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Tidbits and notes. Part 430
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 6, 2019
Tidbits and notes. Part 430
The racist “Silent Majority”, who cannot suffer free opinions Not matching its belief system, exercises tyranny on the minorities.
US colonies wanted independence because they wanted to maintain the slave trade for their plantations after England banned the trade. Since then, USA is enslaving people around the world by all means available
The USA constitution was Not meant for people of Color, Red, black or yellow. The Right to own guns was a right to shoot at every person of color who trespass the plantation. Time to interpret this Constitution in the context of the period.
Since its independence in 1943, Lebanon successive governments and institutions totally ignored the southern region, the Bekaa valley and the northern regions: they were to fend for themselves to survive. The southern region had no borders with Syria and they were plagued with the “legitimate” presence of Palestinian PLO in their midst and the successive excuses for Israel to bomb their towns and force them to flee (al Da7iyat)
Les Americains, avant les Europeens, croient en la réalité de la “race”. La race devient L’ enfant innocent de mére Nature. Une affaire de hiérarchie
Globally, around 10% of health care expenditure goes towards the treatment of dementia.
The world is deep in the red and the only way out is to borrow some more. That’s despite global debt at a record $250 trillion.
Myanmar tour groups are offering trips to The Hague. It’s a way to support Aung San Suu Kyi, who will represent her country as it faces genocide charges at the UN’s top court. (Aung San Suu Kyi must be stripped of her Peace Nobel for keeping silent of the genocide: over 750,000 took refuge in Bangladesh, Not counting the thousands who were assassinated)
Only one airline is willing to deport high-risk immigrants from the US. And it’s charging the government as much as $33,500 per hour.
Anyone can edit most Wikipedia pages, and the site counts 36.7 million accounts, 121,000 of which have edited something in the past month.
The next level is administrator, of which there are 1,142; elected by about 12,000 eligible members of the community, they can block users and delete many (though not all) pages.
Bureaucrats are higher-level administrators, and there are only 18 in English-language Wikipedia. There are 36 stewards who “hold the top echelon of community permissions.” A 10-person Arbitration Committee “is analogous to Wikipedia’s supreme court.” Jimmy Wales told the Guardian that he’s the “constitutional monarch”: “Like the Queen. It doesn’t mean I have any actual power.”
You are as many as the number of languages you know (I guess could read in the original, and actually read and comprehend?)
Qui s’ interesse a un paradigme depasse’? Tous ces genies qui ont contribue’ a nos connaissance, tres peu de gens s’interessent aux origines des assumptions et leur procedures.
Giving birth is far more a mystery than death. And yet, the processes of birth is more understood than dying. Meaning, it is our psychic that fabricates more mysteries for us Not to be absorbed or swallowed.
The philosopher of Athens, Anaxagoras, demanded that the citizens of Athens define what they claim to be “gods“. How a reasonable person can adore an entity that he cannot know? Anaxagoras was judged as a heretic and banned. He took refuge in Lampsaque of Milet in Turkey.
The “citizens” of Athens were close-minded and de-facto controlled by adventurer aristocrats who have great influence on the common “citizens”. It is the talented and hard working “strangers” who built the city. Classical Europe fabricated a mythical “democratic” City-State Athens
Les haitairies d’Athens (the strangers), similar to modern gangs of youths, had their own code (of honors) their languages (slang), feast and…
“Nous sommes des riches citoyens d’ Athens, et les pauvres meteques affluent pour le miel. Quand nous vainquerons Sparte, on les transfera a Sparte pour la peupler”.
A black female cat is hiding behind a flower pot, her behind blocked by a wall. The male cat is looking at her and waiting. And you claim that sex is Not controlling our behavior.
If it were Not for the internal civil wars among Greece city-States, the Roman empire would not have emerged that soon. The Mediterranean sea would have been split between two merchants empires: Carthage and Athens. Carthage would have conquered Africa, and Athens would be in constant wars with Persia, Turkey, and the northern Caucasian people around the Black Sea.
To read the short stories of Dino Buzzati “Les nuits difficiles” and “Les 7 messagers”
To read “Madame Socrate” by Gerald Messadie’. All you need to know about the city-state of Athens.
Is that report Not fake news? Females more than twice the number of males?
Posted by: adonis49 on: November 21, 2018
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Is that report Not fake news? Females more than twice the number of males?
What’s the difference between developing and developed democracies? Successful Civil wars?
Posted by: adonis49 on: June 11, 2011
What’s the difference among developing and developed democracies? Successful Civil Wars?
There are major differences between developed and developing liberal democracies. Before I expand with an example, there are three major factors for discriminating among various liberal democracies.
First, developed liberal democracies have stable and sustainable institutions to evaluating and proposing reforms based on specific programs. Whereas developing democracies are barely skin-deep clones of previous colonial systems they are familiar with, which didn’t match the level of consciousness and awareness of the natives in real applications. Consequently, the lack of institutions to follow-up on any draft program for reforms generated haphazard systems that kept mutating as new “military” leaders came to power.
