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BMW'S HYDROGEN 7

Not as Green as it Seems

By Christian Wüst

BMW is manufacturing the first series of hydrogen fueled cars.
They're not as green as they seem. For a start, they're incredibly thirsty --
and they will put more strain on the environment than a heavy diesel truck.

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The CIA, Narcotics & Underworld: Doug Valentine IV
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 11:16 am
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The CIA, Narcotics & Underworld: Doug Valentine Interview

By SUZAN MAZUR
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New Naomi Wolf
"...the narrative shifted and ...the female sense of identity in the West, for the
first time ever, no longer hinges on the identity of her mate ..."
The question disappeared in most of Europe and North America, of course, because of the
great movement toward women's employment and career advancement even after
marrying and bearing children. Feminist historians have long documented how the "story"
of the female heroine used to end with marriage; indeed, this story was so set in stone as
late as the 1950's and early 60's in this country that Sylvia Plath's heroine in The Bell Jar
had to flirt with suicide in order to try to find a way out of it. Betty Friedan noted in The
Feminine Mystique that women (meaning middle class white women; the narrative was
always different for women of color and working class women) couldn't "think their way
past" marriage and family in terms of imagining a future that had greater dimension. But
the narrative shifted and it's safe to say that the female sense of identity in the West, for
the first time ever, no longer hinges on the identity of her mate — which is a truly new
story in terms of our larger history.
NAOMI WOLF, author, feminist, and social critic, is s an outspoken and influential voice for
women's rights and empowerment. she is the author of The Beauty Myth, Fire with Fire,
and Promiscuities.
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2001

story in terms of our larger history.
NAOMI WOLF, author, feminist, and social critic, is s an outspoken and influential voice for
women's rights and empowerment. she is the author of The Beauty Myth, Fire with Fire,
and Promiscuities.
New Terrence J. Sejnowski
"Is God Dead?"
On April 8, 1966, the cover of Time Magazine asked "Is God Dead?" in bold red letters on a
jet black background. This is an arresting question that no one asks anymore, but back in
1996 it was a hot issue that received serious comment. In 1882 Friedrich Nietzsche in The
Gay Science had a character called "the madman" running through the marketplace
shouting "God is dead!", but in the book, no one took the madman seriously.
The Time Magazine article reported that a group of young theologians calling themselves
Christian atheists, led by Thomas J. J. Altizer at Emory University, had claimed God was
dead. This hit a cultural nerve and in an appearance on "The Merv Griffin Show" Altizer was
greeted by shouts of "Kill him! Kill him!" Today Altizer continues to develop an increasingly
apocalyptic theology but has not received a grant or much attention since 1966.
The lesson here is that the impact of a question very much depends on the cultural
moment. Questions disappear not because they are answered but because they are no
longer interesting.

TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI, a pioneer in Computational Neurobiology, is regarded by many
as one of the world's most foremost theoretical brain scientists. In 1988, he moved from
Johns Hopkins University to the Salk Institute, where he is a Howard Hughes Medical
Investigator and the director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. In addition to
co-authoring The Computational Brain, he has published over 250 scientific articles.
New Ann Crittenden

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THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2001
What Questions Have Disappeared?

