Misers’ Complex, Demanding Struggles In Classical Arabic Literature + Al-Jahiz’s Misers Offer Rich Framework For Reading Athenaeus’s Banqueters

By Author Douglas Galbi: Some would restrict “miser” to a person impulsively hoarding money. Such tight thinking is mistaken. Being a miser entails a complex, ongoing, and demanding struggle against reason and human nature. The challenges of being a miser have never been as richly and fully described as al-Jahiz did in his lengthy, ninth-century book given over completely to misers. Al-Jahiz’s book overflows with letters, testimony, stories, tales, quotes, anecdotes, and glossaries about misers. Just three sentences from al-Jahiz’s book offer much more meaning than subsequent writing about misers has been able to provide.
Al-Jahiz’s book begins with a letter to his unnamed patron. Within that letter, al-Jahiz recounts at length his patron’s request for a book on misers. Among the patron’s many, detailed questions about misers were these:
What is going on in the miser’s mind when he notices other persons’ shortcomings when they entertain him to a meal, but doesn’t perceive his own when entertaining them, even though his own shortcomings are blatantly evident and those of the person entertaining him are not openly apparent?

Nobody Bothered To Check Who Created That “Anti-Semitic” Image Naz Shah Retweeted, Did They?

By Gilad Atzmon:

Naz Shah: Not as anti-Semitic as you might think?
You know that image that got Naz Shah suspended from the Labour Party?
The really offensive, anti-Semitic image that proposes relocating the nation of Israel from the Middle East to the American Midwest?
This one:
It seems nobody bothered to check on the person who originally published it.
So let me put you out of your misery.
The map was posted in Norman Finkelstein Solution for Israel-Palestine Conflict‏, on Monday, August 4, 2014, on his blog.
Professor Finkelstein is described by that hideously inaccurate Wikipedia as “an American political scientist, activist, professor, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who were Jewish Holocaust survivors.”

The Joke Of U.S. Justice And “Accountability” When They Bomb A Hospital

By Glenn Greenwald: Ever since the U.S. last October bombed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the U.S. vehemently denied guilt while acting exactly like a guilty party would. First, it changed its story repeatedly. Then, it blocked every effort – including repeated demands from MSF – to have an independent investigation determine what really happened. As May Jeong documented in a richly reported story for The Intercept yesterday, the Afghan government – rather than denying that the hospital was targeted – instead repeatedly claimed that doing so was justified; moreover, they were sympathetic to calls for an independent investigation, which the U.S. blocked. What is beyond dispute, as Jeong wrote, is that the “211 shells that were fired . . . were felt by the 42 men, women, and children who were killed.” MSF insisted the bombing was “deliberate,” and ample evidence supports that charge.
Despite all this, the U.S. military is about to release a report that, so predictably, exonerates itself from all guilt; it was, of course, all just a terribly tragic mistake. Worse, reports The Los Angeles Times‘ W.J. Hennigan, “no one will face criminal charges.” Instead, this is the “justice” being meted out to those responsible:

Remember The Golan Heights?

By Eric Margolis: During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Syrian forces had surprised Israel and were fast approaching the edge of the steep Golan Heights, captured by Israel during the 1967 war. It seemed as if Syrian armor and infantry would retake Golan, then pour down into Israeli Galilee.

Soviet recon satellites observed Israel moving its nuclear-armed, 500km-range Jericho missiles out of protective caves and onto their launch pads. At the same time, Israel was seen loading nuclear bombs on their US-supplied F-4 fighter-bombers at Tel Nof airbase. 
Believing Israel was about to use nuclear weapons against Syria and Egypt, Moscow put huge pressure on both to rein in their advancing forces.

Syrians Seize Israeli-Made Arms In Suwayda Province

Syrian officials and locals have confiscated a vehicle loaded with Jewish Israeli-manufactured weapons in the Arab country’s southern province of Suwayda.
Press TV: An unidentified local source said that the authorities ambushed a car full of weapons and ammunition bound for the Daesh Takfiri terrorists on Wednesday morning, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported.
The vehicle, which was coming from the eastern countryside of Dara’a Province, was heading to the eastern Badiya desert, the source added.
Anti-personnel landmines, RPG launcher and rounds, B9 shells, 120 mm, 80 mm and 60 mm mortars, grenades and 23 mm machine-gun rounds were among the confiscated weapons.

