June 22, 2010

[wormhole] A Palestinian Truce

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:31:38 -0500 (CDT)
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Hank Roth, on the InterNUT since 1982
Past (post) Commander Jewish War Veterans
* Cryptologist and Voice Security in the White House
and in the War Room for JCS at the Pentagon
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H O M E - C R Y P T - B I O
All of Israel

Nothing much has changed since August 6, 1997, when an emboldened Arafat
called on the Palestinians to prepare for the great battle" that is coming
soon. In a speech delivered to a major conference of Fatah senior
officials, mostly senior security, intelligence and military/police
officers, Arafat vowed that the struggle will continue until the
Palestinian flag is hoisted over Jerusalem. The coming confrontation is a
most difficult challenge, Arafat stressed:

"The campaigns behind us were relatively easy compared to the
campaigns facing us. We are all living martyrs, ready at a moment notice
to express our loyalty to the message of the armed struggle we have
started many years ago."

Through the speech, Arafat repeated several times a crucial slogan: "a
contract is a contract, and a vow is a vow"which the audience chanted with
him. The use of this Islamist saying, usually associated with HAMAS is
most important to understanding Arafat's state of mind. The slogan
differentiates between the two forms of agreement acceptable to Muslims. A
contract, such as Prophet Muhammad's "Treaty of Hudaibiya" - that Muhammad
unilaterally violated - leading to the slaughter of Jews, as with Arafat's
own agreements with Israel, as a transient form of agreement signed for
its expediency at the time, and which a "Believer" is not obliged to abide
by once it has outlived its usefulness. A vow -- such as the declaration
for the entire land of Israel - "from the sea to the river" - as a sacred
"Waqf" is a religious obligation that is eternal and no Muslim can
disavow. Thus, by adopting this slogan, Arafat is saying that "nobody
should be confused over the transient agreements with Israel and the
sacred commitment to the entire land of Israel. Thus, Arafat concluded is
speech with:

"Particularly in this hour and under these conditions, we are all
obliged to this slogan, and we should comprehend that the campaigns facing
us will be far more difficult and thus demand both Palestinian and Arab
depth [of commitment]..."

Source and quotes are from Yossef Bodansky, "Islamic anti-Semitism as
a Political
Instrument" and "Arafat's Peace Process" - Tel-Aviv - The Ariel
Center for Policy Research, 1997, pp. 64-65

A Palestinian Truce

"A classic example of a hudna ("truce") is the Treaty of Hudaibiya,
signed by the Prophet Muhammad with the people of Mecca in 628, only to be
reneged on a couple of years later when the situation tilted in Muhammad's
favor. Hudna subsequently became the Arabic term for all sorts of
nonbelligerency arrangements (a truce, armistice or the like) without
losing its religious aspect."

The New Leader; 7/1/2003; Amos Carmel

"Indeed, Israelis remember all too well that in August 1994 and
January 1995 Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat pronounced the
Oslo Agreement analogous to the Treaty of Hudaibiya. Nor has it been
forgotten here that the latest hudna started only after a declaration by
two fundamentalist organizations--Hamas and the Islamic Jihad--which said
"the suspension of military activities against the Zionist enemy [not the
state of Israel] originates mainly from the desire to unite the
Palestinian lines in this dangerous phase ... in order to halt the enemy."
Statements of that kind do not encourage Israelis to look upon the hudna
as a viable foundation for a peace process."

(ibid)

Arafat and HAMAS

Turabi (Al-Tourabi) has no doubt about Arafat's position on these issues.
Arafat is striving to reach "reconciliation between the PLO which he leads
and the Islamist movement HAMAS," and Turabi is assisting him in this
regard. The seeming differences between Arafat and the Islamists -- be
they the HAMAS or Turabi himself -- are not as big as they seem. Turabi
thinks Arafat "was wrong to sign the Oslo accords with the Israelis" but
his error lies in the choice of venues to reach their common objective.
Turabi has no doubt that "in reality, he (Arafat) aspires to the same
thing as I. I'm certain that at the bottom of his heart, nothing separates
us with regard to our ultimate aims." Only the strategies of Arafat and
the Islamists diverge, their ultimate objective is identical, Turabi
insists. As for this ultimate objective -- Turabi has clearly stated his,
and thus Arafat's as well.

