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Keith Williams: The Koran is not outdated only if you live by it
in response to reader comment: Al-Qur'an Al-Kareem Guidance for sure
Submitted by Plato (India), Nov 11, 2008 at 22:18
Hello Keith, you wrote:
>>Al-Qur'an Al-Kareem, The Holy Qur'an, is not an outdated book my friend. The book of divine guidance and direction for mankind, and the original Arabic text is considered to be the final revelation of God. God's word is never outdated.<<
You claim your holy Book is not outdated ( = Old; no longer valid or fashionable). Let us take a peek into the Koran and see if this is true or not.
You know the verse where Mulims are allowed to take booty (8:69, 8:41). Is this allowance still valid for Muslims when they go to war. Remember war booty according to Koran also included men, women and children taken as slaves. If your answer is yes then the Koran is not outdated.
Muslims are allowed to have four wives and as many concubines from the slave-girls they hold. If this allowance is still valid, then the Koran is not outdated.
Muslims have to treat women's evidence as equal to half that of a man's. If this law still holds then the Koran is not outdated (2:282).
Muslim women whose behaviour is considered lewd are to be shut away till they die. If Muslim men still practice this injunction of Allah then the Koran is not outdated (4:15)
Wives can be thrashed if the husband fears rebellion by them (4:34). If Muslim men still practice this allowance of Allah, then the Koran is not outdated.
If Muslims can forgive a relative's murderer after receiving money as compensation then the Koran is not outdated.
Need I go on ? Just ask.
>> This is the book and there is guidance in it for sure for our salvation. There are many proverbs and sayings in the book to make it easy for us to understand. These proverbs that are based on Arabic idioms are not easy of course if you don't know Arabic and so to show the meaning of in English and in today's context takes a scholar.<<
Keith, why don't you just admit the Koran is a difficult book not just for non-Arabs but even for Arabs as they have to search for lost idiomatic expressions and have to be content with scholars who put their own spin to them? You begin by saying it is easy to understand and outdated Arabic idioms are not easy for non-arabic speakers who will need to search for a consultant who specializes in Islamic theology. Easy or not easy, which is it??
>>So yes, it is easy to read and understand after we have it properly translated for us.<<
You must be congratulated for coming to that conclusion. Just name two translators who have made it easy for us to understand and whose translations are in agreement.
I love putting Koranic verses under the scanner. I will make an attempt on the verses you have quoted:
>>Alif Lam Mim. (2:1) <<
What are these letters doing in book which is supposed to be clear and easy to understand?
>>This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah.(2:2)<<
Not only is guidance sure but also misguidance as Allah informs us in:
YUSUFALI: Those whom Allah (in His plan) willeth to guide,- He openeth their breast to Islam; those whom He willeth to leave straying,- He maketh their breast close and constricted, as if they had to climb up to the skies: thus doth Allah (heap) the penalty on those who refuse to believe.
006.126 This is the way of thy Lord, leading straight: We have detailed the signs for those who receive admonition.
YUSUFALI: If it had been thy Lord's will, they would all have believed,- all who are on earth! wilt thou then compel mankind, against their will, to believe!
32:13 If We had so willed, We could certainly have brought every soul its true guidance
What kind of guidance is this, Keith? What is silly is that after claiming to both guide and misguide Allah claims His way is a straight way. Even someone with a puny brain like mine can see that this is deception on a grand scale. Is Allah trying to prove that He indeed is a Great Deceiver?
>>(2:3) Who believe in the Unseen, are steadfast in prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them.<<
I believe there is a pixie living in my hedge, does that count for belief in the unseen? I do not pray, that is for sure.
What about the destitute who have nothing to spend on even themselves? Has Allah created them so that faithful Muslims can practice charity on them and gain higher grades in paradise?
>>(2:4) And who believe in the Revelation sent to thee, and sent before thy time, and (in their hearts) have the assurance of the Hereafter.<<
The revelations Allah had sent before have been mangled or hidden according to the Koran. How can anyone believe in them or even this final one when Allah's words can be so easily twisted by humans? Tafsirs it seems to me is one of twisting Allah's words.
>> (2:5) They are on (true guidance), from their Lord and it is these who will prosper. <<
I showed you the kind of true guidance that your Lord gives. Misguidance is mixed up with guidance and no one has clue to who the victims are.
>>(2:6) As to those who reject Faith, it is the same to them whether thou warn them or do not warn them; they will not believe.<<
I can appreciate this thought of Allah. He is telling the prophet that since He has misguided these people it is just no use preaching to them.
>>What is the basis for deciding what is the true interpretation and who has it? With so many interpretations floating around defying 54:40, how does one choose?
