The Iconoclast

The Water Wars Or, How Now, Old Nile?

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Egypt could not continue to claim to have control over the headwaters of the Nile, and this face-saving agreement to try to agree with Ethiopia may, if the Egyptians remain […]

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Abdullah Al-Thani, Former (And Maybe Sort Of Still) Libyan Prime Minister, Blames A Vast Conspiracy For Arab Woes

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Abdullah Al-Thani has an explanation for Arab woes that he’d like to share with you — there’s a conspiracy of “Christians and Jews” who for some reason show quite undeserved […]

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Where is Ex-FBI Agent Robert Levinson, President Rouhani?

March 09, 2015
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Jerry Gordon

Former FBI-Agent Robert Levinson Imprisoned in Iran Source: Levinson Family FBI director James Comey announced today that they agency raised the reward for information to $5 million on the whereabouts […]

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Infiltration Of Western Security Services By Muslims

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. In Paris, four more people were arrested in connection with the attacks on the Jewish market. Note that a policewoman, who worked in police intelligence, and was a convert […]

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Nearly Half Of The Senators Now Standing In Tall Cotton, Or Standing Tall With Cotton, Or Something

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. “They sat down and wrote themselves a letter. And sent it off, the way they do. The words they wrote were not so sweet. They’ll knock the ayatollah off […]

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A Musical Interlude: Waiting At The End Of The Road (Bob Haring Orch., voc. Scrappy Lambert)

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Listen here.

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Brookings Study of ISIS Twitter Accounts Reveals US among Top Locations

March 09, 2015
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Jerry Gordon

A Brookings Institution examination of a complete data set of 20,000 ISIS Twitter accounts ranked Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and US as the top four locations of twitter users, The […]

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Abdulazziz Al-Qattani Does The Best He Can To Tell The Truth, But Tells It Slant

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. He can’t leave Islam. He can’t admit, to himself or to others, that Islam itself is the problem. But he can say, and he does, that ISIS does not […]

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Misfortunes Of Misr: Conspiracy-Addled Egyptians Give Their Lowdown On Qataris, And On Who Al-Baghdadi Really Is

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Al-Sisi is trying to make things sliightly less crazy. But Egypt is still full of crazy people, and three of them, and their inside-dope on Sex and the Qataris running […]

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Good Book

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

George Sturt’s The Wheelwright’s Shop. Cheap copies, by the tens of thousands, might  be dropped by plane all over Silicon Valley, in the same spirit with which Lauro de Bosis […]

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Whistling In The Dark: Some Play About The Mughal Empire At The National Theatre

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

The praise lavished on these papier-mache characters by Peter Tatchell, a homosexual-rights campaigner who has felt aggrieved in the past by the Muslim hostility to homosexuality (in other words, he […]

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In Mix-n’-Match Yemen, Al Qaeda, The Army, The Houthis, The Southern Separatists (Your Group Here) Go At It

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Latest here.  

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Nasty Little Qatar, Egypt, And Those Pyramids From The Time Of Jahiliyya

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here.

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"Parkinglotism"

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Put a stop — a glottal stop — to this kind of nonsense, merely by repeating it to everyone you know, so that they can begin to be aware of […]

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Topsy-Turvy: Parents Whose Children Took Their Islam Seriously Want The British Police To Apologise

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

Here. It is disgusting — but so many things are these days — that  the parents of  the three girls, those three little maids from school who were sufficiently impressed […]

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Student Government At UC-Irvine Voted To Ban The American Flag

March 09, 2015
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Hugh Fitzgerald

The ban was, in turn, vetoed by a higher authority. But just think. Here.

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