Al-Tourabi, Hassan. Islam -- Avenir du Monde "Islam -- The Future
of the World" - Paris, Editions JC Lattes, 1997, pp. 270-277

Islamic Jihad

And these are not empty threats. Recently, in late October 1997,
anti-Semitic conspiracy themes identifying the Jews as controlling both
the US and Israel constituted the underlining logic of the Communique of
the Vanguard of Conquest and the Jihad Group -- both under the command of
Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, a close protg of Hassan al-Turabi:

"The Islamic Jihad against America's world dominance, the
international influence of the Jews, and the US occupation of Muslim lands
will continue,"

The Communique declared:

"The United States realizes that its real enemy, as it has declared
many times, is Islamic extremism, by which it means the Islamic Jihad, the
Jihad of the entire Muslim nation against the world dominance of America,
the international influence of the Jews, and the US occupation of Muslim
lands. The Islamic Jihad is against the theft of the Muslim Ummah's
riches, this disgusting robbery, the like of which has not been witnessed
in history." To avert the promised wave of violence against the US and its
Middle East allies, the US must evict the region and face the
establishment of Islamic governments. Otherwise, the Islamists promise a
relentless terrorism campaign against the US. "Yes, America's enemy is
Islamic extremism, meaning the Islamic Jihad against America's preeminence
... the Islamic Jihad which stands against Jewish expansion."

Al-Hayah, 29 October 1997

Jihad Against America

Meanwhile, in early December 1997, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri's Jihad Group
determined that a fateful confrontation between the US and militant Islam,
in which the Jihad intends to "offer martyrs" is both inevitable and
imminent.

"A conflict between the Muslim Ummah (nation) and the United States is
unavoidable; in fact we have no other option but to confront atheism and
its ringleader, the United States, which is confronting us everywhere."

In a special Bulletin, the Jihad identifies Israel as the American
spearhead in the Hub of Islam, and offers the only viable solution to this
problem.

"The Islamic Ummah rejects Israel's existence in the first place, let
alone its continuing aggression and repeated massacres against us."

However, the forthcoming terroristic Jihad will not be limited to strikes
against Israel."With Allah's help, we know the United States well," the
Jihad Bulletin notes, "we also know its weaknesses." The Bulletin stresses
that "the most vulnerable spot of the United States and Israel is to send
them the bodies of their sons." Therefore, the Jihad declares, "we should
throw in their faces the flesh of their sons, minced and grilled. The
United States must pay the price; it must pay dearly." Zawahiri's Jihad
Group has no doubt about the ultimate objective of the forthcoming
confrontation. "The Americans themselves admitted half of the truth when
they said that the United States' first enemy is Islamic extremism, but
they hid the other half, namely that the United States' destruction will
-- InshAllah -- be at the hands of Muslims."

A Jihad Bulletin in Al-Mujahidun, December 1997; Salah,
Muhammad. Al-Hayah, 8 December 1997

A study was undertaken in Europe but the results were so disturbing, they
chose not to publish it.

"To its shame, the watchdog group that undertook the study - the
European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) - decided not
to publish it."

"Disturbing report on European anti-Semitism"
The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 12/8/2003
Clifford D. May

"Why not? According to Britain's Financial Times the reason was
simple: The 112-page study, "Manifestations of anti-Semitism in the
European Union," found that anti-Semitism isn't just for Nazis anymore. In
particular, EUMC brass feared that one of the report's key conclusion -
that Muslim and pro-Palestinian groups have generated a new wave of hatred
- could be "inflammatory.""

(ibid)

"While those on the far left interpose the Star of David with
swastikas to suggest that Jews and Nazis are identical, those on the far
right use swastika graffiti in the more traditional manner of an implied
threat to Jews. The report adds: "The German language itself is used in
non-German speaking countries - expressions such as 'Juden raus! '(Jews
out!) - so as to refer affirmatively to the [Nazi] persecution of Jews."

(ibid)

"The study finds that anti-Semitism has become increasingly common
also among members of Europe's "peace movement," and, for good measure is
sometimes "very closely tied to anti-Americanism.""

(ibid)

PLO and Antisemitism

Meanwhile, Arafat's own PLO/PA is not far behind the Islamists' Jihad in
both repeating the classic antiSemitic themes, and in anticipating the
resumption of struggle against both Israel and the Jews. PA-controlled
media is intensifying its virulent anti-Jewish and anti-Judaism
incitement. Thus, for example, in late July, Arafat's own organ --
al-Hayah al-Jadidah -- reported and endorsed the research of one Ahmad
al-Awadeh on "The History of the Conflict Between Muslims and Jews." The
study ascertains that the Jews still live by the principles of the Talmud
and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Hence, Awadeh concludes and
al-Hayah al-Jadidah endorses, the conflict between Muslim and Jews is an
eternal conflict, similar to the conflict between mankind. For their part,
the Palestinians have to serve as the vanguard of the entire Muslim World
in this eternal battle of both Muslims and all other nations against the
"nation of Jews."

