Showing posts with label arabic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arabic. Show all posts

Wednesday 25 November 2015

Saturday 20 December 2014

Dhiyaa Al Musawi - Bahraini Intellectual & Writer on Arab Regressiveness




A must listen on how keeping people stupid foments Islamic religious extremism. As Dhiyaa Al Musawi,explains "When they get religion, they stop smiling". 

This is a full on attack against the forces of darkness in Islam across the Arab world. 

The religious nutbags who have a hatred for enlightenment and learning. 

There should be more Muslims standing up and calling out the people who want to wind the clock back to the dark ages.

Sunday 4 August 2013

The League of Arab Zombies | The Arab Traitors




As long as the House of Saud is the franchise holder for the city of Mecca there's an open festering wound in the heart of Islam. Like the management of both the Vatican and Jerusalem they defile the purpose of religion and those least able to see it are the religious.

Of course Saudi Arabia are an installed regime by the Western powers. There's even good cause to question if the despicable House of Saud (with their degenerate lives) are Crypto Zionists because both Saudi and Israel have such an unbelievably tight relationship.

However drilling down further into the vultures circling over Syria we have a Sunni majority clustered around the Western backed Petromonarchies. In principle the dandier looking Arabs in 'Prada' Sheik gear with white turbans and robes are, by and large the most corrupt element of Islam. They are happy to murder the Shiite minority to save their own necks.

Shame on them for propping up a world of violence. 

Shame on the West for thinking so short term. 

Shame on Israel for forgetting within half a century that they too were once victimized. 

Shame on you all.

Friday 7 October 2011

Nobel Peace winner Tawakul Karman talks to Al Jazeera



It's easy to dismiss the Nobel peace prize awarded to Tawakul Karman (and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee) as unconnected to the X Factor and TV dinner lives of the West but this year is a great example of an activist in a part of the world, that along with Bahrain and Syria is buried under a daily dishing of brutality that exists in large part to pipe the oil into the West's vehicles. 

Everything is connected. Listen to her. There's no daylight between her and say the words of John Lennon or any of the other greats that invariably the system seems to find a way to place a bullet in.

Saturday 2 June 2007

Timo Veikkola - Nokia

I went to PSFK's conference yesterday in London. It was billed as a morning of trends and ideas, and an afternoon of new marketing. The whole day was hugely enjoyable and I'm not just saying that because PSFK put me up at the Metropolitan and paid for those Cannes tickets I was moaning about. I made some notes of the thoughts and ideas that made sense to me or even didn't make sense but somehow needed to be taken down. Here they are.

The first speaker was Timo Veikkola (picture by lynetter) who is a future specialist at Nokia (what a great job), and seems to have a similarly exciting position as Jan Chipchase. Timo is one of those social science types that the Scandinavian countries excel at integrating into big business much more sympathetically than many U.S. corporations. His goal is to make communications as natural as possible while picking up on future trends to integrate into Nokia products and usability. Timo pointed out that there is no other stimulant like travel and I'd fully agree with him there. Anything else is just Disneyland really. Timo is currently planning for the year 2010, and reminded us of the question "can the human mind master what the human mind has made?" (Zygmnunt Bauman). For a Clinton Kid like me, the last 6 years have been quite depressing and Timo underlined how war is thematic for this decade despite the number of casualities at this moment in time. He talked how these visuals of the oxymoron 'war on terror' have started to seep into culture and may also explain why there is a considerable counter movement for the honest, fun and simple.

Many years ago I was in Vietnam and noticed that despite all the efforts of the mighty U.S. military machine it was Coca-Cola that had really won the war. One slide by Timo of a car covered in Arabic text reminded me that if we look at the population growth demographics for Islamic countries it shouldn't be too long before, along with India and China we should in the future begin to see more Arabic text creeping into our culture. I always find text fascinating and have even etched a few Khmer and Siamese tattoos on my body. I can think of nothing more exciting than nipping up to the Turk, Sri Lankan, Kurdish and Tamil supermarkets where I'm living and looking at 'foreign stuff'. Somehow Coconut Milk from Southern India is much more romantic and kosher than something packaged by one of the supermarkets. I am also quite frankly bored with all the web 2.0 cuddly logos sprouting, although I do realise that style is more important and useful than identity in this overloaded logo world.

Timo talked about how protest and political statement will likely be more present in design of the future and this was reinforced later by the sustainable design panel. I can certainly see a future where homogeneous brands, products and services are more likely to differentiate themselves by what they stand for - their values as it were. Timo also described that we seem to be living in almost biblical Revelations-like times with famine, pestilence, disease and floods from things like SARS, Hurricanes and Tsunamis, he then talked about the move from a celebrity culture to a knowledge culture which simply can't come soon enough for me.

Many moons ago on a hardcore right wing political chat channel that I liked to sharpen my teeth on I was arguing (or rather being shouted down) about the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of driving SUV's in a world with rapidly diminishing oil and young Americans and British people dying for it while serving in the armed forces in Iraq which everyone knows (except the oil addicts) was invaded for its oil reserves and the Green Zone that will administer it. The one weapon that unsettled the frothy mouthed right-wing-nuts in the debate (95% of the channel) was the question, would Jesus drive an SUV? The unholy alliance between the Neo-Conservatives and the Christian fundamentalists is always unsettled by this simple question and mark my words for the future of sustainable consumption, religion and culture will be huge factors in the war of ideas. Ask yourself if Jesus would purchase an SUV, because it looks to me from the picture above that Mohamed wouldn't have minded a Big Mac. That is every reason for being optimistic about the future...... which according to Arthur C Clarke is going to be 'utterly fantastic'.