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Archive for World Events
Chomsky: The U.S. Behaves Nothing Like a Democracy
(Noam Chomsky, Alternet, August 15, 2013)
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American power is diminishing, as it has been in fact since its peak in 1945, but it's still incomparable. And it's dangerous. Obama's remarkable global terror campaign and the limited, pathetic reaction to it in the West is one shocking example. And it is a campaign of international terrorism – by far the most extreme in the world. Those who harbor any doubts on that should read the report issued by Stanford University and New York University [4] . . . I'd like to discuss a different system – what we could call the "really existing capitalist democracy", RECD for short, pronounced "wrecked" by accident. . . . for roughly 70% of the population – the lower 70% on the wealth/income scale – they have no influence on policy whatsoever. They're effectively disenfranchised. As you move up the wealth/income ladder, you get a little bit more influence on policy. When you get to the top, which is maybe a tenth of one percent, people essentially get what they want, i.e. they determine the policy. So the proper term for that is not democracy; it's plutocracy. . . . » Continue reading "Chomsky: The U.S. Behaves Nothing Like a Democracy"
August 16, 2013 · Filed under Bill of Rights, Bush Crime Family, Class War, Edge-Walker Alert, Free Speech, Lorenzo's Random Musings, Occupy, U.S. News, World Events
MEGADROUGHT – Could Begin in Eight Years
(Bruce Melton, Truthout, 21 February 2013)
Dry periods, which we normally refer to as drought times today, would be superimposed on top of the megadrought extremeness. . . . The results of the new research are critically deserving of an alarmist tone. That we could slip into profound continuous drought so soon is certainly a surprise to most of us, to say the least. The typical consensus opinion of unrestrained climate pollution impacts by the year 2100 only tells us that permanent drought will come to many parts of the world and, basically, that dry areas could become drier. The news that we could be experiencing permanent drought on the scale of megadrought proportions – beginning in only eight years – should be considered a global threat of the highest order. . . . The new models have more grid squares (higher resolution) in that they can "see" a smaller piece of the earth compared to the old models. The old models took forever to run on supercomputers, and so do the new ones, but we can see smaller areas and smaller scale climate processes are better represented now. The new models also include volcanoes, changes in the sun's strength and more complex interactions between clouds and pollutants like nitrous oxides and sulfur dioxides (both manmade and natural), and their results agree better with observations of our past climate. . . . The results of the new scenarios and most current modeling (as compared to the old scenarios and models) are that warming is greater, drying in dry areas is greater and increasing wetness in wet areas increases further.
February 21, 2013 · Filed under Earth News, Edge-Walker Alert, Lorenzo's Random Musings, World Events
Cornel West: Obama is a 'war criminal' who has killed 'over 200 children'
(Stephen C. Webster, RawStory.com, February 15, 2013 )
Professor Cornel West argued that President Barack Obama is, like Presidents George W. Bush and Richard Nixon before him, a "war criminal" uniquely responsible for the deaths of "over 200 children." . . . West's words were in response to a question about the administration's seeming preference for killing terrorism suspects from the air rather than risking American lives to take them prisoner and hold them for an indefinite amount of time in military custody. A legal whitepaper obtained by NBC News recently exposed the Obama administration's once-secret justification for the program, which authorizes a deadly airstrike if intelligence officials believe it may take out any "senior operational leaders" of al Qaeda or "associated forces," even if that includes an American citizen. . . . "I think, my dear brother, the chickens are coming home to roost," West told Smiley. "We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes." . . . Troublingly enough, West is right on the number: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports that up to 216 children have died in three countries the U.S. is not formally at war with — Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia — as a result of suspected U.S. drone strikes starting in 2002 and dramatically escalating during Obama's first term. Out of an estimated 451 total drone strikes during that period, over 300 were ordered by Obama against Pakistanis alone. The Bureau estimates that up to 4,643 people in all have been killed by drone strikes in those three countries. . . . Similarly, a United Nations committee said this month that "hundreds" of children have been killed by U.S. drone strikes since 2008, many which are personally approved by Obama, according to The New York Times. . . . "I think we have to be very honest, let us not be deceived: Nixon, Bush, Obama, they're war criminals," West said. "They have killed innocent people in the name of the struggle for freedom, but they're suspending the law, very much like Wall Street criminals. The law is suspended for them, but the law applies for the rest of us. You and I, brother Tavis, if we kill an innocent person we go to jail, and we're going to be in there forever." . . . "I am not somebody who believes that the president has the authority to do whatever he wants, or whatever she wants, whenever they want, just under the guise of counter terrorism," he said. "There have to be checks and balances on it."
February 15, 2013 · Filed under Bill of Rights, Bush Crime Family, Class War, Lorenzo's Random Musings, U.S. News, World Events
Live Your Dreams!
The video below was made by a friend of mine over the 90 days that it took her to row, yes ROW, across the Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Barbados, 6,500 Kilometers!
December 13, 2012 · Filed under Earth News, Lorenzo's Random Musings, Peace, World Events
2012 In Less Than Three Minutes
Maybe the end of the world didn't arrive, but it's been an interesting year nonetheless.
December 12, 2012 · Filed under Lorenzo's Random Musings, World Events
One Year Away From Global Food Riots
(Countercurrents.org, 14 September, 2012)
Hunger is the number one reason behind riot. There are other reasons also. These include poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement. Trampled down humanity fights back. It's, plain and simple. But, if there's a single factor that reliably sparks social unrest, it's food becoming too scarce or too expensive. So argues a group of complex systems theorists in Cambridge , and it makes sense. . . . In a 2011 paper , researchers at the Complex Systems Institute unveiled a model that accurately explained why the waves of unrest that swept the world in 2008 and 2011 crashed when they did. The number one determinant was soaring food prices. Their model identified a precise threshold for global food prices that, if breached, would lead to worldwide unrest. . . . The MIT Technology Review explains how CSI's model works: "The evidence comes from two sources. The first is data gathered by the United Nations that plots the price of food against time, the so-called food price index of the Food and Agriculture Organisation. The second is the date of riots around the world, whatever their cause." Plot the data, and it looks like this: [CLICK the above link for the graph.] . . . Pretty simple. Black dots are the food prices, red lines are the riots. In other words, whenever the UN's food price index, which measures the monthly change in the price of a basket of food commodities, climbs above 210, the conditions ripen for social unrest around the world. . . . CSI doesn't claim that any breach of 210 immediately leads to riots, obviously; just that the probability that riots will erupt grows much greater. . . . For billions of people around the world, food comprises up to 80% of routine expenses (for rich-world people like you and I, it's like 15%). When prices jump, people can't afford anything else; or even food itself. And if a person can't eat — or worse, a person's family can't eat — the person fights. . . . » Continue reading "One Year Away From Global Food Riots"
September 26, 2012 · Filed under Earth News, Edge-Walker Alert, Lorenzo's Random Musings, Occupy, World Events
Nader: "Obama is a War Criminal"
(Stephen C. Webster, RawStory.com, September 26, 2012 )
"He's gone beyond George W. Bush in drones, for example," Nader told reporter Patrick Gavin. "He thinks the world is his plate, that national sovereignties mean nothing, drones can go anywhere. They can kill anybody that he suspects and every Tuesday he makes the call on who lives and who dies, supposed suspects in places like Yemen and Pakistan and Afghanistan, and that is a war crime and he ought to be held to account." . . . President Obama's own attorneys recognize that key portions of the U.S. drone bombing campaign in Pakistan and other countries are legally questionable, according to a report in The Wall St. Journal on Wednesday. That's especially the case in Pakistan, which has stopped giving direct approval to U.S. drone strikes, but the bombs continue to fall anyway. . . . Casualty figures collected from media reports by the nonprofit New America Foundation show that between 1,877 and 3,177 people have been killed by drone strikes from 2004-2012, most of them being civilians. The vast majority of deaths reportedly happened during 2010, President Obama's second year on the job. A study published this week by researchers at Stanford and New York Universities also claimed that only about 2 percent of the people killed in U.S. drone strikes were actual militants, saying at least 176 of those slain were children. . . . Nader added that Obama's intellect and experience helped legitimize Bush's "lawless war-mongering and militarism," making him a "more effective evil" than Romney. However, he warned that the former Massachusetts governor is not to be trifled with either, calling him the greater of the two evils and warning that he's "basically a corporation running for president masquerading as a human being."
September 26, 2012 · Filed under Bill of Rights, Bush Crime Family, Lorenzo's Random Musings, U.S. News, World Events
Is The "Arc" of Capitalism Coming To Its End"
(MORRIS BERMAN, Counterpunch, September 20, 2012)
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An important derivative of the Annales research is the work of the World Systems Analysis school, including Immanuel Wallerstein and Christopher Chase-Dunn, which similarly focuses on long-term structures: capitalism, in particular. . . . The "arc" of capitalism, according to this school, is about 600 years long, from 1500 to 2100. It is our particular (mis)fortune to be living through the beginning of the end, the disintegration of capitalism as a world system. It was mostly commercial capital in the sixteenth century, evolving into industrial capital in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and then moving on to financial capital—money created by money itself, and by speculation in currency—in the twentieth and twenty-first. In dialectical fashion, it will be the very success of the system that eventually does it in. . . . The last time a change of this magnitude occurred was during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, during which time the medieval world began to come apart and be replaced by the modern one. . . . the whole climate change debate is a serious threat to capitalism. » Continue reading "Is The "Arc" of Capitalism Coming To Its End""
September 20, 2012 · Filed under Edge-Walker Alert, Lorenzo's Random Musings, Occupy, U.S. News, World Events
Occupy's Not Dead, It Was on Vacation . . . Year 2 Begins
(CounterPunch, VIJAY PRASHAD, September 17, 2012)
A mid-September sunny day in New York City draws those with the day off to go to the parks and laze along the avenues, walking by the workers on call, cleaning up after tourists, holding together a city that always seems held together by the sweat of its massive workforce and a dose of city pride. Beneath the massive Washington Arch, a woman in a wheelchair, beside other men and women in wheelchairs and other prosthetic devices, holds a sign that says, "Occupy Wheelchairs." The Occupy Wall Street Disability Caucus is holding an assembly to proclaim its presence at Occupy, Year 2. . . . Behind their wheelchairs, on the Arch, is a sculpture of Wisdom (made by Stirling Calder, the father of Alexander Calder), whose hand holds a book with Ovid's quip, Exitus Acta Probat, which can be loosely translated as "all's well that ends well." It is a good hopeful slogan for the Occupy festival in anticipation of S17 (September 17), the day OWS returns to the canyons of Wall Street to shut down Money. . . . A man tells his three-year-old child, "let's go occupy the playground." It is the spirit of the moment. . . . The Occupy Catholics have a homemade sign: "We aren't protesting. We're advertising Love." . . . A man in a police uniform holds a sign, "To understand us watch Inside Job. A film about Corporate Greed, not 9-11." . . . » Continue reading "Occupy's Not Dead, It Was on Vacation . . . Year 2 Begins"
September 17, 2012 · Filed under Edge-Walker Alert, Free Speech, Lorenzo's Random Musings, Occupy, U.S. News, World Events
Is Revolution On The Way?
(George Lakey, Nation Of Change, 3 Aug 2012)
I see no signs of a revolutionary situation in Norway. Students of revolution keep an eye on the perceived legitimacy of a nation's leadership, and Norwegians are enormously confident that their little ship in a big global sea is being steered well. . . . The United Kingdom is a different story. The legitimacy of the nation's leadership is definitely in trouble. The mass media shout the stories of the irresponsibility of the 1 percent and the politicians they corrupt. The government is a coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and is enthusiastic about enforcing austerity, running down the National Health Service and education system, forcing English university students to pay more for what used to be free education and opening new coal mines. Homelessness is already up by an estimated twenty-five percent. . . . One way that government's hold on to their legitimacy is to have an opposition party that holds out hope that, if it is elected, things will dramatically improve. That used to work in the U.K., as in the U.S. . . . While students of revolution need to pay attention to trends in legitimacy, another key question is this: Can the present leadership solve the biggest problems facing society? . . . Arguably the biggest problem is climate change. While the British 1 percent is allowing some sensible policies, like electrifying the railways and increasing wind farms, there is no sign that it has the will really to take the necessary steps. When you add together declining legitimacy, the inability to address climate change and the absence of a hopeful alternative within the institutional framework, you have conditions for the opening of a revolutionary situation over the next 10 years in the U.K. . . . . . . How about the U.S.? » Continue reading "Is Revolution On The Way?"
August 8, 2012 · Filed under Bush Crime Family, Edge-Walker Alert, Free Speech, Lorenzo's Random Musings, Occupy, Peace, U.S. News, World Events


