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Killer Instinct

Hate is a Universal Pathology, one which infects the human species especially, whereas, with other animals we are not sure what they are thinking but I think it is unlikely that you can call it hate. Killing usually accompanies an evolutionary prerequisite that the father's genes survive - and includes infanticide, rape, war to eliminate competing males, etc. With humans the reasons may be different but the instinct is still there. The anthropologist Raymond Dart interpreted primate fossils in Africa as evidential for the killer instinct.

"The world hates us and always will," a neighbor said to me on the stairs before wishing me a good day. "What more do you need than the Holocaust?" He is Sephardi, without familial memory of Europe; but the bitter, new mood of besieged Israel has penetrated everywhere. In a full-page newspaper ad urging Israelis to boycott European nations that now refuse to sell Israel military equipment, employees of the country's military industry wrote, "In the moments of truth, we learn yet again that we can only rely on ourselves." Even the left isn't immune from the growing sense of siege. In a recent interview, the liberal novelist Amos Oz confessed he's haunted by his father's observation that, before the Holocaust, European graffiti read, "jews to palestine," only to be transformed in our time into, "jews out of palestine." The message to Jews, noted Oz: "Don't be here and don't be there. That is, don't be." (Yossi Klein Halevi, "How despair is transforming Israel: The Wall, The New Republic, 7/89/2002)
Terrorist Groups and the Palestinian Authority

It was reported in the press on August 23, 2005, that Palestinian Authority said: "We Won't Disarm Terror Groups, We Will Continue Armed Struggle, Martyrs Deserve Credit".

Musa abu-Marzouk, a senior Hamas leader, said, "We stressed during the meeting with Qurei that the Palestinians have the right to continue the resistance against Israel and that there would be no attempt to collect weapons from the resistance groups. The weapons of resistance were founded to defend the Palestinian people and resist the occupation. The Gaza victory was achieved with the weapons of resistance, which is the only strategy to drive Israel out of the rest of our lands."

* ZOA/press release

Hamas also vowed to bring terror to "Haifa, Tel Aviv, Safed, Acre and Ashkelon" and pledged that soon "Israel will no longer exist." Mahmoud Zahar, another Hamas leader, condemned "useless negotiations."

* Al-Arabiyya TV, Aug. 17, 2005

Qurei agreed saying, "there will be no calm until the establishment of a Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capitol." Mahmoud Abbas, Holocaust Denier and President of the PA added that the "Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip was not enough and that Israel should withdraw to the pre-1967 borders." Abbas also called for "international pressure on Israel to implement the Road Map and withdraw from the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem and to stop construction of the security fence."

* ZOA
* ZOA

Abbas also addressed a gathering of injured and disabled Arabs and asserted that "the credit of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza Strip and Northern West Bank goes to the Palestinians who were killed, wounded and imprisoned during the decades of struggle...the injuries and disabilities they carried were medals of honor that are paid today with the exit of the last Israeli settler from Gaza."

* PA - WAFA - 8/23/05

The ethnic cleansing of Jews from Gaza has so far energized terrorist groups who seem now more than ever to be disposed toward violence against Israel.

For those who say Israel isn't doing enough they are simply ignorant of the facts on the ground. Israel has made more than its share of concessions. Israel has tried it all and nothing worked because it is simply a bad neighborhood and the Palestinian Arabs are simply unwilling to live with Jews peacefully.

You cannot make peace when there are conflicting visions of what that means. For Arabs that conflicting vision means no Israel. It does not mean Jews with their own country. But the state of Israel is a fact and nothing is going to change that and unless the Arabs can get over their intense hatred of the Jews there will be no reconciliation, no peace, and no state for Palestinians.

The solution is as Ariel Sharon saw it, and for those who take his place - to have a complete separation from the Arabs. The Sharon strategy is about erecting a separation wall, to be a security fence, the purpose of which is to keep the terrorists out of Israel and the only way to do that is to disengage. The settlements in Gaza were a security problem. There was no inexpensive way to guard the Jewish villages from the Arab villages; to separate them without abandoning them so that is what had to be done.

Someone has suggested the Palestinians should build a statue to Ariel Sharon for handing them a Palestinian State in Gaza and they should call him the "Father of Palestine."

The Jews loved the land. Most of the land was not cultivatable but they paid exorbitant prices for it anyway. Most of the cultivatable land was filled with rocks and interspersed with intermittent mountain ranges or sand dunes. It was a bleak terrain; soils were alkaline and semi-arable; there were obstructed water courses, and marshlands. This was a land most Arabs did not want and many who owed it sold it to the Jews.
No Retreat

For those who say Israel isn't doing enough for peace are uninformed. Israel has made more than its share of concessions. Israel has tried it all and nothing worked because it is simply a bad neighborhood and Palestinian Aras are simply unwilling to live with Jews peacefully.

The Palestinian Authority did not disarm HAMAS or Islamic Jihad, who attack Israeli civilians, it coalesced with them. The PA leadership met with Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to negotiate a cooperation pack to continue their belligerence and non-cooperation with the Israelis. And these are the folks Israel turned Gaza over to:

Senior HAMAS leader, Musa abu-Marzouk said at this meeting: "The Gaza victory was achieved with the weapons of resistance, which is the only strategy to drive Israel out of the rest of our lands."

The pullout from Gaza was considered a retreat not only by the Palestinians but also by those settlers who were expelled from their homes.

The Bush administration was making noise about Israel also abandoning the West Bank but they have since stopped. Gaza should teach us that it does not pay to capitulate to those who want to kill you.

Now the west wants to capitulate to the Iranians who are determined to have their nuclear weapons program. Who will stop them?
Getting Rid of the Jews

"Within a few short years of the founding of Israel, the Arab world emptied itself of its Jews. In some countries the process took a year or two, elsewhere it took a decade. The Jewish community of Yemen had been in place since the days of King Solomon, some 2,950 years ago, and may have had the longest unbroken history of any Jewish community. The next oldest, in Iraq, was at least 2,700 years old and had been the undisputed center of the Jewish world for perhaps 1,000 years. In the whole history of humanity, there are only a few communities that can boast of 2,700 years of creative existence, through war, conquest, destruction, famine and pestilence. And then it was suddenly gone."

* Yaacov Lozowick, "Right to Exist" 2003

The world generally ignores the real catastrophes, the Brutal expulsion of almost a million Jews from Arab countries, not to forget also the other extermination of six million Jews from Europe which just preceded it. In Europe Jews also lost billions of dollars in property never to be returned to them, except for reparations which Germany pays to survivors but there are no reparations or payback for the $11 billion worth of Jewish property and assets stolen from the Jews in Arab countries.

The vast majority of Jews who survived went to Israel and many of their persecutors are still trying to kill them. If noticed at all this "awesome convulsion" as Lozowick calls it, has all but "disappeared from the world's consciousness."

Half the Jews in Israel are not from Europe, they are from Arab countries from whence they were expelled and cannot go back. These refugees are never mentioned by human rights organizations or by a left which consistently sides with Arabs who want to obliterate the Jews and Israel.

Israel gave them a home, whereas the Arabs gave Palestinians who left Israel nothing but refugee camps, the intention being to make this an issue the world obsesses and focuses on to the exclusion of the grave injustices done to the Jews.

"The resurrection of the dead will not come until the Muslims will war with the Jews and the Muslims will kill them;...the trees and rocks will say, `O Muslim, O Abdullah, here is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."

* Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad

Jewish Liberation

Jews can make a home almost anywhere but Jews are never completely at home anywhere except in Israel.

That is not because they don't want to be at home elsewhere, nor because they don't try, but, because antisemitic myths never seem to die and the hatred which fuels antisemitism has been promulgated for thousands of years. Having a strong Israel insures that Jews can live more comfortably elsewhere. A strong Israel is more than pride; it is Jewish centrality and does more to confront the Jewish victimization complex than anything else could do so.

"Despite the claims of liberal democratic theory and the Utopian promises of Socialists and Communists, the nationalisms of the nineteenth century, both West and East, infiltrated all competing political movements and exacerbated and radicalized European anti-Semitism. Zionism gave to many Jews a way of thinking that enabled them to confront the anti-Semite on the street with renewed pride. In their everyday existence, Jews could engage the hostile world harboring the hope that they were citizens of a modern nation in the process of being realized. They would not be condemned forever to being powerless and exceptional."

* Leon Botstein-09-08-1997-The New Republic

Antisemitism as a universal pathology did not disappear with the re-establishment of Israel which is why Israel is even more important today as a refuge. Some non-Jews, to their credit have vigorously, and sometimes heroically, countered antisemitism but all too often they are the exception.
Zionism?

Bernard Lewis says, "Zionism is not always easy to determine with any precision or certainty. Even the terms are difficult to define, and are used with multiple and changing meanings. What is Israel, what is Zionism, and who, for that matter, are the Jews?"

"Of the three, Israel is the easiest. It is the name of a state which was established on May 14, 1948, and since then has conducted itself as do other states, in the pursuit of its own interests and the application of policies designed to serve those interests. These policies may be good or bad, effective or ineffective, compatible or incompatible with the interest of other states, and opposition to them is not in itself a sign of prejudice any more than is opposition to the activities of other states in the world that are involved in conflicts. A clash of national or state interests may generate prejudice or be affected by it. It is not in itself evidence of prejudice." (Lewis)

"To define Zionism is altogether a more difficult task. Originally, the term denoted a certain analysis of the Jewish predicament and a prescription for its cure. This was, briefly, that Jews were persecuted because they were strangers everywhere and had no home of their own. The answer was to create a Jewish national home which would eventually develop into a Jewish state. This would provide shelter for those Jews who needed it, encouragement and if need be help for those who continued to live elsewhere. It would also create a center where Jews, without fear of either persecution or suspicion, could develop their own Jewish culture and way of life. Above all, it would be one place in the world where Jews could live as Jews, not dependent on the sufferance or tolerance or goodwill of others, but as masters in their own home. Some argued that this Jewish national home might be built anywhere in the world, where there was empty land and a willing government, and attempts were made in Uganda, Australia, Sinai, South America, and, under Soviet auspices, in the remote Siberian province of Birobidzhan, on the border of Mongolia. Most of these never got beyond the stage of discussion; none of them achieved any results. There was only one place to which Jews felt they had an historic claim, and which had an emotional appeal powerful enough to evoke the necessary effort an endurance. That was the ancient land of Israel."

(Lewis)
Jewish Liberation

The Holocaust didn't just happen; it was totally premeditated by `enlightened' people from various backgrounds, including intellectuals.

A Christian writer, Professor Claude R. Foster, a professor of history at West Chester State College wrote that, "Throughout the nineteenth century, the Jew sought desperately to identify himself with the European Christian Community without converting. Many Jews accepted assimilation and some also did convert in order to gain admission into European society."

In the latter part of the nineteenth century however, a violent racial antisemitism appeared that rejected assimilation as a solution to the "Jewish Problem."

The tensions among the Jews themselves: liberals versus orthodox and Zionists versus assimilationist's, the economic crises, the need to find a scapegoat for national humiliation, the identification of Jews with Marxists, and the swing to the political right, all of which, helped to prepare for the outbreak of violent racial-type Antisemitism, which led to the Holocaust. Professor Foster, said, "The Holocaust in hindsight seemed inevitable," and indeed it did given the need to find fault for a failed economy, losing the war, and the Christian ideology of the day which found the Jews to be easy to hate and to blame and it was not yet the 60s when the Catholic Church finally repudiated the calumny against the Jews, of decide, the charge that they killed Christ.

Non-Jews resented the Jewish uniqueness and the overall resistance to conversion by most Jews and even while Jews would abandon the religion of Judaism, they still retained a distinct Jewish ethnic identity. Jews were more liberal, more secular, and more modern that the Christians and most other people and for this they were also hated.

Jews have been called "Internationalists" and a "disintegrating influence." Heinrich Tritschke, a professor in Berlin in the late 1800s, in Documents of German History, edited by Louis Snyder, wrote:

"The Jews at one time played a necessary role in German history, because of their ability in the management of money. But now that the Aryans have become accustomed to the idiosyncrasies of finance, the Jews are no longer necessary. The international Jew, hidden in the mask of different nationalities, is a disintegrating influence; he can be of no further use to the world. It is necessary to speak openly about the Jews, undisturbed in the fact that the Jewish press befouls what is purely historical truth."

