Friday, 31 July 2009

So who won the kick-ass military jacket..


BB Dakota military jacket, Sass & Bide denim shorts, Alexander Wang bag, Opening Ceremony shoes, Kain pocket tank
Congratulations to Amanda (
amanda.fisher@colorado.edu) for winning this jacket!
and thanks everyone else for joining, I hope there'll be more giveaways soon :)
[source, ChickDowntown/Polyvore]

Flowers in her hair


[source, ViktorVauthier]

Studded, sequined, zippered


[source, tFS]

Monday, 27 July 2009

Mmm so fine


It's so awesome and downright obnoxious at the same time.. want, want, want.
[source, LuisaviaRoma]

Nike


Hey everyone, the BB Dakota military jacket give-away from Chick Downtown is still running! ;)
http://the-electric.blogspot.com/2009/07/giveaway-bb-dakota-military-jacket.html
[source, Cobrasnake]

Butterflies






[source, ModelCouture]

Sunday, 26 July 2009

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Giveaway: BB Dakota Military Jacket


The brand name “Sir Alistair Rai” is synonym towards the PYTs and fashion mavericks in Hollywood, with its line of scarves adorning loved celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Hayden Panettiere, Julia Roberts, Halle Berry and Jessica Alba. England-born designer behind the brand name, Kiran Rai, designs the pieces meticulously to highlight messages of peace, promote global awareness and introduce ancient teachings into today’s world. Each scarf comes with its own personal message of love, peace, hope, karma, and kismet (fate). Kiran Rai also birthed a collection of dresses, accessories and bags into the mix and has ventured into the shoe and hat department following the success. “Sir Alistair Rai” houses a mixture of deftly-embellished caftans and dresses with eccentric prints that are a sure-fire way to garner public admiration. Aside from ready-to-wear, Kiran Rai also designed unique clutches that capture the eye with intricate beadwork and the significant peace sign.



BB Dakota military jacket, Sass & Bide denim shorts, Alexander Wang bag, Opening Ceremony shoes, Kain pocket tank

To win this kick-ass BB Dakota military jacket (pictured), do one of these things:

1) Pick your favorite Sir Alistair Rai piece on Chickdowntown.com & comment!
2) Twitter/Facebook about your favorite Sir Alistair Rai piece,
3) re-post on your own blog if you have one!

For U.S residents only (sorry!) and ends on Friday night!

Girl on the red bench


[source, tFS]

Laundromat


[source, tFS]

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Summer's not over 'til we say it's over


Come back on Thursday (which is tomorrow!) because I have something real sweet to offer you! (Okay, yeah, it's a giveaway-- and if you love my taste, you'll love the thing I pick especially for you. I feel like Santa now, okay not funny bye)
[source, BobbyWigham]

Kink



[source, tFS]

Monday, 20 July 2009

Forty-Five lessons of life

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24.. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Le rebel


Blades


Saturday, 18 July 2009

Katie White


[source, Cobrasnake]

Red leather shorts


[source, tFS]

NOORDIN TOP WORKS FOR THE SECURITY SERVICES?

Noordin Top

The name of Malaysian born Noordin Top, of Jemaah Islamiyah, has been linked to the July 2009 Jakarta hotel bombs.

(Malaysia fugitive terrorist linked to Jakarta's suicide bombing)

Reportedly, the police found handwritten notes, a cell phone and a bomb in room 1808 of the Marriott, where the bombers had reportedly lived for several days.

Reportedly, one of the men who checked into room 1808 had told a hotel receptionist his name was "Noordin."

(Indonesia suspects fugitive terrorist in bombings - Yahoo! News)

So, the stupid terrorists or patsies provided the police with lots of evidence.

Former Indonesian president, Abdurrahman Wahid was saying in 2005 of the Bali bombings:
“The orders to do this or that came from within our armed forces… There is not a single Islamic group … that is not controlled by (Indonesian) intelligence.”

Jemaah Islamiyah is thought to have been set up by the American trained Indonesian military.

1. "Southeast Asia's most wanted terror suspect, Noordin Top, may have evaded a massive manhunt and fled Indonesia...

"Top is accused of directing the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and three other attacks on Western targets in Indonesia that have together killed more than 240 people...

"Noordin Top is believed to head a breakaway faction of Jemaah Islamiyah committed to al-Qaida style attacks." - AP: Asia Terror suspect may have fled Indonesia

2. So-called al Qaida terrorists often manage to escape.

It is suspected that they work for the CIA and its friends.

aangirfan: Al-Badawi, Al-Faruq and Aswat - all working for the security services...