COMMUNICATION – Each day your child will bring home their Take-Home folder. One side will be labeled, Take Home, and the other will be labeled Return to School. Any communication such as student classwork and homework, How I Act tally report, permission slips and similar items will be placed in the appropriate pocket of the Take Home folder. It is important for parents to look at this folder as often as possible to be aware of their child's progress. If there are any classwork concerns or items that require parents' immediate attention, I will send out an email directly regarding the issue. Email is my preferred form of communication and if possible, please send a test email with your child's name in the subject line to aharris@pcalions.org. If a serious issue arises, we will immediately arrange a parent/teacher meeting.
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT – Providence Christian Academy uses the How I Act tally system for behavior accountability. The full explanation of this disciplinary approach can be found in the Student-Parent Handbook (p.33) available on the PCA website, under Admissions/School Forms tab. At the Orientation Day, parents will be given the actual student Take Home folders that will include information about this disciplinary system as well a sample copy of the How I Act tally report. This report will be filled out daily, if and when, a student's behavior requires a tally. How I Act report will require a weekly parent signature to be returned to school each Monday. Your children will be instructed in the first weeks on all our classroom and school rules. In addition, students will be routinely reminded of behavior requirements for a student attending a Christian school.
READING – I would strongly encourage all parents to read with their children as much as possible. I can not emphasize enough the importance of reading at this level!
In our 2nd grade, students will be assigned periodically a book to read at home that will require a simple, written book report. Students will bring home a book from our class library as well as a copy of our Short Form Book Report. The books will be accompanied by a Letter to Parents explaining the procedure for a book reading report. Assigned books are short, contain pictures, and students are given two weeks to read them. After two weeks, students bring the books back to school to give our class a verbal report on the books they read. So far, our Book Reading Days have been filled with laughter, excitement and a sense of healthy peer competition.
DRESS CODE – PCA follows appropriate dress code for all students. In our 2nd grade, we try to follow the school dress code fully. The way we present ourselves and the way we behave go hand in hand and clearly, in this respect, expectations are higher for students attending a school that is based on Christian values. Students will help in this effort by participating in the classroom 'uniform check' each day as a part of our regular morning routine. Please refer to the Dress Code section (under Admissions tab) for detailed information about required and acceptable student uniforms. As a reminder, Wednesdays are reserved for Chapel Day here at PCA and this requires Chapel (logo) Dress code to be observed.
SUPPLY LIST – School supply lists are posted on the PCA website under Admissions tab. In our classroom, each student will have space assigned for his/her school supplies and I will notify you, if and when, their supplies need to be replenished.