This is a very good question and that is a part of the internal and external struggle going on in not only Islam but in every facet of society in the world thru the ages. Everything will work out to the good in the end. Keep the faith, remain steadfast, and preserve my friend.<<
You mean you have no answer. What has internal and external struggle got to do with my question? If everything is going to work out good in the end why do Muslims complain about Israel, the West and other infidels? Why persevere?
>>….my favourite verse out of my favourite surah and try to apply to our times: 009.111 YUSUFALI: Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur'an: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme.
Tafsir is one of the earliest academic activities of Muslims…….Other early exegetes included a few Companions of Muhammad, like Ali ibn Abi Talib, ……... If the verse was about a historical event, then sometimes a few traditions (hadith) of Muhammad were narrated to make its meaning clear. Because the Qur'an is spoken in classical Arabic, many of the later converts to Islam (mostly non-Arabs) did not always understand the Qur'anic Arabic, they did not catch allusions that were clear to early Muslims fluent in Arabic and they were concerned with reconciling apparent conflict of themes in the Qur'an. Commentators erudite in Arabic explained the allusions, and perhaps most importantly, explained which Qur'anic verses had been revealed early in Muhammad's prophetic career, as being appropriate to the very earliest Muslim community, and which had been revealed later, canceling out or "abrogating" (nāsikh) the earlier text (mansukh). ….<<
Again since you have no answer you have launched into an explanation of what tafsirs are. Basically you are telling us that since the Koran is incomprehensible, especially to the non-Arabs and the later generation of Arabs, Muslims have to depend on whatever the spin the scholars gave to the Koran.
You should have given us an example of an abrogating verse. Let me help. 9:29 abrogates all the verses asking Muslims to tolerate and be friendly with the people of the book as it was revealed afte all the tolerant ones.
>>The infidels are killing Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and practically any country a Muslim cares to name. Why are you not out there fulfilling your contract the terms of which hang down your neck?
This is rubbish and is untrue. We are not infidels and we are not killing innocents anywhere. We are in a war against terror.<<
I forgot, Bush and his friends are not infidels, they are people of the book. 9:29 tells you to fight them until they are humiliated abrogating all other verses feigning friendship with Bush and his army. So this verse has effectively made them into infidels. Are the women and children dying in Iraq, Afghanistan terrorists? Does a war on terror justify your going out and claiming collateral damage when innocents die in their thousands?
>> I am fulfilling my contract. Are you fulfilling yours? Also, don't forget: Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress limits; for Allah loveth not transgressors. (2:190)<<
If Allah does not love those who transgress limits why does He Himself transgress the limits of tolerance when He says: 061.009 YUSUFALI: It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, that he may proclaim it over all religion, even though the Pagans may detest (it).
And in 8:55 Allah says: for the worst of beasts in the sight of Allah are those who reject faith.
The next step is eliminate the beasts, so you have guidance from Allah how to do it: 008.060 YUSUFALI: Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.
Keith, you have a contract to eliminate us non-believers from the almighty. We have no such contract.
>>I am not aware of any place in the Koran where it says to love Him. What I have read mostly tell Muslims to dread Him so much that their skin begins to creep with fear:
Here are some for you in Yusef Ali:
Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides Allah, as equal (with Allah); they love them as they should love Allah. But those of faith are overflowing in their love for Allah. If only the unrighteous could see, behold, they would see the Punishment: that to Allah belongs all power, and Allah will strongly enforce the Punishment. (2:165)<<
This is Allah complaining that unbelievers love their idols instead of Allah. And there is the threat of punishment for loving their idols. Not a very loving verse.
>>Say: "If ye do love Allah, follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins; for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." (3:31)<<
Notice the incentive Allah (i.e. Muhammad) gives for following the Prophet? YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN! All that unbelievers have to do to wash away their sins is become Muslims. Was that an important incentive for you to convert Keith?
This is about Allah's love for those who switch sides and follow Muhammad and has nothing to do with people falling in love with Allah. Where understanding the the Koran is concerned it is context, context and context.
>>O ye who believe! if any from among you turn back from his Faith, soon will Allah produce a people whom He will love as they will love Him,― lowly with the Believers, mighty against the rejecters, fighting in the Way of Allah, and never afraid of the reproaches of such as find fault. That is the Grace of Allah, which He will bestow on whom He pleaseth: and Allah encompasseth all and He knoweth all things. (5:54)<<
The petulant Allah threatening people who apostatize. How ungrateful are some people, even washing away their sins does not make them grateful to Allah!
Allah will give his conditional love to people whom He has produced to love Him. No big trick for the Mighty Allah. What value can you place on such love i.e. Allah producing people who will love Him? Why did He not produce all people to love Him so that He can love them in return? Absolutely weird.
