datsh Göran Persson Premier Szwecji 11.09.02, 12:08 www.svd.se/dynamiskt/Brannpunkt/did_2669296.asp 11/9 2002 Sårbara men starka Antingen förmår demokratin att sätta stopp för terrorismen - eller så förmår terrorismen att hindra demokratin. I det valet finns ingen tvekan om vad som måste göras. FN är starkt och moget för uppgiften, skriver Göran Persson med anledning av årsdagen av den 11 september. Det var en helt vanlig, tidig höstmorgon i New York City. Människor var på väg till sina jobb. En del vinkade av barn vid skolan. Andra påbörjade sitt första arbetspass. Det var då det inträffade. World Trade Center träffades av två kapade flygplan. Flera kvarter i New York förvandlades till ett inferno av eld, rök och fallande rasmassor. Samtidigt kraschade ytterligare två fulltankade flygplan. Ett var menat att radera ut den amerikanska demokratins hjärta, Capitolium. Det andra nådde sitt mål: försvarshögkvarteret Pentagon i Washington. En våg av urskillningslös terror drabbade tusentals oskyldiga människor. I ett slag hade en ny tids hot blivit verklighet. I dag infaller årsdagen av terrorattackerna och vi minns det fortfarande skrämmande tydligt. För väldigt många människor har det år som gått varit smärtsamt. För alla dem som miste anhöriga och vänner, eller som skadades har det varit ett långt och tungt år. Det är plågsamt att återkalla bilderna och tankarna. Men jag tror att vi behöver stanna upp ett ögonblick och minnas. Vad vi bevittnade den 11 september 2001 var ett av de värsta terrordåd någonsin riktade mot en enskild nation i fredstid. Men det var mer än ett angrepp mot Förenta staterna. Terrordådens udd var riktad mot det öppna samhället, mot det demokratiska samhälle som människan så länge försökt bygga i olika länder och världsdelar. Det var ett angrepp mot alla oss som tror på demokratin och det öppna samhällets möjlighet till frihet och trygghet. Vi vill kunna resa fritt. Vi vill kunna besöka andra länder och kulturer. Vi vill utbyta erfarenheter och kunskap, knyta kontakter och vänskapsband över gränserna. Det är en fantastisk möjlighet. Det är en sådan värld vi vill ha - en värld där vi kan leva tillsammans och mötas utan rädsla. Att det öppna demokratiska samhället aldrig kan tas för givet - det visste vi. Ändå blev 11 september en skrämmande stark påminnelse om hur sårbar den öppna världen är. Hur sårbara våra demokratier är, när de ställs inför krafter som är beredda att utmana själva kärnan i demokratin - det okränkbara människovärdet. Jag sa direkt efter attackerna mot World Trade Center att alla demokratiska krafter i världen måste hålla samman och bilda gemensam front mot terrorismen. Grunden för mitt ställningstagande var insikten om att antingen förmår demokratin att sätta stopp för terrorismen - eller så förmår terrorismen sätta stopp för demokratin. I det valet råder ingen tvekan om vad som måste göras. Världens demokratier valde att agera tillsammans. Sverige var med från början när en global koalition mot terrorismen bildades. Det var självklart för oss att delta. För första gången sedan FN bildades fattades beslut om att en enskild terroristattack kan utgöra ett hot mot internationell fred och säkerhet. FN:s säkerhetsråd bekräftade i två nya resolutioner USA:s rätt till självförsvar - beslut som Sverige självklart ställer sig bakom. Sverige måste helhjärtat och varaktigt stå upp för FN. Allt annat är otänkbart för oss som internationalister, övertygade om vikten av ett bindande internationellt regelverk. FN har efter 11 september visat sig vara starkt och moget uppgiften att försvara också en ny typ av angrepp på den globala säkerheten. Det senaste året har mycket hänt - sådant som varit smärtsamt, men också sådant som inger hopp. I Afghanistan störtades talibanregimen och en tillfällig administration byggdes upp. En internationell säkerhetsstyrka sattes upp som fortfarande övervakar säkerheten i regionen. Mycket stora summor i bistånd har nått Afghanistan. Barnen har kunnat återvända till skolan, kvinnorna kan åter arbeta och röra sig utan heltäckande slöja. Återuppbyggnaden är i full gång, inte minst med hjälp av de miljontals afghanska flyktingar i världen som fått stöd att återvända. Men kriget pågår fortfarande och därmed drabbas också många oskyldiga civila. Ground Zero i New York är som ett öppet sår i ett öppet samhälle. Men också där fortgår arbetet med att återställa och nyskapa stadsbilden. Kampen mot den internationella terrorismen fortsätter inom ramen för FN och EU. Lagstiftningen har skärpts och internationaliserats bland annat för att försvåra finansieringen av terrorismen. Sverige har ställt upp, men också arbetat intensivt för den enskildes rättssäkerhet och för att sanktionerna utformas så att deras trovärdighet inte undergrävs. Så länge terrorism finns måste kampen mot den fortsätta. Men det måste också kampen för demokratin och människors rätt att leva i fred och frihet i öppna samhällen. Det måste också kampen mot fattigdomen och kränkningar av mänskliga rättigheter. När stora katastrofer inträffar blir det som är självklart med ens så glasklart - vi är alla en del av något större, vi är alla beroende av varandra, vi delar upplevelser och vi delar ansvar. Närmare 3 000 människor från 78 olika länder dödades under terrorattackerna. Men den förlust det innebär går inte att mäta i siffror. Låt oss denna årsdag minnas de mördade och deras anhöriga. Låt oss tänka på att det bakom siffrorna fanns enskilda människor, alla lika unika - människor som var fulla av liv, som du och jag. Låt oss minnas dem, och framför allt - låt oss gemensamt se till att vi får leva i ett öppet och tryggt samhälle som vilar på insikten om alla människors lika och okränkbara värde. Göran Persson statsminister Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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zupagrzybowa Z początku jest się ,wydaje mi się,tylko glupim... 11.10.02, 10:03 "Może to nie rodzaj zdolności ktora czyni z człowieka pisarza,ale fakt nie zaakceptowania niego jezyka i pewnych gotowych pojęć. Z początku jest się ,wydaje mi się,tylko glupim,glupszym niż wszyscy inni,co wszystko wiedzą natychmiast.Tak wiec zaczyna się pisanie jako ten co chce wyzdrowieć z trudnej dolegliwości i opanować chorobę psychiczną - conajmniej w trakcie pisania..." Imre Kertesz Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
szpilberg Walter Matthau 11.10.02, 14:17 www.kcrw.org/ra/js_chava_n.ram "Chava" by Sholom Aleichem. Read by Walter Matthau For those who are familiar with Tevye's cry, "Tradition!" from the popular musical "Fiddler on the Roof", the original story of "Chava", from which "Fiddler" is adapted, may come as something of a surprise. By turns comic and heartwrenching, Tevye carries on a running monologue with God in an attempt to make sense of his beloved daughter Chava's break with the only way of life he understands. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: drf Hear NPR's Rick Karr and Leon Wieseltier IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 11.10.02, 18:51 www.npr.org/ramfiles/news/20021010.news.05.ram Hungarian novelist Imre Kertesz, 72, wins the Nobel Literature Prize. He is cited for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." Kertesz survived the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz as a teenager, then drew upon his experience for the novel Fateless. Hear NPR's Rick Karr and Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic. Oct. 10, 2002. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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zupa_w_proszku www.masada2000.org 28.10.02, 20:38 www.masada2000.org/lifeline2.html A LIFELINE TO THE MUSLIM READERS: Make no mistake about it. You are nothing but a prisoner! You don't have the freedom to leave Islam even if you had the dignity, integrity and self-respect to do so. Do you know that your prayers go unanswered? Do you know that strapping dynamite to your chest or on to the chest of your 12 year old son will send neither of you to Paradise to hump an endless stream of virgins? All the bogus promises of an Islamic Heaven filled with young virgins (both little girls AND little boys) should be an insult to any sane human intelligence. By the way, when was the last time an Islamic cleric, mullah, Grand Mufti or a fat pedophile like Arafat ever volunteered to blow HIMSELF up? Believe me, THEY are a lot smarter than you!!! Do you realize that your Islamic cult's ONLY enduring claim to fame is prefaced upon the utter injustice to others who do not share its Islamic cultist beliefs? The cult you worship was a cult created by the psychopath "Mohammed" and spread in all directions by his gangs of like-minded freaks bent on plunder, murder, vandalism, mayhem, rape and pillage. And this is the same fate awaiting those few non-Muslims unfortunate enough to still reside in areas under Islamic control today! Such is the sad state of affairs in ALL Islamic-dominated lands. Is THIS what makes you a proud Muslim? Look around you... ... which of the forty or so Islamic nations do you most admire? Are there ANY without abject poverty, utter devastation, endemic corruption, extreme economic inequities and grotesque injustices? And what would ANY of them be if it were not for all the oil lying beneath them... oil discovered by others, pumped out by others and transported out by others! The fact is that NON-Muslims live far better in this world and certainly enjoy infinitely more physical, emotional and spiritual freedoms! Even your enemy, Israel... despite all your vicious attempts to terrorize her, to have the world boycott her and to pressure the stinking U.N. to isolate her... has a far higher standard of living and a more vibrant society and lifestyle. The misery of the Arab peoples, which remain disproportionately illiterate, jobless and illiterate, is not the fault of any Westerner (and certainly not Israel)... but rather the doing of their own unelected leaders who have squandered the vast mineral and oil riches within which their lands have been blessed. You praise Allah for this? Simply put... If you had the ability to un-clog your brainwashed minds, you would acknowledge the Truth that Islam IS definitely the worse form of racism and fast becoming synonymous with "terrorism" itself! And terrorized are YOU too and you will continue to be terrorized for the rest of your miserable blind existence... unless you face this reality. Why not unload this heavy baggage and become a good Jew... or, at the very least, ACT AS ONE. Our Torah and Jewish laws preach love, compassion, compromise and justice... not Jihad, Holy War and suicidal martyrdom. You keep saying that you and we are "cousins." Why not become more like brothers? Within a generation or two your progeny will thank you. UPDATE: September 11, 2001 And now this! ... There you go again! . Return to Home Page www.masada2000.org/index.html Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
drf President's Greeting for Ramadan 07.11.02, 01:46 www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/11/20021105-3.html President's Greeting for Ramadan I send greetings to Muslims in the United States and around the world as you observe the holy month of Ramadan. Islam is a peace-loving faith that is practiced by more than one billion people, including millions of American Muslims. These proud citizens contribute to the diversity that makes our country strong, and the United States is grateful for the friendship and support of many Muslim Nations that are vital partners in the global coalition to fight against terrorism. The Qur'an teaches that Ramadan is a time for fasting, prayer, worship, and contemplation. Muslims observe this month by renewing their dedication to caring for those in need, doing good deeds, and strengthening family and community ties. These actions reflect many of the values that Muslims share with people of other faiths across our Nation and around the world, including courage, compassion, and service. America remains committed to freedom, justice, and opportunity for all people. During this season of reverence and examination, we continue to work together for a future of peace, tolerance, and understanding. Laura joins me in sending our best wishes for a blessed time. May you be well during Ramadan and throughout the coming year. GEORGE W. BUSH ### Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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Gość: © modernART ATLANTA GA USA IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 19.11.02, 22:41 www.wsza2.prv.pl/ Przywilej wszy Szteinfort nowi fundatii strony.wp.pl/wp/jbbuch/szteinfort_pl.htm Człuchowo 22. Nov. 1631. Melchior Weyher, wojewoda Chelminski, Kowalewski Walecki Czluchowski etc. etc. starosta. Wiadomo czynię, komu wiedziec nalezy, wszem w obec y kazdemu z ossobna. Iß upatruiąc pozytki Rzeczypospolitej y onych podlug moznosci iako naiwięcy