Second, developed democracies have diversified their economic bases in services, industries, and agriculture. Statistics are kept and serious budgets are presented yearly. This is not the case in developing “democracies”.
Third, cultural and educational activities are affordable in developed democracies. Public libraries and community facilities are spread all over the land. Thus, learning and culture are not exclusive to the elite classes, and common people have vast opportunities to learn and become free reflecting citizens, if they wish and want to. This is not the case in developing democracies where activities are mostly concentrated in States Capitals.
The common denominator among the developed democracies is that they all experienced a protracted civil war with first, the objective of establishing a strong central power, and second, the alliance for a central power was the victor in the civil war.
Woo to countries waging a civil war and ending up without a definite victor. Woo to countries engaging in a civil war without a program of uniting the people and working on a vast basis of alliances among all religious sects of the middle classes.
The other main differences can be explained explicitly with examples.
Let me consider the case of Lebanon. Lebanon experienced a savaged civil war in 1975 and lasted 13 years. The war harvested 10% in casualties (300,000 of dead, physically handicapped, and mentally disabled individuals); it also affected 30% of the population in the forms of transfer to other localities, immigration, poverty, and family dislocation.
Before the civil war, Lebanon enjoyed a semi liberal democracy that set this State system apart from the surrounding Arab States political systems. A semi liberal democracy means that the elite class (including the clerics of 19 religious sects) hold the levers for electing deputies and municipal councils that represent their interests: they were grabbing the power and went overboard, since major reforms could not be attained without sustained and pragmatic programs from the political movement.
Election laws are fundamentally biased toward the elite class in finance and feudal standing.
Lebanon of 1974, a year prior to the civil war, and particularly the Capital Beirut, experienced extraordinarily cultural, social, and political activities, quantitatively and qualitatively.
First, the number of women writers increased dramatically. As Georges Rassi wrote: “In the Arab World, every woman writer is worth 100 free minded men”.
Second, many famous authors and poets opted to write columns in dailies; a move that brought them in close touch with the people and the daily difficulties.
Third, artists and thinkers from all over the Arab World settled in Beirut. Most of these intellectuals were fleeing oppression and persecution for free expressions. The Egyptian intellectuals flocked in great number as President Sadat had decided to connect with Israel and leave the Arab problems and the Palestinian cause way behind.
Fourth, the Lebanese TV witnessed a big jump in quality of local productions thanks to the director Paul Tannous.
Fifth, many cultural clubs were instituted, and Arab States organized exhibitions and cultural events.
Most importantly, women became very vocal and active for women rights and drastic reforms in the laws and social awareness. Late author Mai Ghoussoub was very young then but she was one of the leaders of “Committees for Free women.” Initially, men were permitted to join in the discussions until they proved to be elements of heckling and disturbances. The committees of free women decided to meet among women because their cause must be priority in urgent reforms and not a usual side-show tackled by reformist political parties.
There were plenty of excuses, and still being voiced, laying the blame on regional and foreign powers battling for their interests and differences in Lebanon at Lebanon’s expense. That may be the tip of the iceberg of material evidences hiding the real fundamental reasons.
Fact is, all regional and international powers had their secret agencies and services, their political parties, their dailies, magazines, airwaves and their representatives in the Parliament, executive branch and directors of public institutions.
In a fragile system based on officially recognized 19 religious sects enjoying the rights of sole civil administrators of their caste members, the “citizen” is identified by his religious sect. The only evidence of a State in Lebanon is issuing passports to “citizens” and printing currency.
It is interesting that France and the USA were battling out the Lebanese radio airwaves. It is reasonable to foresee what happens when reforms are voiced in demonstrations and marches when the rest of the Lebanese were entirely ignored by the central government and the political movements.
Outside Beirut, the Lebanese were living the same traditional culture as during the Ottoman Empire and organized under the caste system of religious sect and feudal landlords.
It was a great opportunity to realizing Ben Gurion strategy: “The Zionist State has two main enemies: the religious and ethnic diversities in Lebanon and Iraq. These two States have to be disintegrated into ethnic cantons” Kissinger of the US and the Egyptian President Sadat made sure to keeping the fire on and pull this civil war to its devastating consequences.
Note 1: A sample of the most active cinema directors are: Maroun Baghdadi, Jean Cham3oun, Silvio Tabet, Samir Ghossayn, Samir nasri, Berhane Alawiyeh, Heini Srour, Rafic Hajjar, Akhdar Hamina, Nabil Maleh…
Posted last week (Oct. 28)
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 28, 2010
- Iran: Why the 5 superpowers agreed on the embargo?
- Welcome, “walk on my eyes”: Iran
- Civil wars in developing liberal democracies
- Obama praying mantra: “Next F. Crash? Not on my Watch!”
- Ireland and Lebanon: Immigration cycles?
- US in tight spot: Accelerated Reforms Option (ARO)
- Immigrants are highly welcomed…with exceptions
- Diaries of a Saudi “Princess”
- Movable fairs: Beirut (1970-74)
Characteristics of Civil wars in less developed “liberal democracies”
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 26, 2010
Civil wars in less developed “liberal democracies”
There are major differences between developed and developing liberal democracies.