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Eastern BMW, the Edinburgh-based BMW retailer, is returning as a sponsor of this year's Brodies Invitational at Gleneagles.
Eastern BMW is the latest business to lend its support to the tennis legends' tournament at Gleneagles Hotel on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 June, when tennis stars including former British No. 1 Tim Henman, former World No. 8 Mark Philippoussis, former French Open finalist Henri Leconte, former World No. 1 Thomas Muster and eight-time ATP World Tour doubles champion Colin Fleming will be showing off their racquet skills at the only Scottish fixture on the prestigious ATP Champions Tour.
Established in 1997, the ATP Champions Tour spans the globe with former champions competing in tournaments in cities including London, Mexico City, Seoul, Stockholm and Palma de Mallorca.
Tickets for the Brodies Invitational are available to book now, priced at £39.50 for adults and £20 for children. Other ticket options, including family and weekend tickets, are also on the website.


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Founded by Douglas Fraser in 1970, this seminar addresses major issues in the fields of African, Oceanic, Native American, and pre-Hispanic Latin American arts. The seminar provides an opportunity for members to analyze, evaluate, and discuss new and continuing research, as well as various trends in scholarship. Because the membership is comprised of art historians, curators, archeologists, anthropologist, and other field specialists, seminar meetings frequently involve indepth discussions of theoretical and methodological issues.
"Decoding the Adena Tablets: New interpretations of the 'Mound Builder' tablets"
Thursday, October 3, 2013 from 7 to 8 p.m.
Wine and cheese from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Those wishing to do so may join us for dinner with the speaker after the presentation.
The Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology and The Columbia University Seminar on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas invite you to 'Thinking with Things': A Symposium in Honor of Professor Esther Pasztory, Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor in Pre-Columbian Art History.
Friday, May 17, 2013 from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Reception to follow.
This event is open to the public, but please RSVP to pasztoryfestschrift2013@gmail.com.
Made possible by generous gifts from a member of the seminar and from the Department of Art History and Archaeology.
All events take place in Schermerhorn Hall, room 930, from 7-9 p.m.


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The Interweb February 24, 2009
Techcrunch are full of shit –
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who's been listening to the "leaked" U2 album.
I denied it vehemently on the Techcrunch article, as did several other Last.fm staffers. We denied it in the Last.fm forums, on twitter, via email – basically we denied it to anyone that would listen, and now we're denying it on our blog.
According to Ars Technica, even the RIAA don't know where the rumour came from.
CBS, Last.fm deny passing user data to RIAA –
The news cycle spins fast and flimsy these days. Late Friday night, TechCrunch posted an unsourced rumour that CBS-owned Last.fm handed a "giant dump" of user data to the RIAA. The music org was said to have requested the data, which could be used to find users who are listening to as-yet-unreleased tracks, after U2's upcoming album was leaked two weeks before release.
But Last.fm came out fighting. After its New York-based CBS (NYSE: CBS) spokesperson told TechCrunch "To our knowledge, no data has been made available to RIAA", Richard Jones (pictured), one of the three remaining co-founders in London, wrote in the site's comments after midnight: "I'm rather pissed off this article was published, except to say that this is utter nonsense and totally untrue. As far as I can tell, the author of this article got a 'tip' from one person and decided to make a story out of it. TechCrunch is full of shit, film at 11."
Whitbread winner Nolan dies at 43 –
Award-winning Irish author Christopher Nolan, who was almost completely paralysed by cerebral palsy, has died at the age of 43.
A family spokesman said he had ingested food into his airway, and died in Dublin's Beaumont hospital on Friday.
The writer was physically disabled at birth. He wrote by tapping a keyboard with a device strapped to his head.
Easy login plans gather pace –
Plans for a system that would allow people to use one username and password across the internet have moved closer with a number of popular sites agreeing to the scheme in recent weeks.
Earlier this month Facebook became the most recent site to sign up to OpenID, joining the board of the scheme that provides users with a single digital identity which can then be used across many websites.
How long has Open ID been about? Let's see if it starts to catch on
WATCHMEN is fucking awesome. –
I got to see a special advance screening of Watchmen yesterday, at a taping of MTV Spoilers. They showed us the whole movie, and then ran some clips from the new Harry Potter, the Land of the Lost, and the new Star Trek movie, followed by a Q&A with Zack Snyder.
I know a lot of people want to know about Watchmen, so I'll just cut to the chase right away: It's the best movie inspired by a graphic novel that I've ever seen. It could have gone wrong in a thousand different places, and it didn't. I've wanted to see this movie for twenty years, and it was entirely worth the wait. Hear me now, my fellow geeks: you have nothing to worry about. Watchmen is fucking awesome.
So, does Twitter give you cancer? –
Can Twitter give you cancer? That was the question racing (usually accompanied by the tag "rubbish") over social networks today, based on a new article in the journal Biologist, and then covered by some organisations (sample headline: "How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer").
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The MasonBrite lid is an airtight mason jar cover embedded with a trio of touch-activated LEDs and two magnifying glasses offering up 3X and 5X zoom-ins. It fits over any standard 86mm wide mouth mason jar. Why? Well, not for easy, up-close viewing of your grandma's homemade jam, that's for sure.
OK, despite my insinuation, MasonBrite lids did come about to serve an innocent - albeit highly specialized - purpose: to give flora fans a unique and customized flower viewing and storing experience. Yep, the MasonBrite is a budding botanist's tool. Gardening enthusiasts and terrarium hobbyists might find the lighting and magnifying potential of the mason jar lid grows on them too.
And for the rest of you dudes and ladies, ye who might not be into all plants, but do appreciate getting up close and personal with all the different classifications and strains of one of them. A particularly herbal variety, one best enjoyed dried, and one best kept sealed in an airtight jar.
Yep, if you like to geek out on your weed, on your buds' colorations and crystals, the MasonBrite lid could make an excellent cover for your next stash jar.