przyczynic chcąc mieißca niepozytecne y zadnego prowentu przynoszące na pozyteczne y plodne przywodząc utciwym męzom Michałowi Bitner y Andrzeiowi Dumro pozwoliłem de nova radice wies Stenfort na mieszcu takze Stenfort nazwanym przy granicy Pomorskiey osadzic. W ktorey wsi przerzeczony Michał Bitner y Andrzei Dumro y ich potomkowie szoltysami bydz maią y onych mocą przywileiu mego czynię; na osadę tey wsi y poddanych w niey wymierzyc wskazałem na mieszcu pomienionym wlok trzydziesci. Na ktorych wlokach pomienioni szołtysi powinni będą osadzic kmieci iedenascie i kaczmarza iednego; sami takze pobudowac się maią. Ktorzy kmiecie kazdy z nich z ossobna miec maią po dwu wlokach, y kaczmarz takze. Szoltysi zas dla siebie otrzymaią kazdy z ossobna po trzech wlokach. A iß w zakładaniu y osadzeniu tey wsi koszty, pracą niemalą podiąc muszą, tedy tak tym przerzeczonym szoltysom, iako tesz i kmieciom z kaczmarzem y potomkom ich wolnosci od wszelakich cięzarow y dania do lat osmi po sobie idących pozwoliłem. A po wysciu wolnosci tey y expiratiey lath pomienionych, tedj szoltysi przerzeconi albo potomkowie ich za forę po zlotych dziesięci placic maią na rok. A poddani za fory po zlotych czterech czynszu, zaś ci poddani y ich potomkowie po zlotych piąci od kazdj wloki na kazdy rok na S. Marcin do ząmku Czluchowskiego oddawac powinni będą. Ktory czens y fory wyzy mianowane zaplaciwszy iuß od inszych wszelakich powinnosci roboty danin iako drugie wsi nowo osadzone wolni zostawac maią. Szoltysom teß pomienionym y ich potomkom wolnosc taką, iaką drudzy szoltysi w starostwie Czluchowskim maią, pozwoliłem y od sądow gros trzeci tymze szoltysom przychodzic ma. Daię teß tymze szoltysom y ich potomkom na jezierze Derpsku malemi sieciami (w) lecie wolną rybitwą na potrzebę ich; czasu iednak mrzoski od lowienia zatrzymac się powinni będą. Pozwaląm im teß polowicę rzeki Stenfort zakami na swą stronę (iednak przes przeskody rybienia jeziora) zastawic. Ktory przywilei moi we wszystkich punctach ma im bydz trzymany, a oni teß conditiom na nich wlozonym powinni dosic czynic. A na ostatek pozwaląm tymze szoltyszom przywileiu tego mego confirmatią K. Mc(i) uprosic y otrzymac. A dla lepszey wiary y pewnosci tego wszystkiego przy podpisie ręki moiej pieczec swą przycisnąc wskazałem. Dzialo się w ząmku Sluchowskim die vigesima secunda mensis Novembris anno Domini Millesimo sexcentesimo trigesimo primo. mpp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: © "The King" by Isaac Babel. Read by Jeff Goldblum IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 20.11.02, 00:59 "The King" by Isaac Babel. Read by Jeff Goldblum Benya Krik, a tough and crafty Jewish gangster in Odessa, hosts an elaborate wedding for his sister and at the same time, "takes care" of the new police chief who intends to interfere with Benya's underground operations www.kcrw.org/ra/js_king.ram Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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Gość: © What do you need to perform a Canaanite ritual? IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 28.01.03, 18:13 Canaanite-Phoenician Basic Ritual Needs Updated 16 June 1999 What do you need to perform a Canaanite ritual? Basically, nothing more than yourself and your good heart. It always helps to feed to Deities a little - bread, oil, and juice will do (but They do prefer wine). But if you really want to feel a sense of Canaan, here are some suggestions to enliven your ritual. *I. GARMENTS* *II. FOOD* *III. MUSIC* *IV. ALTARS* I. RITUAL GARMENTS: ROBE: White linen is the most traditional color and fiber, especially with maroon- red, red-purple, or indigo or cobalt blue stripes, but any NATURAL fiber in white is appropriate. For warmth, you can wear a T-tunic under a sleeveless over-tunic and a sleeveless front-opening robe over that. For additional warmth, if necessary, wear loose-fitting long pants, either narrow ankled African or full-legged gathered-ankled belly-dance style. For ritual use, relatively undecorated tunics are prefered, except perhaps for the Kohanim and Kohanat. If you cannot find striped linen (and I couldn't), it is quite typical to sew bands of colored cloth or woven ribbon in an appropriate design down the front and back at the shoulder. Folkwear Patterns, distributed by Taunton Press, has several useful ethnic designs, especially the Middle Eastern, North African, Turkish, and Indian ones. HEAD COVERING: For daily wear, Canaanite and Phoenician men tied a ribbon headband around their hair, encircling the head above the ears. Women generally wore their hair pulled back and coifed in some way. For ritual, the head should be covered by a cloth, held in place by the headband for the men; women can cover their hair with a large loose cloth or scarf. Middle Eastern head cloths, often from Syria or Palestine, usually of white embroidered or woven with black, blue, purple or red, and the headband to anchor them, are available in many cities at import shops (in the U.S. at least). FOOT WEAR: Wear sandals or go barefoot. Naturally climate and terrain will have some influence. Safety and comfort should take precedence over authenticity. Gillies, lace-up Scottish folk-dancing slippers, for example, while not Middle Eastern, look very ancient and authentic. JEWELRY: and lots of it, on both men and women. Wear beads, bells, and many necklaces at one time - they even wore neckbands rather like Celtic/German torcs; bracelets and bangles up the arms; dangly earrings - and Phoenician men wore them, too. SCARF, SHAWL, or OUTER VESTMENT: in the colors of a particular deity would be nice, if you are dedicated to one, or enacting a myth. For cold weather or very dramatic productions, the Middle Eastern/North African garment known as an Abba is the thing. It is a large rectangle, sewn up the sides with openings at the top of the side seam for your arms, and completely open in the center front. A poncho is a tolerable substitute. II. FOOD FOR OFFERINGS AND FOR THE FEAST: Try to eat foods typical of the region. You actually have a lot of latitude here, since the Mediterranean climate, naturally, extends from Spain and Morocco, through Southern France, Algeria, Italy, Egypt, Greece, parts of Turkey, to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, and even Persia. It also includes places like California and Mexico. FRUITS OF THE EARTH: Grains from the region were most typically barley, spelt, and wheat, but can include any you prefer. The offerings can take the form of sheaves or bundles of grain-grasses, bowls of whole grains, jars of flour, and crackers or loaves of bread. Jewish Challah (also called egg twist in the U.S.), and pita (pocket bread), matzoh, or Persian or Armenian (lavosh) flat breads are good. Ak-Mak and Euphrates Biscuits brand crackers (in the U.S.) are also suitable. Tabouleh, a salad of cracked wheat with parsley, mint, tomatoes, and green onion, is delicious. Lentils and pulses such as dried peas, garbanzos (chick peas), and beans are hearty and wholesome. Fruits can be dried or fresh, and include apricots, citrus fruits, dates, figs, grapes, melons, peaches, pomegranates, raisins. Nuts of the region include almonds, pine nuts, pistachio nuts, walnuts. I am not certain what root vegetables they ate in the ancient times. Regional cookbooks have modern recipes for beets, carrots, turnips, etc. Other foods include seeds such as sesame and poppy, green herbs, spices, edible flowers, etc. The offerings don't have to be as they come straight from nature. Nut and seed cakes, nut and seed butters, etc. are delicious, as is hummos, a dip made of sesame butter and mashed chick peas, seasoned with mint, garlic, red pepper, and lemon juice. FAT OF THE LAND: includes olives, oils (small amounts for the libation dish), honey, dairy products such as yogurt (curdled milk, as it is often translated in the myths, and which sounds unappetizing, is probably yogurt) and feta & other soft cheese, and, of course, animals. In the past, live animals were sacrificed. This is a common pagan practice throughout the world, and until the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E., the Jews also sacrificed animals in their temple. It is still practiced today by some pagan religions. Even hunting is a form of sacrifice - if you hunt, take a cue from the Native American Indians and praise and thank the animal. I am by no means suggesting that you sacrifice animals for rituals. Meat from animals someone else has butchered will do just fine today, if you are not vegetarian. If you do raise animals for your own table, then what better way to dispatch them than to send a part of their essence to the deities, so that they die in a sacred manner. If you are vegetarian, non-animal offerings are sufficient. In ancient times, an animal was very expensive, and not everyone could spare them. Acceptable offerings included containers of flour, oil, honey, etc. For modern vegetarians, a vegetable-based high-protein meat-substitute, such as tofu, tempeh, seitan, etc., is perfectly honorable. FRUIT OF THE VINE & OTHER BEVERAGES: Grape and other fruit wine, mead, beer & ale, in other words, fermented liquids, were typical. If you prefer not to have alcoholic drinks, juices are fine. Try to avoid those with added sugar or high fructose corn sweetener and those that are artificially sweetened. Pure juice is so much tastier and healthier. The alcoholic grain-based brews of the old days had rather more body than those of today: it was not a light clear drink, but contained a bit of the grain and was less alcoholic than what we purchase. Wines were a speciality of the Phoenicians. The Egyptians at that time never succeeded in growing enough grapes and relied on imports. Even the Greeks couldn't offer vintages to compare with the Phoenicians until much later. At the table, most folks drank their wine mixed with water, quite frequently half and half. So the opportunity to drink pure wine at a ritual was a special occasion. This is why getting drunk was so special and originally considered a spiritual state, in which deities could talk or act through the person in that condition. Many scholars believe that Dionysos was originally from the Middle East, home of wine and ecstatic worship. III. MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Percussion is Number One for getting people in the mood to celebrate. Various sorts are appropriate: cymbals, tingshah, zils, sistra, tambourines, frame drums, doumbek/ darabouka, etc. If you are musically gifted, you could include lyres (harp, psaltery, lute, even guitar, mandolin, or banjo), flutes (recorders, pennywhistles, pan-pipes), reeds (zurna/sharunai/shenai - now often replaced by the clarinet), even small bagpipes (Irish, Bulgarian, Moroccan, etc.), and horns (the Jewish ram's-horn shofar is perfect, but I u Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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alef1 Jaron Lanier o przyszłości Rzeczywistości Wirtualn 03.03.03, 00:57 www.cyber.com.pl/archiwum/6/5.shtml Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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Gość: * extraOrdinaryPoSession? IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 19.03.03, 13:18 www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/19/iraq.tracker.update/index.html Speakers in the Iraqi parliament made a show of support for Saddam Hussein in an "extraordinary session" Wednesday, promising to fight to the end any "aggression" from the United States and its allies Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: <:::::> InteraktywnaHistoria ;))) IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 21.03.03, 20:30 Chronik für das Jahr 1490 Weltgeschichte :|: Kulturgeschichte :|: Deutsche Geschichte Jahreschronik-Texte bei '2000 Jahre Chronik - Geschichte online' Navigation: Den Text für dieses Jahr downloaden (alle 3 Bereiche: Welt, Kultur, Deutschland) Ein Jahr rückwärts ::: Chronik Texte Hauptseite ::: Ein Jahr vorwärts ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Weltgeschichte Maximilian I. vertreibt die Ungarn unter Wladislaw von Böhmen (aus dem polnischen Geschlecht der Jagellonen), Nachfolger des verstorbenen ungarischen Königs Corvinus (*1443, König von Ungarn seit 1458, König von Böhmen 1469- 1471), aus Niederösterreich und führt seinen Vater, Kaiser Friedrich III., nach Wien zurück. Das seit 1379 zersplitterte österreichische Erbe der Habsburger wird wieder vereinigt (erneute Teilung 1564). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Kunst-, Kultur- und Technikgeschichte Der Nürnberger Holzschnitzer Veit Stoß errichtet den Hochaltar der Marienkirche in Krakau. Erster Drahtzieherei-Betrieb in Nürnberg. Die Schnabelschuhe werden durch breites Schuhwerk abgelöst ("Kuhmäuler"). In Italien und den Niederlanden entstehen die ersten Waisenhäuser. Akademiegleiche wissenschaftliche Genossenschaften werden in Krakau, Pest und Worms gegründet. Albrecht Dürer ist auf Wanderschaft in Kolmar, Basel und Straßburg. Schloß Amboise an der Loire entsteht. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Deutsche Geschichte Schloß und Schloßkirche in Wittenberg werden begonnen (fertig 1500). Der Habsburger Kaiser Friedrich III. hält sich zu einer siebenwöchigen Kur in Baden-Baden auf. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: *** defenselink IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 22.03.03, 17:53 By Kathleen T. Rhem American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 19, 2003 – In the first 24 hours of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, coalition military aircraft "struck more targets than were struck in all of 1942 and 1943 by 8th Air Force during the Combined Bomber Offensive," an Air Force officer said in the Pentagon today. In the opening hours of the impending military conflict with Iraq, American aircraft could drop 10 times as many bombs. The looming clash will be "an order of magnitude larger in terms of numbers of targets struck within the first 24 to 48 hours," Col. Gary Crowder, chief of strategy, concepts and doctrine for Air Combat Command, said. Advances in precision and stealth technology and a new approach to planning have allowed for more efficient prosecution of bombing campaigns, the colonel explained. And while massive amounts of bombs may fall on Iraq, they may cause less collateral damage than has ever been seen in a major offensive. Stealth and precision technology and new ways of thinking are leading to fewer aircraft being used and less damage being done in on the ground while still leading to the most effective use of air power. Low levels of precision led to massive amounts of damage in Germany and Japan in World War II. The military measures precision in a complex term called "circular error probable," or CEP. That means the distance from the intended point of impact that at least 50 percent of munitions can be expected to land within. The CEP of bombs dropped from the WWII-era B-17 was 3,300 feet. Only half of the bombs dropped were expected to land within 3,300 feet of their intended target. "If you wanted to have a high probability of destruction of a target of 60 (feet) by 100 feet, you'd need about 1,500 airplanes and about 9,000 bombs," Crowder said. By Desert Storm, Crowder added, "we were able to hit two independent targets very precisely with about 10-foot CEP from a single aircraft." "Baghdad will not look like Dresden," he assured. Allied bombers virtually destroyed that German city in a 1945 World War II campaign. Crowder said the U.S. military is employing a different way of thinking about what it wants to achieve on the battlefield. "Instead of a traditional attritional approach in terms of listing a bunch of targets and then go bombing targets or finding where the enemy is and killing all the enemy, we really determined that what we wanted to do was achieve some sort of policy objective," he said. Target planners consider what military objective is desired. For instance, Crowder explained that total destruction of Iraq's power grid is not necessarily a desired outcome to cut off the electrical power that helps enemy forces perform. Instead, planners just really want to disable the military forces' command and control capabilities. Bombers could, of course, destroy the whole grid. But targeting strategic junctions has several advantages. It preserves the power grid for use after a conflict, and it requires fewer air assets to accomplish the mission while achieving the same objective – to disadvantage the enemy forces. Another revolution in targeting involves what Crowder called "parallel warfare." Military campaigns have historically been linear or sequential in their prosecution. Forces would attack one element of an air defense system then go after another until the air defense system was destroyed, then they could go after whatever they really intended to attack all along. Parallel warfare and advances in technology allow planners to go after an entire air defense system and the true objective in one fell swoop, Crowder explained. The key is to look at a defensive system as a whole instead of its elements and ask what element has to be taken out to shut down the whole. It's often not necessary to destroy every individual element to achieve the desired effect. And with modern technology advancing to the point that one B-1 bomber can carry up to 24 satellite-guided bombs that can strike 24 separate targets in one run, successive bombing runs aren't necessary. It's possible to take out an entire air defense system and whatever the system was protecting with a single bombing run. "The addition of these capabilities gives us an extremely large volume of fires or effects early in an operation in a very, very short period of time," Crowder said. "(We can now) go after a target that might be military or political leadership, that might be essential industries or transportation," he added. "You could actually now attack the enemy as a system and work toward trying to achieve systemic collapse." The point is it's not necessary to destroy everything. "If we understood what the effect we desired on the battlefield (was), we could then figure out ways of creating that effect more efficiently, more effectively, while striking less targets, using less weapons, and … mitigating potential concerns for collateral damage and civilian casualties," Crowder said. Stealth technology also allows fewer planes to be used in each bombing run. In on mission in the early hours of Desert Storm, 41 aircraft were used to get eight bombers to the southern Iraq city of Basra. "Sweep and escort" fighters, drones, and electronic attack aircraft were all included as the necessary way of doing business before the widespread use of stealth aircraft. These technological and doctrinal advances have all led to a strategy military leaders hope will "shock and awe" the Iraqi military and leaders into capitulation, Crowder explained. "I do not think that our potential adversary has any idea what's coming," he said. "The degree and the capabilities that this nation has fielded, together with our coalition partners over the last 10 years, we would not have believed it possible in 1991." www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/n03192003_200303197.html_______________________________________________________ Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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Gość: *©*©* GEORGE WASHINGTON'S PROPHESY OF AMERICA IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 02.04.03, 23:41 GEORGE WASHINGTON'S PROPHESY OF AMERICA The father of our country, George Washington, was a man of prayer. We have all read of how he went to the thicket many times to pray during the winter his army was at Valley Forge. However, little publicity has been given to the vision and prophecy he received at that time. The account of this vision was given in 1859 by an old soldier. He gave it to a writer, Wesley Bradshaw, who published it. In the vision God revealed to George Washington that three great perils would come upon the Republic. He was given to know that America was going through the first peril at that time. The old soldier who told the story of the vision said that the nation would soon see the account verified by the second peril descending upon the land. We give the account here as it was reprinted in the U. S. war veterans' paper The National Tribune, in December, 1880. The National Tribune is now called The Stars and Stripes. This article was reprinted in the Stars and Stripes December 21,1950. Here is the report of this phenomenal and most important heavenly message for us at this hour. Wesley Bradshaw wrote: The last time I ever saw Anthony Sherman was on the fourth of July 1859, in Independence Square. He was then ninety-nine years old, and becoming very feeble. But though so old, his dimming eyes rekindled as he gazed upon Independence Hall, which he came to visit once more. MESSAGE DISCLOSED "Let us go into the hall," he said. "I want to tell you of an incident of Washington's life-one which no one alive knows of except myself; and if you live, you will before long see it verified. Mark the prediction, you will see it verified." "From the opening of the Revolution we experienced all phases-of fortune, now good and now ill, one time victorious and another conquered. The darkest period we had, I think, was when Washington after several reverses, retreated to Valley Forge, where he resolved to pass the winter of 1777. Ah! I have often seen the tears coursing down our dear commander's care-worn cheeks, as he would be conversing with a confidential officer about the condition of his poor soldiers. You have doubtless heard the story of Washington's going to the thicket to pray. Well, it was not only true, but he used often to pray in secret for aid and comfort. And God brought us safely through the darkest days of tribulation." "One day, I remember it well, the chilly winds whistled through the leafless trees, though the sky was cloudless and the sun shone brightly. He remained in his quarters nearly all the afternoon, alone. When he came out I noticed that his face was a shade paler than usual, and there seemed to be something on his mind of more than ordinary importance. Returning just after dusk, he dispatched an orderly to the quarters of an officer, who was presently in attendance. After a preliminary conversation of about half an hour, Washington, gazing upon his companion with that strange look of dignity which he alone could command, said to the latter: AN UNINVITED GUEST "I do not know whether it is owing to the anxiety of my mind, or what, but this afternoon, as I was sitting at this table engaged in preparing a dispatch, something in the apartment seemed to disturb me. Looking up, I beheld standing opposite me a singularly beautiful being. So astonished was I, for I had given strict orders not to be disturbed that it was some moments before I found language to inquire the cause of the visit. A second, a third, and even a fourth time did I repeat my question, but received no answer from my mysterious visitor except a slight raising of the eyes." "By this time I felt strange sensations spreading through me. I would have risen but the riveted gaze of the being before me rendered volition impossible. I assayed once more to speak, but my tongue had become useless, as if paralyzed. A new influence, mysterious, potent, irresistible, took possession of me. All I could do was to gaze steadily, vacantly at my unknown visitor." "Gradually the surrounding atmosphere seemed to fill with sensations, and grew luminous. Everything about me seemed to rarefy, the mysterious visitor also becoming more airy and yet more distinct to my sight than before. I began to feel as one dying, or rather to experience the sensations, which I have sometimes imagined, accompany death. I did not think, I did not reason, I did not move. All were alike impossible. I was only conscious of gazing fixedly, vacantly at my companion." FIRST GREAT PERIL "Presently I heard a voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn,' while at the same time my visitor extended an arm eastward. I now beheld a heavy white vapor at some distance rising fold upon fold. This gradually dissipated, and I looked upon a strange scene. Before me lay, spread out in one vast plain, all the countries of the world-Europe, Asia, Africa and America. I saw rolling and tossing between Europe and America the billows of the Atlantic, and between Asia and America lay the Pacific. 