Before I expand with an example, there are 3 major factors for discriminating various liberal democracies:
First, developed liberal democracies have stable and sustainable institutions to evaluating and proposing reforms based on specific programs. Developing democracies are skin-deep clones of colonial systems that didn’t match the level of consciousness and awareness of the natives in real applications. Consequently, the lack of institutions to follow-up on any draft program for reforms generated haphazard systems that kept mutating as new “military” leaders came to power.
Second, developed democracies have diversified economic bases in services, industries, and agriculture. Statistics are kept and serious budgets are presented yearly. This is not the case in developing “democracies”.
Third, cultural and educational activities are affordable in developed democracies. Public libraries and community facilities are spread out all over the land. Thus, learning and culture are not exclusive to the elite classes: Common people have vast opportunities to be learned and free reflecting citizens if they wish and want to. This is not the case in developing democracies where activities are concentrated in the capitals of States. The other main differences can be explained explicitly with examples.
Let me consider the case of Lebanon.
Lebanon experienced a savaged civil war in 1975 that lasted 13 years; the war harvested 10% in casualties of the population (300,000 among dead, physically handicapped, and mentally disabled). The wart also affected 30% of the population in the forms of transfer to other localities, immigration, poverty, and family dislocation.
Before the civil war, Lebanon enjoyed a semi liberal democracy that set this State system apart from the surrounding Arab States political systems. A semi liberal democracy means that the elite class (including the clerics of 19 religious sects) hold the levers for electing deputies and municipal councils that represent their interests: they were grabbing the power and went overboard since major reforms could not be attained without sustained and pragmatic programs from the political movement. Election laws are fundamentally biased toward the elite class in finance and feudal standing.
Lebanon of 1974, a year prior to the civil war, and particularly the Capital Beirut, experienced extraordinarily cultural, social, and political activities, quantitatively and qualitatively.
First, the number of women writers increased dramatically. As Georges Rassi wrote: “In the Arab World, every woman writer is worth 100 free minded men”.
Second, many famous authors and poets opted to write columns in dailies; a move that brought them in close touch with the people and the daily difficulties.
Third, artists and thinkers from all over the Arab World settled in Beirut. Most of these intellectuals were fleeing oppression and persecution for free expressions. The Egyptian intellectuals flocked in great number as President Sadat had decided to connect with Israel and leave the Arab problems and the Palestinian cause way behind.
Fourth, the Lebanese TV witnessed a big jump in quality of local productions thanks to the director Paul Tannous.
Fifth, many cultural clubs were instituted and Arab States organized exhibitions and cultural events.
Most importantly, women became very vocal and active for women rights and drastic reforms in the laws and social awareness.
Late author Mai Ghoussoub was very young at the start of the war, but she was one of the leaders of “Committees for Free women.” Initially, men were permitted to join in the discussions until they proved to be elements of heckling and disturbances. The committees of free women decided to meet among women because their cause must be priority in urgent reforms and not a usual side-show tackled by reformist political parties.
There were plenty of excuses, and still being voiced, laying the blame on regional and foreign powers battling for their interests and differences in Lebanon at Lebanon’s expense.
That may be the tip of the iceberg of material evidences hiding the real fundamental reasons. Fact is, all regional and international powers had their secret agencies and services, their political parties, their dailies, magazines, airwaves and their representatives in the Parliament, executive branch and directors of public institutions. In a fragile system based on 19 religious sects playing the role of civil administrators of their caste members.
It is interesting that France and the USA were battling out the Lebanese radio airwaves. It is reasonable to foresee what happens when reforms are voiced in demonstrations and marches when the rest of the Lebanese were entirely ignored by the central government and the political movements.
Outside Beirut, the Lebanese were living the same traditional culture as during the Ottoman Empire and organized under the caste system of religious sect and feudal landlords.
It was a great opportunity to realizing Ben Gurion strategy:
“The Zionist State has two main enemies: the religious and ethnic diversities in Lebanon and Iraq. These two States have to be disintegrated into ethnic cantons” Kissinger of the US and the Egyptian President Sadat made sure to pull this civil war to its devastating consequences.
It is to be noticed that successful civil wars were realized in developed nations at the time of the upheaval, such as England, France and the USA: There was always a winner.
Note 1: A sample of authors and theater directors most active in the two years prior to the civil war in Beirut were: Rahbani brothers, Saadallah Wanous, Nabih Abu Hassan, Dored Laham, Chouchou, Borge Vaselian, Khaldoun Tannir, Nidal Ashkar, Mohammad Maghout, Ziad Rahbani, Chakib Khoury, Maurice Maaluf, Jalal Khoury, Issam Mahfouz, Antoine and Latifeh Multaka, Ussama Aref…
Note 2: A sample of the most active cinema directors are: Maroun Baghdadi, Jean Cham3oun, Silvio Tabet, Samir Ghossayn, Samir nasri, Berhane Alawiyeh, Heini Srour, Rafic Hajjar, Akhdar Hamina, Nabil Maleh…
Armed conflicts: Numbers in Casualties and Duration in the last 2 centuries
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 6, 2010
Wars, Preemptive wars: Casualties and duration in the last two centuries
This article will enumerate the wars and armed conflicts among nations, colonial type wars, and civil wars in the last two centuries. The wars will be listed chronologically from when they started, their duration, and the estimated casualties (killed among soldiers and civilians).