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Der Teerk-Roo-Ra-Nationalpark (engl.: Teerk Roo Ra National Park) ist ein Nationalpark im Südosten des australischen Bundesstaates Queensland. Er liegt 22 Kilometer östlich von Brisbane und 4 Kilometer östlich von Cleveland auf der Insel Peel Island in der Moreton Bay.

In der Nachbarschaft liegen die Nationalparks Naree Budjong Djara, Venman Bushland, Fort Lytton, St. Helena Island und Moreton Island.

Geschichte
Von 1874 bis in die 1890er-Jahre diente die Insel Peel Island als Quarantänestation für Leprakranke und von 1910 bis 1916 als Wohnstätte für Alkoholkranke. Im Jahre 1907 wurde auf der Insel das einzige Lepralazarett in Australien eröffnet, das sowohl Weiße als auch Aborigines aufnahm. Es war bis 1959 in Betrieb.

Der größte Teil der Insel ist heute zur Erhaltung des historischen Lazaretts für die Öffentlichkeit gesperrt. In Zukunft sollen Führungen durch das Lazarett verfügbar sein.

Flora
Die Insel ist von Mangroven umgeben, mit Ausnahme des Sandstrandes in der hufeisenförmigen Bucht im Süden. Im Inneren der Insel wachsen Eukalyptusbäume der Spezies Scribbly Gum (Eucalyptus signata).

Einrichtungen und Zufahrt
Wildes Zelten ist nur in der Horseshoe Bay und der Platypus Bay im Süden der Insel gestattet. Der Rest der Insel darf nicht betreten werden.

Die beiden Buchten sind nur mit privaten Boden aus erreichbar.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website des Parks (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Nationalpark in Queensland
Nationalpark in Australien und Ozeanien
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Take a look at this bellydance rendition of the Justice, or Adjustment card, by Irina Akulenko.
Talk about balancing the Sword of Power! She's incredible.
The clip is from last year's performance of Tarot – Fantasy Bellydance by Venus Uprising, a bellydance troupe in New York City.
They're keeping the ancient art very modern. After watching some of their videos I can't help but want to bellydance myself.
The whole performance is available on DVD through WorldDance New York, where you can find more clips from the show.
Pictures of each of the Tarot characters are posted on the Venus Uprising site.
You are currently reading Justice and Bellydance – a perfect balance at The Tarot Room.


The Great Victorian Rail Trail from Tallarook to Mansfield is a gem. Its 120km long and if you divert to Alexandria, you can ride another 40km. We did it comfortably in 3 days but the tricky issue is where to stay between Yea and Mansfield. We started riding in the middle near Yarck due a car swap system we devised.
We stayed at the Bonnie Doon pub on Lake Eildon and the Yea family caravan park, both good. The Peppercorn Hotel in Yea had sensational food.
Notes: If you only have a short time, the Tallarook to Yea section is the best and you can get to Tallarook by train from Southern Cross in Melbourne.
For now, enjoy the pictures we took on the trail which are shown in order from Mansfield to Tallarook.
To find out more, refer to the following greatvictorianrailtrail.com.au site for more information and in particular, find out about the historic Cheviot tunnel here.
Note: One bike group had a few punctures, make sure you pack your spare tire and know how to change the back wheel.
The photos that follow begin at Mansfield and head roughly west near the Maroondah Hwy to Merton. Then you veer a little south past Yaark and through the Cheviot tunnel and down into Yea. From there you follow the picturesque Goulburn River into the township of Tallarook.


1. Begin your day with love (not technology). Remind yourself of your worthiness before getting out of bed. Breathe in love and breathe out love. Enfold yourself in light. Saturate your being in love.
2. Take time to meditate and journal. Spend time focusing inward daily. Begin with 5 minutes of meditation and 5 minutes of journaling each morning. Gradually increase this time.
3. Talk yourself happy. Use affirmations to train your mind to become more positive.
4. Get emotionally honest. Let of go of numbing your feelings.Shopping, eating, and drinking are examples of avoiding discomfort, sadness, and pain. Mindfully breathe your way through your feelings and emotions.
8. Work on personal and spiritual development. Be willing to surrender and grow. Life is a journey. We are here to learn and love on a deeper level. One step at a time is enough to proceed forward.
16. Discover the power of fun. Self-love requires time to relax, play, and create face-to-face interaction with others.
Because we are all interconnected, when I love me, I also love you. Together through our love, we can heal ourselves, each other, and the world. Love is our purpose, our true calling. It begins with and within all of us.