>>On those who believe and work deeds of righteousness, will (Allah) Most Gracious bestow Love. (19:96)<<
Again this is Allah's conditional love for people. This is not about people loving Allah. I wouldn't if such conditions are necessary for my love
>>And let not those among you who are blessed with graces and wealth swear not to give (any sort of help) to their kinsmen, Al-Masâkîn (the poor), and those who left their homes for Allâh's Cause. Let them pardon and forgive. Do you not love that Allâh should forgive you? And Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (24:22)<<
This again is not asking people to love Allah. This is about His forgiveness towards people who pardon and forgive people who left their homes for Allah's selfish cause i.e. belief in Him.
>>And know that among you is Allah's Messenger: were he, in many matters, to follow your (wishes), ye would certainly suffer: but Allah has endeared the Faith to you, and has made it beautiful in your hearts and He has made hateful to you unbelief, wickedness and rebellion: such indeed are those who walk in righteousness― (49:7)<<
This verse is telling people to shut up and follow the Messenger instead of grumbling about whatever it was that was bothering them. Then there is a small pep talk about their faith
>>And those who before them, had homes (in Medina) and had adopted the Faith― show their affection to such as came to them for refuge, and entertain no desire in their hearts for things given to the (latter), but give them preference over themselves even though poverty was their (own lot). And those saved from the covetousness of their own souls, they are the ones that achieve prosperity. (59:9)<<
When the Ansar had a grouse against the prophet for showing favouratism towards the Meccans who emigrated to Madina with him Muhammad had Allah reveal this ayat. Allah is telling the hosts to accommodate the guests even to the extent of sacrificing their needs for the Meccans. Typically for this Allah promises them the pie in His sky. I don't see Allah asking the Ansars to love Him.
>>It may be that Allah will grant love (and friendship) between you and those whom ye (now) hold as enemies: for Allah has power (over all things); and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (60:7)<<
Here Allah says He may grant love between old enemies. Allah decides whether people love each other? Is this not another of Allah's weird characteristics.
>>He will forgive you your sins, and admit you to Gardens beneath which rivers flow, and to beautiful Mansions in Gardens of Eternity: that is indeed the supreme Achievement. (61:12) And another (favour will He bestow) which ye do love― help from Allah and a speedy victory: so give the Glad Tidings to the Believers. (61:13)<<
You should have given the readers of the blog a little background (i.e. the infamous context) for them to understand these verses. 61:13 is promising the Muslims quick victory. Some commentators think this is to boost the morale of the Muslims after their defeat at Uhud. Read the preceding two verses:
061.010 - 011
YUSUFALI: O ye who believe! Shall I lead you to a bargain that will save you from a grievous Penalty?-
That ye believe in Allah and His Messenger, and that ye strive (your utmost) in the Cause of Allah, with your property and your persons: That will be best for you, if ye but knew!
It is telling Muslims that Allah (i.e. Muhammad) will lead them to a bargain if they spend their money and endanger themselves in his (Muhammad's) cause. 61:12-13 is the pie in the sky that awaits them when they die if they are foolish enough to follow this advice.
But just in case his followers were a bit vary of Muhammad's promise of this pie in the sky they are promised a speedy victory with all that comes with it, BOOTY in the form of wealth, men, women, and children as slaves. The shahaba, Muhammad knew, just loved taking booty: 'And another (favour will He bestow) which ye do love―'
>>The pornographic statistics show that Allah is not on the side of Muslims. The Muslims are so weak that even Allah finds it difficult to help them and He has failed them. It is time for Allah to amend Islam with another prophet to strengthen (by reducing their sex drive) the Muslim world.<<
And remember Moses said to his people: "O my people! Ye have indeed wronged yourselves by your worship of the calf so turn (in repentance) to your Maker and slay yourselves (the wrong-doers); that will be better for you in the sight of your Maker." Then He turned toward you (in forgiveness); for He is Oft-returning Most Merciful. (2:54)<<
What was the point of quoting this verse? Are you saying that true Muslims should turn on the pornography aficionados and slay them as Moses wanted to do with the calf-worshippers? Hindus worship the cow so this also could be an order from Allah to Muslims to kill them. And Muslims did indeed kill Hindus in the tens of millions.
>>It is true that some Muslims as well as other people of other faiths are struggling with sins. However, it is not God's fault my friend. We bring that on our own selves<<
Oh yes, we know all about how we are responsible for our sins despite being misguided by Allah. For Allah says: 004.079 YUSUFALI: Whatever good, (O man!) happens to thee, is from Allah; but whatever evil happens to thee, is from thy (own) soul. and We have sent thee as a messenger to (instruct) mankind. And enough is Allah for a witness.
>>"This is because of the (unrighteous deeds) which your hands sent on before ye: for Allah never do injustice to those who serve Him." (3:182).<<
The Taliban served Allah and see what it got them. The unbelieving Bush had them crushed under his boots.
