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Forget India and China, the latest outsourcing hot spots are the Muslim Arab nations of Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. They’re rising on the list of “most attractive offshoring locations” for 2007. I’ve repeatedly written about this, including retailer Target producing clothing in Jordan, UAE and Terrorist State Syria. And it’s well established that these countries often used slave/child labor in poor conditions.

Egypt & Jordan Move Up the Outsourcing Ladder
This is a problem for a number of reasons. If it’s made in Jordan, that most likely means it’s made by–or worse, the plant is owned by–extremist Palestinians (who dominate Jordan’s population). They get cash-rich making clothing, performing call-center services, etc. And we don’t know where that cash is going. It’s not a remote chance at all that the cash made by Ahmed for the call center or clothing sweatshop will go to finance his brother Mohammed’s homicide bombing.
In fact, I assume that’s exactly the case, which is why I’ve repeatedly protested to Target that it makes a lot of its Mossimo clothing line in Syria, Jordan, and UAE. It’s not at all a stretch that your daughter’s Mossimo jeans are financing the murder of innocent people on behalf of Islamic jihadists.
What you buy and where it’s made has consequences. And are you comfortable with Islamofascists having access to your health insurance and other confidential information? You shouldn’t be.
The Wall Street Journal reports on this, though it doesn’t mention the burgeoning–and disturbing–American outsourcing to the region:

CAIRO, Egypt — As rising wages and attrition rates in India spur some international companies to seek new locales for outsourcing operations, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America have all been competing to become new offshore hubs.
Now, the Middle East and North Africa are elbowing into the race to host remote sales staff, service centers, tech support and the like, thanks to a favorable time zone, a multilingual work force and an oil-fueled investment and expansion spree. Companies also are attracted by some efforts by some governments there to diversify and liberalize their economies, as well as the prospect of tapping into the growing local market.
The offshore industry faces challenges in the Mideast, which is better known for political instability and ingrained bureaucracy than customer support. But underscoring the region’s promise, some of the biggest outsourcing companies operating in India — the industry’s undisputed powerhouse — are establishing outposts there.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. is hiring 300 people for a new center in Cairo that will handle clients in Saudi Arabia and the Arab world. Earlier this year, Wipro Ltd. set up an outsourcing joint venture in Saudi Arabia and recently announced plans to enter Egypt. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. says it will soon start offering services from Morocco to French-speaking European clients. . . .
Much of the Middle East offers the same appeal other outsourcing hot spots have: cheap, skilled labor. But companies are finding other advantages, including a time zone that roughly straddles the world’s three biggest economies — North America, Europe and Asia. The region’s geographic proximity to Europe and a multilingual labor force also help. And with business booming in much of the Mideast, there is more demand for Arabic speakers.
In recent years, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have all broken into the top 20 most-attractive offshoring destinations, according to an index published by consultancy A.T. Kearney Inc. Tunisia, Morocco, Israel and Turkey made the top 50 in this year’s list.
“The Middle East region is going to be, I think, the next big destination,” says Simon Bell, an A.T. Kearney principal, who has worked with the Egyptian government recently on ways to draw in more offshore work. . . .
New outsourcing jobs are a big boon for a region struggling with high unemployment and a bulging birth rate, and some countries have been recruiting the industry. The Egyptian government is offering to pay 80% of training costs for new employees, and officials are offering cheap rates for voice and data links to major U.S. and European cities.
Dubai, in the UAE, is promoting an “outsource zone,” one of several zones aiming to attract specific industries. While wages in the UAE are relatively high, officials highlight its advanced high-tech infrastructure and large talent pool, including educated Southeast Asian and Arab-speaking expatriates.
An outsourcing joint venture between Electronic Data Systems Corp. of Plano, Texas, and another UAE emirate, Abu Dhabi, is pouring $100 million into a new center aimed at Mideast customers. EDS recently started hiring in Morocco to service its European clients. It already has 450 employees in Egypt.
“We see the importance of this region both in itself as a market and as a center from which to service other businesses,” says Charles Cox, EDS’s regional vice president for Middle East and Africa.

Beware not just from whom you are buying, but where they make their products and where they staff their call centers. You could be giving profits or sharing confidential information with our enemies.