'Son of the Republic,' said the same mysterious voice as before, 'look and learn.' "At that moment I beheld a dark, shadowy being, like an angel, standing, or rather floating in mid-air, between Europe and America. Dipping water out of the ocean in the hollow of each hand, he sprinkled some upon America with his right hand, while with his left he cast some over Europe. Immediately a cloud arose from these countries, and joined - in mid-ocean. For awhile it remained stationary, and then it moved slowly westward, until it enveloped America in its murky folds. Sharp flashes of lightning gleamed through it at intervals, and I heard the smothered groans and cries of the American people. SECOND GREAT PERIL "A second time the angel dipped water from the ocean and sprinkled it out as before. The dark cloud was then drawn back to the ocean, in whose heaving billows it sank from view." "A third time I heard the mysterious voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn.' I cast my eyes upon America and beheld villages and towns and cities springing Up one after another until the whole land from the Atlantic to the Pacific was dotted with them. Again, I heard the mysterious voice say, 'Son of the Republic, the end of the century comes, look and learn." "And this time the dark shadowy angel turned his face southward. From Africa I saw an ill-omened specter approach our land. It flitted slowly and heavily over every town and city of the latter. The inhabitants presently set themselves in battle array against each other. As I continued looking I saw a bright angel on whose brow rested a crown of light, on which was traced the word 'UNION.' He was bearing the American flag. He placed the flag between the divided nation and said, 'Remember, you are brethren.' "Instantly the inhabitants, casting down their weapons, became friends once more and united around the National Standard." "Again I heard the mysterious voice saying, 'Son of the Republic look and learn.' At this the dark, shadowy angel placed a trumpet to his mouth, and blew three distinct blasts; and taking water from the ocean, he sprinkled it upon Europe, Asia and Africa. THIRD AND MOST FEARFUL PERIL "Then my eyes beheld a fearful scene. From each of these continents arose thick black clouds that were soon joined into one. And throughout this mass there gleamed a dark red light by which I saw hordes of armed men. These men, moving with the cloud, marched by land and sailed by sea to America, which country was enveloped in the volume of cloud. And I dimly saw these vast armies devastate the whole country and ~ the villages, towns and cities which I had seen springing up." "As my ears listened to the thundering of the cannon, clashing of the swords, and the shouts Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: USA Ramstein Air Base IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 03.04.03, 00:28 www.ramstein.af.mil/home.html The host unit at Ramstein Air Base is the 86th Airlift Wing (AW) which falls under 3rd Air Force, headquartered in the United Kingdom. The 3rd Air Force is assigned under United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), headquartered at Ramstein AB. Ramstein is also a North Atlantic Treaty Organization installation. Beside Americans, the installation's population is comprised of Canadian, German, British, French, Belgian, Polish, Czech, Norwegian, Danish, and Dutch forces. The wing's mission is the operation and maintenance of airlift assets composed of C-130s, C-9s, C-20s, and C-21s throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. www.debka.com/section.php?cid=9 Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: =v= THE BRITISH FORCES BROADCASTING SERVICE IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 03.04.03, 10:18 www.ssvc.com/bfbs/ www.ssvc.com/bfbs/forces_action/loadfaction.htm www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s821955.htm GO ALBION ! Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: *©*©* END OF SADDAMS ERA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 07.04.03, 09:47 www.becunited.co.uk/mesopotamia/SUMER.html Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: *©*©* G O O D L U C K, U S A !!! IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 07.04.03, 13:05 :) :::::10:Ф: : :blogIZRAEL: ::: passionup: CUDA WE SCARE BECOUSE WE CARE Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: !!! Re: us press IP: 195.152.54.* 07.04.03, 13:38 US media: Telling it like it isn't By Akhilesh Upadhyay NEW YORK - In submitting too easily to the official line on Iraq, the United States media have grandly fallen short of their all-important responsibilities to reflect diversity and to keep the government at arm's length, according to a group of journalism educators and working journalists. They say that the country's dominant media corporations have presented the current buildup to war on Iraq with a shocking homogeneity that fails to reflect the pluralistic vibrancy that exists in the United States. In an open letter sent to major media outlets this week, more than two dozen professors, journalists and authors warned, "This is no time for relying solely on official sources and their supporters. "The media should never confuse patriotism with obeisance and a rubber-stamp mentality," the letter states. "There is a duty to seek out and quote the many experts who express skepticism about claims by the state, rather than simply to rely on the same pundits repeatedly." Enlightened by history, independent journalists argue, more and more people in the US are relying on the Internet to get alternative viewpoints, a trend that took off during the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, where media corporations failed to give adequate and accurate information on what many now regard as a turning point in a broad-based international anti- globalization movement. The media debacle in Seattle led the much-venerated Christian Science Monitor to note, "The new media in Seattle provided a glimpse of what lies ahead for journalism in the new century. It is a message that older media ignore at their own peril." "The first thing US readers need to do is stop reading the US corporate media," said Jeanne Strole at the Independent Media Center (IMC) in New York. "They should start reading the foreign press - British, French, Spanish, Arabic - anything other than the goddamn US corporate media." The IMC homepage features two articles related to war, neither of which has found much room in the US media. One describes a weekend report in Britain's Guardian newspaper based on a leaked memo describing how US agents have increased their spying on representatives of the United Nations Security Council member countries in a bid to get their approval for war on Iraq. The expanded surveillance operation includes intercepting home and office telephone calls and e-mails, according to the paper. The other IMC article describes recent anti-war protests in the Turkish capital Ankara, where parliament on Saturday failed to approve the deployment of 60,000 US troops inside the nation's borders. A day after the vote, the New York Times, for instance, did carry the news on its front page, but failed to mention that thousands of protesters had gathered outside the parliament in Turkey, a secular Muslim state and the only democracy in the region. "We are seeing this increased need for alternative news sources because many more people are feeling generally disillusioned with our government, our corporate leadership and the mainstream media which favors these interests," said Strole's colleague Catriona Stuart. Those who signed the protest letter include retired Times columnist Tom Wicker; a former reporter at the paper, William Serrin; Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the journalism school at the University of California at Berkeley; author Studs Terkel; independent journalist and filmmaker Barbara Koeppell; and author and politician Ralph Nader. The letter describes six patterns of poor media coverage, which characterized reporting during the 1991 Gulf War and which are being repeated in the present run-up to war in Iraq. The "horse-race syndrome" and highlighting military tactics over political analysis means that the media are endlessly churning out news features with titles like "Showdown with Saddam" and "presenting a grave matter as though it were a high-stakes sports contest", the letter says. It indicts the media for failing aggressively to protest government control of information, adding that newspapers and TV news have under-reported this "freeze-out". The letter also accuses the media of failing to maintain "an arm's-length relationship" with government, noting the over-reliance of TV news in particular on government-approved retired military and intelligence consultants. According to IMC's Strole, the US media are run by "a handful of corporations who all have a stake in making sure the Bush administration gets its [expletive] war. More and more Americans are waking up to the fact that the US corporate-mainstream media has been bought and paid for." The Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and the New York Times declined to comment on the letter, telling IPS that they react only to specific points about their own coverage. (Inter Press Service) Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: !!! Re freedom of the press IP: 195.152.54.* 08.04.03, 09:12 Al Jazeera and the Net - free speech, but don't say that By John Lettice Posted: 07/04/2003 at 13:26 GMT Arabic satellite TV network Al Jazeera's efforts to build an English-language web site have run into another speed bump. Akamai Technologies, whose "Accelerated Networks can stand up to unpredictable traffic and flash crowds for even the largest events," fired Al Jazeera last week. Akamai issued a statement saying it had worked "briefly" last week with Al Jazeera, but that it had decided "not to continue a customer relationship" with the channel. No reason was given for the decision, but an Al Jazeera spokeswoman told the New York Times that companies were coming under "nonstop political pressure" to refuse to do business with the channel. Al Jazeera launched an English-language web site at the end of last month, and this immediately came under fire on several fronts. It was hacked, DDoSed, Network Solutions was tricked into allowing the domain to be hijacked (which inspires confidence), and US host DataPipe gave it notice after what Al Jazeera claimed was pressure from other customers. The English language site was up at time of writing, but Al Jazeera clearly needs to find a robust, long-term solution, and this is equally clearly going to be very difficult indeed. There are many ironies to the multi-decked 'get Al Jazeera' campaign; one attack suppressed the site with the slogan "Let Freedom Ring!" (only up to a point, presumably), while practically none of those busily denying themselves the right to access it can have had time to read it in the first place. So at this point it's worth trying to put a little perspective on the network's offering, and consider what it is that it has done that is so bad that Tony Blair spinmeister in chief Alastair Campbell has described its offering as "complete fiction". For what it's worth, the English site's headlines this morning would not have looked particularly out of place from one of the more liberal Western news sources, and the site's British forces take over Basra report was perfectly straight, and pretty much in line with what the BBC has been reporting today. Al Jazeera protests, in fairly mild terms, that it is "increasingly appearing to be subject to a campaign designed at limiting its access to Western audiences," and this does look awfully like the truth. Al Jazeera's sins, it would seem to us, are as follows. First, it has been Osama bin Laden's propaganda outlet, taking delivery of his videotapes and broadcasting them. Second (and this is the one that has raised ire most recently), it has shown footage of the bodies of two dead British servicemen, and of captured troops paraded by the Iraqis. Third, it shows far more harrowing pictures of civilian casualties than western outlets are prepared to run, and fourth (a sum total of the first three) it is therefore peddling Iraqi propaganda. Which is also the accusation currently being levelled at many Western journalists, including recently-ex NBC staffer Peter Arnett, and the Independent's Robert Fisk, recently described as a "Saddamite buffoon" in the Telegraph. Essentially Al Jazeera's 'Iraqi propaganda' activities are no greater (perhaps even rather less) than those of many liberal media outlets. In the UK many of these have also been criticised by the government, but they have not been the subject of major hacking attacks, nor have hosting and services companies declined to do business with them. We should also clarify something regarding the footage of the prisoners and the dead servicemen; military spokesmen to the contrary, reproducing such images is not a breach of the Geneva Convention. The Geneva Convention is directed at governments, and does not cover news organisations. Al Jazeera has arguably broadcast images of the Iraqi Government breaching the Geneva Convention, but that is not the same thing. To get this into perspective, note that one of the most striking pictures from the Vietnam war was of a South Vietnamese officer shooting a prisoner - do we argue that this should not have been published? If Al Jazeera had footage of an Iraqi shooting a British prisoner, should that be broadcast? The other way around? Are our standards today different from those of the 60s, or do the criteria differ depending on the nationalities of the participants and/or the audience? The answers are not straightforward, nor should they be. In deciding whether or not to report a story and how to report it news organisations have to take into account the motivation of the people they're covering, standards of taste and decency and likely impact on people involved, such as