Who Consented To A Virgin Birth?

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'Making America Great Again' Quest + Truth About Markets

Max and Stacy discuss the quest to ‘Make America Great Again’ as only two AAA rated companies are left standing and trade deals which are loaded with ‘all risk, no benefit’ threaten to annihilate the last vestiges of dignity, hope and greatness remaining.

Male Infant Ritual Genital Mutilation Interview With Brother K

Male infant ritual genital mutilation, also known by the soft name Circumcision, is barbaric. One guy fighting for infant boys rights is Brother K from bloodstainedmen.com. In a chance meeting while I was at the Alamo on a recent US road trip these wonderful people (yes, women were there donning the bloodstained pants) showed the way by exercising their freedom of speech an a powerful yet humane way. I left the encounter richer for many reasons. I hope that people that disagree with this protest, or believe that circumcision is a non issue, still see the humanity that lies in their hearts. Bloodstains may be ooh aah controversial, but have you seen the torture tables that boys are strapped to, and heard their cries? By Six Minutes

Feminists Don't Want Whores To Get Free Rent In Canada

"There are women willing to exchange sexual favours or just their sexual presence, ...for prancing around naked some of the time or wearing skimpy lingerie and that grown adults are willing to offer housing in exchange for this or grown women are willing to prance around naked or offer sexual favours or sexual access in exchange for housing for not money, but stuff. That's apparently outrageous and appalling and I'm not sure why." Said John The Other.

Zio-US-Created System In Iraq Collapsing: Protesters Storm Parliament, State Of Emergency Declared - Live Webcast

Submitted by Tyler Durden: Less than two years ago, the US Jewish Neo-Con-Artists set up another puppet government in the mid-east this time in the state of Iraq when following substantial US Jewish-neo-con-artist pressure, on August 14, 2014 then prime minister al-Maliki agreed to stepped down and be replaced with Haider al-Abadi. Today, the regime is in chaos and the system set up in Iraq by the US is collapsing when protesters loyal to popular Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr breached the heavily fortified Green Zone, home to government buildings and foreign embassiesm and stormed the Iraqi parliament, forcing MPs to flee and resulting in a state of emergency being declared for all of Baghdad.

UK Labour Party In Grip Of Zionist Inquisition

By Stuart Littlewood: The orchestrated smear campaign against pro-Palestine sympathisers sent me reaching for my pen. But Gilad Atzmon too was eyeing the Labour Party’s crazed witch hunt for “antisemites” with misgiving and had already declared, in his usual robust way, that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn was not so much a party as a piece of Zionist-occupied territory.
Writing in his blog about Corbyn and McDonnell’s servile commitment to expel anyone whose remarks might be interpreted by Zionist mafioso as hateful or simply upsetting to Jews, Atzmon concludes: “Corbyn’s Labour is now unequivocally a spineless club of Sabbos Goyim” [which I take to mean non-Jewish dogsbodies who do menial jobs that Jews are forbidden to do for religious reasons].
“The Labour party’s policies,” says Atzmon, “are now compatible with Jewish culture: intolerant to the core and concerned primarily with the imaginary suffering of one people only. These people are not the working class, they are probably the most privileged ethnic group in Britain.  Corbyn’s Labour is a Zionist Occupied Territory…  It proves my theses that the Left is not a friend to Palestine, the oppressed or the workless people.

Putting Pussies On The Podium

By Doug Mortimer: If you live in a large [US] city, you may have heard of the Tuba Christmas concert. As the name implies, the production involves Christmas carols played exclusively on Tubas, or related instruments, such as Sousaphones or Euphoniums. The first such concert was held in New York in 1974 and has spread to cities large and small across America.
While attending one such concert on Christmas Eve in Dallas, I noticed a huge gender imbalance in the musicians. Of the 200 or so players, not more than 1 to 2% were females.
Well, I’m sure there are perfectly good physiological reasons why women don’t play the Tuba (it’s heavy to lug around, it requires a lot of lung power), so it’s not surprising that there are so few female Tuba players.
So why is there no push to encourage more women to play the Tuba?  Where’s the outrage? If 50% of the population is female, then shouldn’t that be reflected in the demographics of Tuba players?  Why are there no female-only programs for Tuba players so they can master the instrument free of any intimidating male influence?