The Jews were blamed for the existence and ideas of Karl Marx, who if not for his father's Baptism into the Prussian state church in 1817, might have been a rabbi instead of the father of communism. It is not unusual in those times to be baptized or like the Marranos to be "secret Jews" while publicly accepting the Christian religion in order to obtain civil rights or escape persecution. Karl's father, Heschel Marx (1782-1838) was the grandson of a rabbi, the son of a rabbi, the brother of a rabbi, and the son-in-law of a rabbi.

Jews in every country were victims of political and social crisis, subjected to pogroms under every regime, and every political adventure, whether it was some aristocracy or the Russian Revolution. It didn't matter who was doing the persecuting, the Czars, the Whites, the Poles, the Ukrainians, Lithuanians, or the Germans.

And, Zionism was, at first, largely an expression by Jews who wanted to participate in the world proletarian struggle to realize the socialist ideal. Quite at odds with Marxism over Marx's rigorously internationalist conclusions, it was a theory which never-the-less combined socialism and Jewish nationalistic aspirations from which developed the idea of "Borochovism," from its author, Ber Borochov, which became the official theory of Jewish revolutionists for decades.

(* More about Ber Borochov: (1881-1917) He was a scholar, an author, a theoretician, and the foremost Socialist Zionist of his time. He influenced the merging Jewish labor movement and developed the concept of a unity between socialism and Jewish nationalism. He synthesized class struggle and nationalism when current Marxist theory rejected all nationalism. Borochov advocated a pioneering effort in Israel, and these pioneering settlements in Israel were Kibbutzim and Moshavim.)
Breach of Humanity

"They roped children together and forced them to stumble en mass across Iraqi minefields to clear the way for advancing Iranian infantry. Each boy was issued a plastic key that he was told would open the gates of paradise." (I.Brown, Khomeini's Forgotten Sons: The Story of Iran's Boy Soldiers (London, Grey Seal, 1990)
The Sacred Rage of the Middle East

"We are not against the American people," said a young member of the Shi'ite "Party of God" as quoted in Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam, by Robin Wright [1985, and revised in subsequent printings - 2001] "We are against oppression and injustice. The fire of Islam will burn those who are responsible for these practices [against Islam]. We have been dominated by the U.S. government and others for too long." A leading Shi'ite academic put it another way: "The extreme expressions of fundamentalism are expressions of despair." [Wright]

All religions are subject to extremist elements. Religion is inherently extremist because it is philosophy and behavior based on faith for which there is no concrete supportive evidence.

"The more people who die for our cause, the stronger we shall become." --Ayatollah Khomeini

During the Iran-Iraq war in a speech the Ayatollah Khomeini gave to honor Muhammad's birthday, he said:

"If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, his moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel...his death will be a blessing to him. For if he remains alive, he will become more and more corrupt." Those infidels he was referring to in this speech were Iraqis, but all infidels are considered corrupters and deserve death according to Islamists like the Ayatollah. As for war; war with Iraq or war with Israel - or war with the United States, it is all the same. And he says:

"War is a blessing to the world and for all nations. It is God who incites men to fight and to kill. The Koran says, `Fight till all corruption and all rebellion have ceased.' The wars that the Prophet led against the infidels were a blessing for all humanity... A religion without war is an incomplete religion...A prophet is all-powerful. Through war he purifies the earth. The Mullahs with corrupt hearts who say that this is contrary to the teachings of the Koran are unworthy of Islam. Thanks to God, our young people are now, to the limits of their means, putting God's commandments into action. They know that to kill the unbelievers is one of man's greatest missions." (cited by David Livingston Smith in The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War, 2007, St Martins Press)

"We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry `There is no God but God' resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle." (cited in Sacred Rage Ayatollah Khomeini)

There has been a gradual and foolish erosion of resistance among Left wing liberals to Jihadism. The threat is real. These are Israel's hostile neighbors and since September 11th, it has been demonstrated that Jihadism can reach even the United States. We all live within the context of jihad.
Palestinians Violence
Double Standards

ALL kinds of excuses blaming Israel can be made for the terrorism and the Intifada but the crux of the problem is the real goal of Palestinians, which is to achieve by violence what cannot be achieved by negotiations, and these acts of violence, which has resulted in killing and the maiming Jews, and some Arabs, are a deliberate Palestinian decision they made as their preference for force over negotiations. The response by Israel is also deliberate and expected, which has been to use force to discourage continued violence by the Palestinians. Israel gets blamed for something they didn't start. Israel is always blamed, just as some otherwise well-meaning "liberals" call themselves anti-Zionists without a true understanding what that really means. Israelis want peace but even their "get tough" hawkish positions have now been hardened even more because of Palestinian violence.

In the real world you can't simply throw a switch and turn off a war. You can't throw a switch and turn off irrational hatred which radical Islamists hold for Jews, just as you can't convince people they are wrong if they have it in their mind they are right, in spite of facts which prove them wrong. To go from the real world to one that is the way you would like it to be It isn't that simple. One side wants war, the Arabs, and only one side wants peace, the Israelis. And in the Arab war against the Jews innocent people are hurt and killed - on both sides. Sometimes those innocent people are other Arabs who had nothing to do with the violence. It is an inevitable outcome of their Arab violence.

The Peace Summit at Camp David presented a unique opportunity to make concessions by both parties to the conflict. That opportunity was lost by the Palestinians. They walked. Someone once said the "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity".

Israel knows about concessions, having made many, first to reach an accord with Egypt, and it has not been an easy peace, but Israel was willing to make sacrifices and it was necessary for both sides to constantly work at improving relationships. Peace is possible. There is also peace with Jordan and one of Israel's best friends in the region is Turkey, another Muslim (not Arab) country.

There are always other standards for Israel. When Israel fights terrorism the U.S. contrary to what many think does not automatically come down on the side of Israel. There is tremendous pressure on Israel to capitulate to terrorism, which is not what the U.S. says it does itself but where Israel is concerned it is expected that Israel will show restraint. An example of this was the firefight the Israeli IDF had with terrorists at the refugee camp of Tulkarm. The IDF confronted a number of armed wanted terrorists, who belong to the Islamic Jihad terror infrastructure in Tulkarm, responsible for the suicide bombing at the "Stage" Club in Tel Aviv, and for the one in Netanya on July 2005. The terrorists in Tulkarm opened fire at the IDF from two directions, in addition to throwing an explosive charge at them from one of the houses. The response from the U.S. by Trent Duffy of the Press Secretary's Office was to tell Israel to exercise restraint. That is just what the U.S. would NOT do. And neither should Israel be expected to show restraint in the face of terror. It should not be expected to do what we would not do.
Obstacles to Peace

Arafat was an obstacle to peace and now he is gone. His replacement has been another obstacle to peace. And HAMAS makes it impossible. A two state solution should now be off the table. Any state solution should be off the table because you cannot negotiate with those who are sworn by their very charter to destroy you and bombard you with rockets. There is no good will, only the declared and demonstrated intent to destroy Israel.

"He (Arafat) allowed his territory to be a place where bomb factories could exist with impunity; where suicide bombers could be recruited with impunity; where there was no cost to Hamas or Islamic Jihad for carrying out murderous attacks. To be sure, the situation given the anger among Palestinians made it increasingly costly for him to look like Israel's policemen, but he had to know that if he did not take decisive steps, that things were going to explode in a way that they are now." [Dennis Ross, former Special Envoy to the Middle East]

But the mistake many make is to assume that because Arafat is now gone that will be the end to hostility. The tension remains. And this is not the kind of hatred one can simply turn off by giving in to terrorist demands. The hatred is deep and religious. It is irrational hatred.

It is about their religion - and claiming to be superior to others. And religion is why antisemitism has endured in Christian countries for two thousand years and it is why hatred of the Jew endured so long in Muslim countries. Christianity and Islam have their roots in Judaism and the Jews would not convert to either of these newer religions. 1

The conflict really isn't just about the land. It is about existing in the very same world with their Islamic religious fundamentalism. It is Israel's very existence that Muslims object to no less so than the Nazis who wanted to eliminate all the Jews on the planet. It wasn't just their presence in Germany, it was their presence on the planet that Nazis objected to.

A Princeton University historian, and renowned Middle-Eastern scholar Bernard Lewis wrote: "The Golden Age of equal rights was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam." (Bernard Lewis, "The Pro-Islamic Jews," Judaism, (Fall 1968), p.401.)

"Muhammad, the founder of Islam, traveled to Medina in 622 A.D. to attract followers to his new faith. When the Jews of Medina refused to convert and rejected Muhammad, two of the major Jewish tribes were expelled; in 627, Muhammad's followers killed between 600 and 900 of the men, and divided the surviving Jewish women and children amongst themselves." (Bat Ye'or, The Dhimmi, (NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985)

The Muslim attitude toward Jews is reflected in various verses throughout the Koran, the holy book of the Islamic faith. "They (the Children of Israel) were consigned to humiliation and wretchedness. They brought the wrath of God upon themselves, and this because they used to deny God's signs and kill His Prophets unjustly and because they disobeyed and were transgressors" (Sura 2:61). According to the Koran, "the Jews try to introduce corruption (5:64), have always been disobedient (5:78), and are enemies of Allah, the Prophet and the angels (2:9798)." (Michell Bard wrote in "The Treatment of Jews in Arab/Islamic Countries")

"More than a thousand Jews were killed in anti-Jewish rioting during the 1940's in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria and Yemen. This helped trigger the mass exodus of Jews from Arab countries." (Bard)

The European Union, which often criticizes Israel often taking the Arab side which is the side their oil is on; criticized Arafat's inaction against suicide bombers and his total lack of resolve to stop the violence. But the EU blamed Israel. The EU stated: "The following commitments must be taken ... the dismantlement of the terrorist networks Hamas and Islamic Jihad, including the arrest and prosecution of all suspects; a public appeal in Arabic proclaiming the end to the armed intifada" but also included a demand for Israel's withdrawal, as if that would end the cycle of violence, "The Israeli government (must) withdraw its military forces and stop extra-judicial executions; lift the (economic) blockade and all restrictions inflicted on the Palestinian territories; freeze settlements." It is the old blame the Jews game all over again to say Arafat didn't do enough but it is really the fault of the Jews. It was the old double standard: The violence must stop but Israel can't go after those who perpetrate the violence.

The Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath issued a reply stating that the Palestinians had a "sacred right to self defense against occupation," which is like pouring their oil into an open wound and winding the Palestinians up for more violence. No wonder Israel responded with a full scale assault.

Former Israeli Defense Minister, Peres said military action was needed to prevent further terrorism and "it's very easy for countries that don't have the same problems to give advice" (he told a news conference). "We are a government that must look after the lives of our citizens." The Palestinians are calling it "Sharon's War" which is Israel's response to the uprising and terrorist attacks on Israel. Arafat did nothing to stop the terrorist organizations and there was no other choice but for Sharon to respond the way he did - and I might add because he did respond by striking back at these perpetrators of violence he is compared to Hitler and called a Nazi.

Not to have done what Sharon did, to use force against force, would have brought down the democratic government of Israel.
Propaganda War

Arab propagandists use the lie that Jews drove out Palestinians and therefore the world should not look with much sympathy when Jews are compelled to leave their homes of 36 years in the Gaza. This is what Abunimah of Electronic Intifada said on national television when the Israelis gave up their homes in Gaza, where some of them had always lived.