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After eLib
data software dissemination archives digitisation copyright preservation cataloguing multimedia z39.50 rslp licence interoperability url research standards jstor
Chris Rusbridge, the former Director of the UK Electronic Libraries Programme, with an assessment of its achievements and legacy.
Philip Hunter asked for an assessment of the achievements and legacy of the eLib Programme 5 years on. It is a strange experience trying to summarise a huge enterprise, covering more than 5 years involving hundreds of people, and costing in excess of £20M, in a couple of thousand words. I immediately abandoned any thought of comprehensiveness, any formalised evaluation, or even any serious attempt at history. Instead this is a highly personal commentary on some of the highlights for me as Programme Director of the Electronic Libraries Programme (known as eLib) with a reflection on some of the less overtly successful things – again highlights where 20:20 hindsight showed we could have done better. I will mention only a small proportion of the 70+ projects involved, with apologies to, but no intention of slighting those omitted. Great work was done in very many different ways throughout the eLib programme.
Despite not wishing to start with a history, it may be useful to remind ourselves that eLib was not intended to be a digital library research programme, in the high technology sense of the NSF Digital Libraries Initiative. Indeed it was not described as a research programme at all – JISC still tends not to acknowledge that its activities include a number of significant applied research and development programmes.
The FIGIT programme (as eLib was first called) was an exploration of ways IT could assist libraries, particularly in the context of the abolition of the binary divide and the creation of the 1992 universities. I gather the outline of the programme was devised by Lynne Brindley, Derek Law, David Cook and others in a restaurant called the "Rusty Bucket", near Washington DC while they were visiting the US preparing their contribution to the "Follett Report," of which the eLib Programme was one major outcome.
In many ways the eLib programme was seen as distinct from the projects. We had the notion that the programme could succeed even if all the projects failed – and vice versa in both cases! This is because we were really aiming at a sea-change, a cultural shift: to see libraries taking up these new technologies in an enthusiastic way. From this point of view, I believe the programme has been a major success (as have many of the projects). A wide range of supporting technology is now deployed in libraries as a matter of course, a considerable part of it with its origins clearly in eLib.
One of the big issues from the start of the programme was that each project had to have a finite funded life of up to 3 years. Services that might ensue beyond that point had to be self-sustaining i.e. had to have an "exit strategy" that did not depend on continued injection of JISC funding. Why 3 years? Not because that is the time needed to make a cultural change or to establish an infant service so that the community will pay for it. We now know that (ignoring the huge investments of dot.coms, many of which could eat the entire eLib programme budget for breakfast) it is nearly impossible to take an idea through prototype into real implementation to sustainability in just 3 years! In practice, we managed to find ways of extending support in some cases for further transitional periods. Perhaps the justification was merely bureaucratic: simply because JISC operated within the 3 year financial forward planning cycle operated by HEFCE.
Back to the Electronic Libraries Programme - what were some of my favourite projects (I won't say best; this is definitely a subjective list)? The project of greatest personal satisfaction for me is CEDARS, the digital preservation project from Phase 3. Ensuring the long term existence of digital materials was not an element of the Follett report, and this seemed a significant gap when I started thinking about applying for the job of Programme Director. Others were also aware of the importance of this area, most particularly FIGIT's Chair, Lynne Brindley, now CEO of the British Library. We still have CEDARS as an exploratory project piloting ideas rather than a full-blown digital preservation service; this is another example of the difficulty of taking even widely supported ideas through research into service. It is also true that the technical problems in this area are not yet solved, but also that the real problems are organisational, political and financial rather than technical. Nevertheless, CEDARS has made real progress on both national and international fronts.
A second favourite is in the area of the re-use of current copyright material in digital form for course readings. The area was variously known as On Demand Publishing, Electronic Reserve Collections, etc. The second generation project here is HERON, a great project battling against very difficult conditions to provide a valuable service to HEIs and to publishers. Membership is growing rapidly, as is usage amongst members. This is a genuine case where, after much hard work and many drafts of business models, a business strategy may have been identified. The important thing here is to devise sustainable ways that copyright material can be used with clear, known and reasonable costs, and at short notice.
More successes? From the Electronic Journals area, a journal which aimed from the start to get value from the technology rather than just using it to carry images of printed pages – this was Internet Archaeology. Archaeology was clearly a discipline desperately awaiting the emergence of a medium like the electronic journal, which could do justice to its many-faceted multi-disciplinarity. Sociological Research Online may not have quite fulfilled its promise of bringing multimedia into the forefront of the sociology publication arena, but the journal worked, became respectable and survived without further cash from JISC beyond its initial funded period – as comparatively few other projects did. Between these and other Electronic Journals projects, and the Pilot Site Licence Initiative of the funding councils (and its successor, the National Electronic Site Licence Initiative, or NESLI), we can claim a considerable part of the credit for the rapid scholarly move towards wide-spread use of electronic journals.
In Phase 2 of eLib, we had a programme area dedicated to electronic pre-prints. While all the projects were successful in their way, WoPEc and Cogprints, plus the latter's JISC/NSF successor, the Open Citation project can genuinely claim to be forerunners of the Open Archives Initiative. This may turn out to be a crucial development in providing access to a much wider range of "grey" materials, and possibly helping to counter the debilitating effect of the scholarly journals price spiral.
Another favourite of a very different kind was Digimap (which became the award-winning EDINA Digimap service for Ordinance Survey map access), plus its little known follow-on project Digimap.Plus. The latter is looking at the issue of changing landscape; that is, matching time-stamped maps over a long period (say 100+ years). Some of the users of modern Ordnance Survey data in the original Digimap project, however, were thinking on a broad timeline too – one I remember was an investigation of sight-lines in the location of Roman forts, and another into the location of food dumps for Cromwell's New Model Army!
There were also a number of projects which somehow did not quite meet our most ambitious aims. These included document delivery projects, where both the software complexity and the business model were problems. Despite these, Lamda has developed into a sustainable service doing quite a respectable volume of business.
In contrast, the document delivery project InfoBike may have failed in its original terms, but it mutated: first into the BIDS JournalsOnline service, which then provided the core of the spin-off company ingenta, now a £100 million publicly quoted company! In this sense it was an extremely successful project, and one of which we can be justly proud, even if some parts of JISC are a little unsure of claiming such commercial success as an appropriate yardstick (unlike the NSF, which is proud to count successful spin-off companies as a performance indicator).
In digitisation and images we suffered from the indecision of the pioneer; although anything we did was valuable, nothing appeared of itself likely to justify the very high cost of digitisation. This was an area where consistent belief in a vision of the increasing value of contributions towards a critical mass of digitised material is needed. JSTOR sustained this vision; JISC is only now establishing the structures to support this. At the time and now, it appears to me very important that JISC, with its significant digital library budgets, should put a consistent amount of money into digitisation (moving legacy information into the digital arena) every year.
Two of the later programme areas have yet to be as influential as we hope, through no fault of those working in them. The so-called clumps projects have not been able to demonstrate that virtual union catalogues based on the Z39:50 protocol scale to provide reliable service on a national dimension. The M25 Link project will connect the catalogues of almost 40 institutions, but despite important developments in interoperability such as the Bath Profile and Collection Level Descriptions, this appears pretty much at or slightly above the upper limit. Perhaps their most important contributions will be seen to have been the promotion of co-operative agendas between libraries. Meanwhile, the appropriate models for a national-scale union catalogue are being investigated through the UKNUC study funded by JISC, RSLP and the BL.
The hybrid library projects are described elsewhere in this issue. Extraordinarily interesting in detail and exceptionally innovative in many aspects including their dissemination programmes, the ideas are only beginning to change the way university libraries operate. However, these projects are just entering their final reporting stages, and some have conferences and workshops presenting their results very soon.
It was a source of some sadness to me that some kind of natural modesty persuaded most of the programme participants that they could not or should not mix it on an international stage. Despite the 1980s Coloured Books problem (associated with hanging on to a defunct standard too long rather than being wrongly innovative) there is every reason to believe JISC and participants in its projects have much to offer. There are certainly exceptions, including CEDARS and its JISC/NSF funded companion, CAMiLEON both with a high international profile. Indeed, the whole programme jointly funded by JISC and NSF which paralleled the later stages of eLib has been an important stimulus to international co-operative activity.
Two other disappointments for me: one was the small number of projects involving library or computer science schools, together with the small amount of real hard digital library research done in UK academic circles (compared with the US where the NSF has funded some major developments on rather similar budgets). Most eLib projects were based in practitioner groups (I know there were reasons for and benefits from this!).
Finally in this list, the difficulty of overcoming the barriers between JISC committees was a disappointment. This was particularly so for example when the first phases of eLib had so raised the profile of the human and cultural issues (through the Training and Awareness area) that a separate JISC sub-committee was formed; from that point, it was harder to make progress on these important issues in the digital library area which had identified them!
This survey also ignores important non-project activities, like the very significant collaborative activities between the JISC and publishers, a wide variety of studies, various copyright and other guidelines, etc.
So what of the future? For the early part of eLib we did not have a grand national plan linking the projects to other developments such as datasets. Gradually, particularly through the MODELS workshops (a favourite I have held in reserve), and linked to the subject-based Internet gateways that were coming together in the Resource Discovery Network, plus the increasingly focused JISC collections of datasets, an idea began to emerge and coalesce. This was referred to as the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER), for want of a better name: it still is! To me, the idea of the DNER is simple: consistent access to the widest range of stuff.
To make the DNER happen requires a new team with a new approach. The construction task is led by Lorcan Dempsey (amongst a daunting array of other responsibilities); his ideas formed the basis of much of the design of the DNER. My 5 years as eLib Programme Director was the best job of my life (so far), and I sincerely hope Lorcan will feel his job as exciting and satisfying. We all owe him and his colleagues our full support.
Finally, in this brief tour which leaves so much more out than I would wish, a personal favourite has always been Ariadne, which has succeeded in entertaining while informing us for the past 5 years or so. Long may she continue to do so!
The Follett Report: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/follett/report/
The eLib Programme Web site, which gives access to individual project pages: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/
CEDARS project: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/index.htm
HERON: http://www.heron.ac.uk/
Joint Information Systems Committee Web pages: http://www.jisc.ac.uk
D-Lib Magazine briefing on eLib, December 1995:http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december95/briefings/12uk.html
Article on Hybrid Libraries in D-Lib, July 1998: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/rusbridge/07rusbridge.html
Chris Rusbridge
c.rusbridge@compserv.gla.ac.uk
Article Title: "After eLib"
Author: Chris Rusbridge
Publication Date: 10-Jan-2001
Originating URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue26/chris/


