After watching overly sappy never-ending love stories, I still prefer ronin and saw (all parts). I do not like disgusting macho-chauvinistic mahaul, I also do not have a fanatical liking towards feministic approach to life in general.
So the story is…
About the lost dignity or not, its about the composure found or maybe not, it could be about the life left behind or even about the life caught on…
What ever it is at the end of the day, it’s about you, me (not us) and them. It’s about the false streak of a non-existent parallel universe, confused and belligerent that our excessively possessed minds believed in. So, no wonder! la vie est the way its meant to be.
Looking at the formatting palette I was wondering if life could be packaged on;
Alignment and spacing
Bullets and numbering
Borders and shading
Margins and theme
All this does exist but on a word doc. and on several other applications ofcourse; structured and defined ways of making more sense.
The point is… okay so, there isn’t any; it’s all in the head. Webbed!
So how does life move from point A to point B to C, D and E…it doesn’t, we drag our feet to work, we drag ‘em back home and rubbish whatever happens in between-most of us do this the rest just pretend. I do both, and consider myself lucky!!!
The checkered-top cooper outside my window parked in someone else’s garage is no longer there, ☹. I cant have a rotten day already it barely even began I haven’t even dissected anyone’s speech yet. Everything’s on pause. Without sparks and colours, life can be pure black, white or max - confused grey. The fakeness the lies of paranoia-stricken (dis)believers perpetuates them not to see the colours, nor the black, the white or the confused grey.
Life loses meaning everyday, everyday we negotiate with ourselves, make new set of promises, build hopes, complicate things a little further in a bid to simplify it little more, self tutor ourselves the art of forgetting, dream new dreams, believe in all the good things to come on a silver platter (yeah right as if…), plan to learn new things, plan to be more productive than yesterday or even the day before (which was just sitting on your high-back staring at the ceiling, wishing you were sober so you could concentrate)…
So how does life move from point A to point B, are spaces of experiences in-between worth telling, okay insufficient words have left me in a haze as I try to make up some lame ass story to justify my lost cause. Perhaps it may seem as if my purposes never matched my act but I do draw a straight-line walk on both sides and then figure out which signboard to follow, many lose me in the process. Theoretically speaking, in.dif.fer.ence is like a blessing in disguise, it helps when needed the most. So either you’re born with it, or you wait until life kicks you so hard in the face that it makes you make a conscious effort to pick on the trait before it’s too late.
Life is about people having a weird sense of humor.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Country Reports on Terrorism 2009
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
August 5, 2010
The U.S. intelligence community assessed that al-Qa’ida and its affiliates, particularly al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), were actively engaged in operational plotting against the United States.
In 2009, the al-Qa’ida core in Pakistan remained the foremost security threat to the U.S. homeland.
Al-Qa’ida suffered several significant setbacks in 2009 due to Pakistani military operations aimed at eliminating militant strongholds, leadership losses, and increased difficulty in raising money, training recruits, and planning attacks outside of the region.
In addition, the number of imams, clerics, and former militants speaking out against al-Qa’ida increased.
The al-Qa’ida threat was more evenly distributed among its affiliates in 2009:
Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula: The failed December 25th bombing was a stark reminder that AQAP has developed not just the desire but also the capability to launch a strike against the United States. Additionally, with attacks on Yemeni security services, as well as the attempted assassination of the head of counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammad bin Nayif, AQAP showed serious intentions to conduct attacks.
Al-Shabaab: Al-Shabaab controlled significant tracts of territory in Somalia. While more of an ally than a full-blown affiliate, several al-Shabaab leaders have publically proclaimed loyalty to al-Qa’ida.
Al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb: Due, in part, to its failures in northeastern Algeria and chronic financial troubles, AQIM increased attacks and kidnappings for ransom against Western targets in northern Mali, Mauritania, and Niger in an effort to raise funds. Its operations along under-governed borders in the Sahel posed challenges to coordinated state responses.
Al-Qa’ida continued its efforts to encourage key regional affiliates and terrorist networks to pursue a global agenda, using both the Internet as a means to distribute propaganda and telecommunications infrastructure to plan attacks and coordinate movements. Going forward, this will be an area of continued focus for the United States.