Keep in mind that beside the killed in the battle fields, an equal number will die within a year from serious injuries, and three-fold that number will be handicapped physically, mentally, or both for a life time.
The 20th century witnessed 140 armed conflicts, totaling more than 150 millions in casualties. More than twenty conflicts produced over one million killed. WWI generated about 9 million killed and WWII more than 60 millions.
Two dozen conflicts are still on going for decades and the toll is accumulating.
Mind that in every decade, one billion die of famine and from curable diseases. The UN estimated that currently there is one billion individual earning less than a dollar per day and have no shelters: Which means, all the most downtrodden of the billion of mankind will invariably die within the decade of famine and curable diseases.
In the 19th century we registered 15 armed conflicts (not including colonial military activity aggression) and about 5 millions in casualties (not including natives casualties from colonial mishandling; for example, in the Congo alone, 10 million natives died in forced labor and cruelty to satisfying the greed of King Leopold of Belgium in rubber and timber within two decades (1890-1910).
Napoleonic wars in Europe (1790-1815); over one million.
France and Mexico (1860-1865); over 100 thousand.
US civil war (1861-1864); over one million.
South America or the triple alliance (1865-1872); over 500 thousands
US and Mexico (1865-1875) 200 thousands
France and Prussia (1870-1872); over 500 thousand
Egypt and Ethiopia (1874-1876); over 100 thousand
South Africa (Netherland colonial war 1877-1880); over 100 thousand
France and China (1882-1886); over 100 thousand
France and Siam (colonial war in east Asia 1893-94); over 100 thousand.
China and Japan (1894-96); over 100 thousand.
Italy and Ethiopia (colonial war 1895-97); over 100 thousand.
US and Spain (over colonies in the Americas such as Cuba and central America 1897-99); over 100 thousand.
South Africa (the Boers war between the Netherlands colons and the British new colonial power 1898-1904); over 100 thousand.
US and Spain over the Philippines (1888-1903); over 500 thousand.
Now the list of major conflicts in the 20th century:
Russia-Japan (1905-07); over 100 thousand.
Mexico Revolution (1910-1920); over 3 million
Balkans (1912-1914); over 500 thousand.
WWI (1914-18); over 9 million.
Russia civil war (1916-1924); over 500 thousand.
Finland civil war (1917-18); over 200 thousand.
Italy-Libya (colonial war 1920-22); over 100 thousand.
France and Spain in Morocco (colonial war 1922-1927); over 500 thousand.
China civil war (1928-1950); over 3 million
Italy-Ethiopia (colonial war 1935-37); over 200 thousand.
Spain civil war (1936-1939); over 500 thousand.
Japan-Russia (1939-40); over 100 thousand.
China-Japan (1937-1944); over 4 million.
WWII (1939-1945); over 60 million.
Indonesia revolution (1944-1950); over 500 thousand.
France-North Vietnam (colonial war 1945-1954); over 500 thousand.
Madagascar insurrection from France (1947-48); over 200 thousand.
India-Pakistan (started 1947 and going on); over one million.
Burma (1947 and going on); over 500 thousand.
Korea (1950-1954); over 3 million.
Guatemala (1953-2008); over 500 thousand.
Laos (1954-1986); over 500 thousand.
France-Algeria (independence war 1954-1964); over one million.
South Sudan (1955-1973); over 3 million.
US-Vietnam (1960-1973) 5 million.
Cameroon (Africa 1958-62); over 500 thousand.
Angola (Africa 1962-2003); over 3 million.
Yemen (1963-1978 and restarting); over 500 thousand.
Colombia (1964-2009); over 500 thousand.
Ethiopia-Erytria (1963-1992); over 2 million.
Nigeria (Biafra civil war 1967-1971); over 3 million.
Chad (1964-1991 and restarting); over 500 thousand.
Cambodia (1972-1983); over 3 million.
Uganda (1972 – on going) over one million.
Mozambique (1975-1993); over 3 million.
Lebanon (1975-91); over 300 thousand.
Afghanistan (1978-ongoing); over 3 million.
Iran-Iraq (1980-1988); over 2 million.
South Sudan (1983-ongoing); over 3 million.
Rwanda (1990-1997); over 3 million.
Somalia (disintegration of State 1991-ongoing); over 500 thousand.
Sierra Leon (civil war 1992-2003); over 500 thousand.
Yugoslavia (disintegration 1991-2000); over 400 thousand.
Iraq-US (2003-ongoing); over one million.
Turkey-Kurd (ethnic war 1984-ongoing); over 500 thousands.
Darfur (Sudan 2003-ongoing); over 500 thousand.
Chechnya (1994-1998); over 300 thousand.
