the events of the 64th African Commission on Human & People’s Rights

The  64th African Commission on Human and People’s Rights was organized by Egypt in Sharm Al Sheikh on 24-29 April, trying to get a leading role in the commission’s work and activities. Naturally, it was nowhere in the news and very few people learned or reported about what happened during that event. However, Nigerian Prof. Chidi Anslem, with whom we, as human rights activists, used to work extensively on the Commission during the Mubarak regime, wrote on Twitter the troubles they had with visas and other arrangements to delegates trying to attend the Commission’s annual conference. It was a scandal of big proportions, though not publicized. Prof. Chidi’s tweets:

el rawda mosque massacre: a town that lost its men

On Friday November 24th, 2017, during Friday prayers when all Muslims in the little town of El Rawda in northern Sinai were grathered for prayers, people heard an explosion outside the mosque and then the shooting began.

The mosque is named after the town, and is a province of Markaz Deir El Abd, with a population of no more than 1500-2000 people. The terrorists targetted people who tried to escape, cornering everyone inside the mosque. blocking its exists, as they continued to fire randomly for approximately 20 minutes according to eyewitnesses [others claim it was 45 minutes].  Some eyewitnesses said that some of the shooters chased and pursued people all the way to their homes and shot them there. The initial death toll was 50 with 150 injuries reported. However as the day progressed, the death toll rose to 309, among them 27 children, and 140 injured. It is considered the biggest terrorist attack yet in Egypt’s modern history.

 

moron alert news

So I’m back with the moron alerts because moronism has become really prevalent these days. Here are the newest alerts:

– “After 4 years, there will be no electric blackouts whatsoever, not even for a second and people will be happy.”  Minister of Energy.
وزير الكهرباء: التيار الكهربائي لن ينقطع ” ولا ثانية ” بعد 4 سنوات والناس هتكون مبسوطة

– “I am not a spy for intelligence apparatus. Information comes to me while sitting at home. ”
TV host Abdel Rahim Ali re accusations leveled at him that he works for intelligence. He became famous for broadcasting private telephone calls between opposition members.

عبد الرحيم على: «لست مخبرًا والمعلومات تأتي لمنزلي».

– “Magdy Yacoub’s center for heart transplant is an ‘undercover British/Israeli conspiracy to separate Nubia from Egypt’.
Economist and self-proclaimed prophet Sameh Abu Arayes.

– “Yes we do send weapons to rebels inSyria and we fear nothing and no one.”
Ikhwan leader Safwat Higazi

– “Egyptian army is an occupying force.”
Al Jazeera journalist.

– “ًWe will kill any American walking in the streets in Cairo upon sight.”
Journalist Mostafa Bakri, responding to rumors that the US plans on assassinating Sisi.
مصطفى بكري “أنه حال تعرّض المشير السيسي لأذى فإنه سيقود ثورة لذبح الأمريكان في الشوارع”

– “Anyone who does not thank Qatar [for what it’s done] is a dog.”
Libya’s Mufti, 2014

– “Egyptian army succeeded in discovering material that transforms uneven roads to even ones.”
A security expert, 2014

– “We are warning you: We’ll go after your program and any traitor or enemy-collaborator.’”
TV show host Ahmed Moussa to satirist Bassem Youssef [also known as the Egyptian Jon Stewart].
أحمد موسى لـ«باسم يوسف»: لقد أعذر من أنذر وهحط على البرنامج وعلى أي خائن وعميل

– “ًWait for a new slap [meaning surprise] before 2014, and I will say something even tastier than kofta.”
Army appointee Abdel Ati who claimed he invented a HepC/HIV detection and cure method and said it was like eating kofta.
عبد العاطي:انتظروا صفعة أخرى قبل 2014 وهقول طعم ألذ من الكفتة
[I think this one needs a video to prove his moronism]

– “One pound increase in the underground ticket to modernize the underground – and also to let you listen to some music.”
Head of Underground Transportation
رئيس «الأنفاق»: جنيه زيادة في تذكرة المترو لتحديثه و«عشان نسمعك موسيقى»

And just as a tribute to Morsi the ultimate moron:
هتاف سوهاج  ضد مرسى: زغرطى يا بهية رئيسنا عباسية

kucinich – how the best of them all could have never been president

No, it is not about his looks or his charm or the way he speaks or his plans. Kucinich would have never become president. It is not even about his policies being too liberal or far left. This is all totally irrelevant. What matters is this: would he be supportive of the ‘look the other way or else’ policies of Israel or not?

Paranoid? Not really. Let us take a look:

Before the Nevada primary, [Presidential candidate] Dennis [Kucinich] was visited by representatives of Nancy Pelosi and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — AIPAC. They told Dennis that if he would drop his campaigns to impeach Cheney and Bush, they would guarantee his re-election to the House of Representatives.
..Kucinich threw them out of his office. Dennis now faces the toughest election campaign of his entire tenure in congress, with huge amounts of money being spent to turn his constituents against him due to “his neglect of his district while he ran for president.”  [indimedia and reported from the Kucinich campaign]

Not only did he lose the bid for presidency, but the democrats are putting someone to run against him in Ohio!!

You see, Pelosi’s idea of change and of forcing a change from the lunatic policies of Bush and the extreme right wingers is to pray – not impeach. This is what she said back in October:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that she prays for President Bush to change his policies “all the time” and specifically has prayed for him to sign SCHIP legislation that would expand health insurance for uninsured children. “First of all, I pray for President Bush all the time, and I pray especially hard that he would sign the children’s health bill because it’s so important for America’s children,” she said on Fox News Sunday. “I pray that he makes the right decisions for the American people.”  [thecrypt]

top moron alerts: valiant warrior, stinking animals, dogs in the manger, killing Jesus

Here are the top moron alerts for this month:

• “You and your fucking Jesus can kiss my ass. We killed Jesus, we are proud of it! This is my land. God gave it to me.”
  —Drunk Israeli settlers caught on camera by British film crew .
• “I can only tell you what people on the ground, whose judgment — it’s hard for me, living in this beautiful White House, to give you an assessment, firsthand assessment. I haven’t been there; you have, I haven’t. But I do talk to people who are and people whose judgment I trust, and they would not qualify it as that. There are others who think it is. It is, however, a dangerous situation, thereby requiring action on my part.”
  —- President Bush at a press conference this week on being asked whether there was a civil war in Iraq.
• “I will screw him in the ass!”
  — Bush to Ariel Sharon when the latter asked him what he would ddo if he captured Osama bin Laden. Haaretz [link] [Incidentally, the man who said he got this information directly from Sharon is actually making fun of Bush saying: “And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him.”]

Old moron alerts – some jems like no other!:

• DON IMUS, host: They’re [Palestinians] eating dirt and that fat pig wife [Suha Arafat] of his is living in Paris.
  SID ROSENBERG [sports anchor]: They’re all brainwashed, though. That’s what it is. And they’re stupid to begin with, but they’re brainwashed now. Stinking animals. They ought to drop the bomb right there, kill ’em all right now.
  — From the November 12 edition of MSNBC’s Imus in the Morning following the death of Arafat. [link]
• “It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable.”
  — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, leader of Israel’s ultra-orthodox Shas party, sermon April 10, 2001 [link].
• I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.
  — Winston Churchill – To the Palestine Royal Commission (1937)