End the year with The Nation of Five

Thanks a lot Saker!

Also, for you:

“Arab flamenco” by Abderrahim Abdelmoumen & Sergio Gomez Delgado:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpajdVFtDio

Música Andalusí “La fuente del amor secreto” by Omar Metioui & Mohamed Mehdi Temsamani:

*Fragment with beautiful ancient miniatures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHOCIhIlB9U

“Cese en su aflicción y se regocije aquel que conozca las penas de mi corazón, pues mi sufrimiento ha llegado a su fin.Ya no hay sitio en mi corazón para la tristeza. He alcanzado la Unión que era mi objetivo. Alabo al Señor del Cielo, me prosterno hacia la quibla y digo: !Hoy he sido aceptado!. Estaba sepultado en el sueño de la distracción, pero he aquí que he despertado a la Alegría.¿Quién temera las palabras del envidioso o del espía?”

*Full:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mMgeICevUY

Hugs!

Not too bad.

You might also enjoy this stuff:

Snarky Puppy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhHU_BZXSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XJ_s5IsQc

Avishai Cohen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3g2xhJqx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaJTbhYTw4k

The real deal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdl0m1v5el8

Enjoy.

The drummer is the truly extraordinary on, IMHO.

I can’t seem to type today..
The drummer is the truly extraordinary one, IMHO.

American Fred Durst ‘banned from Ukraine for five years’ following his Russian-loving plea to move to his wife’s native Crimea.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/22/17/2F9269C900000578-3370744-image-m-44_1450805577694.jpg

While we drink Chablis,make merry and listen to good music lets remember the past decade.. How too much good living and no care in the world created the situation we live in..

Back then, I routinely saw and participated in obscenities. Of course, the wickedness of the war was never properly recognized in the West.

As we patrolled the vast region of Iraq’s Al-Anbar Province, throwing MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) trash out of our vehicles, I never contemplated how we would be remembered in history books; I simply wanted to make some extra room in my HUMVEE. Years later, sitting in a Western Civilization history course at university, listening to my professor talk about the cradle of civilization, I thought of MRE garbage on the floor of the Mesopotamian desert.

Examining recent events in Syria and Iraq, I can’t help but think of the small kids my fellow marines would pelt with Skittles from those MRE packages. Candies weren’t the only objects thrown at the children: water bottles filled with urine, rocks, debris, and various other items were thrown as well. I often wonder how many members of ISIS and various other terrorist organizations recall such events?

I vividly remember the marines telling me about punching, slapping, kicking, elbowing, kneeing and head-butting Iraqis. I remember the tales of sexual torture: forcing Iraqi men to perform sexual acts on each other while marines held knives against their testicles, sometimes sodomizing them with batons.

Most of the time they wouldn’t resist. Some of them would hold hands while marines would butt-stroke the prisoners in the face. Once they arrived at the detention facility, they would be held for days, weeks, and even months at a time. Their families were never notified. And when they were released, we would drive them from the FOB (Forward Operating Base) to the middle of the desert and release them several miles from their homes.

After we cut their zip-ties and took the black bags off their heads, several of our more deranged marines would fire rounds from their AR-15s into their air or ground, scaring the recently released captives. Always for laughs. Most Iraqis would run, still crying from their long ordeal at the detention facility, hoping some level of freedom awaited them on the outside. Who knows how long they survived. After all, no one cared. We do know of one former U.S. prisoner who survived: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.

Unfortunately, I could recall countless horrific anecdotes from my time in Iraq. Innocent people were not only routinely rounded-up, tortured and imprisoned, they were also incinerated by the hundreds of thousands, some studies suggest by the millions.

Only the Iraqis understand the pure evil that’s been waged on their nation. They remember the West’s role in the eight year war between Iraq and Iran; they remember Clinton’s sanctions in the 1990s, policies which resulted in the deaths of well over 500,000 people, largely women and children. Then, 2003 came and the West finished the job. Today, Iraq is an utterly devastated nation. The people are poisoned and maimed, and the natural environment is toxic from bombs laced with depleted uranium. After fourteen years of the War on Terror, one thing is clear: the West is great at fomenting barbarism and creating failed states.

Again, the scale of destruction the West has inflicted in the Middle East is absolutely unimaginable to the vast majority of people living in the developed world. This point can never be overstated as Westerners consistently and naively ask, “Why do they hate us?”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/i-helped-create-isis-testimony-of-iraq-war-veteran/5496841

The thing is, hubris and arrogance means they never learn.. will never learn..

Very nice….I rather like combo jazz also being an aficionado of Methany and off course Brubeck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo-3t-1CAek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B879cagn_w

“Jewish organizations of Crimea firmly state that these allegations are false and are a clumsy and hopeless attempt to distort the true picture of the existing inter-ethnic peace and harmony in the Russian Crimea,” community leaders from cities such as Simferopol, Yalta and Sevastopol asserted in a joint statement on Friday.

Speaking before the Knesset during a state visit here last week, Poroshenko said Jews living in the Ukrainian territory, which Russia occupied and annexed early in 2014, may find themselves in danger “as the conquerors have started to cultivate the anti-Semitism issue, as well.”

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Crimean-Jews-angry-after-Poroshenko-says-Russia-instigating-anti-Semitism-438513

Kim Moon, another attendee, shared a story with HuffPost about her 15-year-old grandson in Atlanta, who was walking to the store with a friend when, Moon said, he was assaulted by a police officer.