friends and family. By Western standards Al Jazeera may have breached standards of taste and decency, and may not (again by Western standards) have sufficiently contextualised bin Laden and Iraqi exercises in propaganda. But by Middle Eastern standards Western media could similarly be accused of too readily parrotting propaganda in the other direction, and of too frequently operating a system of self-censorship. There's some merit to both points of view, the demise of Arnett being a good example of self-censorship, but there's no good reason for casting Al Jazeera into outer darkness - unless of course the problem is that its coverage has been increasingly reaching a Western audience. Or an Internet audience. Back in the irony department Yahoo!, which you may recall had some trouble with the French government a while back over Nazi memorabilia, is one of the companies declining to carry Al Jazeera advertising owing to "war-related sensitivity," and there's probably a high correlation between people who want Al Jazeera run off the web and people who oppose virtually any kind of internet censorship. Al Jazeera meanwhile has racked up millions more new TV viewers than it could possibly hope to gain via a web site, and its service has continued to be available in the US during the war. So why is the Internet different? To some extent, it possibly isn't. Al Jazeera seems to have been able to run an Arabic web site without coming under serious fire until it introduced the English version. Similarly, it's been able to run an Arabic TV station without Western companies trying to pull the plugs on it, and with Western governments denouncing it on the one hand while using it in order to get to its audience on the other. So it's possibly OK if it's over there, in Arabic, but not if it's over here, in English (if it goes ahead with its planned English TV service later this year, then we'll no doubt find out). The Internet is different, however, in that despite it being, allegedly, the New Frontier, the ultimate medium for free speech, it's also eminently suited to the suppression of free speech. Sure, anybody can set up a web site and say whatever they like, but only if not too many people read what they say, and only if they're careful about what it is they say. Say something controversial that enough people don't like, and you'll get attacked. Say something particular pressure groups don't like, and you'll get attacked on multiple fronts, bombarded via email, mail and voice phone, indirectly via your neighbours, other people in your organisation, hosts your organisation deals with, other outfits using the same hosts who don't like the publicity... Even before patriotism and peddling enemy propaganda come into the equation, controversy plus high profile plus the Internet adds up to a great deal of expense and considerable difficulty in finding outfits brave/foolhardy enough and technically robust enough to do business with you. There's a clear hypocrisy to this, because the outfits who'll terminate your contracts are precisely the same outfits who'll have been t Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: sos ReRe freedom of the press IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 09.04.03, 01:41 www.akamai.com/en/html/about/locations.html Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: * freeDomOfThePreSS IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 09.04.03, 01:57 ولعل من أفضل النصائح التي أكدت عليها تلك الأبحاث والدراسات والتقارير الاستخباراتية، هي تخفيض الوجود العسكري أولا، متبوعة بعدم الظهور السافر لأي مظهر عسكري في المجتمعات الخليجية، وعدم إحراج الأنظمة الحاكمة في المنطقة. عدد من المنظرين الأمريكان الذين كلفهم مجلس العلاقات الخارجية الأمريكي، يرون أهمية الوجود العسكري الأميركي في الخليج من أجل الأمن والاستقرار، مع لفت الانتباه إلى أن هذا الوجود العسكري قد يجعل من أنظمة الحكم في الخليج، هدفا لانتقادات مواطني تلك الأقطار.. وبرهن أولئك المنظرون على ذلك بتصاعد درجة العداء والكراهية للولايات المتحدة، وخصوصا من قبل مجموعات المعارضة الخليجية الرافضة للوجود العسكري الأمريكي أصلا بالمنطقة، وأن تلك المجموعات بإمكانها استثمار المشاعر المعادية للغرب بشكل عام والولايات المتحدة، بالتركيز على النواحي السلبية للوجود الغربي أو الأمريكي تحديدا في الخليج، وأن هذا الوجود إنما يقوَض سيادة دول مجلس التعاون.. واستدل كاتبو التقرير بانفجارات الرياض والظهران باعتبارهما أبرز مظاهر الرفض للوجود الأمريكي، ومن أوضح الأدلة على تنامي روح العداء للولايات المتحدة في الخليج، وأن من الأهمية بمكان معالجة ذلك قبل سريان تلك الروح في كثير من الشرائح المجتمعية في الخليج. وما تقوم به الولايات المتحدة الآن من التخطيط لإعادة انتشار قواتها وبرمجة وجودها العسكري بالخليج، إنما هو دليل على شعورها بعدم الاطمئنان إلى وضعها بالمنطقة، وأن الأمور تجري في بعض المسارات عكس ما كانت تتوقعه.. وما انتقال مواقعها ال& Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: :] Goebbels :The year 1944 will find us ready.!!! IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 09.04.03, 01:38 Gość portalu: !!! napisał(a): > US media: Telling it like it isn't > By Akhilesh Upadhyay > > NEW YORK - In submitting too easily to the official line on Iraq, the United > States media have grandly fallen short of their all-important responsibilities > to reflect diversity and to keep the government at arm's length, according to a > > group of journalism educators and working journalists. > > They say that the country's dominant media corporations have presented the > current buildup to war on Iraq with a shocking homogeneity that fails to > reflect the pluralistic vibrancy that exists in the United States. In an open > letter sent to major media outlets this week, more than two dozen professors, > journalists and authors warned, "This is no time for relying solely on official > > sources and their supporters. > > "The media should never confuse patriotism with obeisance and a rubber-stamp > mentality," the letter states. "There is a duty to seek out and quote the many > experts who express skepticism about claims by the state, rather than simply to > > rely on the same pundits repeatedly." > > Enlightened by history, independent journalists argue, more and more people in > the US are relying on the Internet to get alternative viewpoints, a trend that > took off during the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, where > media corporations failed to give adequate and accurate information on what > many now regard as a turning point in a broad-based international anti- > globalization movement. > > The media debacle in Seattle led the much-venerated Christian Science Monitor > to note, "The new media in Seattle provided a glimpse of what lies ahead for > journalism in the new century. It is a message that older media ignore at their > > own peril." > > "The first thing US readers need to do is stop reading the US corporate media," > > said Jeanne Strole at the Independent Media Center (IMC) in New York. "They > should start reading the foreign press - British, French, Spanish, Arabic - > anything other than the goddamn US corporate media." > > The IMC homepage features two articles related to war, neither of which has > found much room in the US media. One describes a weekend report in Britain's > Guardian newspaper based on a leaked memo describing how US agents have > increased their spying on representatives of the United Nations Security > Council member countries in a bid to get their approval for war on Iraq. The > expanded surveillance operation includes intercepting home and office telephone > > calls and e-mails, according to the paper. > > The other IMC article describes recent anti-war protests in the Turkish capital > > Ankara, where parliament on Saturday failed to approve the deployment of 60,000 > > US troops inside the nation's borders. > > A day after the vote, the New York Times, for instance, did carry the news on > its front page, but failed to mention that thousands of protesters had gathered > > outside the parliament in Turkey, a secular Muslim state and the only democracy > > in the region. > > "We are seeing this increased need for alternative news sources because many > more people are feeling generally disillusioned with our government, our > corporate leadership and the mainstream media which favors these interests," > said Strole's colleague Catriona Stuart. > > Those who signed the protest letter include retired Times columnist Tom Wicker; > > a former reporter at the paper, William Serrin; Ben Bagdikian, former dean of > the journalism school at the University of California at Berkeley; author Studs > > Terkel; independent journalist and filmmaker Barbara Koeppell; and author and > politician Ralph Nader. > > The letter describes six patterns of poor media coverage, which characterized > reporting during the 1991 Gulf War and which are being repeated in the present > run-up to war in Iraq. The "horse-race syndrome" and highlighting military > tactics over political analysis means that the media are endlessly churning out > > news features with titles like "Showdown with Saddam" and "presenting a grave > matter as though it were a high-stakes sports contest", the letter says. > > It indicts the media for failing aggressively to protest government control of > information, adding that newspapers and TV news have under-reported > this "freeze-out". The letter also accuses the media of failing to maintain "an > > arm's-length relationship" with government, noting the over-reliance of TV news > > in particular on government-approved retired military and intelligence > consultants. > > According to IMC's Strole, the US media are run by "a handful of corporations > who all have a stake in making sure the Bush administration gets its > [expletive] war. More and more Americans are waking up to the fact that the US > corporate-mainstream media has been bought and paid for." > > The Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and the New York Times declined to > comment on the letter, telling IPS that they react only to specific points > about their own coverage. > > (Inter Press Service) ja go skads znam www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Akhilesh+Upadhyay&btnG=Google+Search Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: © Paradise -- Square -- Baghdad IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 09.04.03, 19:00 newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39075000/jpg/_39075059_toppled203.jpg images.ibsys.com/2003/0409/2100582_200X150.jpg www.femail.co.uk/img/pix2/176074.jpg Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: !!! Re: Paradise -- Square -- Baghdad IP: 195.152.54.* 09.04.03, 20:08 story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030402/wl_nm/iraq_un_bomblets_dc_1 Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: *©*©* ... Paradise -- Square -- Baghdad IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 10.04.03, 13:13 story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/iraq/082701iraqplane&tmpl=sl&e=1 story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030410/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_war_kurds_kirkuk&cid=1514&ncid=1 480 us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20030410/lthumb.sge.twy18.100403100804.photo00.default-384x349.jpg Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: =v= TikRit IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 10.04.03, 23:49 news.google.com/news?q=tikrit&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&sa=N&scoring=d tikrit.newstrove.com/ Battles: Capture of Tikrit, 1917 Updated - Tuesday, 12 March, 2002 Forming the final notable action presided over by regional British Commander- in-Chief Sir Frederick Stanley Maude - he died of cholera on 18 November (rather than as a result of poisoning, as believed by many) - the Capture of Tikrit was also one of the final significant engagements fought on the Mesopotamian Front. It was fought in the wake of the decisive combined Anglo-Indian success at the Battle of Ramadi in September 1917. Maude despatched General Alexander Cobbe at the head of two divisions further up the River Tigris to tackle newly- established Turkish defensive positions some 13km north of Samarrah (itself taken during the year's earlier Spring offensive). However before Cobbe could strike local Turkish commander Ismail Hakki Bey received news of the advance and made haste to withdraw his position to a position directly in front of the town of Tikrit. There, heavily protected Turkish trenches defended the town - built on cliffs over the river - in a ring on the west bank of the River Tigris. Cobbe nevertheless attacked Hakki's lines on 5 November 1917, having been reinforced by a division of cavalry in the interim. Frontal attacks succeeded after three hours fighting in taking the Turkish front line, although heavy British cavalry losses were incurred during a charge on the Turkish second lines. Ultimately the Turks chose to withdraw, under