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Polling begins for first phase of Himachal assembly elections
Shimla, Wed, 14 Nov 2007 NI Wire
Nov 14: Icy Himachal is melting from the heat of assembly election fray as the polling for the first phase of election has begun today morning in tight security. Election Commission has deployed tight security to conduct a free and fair election for the three tribal seats.
The polling begins in 298 polling stations for the three reserved seats Kinnaur, Bharmour and Lahual-Spiti at 8:00 am and will go on till 5:00 pm. There are 12 candidates in the first phase of the election for the three schedule tribe seats. Approximately 1.27 lakh voters will exercise today to choose their representative of their constituencies.
The Election Commission of India has arranged nearly 1100 police personnel including home guards. A company of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has also been set up to conduct a peaceful and fair election as Ashwani Kumar, Director General of Police informed to media on Tuesday.
"The use of mobile phone and wireless services have been granted by the election commission for political parties in all the three constituencies", said DGP Kumar. "A total of 230 wireless stations have been set up to provide a better communication link by the administration" added Ashwani.
Chief Electoral Officer Manisha Nanda informed the media that political parties have arrived in all booths of three constituencies and forty three helipads have been set up to meet any sort of emergency can be occurred of accidental snowfall.
All the three jumbo parties include Congress, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) along with Lok Jan Shakti Party have granted election tickets to 11 candidates while one candidate is independent in the fray.