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For whatever strange reason, I seem to mostly write late at night. Sometimes, if I am so taken, I might sit and compose a post in the early evening, but never in the morning and almost never in daylight. With the exception, perhaps, of periods on the road in places where internet access sets with the sun. It's a strange habit (I mean, when do you write?). But the ideas of 'daylight' and 'day' in England are ambiguous at best, and often have very little to do with each other.
Daytime here is often more of a dull, woolly twilight that never ends. And even when there is sun, there is something never quite right about it. A friend put it well when she pointed out that it's something about the brightness of the light during an English winter that's broken. It's brighter than indoors, but wouldn't hold a candle (so to speak) to an afternoon in the Karoo. But such as that sun is, when it appears, it's sheer glee to be outdoors – something that I must do more of. Remind myself that this is a new place. A space that needs to be explored.
I can't just live life in the college and its immediate surrounds. Comfortable as known spaces always are.
That said, my other excuse for being indoors has been thesis writing. Impending deadlines and constant work have meant that the finish line was surprisingly close last week and that with a little luck and a nod from my supervisor, I may have now actually passed it. If that happens, it's time for submission and a break before learning 2.0 begins over in Germany. Which is a novel thought actually. With so much academic writing suddenly ending, and wide open spaces with no specific commitments now lying ahead, I feel like the proverbial deer in the headlights. One that has some work to do in regaining the ability to write unstructured, poetic words again. And stop using words like discourse and problematic.
My thesis was on media reporting about the 2011-12 famine in Somalia, looking at how certain kinds of stories can come to be the common definition of the situation (the famine was caused by drought, for example) and not others (the famine was caused by a raging conflict that denies people the security to earn an income and access food, say). It was also about other things – like asking why victims get photographed a whole bunch, but have their voices replaced by NGO and government spokespeople – but the stories part has been particularly foundational.
It's also left me wondering a great deal about this thing we call 'the power of stories'. Lots of writers – from the academic to the mystical – love to talk about stories as helping to structure how we perceive the world, but often leave the nuts and bolts of how that process works unsaid. Which is a pity, because those writing in the discipline of journalism (and, in some instances, travel writing) are routinely engaged in producing exactly these kinds of formative stories. Understanding the effects of the stories you write on how a place or a community comes to be known to your audience seems pretty important if you want to be able to exert any kind of control over that process.
Taking it back to basics, because I've spent far too much time reading highfalutin' language, we (that's us humans) compose what we believe to be true about the world from a bundle of different sources. So if I ask you what it is like to go to Starbucks, for example, then you will likely turn first to your memories of previous trips there to tell me what is nice, what to order, and so on. That's a fairly obvious case of you recalling what the place is like from your own, direct experience.
If I asked you what a specific branch was like, and it was one that you hadn't been to before, then you would need to scan your memory more widely than your own experiences in order to give me an answer. Perhaps you know a friend who went to that branch. And they said it was terrible. It's not a direct experience of your own, but it was the direct experience of someone in your immediate circle, and so you are relying – in a sense – on their story of the place to substitute for your own firsthand knowledge.
This is a different, second-hand kind of knowledge. If you feel like getting all Truman Show about it, you don't actually have any proper evidence that the alternative Starbucks branch actually exists at all. The entire thing could simply be a fabrication. But because the story seemed credible, you believe it and hold onto it as a kind of 'accrued truth' that is open to change if more credible stories come along.
In the case of the Starbucks, it's also possible that you will go to that branch yourself one day, and can then replace the story that you heard of the place (which would probably have been far less detailed than your own experience there) with your own, much richer and more authoritative version of it. But what if you never actually go to that Starbucks? Then all you have is the story, on whose authority you will tell others, as truth, what that Starbucks is like.
So it is with Starbucks, so it is with even more distant destinations. How do you know what is happening with the war in Mali at the moment? How do you know what Guam is like? Stories. That's how.
The DRC, for example, told as travel, rather than humanitarian journalism, does a different kind of storytelling work.
Stories are a substitute for truth in the case of places we do not know for ourselves directly. Either because they are simply too remote (like Mali), or because they can't be directly observed (like asking what is happening in country X's political space). Where they are things that we will never come to know directly ourselves, the stories – and this is important – can be all we actually end up having. If they make us imagine certain truths about a place, then that truth becomes hegemonic. Without any other, different, stories it becomes literally impossible for a reader to imagine a different, or more nuanced truth. Often, they will be unaware that there is a more nuanced truth that needs to be imagined in the first place. Even if you know that a story is incomplete, how – in the absence of your own experience or other stories – would you begin to fill in the blanks?