Burundi (civil war 1993-2002); over 500 thousand.
Israel-Arab States (1948-ongoing); over 200 thousand.
Israel-Palestinians (transfer activities 1948 ongoing); over 100 thousand.
Central America (Salvador, Nicaragua.. 1978-1994); over 200 thousand.
Thus, this century witnessed ten folds increase in armed conflicts and 30 folds in casualties.
Do you think the trend of mankind civilization is improving?
Since 1945 and the establishment of the UN we witnessed 115 armed conflicts.
Note 1: Chemical warfare began in 1916 by Germany. Japan used it in China in 1942, and the US in China in 1950, the US in Vietnam and Iraq. Israel is still using cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs and Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME) munitions on the occupied Palestinian people and in Lebanon.
Note 2: France alone produced 52,000 war airplanes in WWI; the US fabricated 320,000 airplane in WWII and Britain, Russia, and Germany each 100,000 airplanes. How many in other military hardware? It is too disgusting to mention.
Shocking: Who is mankind? Who is a kid?
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 3, 2010
Shocking: Who is mankind?
Trying to define mankind by his distinctive functions such as ability to talk, write, reason, creating objects, walking on two, or instituting political systems is not satisfactory.
First , we can always discover other species that can do one or more of these functions; and
Second, barely 10% of our current population of mankind satisfy these functional capabilities or potentials: Most of us are either physically or mentally handicapped, imbeciles, degenerates, immature, and unable to read, write, speak, do the rudiment of math, communicate with next door communities, or think rationally.
All these civil wars and preemptive wars, crimes against humanity, and despoiling the environment for one reason or another disprove basing mankind on sane mental or physical abilities for survival.
Is mankind defined as a parental lineage of procreation by man and woman as other species? Why not?
Does the fetus belong to mankind? Can we claim a kid less than ten years old is part of mankind?
How about a woman giving birth by artificial insemination from a total stranger she never met?
How about an ovary fecundated by a sperm and the fetus engendered out of a woman’s womb? It is feasible.
Does this new-born creature has the same human rights as one born from a natural process?
How about mankind specie bred “clandestinely” in “farms” in order to extract valuable detachable spare parts and organs? It is feasible and maybe available and currently under production. If this business has received the legal stamp of a recognized government by the UN, would the “farmed” man stop being considered as a legal entity with mankind rights and dignity?
A kid is genetically born brute, egoist, violent, cruel, and quick-tempered.
If a kid doesn’t do major harms very frequently it is simply because he feels weaker, less armed, less smart, and downright far shorter: He is simply intimidated and has a sense for survival.
A kid is a carnivorous creature, a savage as good as any ferocious beast. This savage beast, if not nurtured and trained by the humanist adults and left to grow in imbecility and in force then, this kid will eventually wring his father’s neck and fuck his mother.
Kids are trained for the basic rudiment of civility; he is a rough member of the community of mankind and needs constant nurturing and constant vigilance that what he was taught is seeping into his awareness.
Compassion is not a genetically inherited trait in mankind: It is nurtured. Having a sense of fairness in our dealings and relationship is not inherited but nurtured: Left to our own volition and impulses, mankind is the worst egoist and greedy specie. Multinational financial corporations are the striking proof in capitalist systems.
Constant vigilance of parents and communities over kids behaviors is not primarily guided to preserving a kid from harming himself, but to not do harms to other kids and adults if feasible: A kid learn what can hurt him and avoid it but he needs adults to teach him that harming others is BAD.
A community of chimpanzees already does an excellent job in vigilance and for good reason. A kid naturally grows with unbridled and unscrupulous egoism: Everything must be the object and subject to his instantaneous pleasures and desires. A kid is a natural sham to civilized mankind.
Unless the kid is not trained and nurtured by the community to abide by a set of ethical standards and moral values, he is surely following his natural trend and ending up a wicked and nasty adult doing harms out of self-sufficiency in his ignorant good conscience and bad faith; he will eventually experiment with the notion of doing harm for harm sake.
A kid may kill another kid and doesn’t feel remorse of conscience, just a surprised another experience, until adults teach him that his deed was outrageous and not the behavior of mankind.
Why should we feel sorrier when a kid is killed than an adult mankind?
A killed adult is part of culture and civilization of mankind that has been assassinated. A killed kid is another naturally born savage who was a potential in mankind civilization and who just looked lovely in his weaknesses and unformed civility.
Who is mankind?
Is it the long lineage in civilized life of teaching, educating, nurturing for many years as a new-born has grown to be a cruel kid and then transformed into a humanist adult? An adult bound to resume his ethical and moral development so that he may leave his culture to the next generations?
The first line of defense or preventive actions is in the closest community. Once this community give up on generating a civilized generation then, civil war is imminent.
The second line of defense is the schooling systems where kids spend their formative years to be included in mankind community. If the schooling system fails to train a reflecting kid and instead cram him with illusions that satisfy his desires then, imminent civil war is lurking.