"Many Arabs claim that 800,000 to 1,000,000 Palestinians became refugees in 1947-49. The last census was taken by the British in 1945. It found approximately 1.2 million permanent Arab residents in all of Palestine. On November 30, 1947, the date the UN voted for partition, the total within the boundaries of the State of Israel (as fixed by the Armistice Agreements of 1949) was 809,100. A 1949 Government of Israel census counted 160,000 Arabs living in the country after the war." (Arieh Avneri, The Claim of Dispossession, (NJ: Transaction Books, 1984), p. 272; Kedar, Benjamin. The Changing Land Between the Jordan and the Sea. (Israel: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press, 1999), p. 206.) (Bard)

"This meant no more than 650,000 Palestinian Arabs could have become refugees. A report by the UN Mediator on Palestine arrived at an even lower figure 472,000." [Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, Submitted to the Secretary-General for Transmission to the Members of the United Nations, General Assembly Official Records: Third Session, Supplement No.11 (A\648), Paris, 1948, p. 47 and Supplement No. 11A (A\689, and A\689\Add.1, p. 5.] (Bard)

The debate is almost always over how many Arabs ("Palestinians") were forced out by Jews, but very little is ever stated about equivalence; that is, the numbers of Jews who were forced to flee Arab countries with barely the cloths on their backs - except for an occasional specious argument, like the one advanced by someone on the InterNUT that Zionist collusion led to a false departure of Jews (from Iraq), whereas, they claim it was never the intent of the Arab countries to rid themselves of their Jews. This argument has been amply refuted and that is simply not the case. Anecdotal cases exist where some Jews experienced difficulties in their countries of origin because of the existence of Israel, but that is not the cause of their second class status in Arab countries which was always the case and it was so long before a return to Israel was ever imagined. Jews were "dhimmis" a condition dating back to the Umayyads. Jews when they refused to be converted to Islam were treated with an aversion which sometimes was worse and sometimes better, but were always second class.

"The United Nations resolved that Jerusalem would be an international city apart from the Arab and Jewish states demarcated in the partition resolution. The 150,000 Jewish inhabitants were under constant military pressure; the 2,500 Jews living in the Old City were victims of an Arab blockade that lasted five months before they were forced to surrender on May 29, 1948. Prior to the surrender, and throughout the siege on Jerusalem, Jewish convoys tried to reach the city to alleviate the food shortage, which, by April, had become critical." (Bard)

Side Note* Today Judaism is much more about culture (and enlightened modernization) than it is about religion and per capita Jews are less religious than any other religion. Many Jews are atheists but observe Jewish tradition in order to preserve the specialities of Jewish culture, which for many is predominantly secular and humanist.

Hank Roth

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Full Text Of Newsmax Column Suggesting Military Coup Against Obama

Here is the full text of John L. Perry's column on Newsmax which suggests that a military coup to "resolve the Obama problem" is becoming more possible and is not "unrealistic." Perry also writes that a coup, while not "ideal," may be preferable to "Obama's radical ideal" -- and would "restore and defend the Constitution." Newsmax has since removed the column from its website.

Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention

By: John L. Perry

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem." Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn't the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:

# Officers swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to "obey the orders of the president of the United States."

# Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.

# They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed that this nation, under President Barack Obama, may not even be recognizable as America by the 2012 election, in which he will surely seek continuation in office.

# They can see that the economy -- ravaged by deficits, taxes, unemployment, and impending inflation -- is financially reliant on foreign lender governments.

# They can see this president waging undeclared war on the intelligence community, without whose rigorous and independent functions the armed services are rendered blind in an ever-more hostile world overseas and at home.

# They can see the dismantling of defenses against missiles targeted at this nation by avowed enemies, even as America's troop strength is allowed to sag.

# They can see the horror of major warfare erupting simultaneously in two, and possibly three, far-flung theaters before America can react in time.

# They can see the nation's safety and their own military establishments and honor placed in jeopardy as never before.

So, if you are one of those observant military professionals, what do you do?

Wait until this president bungles into losing the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan's arsenal of nuclear bombs falls into the hands of militant Islam?

Wait until Israel is forced to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear-bomb plants, and the Middle East explodes, destabilizing or subjugating the Free World?

What happens if the generals Obama sent to win the Afghan war are told by this president (who now says, "I'm not interested in victory") that they will be denied troops they must have to win? Do they follow orders they cannot carry out, consistent with their oath of duty? Do they resign en masse?

Or do they soldier on, hoping the 2010 congressional elections will reverse the situation? Do they dare gamble the national survival on such political whims?

Anyone who imagines that those thoughts are not weighing heavily on the intellect and conscience of America's military leadership is lost in a fool's fog.

Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a "family intervention," with some form of limited, shared responsibility?

Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.

Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially accelerating agenda for "fundamental change" toward a Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.

Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don't shrug and say, "We can always worry about that later."

In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent, indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal responsibility that has sunk the nation into this morass.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/09/full_text_of_newsmax_column_suggesting_military_co.php?ref=fpblg

The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
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SUICIDE MISSION? The core of the superconducting solenoid magnet at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

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More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the worlds biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again. In December, if all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for forces and particles that reigned during the first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang.

Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. Im not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, Im talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal and Search for Future Influence From LHC, posted on the physics Web site arXiv.org in the last year and a half.

According to the so-called Standard Model that rules almost all physics, the Higgs is responsible for imbuing other elementary particles with mass.

It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck, Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God. It is their guess, he went on, that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.

This malign influence from the future, they argue, could explain why the United States Superconducting Supercollider, also designed to find the Higgs, was canceled in 1993 after billions of dollars had already been spent, an event so unlikely that Dr. Nielsen calls it an anti-miracle.

You might think that the appearance of this theory is further proof that people have had ample time perhaps too much time to think about what will come out of the collider, which has been 15 years and $9 billion in the making.

The collider was built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, to accelerate protons to energies of seven trillion electron volts around an 18-mile underground racetrack and then crash them together into primordial fireballs.

For the record, as of the middle of September, CERN engineers hope to begin to collide protons at the so-called injection energy of 450 billion electron volts in December and then ramp up the energy until the protons have 3.5 trillion electron volts of energy apiece and then, after a short Christmas break, real physics can begin.

Maybe.

Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya started laying out their case for doom in the spring of 2008. It was later that fall, of course, after the CERN collider was turned on, that a connection between two magnets vaporized, shutting down the collider for more than a year.

Dr. Nielsen called that a funny thing that could make us to believe in the theory of ours.

He agreed that skepticism would be in order. After all, most big science projects, including the Hubble Space Telescope, have gone through a period of seeming jinxed. At CERN, the beat goes on: Last weekend the French police arrested a particle physicist who works on one of the collider experiments, on suspicion of conspiracy with a North African wing of Al Qaeda.

Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a card-drawing exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to discern bad luck from the future. If the outcome was sufficiently unlikely, say drawing the one spade in a deck with 100 million hearts, the machine would either not run at all, or only at low energies unlikely to find the Higgs.

Sure, its crazy, and CERN should not and is not about to mortgage its investment to a coin toss. The theory was greeted on some blogs with comparisons to Harry Potter. But craziness has a fine history in a physics that talks routinely about cats being dead and alive at the same time and about anti-gravity puffing out the universe.

As Niels Bohr, Dr. Nielsens late countryman and one of the founders of quantum theory, once told a colleague: We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.

Dr. Nielsen is well-qualified in this tradition. He is known in physics as one of the founders of string theory and a deep and original thinker, one of those extremely smart people that is willing to chase crazy ideas pretty far, in the words of Sean Carroll, a Caltech physicist and author of a coming book about time, From Eternity to Here.

(Page 2 of 2)

Another of Dr. Nielsens projects is an effort to show how the universe as we know it, with all its apparent regularity, could arise from pure randomness, a subject he calls random dynamics.

Dr. Nielsen admits that he and Dr. Ninomiyas new theory smacks of time travel, a longtime interest, which has become a respectable research subject in recent years. While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus. In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus. Although just why the Higgs would be a catastrophe is not clear. If we knew, presumably, we wouldnt be trying to make one.

We always assume that the past influences the future. But that is not necessarily true in the physics of Newton or Einstein. According to physicists, all you really need to know, mathematically, to describe what happens to an apple or the 100 billion galaxies of the universe over all time are the laws that describe how things change and a statement of where things start. The latter are the so-called boundary conditions the apple five feet over your head, or the Big Bang.

The equations work just as well, Dr. Nielsen and others point out, if the boundary conditions specify a condition in the future (the apple on your head) instead of in the past, as long as the fundamental laws of physics are reversible, which most physicists believe they are.

For those of us who believe in physics, Einstein once wrote to a friend, this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion.

In Kurt Vonneguts novel Sirens of Titan, all of human history turns out to be reduced to delivering a piece of metal roughly the size and shape of a beer-can opener to an alien marooned on Saturns moon so he can repair his spaceship and go home.

Whether the collider has such a noble or humble fate or any fate at all remains to be seen. As a Red Sox fan my entire adult life, I feel I know something about jinxes.
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God Did It

"Not only are we not at the center of the Universe, but we have now
discovered that if you got rid of us, our planet, our Sun, all the stars
and galaxies and gas that we can see through our telescopes, the Universe
would still be largely the same! We are, if anything, a small bit of
pollution in a Universe dominated not by matter such as that which makes
us up, but rather matter and energy that appear to be completely different
from anything we have ever observed on Earth. If we did not feel
cosmically insignificant before, we should now." (Dan Hooper, Dark Cosmos
- 2006)

The Large Hadron Collider will soon be turned back on - or at least that
is the plan. Sometime in November they have scheduled a restart of the LHC
in CERN. Will it work this time? Steven Hawkings says no. Others are
concerned it may cause matter, that 4% of the Universe that includes us,
will melt from micro black holes or atoms may be rearranged and new matter
will emerge which they are calling Strangelets. Others are saying the
these are highly unlikely risks and are overblown fear mongering.

Many scientists and grad students and post-doc fellows are hopeful for new
discoveries and the long sought Higgs Boson - ("God Particle") will be
found.

The first breakdown occurred only 9 days after the LHC was first turned on
over a year ago with an explosive helium leak.

But even if it works, the paradox is there is no guarantee they will find
anything. Christopher W. Stubbs, the chair of the Dept of Physics at
Harvard said: "Even if it does work, if they turn it on and find nothing
new at all--if they don't find [the hitherto unseen] Higgs Boson, for
example, or if they find stuff they expect to discoverer and nothing else,
it is unclear what the future of that field is." (Physicists Wait for
`Surprises' of LHC (October 09, 2009) By ALISSA M D'GAMA and HUMA N. SHAH
Harvard Crimson Staff Writers)

The experiments are a collaboration of thousands of scientists from more
than 100 countries.

"There are six main experiments that data collection at the LHC will
service--each of which will address a different question about particle
physics..." (ibid)

As reported in the NYTimes on October 19, 2009, it has
been suggested that the LHC has been sabotaged by someone in the future to
save the world by keeping it off.

"The strange sci-fi theory comes from Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech
Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan, who claim the LHC startup
has been delayed due to nature trying to prevent it from finding the
elusive Higgs boson, or 'God particle'." (http://www.straitstimes.com/)

"In an article by Dannis Overbye in the New York Times, the pair said
that their maths proves that nature will 'ripple backward through
time' to stop the LHC before it can create the God particle, like a
time traveller who goes back in time to kill his grandfather." (Straits
Times)

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We Have Only the Moment!

Bubbling, Boiling Chemicals

Life Began over 4.5 billion years ago on Earth when it was still a spinning mass of molten,
bubbling, boiling volcanic chemicals.

A Genealogist traces lineage, but our ancestry doesn't stop with tribe or group. Every
living organism or system of organisms has the same commmon ancestor.

We all have a last common ancestor which scientists call LUCA. Our common descent most
likely begins with RNA and the first systems were prokaryotes, which we call bacteria.

Combining energy from the sun and energy from asteroids, comets, meteorites produced the
building blocks of organic matter: adenine, thiamine, guanine and cytosine. The 4 bases of
DNA, the spiral helix of deoxyribonucleic acid requires RNA to reproduce. However RNA can
replicate itself and can produce proteins biologists suggest they preceded DNA. DNA
requires RNA to replicate.

There never has been a man-built machine as capable as these self-maintaining organisms
"created" in nature - BY NATURE. Some humans call that nature Gaia. Some call it God.

Life in nature can replicate and is self-maintaining. It regenerates until it returns back
to nature from whence it came. We concentrate order and like clock-work, about every 21
days we get a new epithelial lining in our stomachs. The sub-mucosa replaces itself about
every 7 days. In a couple of months we also replace our liver and skin self-replicates
about every six weeks.

We keep our brain and heart cells which developed before we were born - so don't waste
them; you will never get them back until we perfect some way to successfully transplant
them - not an uncommon idea given the history of scientific innovation.

Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan write in What is Life? "Every year, ninety-eight percent of
the atoms of your body are replaced..."

