In the west, the Rhine has overflowed in Bonn and Cologne and levels are set to peak in Koblenz where it meets the River Mosel.

Firefighters are searching for a man whose car was found abandoned in the central state of Thuringia beside the swollen River Unstrut.

The body of a kayaker was pulled from the River Enz in the south.

Experts are blaming the high river levels on the record amounts of snow that fell in December and the sharp rise in temperatures that has brought about a fast thaw. BBC

SYDNEY, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) — Eight people were killed with over 70 others missing, as flash floods swept across southeastern Queensland State of Australia, local police said on Tuesday.

Queensland police deputy commissioner Ian Stewart said 72 people were missing in the areas like Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, which was trapped by the massive flooding. Dozens are stranded, waiting for help. Xinhua)

It look’s like 2011 will be another year of climate crisis and is it to late to slow no not just yet still time with total focus and very hard choices but boring it would not be. Sharp rise in temperatures that has brought about a fast thaw and here in the States in a few month’s let’s see.

I was sure he was to come here. Only, I expected from him some couterpart to his “The Norks have next to nothing”…

“Keith, JoeJ…
Who is coming next?… ”

There’s your answer. :D

Phrases such as “American/Western Imperialism” are frowned on here.
Only Zionism is allowed.

The Sunni Arab can never overthrow its leadership. There is something lacking in their character.

Of course Zionist Israel is going the same way – it only gets crueler everyday – “the good Jew” in Israel is absolutely toothless, and is now being intimidated with the word “traitor.”

Racist Rage:
Islamophobia, the Tea Party, and Endless War
by Rami El-Amine

06.01.11

[http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/elamine060111.html]

I rest my case.

“One sees a lot of disbelief Arabs or Muslims could do it. Much of it in the tone:”

Should have been:

One sees a lot of disbelief Arabs or Muslims could do it. Much of it implied in the tone:

“They’re backward Arabs, how could they do something that isn’t ordained by the mullahs?”

The point I was making that whenever there is something about Arabs or Muslims doing something positive, or leading in some field or endevour, one sees the usual negative hasbara about them. One sees a lot of disbelief Arabs or Muslims could do it. Much of it in the tone:

Likewise, one sees a lot of equating the people with their guvs and if the guvs are corrupt, then that ball and chain is applied to the people, as well. As in:

“Arabs how corrupt puppets for guvs, how could they possibly do something positive.”

Then there is the supremacist attitude. The one who think Arabs and Muslims are inferior people who could not possibly do something better than the “superior” peoples. That these people should be enlightened and brought into the 21st century by the “superior” “more modern” cultures.

One can see such attitudes at work if one compares reactions of Arab innovation with that of the reactions to news of other people inovating something. There is immediate disbelief Arabs could do this, but when others do it, there is more acceptance. You’ll see it from rightwingers, open bigots and nationalists, as in:

“How could “x” do better than us”

Type crap. But leftists and progressives will usually applaud such news about people innovating in other cultures/countries, not try and deny it could happen and demand “proof”.

You kieth, practiced all of the above in your posts.

If this article had been about people in Latin America coming up with a new innovative style of exchanging knowledge, would one see the level of disbelief like is on this thread? If this article was about some Latin American accomplishment, would you be here posting with such an attitude, demanding absolute proof, keith? No you, wouldn’t. You wouldn’t even have commented.

No. One would see an open minded interest in learning more of what the innovation was. This is because Latin America is not considered an Arab or Muslim country.

This kind of hostility to Arabs/Muslims is a form of bigotry that has been successfully imposed on the west by Jewish zionist propaganda. For decades, Jewish zionists have been inundating all sources of communication 24/7 with hate and bigotry towards Arabs/Muslims. It’s gotten to the point where the majority of westerners have internalised this bigotry, most without realising it is bigotry. Among the right, the bigotry is obvious and one can see a continuation of other bigotries the right practices. Among progressives, it’s more insipid and subtle. The bigotry is more subconscious. You can see praise for past Muslim accomplishments side by side with disbelief that they would accomplish something important now, as in your post, keith.

Look up the human rights records of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Look up military basing. US tax dollars are propping up these corrupt, abusive regimes. The author might as well have included Saudi Arabia on his list, it and Kuwait are the only ones missing from this rogue’s gallery of reactionary Arab thuggeries.