UPDATE
In continuation with the Caterrorpillar Chronicles here at Black Iris, there is an interesting article at the Electronic Intifada by Dane Baker, in which he accounts for media and press reaction to the selling of Caterpillars to the IOF. In specific the lack of integrity and objectivity of publications such as […]

Jordan’s tourism revenues reach $1 billion
(upi News) AMMAN, Jordan: Jordan’s revenues from tourism reached $1 billion in 2004, a 4.5 percent increase from the year before, Tourism Minister Alia
Boran said Wednesday.
“This is a positive indicator, and we expect a better income in the future, following several years of stagnation due to […]

There’s Always Delusion

Since it’s almost graduation season, and since I have one more year to suffer before grad school knocks, I thought it would be a cool idea to post a funny speech. So here’s a little something from one of my all-time favorite late night hosts: Conan O’Brien, as he spoke […]

Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
I highly recommend this book which I read 2 years ago and it has just been released a few weeks ago in Paperback.
Her Majesty is one of the most remarkable people in the world, and a great intellectual and role model for all Jordanians to aspire to. In […]

Everyone’s been talking about it lately and alot of views have been shared that range from the constructive to the destructive. Outrage has been expressed and so has doubt, so I thought I would take the oppertunity to make my views clear on the reactions because they are just as important (if not more than) […]

An interesting thing today. As part of a 4th year university course on Public Policy and Canadian Politics in a North American context, I had to prepare over the course of the year a long public policy project. Being the idiot I am, I could not go with something simple, or something everyone else was […]

MULTIMEDIA

The following are links to some interesting videos taken of homes being demolished. Operation Rainbow has been an ongoing demolition of homes in Rafah, Gaza since last May 2004. Israel claims it was to uproot “terrorists”. In about a week’s time Israel had killed 38 civilians of them 9 children and wounded 134 civilians including […]

UPDATE (a sad one)

CHICAGO - Caterpillar Inc. shareholders on Wednesday soundly rejected a resolution that would have directed the heavy equipment manufacturer
to investigate the use of its bulldozers by the Israeli army to demolish
Palestinian homes.
The resolution, which the company said at its annual meeting was […]

Not the kind of “democracy” we had in mind…

Translation:
The sign on the wall reads: “87% of Jordanian women support the husband’s right to hit them”
Abu-Mahjoob is telling his already roughed-up wife: “Um-Mahjoob, didn’t you want democracy? This is democracy!! So after seeing this survey, you should sweep the floor in silence lest I sweep the […]

Connnecting with the darkness falling
falling like a star that’s calling
all the answers appear misleading
and I alone must choose
Everything i know of me
is reflections of what i tend to see
but mirrors play it in reverse
mirrors lie and I immersed
in silent mellow rhapsody
a palpitating elegy
for everything i […]

It is 11:15pm. Tonight I begin the process known as cramming. For those of you unfamiliar with this process (typically people of Asian decent who watch less than an hour of TV a day) cramming is an ancient procedure of attempting to cram oodles of “raw data” into your mind several hours before an examination […]

I did not go outside at all today. This is a big thing when you live in a basement apartment. There are times when I have gone 2 maybe 3 days without leaving the house. When I finally do I find myself having to cover my eyes with my hand from the blinding sun. I […]

Ten Thousand right-wing jews were called on to conquer the Haram Al-Sharif…but only an embarassing couple of dozen dared to show up. 31 were arrested by Israeli Police. Even better then the jewish-no-show were the thousands of Palestinian Muslims which gathered to defend the mosque. “Around 15,000 Palestinian worshippers have prayed the dawn prayer here,” […]

UPDATE

Based on a contact I recieved today, I’ve discovered that Mostafa Mahmoud, the first Jordanian attempting to climb Mt. Everest, has a new and improved website at www.jordanfirsteverest.com

He will also be making daily updates here at www.alpineascents.com

Check’em Out

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I’m not a big fan of the Tonight Show, but since they didn’t show any Letterman last week, I took in some Leno and they do have that bit aboutfunny headlines. These are the best ones.

‘Now that Iraq has become a democracy, who should join North Korea and Iran in the axis of evil?’

“Here’s […]

Well it took me awhile and plenty of putting off studying, but I managed to put categories in my sidebar. I wondered why Blogger didn’t offer it but I guess if you wan’t something done, you’ve got to do it yourself. I did a few searches and found this to be one of the best […]