Printer version New Geoffrey Miller

"Three Victorian questions about potential sexual partners: 'Are they from a good
family?'; 'What are their accomplishments?'; 'Was their money and status
acquired ethically?' "
To our "Sex and the City" generation, these three questions sound shamefully Victorian and
bourgeois. Yet they were not unique to 19th century England: they obsessed the families of
eligible young men and women in every agricultural and industrial civilization. Only with
our socially-atomized, late-capitalist society have these questions become tasteless, if not
taboo. Worried parents ask them only in the privacy of their own consciences, in the
sleepless nights before a son or daughter's ill-considered marriage.
The "good family" question always concerned genetic inheritance as much as financial
inheritance. Since humans evolved in bands of closely-related kin, we probably evolved an
intuitive appreciation of the genetics relevant to mate choice — taking into account the
heritable strengths and weakness that we could observe in each potential mate's relatives,
as well as their own qualities. Recent findings in medical genetics and behavior genetics
demonstrate the wisdom of taking a keen interest in such relatives: one can tell a lot about
a young person's likely future personality, achievements, beliefs, parenting style, and
mental and physical health by observing their parents, siblings, uncles, and aunts. Yet the
current American anti-genetic ideology demands that we ignore such cues of genetic
quality — God forbid anyone should accuse us of eugenics. Consider the possible reactions
a woman might have to hearing that a potential husband was beaten as a child by parents
who were alcoholic, aggressive religious fundamentalists. Twin and adoption studies show
that alcoholism, aggressiveness, and religiousity are moderately heritable, so such a man is
likely to become a rather unpleasant father. Yet our therapy cures-all culture says the
woman should offer only non-judgmental sympathy to the man, ignoring the inner warning
bells that may be going off about his family and thus his genes. Arguably, our culture
alienates women and men from their own genetic intuitions, and thereby puts their children
at risk.
The question "What are their accomplishments?" refers not to career success, but to the
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 of hobbies, interests, and skills that would have adorned most educated
young people in previous centuries. Things like playing pianos, painting portraits, singing
hymns, riding horses, and planning dinner parties. Such accomplishments have been lost
through time pressures, squeezed out between the hyper-competitive domain of school and
work, and the narcissistic domain of leisure and entertainment. It is rare to find a young
person who does anything in the evening that requires practice (as opposed to study or
work) — anything that builds skills and self-esteem, anything that creates a satisfying,
productive "flow" state, anything that can be displayed with pride in public. Parental
hot-housing of young children is not the same: after the child's resentment builds
throughout the French and ballet lessons, the budding skills are abandoned with the
rebelliousness of puberty — or continued perfunctorily only because they will look good on
college applications. The result is a cohort of young people whose only possible source of
self-esteem is the school/work domain — an increasingly winner-take-all contest where
only the brightest and most motivated feel good about themselves. (And we wonder why
suicidal depression among adolescents has doubled in one generation.) This situation is
convenient for corporate recruiting — it channels human instincts for self-display and
status into an extremely narrow range of economically productive activities. Yet it denies
young people the breadth of skills that would make their own lives more fulfilling, and their
potential lovers more impressed. Their identities grow one-dimensionally, shooting straight
up towards career success without branching out into the variegated skill sets which could
soak up the sunlight of respect from flirtations and friendships, and which could offer
shelter, and alternative directions for growth, should the central shoot snap.
The question "Was their money and status acquired ethically?" sounds even quainter, but
its loss is even more insidious. As the maximization of share-holder value guides every
decision in contemporary business, individual moral principles are exiled to the leisure
realm. They can be manifest only in the Greenpeace membership that reduces one's guilt
about working for Starbucks or Nike. Just as hip young consumers justify the purchase of
immorally manufactured products as "ironic" consumption, they justify working for immoral
businesses as "ironic" careerism. They aren't "really" working in an ad agency that handles
the Phillip Morris account for China; they're just interning for the experience, or they're
really an aspiring screen-writer or dot-com entrepreneur. The explosion in part-time,
underpaid, high-turnover service industry jobs encourages this sort of amoral, ironic
detachment on the lower rungs of the corporate ladder. At the upper end, most executives
assume that shareholder value trumps their own personal values. And in the middle,
managers dare not raise issues of corporate ethics for fear of being down-sized. The dating
scene is complicit in this corporate amorality. The idea that Carrie Bradshaw or Ally McBeal
would stop seeing a guy just because he works for an unethical company doesn't even
compute. The only relevant morality is personal — whether he is kind, honest, and faithful
to them. Who cares about the effect his company is having on the Phillipino girls working
for his sub-contractors? "Sisterhood" is so Seventies. Conversely, men who question the
ethics of a woman's career choice risk sounding sexist: how dare he ask her to handicap
herself with a conscience, when her gender is already enough of a handicap in getting past
the glass ceiling?
In place of these biologically, psychologically, ethically grounded questions, marketers
encourage young people to ask questions only about each other's branded identities.
Armani or J. Crew clothes? Stanford or U.C.L.A. degree? Democrat or Republican? Prefer
"The Matrix" or "You've Got Mail'? Eminem or Sophie B. Hawkins? Been to Ibiza or Cool
Britannia? Taking Prozac or Wellbutrin for the depression? Any taste that doesn't lead to a
purchase, any skill that doesn't require equipment, any belief that doesn't lead to
supporting a non-profit group with an aggressive P.R. department, doesn't make any sense
in current mating market. We are supposed to consume our way into an identity, and into
our most intimate relationships. But after all the shopping is done, we have to face, for the
rest of our lives, the answers that the Victorians sought: what genetic propensities,
fulfilling skills, and moral values do our sexual partners have? We might not have bothered
to ask, but our children will find out sooner or later.
GEOFFREY MILLER is an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and
at U.C.L.A. His first book was The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of
Human Nature.
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New Christopher Phillips
"None."
Or at least, certainly not the ones that have so far been submitted to this list, since the
questions posted are proof positive that they have not disappeared at all, or at least, not
altogether. Sure, some questions have their heyday for a while, and then they may
disappear for many a moon. But the great question you posed -- what questions have
disappeared? -- shows that they were just waiting for a question like this for someone to
be reminded just how much emptier our existence would be without certain questions.
But I also think that some questions certainly have gone by the wayside for a long time,
though not necessarily the ones that so far have been posed. We may ask, for instance,
questions like, Has history ended?, and then go on to offer up a response of one sort or
another. But when is the last time we asked, what *is* history? What different types of
history are there? What makes history history, regardless of which type it is?
Or we may ask: Why have certain questions been discarded? But when's the last time
anyone has asked, What is a question? What does a question do? What does a question to
do us, and what do we do to it?
We may ask: How do people differ in how they think and learn? But do we still ask: What is
thinking? What is learning?