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Home Events Peterssen Keller Architects Transforms Office Walls Into Gallery for Local Artists
Peterssen Keller Architects Transforms Office Walls Into Gallery for Local Artists
Camille LeFevre
Michon Weeks, I Saw a Wheel on the Earth (Chopper), 2016 oil and acrylic on canvas
Bennett Bossert has loved residential architecture since, when he was 10, he drew plans for the renovation of his grandparents' home on Galpin Lake in Excelsior. Today, he's an architectural designer for the Minneapolis firm Peterssen Keller Architects (PK). He's also an artist, and his work is currently on view in Peterssen Keller's Uptown office in an exhibition, curated by Tim Peterson (formerly of Franklin Art Works), titled "Constructions."
The exhibition includes work based on linear (Bossert) and/or graphic structures (the artists Elizabeth Simonson and Andrew Nordin), layered matrices (Andy DuCett), natural phenomena (Melissa Borman and Stefanie Mott), and compositions of focused sets of images. When walking up the stairs from the first-floor lobby, for instance, visitors can delight in a series of red objects on the white wall inspired by building tools and materials—a work called "WD-40" created by artist Michon Weeks.
"The wall drawing elements are all items from my garage," Weeks says. "I used the same color that PK has on their logo and front door for the wall drawing. I thought garage items as the subject would be a good fit with an architecture firm focusing on home design."
She also "exaggerated the shape and scale of the objects in order to blur the line between the everyday and the deeply symbolic," she says. Her work was also, in part, "inspired by the rich motifs, color, and arrangement of the ancient petroglyphs at Tanum Sweden."
Bossert's drawings were also a natural fit for an exhibition in his office, he says, "as it's a continuation of much of my architectural work. As a precursor to my freehand abstract drawings, I've spent 10 years developing the skill and craft of digital parametric design as an architectural designer and artist. This is a method of coding relationships between different entities whereby a variation to one entity will cause an effect on all others. Very often unexpected outcomes emerge. The results are akin to organic forms found in nature, as all of nature is governed by interconnected relationships and geometric principles."
Bennett Bossert, Shifting Grounds #4, 2017, pen on illustration board
"I now draw intuitively with ink pen on paper rather than using digital tools to create images," he continues. "Breaking free from the computer and working with my hands while maintaining the theoretical and aesthetic pursuit of parametric design has been extremely satisfying. Slowing the iterative loop, the process has become natural and meditative."
Peterson's annual exhibitions for the PK office began several years ago while the firm was designing a renovation of his former home. The idea to transform the office's white walls into gallery space became a way to engage staff and clients in the work of local artists, while providing those artists with an opportunity to show their work in a unique setting.
The artworks lent for each year's exhibition are available for sale. When an artwork sells, the artist receives 100 percent of the proceeds (and they are paid directly by the buyer). Typically, several works sell each year. PK has also acquired works directly from past exhibitions for their offices.
Elizabeth Simonson
Cinch, 2016, glass beads and yarn
"PK is a beautiful space where my work will be experience by creative people for one year," Weeks says. "I hope my paintings will find a new home in one of PK's client's homes."
To request a viewing, contact Tim Peterson at tim.ll.peterson@gmail.com.
Melissa Borman, Untitled from Visible Systems, 2010, color photograph
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REALITY VS PERCEPTION: The State of Israel Turns 60
Bret Stevens on Israel's 60th anniversary:
Sixty years after its birth, Israel continues to test the proposition that reality counts for more than perception.
The Web site eyeontheun.org keeps a running tally of all United Nations resolutions, decisions and reports condemning this or that country for this or that human rights violation (real or alleged). Between January 2003 and March 2008, tiny Israel – its population not half that of metropolitan Cairo's – was condemned no fewer than 635 times. The runners-up were Sudan at 280, the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 209, and Burma at 183. North Korea was cited a mere 60 times, a third as many as the United States.
Is Israel the world's foremost abuser of human rights? A considerable segment of world opinion thinks that it is, while an equally considerable segment of elite opinion thinks that, even if it isn't, its behavior is nonetheless reprehensible by civilized standards.
I would argue the opposite: that no other country has been so circumspect in using force against the provocations of its enemies....
For reasons both telling and mysterious, Israel has become unpopular among that segment of public opinion that calls itself progressive. This is the same progressive segment that believes in women's rights, gay rights, the rights to a fair trial and to appeal, freedom of speech and conscience, judicial checks on parliamentary authority. These are rights that exist in Israel and nowhere else in the Middle East. So why is it that the country that is most sympathetic to progressive values gets the least of progressive sympathies?
Take a recent example: In January of this year, Israpundit discussed this story :
Ms. Magazine has long been in the forefront of the fight for equal rights and equal opportunities for women. Apparently that is not the case if the women happen to be Israeli.
The magazine has turned down an AJCongress advertisement that did nothing more controversial than call attention to the fact that women currently occupy three of the most significant positions of power in Israeli public life. The proposed ad (The Ad Ms. Didn't Want You To See: http://www.ajcongress.org/site/DocServer/Ms.pdf?docID=1961 ) included a text that merely said, "This is Israel," under photographs of President of the Supreme Court Dorit Beinish, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni and Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik.
"What other conclusion can we reach," asked Richard Gordon, President of AJCongress, "except that the publishers − and if the publishers are right, a significant number of Ms. Magazine readers − are so hostile to Israel that they do not even want to see an ad that says something positive about Israel?"
When Director of AJCongress' Commission for Women's Empowerment Harriet Kurlander tried to place the ad, she was told that publishing the ad "will set off a firestorm" and that "there are very strong opinions" on the subject − the subject presumably being whether or not one can say anything positive about Israel. Ms. Magazine publisher Eleanor Smeal failed to respond to a signed-for certified letter with a copy of the ad as well as numerous calls by Mr. Gordon over a period of weeks.
A Ms. Magazine representative, Susie Gilligan, whom the Ms. Magazine masthead lists under the publisher's office, told Ms. Kurlander that the magazine "would love to have an ad from you on women's empowerment, or reproductive freedom, but not on this." Ms. Gilligan failed to elaborate what "this" is....
"This flagship publication of the American women's empowerment movement publishes ads that are controversial in the general culture but not so among its readership," Ms. Kurlander said. "Obviously, Ms. believes our ad would enflame a significant portion of their readers."
Of course, the "flagship" of women's empowerment has no problem accusing the Bush Administration of being "bent on rewarding big corporations and the rich, turning back the clock on women's rights and civil rights, and promoting a U.S. empire abroad." Such formidable courage in condemning the evil BusHitler and standing up for poor oppressed American women is simply breathtaking.
Ms Magazine--like almost all the leftist feminists of today--would rather enshrine and perpetuate the eternal victimhood of women (they depend on it actually) than highlight anything so politically incorrect and demeaning as powerful women who don't happen to share their leftist politics. Frankly, Ms and today's feminists are just a joke, continuing to promulgate the same marxist fairy tales.
Don't look now, sisters, but you have been 'victimized' by the overt anti-semitism and latent sexism of the political left.
Now, consider this interesting calculation, which as far as I know, Stevens is the first to make:
But drilling down into the data, something interesting turned up. At the time, 1,296 Palestinians had been killed by Israelis – of whom a grand total of 37, or 2.8%, were female. By contrast, of the 496 Israelis killed by Palestinians (including 138 soldiers and policemen), there were 126 female fatalities, or 25%.
To be female is a fairly reliable indicator of being a noncombatant. Females are also half the population. If Israel had been guilty of indiscriminate violence against Palestinians, the ratio of male-to-female fatalities would not have been
These are not complicated facts. Yet the effort to think them through is rarely made.
And it certainly isn't made by progressives who supposedly champion women's rights--they are far too busy protecting Palestinian murderers by rationalizing and excusing their behavior.
Some time back, Lisa Beyer wrote about the "big lie" of the Middle East:
...the pan-Arabism that once made the Palestinian cause the region's cause is long dead, and the Arab countries have their own worries aplenty. In a decade of reporting in the region, I found it rarely took more than the arching of an eyebrow to get the most candid of Arab thinkers to acknowledge that the tears shed for the Palestinians today outside the West Bank and Gaza are of the crocodile variety. Palestinians know this best of all.
To promote the canard that the troubles of the Arab world are rooted in the Palestinians' misfortune does great harm. It encourages the Arabs to continue to avoid addressing their colossal societal and political ills by hiding behind their Great Excuse: it's all Israel's fault. Certainly, Israel has at times been an obnoxious neighbor, but God help the Arab leaders, propagandists and apologists if a day ever comes when the Arab-Israeli mess is unraveled. One wonders how they would then explain why in Egypt 4 of every 10 people are illiterate; Saudi Arabian Shi'ites (not to mention women) are second-class citizens; 11% of Syrians live below subsistence level; and Jordan's King can unilaterally dissolve Parliament, as he did in 2001. Or why no Middle Eastern government but Israel's and to some extent Lebanon's tolerates freedom of assembly or speech, or democratic institutions like a robust press or civic organizations with independence and clout--let alone unfettered competitive elections.
Indeed, if Israel did not exist, the Arab world would have to invent it, because without Israel to blame all their problems on (and, by extension, America), the nations of the middle east would not be able to go on.
David Frum suggested in an article titled, "Why is it Always About Israel?" that:
