932: The Killing of Arab Singer Thekra (ذكرى)

 Based on seeing that Saudi guy on TV yesterday, apparently it is not enough for those running that dictatorship all what is known about what they have done inside and outside that country but they also want to say that they may respond to words with targeted killings and assassinations. But why go far for doing that and with a story like the one shown yesterday instead of the well known and very commonly seen as the work of the Saudi government story of killing the singer Thekra/Thikra/Zekra/Zikra (ذكرى). I remember first hearing about that and find it very suspicious in 2003 even without knowing any reason for the Saudis to do that. The news of her death on one Arabic TV network stated that she was shot by her manager who then also shot herself. Later other version(s) of the news came,  like for example this one https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/11/28/tunisian-singer-shot-dead or this one https://www.albawaba.com/entertainment/autopsy-report-thikra-shot-26-times-and-survived-only-15-minutes but, aside from the week explanation and how the savagery of the crime suggests otherwise, they all depend on the same explanation of murder suicide which is to the best of my knowledge and experience from living in that part of the world is as unheard of as for a person in the western world to be a suicide bomber, if not more. It was not until well over a decade later that I knew while browsing Youtube that she sang a song criticizing the Saudi ruling family very close to her killing and how people seem confident of that being the reason she was killed.

Here is one link to that song on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wXA24q9l3k 

And here is some rough translation for the first three minutes and excerpt from the rest:

Who dare say

this is not reasonable

(We) visit and cray at

the Kaaba and the tomb of the prophet

(They) told me the teardrop 

threatens the peace of the fleet

(We) visit and cray at

the Kaaba and the tomb of the prophet

(They) told me your voice 

threatens the peace of the totaled (mentally totaled 

because of drinking or drugs)

Cray in your chest (heart)

Do not bother our ruler 

Our ruler not ruler 

Protector of fleet

Dilutional not understanding

Totaled protecting oil

Our ruler not ruler 

Protector of fleet

Dilutional not understanding

Totaled protecting oil

Who dare say

our brethren, from the house

of God prevented us

Who dare say

our brethren from the 

pilgrimage to the house (of God)

prevented us.

They told us the teardrop 

threatens the peace of the fleet

Who dare say

This is not reasonable

(We) advice you

pilgrimage to the pope and the Vatican

Easier than Mecca 

and the Kaaba and more secure

(We) advice you

pilgrimage to the pope and the Vatican

Easier than mecca 

and the Kaaba and more secure

Mecca its protector is its thief

Let the rest of it in my chest(heart)

Mecca its protector is its thief

Let the rest of it in my chest(heart)

who dare say to the ruler

your chair (throne) goes away

(I do not sufficiently know what

the text at 3:10 means but sounds like

the biggest insult at personal level

so far in the song. Then, in addition to other things later, 

there is this part at 6 to 6:21):

Victory does not come to us 

from your palace nor we dream of it

And pilgrimage if through favor

from you can be left for later

Victory does not come to us 

from your palace nor we dream of it

And pilgrimage if through favor

from you can be left for later

931: New Kind Of Sinking Here?

I doubt that I am the only one noticing how the second stimulus payment status check provided by the IRS website is a joke and makes one feels like dealing with thugs. And this is also supported by how the website says that the payment can be claimed with tax return for 2020. Of course it is good to know that but how the way it is said suggests that it is not an unusual thing that you may not receive the payment even though according to the law you should be, is the troubling thing. Or is it that the problem is that in addition to the faking of presidents and attacks, we now also have faking the passing of laws?      

930: And The Saudi Privilege Continues

 I talked about this years ago and the situation still the same.  How many other countries are there giving themselves the right to military attack another country just because it favors one side over another in the power struggle in the attacked country, like the Saudi government blatantly has been doing in Yemen for years? The world got that many voices against attacking Iraq regardless of the assurance of the intention to establish a democratic system there, but this is okay?

By the way, a democratic system of one person one vote for everybody, including a reasonable constitution if needed, is the just solution for everywhere.