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**** UPDATE: TWO MORE FRED THOMPSON PIG CAPTIONS, BELOW ****
Every so often, the Detroit Free Press editorial page has a caption contest for strange photos of various pols “in action.” Other than the one of Hillary Rodham Cankles in angry form with Ted Kennedy, I think this one, from today’s Freep, by AP photog M. Spencer Green, is my favorite. I’ve posted some of my captions below. Feel free to post yours in the comments section.

Hmmm . . . This Might Offend Muslims. I’d Better Call to Schedule a Pander Session.
Ladies and Gentleman, When I Hit the White House, Meet the New Head of Homeland Security. I Figure He Can Do as Well as Chertoff & Myers.
Reminds me of my High-Brow, Shakespearean Acting Gig as a “Roseanne” Co-Star.
Far Less Pork Than I Sought as the Junior Senator From Tennessee.
Less . Less Mileage and Makeup, Too.
Do Pigs Need a Planned Parenthood Lobbyist? I’m Available.
Of Course, I Love Pigs. Don’t You Remember My Vote Against Convicting Bill Clinton upon Impeachment?
Just Preparing For My Debate Against Hillary.
You Think This is Pork? Wait ‘Til I Get to the White House.
Who Says Animals Aren’t Intelligent? This One is Far Smarter Than the GOP Voters Who Buy My Conservative Act.
Pig? No, I Said My Plan for the Economy is a Real Dog.
****UPDATE: Here are two more:
Lipstick on a Pig? No, I Only Wear Makeup When I’m on “Law & Order.”
Hey, Piggy, Can You Believe These Suckers Are Comparing Me to Ronald Reagan? Next, They’ll Be Comparing You to a Peacock.

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CNN shows us yet again why the initials stand for Coran News Network or Crescent News Network. Take your pick.
Tonight, a three-night set of “reports” by Iranian Christian watercarrier for Islamists, Christiane Amanpour, “God’s Warriors,” begins. It’s a big fat set of lies, but for the 2nd Night on Muslims, and I bet that night is the only sympathetic night. Look at the ad that’s been running in major newspapers and news magazines for the series (see below). You get the picture, the message:

Forget about Islamic terrorists. Jews and Christians are the same.

It’s the Rosie O’Donnell view of the world.
It’s warped, and it’s a lie. Tonight, Amanpour will vilify Jewish settlers, who live in the Judea and Samaria portion of Israel, where they are constantly attacked and bludgeoned by Palestinian terrorists. But instead, they will be portrayed as violent and dangerous. Complete fiction. They are sheep living amidst wolves. Thursday night, it’s evangelical and fundamentalist Christians’ chance to be compared to 9/11 hijackers by Amanpour. Completely disgusting.
We know who kills in the name of their god. We know who names their religious group, Hezbollah — Party of God. And it’s neither of the Judeo-Christian faiths.
Nope, only those who descend from the illegitimate son of Abraham and his maid are the ones who still wear a very violent and deadly chip on their shoulders.
But don’t ever expect she-man Amanpour to tell you the truth about it. Believing her reports could be fatal.
Media analysts predicted CNN would compete with Al-Jazeera International and BBC America for viewers. And now the network is showing programming that makes even Al-Jazeera jealous.
Christiane Amanpour’s “journalism” is as ugly and one-dimensional as she is.
Come to think of it, she’d fit in very well at Al-Jazeera.

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**** UPDATE: Private Investigator Bill Warner provides detailed info on how this scam works–and says is common among Muslim used car dealers, many of whom he’s tracked. This is Bill’s area of expertise, as he’s written a great deal on used cars involved in terrorist activities. ****
So, 11 men walk into a bank for car loans. Punchline: They all took out loans on luxury autos owned by someone else. And, oh yeah, they’re from guess where? The Middle East, including Jordan and Egypt. Maybe that means they’re Mormon or Buddhist. . . . or the “Religion of Peace & Car Loan Fraud.”
And where did the $300,000-plus that they defrauded from banks go? Well, I wouldn’t be shocked at all if it was going to fund Al-Qaeda, HAMAS, or other Muslim Brotherhood-linked entities–since most Egyptians and Jordanians are Sunni and not Shi’ite (though that doesn’t mean the two don’t work together to help their terrorist groups against us).