Refugee camps are an instructive example. I've never been to one. I can only imagine, from the stories I've read, what the reality of places like Dadaab are like. And it's a picture that is both grim and largely one-dimensional. Feeding stations, horrible stories and dying. Though individual stories about places like Dadaab that appear in the media carry different specific details (this person suffering, rather than that one), the overall impression is pretty consistent.
There may be sound reasons why its hard to write the stories of Al Shabaab, the Taliban, Ansar Dine, or the thousands of people caught in a spectrum from abject victim to perpetrator. But the result is large silences.
Then I met a journalist who had actually been there and – outside of a thousand word article – discussed his experience of the place. He pointed out that there was an Ethiopian restaurant there. And that Dadaab even has an inward migration of people who come looking for economic opportunities. Because you don't set up a city of a million people without a large economy forming. Without markets and the opportunity for jobs and profit. Then, later, BBC published this piece about , among other things, Dadaab's first millionaire.
All of a sudden, what I knew to be true about the place changed. Became more sophisticated. More nuanced.
Refugee camps are simply one example. For the travel writers, stories of all kinds of remote countries can be similarly monolithic. Who can know that Togo is not as you write it? Or when so many travellers to Thailand end up in Khaosan road, tiger temples or full moon parties, is it any wonder that so many stories reflect exotic monks, lazing in islands or hi-jinks with glowsticks? For the foreign correspondents and freelancers, similar logic often applies. Because it's often safer to travel with the humanitarian agencies or the soldiers, those experiences are the ones that typically get written. There may be sound reasons why its hard to write the stories of Al Shabaab, the Taliban, Ansar Dine, or the thousands of people caught in a spectrum from abject victim to perpetrator. But the result is large silences. Huge gaps in understanding why militants fight, and what happens to everyone who isn't a baddie or a victim.
As a storyteller, nuance, difference and variety matter. It's not simply about writing the same kind of story better. It's important to find wholly new kinds of tale to tell. Different kinds of subjects. Different kinds of worlds.
This variety is important because (as in the case of Starbucks) your story is one of many that may, for all intents and purposes, fill in as the facts that readers know about a place. Whether they consider acting on an issue, and equally importantly, how they decide to act on it, will depend on what facts and perspectives those stories have given them. If stories suggest Somalia can be fixed by food, then we must feed them. If stories suggest that justice is needed, then (though much more is required) it can be pursued.
Without the stories, action towards distant places or structural problems cannot even be contemplated. With them, we are able to contemplate only within the bounds of the reality they represent. They are, to pull out that tired maxim, necessary, even if insufficient conditions for action towards the things in the world that we cannot know directly.
So, when next you write, remember that you are passing on a truth, of a kind. The more it contributes to understanding some place, or some thing in more detail, the more you are making it possible for someone else to imagine those nuances. And perhaps even to act on that imagination. To dream about it, to be outraged, or simply to inflect their own stories in turn.
And that's a pretty amazing possibility.
Out in the English countryside. It's so much warmer in the photographs.


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Developer Abandons Keystone XL Pipeline Project, Ending Decade-Long Battle
By Jeff Brady,
Neela Banerjee
A storage yard is seen in Montana for pipe that was to be used in the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The developer has now canceled the controversial project.
The company behind the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline said Wednesday it's officially terminating the project. TC Energy already had suspended construction in January when President Biden revoked a key cross-border presidential permit. The announcement ends a more than decade-long battle that came to signify the debate over whether fossil fuels should be left in the ground to address climate change.
Environmentalists opposed the pipeline in part because of the oil it would carry — oil sands crude from Alberta. It requires more processing than most oil, so producing it emits more greenhouse gases.
TC Energy had begun construction on the pipeline last year and said about 300 miles of the $8 billion project had been built. It would have carried oil from landlocked Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Keystone XL supporters, including most of the oil industry, said the pipeline construction would have created much-needed construction jobs.
"It's unfortunate that political obstructionism led to the termination of the Keystone XL pipeline. This is a blow to U.S. energy security and a blow to the thousands of good-paying union jobs this project would have supported," said Robin Rorick, American Petroleum Institute's vice president of midstream and industry operations.
The oil industry and its allies have claimed that Keystone XL would have created hundreds or even thousands of jobs. Most of those positions would have been temporary construction jobs. The State Department estimated full-time permanent jobs to be closer to 50.
Climate activists cheered the decision.
"For 13 years, an international movement of frontline communities in the U.S. and Canada, Indigenous leaders, and environmentalists fought back against this terrible proposed project at every turn," Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in a statement. "Today, we can say yet again, that our efforts were a resounding success."
Keystone XL would have passed through Nebraska, and for years, a coalition of Indigenous tribes, ranchers and local environmentalists demonstrated, lobbied and sued to halt the pipeline's construction. Its proposed route in Nebraska cut through the Ogallala Aquifer, the groundwater source for millions of Plains states residents.