The third and weakest defense line is State providing internal security from violence, famine, miseries, affordable health care, legitimate power based on fair representation… When the State fails in its responsibilities then, civil war is a viable potential.
Who is mankind?
Isn’t it this lineage in culture to bringing a naturally born beast into an adult humanist man?
Primitive tribes must have done a better job than modern institutions in preserving mankind.
Our current State and international institutions designed to maintain and develop our cultural and civilized heritage lack the will, the means, the teeth, and credibility to extending proofs that mankind is potentially a different specie.
“Sophie’s World” on Indo-European and Semitic civilizations
Posted by: adonis49 on: December 16, 2009
“Sophie’s World” on Indo-European and Semitic civilizations; (Dec. 15, 2009)
Since the 19th century, European “nations” have been trying to set up a “coherent” racist ideology, disguised as “civilization difference”, to supporting their colonial expansions.
Thus, many European “elites” of philosophers and “thinkers” fabricated the Indo-European civilization in order to have any kind of fictitious basis to distinguish themselves from the “non-European” people. Ironically, the author Jostein Gaarder seems absolutely convinced with this fictitious story.
First and obviously, as an axiom or evident proposition, the Europeans had the best civilization. Thus, the antithesis was that the Semitic and other “Chinese sort” of civilizations were lumped at the other extreme end.
Second and obviously, Semitic civilization had to be fabricated in order to satisfy Hegel theory of dialectical processes of history for human knowledge development.
Third, the European nations had no purpose to reaching any synthesis among civilizations: They were on a war path to dominate, win, and prove the superiority of their “Indo-European civilization”.
Actually, the civil wars in Europe and the USA always ended with a victor regardless of cost, trauma, and casualties such as the civil wars in the USA, Spain, England, and France. In non-European cultures, civil wars end with no clear-cut winner in the short-term.
In China, the communists and “nationalists” signed a truce to confront the occupying Japanese. India civil war between Hindus and Moslems ended after its independence with the third of the population remaining Moslems, even though Pakistan was created for repatriating Moslems to that new State.
In Lebanon, 17 years of civil war ended with all factions losing, and their leaders appointed deputies and members in the successive governments. (that is the worst ending for any nation).
The story goes that four thousand years ago, primitive people concentrated in the Caucasus region around the Black Sea (the actual States of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Chechnya…). They immigrated westward to central and north Europe and also eastward to Iran and India.
In the Arabic Peninsula, there were tribal people who immigrated to Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and North Africa and are called Semitic. (Now, why people would settle in arid desert land or in high mountain chains in order to survive? It looks like this rational question was beside the point. We know that people settle in mild weather regions rich in water resources, and they immigrate to God forsaken regions to flee persecutions. This logical question seems also beside the point to the Indo-European ideology). Let us move on.
On religion: Indo-European civilization believed in a variety of Gods (this was true with the Semitic category, but facts had to be altered to suit the dichotomy method).
In the original Indian language of Sanskrit the celestial God Dyaus was transferred into Zeus, Jupiter (Jov-pater), and Tyr (for the Nordic people). (Can you show me any resemblance in phonetics?). The Viking God Aser was transformed from Sanskrit Asura and Persian Ahura; (What about Ashur that was adopted in Babylon and the Near East or Ashtarut?)
Another example, in Latin we have Deus and in Old Norse Tivurr which were transformed from the Sanskrit Deva and the Persian Daevra; (should I continue with this masquerade of God’s names?)
(Consequently, Semitic civilization must believe in one God. Trinity is thus the creation of the Greco-Roman culture for altering Christianity initial dogma. Allah or El was the supreme God, even though He didn’t generated money from the worshipers who dedicated their money to their more practical and pragmatic local business Gods.)
On myths: There are stories on immortal potions, struggle of the Gods against monsters of chaos, the subject playing a drama in which forces of Good and Evil confront one another in a relentless struggle, predicting the Good to win. For example, the Indo-European civilization, specifically the Greek, have tendencies to speculate on how to view the world (philosophy); they have “insight” into the history of the world and the concept of “cosmic vision”.
Thus, vision (the seeing sense) was the most important among the senses and images of Gods in pictures, and sculptures were predominantly used to honor the Gods. (Gaarder must have forgotten that “cosmic vision” is the realm of nomads in deserts, where stars appear close to hand reach.) Indo-European civilization view history as cyclical, just like seasons; (what kinds of seasons they have up north? I thought there are long winters and a very short stuffy summers.)
Consequently, Semitic civilization had to rely on hearing or the auditory sense. For example: “Hear, O Israel (Land of El)” or “Thus spake Jehovah”, or “In the beginning was the word”. Why?
Because tribes relayed their culture verbally by repetitive story telling. As if the Nordic people didn’t rely on the verbal (could they write a thousand years ago and had they documented their culture?). No matter, since the Greek learned to write then the ideology stands viable.
Anyway, since the Semitic must be in the auditory realm of the senses, then images of God in pictures and sculptures had to be prohibited for the western racist ideologies to take roots.