This is life as we know it and continues as long as we provide fuel to our cells. Margulis
and Sagan says, "An autopietic entity metabolizes continuously; it perpetuates itself
through chemical activity, the movement of molecules...Autopoiesis, indeed, is detectable
by that incessant life chemistry and energy flow which is metabolism. Only cells, organisms
made of cells, and biospheres made of organisms are autopoietic and can metabolize."

A Canonical Example of an Autopoietic System
is the Biological Cell

DNA is not alive. It replicates but it does not metabolize. Cells are autopoietic. Only
cells metabolize; that is, burn fuel and maintain itself. Viruses are not autopoietic. They
don't metabolize either, but they do hijack cells which do.

90% of our cells are microbial and serve another master. They also serve us. They were our
original ancestors and they are still us. We dare not eradicate them from our environment.
If we did we would not be capable of surviving in our current form. The intestines need
them where they are involved with digestion and disposal of waste, which is one of the
functions of bacteria in our intestines and they help us absorb nutrients from the food we
eat. The digestion system contains the enteric intestinal nervous system which is
considered the First brain before the Second brain was formed, the cerebral central nervous
system.

This SECOND brain works independent of the FIRST (CNS) central nervous system. [Excellent
source: Michael D. Gerson. The Second Brain 1998].

Food digestion was developed before a CNS brain (also see the flatworm) for observation and
to alert the organism of danger.

Most bacteria is good. 95% of it as a matter of fact, but some of the 5% which is
pathogenic; that is,
bad bacteria can kill you.

Some of these bad bacteria are everywhere. Hospitals are dangerous places because of those
bad germs. MIRSA, antibiotic resistant germs are pervasive. They are in the schools, at
public places, public pools, at beaches, your neighbor's pool.

There are increasing numbers of water-borne bacteria and illnesses as well as medications
which end up flushed in body waste and pills tossed down a toilet which end up in you when
you drink the water in spite of efforts at neutralizing and filtering them out of your
drinking water. Chlorination will NOT protect from microscopic parasites and bacteria. Not
only do germs become chlorine resistant and thrive in extreme conditions those chemicals
smell bad and irritate skin and eyes. Fecal accidents also lead to disease.

Cryptosporidium parvum, also known as "crypto" is only one among many germs which are
resistant of efforts to eradicate them and results in illness which can be fatal among
those with already weakened immunity. This germ is often found in swimming pools. Sometimes
swallowing contaminated water will cause illness. Sometimes simple skin contact is enough.
An open wound is especially bad for spreading disease.

"There is a huge issue getting the public to understand that swimming is a communal bathing
act," Beach said. "There's a lot of mythology out there about swimming pools -- you see
those blue waters and you think it's essentially sterile." (Alex Breitler, Record
(Stockton, CA) - August 21, 2006)

"Nationwide, 8.3 percent of public swimming pools and 11 percent of spas were closed for
health reasons immediately upon inspection in 2002, the latest year for which statistics
were available." (Breitler)

BUT without bacteria we would not survive. They need us for their energy as much as we need
them. We are endosymbiotic with bacteria. Most of it is good for you.

Oxidation, Reproduction, Death, and Bacteria

For all the differences we all may have on so many things, I think we really need to get
our minds around this one.

We are not the only intelligence on this planet. Contrary to the prevailing view, we are
not in charge. Destiny is not predetermined and there is no omnipotent super power, but
there is manipulation by prokaryotes, of 22,000 strains of bacteria.

There are many strains of bacteria but only one species.

Bacterium are guiding our evolution and is responsible for it and nucleated cellular life
is about to LEAP again.
Our evolution will be a devolution to a low oxygen earth. The current oxygen level is at
21% from its original 1%.

All this talk about what we can do by not burning fossil fuels and stopping global warming
is a false hope. Opposing growth which requires a degree of greed and self-interest an
evolved propensity of our nature and essential to our evolution. We're not going to stop
it; we are not capable of stopping our internal nature.

The Moment is All We Have

We can rage on about it or we can wake up to the reality of it and can even celebrate it.
We can accept the inevitable and enjoy the moment.

Perhaps we are rerunning the clock out and this has happened before, over and over again?
Who really wins? What always wins? Prokaryotes win. Oxidative stress and aging is
inevitable. Eukaryotes lose. So let the good times roll!

Some of you think bigger brains and anti-oxidants will help. Im here to tell you, there are
some advantages to having a bigger brain, but this is not one of them and be forewarned,
anti-oxidants are not the answer either. The answer is to let the good times roll.

EUKARYOTIC OXIDATIVE STRESS
IS constituent to life, Reproduction and Death

Oxidative stress does accumulate as we age but turning it off could be worse than the
accompanying damage it causes. Some now suspect that stress is not only necessary, it is a
good thing. Yes it damages tissue and aging results from free radical leakage but oxidative
stress also triggers responses which may be more of a natural selection advantage and there
are trade-offs which may also be a benefit to reproduction - as are the preservation and
passing on of genes. Thus curtailing free radical leakage with antioxidants may be
counterproductive and may be more damaging then the stress.

It is a truism that struggle and stress is what makes us stronger and those most fit to
reproduce will endure better. Perhaps oxidative stress tests that fitness? But death, which
is as natural as birth, is a necessary constituent of the reproductive cycle,
post-reproductive aging, and ultimately our dying, where thereupon our constituent parts
decompose and are consumed by bacteria; returning us all once again to the very earth from
which we arose in the first place.

We Only Have the Moment!

Hank Roth

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Atoms are Forever

We wake up each morning to a world of hurt. The pain is all around us. We take an
anthropomorphic view, but all life experiences birth, reproduction and dissipation. Life is
often referred to as a gift. A better description would be to refer to life as food. We are
being harvested. The specter of life is to be consumed as food.

Life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution and DNA
are the self replicating molecules for the blueprints of life.

James Watson claimed that he and Francis Crick discovered the secret of life, the very
elegant double helix, DNA. Just four chemical bases stored in strands of double nucleotides
chains, each chain a replica of the other can spell the recipes for life. Their discovery
changed the world of science as it had been known up until that time.

These were the blueprints. The energy for life is ATP (adenosine triphosphate),
manufactured in photon pumps in the mitochondria of living cells. The analogy which is
sometimes used for ATP is a re-chargeable battery.

Over 30 years ago, Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene: "At some point a particularly
remarkable molecule was formed by accident. We will call it the Re-plicator. It may not
have been the biggest or the most complex molecule around, but it had the extraordinary
property of being able to create copies of itself."

"As the battery's energy is used, its energy state is lowered until it reaches the point
where it cannot be used again until it's recharged. ATP is the charged battery. ADP is the
discharged version, while the input of additional energy `recharges' ADP into ATP once
again, in a process known as oxidative phosphorylation." (Ed Regis, What is Life, 2008)

ATP synthesis is life's motive force. ATP is recycled, converted to ADP and back again to
ATP; over and over again. This process occurs in the mitochondria organelles in a cells
cytoplasm. A million mitochondria packed together would be no larger than a grain of sand.
In most cells there are hundreds of them and we get them all from our mothers. When the
synthesis of ATP stops the cell dies. Without it, muscles would not have their flexibility.
Without it, the deficiency of new ATP in cells, rigor mortis sets in.

(It is the phosphate in fertilizers which provides for ATP synthesis in plant cells.)

What is similar to all life is a means of reproducing. A single stranded version of the
double helix is RNA (ribonucleic acid) which can replicate. Its version uses uracil in
place of DNA's thymine. RNA molecules are called ribozymes. The theory is RNA came along
first and synthesized proteins and DNA came along later.

It has been suggested that RNA preceded DNA reproduction and perhaps it did because RNA can
replicate without DNA but DNA cannot replicate without RNA. RNA contains ribozymes which
with enzymes produces proteins and ALL life as we know it shares the same chemistry.
Pollock (94) in Signs of Life wrote: "...we are related enough to a duck and an orange that
we can eat them both."

We are carbon based life. DNA is a helix of the building blocks of life: the code which is
a recipe for constructing and maintaining life. The three components necessary for life -as
we know it- is energy, water and carbon; all of which is found throughout the universe.

Most of our energy comes from the sun but now we know energy also comes from the core of
the planet as hydrogen sulfide which provides energy for life which survives without the
sun, i.e. thermophylic bacteria and other organisms which live in the depths of the oceans.

"...The current need for carbon from carbon dioxide by all photo-synthesizers totals one
hundred billion tons per year. Yet only a half billion tons per year is supplied as new
carbon into the biosphere from rocks and volcanos. Without recycling, global productivity
would only be a half billion tons per year, a mere two-hundredth of its current value.
Invert this number and we can say that our real world recycling the dead increases all life
two hundred times above what it would be without recycling. Death, thus two times more
life." (Tyler Volk, What is Death, a Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life, 2002)

Life becomes food. Life feeds life and it changes, it is "chemically transformed", subsumed
by the planet "into a gigantic functioning system", says Tyler Volk.

"For example, a dead leaf fallen to the forest floor will be consumed by dozens of species
of soil detritus feeders, from worms to bacteria, who release some of the former carbon
into the leaf into carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thus what happens to the dead
amplifies not just any one other organism but to some extent all of life..." (ibid)

There are some theories that life arrived on in meteorites or comets. 70 separate amino
acids have been discovered in meteorites and contain all the essential ingredients for
life. Meteorites and comets have impacted the earth throughout its history and the force of
these impacts transformed amino acids into the proteins necessary for life. And some
theories [see Harper, Nova TV series, WGBH 2005, Origins: How Life Began] suggest bacteria,
the precursor of eukaryotes arrived from outer space transported here by meteorites and
comets.

Life is both prey and predator. My best non-human friend(s), my dogs, have the predatory
behavior of their ancestral wolf. My predatory behavior is tied to survival. Hostility and
war is as natural as life is old (in our frame of reference). My dogs also have instinctual
behaviors; they have "fear and flight" behaviors; they have hierarchy and dominance
behavior which they display with each other when they are not playing or sleeping and when
cornered they will fight.

We in our species will just kill our enemies who are those who compete with us for
territory and resources - which has been the history of groups since time began.

Dogs stalk, chase, grab and bite each other. Predatory motor patterns are obvious behaviors
in animals and we are just animals with a larger brain and we assume an awareness of these
things, which evolved as our defense against predators and our offensive strategies and the
success of our species.

Of course different animals display different patterns and so do we because we are by the
way, just animals ourselves, in spite of some who think humans are a higher form of life -
which we are not.

We are human-centric organisms and are too often oblivious to the pain of other animals.
Some cultures eat animals we would never think about as food. And the females of several
species also eat their mates after they copulate with them. This happens with spiders and
some other animals. The males actually welcome being consumed by these female spiders
because it ensures that their sperm will have longer to fertilize her and eating the male
spider is a distraction so the female doesn't move on to another spider until she finishes
her meal. I wouldn't exactly call it love, but maybe to a spider it is. It most assuredly
is the ultimate in love making. I like sex but not that much. But you know humans have some
weird sexual perversions also and can be very self-destructive.

There are some things we may never know. We may become extinct as a species before we
discover the theoretical distinctions between what is known and what can only be imagined.

Humans however, have a heightened awareness of self which is why religion has played an
essential role in human life since the dawn of history. There has been fear responses which
rely on escapism and apologia for what appears inevitable, and the need to believe in
stories and myths was a way to stay sane - to find explanation is what would otherwise be
inexplicable, until we discovered science and tested the theories. In spite of how far we
have advanced intellectually there is still this fear response which makes it satisfying to
hold on to comfort myths. Those themes are balm for the pain which accompanies conscious
minds.

Life is a product of death. Life recycles. Atoms become the stuff of new organisms. Death
makes possible more life.

Not only spiders and mayflies and wasps and ants AND to humans too; the essentiality to all
life is life.

"Biological recycling is the worm that munches leaf litter into microscopic bits that are
then further degraded by bacteria into nutrients that later can become tree leaves again
Death makes life..." (Tyler Volk, What is Death? -a scientist looks at the cycle of life-)

Life reproduces itself; it dissipates heat into the external environment. The cell is the
smallest life and besides pico-eukaryotes, bacteria is life; it is the life that was here
for billions of years before our more complex, nucleated cells, when Eukaryotic cells
evolved.