Instead, we seem to take for granted that we know what history is, that we know what
thinking is, that we know what learning is, when in fact if we delved a little more into these
questions, we may well find that none of us hold the same views on what these rich
concepts mean and how they function. Which leads me to this perspective: What *has* all
but disappeared, I think, is a way of answering questions, regardless of which one is being
posed, regardless of how seemingly profound or off-beat or mundane it is. I'm speaking of
the kind of rigorous, exhaustive, methodical yet highly imaginative scrutiny of a Socrates
or a Plato that challenged all assumptions embedded in a question, and that revealed
breathtakingly new vistas and hidden likenesses between seemingly disparate entities.
Who these days takes the time and effort, much less has the critical and creative acumen,
to answer questions as those I've already posed, much less such questions as ¨What is
human good?¨ or ¨What is a good human?¨in the soul-stirringly visionary yet at the same
time down-to-earth way they did? We need a new generation of questioners in the mold of
Plato and Sorcrates, people who dare to think a bit outside the lines, who take nothing for
granted when a question is posed, and who subject their scrutiny to continual examination
and consideration of cogent objections and alternative ways of seeing.
CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS is the author of ¨Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy¨, and
founder-executive director of the nonprofit Society for Philosophical Inquiry.

New

Tracy Quan
"Who does your bleeding?"
Recently, I was relaxing in my hotel room with a biography of Queen Elizabeth I. Her
biographer noted that when Elizabeth R wasn't feeling quite herself she would call for a
good "bleeding." I wondered about this practice which now seems so destructive and
dangerous, especially given the hygienic possibilities of 16th-century Britain. Even for the
rich and famous. But Elizabeth R survived numerous bleedings and, I imagine, lots of other
strange treatments that were designed to make her look and feel like her very best self —
by the standards of her time. (Did she have a great immune system? Probably.)
As dotty and unclean as "bleedings" now seem to a 21st century New Yorker, I realized
with a jolt that Elizabeth was pampering, not punishing, herself — and I was going to be
late for my reflexology appointment. I had scheduled a two-hour orgy of relaxation and
detoxification at a spa.
I imagine that the ladies at court asked each other, in the manner of ladies who-lunch,
"Who does your bleeding?" — trading notes on price, ambiance and service, just as ladies
today discuss their facials, massages and other personal treatments.


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Some skeptics assume that the beauty and spa treatments of today are as ineffective or
dangerous as those of the Renaissance period. In fact, there have been inroads. Germ
theory helped — as did a host of other developments, including a fascination in the West
with things Eastern. The kind of people who would once have gone in for bleeding now go
in for things like reflexology and shiatsu. That urge to cleanse and detoxify the body has
long been around but we've actually figured out how to do it because we better understand
the body.
The pampered are prettier and healthier today than were their 16th century European
counterparts. I wonder whether, another thousand or so years into the future, we will all
look prettier and healthier in ways that we can't yet fathom. This kind of query might seem
irresponsible, shallow, even immoral — given the real health crises facing human beings in
2001. But the way we look has everything to do with how we live and how we think.
And I'm glad that bleedings are no longer the rage.