Ha'etzni, Nadav. Ma'ariv, 12 September 1997

Antisemitism Becomes a Global Plague
Call to Action Against Israel

And these sentiments are manifested in call for action by senior PA
leaders. On December 2, 1997, for example, Saadi al-Karnaz, a member of
the PA's Legislative Council, openly called on PA TV for a struggle
against the Jews in order to destroy Israel and establish a Palestinian
state in its stead.

"Our struggle is still necessary, we are still at the beginning of the
road. Our war with Israel and the Jews has not ended and will not end
until the establishment of a Palestinian state on the entire land of
Palestine."

Palestinian Television, 2 December 1997;
Translated in Palestinian Media Review, 2-3 December 1997

"Just as everyone was discussing ways to prevent genocide, it was
revealed that the United States was lobbying against the International
Criminal Court -- there to counter genocide."

Preventing the Prevention of Genocide

"Surveys say anti-Jewish assaults and incidents in much of Europe are
at their most frequent since Hitler's defeat."

"Even in quiet German city, European Jews fear 'new' anti-Semitism"
- AP Worldstream; 12/4/2003; Mort Rosenblum

"Germany is especially sensitive because, within living memory, Hitler
put to death 6 million Jews. But violence is more prevalent in France,
where slums are crowded with disaffected young Arabs."

(ibid)

A "new" antiSemitism is sweeping Europe. In an editorial, the British
Guardian said: "Why is the liberal left not sufficiently concerned about
the growth of anti-Semitism?" It went on to say: "A new anti-Semitism is
on the march across the globe," And, "It is no wonder that the Jewish
community in the United Kingdom feels unsettled, uncomfortable and
fearful."
Jews, Take Heed

"Across much of Europe, Jews see old prejudices mixing with new
threats from militants among the continent's 17 million Muslims, spread
rapidly by mosques, the Internet and Arab satellite TV."

(Rosenblum)

"In a clear reflection of Israeli-Palestinian tensions and the war in
Iraq, many Jews also say they sense growing hostility among European
intellectuals they see as demonizing Israel."

(Rosenblum)

In a very recent article in the Jerusalem Post (Jane, 2004), Barry Rubin
writes:

"The Arab-Israeli conflict, along with anti-Americanism, continues as
the opiate of the Arab world, drugging entire societies into accepting
intolerable conditions."

And as history has taught the Jews, wherever they are, in Israel or in the
Diaspora, the antiSemites mean what they say and they will do their utmost
to implement what they preach.

Hank Roth

Call to Action Against Antisemitism

Climate and Weather Are Not the Same

The Glenn Becks of the world are idiots!

February 10, 2010
Attacks on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Obscure Real Science

Over the last few months, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been attacked for minor errors in its sprawling 2007 report on climate change. To set the record straight and provide appropriate scientific context, the Union of Concerned Scientists has assembled a series of explanatory backgrounders on specific allegations about the report.

Overall, the IPCC's conclusions remain indisputable: Climate change is happening now and human activity is causing it. Nations around the world will have to adapt to at least some climate change, including sea level rise, changes in precipitation, disruptions to agriculture, and species extinctions. But if we dramatically reduce our emissions, we can prevent the worst effects of climate change.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading U.S. science-based nonprofit organization working for a healthy environment and a safer world. Founded in 1969, UCS is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also has offices in Berkeley, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/attacks-on-the-ipcc-0350.html

February 10, 2010

Human Reality is an Illusion

GO HERE to read it on the web:

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H O M E - C R Y P T - B I O

Quantum Gravity, Parallel Universes,
Three Dimensional Sinkholes,
Curved Space-time and Black Holes
Science (physics) is not intuitive
and common-sense assumptions no longer work.
The Theoretical Elegance and Beauty of Supersymmetry

There are according to the theory of supersymmety MANY kinds of matter which cannot be seen but they exist and these particles are called superpartners. None have ever been seen in spite of all of the efforts which have been attempted by particle physicists to detect them. If the When the Large Hadron Collider at Cern finally works there is the hope that they will be discovered. Even though hidden now, never-the-less, many physicists are passionate about the existence of supersymmetry and superpartners.