Bacteria is also life but bacteria don't need to eat organic organisms to survive. They can
consume the garbage in land fills. They can consume carbon dioxide and they can clean up
after oil spills.

"Life is distinguished not by its chemical constituents but by the behavior of its
chemicals. The question `What is Life?' is thus a linguistic trap. To answer according to
the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a
verb. It repairs, maintains, recreates and outdoes itself." (L. Margulis and D. Sagen -
What is Life? - 1995)

"The surge of activity which not only applies to cells and animals but to Earth's entire
atmosphere, is intimately connected to two of science's most famous laws--the laws of
thermodynamics. The first law says that throughout any transformation of the total energy
of any system and its environment is neither lost nor gained. Energy--whether as light,
movement, radiation, heat, radioactivity, chemical or other--is conserved." (ibid)

"But not all forms of energy are equal; not all have the same effect. HJeat is a kind of
energy to which other forms tend to convert, and heat tends to disorganize matter. The
second law of thermodynamics says that physical systems tend to lose heat to their
surroundings." (ibid)

"The second law was conceived during the Industrial Revolution, when the steam engine
represented the state--of-art in engineering. French physicist Nicolas Carnot (1796-1832),
aiming to improve the efficiency of the steam engine (whose governor mechanism was invented
by James Watt), came to realize that heat was associate with the movement of minute
particles. And from that, he envisioned the principle that is now known as the second law.
In any moving or energy using system entropy increases."

"....(the first law of thermodynamics of conservation of energy holds), the amount of
energy available to do work decreases. In computer science entropy is measured as the
uncertainty in the information content of a message. The second law unequivocally claims
that in changing systems entropy increases, implying that heat, noise, uncertainty, and
other forms of energy not useful for work, increase. As local systems lose heat, the
universe as a whole is gaining it. Although not so popular now, in the past physicists and
chemists have made the prediction that the universe will whimper out in a `heat death' as a
consequence of the tendency for entropy to increase. More recently, they have even invented
the word `negentropy' for life, which in its tendency to increase information and
certainty, seems to contradict the second law. It doesn't; the second law holds as long as
one regards the system (LIFE) in its environment." (ibid)

As stated previously in quoting Ilya Prigogine, the interpretation of the second law has
changed and Prigogine, a Belgian Nobel laureate pioneered the view or "the consideration of
a larger class of `dissipative structures,' which also includes decidedly nonliving centers
of activity," [Margulis & Segan], i.e. whirlpools, tornadoes, flames. - A dissipative
system may grow and maintain itself. It does this by importing useful energy and exporting
less useful energy and as Margulis further points out, this thermodynamic view even extends
back to Schrodinger, who "likened living beings to flames, `streams of order' that maintain
their forms." (Margulis and Sagan)

Important to life is the ability to be self-sustaining and increasing itself. This is the
basis of evolution. Natural selection is one aspect of evolution. And maintaining itself
[autopoiesis] is a fundamental aspect of life.

"Islands of order in an ocean of chaos, organisms are far superior to human-built machines.
Unlike James Watt's steam engine, for example, the body concentrates order. It continuously
SELF-REPAIRS (emphasis mine). Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new
liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, ninety-eight
percent of the atoms in your body are replaced. This nonstop chemical replacement,
metabolism, is a sure sign of life. This `machine' demands continual input of chemical
energy and materials (food)." (Margulis and Sagan)

And the fundamental component of life must be `autopoiesis' The reference is to the
continuous producing of itself. The reference applies to all life. Life is purposeful. It
reproduces. The molecules at the end of eukaryote life dissipates back to the external
environment.

"Life is a bitch, and then you die" - as the saying goes; but, it is somewhat of a comfort
to know that your life doesn't end, that it is transformative and is part of a much bigger
system, that you are integral to the process which sustains all life.

But to think about death as essential to life is to put us on the same level with the most
profound minds of history who recognized the focus of real life is not about death at all.
The focus on death distracts us from living. Life is existential. Life is self-awareness.

So why would we go through life asking ourselves what is death? We should change the
question to: What is Life? - because if life is predicated on death it is the gift of death
which gives us what is special which is our very unique consciousness and our loves and it
is our own atomic immortality we should be contemplating not the dying of our body.

Hank Roth

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long - having been there with Ike when the precursor to the Internet, Arpanet got started
and every step of the way since, I can't get into all the many fads over the years (now it
is social networking), but I have been an observer and participant in events which shape
the world since my time with NSA and with Army Security and as a voice security
cryptologist in the White House for the President, and the War Room at the Pentagon for the
Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff plus two wars. You could say this site is one of the better
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Defeating America from Within

Is Your Passport Up to Date?

It should be obvious that the best way and perhaps the only way to defeat America is to do
it from within. What if, the plan from the start was for Obama to defeat the U.S. by
becoming it's chief executive? I know you don't want to believe it, but when you connect
the dots it seems all the more plausible that this was a careful thought out plan right
from the start.

In 1995 Barack Obama, then 35, ran for Alice Palmer's seat in the State Senate when Alice
Palmer decided to run for the U.S. Congress. He was backed by his Syrian friend, Antoin
(Tony) Rezko and Al Johnson, retired auto dealer who had been in the Mayor Harold
Washington administration. When Palmer who had backed Obama to succeed her in the state
Senate lost her election for the U.S. Congress, she asked Obama to step aside so she could
return to her state Senate seat BUT Obama refused and challenged her re-qualification
signatures on the ballot. Palmer was subsequently disqualified and Obama was able to run
unopposed.
"[William] Ayers and Dohrn (domestic terrorists of Weather Underground fame) hosted a
gathering at their home in the Hyde Park section of Chicago, the neighborhood in which the
Obamas lived, at which then- state Senator Alice J. Palmer introduced Barack Obama as her
choice for the 1996 Democratic primary. Palmer denied that she organized the political
affair for Obama, although she said she attended. Dr. Quentin Young, a longtime physician,
who also attended, referred to the gathering as the political coming-out party for Obama.
Young said it was a small group-maybe a dozen or so people-who were being introduced to the
next senator from Chicago's South Side, and that money was raised for Obama at the event.
Although the exact date of the gathering is not known, it was sometime in the second half
of 1995, according to Ben Smith, a reporter for The Politico." (See Ireport.com)

During the last days of the presidential election, have you noticed how William Ayers, one
of Barack Obama's handlers and the ghost writer of his book[s] has vanished from public
view?

"The co-founder of the Weathermen, the anti-Vietnam War group that bombed the Pentagon and
US Capitol in the 1970s, has vanished as John McCain seeks to make his links to Barack
Obama a central issue in the last weeks of the presidential campaign."

After Obama won the election with the Black vote and the too-young-to-know-better voting
block, when it mattered, John McCain didn't fight back using the evidence he had; the
sealed documents, the lies and the refusal of Barack Obama to disclose what America was
entitled to know.

Most Americans were too disconnected in spite of the longest and most expensive campaign
ever. When asked simple questions, most Obama supporters could not even tell you what Wade
vs Roe was and many still don't know where Iraq is located or "redistribution" ("to each
according to needs") isn't codified inthe Contitution.

"There was no one home when The Times visited Mr Ayers' house in a quiet street three
blocks from Mr Obama's mansion in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The Education
Department of the University of Illinois, where Mr Ayers works, said that he had gone on
sabbatical. In response to an e-mail he stated: `I'm not available right now. Perhaps in
the future. Best, Bill.'..." ( Times Online)

Obama wasn't satisfied with a seat in the state Senate; his plan was to go all the way to
the White House. Who doesn't wonder, even those not given to conspiracies, if Obama was
planning something bigger even then? Of course he was. He and Rezko and Ayers and the long
list of characters already mentioned here over the last two years

Here is how Cynthia Miller, manager of Obama's Senate district office describes Obama's
ambition, as described by Dan Morain in the LA Times in September 2008,

"Cynthia K. Miller, who ran his district office, recalls an incident shortly after Obama's
election. She had taken a longer-than-normal lunch break and returned to find an impatient
state senator waiting for her...He didn't raise his voice, she said, but he turned stern as
he explained the importance of time management and the need to focus on goals. Then he
shared his own goal: `I plan to be president.'"

Obama was not a professor, as he is sometimes referred to by his friends; he was a part
time lecturer, an obvious attempt to make him out to be what he is not. And look who his
neighbors are.

"Obama's state Senate district was a mix of mansions, trendy town homes and tenements. It
encompassed the leafy campus of the University of Chicago, where Obama worked part time as
a law school lecturer before and after his election." (ibid)

"Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, who is having a fund-raiser for Obama at her Montecito
estate in Santa Barbara County today, keeps a residence in the old district. The Rev. Jesse
Jackson, who has endorsed Obama, and Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the black separatist
Nation of Islam, live within three blocks of Obama's home." (ibid)

"He teamed with Republican state Sen. Kirk Dillard to revoke a law that allowed lawmakers
to convert campaign money to personal use, for some legislators a source of substantial
largesse." (ibid)

Things Happen Because
They are Made To Happen

When Obama was interviewed bu George Stephanopoulous on ON ABC's "This Week with George
Stephanopoulous," Senator Barack Obama was asked why he went to Antoin Rezko for help
buying his mansion and the lot adjacent to it, he responded with:

"Well, you know, I think that, you know, we had bought a house for the first time and, you
know, we were trying to figure out how to set the whole thing up and, you know, this is
somebody that I had known for some time. It was an aboveboard legal transaction. I paid
more than the price of the property that I purchased and so the assumption was that this
was all aboveboard."

How many first homes are in the million dollar range? And the fly in that ointment was it
was not the first time. Obama did buy a previous home, a condo in Hyde Park before they
purchased the $1.6 million mansion in Kenwood.

This was not the last and has not been the first time Obama couldn't get his facts
straight. Like the fact that Obama's connection with Rezko was more complex than has been
disclosed or investigated.

Nothing just happens. It happens because it is made to happen.

Obama went to work in Chicago in 1993 in a law firm where the major partner was Allison S.
Davis of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Later Davis would leave the firm and invest in
Rezko's "government-subsidized" business - which the law firm represented to obtain those
contracts, which had been a major part of the law firm's legal work - the same company
which Obama decided to join.

Tim Novak of the Chicago Sun-Times (April 23, 2007) wrote:

"Davis and Rezko also went into business together, building upscale homes in the booming
Kenwood neighborhood where Davis lives. The legal work on those deals was also done by
Davis' former law firm, where Obama was working." (Novak)

"While Davis was running the law firm, he was also a board member of the Woodlawn
Preservation and Investment Corp., a not-for-profit company that hooked up with Rezko's
Rezmar Corp. on tax-supported projects to rehabilitate apartments for low-income tenants.
Davis' firm handled the legal work on those housing deals." (Novak)

"Davis has long been an influential member of the Woodlawn community just south of the
University of Chicago. His father was the university's first African-American professor.
Since 1991, Davis has been a member of the Chicago Plan Commission, appointed by Mayor
Daley, a friend." (Novak)

"Four years ago, Blagojevich appointed Davis to the Illinois State Board of Investment,
which controls state pension funds -- one of a series of appointments THE GOVERNOR MADE AT
REZKO'S REQUEST."

Obama Stretches Credulity

"In 1991, after Obama became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Rezko
offered him a job. While Obama declined, the two began a friendship that deepened as Obama
launched his political career and Rezko became a key fund-raiser. The two men and their
wives used to socialize, meeting for dinner, Obama has said. After earning his degree,
Obama returned to Chicago, ran a voter registration drive, began work on an autobiography
and in 1993 went to work in a small but influential law firm now known as (Davis) Miner,
Barnhill & Galland." (Chicago Tribune)

[The New York Times reported the method of selection changed to insure minority
representation. Therefore Obama became the first black law review editor. But there is no
record he wrote anything while he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review.]

"The firm also did work in affordable housing and several which involved Rezko's Rezmar
Corp. "...one of the law firm's founding partners, Allison Davis, developed personal
financial ties to Rezko. Davis later left the firm to become a for-profit developer,
sometimes in deals with Rezko..." (Tribune)

There has been a great deal of spin control over this relationship. You see it especially
in Daily KOS, which seems to be the leading liberal blog source of pro-Obama propaganda. I
have read other blogs where former KOS webloggers have divorced themselves form KOS because
of it's unbalanced support for Obama.