The pipeline's opponents in Nebraska feared that any leak from Keystone XL would damage the critical aquifer, and they welcomed the end of the project.
"On behalf of our Ponca Nation we welcome this long overdue news and thank all who worked so tirelessly to educate and fight to prevent this from coming to fruition. It's a great day for Mother Earth," Larry Wright Jr., chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, said in a statement.
Pipeline opponents are invigorated by the Keystone XL decision and hope for more wins. While the Dakota Access pipeline is moving oil out of North Dakota now, its future is uncertain because of court challenges that still haven't been resolved.
And right now in Minnesota there are protests around Enbridge's Line 3 project that's under construction. Hundreds of opponents rallied there this week, calling on Biden to stop that project, too.
High-stakes fight
The oil and gas industry forms the basis of a tight economic bond between the U.S. and Canada, which made the progress of Keystone XL such a protracted, high-stakes fight. Last year, Canada was the largest exporter of crude oil and petroleum products to the U.S., outstripping oil-producing nations in the Persian Gulf, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The oil and gas industry accounts for about 5% of Canada's economy, and nearly all of the industry's exports go to the United States.
In 2008, TC Energy, then known as TransCanada, announced plans to build a pipeline that would carry 830,000 barrels of crude oil daily from Hardisty, Alberta, through the Great Plains to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. Because the pipeline was a major infrastructure project that crossed a U.S. border, it needed a so-called presidential permit from the State Department.
Presidential permits require environmental assessments and other federal reviews, but they were generally granted without controversy over the years to Canadian pipelines. By 2011, Keystone XL had upended that quiet bureaucratic process.
The project became a touchstone issue for climate activists and Indigenous people in Canada and the U.S, including those along the pipeline's route. At the heart of the protests was a knot of environmental concerns from the local to the global.
Keystone XL would carry crude derived from Alberta's oil sands. The deposits are not in underground reservoirs like conventional petroleum. Instead, they're a tarry fossil fuel called bitumen that's mixed in with clay, sand, rock and together, can be hard as a hockey puck. To access the bitumen, Alberta's boreal forests are cut away in enormous strip mines. Canadians, including Indigenous peoples, have benefited economically from the oil sands mining. But they also grapple with the destruction of Alberta's forests and health effects that some researchers say could be linked to the strip mining.
Extracting the bitumen and diluting for shipment requires energy, most of it from burning fossil fuels. That makes oil sands crude more carbon-intensive — and worse for the climate — than conventional petroleum.
Building the Keystone XL pipeline would have fostered the expansion of the Canadian oil sands industry by increasing access to U.S. markets and international ones through exports from the Gulf Coast. But activists and scientists argued that to avoid the worst effects of climate change, the world had to keep half of oil and gas reserves in the ground.
For years, the Obama administration faced pressure to approve the project — from Canada, the oil and gas industry and its political allies — while also getting enormous pushback from environmental and other activists, including major Democratic donors. After multiple delays, President Barack Obama rejected the permit to build Keystone XL in November 2015.
But the Trump administration revived the pipeline in early 2017. Legal challenges continued against it, further stalling the project. In the meantime, TC Energy's pipeline system in the northern Great Plains experienced a series of leaks of tens of thousands of gallons of oil.
By late 2019, the Nebraska State Supreme Court seemed to clear one of the last hurdles for Keystone XL by approving its route through the state. A little more than a year later, on his first day in office, Biden revoked the federal permit for Keystone XL, leading to the end of a project that had been contested for more than a decade.
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Ali's Knockout Punch
How a Photograph Stunned the Boxing World
Michael Burgan
Age range: 9 to 11 years old Publication Date: 01/01/2017
It's one of the most famous sports images of all time. Former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston is sprawled on his back in the boxing rim. Muhammad Ali stands over Liston, holding his right hand as if ready to throw another punch. The reigning world champion had just thrown a short, right-handed punch to the side of Liston's head. In a flash, Liston had gone down. The photo of the angry Ali standing over the fallen challenger was taken in an instant by photojournalist John Rooney, but the controversy over the 1965 fight lingers to this day.
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I honestly don't know what to title this, but hey, my name is Ashley and I have benefited from 'white privilege' unbeknownst to me.
This has been bugging me lately since the race button has been pushed repeatedly over the last few weeks which has gotten me to thinking about my life as a woman of color, more specifically, a black woman. I grew up and was raised in Kingwood, TX, a relatively affluent (I am using this term loosely) lily white neighborhood. It was the place to live in Houston during the 90's: a great school system, beautiful trees, safety, stability, you know, the beige, neutral values from the fifties and sixties manifested. I was tutored privately, played the violin, performed ballet, was in every club I could think of and traveled around the country with various extracurricular organizations and I wasn't alone. There was even a national organization that supplemented us in the in-between: the ones who straddle two viable cultures.