Thanks to readers Debra and Duane who sent the Chicago Sun-Times article detailing one of the many fraud schemes of the “Religion of [insert anti-Infidel scam here]”. And, um, why would they call a grocery store, “Express Auto”? Do they call an auto dealership, “Krogers”? Yes, if they’re not in legitimate businesses.:

They had the car loans — but not the cars.
After a series of raids, prosecutors are set today [DS: this past Friday] to charge 11 people with defrauding a bank by obtaining car loans on luxury automobiles owned by other people, sources said.
Cook County sheriff’s police and other agencies conducted the raids Wednesday morning, hitting locations in south suburban Alsip, Oak Lawn, Palos Hills, Orland Park and Chicago. All of those arrested are of Middle Eastern origin, coming from such countries as Egypt and Jordan, a law enforcement source said.
Members of the fraud ring applied for loans at State Farm Bank, an arm of the insurance company, through a State Farm office in Bridgeview, the source said. The applicants provided the make, model, year, and vehicle identification number of each car, as well as other details.
The cars included Mercedes, Jaguars and BMWs, a police source said.
But while the applicants would seek loans, the cars in question were already owned by others.
“They were never owned by the purported sellers,” a law enforcement source said.
Members of the ring had ties to two auto dealerships and a third business on the South Side called Express Auto that is really a grocery store, according to the source. Members of the ring used the businesses as fronts to obtain the loans, sources revealed.
Of the 12 loan applications State Farm Bank received, 11 were approved. The fraud netted more than $300,000, said sources.

This whole thing sounds like the many mortgage fraud schemes I’ve written about, in which Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda operatives get multiple loans on the same day for the same property, which has been highly overvalued by corrupt assessors, or where they sell the same home multiple times for increasing prices, while still living there and collecting the ill-gotten cash profits.
As a certain ICE Special Agent in Charge, named Jim, once told me of terrorist money-launderers: If they can find a way to get money out of it, they will.
Not a shocker, since we know they can get halal blood from a turnip. All with the FBI usually looking the other way.

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Women enjoy affirmative action in hiring and promotions across industries (just ask ). They . And, in many cases, they have relegated their wimpy husbands to Mr. Mom status.
Yet, despite every opportunity and advantage in the world given to them instead of men, women are a “minority” in the information technology filed, and–predictably–they’re whining about it. What’s next–whining about why there are no women in the NBA (and none in the WNBA, either)?

If I were an IT guy, I’d watch out. Because, clearly, this is the next industry about to lessen the standards even more so that incompetent women get the jobs competent men have. Look for the new math–literally those of the “fairer sex” who don’t actually get complicated math and computer formulas needed for programming–to pay a role.
The real story is that women aren’t interested, and the ones who are don’t stick it out. But instead, accusations of “discrimination”–you know, the usual–is pegged as the reason.
From today’s Wall Street Journal:

The percentage of women working in information-technology departments, which wasn’t high to begin with, is dropping. with an IT-labor crunch looming, it’s time to ask: What is it about it that may be repelling half the population?
While women hold 51% of all professional positions in the work force, they only made up 26% of IT pros in 2006, down from 29% in 2004, according to the National Center for Women and Information Technology. Only 13% of corporate officers at Fortune 500 tech companies are women. And Jenny Slade, communications director for the NCWIT, tells the Business Technology Blog that women who do pursue IT careers tend to leave them at a higher rate than men.
“Women feel discrimination in IT,” Ms. Slade says. Indeed, a recent survey of nearly 2,000 female IT workers by Women in Technology International found that 48% say that their views aren’t as acknowledged or welcomed as those of their male colleagues, and 44% say that they have fewer opportunities to participate in or lead large initiatives. Consequently, women feel they need to leave IT in order to advance, says Ms. Slade. Over time this becomes self-perpetuating: Women say that one of the main reasons they leave IT is that there aren’t other women in the field, says Ms. Slade.
It isn’t just a workplace-dynamics issue. Women are also losing interest in computer science long before they choose a profession. Women only received 21% of computer science undergraduate degrees in 2006, compared with 37% in 1985, says the NCWIT. The number of incoming freshmen women choosing to major in computer science dropped by 70% between 2000 and 2005.
And teenage girls seem less interested in computer science than they are in other scientific fields. Only 12% of the finalists in the 2005 Intel Science and Engineering Fair, a national competition for high-school students, were girls, compared with 54% of the finalists in biochemistry. Similarly, only 15% of the high-school students taking the advanced-placement computer science test in 2006 were girls, compared with 48% of the students who took the AP calculus test.