"Responding to a Chicago Sun-Times report that Obama's former law firm did legal work for
Rezko's low-income housing development business, the Illinois senator said he performed
five hours of work on behalf of non-profit housing groups that partnered with Rezko. "We
were brought in through them [the non-profits], not through Rezko," Obama said.
(Times-Tribune)

BUT, not to forget the socializing and the acquisition of Obama's 1.6 million mansion with
Rezko's generosity. One must ask, what was Rezko promised and what did Rezko get in return?

Obama has answered charges of political collusion and special favors by saying he was
unaware of the scope of the problem with Rezko's deteriorating housing projects - even
though many of them were IN HIS DISTRICT. He said he never heard a complaint from anyone.

"The Sun-Times reported that Rezko donated to Obama at the same time residents were without
heat at one of the troubled properties operated by Rezko's firm, Rezmar Corp. The firm
received taxpayer help to rehab 30 buildings, including 11 in Obama's state legislative
district on the South Side." (Tribune)

The Tribune reported that, "When Obama first ran for the Illinois Senate in 1996, Rezko was
among his first political donors. And when Obama ran for the U.S. Senate, Rezko was a major
fundraiser." Some of this money, it seems, was funneled through Rezko and may have come
from other Arab sources. Rezko is also a native born Syrian. It is as-if Obama and his
handlers had planned to take over the government years ago and as slick as the plan was to
fly airplanes in the World Towers, this plan would be even more astute and deftly planned.
Is Obama a Muslim sleeper?

You have all heard some of the speeches. It is all FLUFF. Where is the beef? As I wrote
here once before I've heard a lot of speeches when I worked in Washington at the White
House and in the Pentagon - and I admit to having been moved by some of them and given a
fair comparison I would have to say, I am not particularly inspired by Obama. I do keep
asking, "Where is the beef?" Where are the specifics? And when there is, it lacks
substance. Perhaps, it must be my generation, who is far more adroit and far more
experienced with politicians, because most of the over 60 crowd will not be supporting
Barack Obama. Most of us have heard the snake oil salesman before and Obama sure sounds
like a cross between a snake oil salesman and a preacher.

As for Rezko's help acquiring the Obama $1.6 million dollar mansion, a really nice deal
which makes a solid case for caring about the poor; doesn't it? As for Rezko, Obama says
now, that was a mistake and the legal work really didn't amount to much. We know better
than that. They had a long relationship, going back about 17 years and a lot of money
flowed to Obama from Rezko.

It stretches credulity to expect anyone to believe it was an honest mistake - if not their
intentional mission to infiltrate the political system and grab power from within.
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long - having been there with Ike when the precursor to the Internet, Arpanet got started
and every step of the way since, I can't get into all the many fads over the years (now it
is social networking), but I have been an observer and participant in events which shape
the world since my time with NSA and with Army Security and as a voice security
cryptologist in the White House for the President, and the War Room at the Pentagon for the
Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff plus two wars. You could say this site is one of the better
kept secrets [grin] on the InterNUT. You are invited back as often as you would like to see
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Politically Comatose

Is It a Joke?
It Seems Like One

It would be almost funny if it wasn't so true. Barach Hussein Obama is tearing the house
down. His lies are legend.

Who doesn't agree with Barack Obama? Barack Obama doesn't. And it is all on videotape. He
says one thing to one audience and something else to another audience.

"Videotapes of debates and speeches that were obtained by The Washington Times show that
Mr. Obama took positions during his Senate campaign on nearly a half-dozen issues ranging
from the Cuba embargo to health care for illegal aliens that conflict with statements that
he has made during his run for the White House." (Jen Haberkorn - Feb 1, 2008 - The
Washington Times)

In the October 30th presidential debate on MSNBC, Obama said he opposed decriminalizing
marijuana. But when he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate, he told college students in
Illinois on January, 2004, he supported decriminalization saying he favored eliminating
criminal penalties for the use or possession of marijuana. It is all on the video. "I think
we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws," Mr. Obama said during a debate at
Northwestern University. "But I'm not somebody who believes in legalization of marijuana."
(WashPost)

"When confronted with the statements on the video, Obama's campaign offered two
explanations to The Times in less than 24 hours. At first, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor
said the candidate had "always" supported decriminalizing marijuana, suggesting that his
2004 statement was correct. Then after The Washgington Times posted copies of the video on
its Web site; then his campaign reversed course and declared he does not support
eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana possession and use." (ibid)

The Obama spokesperson laid blame for the conflicting statements to confusion about the
meaning of decriminalization. Sure you were confused Barack. That is because you were
caught. BUT most of his supporters are not listening to the facts.

Who is surprised? My wife told me about this lady she knows, who is 80 years old and a
Republican who is voting for Obama because she says the economy is bad and she likes the
way Obama looks. She said, "Obama is such a nice looking young man." AND, that is her
reason for voting for Barack.

There are the folks who want a redistribution of the wealth. They want their share even if
it means taking it from someone else who worked hard for it. We always provide for those in
"real" need. There is a safety net and it can always be improved, but there are also
cheats, those who have lived off the sweat and labor of others. These welfare cheats game
the system. They will support Obama. He speaks for them.

Then there are those who just want "change and hope" and have not the slightest idea what
Barack Hussein Obama means when he is intentionally vague. There is nothing vague about his
support for Rashid Khalidi, the PLO spokesman who is his personal friend and a confidant.

At a forum on health care in 2003, Obama said he "absolutely" supported the same benefits
citizens receive for the children of illegal (undocumented) aliens - medical or in-state
tuition. However, at a CNN debate in January 2008 when asked if his health plan also
covered illegal aliens his answer this time was absolutely NO.

In 2004 he told students at Southern Illinois University that `I think it's time for us to
end the embargo with Cuba...It's time for us to acknowledge that that particular policy has
failed.' However, Obama flip flopped again. - and "he stopped short of calling for an end
to the embargo in a Miami Herald op-ed in August. He said he would rely on diplomacy, with
a message that if a post-Fidel Castro government made democratic changes, the U.S. `is
prepared to take steps to normalize relations and ease the embargo.'" (WashPost)

And at an NAACP debate in October of 2003 he said he would "vote to abolish" the MANDATORY
MINIMUM sentences. AND, he said: "The mandatory minimums take too much discretion away from
judges," he said. If you then went to his WEBsite (no longer posted), it said the opposite.
It said he would "immediately review sentences to see where we can be smarter on crime and
reduce the ineffective warehousing of nonviolent drug offenders." Another Obama Flip-Flop.
There were many of them and it is no surprise that they all mysteriously disappeared.

He told the AFL-CIO in June 2003" "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal
health care plan."

But, as you all know, he does not endorse a single-payer, universal MANDATED health care
plan. He only supports mandates for the kids and the parents will obviously have to wait.
It was Hillary who wanted mandated coverage for EVERYONE - with affordable premiums and
assistance (or FREE) to those who can't pay.

What does he say now about single-payer universal care?

"`Senator Obama has always said that single-payer universal care is a good idea because it
would increase efficiency in the system, but the problem is that it's not achievable,' Mr.
Vietor said."

Unachievable? Is that is why it does work everywhere else? What is unachievable is
substance and change with Barack Obama... The only real change will come from a Republican
administration. The Democrats have been so fixated on Obama redistributing income they
forgot it takes an economy that is working to enable everyone who wants economic sanity.

Obama is an enigma because of his flip-flopping and because he has refused to disclose
vital information about himself. He hasn't even provided a valid birth certificate. There
is something drastically wrong with a system where a candidate can be elected president
without first being vetted, who could not even get a security clearance and nobody cares.

It is also laughable that the media repeats the same old false canard that Obama is the
most liberal and progressive candidate. National Journal, a conservative magazine, thought
so. He is far from being a liberal. Universal health care is liberal. Obama is not liberal.
It is more likely that he is the Kenyon (not Manchurian) candidate and Democrats are
drinking the coolaid?

As if his association with Ayers, Dorhn, Pfleger and 20 year relationship with Tony Rezko
and Rev Wright, et al wasn't enough, the LA Times has a video of Obama with his friend,
Rashid Khalidi which demonstrates Barack Hussein Obama's close relationship with the
blatantly anti-Israel Rashid. It should have cost him the Jewish vote but the LA Times
refuses to release it.

"According an LA Times article written by Peter Wallsten in April, Obama was a "friend and
frequent dinner companion" of Rashid Khalidi, who from 1976 to1982 was reportedly a
director of the official Palestinian press agency, WAFA, which was operating in exile from
Beirut with the PLO." (FOXNews.com - October 28, 2008)

Those who are not paying attention are not only drinking the coolaid, they are so dumb leaf
mold is smarter than they are. They don't have a clue. You know what I mean. They are
politically comatose.

Is Michelle proud of America now?

Hank Roth

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the world since my time with NSA and with Army Security and as a voice security
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Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff plus two wars. You could say this site is one of the better
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Catastrophic Certainty
It is with 100 percent certainty that life as we know it will end.

 There is one prediction I can make with certainty. Eventually our species will cease to exist - not necessarily due to climate change but for any number of eventualities including an asteroid or meteor impact or a super-volcano or solar flares or even because of what happens at CERN with the Large Hadron Collider - BUT, with a high degree of certainty, some time in the future the Earth will be so changed it won't be anything like it is now.

   "...Citing the conclusion of a lengthy cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar, certain theorists anticipate the end of life as we know it on December 21, 2012. These theorists believe that on December 21, 2012, the Earth will experience unprecedented, cataclysmic disasters ranging from massive earthquakes and tsunamis to nuclear reactor melt-downs. Until that day arrives - if it arrives - people no doubt will continue to speculate endlessly about how and when it will all be over." (A. Horlings)

 Are We Smiling Yet?

 One of the scientists who worked on the Large Hadron Collider safety report said these "microscopic black holes could spark a scientific revolution."

 Why would anyone want to generate a black hole on Earth? Those at the super-collider want to study it and any other particles made by smashing protons into each other at massive speed, as close to the speed of light as is currently possible. But how safe is it? Those defending the idea say that a lot more energy is expendable by cosmic rays smashing into the atmosphere on a daily basis and we are still in one piece; the Earth is still safe from that kind of bombardment so mini black holes should not be a problem. But as noted before by me, black holes absorb matter and they grow. The accretion might grow faster than they evaporate, if they do; that is, if Hawkings theory is correct and we don't know that, do we?

 The safety study concluded that the micro-black holes would live only a moment and then cease to exist - it's energy lost via Hawking radiation in less time than any accretion would take place.

 And it won't operation at full power for at least a year:

 "The 17-mile-round underground ring on the French-Swiss border is being readied for its official startup next month or so, but the proton-on-proton action isn't likely to reach its peak energy of 14 trillion electron volts, or 14 TeV, until next year." cosmiclog@msnbc.com.

 "...[T]here's a chance that the LHC might create microscopic

 black holes - as well as supersymmetric dark-matter particles, quark-gluon plasma, the elusive Higgs boson (a.k.a. the "God Particle") and other exotic stuff."

 Many times in history things have gone terribly wrong. Scientific theories are shifting paradigms. They must be testable and science benefits from the highest level of scrutiny. In this case the results could be catastrophic.

 MJ Dinkel (msnbc.com) suggests (July 03, 2008) "If we manage to create a microscopic black hole in the fabric of space and time, it may continue to grow exponentially in size and rapidness (at the rate of the universe's expansion), consuming everything around it. Sayonara!..."

 BUT the folks at CERN are not worried and about 2,600 scientists working on this project do not appear to be worried. I'm not a scientist. I am not the doctor. If they are wrong I hope the end comes really fast because I don't like the idea of being SLOWLY stretched to infinity. I get it. We're all going to die anyway.