We were the black children of hard working grandparents and parents who fought and dealt with difficulties that are nearly archaic to us. Our parents are relatively well-off. 'Education first' is the mantra. Present your best self, respect yourself, respect others, be leaders they say. We didn't have to toil to get the beautiful things around us. Ask and we did receive. We went to the best schools and had full support of friends and family. We flowed in and out of the white culture and ours with effortless fluidity and became leaders in our predominately white activities, occupations, and institutions.
We made them comfortable. You are the "good ones". Why aren't all the others like you? You are the exception.
We are not the exception. We are far from the exception. We are simply a product of being lucky like them, frankly. We are simply of product of hard work and favorable conditions. I try not to get offended and brush it off with a meek smile while silently screaming in my head. What do I do? This is what scares me, the covert, unintentional racism. The racism that doesn't know it's racist….and I am a proponent of it…unintentionally.
I can go to the "hood" where many think all black people live and come back home. I can go into a store and not get followed or receive the side-eyed glance…most of the time. I have had exposure to multiple cultures resulting in eclectic interests and activities. I can wear my hair as nappy as I want to without anyone telling me to straighten it. (I am very lucky to not have had that happen) I am not overweight. I don't wear kicks. I don't wear caps. I don't wear doo rags. I don't wear chaotic clothing. I am not a black man. I don't rub them the wrong way. I don't make them uncomfortable. I am the token. I am the sprinkle of nutmeg in their eggnog. I am the sufficient amount of diversity they have and want in their life. I am the epitome of "safe". I am the product of my environment.
Is it really like that? Us and them? Yes, this isn't Disney. Colorblindness does not exist considering culture is alive and well and has many faces. Don't get it twisted, though. I am far from white-washed and was raised in the rich cultures of my family but these cultures aren't on constant display.
In regards to my own path, right now, there are significantly less black and Hispanic applicants and matriculates going to medical school. To make matters worse, there are less black men than black women doing so. So, essentially, I am the exception again. I am part of a small fraction of lucky intelligent people. This is wrong, disproportionate, and not reflective of the people who I know and have interacted with. I know for a fact that there are capable and exceptional men and women of color in large amounts, but their conditions are not conducive to what they want to do and many of them just can't get out. You see, I am not blaming anyone. I am in no position to blame anyone.
That doesn't stop me from feeling guilty. I hold three points of view in my head at all times: my privileged view and my black view and my female view. My Hispanic view rarely rears its head considering you can't look Hispanic and I am ultimately treated based upon appearance first. My three predominant views fight all the time, but the one that usually dominates is my privileged view. Make no mistake, this isn't a white viewpoint, this is a privileged viewpoint and the only time it is ever challenged is when it is uncomfortable.
Discomfort makes change. It is like, a law of nature. You have to go through discomfort to move forward whether it is work, school, or buffing it up in the gym. Things are going to be uncomfortable and that is what I would like to dispel into the universe: my acceptance of this discomfort. I want myself and others to be comfortable with being uncomfortable because at the end of the day, I am still black. I am still a woman. I am one hundred percent comfortable in my own skin and I will be everywhere as much as I can experiencing new things to my best ability and if that makes you uncomfortable, so be it. Maybe my comfort in discomfort energy will start syncing with your energy and maybe, just maybe you will grow and maybe I will, too.


CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (5/29/2013) — Marine Corps Community Services and Marine and Family Programs are scheduled to sponsor a pre-retirement seminar at the Transition Readiness Classroom of the Stars and Stripes Bowling Center, bldg. 1339, here from June 10 – 14.
The seminar will be held for service members who are considering retirement within the next two years.
During the seminar military and civilian speakers will discuss military health plans, disbursing and travel, survivors benefits plans, household effects and transition, and psychological factors of retirement.
The class will satisfy the mandatory requirement for Transition Goals, Plans, Success program completion for prospective retiree's that are one year or less from retirement.
The seminar will also include information about electronic access to benefits, how to draft a resume, how to develop an Individual Transition Plan, and participants will receive a skills gap analysis. Spouses are encouraged to attend.
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Carbon dioxide emissions from global shipping currently account for over 3% of the global total. They have increased rapidly in recent years, with an average annual increase of 3.7% since 1990. Projections by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) suggest that emissions could treble over the next three decades, driven by growth in international trade. By 2050, carbon dioxide emissions from global international shipping could account for up to 25% of total fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions.
