The following are excerpts from a public address delivered by former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, which aired on Al-Alam TV on January 29, 2012. MEMRI provides the transcript and video of Al-Jaafari’s comments in which he references Newt Gingrich and proclaims that America has no history: In some countries, people have been blinded by the truth. Many of the [Republicans] candidates in the coming elections scramble to bring Palestine down. Republican candidate Newt [Gingrich] even said that the Palestinians are an invented, artificial people. The Palestinian people is invented?! Palestine, with its thousands of years, since it was the land of Canaan, which evolved into Palestine – that deep-rooted Arab and Muslim country… That is the invented people?! Or is it, with all due respect to the American nation… I am not a racist, but if I examine the history of the rise of societies, America is not the American people. The American people are the Indians. This is a problem in America. They suffer from a complex, because America has a short history. It has no history. Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. That was yesterday. America was founded only recently. The Arabs and the Muslims, on the other hand, are the pioneers of civilization. Watch below, courtesy of MEMRI:
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Smoke rises from police headquarters in Kano, Nigeria following a wave of coordinated attacks by the radical Muslim sect known as Boko Haram that left at least 143 dead. (Reuters)
A victim of Friday's bomb blast and gun attacks lies in Murtala Muhammad specialist hospital in Kano, Nigeria Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Salisu Rabiu)
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The black-and-white silent film “The Artist” led the Golden Globes with three wins Sunday at a show that spread Hollywood’s love around among a broad range of films, including best drama recipient “The Descendants” and its star, George Clooney. Wins for “The Artist” included best musical or comedy and best actor in a musical or comedy for Jean Dujardin. The dual best-picture prizes at the Globes could set up a showdown between “The Artist” and “The Descendants” for the top honor at next month’s Academy Awards. Other acting winners were Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, and Octavia Spencer, while Martin Scorsese earned the directing honor. “I gotta thank everybody in England that let me come and trample over their history,” said Streep, earning her eighth Globe, this time as dramatic actress for playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Williams won for actress in a musical or comedy as Marilyn Monroe in “My Week With Marilyn,” 52 years after Monroe’s win for the same prize at the Globes for “Some Like It Hot.” The supporting-acting Globes went to Plummer as an elderly widower who comes out as gay in the father-son drama “Beginners” and Spencer as a brassy housekeeper joining other black maids to share stories about life with their white employers in the 1960s Deep South tale “The Help.” “With regard to domestics in this country, now and then, I think Dr. King said it best: ‘All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance.’ And I thank you for recognizing that with our film,” Spencer said. Scorsese won for the Paris adventure “Hugo.” It was the third directing Globe in the last 10 years for Scorsese, who previously won for “Gangs of New York” and “The Departed” and received the show’s Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement two years ago. He won over a field of contenders that included Michel Hazanavicius, who had been considered by many in Hollywood as a favorite for his black-and-white silent film “The Artist.” Williams offered thanks for giving her the same award Monroe once won and joked that her young daughter put up with bedtime stories for six months spoken in Monroe’s voice. “I consider myself a mother first and an actress second, so the person I most want to thank is my daughter, my little girl, whose bravery and exuberance is the example I take with me in my work and my life,” Williams said. Dujardin became the first star in a silent film to earn a major Hollywood prize since the early days of film. He won as a silent-era star whose career unravels amid the rise of talking pictures in the late 1920s. It’s a breakout role in Hollywood for Dujardin, a star back home in France but little known to U.S. audiences previously. His French credits include “The Artist” creator Hazanavicius’ spy spoofs “OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies” and “OSS 117: Lost in Rio.” While the musical or comedy categories at the Globes offer recognition for lighter films amid Hollywood’s sober-minded awards season, the winners usually are not serious contenders for the Oscars. The last time the winner for best musical or comedy at the Globes went on to claim best-picture at the Oscars was nine years ago with “Chicago.” This time, though, “The Artist” and Dujardin have enough critical mass to compete at the Oscars with dramatic counterparts such as “The Descendants” and Clooney. Both films have a good mix of laughs and tears. “The Artist” could be called a comedy with strong doses of melodrama, while “The Descendants” might be described as a drama tinged with gently comic moments. Directed by Alexander Payne (“Sideways”), “The Descendants” provided a more down-to-earth role for Clooney, who’s often known for slick, high-rolling characters such as those in his “Ocean’s Eleven” heist capers and or the legal saga “Michael Clayton.” Adapted from Kaui Hart Hemmings’ novel, “The Descendants” casts Clooney as Matt King, the scion of an aristocratic Hawaiian clan and a neglectful dad suddenly forced to hold together his two spirited daughters after his wife falls into a coma from a boating accident. Along the way, Matt uncovers a staggering secret about his marriage and comes to reevaluate the principles under which he’s lived his life. Charming audiences since it premiered last May at the Cannes Film Festival, “The Artist” tells the story of George Valentin (Dujardin), a big-screen superstar known for adventurous comic capers alongside his adorable dog, who’s always at his side on screen and in real life. As talking pictures take over and the Depression hits, George loses everything — his career, his marriage, his fortune and his home. Through it all, he has a guardian angel in Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo, a supporting-actress Globe nominee and Hazanavicius’ real-life romantic partner). A rising talkies star, Peppy got her career going with help from George, and she now aims to repay the favor. The only time silent films have won best-picture or acting Oscars was in the awards first year, for 1927-28, 16 years before the Golden Globes even started. At that first Oscar ceremony, when the transition to the sound era was just under way, the silent winners included the war story “Wings” as outstanding picture and the marital betrayal tale “Sunrise” as most unique and artistic picture, the only time that category was used. Janet Gaynor won as best actress for “Sunrise” and two other silent films, while Emil Jannings was picked as best actor for the silent films “The Last Command” and “The Way of All Flesh.” Other than some short silent films and one silent foreign-language nominee in 1983, it’s been all talkies among contenders for top honors during Hollywood’s awards season in the 83 years since the first Oscars. “The Artist,” which led the Globes with six nominations, also won the musical-score prize for composer Ludovic Bource. Among its losses was for screenplay, a prize that went to Woody Allen for his romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris,” the filmmaker’s biggest hit in decades. Never a fan of movie awards, Allen was a no-show at the Globes. Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin” won for best animated film, while the Iranian tale “A Separation” was named the foreign-language winner. Ricky Gervais, who has ruffled feathers at past shows with sharp wisecracks aimed at Hollywood’s elite and the Globes show itself, returned as host for the third-straight year. He started with some slams at the Globes as Hollywood’s second-biggest film ceremony, after the Oscars. Gervais joked that the Globes “are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker and more easily bought. Allegedly. Nothing’s been proved.” He also needled early winners, saying the show was running long and stars needed to keep their speeches short. “You don’t need to thank everyone you’ve ever met or members of your family, who have done nothing,” Gervais said. “Just the main two. Your agent and God.” ___ Online: http://www.goldenglobes.org
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The diligent crew at NewsBusters has uncovered an outrageous post by the left-wing blog “Daily Kos” asserting that North Korea is in fact no worse than South Korea or even the United States. The article, entitled “North Korea & Hysteria, Madness,” written by Niccolo Caldararo – an adjunct professor of anthropology at San Francisco State University – complains that “the Western media wallows in the exotic and North Korea has been the clown of the 20th century.” He goes on to claim that North Korea is merely “brought forward for comic relief now and then or pasted up as a ‘paper tiger,’ to scare voters before elections or as a distraction for other important news.” NewsBusters’ Tim Graham writes that, to hear the professor tell it, the capitalist imperialists are licking their chops after the death of Kim Jong Il: “Let’s face it, North Korea is ripe for capitalism, there are millions of potential workers who will work for near nothing. The hope is that the regime will crumble like the Soviet Union and give way to massive investment opportunities.” Arguing that North Korea is “no less responsible toward its own citizens” than South Korea or America, Caldararo writes: While North Korea may behave in a strange fashion at times, its political history is no less responsible toward its own citizens than the history of the South [Koreans], especially the recent history that was dominated in the 1960s to 1980s by dictatorial regimes that practiced torture and mass arrest. While we hear of starvation and torture in North Korea, these are far less well documented than the recent history of the South. As for the nuclear weapons issue, we should also recall that the USA has been the only country to use nuclear weapons, and we used them on civilians. If the world is to be afraid of the use of these weapons by a renegade nation, one should look at the definition of the word in the context of the Bush Administration waging war in violation of international law and by the use of evidence it knew was tainted. We cannot expect a world of law and respect after such behavior. The professor believes that “ignorance and fear” is what drives judgement of North Korean action and even went on to quote Cicero, stating, “There can be no peace without justice.” Caldararo also argued that the communist regime was actually brought on by America: The specific kind of leadership and government North Korea has today is the result of its history, and especially its most recent history with America. We must consider that from the end of W.W.II until 1987 South Korea was a brutal dictatorship. Its prison camps and torture chambers were filled with not only political prisoners but also ethnic minorities and religious objectors, in fact, anyone who dared to challenge the injustice and corruption of the regime. All this time South Korea’s government had the full support of the USA. North Koreans remember this horror and base part of their posture to the USA on this history… NewsBusters points out that when several commenters disagreed with Caldararo about his stance on North Korea, the professor arrogantly dismissed them as uneducated: “I love how people think they know what is happening in countries they have never even visited.”
Within the last several months, the presidential campaign of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has moved away from portraying himself as a moderate and making snarky comments about rival candidates, to putting all the focus on his record and economic plan which are both extremely conservative. During Bill Clinton’s interview on the O’Reilly factor Tuesday, he would not give an endorse of either of the current GOP front runners, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, but did have some nice words for Huntsman. Huntsman addressed the comments, as well as the direction of his campaign during an interview on Fox News Wednesday: Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com “He [Clinton] did his due diligence. He looked at my record. He found that I have been consistent on life, I’ve been consistent on the second amendment. I delivered the largest tax cut in the history of my state, health care reform without a mandate … the president actually looked into it and found that I am the consistent conservative.” Huntsman is relying on New Hampshire voters to focus on his record as well. The ex-governor and ambassador to China has put the majority of his resources into the Granite State where he polls better than in national estimates, but still ranks fourth. “We are working that state like nobody else. This is a state that wants you to earn it. They don’t want to be told for whom to vote. They love an underdog to come from behind. They are buying the message that I have to offer and it’s from my heart and soul. And it’s about an economic deficit and it’s about a trust deficit.” Do you think praise from Bill Clinton will be a gift, or a curse for the Huntsman campaign? (H/T: Fox News Insider )
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