 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) says nature has already done over and over again what the LHC will do and we're still here. The LHC will give scientists an opportunity to look at the results under a microscope.
QUOTES from CERN

 The LHC, like other particle accelerators, recreates the natural phenomena of cosmic rays under controlled laboratory conditions, enabling them to be studied in more detail. Cosmic rays are particles produced in outer space, some of which are accelerated to energies far exceeding those of the LHC. The energy and the rate at which they reach the Earth's atmosphere have been measured in experiments for some 70 years. Over the past billions of years, Nature has already generated on Earth as many collisions as about a million LHC experiments - and the planet still exists. Astronomers observe an enormous number of larger astronomical bodies throughout the Universe, all of which are also struck by cosmic rays. The Universe as a whole conducts more than 10 million million LHC-like experiments per second. The possibility of any dangerous consequences contradicts what astronomers see - stars and galaxies still exist.
Microscopic black holes

 Nature forms black holes when certain stars, much larger than our Sun, collapse on themselves at the end of their lives. They concentrate a very large amount of matter in a very small space. Speculations about microscopic black holes at the LHC refer to particles produced in the collisions of pairs of protons, each of which has an energy comparable to that of a mosquito in flight. Astronomical black holes are much heavier than anything that could be produced at the LHC.

 According to the well-established properties of gravity, described by Einstein's relativity, it is impossible for microscopic black holes to be produced at the LHC. There are, however, some speculative theories that predict the production of such particles at the LHC. All these theories predict that these particles would disintegrate immediately. Black holes, therefore, would have no time to start accreting matter and to cause macroscopic effects.

 Although theory predicts that microscopic black holes decay rapidly, even hypothetical stable black holes can be shown to be harmless by studying the consequences of their production by cosmic rays. Whilst collisions at the LHC differ from cosmic-ray collisions with astronomical bodies like the Earth in that new particles produced in LHC collisions tend to move more slowly than those produced by cosmic rays, one can still demonstrate their safety. The specific reasons for this depend whether the black holes are electrically charged, or neutral. Many stable black holes would be expected to be electrically charged, since they are created by charged particles. In this case they would interact with ordinary matter and be stopped while traversing the Earth or Sun, whether produced by cosmic rays or the LHC. The fact that the Earth and Sun are still here rules out the possibility that cosmic rays or the LHC could produce dangerous charged microscopic black holes. If stable microscopic black holes had no electric charge, their interactions with the Earth would be very weak. Those produced by cosmic rays would pass harmlessly through the Earth into space, whereas those produced by the LHC could remain on Earth. However, there are much larger and denser astronomical bodies than the Earth in the Universe. Black holes produced in cosmic-ray collisions with bodies such as neutron stars and white dwarf stars would be brought to rest. The continued existence of such dense bodies, as well as the Earth, rules out the possibility of the LHC producing any dangerous black holes.
Strangelets

 Strangelet is the term given to a hypothetical microscopic lump of `strange matter' containing almost equal numbers of particles called up, down and strange quarks. According to most theoretical work, strangelets should change to ordinary matter within a thousand-millionth of a second. But could strangelets coalesce with ordinary matter and change it to strange matter? This question was first raised before the start up of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC, in 2000 in the United States. A study at the time showed that there was no cause for concern, and RHIC has now run for eight years, searching for strangelets without detecting any. At times, the LHC will run with beams of heavy nuclei, just as RHIC does. The LHC's beams will have more energy than RHIC, but this makes it even less likely that strangelets could form. It is difficult for strange matter to stick together in the high temperatures produced by such colliders, rather as ice does not form in hot water. In addition, quarks will be more dilute at the LHC than at RHIC, making it more difficult to assemble strange matter. Strangelet production at the LHC is therefore less likely than at RHIC, and experience there has already validated the arguments that strangelets cannot be produced.
Vacuum bubbles

 There have been speculations that the Universe is not in its most stable configuration, and that perturbations caused by the LHC could tip it into a more stable state, called a vacuum bubble, in which we could not exist. If the LHC could do this, then so could cosmic-ray collisions. Since such vacuum bubbles have not been produced anywhere in the visible Universe, they will not be made by the LHC.
Magnetic monopoles

 Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles with a single magnetic charge, either a north pole or a south pole. Some speculative theories suggest that, if they do exist, magnetic monopoles could cause protons to decay. These theories also say that such monopoles would be too heavy to be produced at the LHC. Nevertheless, if the magnetic monopoles were light enough to appear at the LHC, cosmic rays striking the Earth's atmosphere would already be making them, and the Earth would very effectively stop and trap them. The continued existence of the Earth and other astronomical bodies therefore rules out dangerous proton-eating magnetic monopoles light enough to be produced at the LHC.

 Other aspects of LHC safety:

 Concern has recently been expressed that a 'runaway fusion reaction' might be created in the LHC carbon beam dump. The safety of the LHC beam dump had previously been reviewed by the relevant regulatory authorities of the CERN host states, France and Switzerland. The specific concerns expressed more recently have been addressed in a technical memorandum by Assmann et al. As they point out, fusion reactions can be maintained only in material compressed by some external pressure, such as that provided by gravity inside a star, a fission explosion in a thermonuclear device, a magnetic field in a Tokamak, or by continuing isotropic laser or particle beams in the case of inertial fusion. In the case of the LHC beam dump, it is struck once by the beam coming from a single direction. There is no countervailing pressure, so the dump material is not compressed, and no fusion is possible.

 Concern has been expressed that a 'runaway fusion reaction' might be created in a nitrogen tank inside the LHC tunnel. There are no such nitrogen tanks. Moreover, the arguments in the previous paragraph prove that no fusion would be possible even if there were.

 Finally, concern has also been expressed that the LHC beam might somehow trigger a 'Bose-Nova' in the liquid helium used to cool the LHC magnets. A study by Fairbairn and McElrath has clearly shown there is no possibility of the LHC beam triggering a fusion reaction in helium.

 We recall that 'Bose-Novae' are known to be related to chemical reactions that release an infinitesimal amount of energy by nuclear standards. We also recall that helium is one of the most stable elements known, and that liquid helium has been used in many previous particle accelerators without mishap. The facts that helium is chemically inert and has no nuclear spin imply that no 'Bose-Nova' can be triggered in the superfluid helium used in the LHC.
end Quotes from Cern

 So if they are right, we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

 To-date the LHC has been plagued with technical problems and its startup has been delayed, this time, until November of 2009. The tentative plan is to test it at half power, not to turn it on at full energy for at least another year.
Following Questions from BBC and arxiv.org
Questions

 Q: What is the Large Hadron Collider?

 The `LHC' is the largest, most expensive scientific experiment ever created. It is located along the French and Swiss border and it will collide tiny particles at nearly the speed of light to create conditions that may not have existed since the first fraction of a second after the big bang almost 14 billion years ago.

 Q: Why all the concern now?

 When funding for the LHC was approved decades ago, scientists believed that there was no reasonable danger. A few years ago CERN scientists predicted the LHC might create tiny particles called micro black holes at a rate of 1 per second.

 Q: What is a micro black hole?

 A micro black hole is a particle trillions of times smaller than an electron but it is so dense that any other particles it touches would be collapsed into it.

 Q: Are micro black holes dangerous?

 Unknown. CERN believes that micro black holes would either evaporate or grow too slowly to be dangerous. Other scientists believe micro black holes would not evaporate and might grow quickly. One scientists believes micro black holes might create dangerous radiation as it grows.

   Dr. Otto Rssler's theory is that when an mBH (micro black hole)
  accretes a charged particles they will not go straight into the
  mBH, but will circulate around the mBH creating magnetic fields
  that would strongly attract other charged particles thus
  accelerating the growth rate.

 Q: Do cosmic ray impacts with Earth prove the LHC is safe? This theory is flawed. Particles created from cosmic rays strikes with Earth travel at nearly the speed of light. If neutral micro black holes are created from cosmic ray impacts with Earth they would pass through Earth and into space adding to the dark matter (non-light emitting matter) in the universe. The LHC collides particles head on and some particles produced by the LHC will be slowed down enough to be captured by Earth.

   Nuclear Physicist Walter L Wagner discovered that cosmic ray
  impacts with Earth do not prove that LHC created micro black holes
  would be safe. CERN promised to produce a new safety report in
  response.

 Q: Do physicists believe that micro black holes would evaporate? One Delphi study found that opinions of physicists differ significantly on their belief that micro black holes might evaporate or not.

   Scientist James Blodgett conducted a survey of physicists in 2004
  that found that physicists' estimates that Hawking radiation would
  fail ranged from 0% to 50% (0%, 0%, 0.000000001%, 0.1%, 1%, 1%, 1%,
  2%, 2%, 7%, 10%, 10%, 30%, 35%, and 50%).

 Q: Dr. Hawking believes micro black holes could evaporate, could he be wrong?

 Yes. Several theoretical scientists studied Dr. Hawking's theories and concluded that Dr. Hawking was mistaken, micro black holes would not evaporate.

 "black holes do not radiate" [1]

   "The possibility that non-radiating `mini' black holes exist should
  be taken seriously; such holes could be part of the dark matter in
  the Universe" [2]

   "the effect [Hawking Radiation] does not exist." [3]

   "2) infinitely delayed Hawking radiation; 3) infinitely weak
  chargedness of black holes" [4]

   "it is possible that... the behavior of the black hole is stable"
  [5]

 [1] arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0008016, Trans-Plankian Modes, Back-Reaction, and the Hawking Process, Prof. Dr. Adam D. Helfer (2000) [2] arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0304042v1, Do black holes radiate? Do black holes radiate? Prof. Dr. Adam D. Helfer (2003) [3] arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0607137, On the existence of black hole evaporation yet again On the existence of black hole evaporation yet again, Prof. VA Belinski Paper. (2006) [4] pdf Abraham-Solution to Schwarzschild Metric Implies That CERN Miniblack Holes Pose a Planetary Risk, Prof. Dr. Otto Rssler (2008) [5] arxiv.org/abs/0808.2631 On the Stability of Black Holes at the LHC, M. D. Maia, E. M. Monte (2008)

 Q: Do cosmic ray impacts with Neutron stars prove the LHC is safe?

 Unknown. Some scientists theorize that neutron stars or white dwarfs might stop cosmic rays, and because these types of stars to not disappear into black holes neither would Earth. Other scientists theorize that neutron stars and white dwarfs would not stop cosmic rays, so these stars do not provide safety proof.

 Q: Would scientists purposefully risk danger to Earth?

 Scientists have been willing to take calculated risks in the past. CERN scientists believe that the Large Hadron Collider is an extremely important experiment and they might be willing to accept some level of risk.

 Q: Have any of CERN's particle physicists expressed any concerns?

 Some CERN particle physicists may have some concerns [1] but they have been asked to represent LHC safety as zero risk regardless of personal opinion. [2]

   "We don't want to know if it's possible we will blow up the
  world-because, quite frankly, we already know the answer. And the
  answer is, quite frankly, despite all the testing we will ever
  do-yes. It's possible. That doesn't help us.

   What we want to know is if we are going to destroy the world. And
  we can't know this with certainty, but in reality, we don't really
  care about certainty. We care about whether or not it's
  probable-that is, likely, that we will destroy the world. So again,
  possibility-irrelevant. Likelihood-key." [1]

   "Chief Scientific Officer, Mr. Engelen passed an internal
  memorandum to workers at CERN, asking them, regardless of personal
  opinion, to affirm in all interviews that there were no risks
  involved in the experiments, changing the previous assertion of
  `minimal risk' " [2] Part 34, Page 18.

 [1] RE: LHC Dangerous? by yy2bggggs on Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:27 pm UTC , XKCD (12 Apr 2008)
[2] Affidavit of Luis Sancho, US District Court Hawaii, Luis Sancho (March 2008)

 A century ago the radical theories of a young and inexperienced Dr. Albert Einstein were arrogantly rejected by the established physics community until proven correct by experimentation.

 Today the genius of Professor Dr. Otto. E. Rssler is an inconvenient truth and his concerns similarly largely ignored as are calls by other senior scientists for independent safety review and to proceed slowly.

 Nobel winning scientist Frank Wilczek recently joked (paraphrase) "If this does cause the end of the world, I will not only be very surprised but very embarrassed!". That pretty much sums it up!

 KONO (April 20, 2009) says not to worry because
Buddha would smile if the universe blows up:

 "Don't worry even if they blew the Universe up it would regenerate and since no one is there to observe how long its taking to reform it would actually happen relatively fast and we would right back here on a Earth like planet with a new history to try and learn what the previous Universe failed to. Matter is neither created nor destroyed. This law is never violated even with regards to Quantum Tunneling. The Universe lives forever in a cycle of Death, Birth, and Rebirth... This is the Yin/Yang Duality that Buddha sought relief from. I like to think Buddha would smile at a Black Hole. How about you?"
Are We Smiling Yet?