Air pollution from shipping is also a major problem, causing around 50,000 premature deaths per year in the EU and costs society around €60bn. Sulphur dioxide and NOx emissions are converted into fine particles, sulphate and nitrate aerosols, as well as particles directly emitted by ships such as black carbon and potential carcinogens. Currently. the largest 15 cargo ships produce more sulphur dioxide than all the motor cars in the world and NOx from shipping is set to exceed NOx from all EU land-based sources in the coming decade.
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As I type this, our country's government is shut down, partially, due to some bickering in the congress over next year's budget. As far as I'm concerned they are not doing the job we elected them to do, but that's an item for another post. A front page story in this morning's paper says that 1300 employees in the White House were furloughed due to the lack of funding. About 400 got to keep their jobs because they are considered "essential" while the furloughed people obviously are not.
So, let me do the math here: 1300 + 400 = 1700. Yikes, that says it takes 1700 people to run the White House and only 24% of them are essential. The only thing more eye opening than that statistic is being one of the furloughed employees who just discovered that they are non-essential to running the government.
I don't often poke my nose in here, but that's a clever deduction Yogi, which'd sound amusing if it wasn't so serious, so I decided to check out what's happening with the mass austerity programme that our government's bestowed upon its Councils.
In June, it was (agreed) that a 10% cut in funding'd bring in a total of £30 million in from each Council. A third of staff were deemed as non-essential and've lost their jobs. This's going to carry on until at least the 2015 budget, as the axe keeps falling.
More retention of funds might include children's centres, museums and sports centres, as well as reduce road maintenance budgets, increase bus fares and switch off street lights between midnight and dawn.
If a third of all Council workers were classed as non-essential, then why were they employed in the first place? What happens if a majority of these people can't find other jobs? Those who've been working for various departments for 2 years get redundancy money, but get no state help with their bills, etc., if they have above a certain amount in the bank. When that dwindles, how much are they going to pay out in Welfare payments?
The article suggested that the UK's been over-spending for decades, and yet both Labour and Conservative governments've continued to employ all these "non-essential" people, who must feel bad enough about losing their jobs, let alone coming to the realisation, as you say, that they weren't really needed anyway.
I'm amazed the number was as high as 400!


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import React from 'react';
import Switch from 'react-router-dom/Switch';
import Redirect from 'react-router-dom/Redirect';
import Route from 'react-router-dom/Route';

import './globals.scss';

import styles from './index.scss';
import AsyncHome from './AsyncHome';
import AsyncAbout from './AsyncAbout';
import AsyncCounter from './AsyncCounter';
import AsyncLogin from './AsyncLogin';
import AsyncLogout from './AsyncLogout';
import Error404 from './Error404';
import Header from './Header';
import getAuth from '../../store/Auth';

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  const auth = getAuth();
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    <Route
      {...rest}
      render={props => (
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          React.createElement(component, props)
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              pathname: '/login',
              state: { from: props.location },  // eslint-disable-line
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}

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Finding fun ways to motivate children to develop their fine motor skills and their math skills all at once can be tricky but this simple Pre-K math activity is a cinch to set up, and kids love it. Not only are they building important skills like subitizing and pre-writing fine motor skills, they also get to take home a bracelet or perhaps a new magic wand! It's up to them what they turn this into.
Gather your materials. You will need some pony beads, pipe cleaners, and a die.
Show your students how to roll the dice, then count and bead that many pony beads onto their pipe cleaner.
You can play this as a game, but during free choice or center time, I have found it lasts longer if it's individual. Using big trays like these works best in a classroom.
You will see your students count. They will also be practicing the skill of subitizing ( recognizing amounts on dice, tally marks, and fingers without counting) and of course the fine motor development while beading.
What are some of your fun math center ideas? Tell me about it here or on No Time for Flash Cards Facebook page!


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Showcase companies are given six minutes to tell their story in front of 600 attendees at a conference that has become a "Who's Who" of the nation's technology industry, from the most exciting emerging tech companies to the most influential investors and tech leaders. Dr. LeBoeuf will discuss biometric wearable technology and how this technology is fueling a myriad of new products in various form factors.
There has been an increasing demand for Valencell PerformTek® biometrics, which powers the most accurate wearables for measuring continuous heart rate during exercise. Leading brands including Jabra, Intel and LG, have licensed PerformTek biometrics for integration into their products, which is available in multiple form factors and is used by more product brands than any other biometric technology.
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Valencell develops performance biometric data sensors and licenses its patent-protected technology to consumer electronics manufacturers, mobile device and accessory makers, sports and fitness brands and gaming companies for integration into their products. Valencell's PerformTek-powered sensors are the most accurate wearable biometric sensors that continuously measure heart rate and activity. Valencell has invested years into research and development of its PerformTek sensors, which have been validated by the Duke Center for Living, North Carolina State University, the Human Performance Laboratory and a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.