3. Noordin is thought to have masterminded the 2003 JW Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta.

Some people suspect the CIA and its friends are linked to the Marriott bomb.

"Something interesting happened just hours before the explosion shocked the JW Marriott Hotel, Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta. The US Embassy cancelled the booking of 10-20 rooms in that hotel." -Prison Planet.com: Do You Have the Knowledge to Escape?

4. On April 29, 2006 Noordin Top narrowly escaped capture after his safe-house was raided by heavily armed Indonesian police in Binangun, Central Java.





The British military, the American military and the Indonesian military have long used the Moslem extremists to promote their right-wing agenda.

"Cabinet papers show that British spies, including MI6, supported Islamic guerrillas in order to destabilise Sukarno."

(Revealed: Healey admits role in British dirty tricks campaign to overthrow Indonesia's President Sukarno, By Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, The Independent - 16 April 2000 The Secret State: MI5 (Home Office/MoD), The Security Service and ...)

Indonesian special forces regiment Kopassus is trained by the Americans.

Kopassus 'set up a Moslem terror group called Komando Jihad.'

According to Dr Damien Kingsbury, head of philosophical, political and international studies at Deakin University: "Kopassus... has engaged in... hostage rescue missions. The first was in 1981, when a Garuda aircraft was hijacked.... Kopassus... set up the Islamic organisation Komando Jihad that hijacked the plane in 1981 and which has since emerged as Jemaah Islamiah."

We must not get back in bed with Kopassus - theage.com.au

Jakarta human-rights activist Bonar Naipospos told Asia Times Online: "General Suparman is one of the generals who was behind the extremist Jihad groups. He set up militias composed of gangsters and religious fanatics to counter student demonstrations in 1998. One of these militias, Pram Swarkasa, became the embryo of Laskar Jihad."

Asia Times We must not get back in bed with Kopassus - theage.com.au

Friday, 17 July 2009

GENERAL PRABOWO LINKED TO JAKARTA HOTEL BOMBS?

Indonesia's President Yudhoyono claims to have photos of certain plotters.

Indonesia's President Yudhoyono has referred to the Jakarta hotel bombers as “people who are familiar with abducting and killing; and people who once escaped the law.”

(Jakarta - Jakarta Under Attack)

According to The Financial Times (Eight killed in attacks on two hotels in Jakarta), 18 July 2009, President Yudhoyono "did not name any individuals but appeared to implicate Prabowo Subianto, a former general and political opponent.

"He said there were people in Indonesia who had committed crimes, killed people and escaped the clutches of the law.

"Mr Prabowo has admitted to overseeing the kidnapping of student activists during the dying days of the Suharto regime in 1998.

"He has disputed Mr Yudhoyono's apparent victory (in the recent presidential election), alleging mass voter irregularities in the July 8 poll.

"Mr Prabowo rejected the apparent accusations by Mr Yudhoyono."

According to The Jakarta Globe (Presidential Rivals Caution SBY Not to Politicize Terror Attacks), Prabowo says: "It has never crossed our mind to resort to [bombing]. We use political strategies."

According to The Australian, 18 July 2009, an election link is not ruled out in the Jakarta attacks:

"Speculation about the involvement of the Indonesian military cannot be discounted.

"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono put that cat amongst the pigeons yesterday when he said there had been threats of 'a revolution' should he be confirmed as the winner in last week's presidential election...

"Without directly using his name, Dr Yudhoyono was referring to former military hardman Prabowo Subianto, whose losing ticket with former president Megawati Sukarnoputri has refused to admit defeat in the polls."


Prabowo has been accused of being involved in attempts to destabilise Indonesia.

On 17 July 2009, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said intelligence reports suggested there were attempts to destabilise Indonesia, including a plot to kill him. (Plots under way to destabilise Indonesia: Yudhoyono)

He showed photographs of a group of people conducting a shooting exercise with the president’s picture as a target.

"We have the video and photographs (of the training)," he said.

He said intelligence also suggested attempts were under way to sabotage his apparent election victory.


If some top Indonesian was involved in the July 2009 Jakarta hotel bombings, was he working with or without the approval of the CIA?

One puzzle, concerns the victims of the July 2009 Jakarta hotel bombings.

Reportedly, two of the wounded were employees of mining company Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.

A group of executives with Western companies was holding a regular Friday morning meeting at the Marriott when the explosives were detonated.

No Americans appear to have died.

Three of the dead were Australians.

Elements of the the Indonesian military do not love Australians because of the Australian intervention in East Timor.