TRACY QUAN, a writer and working girl living in New York, is the author of "Nancy Chan:
Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl", a serial novel about the life and loves of Nancy Chan, a
turn-of-the- millennium call girl. Excerpts from the novel — which began running in July,
2000 in the online magazine, Salon — have attracted a wide readership as well as the
attention of the The New York Times and other publications.
New Joel Garreau
"What can government do to help create a better sort of human?"
The moral, intellectual, physical and social improvement of the human race was a hot topic
of the Enlightenment. It helped shape the American and French revolutions. Creating the
"New Soviet Man" was at the heart of the Russian revolution — that's what justified the
violence.
A central theme of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was not just that human misery could
be alleviated. It was that core human problems like crime could be fixed by the
government eliminating root causes like want.
That's all gone.
We now barely trust government to teach kids to read.
JOEL GARREAU, the cultural revolution correspondent of The Washington Post, is a student
of global culture, values, and change whose current interests range from human networks
and the transmission of ideas to the hypothesis that the '90s — like the '50s — set the
stage for a social revolution to come. He is the author of the best-selling books Edge City:
Life on the New Frontier and The Nine Nations of North America, and a principal of The
Edge City Group, which is dedicated to the creation of more liveable and profitable urban
areas worldwide.


New
Naomi Wolf
"...the narrative shifted and ...the female sense of identity in the West, for the
first time ever, no longer hinges on the identity of her mate ..."
The question disappeared in most of Europe and North America, of course, because of the
great movement toward women's employment and career advancement even after
marrying and bearing children. Feminist historians have long documented how the "story"
of the female heroine used to end with marriage; indeed, this story was so set in stone as
late as the 1950's and early 60's in this country that Sylvia Plath's heroine in The Bell Jar
had to flirt with suicide in order to try to find a way out of it. Betty Friedan noted in The
Feminine Mystique that women (meaning middle class white women; the narrative was
always different for women of color and working class women) couldn't "think their way
past" marriage and family in terms of imagining a future that had greater dimension. But
the narrative shifted and it's safe to say that the female sense of identity in the West, for
the first time ever, no longer hinges on the identity of her mate — which is a truly new
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2001
http://edge.org/documents/questions/q2001.8.html (4 of 6) [10/23/2007 10:33:46 PM]
story in terms of our larger history.
NAOMI WOLF, author, feminist, and social critic,
is s an outspoken and influential voice for women's
rights and empowerment. she is the author of
The Beauty Myth, Fire with Fire,and Promiscuities.


New Terrence J. Sejnowski

"Is God Dead?"
On April 8, 1966, the cover of Time Magazine asked "Is God Dead?" in bold red letters on a
jet black background. This is an arresting question that no one asks anymore, but back in
1996 it was a hot issue that received serious comment. In 1882 Friedrich Nietzsche in The
Gay Science had a character called "the madman" running through the marketplace
shouting "God is dead!", but in the book, no one took the madman seriously.
The Time Magazine article reported that a group of young theologians calling themselves
Christian atheists, led by Thomas J. J. Altizer at Emory University, had claimed God was
dead. This hit a cultural nerve and in an appearance on "The Merv Griffin Show" Altizer was
greeted by shouts of "Kill him! Kill him!" Today Altizer continues to develop an increasingly
apocalyptic theology but has not received a grant or much attention since 1966.
The lesson here is that the impact of a question very much depends on the cultural
moment. Questions disappear not because they are answered but because they are no
longer interesting.
TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI, a pioneer in Computational Neurobiology, is regarded by many
as one of the world's most foremost theoretical brain scientists. In 1988, he moved from
Johns Hopkins University to the Salk Institute, where he is a Howard Hughes Medical
Investigator and the director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. In addition to
co-authoring The Computational Brain, he has published over 250 scientific articles.
New Ann Crittenden
"Is human nature innately good or evil?"
Another question that has fallen into the dustbin of history is this: Is human nature
innately good or evil? This became a gripping topic in the late 17th century, as Enlightment
thinkers began to challenge the Christian assumption that man was born a fallen creature.
It was a great debate while it lasted: original sin vs. tabla rasa and the perfectability of
man; Edmund Burke vs. Tom Paine; Dostoyevsky vs. the Russian reformers. But Darwin
and Freud undermined the foundations of both sides, by discrediting the very possibility of
discussing human nature in moral or teleological terms. Now the debate has been recast as
"nature vs. nurture" and in secular scientific circles at least, man is the higher primate --