On after death: Transmission of the soul in Indo-Europe culture is cyclical, the soul is transferred to new-born and the ultimate purpose of life is for the soul to be released from this infernal cycle. .Thus, for the Semitic civilization, history must be linear and that is why they were preoccupied recording history!
God created the world and it will end with the Judgment Day. Thus, there is a distance between God and his creation so that Semitic believers were to be redeemed from their sins by prayers, and the study of the scriptures rather than by self-communion and meditation as Indo-European behave!
Can we propose that Hegel’s theory of dialectical processes of history for human knowledge development had set the stage for western superiority ideology, the re-writing of history to suit the feable minded philosophers and politicians?
Just men wearing daggers as symbol of manhood: Yemen
There is a devastating civil war in Yemen: Is it of any concern to the UN?
The UN did it again! Civil wars in non-oil producing Arab States are left to run its natural steam until the State is bankrupt and ready to be picked up at salvage price.
The UN tends to get busy for years in collateral world problems when civil wars strike Arab States. Occasionally, the UN demonstrates lukewarm attempts for a resolution in oil producing States as long as it is under control.
Lebanon experienced 17 years of civil war. Morocco still has a civil war in south Sahara for 4 decades. Sudan has been suffering of a rampant civil war for four decades. Algeria is experiencing a resurgence of a devastating civil war that started in 1990 because Europe refused to accept a democratically elected Islamic majority in the parliament. Iraq was totally neglected while Saddam Hussein was decimating the Chiaas and Kurds in Iraq for three decades, even after the US coalition forced the Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. Somalia never got out of its miseries for four decades so far. Mauritania is rope jumping from one military coup to another. The other Arab States are in constant low level civil wars overshadowed by dictators, one party, oligarchic, and monarchic regimes.
A week ago, a few trucks were allowed to cross Saudi borders carrying tents and necessary medicines to stem rampant diseases where hundred thousands of refugees huddle in refugee camps on the high plateau of North-West Yemen, by the borders with Saudi Arabia that closed its borders and chased out any infiltration of refugees.
The most disheartening feeling is that you don’t see field reporting of this civil war by the western media.
The written accounts are from second hand sources and decades old. They abridge the problem by stating it is a tribal matter. They feel comfortable blaming Iran; then how this land locked region in the mountains of Yemen can be supplied by Iran needs to be clarified.
The western media is easily convinced that Al Qaeda moved from Saudi Arabia and was ordered to infiltrate the Somali refugee camps in South Yemen; then how Al Qaeda got to be located in a region of North West Yemen with Chiaa Yazdi population is irrelevant.
The population of North West Yemen forms the third of the total and it is Yezdi Chiia that agrees to seven Imams and not 12 as in Iran; the Yazdi sect does not care that much about the coming of a “hidden” Mahdi to unite and save Islam.
The western media want you to believe that this war, which effectively started in 2004, is a succession problem to prevent the son of current President Abdallah Saleh from inheriting the power. Actually Saleh’s son is the head of the Presidential Guard which has been recently involved in the war after the regular army failed to bring a clear cut victory.
Yemen was a backward States even in the 60’s. South Yemen had a Marxist regime backed by the Egyptian troops of Jamal Abdel Nasser against North Yemen ruled by an ancient Yazdi Imam; a hereditary regime labeled the “Royalists” and backed by Saudi Arabia.
After the Soviet Union disintegrated, Yemen unified in 1990. Since then, South Yemen and North West Yemen were deprived of the central State financial and economic distribution of wealth. President Saleh could present the image of a “progressist” leader as long as Yemen was out of the screen and nobody cared about this bankrupt State.
Yemen is on the verge of being divided into three separate autonomous States, the South, North West, and Sanaa the Capital.
The problems in the Horn of Africa have migrated its endemic instability into Yemen; refugees from Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan have been flocking into the southern shores of Yemen for same climate. Heavy influx of contraband products are keeping the people of these two regions precariously afloat. The deal between Hillary Clinton and Israel foreign affairs Levny to patrol the Indian Ocean was not just meant for Gaza but mainly to prepare President Saleh for his 2009 campaign against the rebels in North Yemen by monitoring contraband arms shipments.
Saudi Arabia, during the duo power brokers of Prince Sultan and Neyef (respectively Ministers of Defense and the Interior) did their best to destabilize Yemen on account of fighting the spread of the Chiaa sect in the Arabic Peninsula. Yemen has no natural resources to count on and the population is addicted to “Qat” that they chew on at lunch time for hours.
Yemen was the most prosperous region in the Arabic Peninsula for millennia; land caravans started from Taez and then passed by Maareb from which town the caravans split to either Mecca (then to Aqaba and Syria) or took the direction to Persia and Iraq. All kinds of perfume, seasoning, and textile landed by sea from India and South East Asia; incense were produced from a special tree grown in Yemen and Hadramout. The British Empire didn’t care about this region; all that it wanted to secure were sea ports for commerce and to defend the entrances of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea to Egypt.