Image from http://www.lngpedia.com/indonesia-changes-rules-for-oil-gas-cost-recovery/

Prabowo, a billionaire, owns companies involved in coal mining in Indonesia.

Prabowo has promised to give priority to domestic companies over foreign investors.

But all that may be misleading.

The mainstream media appears to be promoting the agenda of the Pentagon and CIA.

We read:

The terror group with Qaeda (CIA) links is suspected to be behind the Jakarta blasts and Shadowy al-Qaeda-linked group prime suspect for bomb attack and Suspects' al-Qaeda link and killer past

The Military-Industrial Complex must be happy.


On 17 July 2009, Major General Wahyono of Jakarta police said that the hotel bombing 'suspects' stayed on the 18th floor of the Marriott where un-detonated explosives were found.

Top hotels in Jakarta have inquisitive security guards patrolling corridors and inquisitive maids checking hotel rooms. It is strange that nobody noticed anything odd going on.

aferrismoon points out that the Carlyle Group founders have connexions to the Marriot Hotels Group.

Prabowo of the CIA?

American-trained Prabowo is the former boss of Indonesia's special forces (Kopassus).

He is also a former son in law of former president Suharto.

Prabowo is notorious for human rights abuses.

Indonesia is the world's largest Moslem country, in terms of population.

Prabowo Subianto "has denied accusations that he organised terror squads in East Timor during Indonesia's bloody 24-year occupation and that he orchestrated riots and mass rapes of ethnic Chinese women in Jakarta prior to Suharto's fall,

"But he has not shied away from responsibility for the kidnappings of student activists in the last days of his then father-in-law, telling foreign journalists last month his "conscience is clear" over the abductions."

Jakartass wrote: "There's no way he can deny it - the army command kicked him out and he went off to build up his fortune in the Lebanon."

Indonesians

Of the 23 activists abducted in 1997 and 1998, one is known to be dead and 13 are missing.

Raharja Waluya Jati was held in a cell for 45 days and tortured in what he suspects, but is not sure, was Kopassus headquarters...

"Prabowo knows about everything, including my friends who are still missing." -Kidnapper recruits victims in Indonesia vote

Photo of Prabowo from news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/460702.stm

American trained General Prabowo is said to be a friend of the CIA.

Domingos Guterres, from East Timor, alleges that in 1989 he was tortured for 35 days by soldiers under General Prabowo's command.

Guterres claims General Prabowo personally carried out acts of torture.

In the 1983 Kraras massacres in East Timor, about 300 people are believed to have been buried in mass graves after a series of executions that the locals say were carried out under General Prabowo. ( Torture evidence mounts against Indonesian general )

According to The Economist, March 2009 (Indonesia's parliamentary election Unencumbered incumbent.):

"The greatest excitement (in the election campaign) is being provided by Prabowo Subianto, a former son-in-law of Suharto and head under him of a notorious special-forces unit accused of many atrocities over the years.

"His military career foundered after Suharto’s downfall. But backed by his billionaire brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, he formed the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) last year.

"It is waging a slick, populist campaign aimed at the mass of poor voters.

"Gerindra may well win enough votes for Mr Prabowo to join Mr Yudhoyono and Mrs Megawati in an unlikely three-cornered presidential race."




Video: Prabowo advert

Lieutenant General Prabowo Subianto, the leader of the new nationalist political party Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya (Gerindra), has made much use of television. (Self Promotion Strategies)

In one advertisement Prabowo, as chairman of the Farmers’ Federation, "is shown strolling about fields chatting with, and listening to, men on the land."

Prabowo speaks of his calling to serve the nation.

It has been alleged that the CIA used General Prabowo to topple President Suharto.

In 1998, when Suharto was apparently toppled by the CIA, one of the key generals was Prabowo, son of Dr. Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, a former Finance Minister, said to have once worked with the British and the Americans against Sukarno.

Prabowo learnt about terrorism at Fort Bragg and Fort Benning in the US. General Prabowo and terror (http://yayasanhak.minihub.org/mot/Prabowo.htm)

In May 1998, Prabowo was commander of Kostrad, the strategic reserve, the regiment Suharto commanded when he took power in 1965.

Prabowo's friend Muchdi ran Kopassus (special forces) and his friend Sjafrie ran the Jakarta Area Command.

The American Defence Secretary, William Cohen, was in Jakarta in January 1998 and he visited Prabowo.

The CIA chief had also been a recent visitor to Jakarta. The CIA and the Pentagon were close to Prabowo. (http://solidarity.igc.org/atc/emily75.html)


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