   Hank Roth

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www.lhcconcerns.com
www.lhcdefense.org
www.global-risk-sig.org
www.angelsanddemons.cern.ch/
wikipedia.org
www.mathematik
www.scientificblogging.com
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 H O M E - C R Y P T - L I N K S - B I O
Black Holes
Gamma Rays
  Stellar Explosions

   "Astronomers now recognize that the universe is not the tranquil place we once thought. Our home within it, the earth, is vulnerable. The only thing we know for sure is that someday, the earth will once again be hit by a devastating rock...A rock ten kilometers wide would unleash a billion megatons. Even in this nuclear age, it's hard to imagine the devastation that such an explosion would inflict on the earth." (Peter Thomas - Nova)

   "...An asteroid five miles wide would cause major extinctions, like the one that may have marked the end of the age of dinosaurs. For a real chill, look to the Kuiper belt, a zone just beyond Neptune that contains roughly 100,000 ice-balls more than 50 miles in diameter. The Kuiper belt sends a steady rain of small comets earthward. If one of the big ones headed right for us, that would be it for pretty much all higher forms of life, even cockroaches." (Future Human Evolution)

 Farthest

 Located 10 billion light-years from Earth.

 A Supernova SN1997ff (extremely luminous Type IIn supernova) is the FARTHEST supernova ever discovered in 1997 during a second observation of a portion of the northern Hubble Deep Field - a region of the sky which was looked at previously in 1995 by the Hubble telescope.

 The expansion since the Big Bang - began slowing down after the Big Bang but later it again began to expand about 5-7 billion years ago. Dark energy was proposed by Albert Einstein's "cosmological constant" in his theory of relativity to be the repulsive force which is causing expansion (or stretching) of the universe.

 "The supernova appears to be one of a special class of explosions that allows astronomers to understand how the universe's expansion has changed over time, much as the way a parent follows a child's growth spurts by marking a doorway," Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Maryland said in a prepared statement. (Robin Lloyd, Science Editory - Space.com - April 2, 2001)
Brightest

 NASA reveals images of brightest supernova:

 "It's really unlike anything we've ever seen before."

 "The violent explosion was observed by ground-based telescopes as well as NASA's orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory in a galaxy far from our own Milky Way. But the observations hint that an erupting star in our own galaxy, called Eta Carinae, could be close to the same kind of blast, astronomers say in a paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal." (NASA as reported in NBC News)

 The star that blew up was 240 million light-years from Earth, in a galaxy called NGC 1260.

 Using adaptive infra red optics at the Lick Observatory, ANOTHER Supernovae SN 2006gy, the BRIGHTEST ever was more recently observed in galaxy NGC 1260.

 Typical sightings of which reach their peak brightness in a few days or weeks and then fade this supernova took over two months to peak and stayed super luminescent for over three months which was longer than any other previously observed supernova. It was reported by the Lick Observatory that it remained as bright as a typical supernova almost 8 months later and it manifested more brilliance than its host galaxy NGC 1260 about 240 million light-years away.

 The mass was estimated by UC Berkeley post-doc fellows Nathan Smith and David Pooley to be between 100 and 200 times the mass of our sun. This is a massive star. Our own Milky Way galaxy only contains about a dozen stars with that much mass out of about 400 billion stars.

 "This was a truly monstrous explosion, a hundred times more energetic than a typical supernova," said Smith, who led a team of astronomers from UC Berkeley and the University of Texas. "That means the star that exploded might have been as massive as a star can get, about 150 times that of our sun. We've never seen that before." (Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Press Release - "Largest, brightest supernova discovered" May 2007 - http://berkeley.edu/news/)

 "Of all exploding stars ever observed, this was the king," said Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley astronomer and leader of the ground-based observations at the University of California's Lick Observatory in California and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. "We were astonished to see how bright it got, and how long it lasted." (ibid)

 "Based on the Lick and Keck observations, plus data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Smith, Pooley, Filippenko and their colleagues argue that the stellar explosion was not your run-of-the-mill supernova, but a possible pair-instability supernova." (ibid)

 Massive stars produce so much gamma ray radiation in their cores that is converted to particle and anti-particle pairs. Anti-particles annihilate particles and there is a drop in radiaion causing the star to collapse from its own weight. The collapes literally causes a meltdown of and thermonuclear reaction blowing the star into space, thus resulting in a supernovae.

 The stars with masses which are at least 10X more than our own sun end their lives as supernovae.

 "Stars with masses at least 10 times greater than our sun end their lives after burning hydrogen to helium, helium to carbon, and on to larger elements until they reach iron, when fusion stops. Toward the end of this process, the heat produced in the core of the star becomes insufficient to support the outer layers, which collapse inward, finishing the fusion process and crunching the core to a neutron star or black hole. The outer layers of the star are blown off in a bright flare-up we observe as a supernova." (ibid)

 "For stars much more massive than this, ranging from 140 solar masses to as many as 250, the temperature at the core becomes so great that before the fusion cascade is complete, high-energy gamma rays in the core start annihilating one another, creating matter-antimatter pairs, mostly electron-positron pairs. Since gamma radiation is the energy that prevents collapse of the outer layers of the star, once the radiation starts disappearing, the outer layers fall inward. The net result is a thermonuclear explosion that, theoretically, would be brighter than any typical supernova. In this type of supernova, the star is blown to smithereens, leaving behind no black hole." (ibid)

 In lieu of becoming a black hole they can, like this one, explode and stay bright for a long time. They also produce heavy elements Most of the universe's early stars were supermassive and seeded the universe with their heavy elements which became planets.

 "We may have witnessed a modern-day version of how the first generation of the most massive stars ended their lives, when the universe was very young," Filippenko said." (ibid)

 "University of Texas graduate student Robert Quimby, a UC Berkeley alumnus, first observed the supernova on Sept. 18, 2006 in the galaxy NGC 1260, located in the constellation Perseus. Filippenko's team immediately began observing it with its dedicated supernova search and monitor telescope at Lick, the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope." (ibid)

 Spectra of the supernovae was obtained using the Lick 3 meter Shane telescope and the DEIMOS spectograph which is mounted on the Keck II telescope. X-ray observations were made by the Chandra X-ray telescope. NASA manages the Chandra program.

 Since its launch on July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, taking its place in the fleet of "Great Observatories." The Chandra observatory is among NASA's fleet of the "Great Observatories" and was designed to detect X-ray emissions from high energy hot regions of the universe with exploding stars, clusters of galaxies and the matter around black holes.

 X-rays are absorbed by the Earth's atomosphere. Chandra launched in July of 1999 is in orbit about the atmosphere in high earth eliptical orbit at an altitude of 86,500 miles (139,000 km) is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory ever built providing pictures 25 times sharper than previous X-rays. The orbit takes the observatory one third of the way to the moon and as close as 9,942 miles to the Earth. The time to complete an orbit is 64 hours and 18 minutes.

 "...[T]he supernova was 100 times more energetic than usual. Such a phenomenon would require the violent destruction of a star 150 times more massive than our sun -- which is near the theoretical limit for a single star's size." (NASA)

 ...[T]he observations of SN 2006gy hint that the biggest stars can go off like giant thermonuclear bombs at the end of their lives...."

 "For all its similarities, Eta Carinae is markedly different from SN 2006gy in that it's much closer. Eta Carinae is only 7,500 light-years from Earth, or about 45 quadrillion miles away -- which may sound like a long way in earthly terms, but isn't all that distant for a cosmic supernova." (NASA)

 It could happen tomorrow or a 1,000 years from now - or maybe today?

 "Astronomers have said a stellar explosion in Earth's celestial neighborhood could touch off a mass extinction -- in fact, some scientists have proposed that just such a scenario could explain an extinction that took place 440 million years ago...." (MSNBC)
Expansion and Vastness of the Universe

 The Earth can be swallowed up a black hole. A black hole travelling in our Milky Way Galaxy at four times faster than any stars around it, an event invisible yet there is ample evidence of it's existence. It is also the result of a Supernova, the death of an exploding star.

 This particular Black Hole is about 6,000 light years away and it is headed this way.

 "This is the first black hole found to be moving fast through the plane of our galaxy," said Felix Mirabel, a researcher at the French Atomic Energy Commission.

 So, how close will it come to the Earth and when. Sometime in the next 230 million years and likely won't be closer than 1,000 light years but know that there are about a million of these black holes in just our own galaxy AND there are a lot of exploding stars some of which becoming supernovaes spewing death rays and heavy matter across the universe.

 Super solar flares, exploding stars, astroids and meterors all pose a possible threat to Earth and this solar system. Nothing is forever!

 We know now that there are fewer atoms in the universe and we don't know much about dark matter and dark energy but whether or not we can identify everything in the universe - what it is not is nothingness. The universe has something in it. It also contains a lot of dust and we're also depositing a lot of space junk in space.

 Time also has no absolute meaning except as a measure of change. In space there is no time. Time is only relative to the observer. We age, therefore we are aware of our time because it is relative to how we change.

 "Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe..." (Three Roads to Quantum Gramity, Lee Smolin)

 The view which is widely accepted is the "standard model", also known as the "big bang" theory. The universe began with an abrupt expansion of matter (and antimatter) 13.7 billion years ago. There may be other universes. This is called the multiverse theory and many universes may exist as bubbles in space simultaneously.

 "Recently, NASA has made some astounding discoveries which lend themselves to the proof of the Big Bang theory. Most importantly, astronomers using the Astro-2 observatory were able to confirm one of the requirements for the foundation of the universe through the Big Bang. In June, 1995, scientists were able to detect primordial helium, such as deuterium, in the far reaches of the universe. These findings are consistent with an important aspect of the Big Bang theory that a mixture of hydrogen and helium was created at the beginning of the universe." (Chris LaRocco and Blair Rothstein - Big Bang)

 "The origin of the Big Bang theory can be credited to Edwin Hubble. Hubble made the observation that the universe is continuously expanding. He discovered that a galaxys velocity is proportional to its distance. Galaxies that are twice as far from us move twice as fast. Another consequence is that the universe is expanding in every direction. This observation means that it has taken every galaxy the same amount of time to move from a common starting position to its current position. Just as the Big Bang provided for the foundation of the universe, Hubbles observations provided for the foundation of the Big Bang theory." (The Big Bang, by Chris LaRocco and Blair Rothstein)

 "At about one-hundredth of a second, the earliest time about which we can speak with any confidence, the temperature of the universe was about a hundred thousand million degrees Centigrade." (The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg - 1977)

 "Fortunately for us, there was an asymmetry in favor of matter. As a direct result of an excess of about one part per billion, the universe was able to mature in a way favorable for matter to persist. As the universe first began to expand, this discrepancy grew larger. The particles which began to dominate were those of matter. They were created and they decayed without the accompaniment of an equal creation or decay of an antiparticle." (Chris LaRocco and Blair Rothstein)

 We don't know what caused the Big Bang, but we do know we exist today; that all matter exists today because of an imbalance in matter to antimatter at the time of creation.

 Our sun is only one of about 200 billion suns in our galaxy, the Milky Way - which is only one galaxy in hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Universe?

 The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) site estimates there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe.

 Fraser Cain, who along with Pamella Gay, produce one of my favorite astronomy podcast series also wrote the following about the number of galaxies in the universe:

 "Our Earth feels like all there is, but we know that it's just a tiny planet in a vast Solar System. And our Solar System is just one member of a vast Milky Way galaxy with 200 to 400 million stars. But how many galaxies are there in the entire Universe?...A recent German supercomputer simulation put that number even higher: 500 billion. In other words, there could be a galaxy out there for every star in the Milky Way." (Cain)

 "We live in a giant spiral galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, of 100,000 light years diameter and a mass of roughly a trillion solar masses; our Sun is one of several 100 billions of stars of the Milky Way. The nearest dwarf galaxies, satellites of the Milky Way, are only a few 100,000 light years distant (and closer in case of some dwarfs which are currently merged with the Milky Way), while the nearest giant neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), also a spiral, is about 2-3 million light years distant."

 There are black holes and gamma rays headed right for us!

   Hank Roth

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