LHC, the Large Hadron Collider is enormous; it is 27 kilometers (17 miles) in circumference and contains 10,000 ultra-powerful large magnets to repeal particles to speeds approaching the speed of light - which is the cosmic speed limit - in a tunnel beneath Switzerland and France where it is situated.

When beams of protons smash into each other there eventually (it has not yet been turned up to full power) will be so much energy compressed into a tiny space that formerly unknown matter will be created, if only momentarily - like it was at the time of origin of the cosmos. It most assuredly will also result in micro-black holes very much like the primordial black holes created during the Big Bang.

Will superpartner particles appear as new supersymmetry particles and annihilate other matter in the universe? Will these black holes suck us all into them? Will the Earth cease to exist? What effect will the LHC have on the fabric of the universe; the one we live in?

In his famous general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein turned physics on its head. He showed that Science (physics) is not intuitive and common-sense assumptions no longer work. He demonstrated that the concept of space and the concept of time are one and the same. Relative to an observer space stretches and time moves slower as it approaches the speed of light. He established that nothing can exceed the speed of light, which is 670 million miles per hour (186,000 miles sec). And a decade on in his Theory of General Relativity he further described gravity as the warping of space-time and the existence of black holes.

We know now that there are fewer atoms in the universe and we don't know much about dark matter and dark energy and cannot detect them directly, but they have noticeable effects on energy and matter.

Whether or not we can identify everything in the universe, what we know for certain is, it is not 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.
A Multiverse of Universes

We live in a multidimensional universe - perhaps a multiverse of universes.

"Like quarks or dark matter and dark energy, whose existence we only indirectly ascertain, extra dimensions will not appear to us directly. Nonetheless, signatures of extra dimensions, even when indirect, could ultimately reveal their existence." (Warped Passages, Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions - Lisa Randall - Harper 2006)

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 chronology because it is relative to how we change.

If there is no air resistance we are not aware of falling. We think we are flying but when we are orbiting the earth we are not aware of our falling around the earth, which is exactly what we are doing. However, falling is not an observable phenomena.

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

We cannot see the entire universe. We can only see it from our local area where we are and that region which extends around us is approximately 14 billion light years - and pursuant to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, we know also that nothing can move faster than the speed of light.

"At this very moment, our galaxy is hurtling toward the Virgo cluster of galaxies at a couple of hundred kilometers a second, faster literally than a speeding bullet. Virgo is pulling us into its gravitational field. At the same time, our galaxy continues to rotate sedately: The invisible hand of gravity ties together the 100 billion stars that make up the galaxy..." (Einstein's Universe, Gravity At Work and Play, by A. Zee - Oxford U Press - 2001)

Space and time is integrated into space-time, based on Einstein's theory of general relativity; Space and time are geometrically integrated into a space-time fabric warped, distorted and curved by matter and energy.
SPACE-TIME

You can get to the moon in TWO seconds. That is how long it takes light to travel the distance. What we are seeing on the moon actually happened two seconds ago.

What is amazing is how much we know and how short a time we have known it and for that matter how much we do not know. We are also insignificant in the overall scheme of things. A tiny speck of life with a unique perception that we exist and our larger brains motivate us to sustain ourselves long enough so life doesn't become extinquished before we can pass on our own historic blueprint of life.

Space-time is a relative movement which seems normal but relies on a self-centered, anthropomorphic perception and while life is perception, it is not reality.
We Are Space Dust

How do so many become so brainwashed that they can be so anti-science, so anti-humanist and so many can believe in miracles and the supernatural?

We are a mere speck - space dust. Our sun is among hundreds of billions of stars in an island universe which is perhaps one of billions of universes, and galaxies; ours is called the Milky Way - about 3/5th of the way from the black hole in the center of the galaxy and we inhabit and in our little space, in our little corner of one universe we will stay lost. It is unlikely we will suvive long enough to ever meet other life like us, except for some of the millions of other species which also inhabit this planet.

Natural selection is indifferent to morality unless those who are more moral outproduce those who are not. Morality, however remains a human construction so it takes on whatever meaning we assign to it. It may be that memes for "belief in God" does have an effect on reproduction and those who believe outproduce those who do not.

The ability to think is also the capacity to lie because the benefit accruing from lies could result in a benefit to reproduction, including survivability which is inherent component up to reproductive maturity and perhaps exceeding reproductive maturity if there is a benefit to survival of related genes.

Civilization is drunk on itself. We like our comforts and we like our toys. We are more interested in meat than in how we kill to obtain it. We want our fossil carbon in spite of safer energy sources because it is cheap(er) and there are profits to be made by oil cartels and money dictates policy, not what is ethical or right.