The problem with this–in addition to affirmative action hiring and promotions for incompetent IT employees, just because they’re women–is that it will hurt young boys even more. These stats will result in even more programs focused on helping girls in math and science and neglecting boys. Look for the low numbers of men in colleges to get even worse.

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**** SEE UPDATE WITHIN THIS PIECE (MARKED BY ASTERISKS) ****
I’m forbidden from reviewing the big-budget, action box office “thriller”, “The Kingdom” (Film website, with trailer, here), before its release at the end of September. But who is behind this mysterious film is as important as what’s in it.
I , and now having seen it, I ask again:
Who is funding “The Kingdom”? Which Saudis gave Universal Pictures the major coin to put this out?

Since the heroes of the movie are the Saudis, and since those fighting against terrorism with Americans are Saudi police, princes, and other Kingdom officials (I didn’t need to see the movie for that, since this plot is described in detail in the advance press release and I earlier this year), you’d have to guess that this propaganda, starring Jennifer Garner and Jamie Foxx, is Saudi-funded.
I’ve already written that the movie’s official Arabic and Islam consultant is a Saudi student here in America on a Saudi-funded scholarship, who will return to a government job in Saudi Arabia. When I e-mailed him questions, and he noticed I’d written about his involvement in the movie, he clammed up.
Here is what I wrote about him in February:

The question that should be asked here is obvious: Who is funding this movie? How much Saudi or Muslim money is going into this propaganda film? Would love to know, but the credits don’t tell you that kind of info. What they do show is that two Saudis, Yamen Al-Hajjar and Ahmed Al-Ibrahim (who also co-stars in the movie), are listed as consultants on Arabic, Islam, and Saudi Arabia. Al-Hajjar is a Saudi National who is a student at Boston University and says he will return to the Kingdon of Saudi Arabia after graduation to work for Saudi Aramco oil company. I’m sure they’re not biased at all in favor of their native land and “peaceful” religion.

And here’s another clue the movie is pure propaganda: Jennifer Garner, as an FBI agent, wears a tight t-shirt with ultra short sleeves and does not cover her hair while roaming all over the streets of Saudi Arabia. Right. Like that would EVER happen. I dare any woman to try it there and live to tell about it, without a gazillion State Department agents trying desperately to secure her release from Saudi prison. **** UPDATE: Another hint: Jason Bateman, playing a Jewish FBI agent, is told it’s no big deal by Saudis when he reveals that he has Israeli stamps on his passport and an Israeli grandmother. Repeat chorus: Right. Like that would EVER happen. ****
Stay tuned for my complete review in late September.
Until then, ask yourself: How much Saudi money went into this? Clearly they’re spending a lot, since a lot of free, advanced promotion screenings are being held for this. And why are Mrs. Ben Affleck, Jamie Foxx, and (the Jewish) Jason Bateman such whores that they are willing to sell out America and sell themselves to the Kingdom of Hate and Repression . . . and 15 of the 19 hijackers?
I give the Saudis credit for clever tactics. A heavily promoted Hollywood movie is the best way to brainwash Americans that the Saudis are “our friends” and “working with us” to fight terrorists, instead of what they are really doing–helping the terrorists.
And Hollywood execs are all too happy to help. They’re definitely the best living examples of Vladimir Lenin’s prediction of capitalists willing to sell the rope on which they’ll be hanged.
Regardless, this should be the movie poster for “The Kingdom” (not the one they chose, above):

Saudi 9/11 Flag by David Lunde/Lundesigns
Like I said, stay tuned for my review in September. . You’ll learn a lot and nothing positive.

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He may be gone–suave auto world genius John DeLorean died in 2005–but his namesake is back.
My favorite car ever, the silver stainless steel DeLorean with its gull-winged doors, is making a comeback (details here and here). You remember it as the time-transporting car from the hit movie, “Back to the Future.” DeLorean Motor Company went out of business 25 years, but it has been reborn.

The Dashing, Brilliant Late John DeLorean& His Namesake Automotive Invention
A new DeLorean will set you back $57,500 (today’s real dollar equal to the original $25,000 price tag) and will retain the original John DeLorean design. And they will be American made–hand-assembled in Humble, Texas at one or two DeLoreans per month, and mostly made from original DeLorean parts from the ’80s. That will begin in the third quarter of next year. There will be five U.S. dealerships and one in Europe.
In middle school, one of my schoolmate’s parents drove a DeLorean, and it was very cool. Hard to fit the car in a two-car garage next to another car and still to be able to open the doors, though. About 6,500 DeLoreans from the original 9,000 are still in existence.
If I could afford to drive any car, DeLorean would be it.