a beast with distinctly mixed potential.  
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New York Times from 1975 to 1983, where her work on a broad range of economic issues
was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of several books inncluding The
Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued. Her
articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Nation, Foreign Affairs,
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BMW'S HYDROGEN 7

Not as Green as it Seems

By Christian Wüst

BMW is manufacturing the first series of hydrogen fueled cars. They're not as green as they seem. For a start, they're incredibly thirsty -- and they will put more strain on the environment than a heavy diesel truck.

There's a new method for fueling cars. Instead of the usual dispenser nozzle, a plastic hose about the size of a sewage pipe is attached to the vehicle. An automatic clasp closes automatically around the tank opening.

The airtight hose system was developed by Germany's Linde conglomerate and has already been installed at several German gas stations. It's designed to allow the average person to fill his or her car with liquid hydrogen in just eight minutes. Berlin is one of the few places that already disposes of such a filling station.

BMW's Hydrogen 7: Not as Green as it Seems

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Last week, German car-maker BMW used the facility to present car testers with the first small series vehicle in the world that drives on both gas and liquid hydrogen. The "Hydrogen 7," will be part of BMW's upscale "7" series of vehicles, and BMW is now carefully preparing to make the new car available to customers.

Starting in March, the car will be delivered to about 100 celebrities, but so far BMW is keeping mum about their names or what their leasing rates might be. The car's developers are hoping to gain insight into the practical reliability of a technology many consider the be all and end all of the car industry's ecologically clean and climate friendly future.

The Munich-based company is promising "sustainable mobility and sheer joy of driving," citing the car's 260 horsepower, 12-cylinder engine. The Hydrogen 7's standard combustion engine has been adapted to run on both liquid hydrogen and regular gasoline as well -- and tons of it. The company says the car will consume an average of 13.9 liters (3.7 gallons) per 100 kilometers (roughly 17 miles per gallon) using regular gasoline and a whopping 50 liters to drive the same distance when fuelled by hydrogen.

In other words, BMW has created an energy-guzzling engine that only seems to be environmentally friendly -- a farcical ecomobile whose only true merit is that of illustrating the cardinal dilemma of a possible hydrogen-based economy.

The problem is that hydrogen is in scarce supply and producing it requires vast amounts of energy. Climate-friendly production of liquid hydrogen on a large scale presupposes a virtually unlimited supply of ecologically produced electricity -- not something likely to materialize in the near future. That's why energy experts from the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy believe forcing the transition to a hydrogen-based economy within the next three to four decades is "not an ecologically sound" idea.

Storing the volatile energy source also requires energy and money. The only method that promises a reasonable storage life is liquid storage at temperatures below -253 degrees Celsius (-423 degrees Fahrenheit). The process of cooling the storage facility down to such a low temperature alone uses up to one-third of the energy contained in one fuel tank.

Volatile fuel

BMW's thermo-tank, specially designed to hold liquid hydrogen as well as regular gasoline, has the same diameter as the drum of a washing machine. It has a volume of 170 liters (45 gallons) and takes up half the trunk. But it can only hold eight kilograms (17.6 lbs) of the extremely light hydrogen fuel -- barely enough for a 200 kilometer (124 mile) trip. What's more, some of the tank's contents have to be released as they heat up and evaporate -- even the best insulation system can't keep temperatures down forever. After nine days, half the tank load has gone bad.

BMW's competitors are somewhat puzzled by the company's decision to adapt combustion engines -- known for their high fuel consumption -- so that they will run on a fuel as sensitive and problematic as liquid hydrogen. "We think it's non-sense," says Frank Seyfried, research director for hydrogen-based propulsion at Volkswagen.

