From: Travis
Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2008
Subject: Origins of the Middle-Finger Salute
Anti-Mullah <http://noiri.blogspot.com/>
MIDDLE FINGER SALUTE
ORIGIN<http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/12/middle-finger-salute-origin.html>
Posted: 18 Dec 2008 02:48 PM CST
*The History of the Middle Finger*
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*Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know
it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the
hope that they, too, will feel edified. Isn't history more fun when you know
something about it?
Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory
over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured
English soldiers.
Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned
English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the
future.
This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the
act of drawing the longbow was known as 'plucking the yew' (or 'pluck yew').
Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and
began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated
French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew! Since 'pluck yew' is rather
difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has
gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often
used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute!"
It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the
longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as 'giving the bird.'
AND TO THINK IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO OUR ENEMIES TODAY!
And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing*
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Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:28 AM CST
*Did Saddam bagman help Obama purchase mansion?*
*Former Iraqi official bankrolled Democrat's financier Rezko*
**
*Obama and top fundraiser Tony Rezko, a business partner and close friend
ofAuchi Just 23 days before a crooked fundraiser helped Sen. Barack Obama
buy his Chicago mansion, a billionaire bagman for Saddam Hussein wired
millions intothe crook's account.*
**
*"Barack Obama appears to have personally benefited from funds originating
in Saddam Hussein's regime," said Mideast expert Daniel Pipes.Former Iraqi
official Nadhmi Auchi bankrolled his longtime friend and business partner, *
**
*Syrian immigrant and Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko, who in turn bankrolled
Obama's political career before being convicted this year of fraud. That
much is known. *
**
*What's not known is whether any Auchi funds aided Obamas 2005 purchase of a
$1.65 million mock-Georgian mansion in the leafy Kenwood district of
Chicago. *
**
*On the same day, Rezko purchased an adjacent lot from the same seller.*
*In addition, Rezko personally toured the house with Obama before their
same-day purchase of the adjoining parcels. He also advised Obama on
negotiating his end of the deal.*
**
*Obama ended up buying his side of the property for $300,000 below the
asking price, while Rezko, through his wife, paid full price, $625,000, for
the adjacent vacant lot.*
**
*Just three weeks earlier, Rezko – who at the time was under indictment and
virtually bankrupt – received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Auchi, his
close friend" and partner, who smuggled weapons to Saddam's regime.*
**
*Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones Jr. and his protege Barack Obama
*
**
*A year before their real estate deal, Obama, fresh off his U.S. Senate win,
attended a dinner that Rezko hosted honoring Auchi at the Four Seasons hotel
in downtown Chicago. There, he met with Rezko, as well as his career mentor,
Emil Jones, president of the Illinois senate, where Obama had previously
served. Jones also is close to Auchi.*
**
*While Obama acknowledges attending the 2004 event, he claims having no
memory of meeting Auchi there.*
**
*"I just don't recall," he said, even though the dinner was held in Auchi's
honor and Rezko had invited Obama to meet him and other friends. *
**
*What's more, Rezko that same year had held another reception for Auchi,
this time at his mansion; and according to court testimony in Rezko's trial,
both Barack and Michelle Obama attended the reception and met Auchi.*
**
*Auchi at the time was under investigation by the U.S. Government.
ThePentagon had accused him of perpetrating fraud in Iraq, and he was
subsequently barred from future entry into the U.S. *
**
*Auchi turned to Rezko to lobby several politicians in an unsuccessful bid
to reinstate his visa. It's not clear if Obama, a vocal Iraq war critic, was
one of those politicians. But the senator did intervene on behalf of another
shady Iraqi official at Rezko's request.*
**
*Emil Jones and Nadhmi Auchi *
**
*After Aiham Alsammarae was jailed in Iraq for fraud in 2006, Obama's Senate
office sought information from the State Department about his status and
relayed it to his family living in Chicago. Alsammarae, a dual Iraqi-U.S.
citizen who donated the maximum $2,300 toObama's campaign, attended the same
Four Seasons reception for Auchi, attended by Obama.*
**
*A 2004 Pentagon report identified Auchi as an Iraqi billionaire and global
arms dealer "who behind the facade of legitimate business, served as Saddam
Hussein's principle international financial manipulator and bag man."*
**
*The report states that "significant and credible evidence has been
developed that Nadhmi Auchi has engaged in unlawful activities," such as
bribing foreign governments and individuals prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom
to turn opinion against the American-led mission to remove Saddam Hussein.*
**
*"He also helped "arrange for significant theft from the U.N.
