. And anyways, how am I supposed to know which hole in which street and locality did the damage? Maybe we should mark holes lile landmines and number them. That might provide new dinner conversation material " Oh yes, hole no. 4640 is terrible but at least you miss 4639 and 4638 if you are fast and swerve slightly to the left and pull a 90 degrees to the right..." Well, next time I buy a car, I might just get myself a Hummer !

The Invicible Age

You're young and free, full of ideas and dreams, ready to complete Herculean tasks with a spring lamb's vitality. The world is yours, nothing seems out of reach with some effort. You multi task the day away and flutter through the night. Sleep is not a major preoccupation; you'll get some when needed ! Even if you're cash strapped, you will get through the weekend somehow or another. Your energy boost levels are bursting through the seams. So much to do, so little time. Then you finally slump into a glorious well deserved sleep fully knowing you will wake up to a gorgeous morning, awaiting you.

Then you suddenly start feeling weak and dizzy. You pep up on the vitamins and solid meals in an attempt to ward off the inevitable- the winter flu. You try and fight it off, but at the end it wins, always. You try and keep up the pace but the tissues are drowning you and the you've consumed the last of the flu pills. You give up and prop yourself in bed. Sickness blues start to emerge and suddenly yesterday's optimism and 'go for it' attitude vanish. You slump in bed further and moan, A simple flu and you're out of the game for a while...


ah, I'm off to have some chicken soup and clear the accumulating tissues...