Might it not be closer to the truth to say that Arab radicalism is the cause of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute--not the result of it? There is no peace because Israel's neighbours--and too many of the world's Muslims--cannot accept the right of a non-Arab, non-Muslim minority to live unsubjugated in the Middle East. That is the true "core" of the dispute, and it cannot be fixed by negotiation.
Frum was correct in suggesting that the problem cannot be fixed by negotiation, but he is off the mark about the source of the problem. While it is true that Arab radicalism deliberately promotes the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and continually disrupts any possibility of resolving it, the cause of that dispute lies in the psychological dysfunction of the Arabs themselves.
Just as in a clinical case of mass hysteria (which it resembles), Arabs as a group have closed off their rational, thinking minds; and with the encouragement and justification of the most medieval aspects of their religion are operating on the basis of the most primitive and dysfunctional of unconscious needs and feelings.
They are indulging in group projection and paranoia--deliberately developed and encouraged by their dysfunctional leaders--in order to maintain their dysfunctional identity, as well as their dysfunctional political and pseudo-religous agenda.
And there does not seem to be any limit to the self-delusion that is rampant in the middle east.
Psychologically, it is very difficult to abandon a delusion, particularly when that delusion serves the purpose of accounting for an unacceptable status quo. For too long the so-called leaders in the Middle East have --in a manner similar to Jim Jones--been quenching the thirst of their people with poisoned Kool Aid. They have made it easy to believe that all their problems and troubles are caused by the Jews (or America or the West). Maintaining the delusional system and nourishing it regularly is crucial to their identity as individuals and as nations--otherwise it would be necessary to look inside their own hearts and souls for the underlying causes of their political, economic and spiritual stagnation.
SC&A wrote:
Many in the Arab world defiantly declare their 'Arab pride,' but of course, that really isn't true. That is a kind of projection. If there really was Arab pride, they would be digging holes for the foundation of schools and factories, and not digging holes to bury IED's. If the Palestinians wanted to reflect Arab pride, they would build hospitals and not rockets and missiles.
The Arab world is not fighting for freedom and democracy. They are fighting to retain the values of oppression, tyranny and dysfunction. There is so much self hatred of what they have come to stand for, that they are willing to blow themselves up in the process. Subconsciously, they must know what they are fighting to preserve and how they are fighting, is repulsive to any decent, civilized and religious adherent of any faith.
In truth, the Arab world cannot be proud of itself. The Islamic and Arab cultures that contributed mightily to the progress of mankind, have willingly become the poster children for religious intolerance, hate, violence and even genocide. There is very little the Arab world has to be proud of- and pointing to past glory only serves to highlight how far they have fallen. All the phony 'Arab pride' in the world has not motivated them to build. All they have done is destroy- and that destruction is a symptom of self hatred. People who hate themselves, destroy everything around them. People that believe in their higher selves, build. The same is true for nations. Nations, societies and cultures are not remembered for what they destroy. They are remembered for what they have built.
As Siggy points out in his remarkably astute post, the behavior of the Arab world is not really about pride...indeed, what do they have to be proud of? They have perverted beyond all recognition a religion that once upon a time could compete head-to-head with Christianity and Judaism in what it contributed to the whole of humanity. They long ago abandoned the ability to create, and now only possess the capacity to destroy. Their people live in poverty and oppression, controlled only by the belief that their situation is the fault of "the Jews" or America.
This is the legacy of psychological projection and paranoia. The unacceptable thoughts or feelings are denied ("not owned") by the person or group experiencing them, and instead are projected onto another individual or--as in this case--a group (racism, anti-semitism etc. are all projections). Thus, the person who originally had the offensive thought or feeling becomes the helpless victim of the evil "other" and they do not have to cope with the fact that the evil lies wholly within themselves.
Projection as a psychological defense mechanism can eventually lead to full-blown paranoia, where--even to the most casual of observers--the delusion (or projection) is completely out of touch with reality. And, there is plenty of paranoia to go around in that part of the world. Recently we have even been able to witness how the paranoia and hate are eagerly passed on to the next generation, thus preserving the externalization of blame and preventing any real growth or maturity as a people and ensuring the continuation of the pathology that is destroying any ability to build a functioning society.
In fact, it has become the hallmark of Arab/Islamic decivilization, dysfunction and deterioration; and which is psychologically inevitable when a group resorts to paranoia and psychological projection to defend against reality. It took them centuries to achieve this degree of psychological, political and cultural backwardness.
Israel on the other hand, should be very proud of its remarkable accomplishments in only 60 years. As SC&A note:
Israel, a nation the size of New Jersey, can only lay claim to the following achievements:
-Israel has more museums per capita than any other country in the world.
-Israel has the second highest output of books published per citizen in the world.
-Israelis hold more patents per person than do citizens of any other nation.
-More than 85% of all solid waste in Israel is treated in an environmentally sound manner.
-Israeli companies, Amdocs, Comverse and Nice pioneered voicemail, SMS and other cellular phone services.
-Israel has the highest concentration of high tech companies industries in the world, relative to it's population.
-ICQ, the technology that powers AOL Instant Messenger, was developed in 1996 by a team of 4 young Israelis.
-Israeli start-up company TransChip developed the first high resolution camera that fits on a single electronic chip, for use in cellular phones.
-Israel is one of only eight countries in the world capable of launching their own satellites into space.
-Israelis developed the world's first cellphone at the Motorola research lab in Haifa, that companies largest research center in the world.
-Israel ranks third, after the US and Canada, in the number of publicly traded companies on Wall Street.
-Israel has more scientists and engineers per capita than any other nation in the world.
-American industry giants such as GM, Ford and Lockheed Martin manage their manufacturing facilities using software written by Tecnomatix, an Israeli company.
-Israeli company Given Imaging developed a video camera small enough to fit inside of a pill. The camera helps doctors diagnose digestive tract diseases.
-Israeli scientists developed the first computerized radiation free diagnostic scanning device for detecting breast cancer.
-Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation in the world.
Not bad for the offspring of monkeys and pigs.
Or, how about these humanitarian accomplishments:
Turkey, 1999- Israel sends 100 tons of relief and a field hospital, as well as a 250 member rescue team. They find 12 survivors and retrieve 146 bodies. The hospital performed 40 major surgeries and delivered 15 babies.
Bosnia, 1992- In one day, Israel sent 13 tons of food and medical supplies to Zagreb. Israel was the first country to grant Muslim Bosnians refugee status and citizenship, in 1993.
Kosovo, 1999- Israel sends a 100 bed hospital and 70 medical personnel, as well as 100 tons of aid for the Kosovar refugees.
India, 2001- Following the January earthquake, Israel sends a field hospital and 150 medical personnel. Over 1200 treated and 12 babies delivered.
Nairobi, 1999- After the American Embassy bombing, Israel dispatches 150 search and rescue, medical and rescue dogs and their handlers. Also sent were 30 tons of sophisticated rescue equipment. Three survivors were dug out of the wreckage.
Mexico City, 1985- Israel sends search and rescue teams as well as trained S&R dogs to assist, after 2 powerful earthquakes leave thousands buried under the rubble.
Armenia, 1988- Israel sends search and rescue units and aid following an earthquake that leaves 30,000 dead and 50,000 homeless. Israeli medical teams treat 2500 at a field hospital and evacuate 61 to Israel for advanced medical treatment.
Buenos Aires, 1994- Israel dispatches 40 search and rescue team members as well as sophisticated rescue equipment, to help in the aftermath of the Jewish Community Center bombing. Many buried victims were rescued and treated.
Afghanistan, 1998- Israel sends 15 tons of supplies, including tents, blankets, food and medicine after an earthquake hit the northern part of that country.
Colombia, 1999- Israel sends aid sent to that country after a major earthquake.
Greece, 1999- Israel send aid and and search and rescue teams to that country after an earthquake.
El Salvador, 2001- Israel send aid after a major earthquake. A medical team was also dispatched.
Vietnamese Boat People, 1977- there were 66 Vietnamese boat people granted refuge in Israel after having been denied safe haven by other countries.
Cameroon, 1986- An Israeli medical team and supplies were sent to help people after a volcanic eruption. Thousand are treated for respiratory problems and burns.
Central America, 1988- In response to the devastation of hurricane Mitch, Israeli medical personnel and aid is sent to Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador and Nicaragua.
Bulgaria, 1997- Medical supplies (over a ton) were sent as a humanitarian gesture to alleviate shortages of medical supplies.
Rwanda, 1994- As a result of a bloody civil war that left over a million dead and millions more as refugees, Israel send 270 doctors and other medical personnel. A field hospital is established. Over 3000 refugees are treated in a 40 day period.
The list goes on- Mozambique, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka, just to name a few others. And it isn't just about disasters. See this and wonder- wonder, how for even a moment, we would consider seeing Israel the way the Terrorist Supporters & Apologists want you to see her.
Despite her own trials at home, Israel is on record as coming to the aid of over 140 nations.
Meanwhile, on Hamas TV. Kuku and Fufu teach the little children how to kill Jews. Isn't that sweet?
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A panel discussed building social and intellectual life at liberal arts colleges.
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Highlights from the opening leg of this year's World Triathlon Series in Abu Dhabi.
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