skilful cover, further upstream to Fathah Gorge. Consequently Cobbe took possession of the town on 6 November but found it stripped of both men and supplies. The sudden death of Maude twelve days later brought a halt to British operations, particularly those aimed at seizing control of regional oilfields, although his successor as Commander-in-Chief, Sir William Marshall, continued with Maude's cautious offensive strategy. Sir William Robertson - Chief of the Imperial General Staff in London - took the opportunity however to scale back operations on the Mesopotamian Front, a policy he felt unable to execute while Maude demonstrated continuing success in the region. __________________________________________________________________________ Tikrit Presidential Site 34°36'N 43°42'E Located 90 miles north of Baghdad and covering 4.0 square kilometers, this is the largest and most elaborate of the presidential sites. In addition to palaces and VIP residences, the site also includes farms and rural retreats for VIPs located farther to the west. Construction at the Tikrit Residential site has been ongoing since 1991. The old palace of Baiji is also located in Tikrit. The special group of UN Special Commission for Iraq (UNSOM) weapons inspectors, diplomats and representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) completed its initial inspections of Iraqi presidential sites on 02 April 1998. It took eight days to complete the so-called baseline inspections of the presidential sites. Access to these sites, which Iraq had declared off limits to the United Nations, was granted only after Secretary General Kofi Annan signed an agreement with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein during his visit to Baghdad last month which allows UN weapons experts, accompanied by a special group of "diplomatic observers," to inspect the compounds. Unfettered access to these and other sites is one of the conditions that must be met to complete the weapons inspections and ultimately lift UN sanctions. All eight "presidential sites" visited appeared to be well defined by high walls or fences. They all had a rather similar landscape pattern: main guesthouses, with an integrated system of ancillary buildings and villas for accompanying dignitaries. Often an artificial lake with small artificial decorative islands located in a way to give access to the lake from each guesthouse. The mission was not intended to be a search for prohibited material and none was found. In fact, there was very little equipment, documentation or other material in the sites at all. It was clearly apparent that all sites had undergone extensive evacuation. In all the sites outside of Baghdad, for example, there were no documents and no computers. The buildings were largely empty. A key accomplishment of the mission was to plot more precisely the boundaries of the presidential sites. The Special Group proceeded by road in a journey of over three hours to the Tikrit Presidential Site on 28 March 1998 and completed its visit on the same day. Necessary adjustments with regard to the survey of the boundaries were raised and clarified at an early stage of its visit, illustrating that the experience of the previous visits had proved beneficial. Consequently much time was saved. No difficulties were encountered with regard to aerial photography or the use of GPS instruments. Taking of photographs on site where a soil sample has been taken was objected to at first, but after discussion acceptable arrangements were made www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/n35e43.gif ;) Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: *©*©* Krikkit : Excuse me, but are you ... aliens? IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 11.04.03, 00:27 Chapter Twenty-seven It was the same hill, and yet not the same. This time it was not an Informational Illusion. This was Krikkit itself and they were standing on it. Near them, behind the trees, stood the strange Italian restaurant which had brought these, their real bodies, to this, the real, present world of Krikkit. The strong grass under their feet was real, the rich soil real too. The heady fragrances from the tree, too, were real. The night was real night. Krikkit. Possibly the most dangerous place in the Galaxy for anyone who isn't a Krikkiter to stand. The place that could not countenance the existence of any other place, whose charming, delightful, intelligent inhabitants would howl with fear, savagery and murderous hate when confronted with anyone not their own. Arthur shuddered. Slartibartfast shuddered. Ford, surprisingly, shuddered. It was not surprising that he shuddered, it was surprising that he was there at all. But when they had returned Zaphod to his ship Ford had felt unexpectedly shamed into not running away. Wrong, he thought to himself, wrong wrong wrong. He hugged to himself one of the Zap guns with which they had armed themselves out of Zaphod's armoury. Trillian shuddered, and frowned as she looked into the sky. This, too, was not the same. It was no longer blank and empty. Whilst the countryside around them had changed little in the two thousand years of the Krikkit wars, and the mere five years that had elapsed locally since Krikkit was sealed in its Slo-Time envelope ten billion years ago, the sky was dramatically different. Dim lights and heavy shapes hung in it. High in the sky, where no Krikkiter ever looked, were the War Zones, the Robot Zones - Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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Gość: }mTrX }new_phil_matrix_brain_tikrit_freedom_wakeup IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 11.04.03, 18:51 whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/ . whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_img/new_phil_iakovos_bttn_ovr.gif . whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_phil_brain.html . whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_phil_wakeup.html . The idea of Dependent Co-Origination is illustrated in the context of the film through the illusion of the Matrix. The viability of the Matrix’s illusion depends upon the belief by those enmeshed in it that the Matrix itself is reality. AI’s software program is, in and of itself, no illusion at all. Only when humans interact with its programs do they become enmeshed in a corporately-created illusion, the Matrix, or samsara, which reinforces itself through the interactions of those beings involved within it. Thus the Matrix’s reality only exists when actual human minds subjectively experience its programs.37 whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_phil_chalmers.html }freedomTime!enter Neo has woken up from a hell of a dream — the dream that was his life. How was he to know? The cliché is that if you are dreaming and you pinch yourself, you will wake up. Unfortunately, things aren't quite that simple. It is the nature of most dreams that we take them for reality — while dreaming we are unaware that we are in fact in a dreamworld. Of course, we eventually wake up, and when we do we realize that our experience was all in our mind. Neo's predicament makes one wonder, though: how can any of us be sure that we have ever genuinely woken up? Perhaps, like Neo prior to his downing the red pill, our dreams thus far have in fact been dreams within a dream. The idea that what we take to be the real world could all be just a dream is familiar to many students of philosophy, poetry, and literature. Most of us, at one time or another, have been struck with the thought that we might mistake a dream for reality, or reality for a dream. Arguably the most famous exponent of this worry in the Western philosophical tradition is the seventeenth-century French philosopher Rene Descartes. In an attempt to provide a firm foundation for knowledge, he began his Meditations by clearing the philosophical ground through doubting all that could be doubted. This was done, in part, in order to determine if anything that could count as certain knowledge could survive such rigorous and systematic skepticism. Descartes takes the first step towards this goal by raising (through his fictional narrator) the possibility that we might be dreaming: "How often, asleep at night, am I convinced of just such familiar events — that I am here in my dressing gown, sitting by the fire —when in fact I am lying undressed in bed! Yet at the moment my eyes are certainly wide awake when I look at this piece of paper; I shake my head and it is not asleep; as I stretch out and feel my hand I do so deliberately, and I know what I am doing. All this would not happen with such distinctness to someone asleep. Indeed! As if I did not remember other occasions when I have been tricked by exactly similar thoughts while asleep! As I think about this more carefully, I see plainly that there are never any sure signs by means of which being awake can be distinguished from being asleep. The result is that I begin to feel dazed, and this very feeling only reinforces the notion that I may be asleep." (Meditations, 13) When we dream we are often blissfully ignorant that we are dreaming. Given this, and the fact that dreams often seem as vivid and "realistic" as real life, how can you rule out the possibility that you might be dreaming even now, as you sit at your computer and read this? This is the kind of perplexing thought Descartes forces us to confront. It seems we have no justification for the belief that we are not dreaming. If so, then it seems we similarly have no justification in thinking that the world we experience is the real world. Indeed, it becomes questionable whether we are justified in thinking that any of our beliefs are true. The narrator of Descartes' Meditations worries about this, but he ultimately maintains that the possibility that one might be dreaming cannot by itself cast doubt on all we think we know; he points out that even if all our sensory experience is but a dream, we can still conclude that we have some knowledge of the nature of reality. Just as a painter cannot create ex nihilo but must rely on pigments with which to create her image, certain elements of our thought must exist prior to our imaginings. Among the items of knowledge that Descartes thought survived dream skepticism are truths arrived at through the use of reason, such as the truths of mathematics: "For whether I am awake or asleep, two and three added together are five, and a square has no more than four sides." (14) While such an insight offers little comfort to someone wondering whether the people and objects she confronts are genuine, it served Descartes' larger philosophical project: he sought, among other things, to provide a foundation for knowledge in which truths arrived at through reason are given priority over knowledge gained from the senses. (This bias shouldn't surprise those who remember that Descartes was a brilliant mathematician in addition to being a philosopher.) Descartes was not himself a skeptic — he employs this skeptical argument so as to help remind the reader that the truths of mathematics (and other truths of reason) are on firmer ground than the data provided to us by our senses. Despite the fact that Descartes' ultimate goal was to demonstrate how genuine knowledge is possible, he proceeds in The Meditations to utilize a much more radical skeptical argument, one that casts doubt on even his beloved mathematical truths. In the next section we will see that, many years before the Wachowskis dreamed up The Matrix, Descartes had imagined an equally terrifying possibility. Further Reading: Dancy, Jonathan. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Blackwell, 1985. Descartes.The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, tr: John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch. Cambridge University Press, 1984 Stroud, Barry.The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism, Oxford, 1984. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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Gość: ©} }..................................SindiConnection IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 13.04.03, 19:36 Hindi is a direct descendant of Sanskrit through Prakrit and Apabhramsha. It has been influenced and enriched by Dravidian, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, Portugese and English. It is a very expressive language. In poetry and songs, it can convey emotions using simple and gentle words. It can also be used for exact and rational reasoning. www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindiint.html More than 180 million people in India regard Hindi as their mother tongue. Another 300 million use it as second language. Outside of India, Hindi speakers are 100,000 in USA; 685,170 in Mauritius; 890,292 in South Africa; 232,760 in Yemen; 147,000 in Uganda; 5,000 in Singapore; 8 million in Nepal; 20,000 in New Zealand; 30,000 in Germany. Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, spoken by about 41 million in Pakistan and other countries, is essentially the same language. Dakhini is an older, southern form of Urdu that uses fewer Persian or Arabic words. Brief History of Hindi: Hindi started to emerge as Apabhramsha in the 7th cent. and by the 10 cent. became stable. Several dialects of Hindi have been used in literature. Braj was the popular literary dialect until it was replaced by khari boli in the 19th century. Background: The period of Prakrits and Classical Sanskrit (dates are approximate): 750 BCE: Gradual emergence of post-vedic Sanskrit 500 BCE: Prakrit texts of Buddhists and Jains originate (Eastern India) 400 BCE: Panini composes his Sanskrit grammar (Western India), reflecting transition from Vedic to Paninian Sanskrit 322 BCE: Brahmi script inscriptions by Mauryas in Prakrit (Pali) 250 BCE: Classical Sanskrit emerges. [Vidhyanath Rao] 100 BCE-100 CE: Sanskrit gradually replaces Prakrit in inscriptions 320: The Gupta or Siddha-matrika script emerges. Apabhranshas and emergence of old Hindi: 400: Apabhransha in Kalidas's Vikramorvashiyam 550: Dharasena of Valabhi's inscription mentions Apabhramsha literature 779: Regional languages mentioned by Udyotan Suri in "Kuvalayamala" 769: Siddha Sarahpad composes Dohakosh, considered the first Hindi poet 800: Bulk of the Sanskrit literature after this time is commentaries. [Vidhyanath Rao] 933: Shravakachar of Devasena, considered the first Hindi book 1100: Modern Devanagari script emerges 1145-1229: Hemachadra writes on Apabhransha grammar Decline of Apabhransha and emergence of modern Hindi: 1283: Khusro's pahelis and mukaris. Uses term "Hindavi" 1398-1518: Kabir's works mark origin of "Nirguna-Bhaki" period 1370-: Love-story period originated by "Hansavali" of Asahat 1400-1479: Raighu: last of the great Apabhramsha poets 1450: "Saguna Bhakti" period starts with Ramananda 1580: Early Dakkhini work "Kalmitul-hakayat" of Burhanuddin Janam 1585: "Bhaktamal" of Nabhadas: an account of Hindi Bhakta-poets 1601: "Ardha-Kathanak" by Banarasidas, first autobiography in Hindi 1604: "Adi-Granth" a compilation of works of many poets by Guru Arjan Dev. 1532-1623: Tulsidas, author of "Ramacharita Manasa". 1623: "Gora-badal ki katha" of Jatmal, first book in Khari Boli dialect (now the standard dialect) 1643: "Reeti" poetry tradition commences according to Ramchandra Shukla 1645: Shahjehan builds Delhi fort, language in the locality starts to be termed Urdu. 1667-1707: Vali's compositions become popular, Urdu starts replacing Farsi among Delhi nobility. It is often called "Hindi" by Sauda, Meer etc. 1600-1825: Poets (Bihari to Padmakar) supported by rulers of Orchha and other domains. Modern Hindi literature emerges: 1796: Earliest type-based Devanagari printing (John Gilchrist, Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language, Calcutta) [Dick Plukker] 1805: Lalloo Lal's Premsagar published for Fort William College, Calcutta [Daisy Rockwell] 1813-46: Maharaja Swati Tirunal Rama Varma(Travancore) composed verses in Hindi along with South Indian languages. 1826: "Udanta Martanda" Hindi weekly from Calcutta 1837: Phullori, author of "Om Jai Jagdish Hare" born 1839,1847: "History of Hindi Literature" by Garcin de Tassy in French [Daisy Rockwell] 1833-86: Gujarati Poet Narmad proposed Hindi as India's national language 1850: The term "Hindi" no longer used for what is now called "Urdu". 1854: "Samachar Sudhavarshan" Hindi daily from Calcutta 1873: Mahendra Bhattachary's "Padarth-vigyan" (Chemistry) in Hindi 1877: Novel "Bhagyavati" by Shraddharam Phullori 1886: "Bharatendu period" of modern Hindi literature starts 1893 Founding of the Nagari Pracharni Sabha in Benares [Daisy Rockwell] 1900: "Dvivedi period" starts. Nationalist writings 1900: "Indumati" story by Kishorilal Goswami in "Sarasvati" 1913: "Raja Harishchandra", first Hindi movie by Dadasaheb Phalke 1918-1938: "Chhayavad period" 1918: "Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachara Sabha" founded by Gandhi. 1929: "History of Hindi Literature" by Ramchandra Shukla 1931: "Alam Ara" first Hindi talking movie 1930's: Hindi typewriters ("Nagari lekhan Yantra")[Shailendra Mehta] Our age 1949: Official Language Act makes the use of Hindi in Central Government Offices mandatory 1949-50: Hindi accepted as the "official language of the Union" in the constitution. Debates a, b, c. 1952: The Basic Principles Committee of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recommends that Urdu be the state language. 1965: Opposition to "Hindi-imposition" in Tamilnadu brings DMK to power. 1975: English medium private schools start asserting themselves socially, politically, financially [Peter Hook]. 1985-6: Devanagari word processor, Devyani DTP software, both from Dataflow (?). 1987-88: Frans Velthuis creates Devanagari metafont. [Shailendra Mehta] 1990: According to World Almanac and Book of Facts Hindi-Urdu has passed English (and Spanish) to become the second most widely spoken language in the world [Peter Hook]. 1991: ITRANS encoding scheme developed by Avinash Chopde allows Hindi documents in Roman and Devanagari on the Internet. 1995: Movie "Hum Aapke Hain Kaun" biggest grosser ever 1997: Prime Minister Deve Gowda emphasises promotion of Hindi and the regional languages, having himself learned Hindi recently. 1997: Hindi Newspaper Nai Dunia on the web (January) (Or was Milap first?) 1998: Karunanithi, the DMK leader, recites a Hindi verse during a political campaign, indicating a change in views. 1998: Sonia Gandhi's Hindi lessons attract attention. 2001: www.rajiv.com/india/humor/ www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindilinks.html Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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Gość: ***} Ad Astra Per Aspera IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 23.04.03, 01:16 The following table lists the nearest stars to Earth (Seeds 1995, Gupta 2000). scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/NearbyStars.html star spectral type Dist (ly) Sol G2 V 4.83 0.0 Centauri A G2 V 4.38 0.1 4.3 Centauri B K5 V 5.76 1.5 4.3 Centauri C M5 V 15 19.4 4.3 Barnard's Star M5 V 13.21 9.5 5.9 Wolf 359 M6 V 16.80 13.6 7.6 Lalande 21185 [BD 2147] M2 V 10.42 7.5 8.1 Sirius A A1 V 1.41 8.6 Sirius B A5 wd 11.54 7.2 8.6 Luyten 726-8 A M5 V 15.27 12.5 8.9 Luyten 726-8 B [UV Ceti] M6 V 15.8 13.0 8.9 Ross 154 M5 V 13.3 10.6 9.4 Ross 248 M6 V 14.8 12.2 10.3 Eridani K2 V 6.13 3.7 10.7 Luyten 789-6 M7 V 14.6 12.2 10.8 Ross 128 M5 V 13.5 11.1 10.8 61 Cygni A K5 V 7.58 5.2 11.2 61 Cygni B K7 V 8.39 6.0 11.2 Indi K5 V 7.0 4.7 11.2 Procyon A F5 IV-V 2.64 0.3 11.4 Bazy CYONISTOW ;))) .......................... Procyon B F5 wd 13.1 10.8 11.4 2398 A M4 V 11.15 8.9 11.5 2398 B M5 V 11.94 9.7 11.5 Groombridge 34 A M1 V 10.32 8.1 11.6 Groombridge 34 B M6 V 13.29 11.0 11.6 Lacaille 9352 M2 V 9.59 7.4 11.7 Ceti G8 V 5.72 3.5 11.9 BD 1668 M5 V 11.98 9.8 12.2 L 725-32 M5 V 15.27 11.5 12.4 Lacaille 8760 M0 V 8.75 6.7 12.5 Kapteyn's Star M0 V 10.85 8.8 12.7 Kruger 60 A M3 V 11.87 9.7 12.8 Kruger 60 B M4 V 13.3 11.2 12.8 BD 44 A M2 V 10.3 ? ? BD 44 B M4 V 13.2 ? ? CD -36° 15693 M2 V 9.6 ? ? v Maanen's Star F5 V 14.3 ? ? BD 1725 M0 V 8.3 ? ? Ross 780 M5 V 11.8 ? ? CC 658 A5 wd 12.5 ? ? 40 Eridani A K0 V 6.0 ? ? 40 Eridani B A3 wd 10.7 ? mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalSpiral.html Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: *!*} irna.ruIN THE NAME OF GO(L)D IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 24.04.03, 19:20 www.irna.com/en/press/images/001.jpg www.irna.com/en/press/qview.shtml www.irna.com/en/index.shtml www.irna.com/ru/ www.gsi-iran.org/e/index.html IN THE NAME OF GOD The geological survey of iran has been successful to explore more than 100 new gold mineralization in different parts of Iran during the past few years. Mean while, preliminary and semi-detail exploration Activities in more than 30 exploring areas have been carried out or being done. Completing the exploration activities within next two years, it is foreseen, that more than 100 t gold to be added to the already known gold reserves. Although gold exploration and exploitation activities In Iran goes back to few thousands years ago but it can be Said that Iran’s territory is still intact for gold exploration. Attracting foreign exploration and mining companies investments as well as the internal private sectors is among the top priority of the Iranian ministry of industries and mines policy in the field of exploration activities and processing of gold reserves in the country. Considering the high gold potential in Iran, Internal private sector as well as the foreign investors can take the opportunity for the mutual investments www.gsi-iran.org/e/gold%20projects/1.htm Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: * }CIA_UndercoverUnit_in_E. _ran IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 24.04.03, 19:43 Iran Embeds Badr troops in Iraq’s Shiite centers, Races US for control DEBKAfile Special Report The first great pilgrimage to Karbala that Iraqi Shiites were permitted to make in almost 30 years, starting Tuesday, April 22, may prove the defining event in the US-Iran contest for influence over Iraq’s majority Shiite community. The freedom to commemorate the 7th century death in battle of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, was a mark in America’s favor. However, the striding pilgrims arrived with banners calling on the Americans to leave Iraq. Some also demanded an Islamic state to replace the Saddam regime. The three-day event in which a million or more dancing, chanting worshippers form processions around self-flagellating ecstatic youths will sorely test American skills in maintaining order without angering crowds inflamed by competing imams, especially at the ceremonies’ climax on Wednesday, April 23. DEBKAfile’s sources in Baghdad and Tehran report that the Iranians raised the military stakes by pouring thousands of Al Badr Brigades troops into Iraq on Sunday and Monday, in advance of the pilgrimage and in breach of its understandings to Washington. One column of 3,000 men, heading south from Kurdistan, seized control of sections of the strategic town of Baqubah in the Diyala region only 50 km northeast of the Shiite al Azamiya and Saddam City districts of Baghdad. Baqubah also straddles the main Baghdad-Iran routes. A second Badr Brigades contingent of 3,000 to 4,000 crossed from Iran into Iraq near the southeastern town of Al Amarah and advanced into al Kut, where it split into three sub-units, one each for Nasiriyah, Najef and Karbala. The troops in southern Iraq are in civilian clothes and drive civilian vehicles, much like armed militiamen, while in Baquba they sport Iranian Revolutionary Guards camouflage uniforms and move around in Iranian army vehicles. The Badr Brigades are in fact an undercover elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. They are made up of foreign elements, mostly Iraqi and Afghan Shiites. The Badr Brigades thrust into Iraq this week was in effect an Iranian military movement timed to coincide with the Karbala celebration and spearhead the rise of local Iraqi Shiite militias in Iraq’s heartland region against the American military presence. Some 70 percent of Iraq’s estimated 12,000 Shiites inhabit the area between Karbala and Najef in the south and Baquba in the north, including Baghdad. According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, Iran, in addition to moving Badr Brigades units into Iraq’s Shiite centers, made a further three tactical moves: 1. It pumped thousands of trained, well-armed guerrilla fighters through Basra and Al Amara into the Najef and Karbala regions to mingle with the pilgrims and manipulate the mood of the crowds from within. 2. The infiltrators delivered weapons, explosives and cash to pro-Iranian Iraqi leaders, arming them to fight pro-American or even moderate elements in the Shiite community. 