Overseas Roundup

Happy Friday, everyone!

It's the end of another week, so let's take a look around the world and see what they think of us today. Thanks to the wondrous website..."Watching Ameria".

First up...our Succubus of State.

Condoleezza Rice, the Black Secretary of State of the United States (with all due respect to Blacks), has achieved a fame in the Arab World that surpasses that of our own villainous leaders ... She is on everyone's lips … her pictures are constantly broadcast on every national and satellite television station … rather than beautiful belles, newspapers decorate their front pages with her pictures … and even tabloids put her face on their covers rather than those of models and beautiful women.

All of this is not because of her beauty, appeal, or magical attraction … and not due to her sparkling intelligence or cultural sophistication. It certainly isn't because she is blue-blooded (God forbid) or a descendent of one of the greats … and not because she's a descendant of an ancient noble dynasty. Surely she is beyond accusation in this regard, as innocent as the wolf who was blamed for eating the son of Jacob [the son of Abraham, founder of the Jews and prophet of Islam].

[Editor's Note: In the Old Testament, Jacob, the great grandson of Abraham - the first Jew and a Prophet of Islam - was told by his sons that a wolf had devoured another of his sons, called Joseph. The truth was that they wanted to get rid of Joseph, had thrown Joseph into a pit, and had made up the story about the wolf [Genesis xxxvii. 33]. Jacob ordered them to arm themselves and capture the beast. So they went and captured a wolf. According to the story, when Jacob began to reproach the beast for its cruelty, the wolf answered, in human language, that it had not devoured Joseph, and that it was itself searching for its lost cub].

The reason [for her continued appearance everywhere] is that she holds in one hand a baton with which she breaks the bones of the weak … and in the other, a whip that rips through the skins of the innocent. Her acts are backed up by her country’s great strength … and the indifferent silence of the civilized world, which claims to defend freedoms and democracies.

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Rice is really and truly a succubus, and like Lucifer she deserves to be struck with stones - and as an extra sign of how despised she is - she should also be struck with shoes … that is if the militants don't hurl something at her even more harmful than stones and shoes.

Remember the story a few days back about the Iranian general that defected to the west? It got scant coverage in the west except on The Rachel Maddow Show....so here's the scoop from overseas.

Iran's former deputy defense minister, General Ali Reza Asghari disappeared without a trace in Turkey on February 7. According intelligence service sources, it's likely that the general, who is privy to profound secrets on Iranian assistance to the Lebanese Hezbullah, has defected and is being interrogated by the American intelligence services. At a time when international tension id high over Iran's role in the Middle East, the revelatios of Ali Reza Asghari's are of great interest to Washington. Le Figaro inquired into his disappearance.

The Iranian general is allegedly in a northern European country, where he is allegedly undergoing a "vigorous debriefing" before being taken back to the United States, according to an American person in charge, quoted by the Washington Post. The former deputy defense minister "is cooperating" with Western intelligence agencies.

"It was an organized defection," the Israeli, Uri Lubrani, a high official at the ministry of defense in Tel Aviv and an expert on Lebanese-Iranian Shiite networks, told Le Figaro. "Everything was prepared, and his family sought refuge abroad before he did." According to the Sunday Times in London about ten people close to him, including his two sons, left Iran before he did. Asghari was last seen entering a large hotel in Istanbul on February 7. The night before, two foreigners were seen in the lobby of the establishment. They allegedly reserved a room in his name and paid the entire bill in cash.

Lastly today, there was great gnashing of teeth and rending of garments in the comic world recently over the death of Captain America. Would it surprise you to learn that he was possibly killed for political reasons?

How is it that superheroes die, too? What do they die of? Where has it been seen? Well, it seems like we're seeing it now. Yesterday, the media told us of the assassination of Captain America, one of the most representative personalities in American comic books. On Telenoche TV, Federico Wiemeyer devoted his segment – usually dedicated to new trends on the Internet - to talking about the murder of this well-known figure. His report showed digital images of the event (the journalist emphasized that story ran in The New York Times as though it were a real-life crime), and also showed animation of the Captain with the bars and stars on his uniform and shield.

The curious thing, also pointed out by Wiemeyer, is the reason for this attack on Captain America. As part of the "war on terror" following the outrages of 9/11, and after a confrontation between the superheroes and arch-villains which left many civilians dead, the United States government forced anyone who had special powers to sign on to a registry designed to control their activities. This leads to the formation of two distinct factions: those who obeyed the law, among whom are Iron Man and Spiderman; and those who opposed the law, and – so to speak – hid in the shadows. Since his actions fell somewhere in between, Captain America was required to turn himself into the Law, and while ascending the Courthouse steps, a sniper ended his life.

Was this The End for the champion who was born fighting the Nazis in the 40's? Nothing is known of these matters. Remember that at one time, Superman's death was announced; and also that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was compelled to resurrect Sherlock Holmes, after he realized that if he didn't, Dolyle might be the one that was killed - at the hands of a fanatical reader. At the same time, the readers of Harry Potter eagerly await the release of the final volume of that saga, in order to see whether or not they will eternally hate J.K. Rowling, who has announced that two characters will die in the last book.

So....there we go. Interesting stuff. Remember when the United States media used to be like this?