Jesse Livermore was a well known Wall Street stock broker in his time who made fortunes and lost them on a recurrent, even casual basis. His exploits were best documented in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, from Edwin Lefevre, which gave us a number of memorable quotes such as “profits take care of themselves – losses never do,” and throughout all my years of investing I’ve found that the big money was never made in the buying or the selling.The big money was made in the waiting.” That waiting, in terms of Bashir Assad seems about ready to end. Timing is everything. It’s been a tough spell for Moslems, Germany was even willing to antagonize the jews over circumcision to take a swipe at Islam and the French have been full bore on Moslems for failing to discard their archaic ways and lifestyles.
But some divine justice was enacted yesterday as some of the cream of Assad’s gang including family were whisked to a better place in the heavens, virgins or notwithstanding on balance, the world is a safer place. As a bonus, Iran’s Quds Force commander, Qassem Suleimani was also undearly departed which all in all, has the whiff and hidden hand of Western covert operations. Time for Bashir to pack the luggage and join Idi Amin poolside, continuing a long tradition in the Middle East of a generation or two of stability followed by a violent changing of the guard. The “new Syria” is looking like the point of no return.
—Charles Mackay: An aurora-borealis of unusual brilliancy appeared, and thousands of the crusaders came out to gaze upon it, prostrating themselves upon the earth in adoration. It was thought to be a sure prognostic of the interposition of the Most High; and a representation of his armies fighting with and overthrowing the infidels. Reports of wonders were everywhere rife. A monk had seen two gigantic warriors on horseback, the one representing a Christian and the other a Turk, fighting in the sky with flaming swords, the Christian of course overcoming the Paynim. Myriads of stars were said to have fallen from heaven, each representing the fall of a Pagan foe. It was believed at the same time that the Emperor Charlemagne would rise from the grave, and lead on to victory the embattled armies of the Lord. A singular feature of the popular madness was the enthusiasm of the women. Everywhere they encouraged their lovers and husbands to forsake all things for the holy war. Many of them burned the sign of the cross upon their breasts and arms, and coloured the wound with a red dye, as a lasting memorial of their zeal. Others, still more zealous, impressed the mark by the same means upon the tender limbs of young children and infants at the breast.—Read More:http://robotics.caltech.edu/~mason/Delusions/epd_crusades.html image:http://dalje.com/en/foto.php?id=19&rbr=21780&idrf=885048
But as wily and astute as Jesse was, he did not always have an excellent understanding of probability. Particularly in the domestic and civil sphere. His third wife was Harriet Metz Noble, for whom Jesse was husband number five. The previous four, in a stretch of the odds, all died by the same unnatural cause: suicide. Yep. In 1940 Jesse managed the same feat. Any you spell it. Demise. The curse of Harriet. Middle East leaders have always had food testers in their employ and insurance underwriters have never benefited from such high premiums. Its the Anniversary of the Oslo Accords and the new roadmap to peace looks like a toll road and some new infrastructure. Those Russian investments in Syria look pretty shaky.
—Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon visit the site of the infamous Beaufort battles. During the tour Begin asked a young soldier: “Did they have machine guns?” To which the embarrassed soldier answered positively while Sharon did his best not to laugh.
This incident is notable for highlighting the growing rift between the government and the army as well as showing Begin’s lack of understanding of modern warfare.—Read More:http://livefromjerusalem.tumblr.com/page/10
Russia’s visit to Israel was no coincidence. Putin may have made some mea-culpas at the Western Wall, but unleashing American style chaos theory on this last of the old dominoes is not something his intransigence will have to apologize for, according to the way Russia is acting. Syria is a much more complicated issue than Iraq and far more volatile, if thats possible in terms of repercussion to regional economics. Trying to put out a massive chemical fire with the use of water in buckets, political solutions, handed from man to man,when naked violence has been the traditional lawmaker in these hills.
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(see link at end)… The Saracens upon the ramparts beheld all these manifestations without alarm. To incense the Christians, whom they despised, they constructed rude crosses, and fixed them upon the walls, and spat upon and pelted them with dirt and stones. This insult to the symbol of their faith raised the wrath of the crusaders to that height that bravery became ferocity and enthusiasm madness. When all the engines of war were completed the attack was recommenced, and every soldier of the Christian army fought with a vigour which the sense of private wrong invariably inspires. Every man had been personally outraged, and the knights worked at the battering-rams with as much readiness as the meanest soldiers. The Saracen arrows and balls of fire fell thick and fast among them, but the tremendous rams still heaved against the walls, while the best marksmen of the host were busily employed in the several floors of the moveable towers in dealing death among the Turks upon the battlements….
—Jews have not been permitted to live in Jordan. Civil Law No. 6, which governed the Jordanian-occupied West Bank, states explicitly: “Any man will be a Jordanian subject if he is not Jewish.” The problem is more widespread than any short article can describe. A recent example appeared in the Washington Post (8 May 2001) as follows:
“Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday, 5 May, 2001 offered a vivid, if vile, demonstration of why he and his government are unworthy of respect or good relations with at the United States or any other democratic country. Greeting Pope John Paul II in Damascus, Mr Assad launched an attack on Jews that may rank as the most ignorant and crude speech delivered before the pope in his two decades of travel around the world. Comparing the suffering of the Palestinians to that of Jesus Christ, Mr Assad said that the Jews ‘tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.’ With that libel, the Syrian president stained both his country and the pope …”
In August 2001, the United Nations-hosted World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban. The Arab Lawyers’ Union handed conference delegates a cartoon equating the Star of David with the swastika.—Read More:http://bje.org.au/learning/israel/history/arabs.html
…Godfrey, Raymond, Tancred, and Robert of Normandy, each upon his tower, fought for hours with unwearied energy, often repulsed, but ever ready to renew the struggle. The Turks, no longer despising the enemy, defended themselves with the utmost skill and bravery till darkness brought a cessation of hostilities. Short was the sleep that night in the. Christian camp. The priests offered up solemn prayers in the midst of the attentive soldiery for the triumph of the Cross in this last great struggle, and as soon as morning dawned every one was in readiness for the affray. The women and children lent their aid, the latter running unconcerned to and fro while the arrows fell fast around them, bearing water to the thirsty combatants. The saints were believed to be aiding their efforts, and the army, impressed with this idea, surmounted difficulties under which a force thrice as numerous, but without their faith, would have quailed and been defeated. Read More:http://robotics.caltech.edu/~mason/Delusions/epd_crusades.html
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