With the exception of BMW, every car company out there is betting on a different technology: fuel cells, which transform hydrogen into electricity via a chemical process. The electricity generated in the process then drives the vehicle. This method promises far greater efficiency, but the current technology yields only modest driving performance. Test cars with fuel cell engines can produce between 50 and 90 kilowatts, but they consume only about 14 liters of hydrogen per 100 kilometers (62 miles) -- a fuel value corresponding to that of four liters (one gallon) of gasoline.

BMW's chief developer Klaus Draeger still thinks there's good reason not to shelve the combustion engine. "It's the only engine that meets our requirements in terms of dynamics," he explains.

And so, in creating the Hydrogen 7, BMW is announcing a future of putatively clean, full-throttle driving. The new car caters to the pleasing fantasy of customers spoiled by high-horsepower engines: That they can conform to ecological standards without making any sacrifices, burning "clean" fuel to their heart's content. Advertizing images display the Hydrogen 7 against a backdrop of wind turbines and solar panels.

But the image is one of deceit. Because the hydrogen dispensed at the new filling station is generated primarily from petroleum and natural gas, the new car puts about as much strain on the environment as a heavy truck with a diesel engine. Add the loss of environmental benefits involved in the production and transportation of the putatively clean fuel to the consumption of the car itself and you get an actual consumption corresponding to considerably more than 20 liters (5.3 gallons) of fossil fuel.

The environment isn't the only loser: Customers will also have to shell out a lot of money for their deceptive display of ecologically responsible driving. The current standard price for liquid hydrogen is 57 euro cents (0.73 US cents) per liter (0.3 gallons). And the price tag on a 100 kilometer (62 mile) drive in the Hydrogen 7, at a comfortable speed, is about €30 ($38).




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Guess what this is all  a big joke! Going forward its still the hided fact that make such discourse
 a this time prove matter cannot be created or destroyed but dear John tell me what if any thing do
 you care you have lived under a regime that supports you, and by the year 1988 had sterilized
50% of all the fertile female native American women living in America. While we can say we
 didn’t know, we are no better than the post war Germans or... what do you say about the Nuclear
weapons possessed by the nation of Israel?  Does it make any one on earth safer if Jews have them
along with atomic subs from Germany instead Arabs we are hostages of weapons China, Iran, USA does
 any sovereign independent  nation exist as other than a bad habit...

Do you know of the Papal document created for pay for by Ferdinand and Isabel for Columbus
declaring that the indigenous peoples had no Souls and that they were the property of the  “sovereign”
 State of Spain 1491.
That false contract makes you believe your self within some legal rights over the total earth but face it,
 the jigs up what we do is not Holy unless it is holey barbaric holey savage and holey illegal on the face
of it Arabs are just  copycats trying to catchup...


The coming of a zero state

What they count on is the fact that you were born yesterday.

Western Civilization is Autistic.
Withholding the world.
(as a child)
At one point we all believed the universe revolved beyond us rather than within us all.


That is the position of all religions and political systems,
Isn't it time we understand ourselves as fowlers of a system
That exploits the natural tendency to ignore  all others  on
The earth and begun to share not hoard resources and methodology
for sustenance. Rather than hoarding as hunter gathering & plundering
merchant Classes have done and continue to do thriving on scarcity and
Want and withholding the essential commodity’s as hostage barter building
An "economy” on artificial scarcity and need?" 

The notion that Sustenance is an natural object of trade is an infantile cruel
unjust metric as old as “water” taxes & standing armies war and banking.

The coming of a zero state without borders without leaders
Without a conspicuous squaller of poverty is within us all.

Repeat after me God is not a mail mammal or a Saipan My god is not a
landlord or a procurer of virgins...
The kingdom of heaven is within you...

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June 10, 2007
You Gotta LOVE a Religion Where EVERYBODY
...gets VIRGINS!! The New York Times thoughtfully prints a few jihadi rules. Of course, not without the obligatory
 whacko-scary moment while interviewing these scary whackos.


We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded Islamic militants about their
distribution of recruitment videos when one of us asked one too many questions.
“He’s American?” one of the militants growled. “Let’s kidnap and kill him.”
Now, back to those rules! Rule number two?

...Rule No. 2: You can kill children, too, without needing to feel distress.