Oil-for-FoodProgram to smuggle weapons and dual-use technology into Iraq."*
**
*Since October 2002, Obama has publicly opposed Operation Iraqi
Freedom,which ousted Saddam Hussein. Auchi was a cousin of the executed
dictator.*
**
*As for Rezko, the Obama campaign says the presidential hopeful was unaware
of his dirty dealings and has returned more than $200,000 in donations tied
to him. *
**
*Obama has confessed misjudgment only in the subsequent purchase of a
10-footstrip of the adjacent S. Greenwood Avenue property from Rezko, not the
original seemingly coordinated purchase of the parcels with Rezko on the
same day, which political watchdog groups have called a "sweetheart deal." *
**
*Plot of land Rezko bought on same day Obama bought $1.65 million Georgian
mansion next door Obama described his subsequent $105,000 transaction a "
boneheaded move,"only because Rezko was under indictment at the time for
bribing elected officials and other influence-peddling charges. *
**
*He denies they coordinated their bids on the adjoining parcels so the
Obamas could buy their dream home at a discount. And his campaign has
reiterated that Obama has no recollection of meeting Iraqi bagman Auchi,
while adding that Auchi does not recall meeting Obama.*
**
*"There are no skeletons with this guy," Obama foreign policy adviser
Samantha Power has insisted regarding her candidate. "He's clean." *
**
*Coincidentally, Obama's national campaign co-chairman, Rep. Jesse Jackson
Jr of Chicago, also purchased a mansion under similarly mysterious
circumstances.*
**
*TIMELINE:*
**
*1967 – Nadhmi Auchi joins Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime as Oil
Ministryofficial*
**
*1974 – Antoin Rezko immigrates to U.S. from Syria*
**
*1979 – Auchi founds General Mediterranean Holding, procuring arms for
Saddam\s regime*
**
*1980s – Auchi begins bankrolling Rezko real estate deals in Illinois*
**
*1991 – Barack Obama interviews with Rezko for a position at his low-income
housing development business, Rezmar*
**
*1993-1996 – Obama takes on Rezko as a client at his Chicago law firm,
representing various Rezmar housing projects*
**
*1995 – Rezko starts to bankroll Obama's political career, in the end
raisinga total of more than $250,000 for his various campaigns*
**
*October 2002 – Obama gives speech opposing war with Iraq*
**
*June 2003 – Rezko holds lavish fundraiser for Obama at his Illinois
mansion, providing key seed money to launch his U.S. Senate campaign*
**
*April 2004 – Auchi meets with Rezko, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and
State Senate President Emil Jones Jr., Obama's career mentor, at the Four
Seasons hotel in Chicago. *
**
*Newly elected U.S. Sen. Obama also attends event*
**
*2005 – U.S. bars Auchi from entry, after Pentagon accuses him of Iraqi
fraud*
**
*2005 – Rezko lobbies Illinois and U.S. officials for Auchi to be allowed
back into the U.S.*
**
*May 23, 2005 – Auchi wire-transfers $3.5 million to Rezko*
**
*June 15, 2005 – Obama partners with Rezko in purchasing adjacent properties
on South Greenwood Avenue in Chicago's leafy Kenwood district*
**
*January 2006 – Rezko sells Obama adjoining 10-foot strip of land*
**
*June 2008 – Rezko convicted of taking kickbacks from companies wanting to
do business with the state of Illinois*
**
*NOW I MUST GO BATHE... THE FILTH SEEMS TO RUB OFF THE WORDS.*
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Posted: 18 Dec 2008 01:12 AM CST
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* 650 FIFTH AVE BELONGED TO ISLAMIC IRAN*
*TILL WEDNESDAY
*
*Federal authorities moved in Wednesday to seize control of a New York City
office building partially owned by a company with ties to the Iranian
government.*
**
**
*The move by officials at the Treasury and Justice Departments is designed
to stop the flow of funds they say are used to help Iran's efforts to build
nuclear weapons.*
**
*
**The office tower, located on New York's famed Fifth Avenue, was built by
an Iranian non-profit group in the 1970s. Over the years the ownership of
the building has evolved into what federal officials say is an attempt to
hide the stake held by an Iranian state-owned bank.*
**
**
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*The government alleges that Assa Corp., the building's owner, is a shell
company for Bank Melli, which is accused of facilitating the movement of
nuclear materials for the Iranian government.*
**
**
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*Officials contend that Bank Melli was heavily involved in the day-to-day
operations of Assa Corp. and its management of the Fifth Avenue building,
which generated rental income that was sent back to Iran.
*
**
*Although Treasury is now designating Bank Melli a front company for the
Iranian government, it pointed out that the building houses legitimate
tenants, including Merrill Lynch.
*
*This designation does not interfere with the business and other activities
of the tenants of 650 Fifth Avenue, Treasury said in a press release. People
in the U.S. are not prohibited from dealing with business establishments or
other tenants of the building.
*
**
*An executive order signed by President Bush last year froze all Bank Melli
assets in the United States. In October, the FBI seized a pair of Assa's
bank accounts that held $3.1 million.
*
**
*The sole employee of Assa, Mohammad Hassan Dhghani Tafti, engaged in a
number of curious moves to apparently hide his employment status. *
**
**
*His access to Assa accounts drew added attention from federal authorities.
Between 2000 and 2007 more than $17 million was deposited into one of the
seized accounts.
*
**
*"This scheme to use a front company set up by Bank Melli -- a known
proliferator -- to funnel money from the United States to Iran is yet
another example of Iran's duplicity," said Stuart Levey, Treasury
Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
*
**
*Bank Melli is known to handle funds for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards
Corps and its Qods Forces. Those groups are believed to help fund activities
tied to the Taliban, Hizballah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.*
Courtesy Fox News
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