"We are in our present mess through our intelligence and inventiveness. It could have started as long as 100,000 years ago, when we first set fire to forests as a lazy way of hunting. We had ceased to be just another animal and begun the demolition of the Earth... (James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia - 2006)

6,000,000,000 Hungry and Greedy Humans
Aspiring to a First World lifestyle at any cost

Seven percent of adults in the UK believe in creationism. 45% Americans believe in creationism. 84% of Americans believe miracles happen. 79% believe the miracles in the Bible actually happened and 72% believe survivors of accidents are spared because God intervenes. These figures are from a study done by the University of California.

"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; to lie in cold obstruction and to rot." (William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)

We generally fear death. Not to deny we may reach a point in our lives where life becomes difficult and we do not cherish it so much. Losing those we love may leave us feeling empty and more accepting of the thought of death. But (Margulis and Sagan - What is Life?):

"If we did not fear death, we might be too quick to kill ourselves when troubled or inconvenienced and thus perish as a species. Belief in life's importance may not be a reflection of reality, then, but an evolutionary reinforced fantasy that prejudices believers to do what is necessary, bear whatever burdens to survive."

The Animal Ethics Encyclopedia (http://www.animalethics.org) says about "sentient beings", "broadly, sentience is the capacity to perceive and feel things..." Plants are not considered sentient and persons who are comatose are not considered sentient at that moment. To have sentience one must have the _capacity_ and feelings to suffer. It generally implies having a brain or nervous system. Sentience is comparable to consciousness.

However, ALL living things may not be sentient, but MUST have perception. Put simply, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan wrote in What is Life?

"All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive--it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger."

"We all inherit a shared perspective bequeathed by our ancestors..." (Margulis and Sagan)

And, the notion that life has meaning is evolutionary. Our mind is a benefit to our species enabling successful survival and reproduction. But it is also predicated on religious myths and philosophical memes that co-opt reason reinforce the will to live.

"From a human point of view, it is our somatic selves--embedded in which are things like mind, personality, love, will--that we cherish most and that define us, to ourselves and to others. We think of reproduction as only one of many activities we can choose to engage in. Perhaps this is not surprising, since it is a point of view arising in the somatic part of ourselves--in our minds. We have used our minds to invent complex belief systems to explain death. None of these paint a picture of ourselves as excess baggage; none cast us simply as tools for transmitting DNA. Yet when we trace the origin of our death beyond mind and belief, to its true beginnings---the death of individual cells---we come to a rather harsh and unflattering conclusion: the irrelevance, in the grander scheme of the universe, of our somatic selves. No wonder belief so often trumps over reason." (William R. Clark, Sex & The Origins of Death)

A Falling Person Does Not Know He is Falling

As an atheist who recognizes the possibility of something beyond my understanding - though unconvinced it can be anything anywhere like the myths about GOD and intentionality that one finds inherent in religion I can never-the-less appreciate the following quote very much:

"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. --- from Empedocles, fifth century B.C.

If I had a choice and the time was now (not over 50 years ago), the new wisdom would certainly be a strong motivation for me to build my life around astrobiology. Everything I have had to learn about the cosmos has been an evolution in the knowledge we all have acquired in just the last few decades.

I was curious enough 50 years ago to become a Ham operator. Radio was new and television experimental. I built everything, including my first computer with resisters and capacitors. There were no transisters or circuit boards then. I worked for presidents and for the top field officers in the War Room in the Pentagon because I was informed by the latest "state-of-the-art" electronics, and worked with the engineers who built their crypto and wide-band communications systems. I was there at the White House when they installed their FIRST television system. It was delightfully stimulating, but nothing like what we are doing now. I was there at the White House when Sputnik orbited around the planet and because of the president ushered in a new age of technology. My uncle received the first computer, the ENIAC, from the U of Pennsylvania and I was enthused and amazed when it was demonstrated - enough to want to have my own computer when nobody knew what to do with them except the calculations they were doing at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds and later in the Pentagon with their diode multipliers and tubes doing what today is done with computer chips.

Science was philosophy before it was science and physics actually began with gravity. Einstein was my hero at Princeton and he changed the way we thought about everything - building on Newtonian theory which haunted physics up to his time. Today it is Quantum physics and strings and membranes which are on the mind of many scientists and more questions have been raised than answered.
Illusion is Equivalent to, But Not Equal to Reality
Most of the Universe is Composed of Dark Matter
(And, we are not exactly sure what it is.)