The UN is inheriting the same lax attitude of the British Empire; as long as the US bases are secured in this region then the hell with the people. Qatar arranged for reconciliation in 2007 and Saudi Arabia interfered to fail it. Archaic tribes fighting one another wearing daggers as symbol of manhood are all that there is in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia is involved in this war and using its airforce to stem the “rebel hawthees“; it blocked the satellites in the Arab world that cover this civil war. Is CNN willing to come to the rescue for the world communities to get coverage of the mass massacres going on in this poor country?
Devastating civil war in non oil-producing Yemen: Is it of any concern to the UN?
Posted by: adonis49 on: October 28, 2009
Devastating civil war in Yemen: Is it of any concern to the UN? (Oct. 27, 2009)
The UN did it again! Civil wars in non-oil producing Arab States are left to run its natural steam until the State is bankrupt and ready to be picked up at salvage price.
The UN tends to get busy for years in collateral world problems when civil wars strike any non oil-producing Arab States. Occasionally, the UN demonstrates lukewarm attempts for a resolution in oil producing States as long as it is under control.
Lebanon experienced 17 years of civil war. Morocco still has a civil war in south Sahara for three decades. Sudan has been suffering of a rampant civil war for four decades. Algeria is experiencing a resurgence of a devastating civil war that started in 1990 because Europe refused to accept a democratically elected Islamic majority in the parliament. Iraq was totally neglected while Saddam Hussein was decimating the Shias and Kurds in Iraq for three decades, even after the US coalition forced the Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. Somalia never got out of its miseries for four decades so far. Mauritania is rope jumping from one military coup to another. The other Arab States are in constant low-level civil wars overshadowed by dictators, one party, oligarchic, and monarchic regimes.
A week ago, a few trucks were allowed to cross Saudi borders to Yemen carrying tents and necessary medicines to stem rampant diseases where hundred thousands of refugees huddle in refugee camps on the high plateau of North-West Yemen, by the borders with Saudi Arabia that closed its borders and chased out any infiltration of refugees.
The most disheartening feeling is that you don’t see field reporting of this civil war by the western media. The written accounts are from second-hand sources and decades old. They abridge the problem by stating it is a tribal matter. They feel comfortable blaming Iran; then how this land locked region can be supplied by Iran needs to be clarified. The western media is easily convinced that Al Qaeda moved from Saudi Arabia and was ordered to infiltrate the Somali refugee camps in South Yemen; then how Al Qaeda got to be located in a region of North West Yemen with Shia Yazdi population is irrelevant.
The population of North West Yemen forms the third of the total and it is Yezdi Chiia that agrees to seven Imams and not 12 as in Iran; the Yazdi sect does not care that much about the coming of a “hidden” Mahdi to unite and save Islam. The western media want you to believe that this war, which effectively started in 2004, is a succession problem to prevent the son of current President Abdallah Saleh from inheriting the power. Actually Saleh’s son is the head of the Presidential Guard which has been recently involved in the war after the regular army failed to bring a clear-cut victory.
Yemen was a backward States even in the 60’s. South Yemen had a Marxist regime backed by the Egyptian troops of Jamal Abdel Nasser against North Yemen ruled by an ancient Yazdi Imam; a hereditary regime labeled the “Royalists” and backed by Saudi Arabia. After the Soviet Union disintegrated Yemen unified in 1990. Since then, South Yemen and North West Yemen were deprived of the central State financial and economic distribution of wealth. President Saleh could present the image of a “progressist” leader as long as Yemen was out of the screen and nobody cared about this bankrupt State.
Yemen is on the verge of being divided into three separate autonomous States, the South, North West, and Sanaa the Capital. The problems in the Horn of Africa have migrated its endemic instability into Yemen; refugees from Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan have been flocking into the southern shores of Yemen for same climate. Heavy influx of contraband products are keeping the people of these two regions precariously afloat. The deal between Hillary Clinton and Israel foreign affairs Levny to patrol the Indian Ocean was not just meant for Gaza but mainly to prepare President Saleh for his 2009 campaign against the rebels in North Yemen by monitoring contraband arms shipments to the “hawssy” rebel.
Saudi Arabia, during the duo power brokers of Prince Sultan and Neyef (respectively Ministers of Defense and the Interior) did their best to destabilize Yemen on account of fighting the spread of the Shia sect in the Arabic Peninsula. Yemen has no natural resources to count on and the population is addicted to “Qat” that they chew on at lunch time for hours.
Yemen was the most prosperous region in the Arabic Peninsula for millennia. Land caravans started from Taez and then passed by Maareb from which town the caravans split to either Mecca (then to Aqaba and Syria) or took the direction to Persia and Iraq. All kinds of perfume, seasoning, and textile landed by sea from India and South East Asia; incense was produced from a special tree grown in Yemen and Hadramout. The British Empire didn’t care about this region; all that it wanted to secure were sea ports for commerce and to defend the entrances of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea to Egypt.
The UN is inheriting the same lax attitude of the British Empire; as long as the US bases are secured in this region then the hell with the people. Qatar arranged for reconciliation in 2007 and Saudi Arabia interfered to fail it. Archaic tribes fighting one another wearing daggers as symbol of manhood are all that there is in Yemen.
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