Iran continued its financial, material, and logistical support for Hizballah, HAMAS, and other terrorist and militant groups throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. Syria also continued to provide safe-haven as well as political and other support to HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, and a number of other designated Palestinian terrorist groups.
The U.S. addressed the state insufficiencies that allow terrorists to operate freely by promoting effective civilian law enforcement, good governance, and the rule of law. A major focus of this work involves effectively building capacity and making counterterrorism training for police, prosecutors, border officials, and members of the judiciary more systematic, more innovative, and far reaching. Dozens of countries have passed counterterrorism legislation or strengthened existing laws that provide their law enforcement and judicial authorities with tools to bring terrorists to justice.
The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) provided a statistical annex to the report. It cautions against placing too much emphasis on the use of attack data to gauge success or failure of our counterterrorism efforts. In 2009, 11,000 terrorist attacks occurred in 83 countries, resulting in more than 15,700 deaths. Attacks decreased by about six percent in 2009 and deaths declined by about 5 percent. This marks the second consecutive year attacks and fatalities decreased. The largest number of reported terrorist attacks in 2009 occurred in South Asia, which also had, for the second consecutive year, the greatest number of fatalities. Together, South Asia and the Near East were the locations for almost two-thirds of the 234 high-casualty attacks (those that killed 10 or more people) in 2009.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/08/145737.htm
Washington, DC
August 5, 2010
The U.S. intelligence community assessed that al-Qa’ida and its affiliates, particularly al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), were actively engaged in operational plotting against the United States.
In 2009, the al-Qa’ida core in Pakistan remained the foremost security threat to the U.S. homeland.
Al-Qa’ida suffered several significant setbacks in 2009 due to Pakistani military operations aimed at eliminating militant strongholds, leadership losses, and increased difficulty in raising money, training recruits, and planning attacks outside of the region.
In addition, the number of imams, clerics, and former militants speaking out against al-Qa’ida increased.
The al-Qa’ida threat was more evenly distributed among its affiliates in 2009:
Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula: The failed December 25th bombing was a stark reminder that AQAP has developed not just the desire but also the capability to launch a strike against the United States. Additionally, with attacks on Yemeni security services, as well as the attempted assassination of the head of counterterrorism in Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammad bin Nayif, AQAP showed serious intentions to conduct attacks.
Al-Shabaab: Al-Shabaab controlled significant tracts of territory in Somalia. While more of an ally than a full-blown affiliate, several al-Shabaab leaders have publically proclaimed loyalty to al-Qa’ida.
Al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb: Due, in part, to its failures in northeastern Algeria and chronic financial troubles, AQIM increased attacks and kidnappings for ransom against Western targets in northern Mali, Mauritania, and Niger in an effort to raise funds. Its operations along under-governed borders in the Sahel posed challenges to coordinated state responses.
Al-Qa’ida continued its efforts to encourage key regional affiliates and terrorist networks to pursue a global agenda, using both the Internet as a means to distribute propaganda and telecommunications infrastructure to plan attacks and coordinate movements. Going forward, this will be an area of continued focus for the United States.
Iran continued its financial, material, and logistical support for Hizballah, HAMAS, and other terrorist and militant groups throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. Syria also continued to provide safe-haven as well as political and other support to HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, and a number of other designated Palestinian terrorist groups.
The U.S. addressed the state insufficiencies that allow terrorists to operate freely by promoting effective civilian law enforcement, good governance, and the rule of law. A major focus of this work involves effectively building capacity and making counterterrorism training for police, prosecutors, border officials, and members of the judiciary more systematic, more innovative, and far reaching. Dozens of countries have passed counterterrorism legislation or strengthened existing laws that provide their law enforcement and judicial authorities with tools to bring terrorists to justice.
The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) provided a statistical annex to the report. It cautions against placing too much emphasis on the use of attack data to gauge success or failure of our counterterrorism efforts. In 2009, 11,000 terrorist attacks occurred in 83 countries, resulting in more than 15,700 deaths. Attacks decreased by about six percent in 2009 and deaths declined by about 5 percent. This marks the second consecutive year attacks and fatalities decreased. The largest number of reported terrorist attacks in 2009 occurred in South Asia, which also had, for the second consecutive year, the greatest number of fatalities. Together, South Asia and the Near East were the locations for almost two-thirds of the 234 high-casualty attacks (those that killed 10 or more people) in 2009.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/08/145737.htm
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