...True, Islamic texts say it is unlawful to kill children, women, the old and the infirm. In the Sahih Bukhari,
a respected collection of sermons and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, verse 4:52:257 refers to Ghazawat, a battle
in which Muhammad took part. “Narrated Abdullah: During some of the Ghazawat of the Prophet a woman was found killed.
Allah’s Apostle disapproved the killing of women and children.”

But militant Islamists including extremists in Jordan who embrace Al Qaeda’s ideology teach recruits that children
receive special consideration in death. They are not held accountable for any sins until puberty, and if they are
killed in a jihad operation they will go straight to heaven. There, they will instantly age to their late 20s, and
enjoy the same access to virgins* and other benefits as martyrs receive.


* I have played 'Ask the Iman' with make-believe mullah major dad, who explains:

"Those worthless female catmeats who are gloriously blown to bits for Islam are immediately transformed into
succulent, 20 year old virgins! Allah akBAR, baby!!!"


June 10, 2007
Permission
The Guidebook for Taking a Life
By MICHAEL MOSS and SOUAD MEKHENNET
We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded Islamic militants
 about their distribution of recruitment
videos when one of us asked one too many questions. “He’s American?” one of the militants growled.
“Let’s kidnap and kill him.”

The room fell silent. But before anyone could act on this impulse, the rules of jihadi etiquette kicked in.
 You can’t just slaughter a visitor, militants are taught by sympathetic Islamic scholars. You need permission
 from whoever arranges the meeting. And in this case, the arranger who helped us to meet this pair declined to
 sign off.

“He’s my guest,” Marwan Shehadeh, a Jordanian researcher, told the bearded men.

With Islamist violence brewing in various parts of the world, the set of rules that seek to guide and justify
the killing that militants do is growing more complex.

This jihad etiquette is not written down, and for good reason. It varies as much in interpretation and practice
 as extremist groups vary in their goals. But the rules have some general themes that underlie actions ranging
from the recent rash of suicide bombings in Algeria and Somalia, to the surge in beheadings and bombings by
separatist Muslims in Thailand.

Some of these rules have deep roots in the Middle East, where, for example, the Egyptian Islamic scholar Yusuf
 al-Qaradawi has argued it is fine to kill Israeli citizens because their compulsory military service means they
 are not truly civilians.

The war in Iraq is reshaping the etiquette, too. Suicide bombers from radical Sunni and Shiite Muslim groups have
 long been called martyrs, a locution that avoids the Koran’s ban on killing oneself in favor of the honor it
accords death in battle against infidels. Now some Sunni militants are urging the killing of Shiites, alleging
that they are not true Muslims. If there seems to be no published playbook, there are informal rules, and these
 were gathered by interviewing militants and their leaders, Islamic clerics and scholars in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon
 and England, along with government intelligence officials in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.

Islamic militants who embrace violence may account for a minuscule fraction of Muslims in the world, but they lay
 claim to the breadth of Islamic teachings in their efforts to justify their actions. “No jihadi will do any action
 until he is certain this action is morally acceptable,” says Dr. Mohammad al-Massari, a Saudi dissident who runs
a leading jihad Internet forum, Tajdeed.net, in London, where he now lives.

Here are six of the more striking jihadi tenets, as militant Islamists describe them:


Rule No. 1: You can kill bystanders without feeling a lot of guilt.

The Koran, as translated by the University of Southern California Muslim Student Association’s Compendium of Muslim
 Texts, generally prohibits the slaying of innocents, as in Verse 33 in Chapter 17 (Isra’, The Night Journey,
Children of Israel): “Nor take life, which Allah has made sacred, except for just cause.”

But the Koran also orders Muslims to resist oppression, as verses 190 and 191 of Chapter 2 (The Cow) instruct:
“Fight in the cause of Allah with those who fight with you, but do not transgress limits; for Allah loveth not
transgressors. And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out, for
 tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter. ...”

In the typical car bombing, some Islamists say, God will identify those who deserve to die — for example, anyone
 helping the enemy — and send them to hell. The other victims will go to paradise. “The innocent who is hurt, he
 won’t suffer,” Dr. Massari says. “He becomes a martyr himself.”

There is one gray area. If you are a Muslim who has sinned, getting killed by a suicide bomber will clean some of
 your slate for Judgment Day, but precisely where God draws the line between those who go to heaven or hell is not
 spelled out.