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I will be on the nationally syndicated “Michael Reagan Show,” tonight at 8:20 p.m. Eastern Time, discussing the , a story which I broke on this site, back in May. Listen/Watch.

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Beware of your mentally ill or elderly family member developing a relationship with a has-been star.
That’s the lesson relatives of Patricia Nilsen are learning. Nilsen was a fan of Connie Francis, crooner of the ’60s hit, “Who’s Sorry Now.” Just a week before she committed suicide Nilsen put a few hundred thousand of her money in CDs in Francis’ name. Her nephew and other relatives dispute that she had the mental capacity to make such changes, and they’re disputing this. A will had originally designated the money to go to the relatives and charities, including St. Jude.

Who’s Suing Now?: Connie Francis
But Francis wants the money and is suing.
Very sad–especially Francis’ outrageous behavior. She may be legally entitled to the money (though that is severely in dispute), but she isn’t doing the right thing.
Can you imagine someone leaving all their money to this guy (who was very hot back in the day and is now almost 67)?

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I’ve obtained the secret videos of enforcement planning at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the rest of the Department of Homeland Security (posted below). Completely non-sensical. It explains a lot, like:
* Why a federal-level summit had to be held to get an illegal alien criminal, Elvira Arellano, pushed out of the country:

Arellano was held for about three hours at San Diego’s Otay Mesa immigration detention center Sunday night while U.S. and Mexican authorities met there to discuss the case, Mack said. The discussions included Luis Cabrera, Mexico’s general consul in San Diego, and , ICE’s director of detention and removals in San Diego.

[Secret Videos of Top Homeland Security Officials’ Planning Sessions (with complete audio soundtrack) . . .]


Unbelievable. You’d think she was an international water treaty.
Does this absurdity happen for every deportation? Let’s hope not. No wonder nothing ever gets done. Between high-level meetings begging countries to take back their citizens and those who continue to refuse to issue travel documents to take them back, we’ll never make a dent and getting rid of these aliens.
* Why the TOP Border Patrol official in the key area of Laredo, Texas, said the Border Patrol is not responsible for apprehending illegal aliens or stopping drug smuggling. HUH?!!!!!:

Border Patrol agents dont have the responsibility of apprehending illegal immigrants, Carlos X. Carrillo, chief patrol agent for the Laredo sector, said at a town hall meeting Wednesday.”The Border Patrol is not equipped to stop illegal immigrants,” Carrillo said, noting that illegal narcotics are also not on the agents priority list.
“The Border Patrol mission is not to do any of those things,” he emphasized.
The Border Patrols mission is to keep the country safe from terrorist and terrorist weapons, he said. Carrillo added that when and if terrorists come into the country, the agents will be ready.

Does this blithering idiot actually read a newspaper or watch the news? Does he not know that reports, including recent ones from his own employer (the federal government), show that terrorists are coming into the country as illegal aliens and are WORKING WITH drug smugglers?
G-d save us.
* Why ICE and DHS gave us yet another new phony “get tough” policy requiring employers to check for phony social security numbers, when ICE knows that the IRS maintains a privacy wall and won’t deign to fight it:

Days after unveiling a major crackdown on businesses that hire illegal immigrants, the Bush administration is now quietly admitting that its most heavily touted weapon in pursuing employers will be virtually useless.
At the heart of the new rules announced last week is toughened Homeland Security enforcement of so-called “no match” letters – which the Social Security Administration sends to companies when employees have questionable identification numbers.
But Homeland Security officials acknowledged this week that because of a privacy provision in the Internal Revenue Service code, immigration officials will actually have no way of knowing which employers have received “no-match” letters, which have complied and which have not.

* Why ICE is putting on a fraudulent front when it pretends to be tough against U.S. Census Bureau requests that it suspend immigration enforcement while the 2010 Census is being taken:
Illegal aliens have constantly taken part in and been included in the Census. ICE won’t follow Census takers (unfortunately), nor will it conduct any mass raids or arrests. But, hey, “The ICE Princess” gets to pretend she’s actually tough on something. Watch what I say, not what I (won’t let my agents) do.