And how much of what we perceive
is actually an illusion and how much of it is real?
How we See the Multiverse
in Space and Time
Gravity Bends Light
Gravity is Curved Space-Time

Starlight which passes a heavenly body bends just as space and time is warped by gravity and the words of politicians are most of the time deceptively skewed.

Pluto is no longer a planet. We are a flawed species easily fooled. Iintelligence is the illusion. And, truth and reality is a delusion.

Gravity curves space and Hominids believe what they want to believe. It seems as-if we are stationary; just as it seems to a rational person that the land we're standing on is flat; but the ground isn't flat and we aren't still; we are swirling around while all the time being pulled towards the center of the planet. Our size and electromagnetic force keeps us from slipping between atoms and falling into the abyss.

"Electromagnetic forces grip atoms to one another building up molecules and the ... and the electromagnetic force that stops us falling to the centre of the planet..." (Forces of Nature)

"Four fundamental forces rule the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and then two that act in and around the atomic nucleus, known as strong and weak. The latter pair act over distances smaller than atoms and so are less familiar to our macroscopic senses than are the effects of gravity and magnets. However, they are critical to our existence, keeping the Sun burning and providing the essential warmth for life." (Frank Close - ibid)

In orbit we are falling but we fall around a mass or we may fall into it, just as it falls into us. Mariners navigate a path on a curved body of water. Their route is along a curve circle. The universality of gravity is all objects respond in the same way; they follow the path of least _distance_ in curved space and time.

And as you stand on Earth you are pulled by its core as the earth falls toward the sun. Because the earth has inflationary momentum and all mass in the universe is stretching it never quite gets to the sun. In billions of years, it will.

"At this very moment, our galaxy is hurtling toward the Virgo cluster of galaxies at a couple of hundred kilometers a second, faster literally than a speeding bullet. Virgo is pulling us into its gravitational field. At the same time, our galaxy continues to rotate sedately: The invisible hand of gravity ties together the 100 billion stars that mke up the galaxy. Our dear old sun stays within this hurtling swarm of stars only because of its attraction to all those other stars, just as our earth stays within the solar system because of its attraction to the sun. On an evewn smaller scale, we say tied to the earth by gravity, with nary a fear of falling off. On a grander scale, as the universe tries to expand to even larger size, every bit of matter it contains is trying to rein the universe in by pulling gravitationally on every other bit of matter..." (A. Zee, Einstein's Universe: Gravity at Work and Play, Oxford U Press, 1989)

Everything you see in the night sky is moving. Planets move around stars and stars move. Galaxies move. Everything is moving. We understand most of this movement because of gravity and Einstein.

"...Galileo Galilei was the first person to collect data on falling objects (actually balls rolling down a sloped platform). From these data he produced an equation that showed falling objects travel in parabolas." (University Lowbrow Astronomers University Lowbrow Astronomers Gravity, Part 2: Newton, Hooke, Halley and the Three Body Problem. by Dave Snyder in Reflections: April, 2006)

But before the telescope philosophers and astronomers were limited to what they could see with the naked eye. It took giant telescopes to see well stars, planets, comets, nebulae and it took new ways of looking at these things, i.e. xrays, gamma rays, microwaves, etc to really see the universe which may in actuality be multiple universes and our human time frame for looking at globular clusters, galaxies and universes and multiverses, may be the greatest limitation of all.

It may be that our greatest limitation is being human and the way we see and perceive the world and our universe is merely an illusion.
Hank Roth
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Universal Pathology

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U N I V E R S A L P A T H O L O G Y

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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October 24, 2009

Military Coup to Remove Obama

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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.

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October 21, 2009

Time Travel and the LHC

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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Published: October 12, 2009

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.

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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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October 20, 2009

[wormhole] God Did It!

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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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[wormhole] We Have Only the Moment!

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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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[wormhole] Immortal Atom

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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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While I don't use a standard blog (weblog software) mostly because I've been doing this too
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
what I and others, I trust, may be saying.
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October 9, 2009

[wormhole] Defeating America from Within

Hank Roth, on the InterNUT since 1982
Past (post) Commander Jewish War Veterans
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and in the War Room for JCS at the Pentagon
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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.
Hank Roth |

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Today is Friday October 09, 2009

G 0 l e m D e s i g n s
Hank Roth (on the Internet since 1982)

Worm Hole (Home) - The Crypt - Hank Roth (Bio)

While I don't use a standard blog (weblog software) mostly because I've been doing this too
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
what I and others, I trust, may be saying.
-- Hank Roth

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