Rule No. 2: You can kill children, too, without needing to feel distress.

True, Islamic texts say it is unlawful to kill children, women, the old and the infirm. In the Sahih Bukhari, a
respected collection of sermons and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, verse 4:52:257 refers to Ghazawat, a battle
 in which Muhammad took part. “Narrated Abdullah: During some of the Ghazawat of the Prophet a woman was found
killed. Allah’s Apostle disapproved the killing of women and children.”

But militant Islamists including extremists in Jordan who embrace Al Qaeda’s ideology teach recruits that children
receive special consideration in death. They are not held accountable for any sins until puberty, and if they are killed in
a jihad operation they will go straight to heaven. There, they will instantly age to their late 20s, and enjoy the same access
to virgins and other benefits as martyrs receive.

Islamic militants are hardly alone in seeking to rationalize innocent deaths, says John O. Voll, a professor of Islamic
history at Georgetown University. “Whether you are talking about leftist radicals here in the 1960s, or the apologies
 for civilian collateral damage in Iraq that you get from the Pentagon, the argument is that if the action is just, the
collateral damage is justifiable,” he says.


Rule No. 3: Sometimes, you can single out civilians for killing; bankers are an example.
In principle, nonfighters cannot be targeted in a militant operation, Islamist scholars say. But the list of
exceptions is long and growing.

Civilians can be killed in retribution for an enemy attack on Muslim civilians, argue some scholars like the Saudi cleric
Abdullah bin Nasser al-Rashid, whose writings and those of other prominent Islamic scholars have been analyzed by
the Combating Terrorism Center, a research group at the United States Military Academy at West
Point, N.Y.

Shakir al-Abssi, whose Qaeda-minded group, Fatah Al Islam, has been fighting Lebanese soldiers since May 20,says
 some government officials are fair game. He was sentenced to death in Jordan for helping to organize the slaying
of the American diplomat Laurence Foley in 2002, and said in an interview with The New York Times that while he did
 not specifically choose Mr. Foley to be killed, “Any person that comes to our region with a military, security or political
 aim, then he is a legitimate target.”
Others like Atilla Ahmet, a 42-year-old Briton of Cypriot descent who is awaiting trial in England on terrorism charges,
take a broader view. “It would be legitimate to attack banks because they charge interest, and this is in violation of
Islamic law,” Mr. Ahmet said last year.

Rule No. 4: You cannot kill in the country where you reside unless you were born there.
Militants living in a country that respects the rights of Muslims have something like a peace contract with the country,
 says Omar Bakri, a radical sheik who moved from London to Lebanon two years ago under pressure
from British authorities.
Militants who go to Iraq get a pass as expeditionary warriors. And the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks did not violate this rule
 since the hijackers came from outside the United States, Mr. Bakri said.
“When I heard about the London bombings, I prayed that no bombers from Britain were involved,” he said, fearing
 mmigrants were responsible. As it turned out, the July 7, 2005, attack largely complied with this rule. Three of the
four men who set off the bombs had been born in Britain; the fourth moved there from Jamaica as an infant.

 Mr. Bakri says he does not condone violence against innocent people anywhere. But some of the several hundred
 young men who studied Islam with him say they have no such qualms.“We have a voting system here in Britain, so
 anyone who is voting for Tony Blair is not a civilian and therefore would be a legitimate target,” says Khalid Kelly, an
 Irish-born Islamic convert who says he studied with 
Mr. Bakri in London.


Rule No. 5: You can lie or hide your religion if you do this for jihad.

Muslims are instructed by the Koran to be true to their religion. “Therefore stand firm (in the straight Path) as thou
art commanded, thou and those who with thee turn (unto Allah), and transgress not (from the Path), for He seeth
well all that you do,” says verse 112 of Chapter 11 (Hud). Lying is allowed only when it is deemed a necessity, for
 example when being tortured, or when an innocuous deception serves a good purpose, scholars say.

But some militants appear to shirk this rule to blend in with non-Muslim surroundings or deflect suspicion, says
Maj. Gen. Achraf Rifi, the general director of Lebanon’s internal security force who oversaw a surveillance last year
 of a Lebanese man suspected of plotting to blow up the PATH train under the Hudson