Fire and night in Lebanon

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Sappho

Let me tell you about the fire erupted two times yes­ter­day in Juh­niya — Lebanon, where I am spend­ing my vaca­tion, and I thought maybe the peo­ple are cel­e­brat­ing the new gov­ern­ment or fire­fight started, but these are the reasons:

The first time around 11,00 o’clock pm, bul­lets sound, the rea­son is some stu­pid Turk­ish Arabic-synchronized soapserie. The fire erupted cel­e­brat­ing the end of the series.

The sec­ond time around 01,00 in the morn­ing, sound of explo­sions, fire­works cel­e­brat­ing Miss Lebanon Beauty Pageant crowned in Regency Hotel near where I live, with nation­al­ist songs and many flag wav­ing in the street.

This is Lebanon, where a soapserie is cel­e­bra­tion Miss Lebanon is Nationalism.

By the way, am I the only one here who buys six news­pa­pers every morning?

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  3. NDHF Net says:
    July 13, 2008 at 16:04

    So, LB, “six news­pa­pers every morn­ing” for the starters, ha ha ha… Let me fun you up for that with some other media war absurdities:

    Here in Fin­land we are ready to claim that our mod­est news ser­vice NDHF Net’s become the world’s most cen­sored site in the entire Eng­lish cyberspace.

    To back the claim up, here’s how the Google “News” ter­ror­ists cen­sor the NDHF Net today:

    §1. The NDHF Net news head­lines do not appear in the Google search at all so that whichever head­line you choose from our address http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net, only the orig­i­nal (and its pos­si­ble repro­duc­tions) appear.

    §2. Even “News­desk Helsinki Fin­land” itself doesn’t appear in the Google search as if our mod­est site didn’t exist:
    http://www.google.fi/search?q=%22newsdesk+helsinki+finland%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

    §4. Of some 1,600 men­tions of “news­desk helsinki fin­land” the Google Team admits (today) 1010:
    http://www.google.fi/search?q=%22newsdesk+helsinki+finland%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
    of which it chooses to dis­play 49:
    http://www.google.fi/search?hl=fi&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=X02&q=%22newsdesk+helsinki+finland%22&start=80&sa=N
    Of these one sin­gle wire denotes back to the NDHF Net site:
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net/news/396/iraq_pipeline_fire_caused_by_mechanical_fault/
    There­fore, the Google Ter­ror­ists pro­vides the NDHF Net with 0,1 per cent of the exist­ing NDHF Net coverage.

    §4. For some rea­son the Google Team sus­tains one sin­gle NDHF Net wire among the search. Until yes­ter­day the wire in ques­tion was this:
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net/news/396/iraq_pipeline_fire_caused_by_mechanical_fault/
    How­ever, to test the mat­ter a NDHF Net Open Source Cen­ter was added to the wire with the result the Google now offer­ing this wire:
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net/news/312/8_katyusha_rockets_seized_in_karbala/

    §5. It’s really absurd, Fin­land sup­pos­edly being the coun­try top­ping the press free­dom of the world for years, but actu­ally in pos­ses­sion of the world’s most cen­sored site these days.

    §6. To the busi­ness then: the NDHF Team is cur­rently scout­ing the inter­net cen­sor­ship around the “war on ter­ror”. As an inves­tiga­tive news agency, before con­tact­ing the Guin­ness’ Record Book and claim­ing for the title of the world’s most cen­sored site, we’d like to chal­lenge all the Iraq war sites around the world to beat the cen­sor record sketched above, if you can.

    You may leave your hint under this arti­cle or pass it to the NDHF Team in address:

    NDHF Net (Media Squad)
    27.U.N.J.B.
    United Nations (Fin­land)
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net

    info@newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net

    p.s. For those not know­ing the back­ground for the NDHF Net cen­sor­ship, please read the arti­cle
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net/news/549/oscs_corporate_media_and_google_news_murderers_murderers_murderers___/
    and you’re pretty much informed.

    Do also note that the prob­lem isn’t restricted to the NDHF Net alone, but prac­ti­cally to all the friendly sites, as pointed out in com­ments made avail­able by the cour­tesy of LB (Roads to Iraq) ear­lier:
    1. http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/07/01/tribal-councils-what-are-they-god-for/#comment-80930
    2. http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/07/05/vacation/#comment-80958

  4. NDHF Net says:
    July 13, 2008 at 18:32

    @ LB: The Kar­bala wire is now “refreshed”: http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net/news/312/8_katyusha_rockets_seized_in_karbala/
    Let’s see how the Google ter­ror­ists respond to that ;)

    NDHF Net
    27.U.N.J.B.
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net

  5. NDHF Net says:
    July 17, 2008 at 12:32

    Think­ing you wouldn’t mind, keep fun­ning you up ;)

    It seems that the Google “News” ter­ror­ist team’s now unhappy with the recent update of the Kar­bala wire (cf. above) too so that today the sole NDHF Net arti­cle dis­played by them

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22newsdesk+helsinki+finland%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

    would be

    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net/news/363/helsinki_captured_by_the_liberation_forces_on_13_4_1918/

    As the NDHF Net Open Source Cen­ter is to be opened soon one might expect that arti­cle to be “refreshed” in the days to come ;)

    Let’s see how long it will take before they come dis­ap­pointed with that one as well…

    NDHF Net
    27.U.N.J.B.
    United Nations (Fin­land)
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net