3. They sent into Iraq the rabble-rousing Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, deputy head of the Supreme Assembly of the Iraqi Revolution, SAIRI, and brother of its leader, Ayatollah Muhammed Bakir al-Hakim, from Tehran where they live. He arrived with a group of fighters to stir into action the scores of clandestine anti-Saddam SAIRI cells believed to consist of between 1,500 and 2,500 militants. Intelligence reports from the field point to Abdul Aziz al-Hakim’s men as having murdered Majid Khoei in the Najef mosque on April 10. The young, long- exiled Iraqi Shiite cleric had been designated as main American conduit to Iraq’s Shiite leaders. The al-Hakim brothers are doubly dangerous to US plans for democratizing and stabilizing Iraq. In the first place, behind their political-religious front, they command substantial military strength. DEBKAfile’s sources in earlier reports exposed French attempts to persuade the Iraqi Ayatollah to deploy his fighting units in Iraq against the US military presence. The second problem is the plausible formula he preaches that the US will find it very hard to debunk. His thesis in a nutshell is this: The best political course for Iraq is the parliamentary system of one-man, one-vote, without a sectarian agenda. The future government in Baghdad should uphold religious values rooted in Islam, the Sharia should be the main source of legislation. But the rights of all religious minorities will be respected. On the face of it, what could be more democratic? The ayatollah welcomes a free general election no less than the Americans. And no wonder. Since the Shiites account for some 60 percent of the Iraqi population, the election results are a foregone conclusion: the Shiites will take over government in Baghdad by perfectly democratic means, displacing the Sunnites who ruled under Saddam Hussein and setting up a pro-Iranian, anti-American administration. Many of the banners carried by the pilgrims thronging Karbala were prepared in advance and distributed by SAIR. They all carried the same message: The Americans must leave, No foreign rule for Iraq. We want an Islamic state. (For Islamic, read Shiite). Tehran clearly seized on the Karbala pilgrimage as its opening for a mighty shove against the American presence in Iraq. No one is willing to predict whether the confrontation will pass quietly or degenerate into armed clashes with the potential for spreading to other parts of the country, including Baghdad itself. The US-UK military command under US General Tommy Franks appears calm in the face of this potential. Troops of the US 82nd Airborne Division are watching over security from a distance, mainly keeping an eye on the 70-km long pilgrimage route between Karbala and Najef. However, DEBKAfile’s military sources have discovered that coalition forces deployed between Basra and Baghdad have been quietly placed on the ready, in case of trouble erupting on Wednesday. Washington has also forwarded a grave caution to Tehran with a demand to withdraw the Badr Brigades troops from Baquba and Karbala and keep them out of Baghdad. How the American forces stand up to these Iranian and pro-Iranian provocations among the Shiite pilgrims in the latter part of this week will strongly affect the outcome of the developing US-Tehran standoff; it will even shape Washington’s posture on Iran, Syria and the militant Shiite Hizballah’s home base in Lebanon. www.debka.com/article.php?aid=153 Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: CT CT - Counter Terror IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 28.04.03, 22:43 www.isayeret.com/terror/demo.htm Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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Gość: !!! Re: the best democracy IP: 195.152.54.* 29.04.03, 17:07 POLECAM the best democracy money can buy autor greg palast wydawnictwo pluto press Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: © antyGlobalnyGłąb IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 30.04.03, 00:36 Muckraking has a long, storied tradition, and Palast is evidently proud to be part of it. In this polemical indictment of globalization and political corruption, Palast (a reporter with the BBC and London's Observer) updates the muckraking tradition with some 21st-century targets: the IMF, World Bank and WTO, plus oil treaties, energy concerns and corporate evildoers of all creeds. Some of Palast's reports are downright shocking (if familiar). He shows, for example, how the WTO prevents cheap AIDS drugs from reaching victims in Africa and how World Bank loan policies have crippled the economies of Tanzania and other developing countries. On the home front, he details Exxon's horrific safety record before the Valdez disaster and reveals the price-gouging by Texas power companies during the California energy crisis. In Britain, Palast exposes the "cash for access" policies of the Blair administration, and blasts the legal system for shielding Pfizer Pharmaceuticals from lawsuits by victims who had defective Pfizer valves installed in their hearts. These are all good, important stories. Most of them, however, have been published before. This book is essentially a collection of Palast's newspaper articles, hastily stitched together with some commentary and exposition. As such, it lacks cohesiveness and the depth his subjects deserve. In addition, Palast's bombastic style and one-sided perspective do much to undermine his own credibility. How seriously should readers take a journalist who labels former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers an "alien" and dismisses Wal-Mart shareholders as "Wal-Martians"? There is much of value here, but readers who want a full-bodied, serious analysis of how globalization is affecting developing countries or how corporate giants pay for political favors should look elsewhere. ..................................................................... Brilliant attacks on capitalist 'ethics' April 22, 2003 The brilliant investigative journalist Greg Palast was the first to detail how Florida's Governor Jeb Bush stole the Presidential election for his brother George. He investigates the truth behind Blairite rhetoric about the inevitability of globalisation. The IMF made Tanzania charge for hospital appointments, cutting patient numbers by 53%, and charge school fees, cutting enrolment by 14%. GDP fell from $309 to $210 a head; those in abject poverty rose to 51% of the population. In Chile in 1973 unemployment was 4.3%; after ten years of Pinochet and wage cuts of 40% it was 22%. Between 1960 and 1980, when the welfare state was still the model, income per head rose by 73% in Latin America and by 34% in Africa; people lived another ten years longer. Since 1980, under the Thatcher-Reagan model, income per head in Latin America has risen by only 6%, and fell by 23% in Africa; life expectancy has fallen - which the Financial Times' monetarist Sam Brittan intelligently attributed to 'bad luck'. The European Community's secret memo 'Domestic Regulation: Necessity and Transparency' abandons the 'sovereign right of government to regulate services' that Trade Minister Richard Caborn promised MPs that the General Agreement on Trade in Services would observe. This won't just apply to what we think of as services, given that the US Government succeeded in defining bananas as services! Between 1983 and 1997, 85% of the increase in US wealth went to just 1% of the population; productivity rose by 17%, real wages fell by 3%. Blair is in the US's pocket. Who gained from his deals? GTech of New Jersey, Entergy of Little Rock, Reliant of Houston, Monsanto of St Louis, Wal-Mart of Arkansas, Wackenhut (the prison company) of Florida, Columbia Health Care, Bechtel of San Francisco, Enron of Houston. Palast writes, "In his heart, Tony Blair hates Britain." In his what? If you know anyone who still doubts that capitalism and Labour are corrupt, get them this book. It provides all the evidence for indicting this government - but when are we going to act on it? members.telering.at/pat/slidebeg.htm Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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Gość: <©> The World Turned Inside Out IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 01.07.03, 18:32 Cause and Purpose, The World Turned Inside Out ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "What is the meaning of it, Watson?" said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever." Sherlock Holmes [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Last Bow, "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," 1917] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - www.friesian.com/purpose.htm#free Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: <©> Nexus of Terror IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 15.07.03, 16:28 www.ict.org.il/inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=13 Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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zupagrzybowa Re: AMI..inside out 01.09.03, 01:56 www.xml.com/pub/pt/15 Extensible 3D: XML Meets VRML by Len Bullard August 06, 2003 "VRML was born dead. It never solved any real problems. Good riddance." Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
drf }RAMbamZydowskiRenesans 03.09.03, 13:35 www.hartmaninstitute.com/fellfac/bios/benbajiy.html www.paideia.eu.com/open.htm www.maimonidesmed.org/ www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Maimonides.html Rabbi Moses ben Maimon "Teach thy tongue to say I do not know and thou shalt progress."...Maimonides. www.maimonidesuniversity.com/ www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Maimonides&btnG=Google+Search Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: "|||" United We Stand IP: *.cm-upc.chello.se 10.09.03, 17:50 www.turnleft.com/liberal.html I believe.... The terrorists and the nations that support them are deserving of military retaliation by the United States and her allies That the United States should work in the future towards creating a world where the seeds of terrorism do not find fertile ground. That discrimination against American Arabs and Muslims is terribly wrong That it is imperative to insure that our Constitutional rights remain strong; to do otherwise is to grant a victory to the terrorists. That the leadership of this nation deserves the support of its citizens in this time of crisis. The terrorist target was America's (and the entire Western world's) economic vitality, pluralism, religious tolerance, rule of law, rationalism, liberal democracy, and enlightenment. Fundamentally, the terrorists and their supporters wish to turn back hundreds of years of history to a time when the Caliphate ruled much of the Earth. Thus the fight is not just America's but the entire Western world's. That Americans should be vigilant, but we must try to live our lives free of fear. That the anti-war protesters, as misguided as they are, are Americans too, and that the freedom of speech and expression is one of the things we are fighting for. That the good guys will win in the end. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
datsh =================United We Stand 14.12.03, 17:52 www.intelligence.org.il/eng/default.htm Special Information Bulletins "Hate Industry " Iran Syria Palestinian Authority Iraq Saudi Arabia Global Jihad Counterterrorism Palestinian Authority Arab World Britain Anti-Semitism www.intelligence.org.il/eng/bu/iran/shihab_11_03.htm Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
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alef1 I WOJNA IZRAELSKO-SZWEDZKA 18.01.04, 02:25 Israel-Swedish Diplomatic Row over Pro-Palestinian Art Exhibit DEBKAfile Special Analysis January 17, 2004, 9:34 PM (GMT+02:00) An undiplomatic act by Israel’s ambassador to Sweden has switched the spotlight on a virulent strain of anti-Semitism sweeping West Europe that draws its moral legitimacy from demonizing the Jewish state. What better symbol of this hybrid object of hate than the exhibit whose plug ambassador Zvi Mazel furiously pulled? The exhibit consists of the photo of the female Palestinian suicide bomber who blew 21 Israelis to their deaths in a Haifa restaurant on October 4; it is planted on a boat floating serenely on a large pool of red water. Labeled “Snow White”, it was shown in an exhibition that opened Friday night, January 16, at Stockholm’s Museum of National Antiquities, part of an upcoming conference on genocide hosted by the Swedish government. After wrecking the exhibit and calling it “a monstrosity and an affront to the grieving families,” the Israeli ambassador was hustled out of the museum and informed he would be summoned to the Swedish foreign ministry next Monday to explain his actions. In Jerusalem, the Israeli foreign ministry official Ran Curiel called the Swedish ambassador to warn him that if the offensive exhibit is not removed, Israel will reconsider its attendance at the conference. Sweden, he said, would not be allowed to hide behind the principle of artistic freedom to justify terrorist murders of Israeli citizens. A diplomatic storm had blown up in hours. The designers happened to be an ex-Israeli Swede called Dror Feiler and his Swedish wife Gunilla Skoeld Feiler. Dror is president of a group called “Jews for Palestinian Peace.” Clearly, they neither knew nor cared that the red pool represented Jewish and Arab blood – both Jews and Arabs were murdered in the restaurant by innocent “Snow White.” The bloody symbol they used inevitably recalls the fictional blood libels drummed up by European anti-Semites as the pretext for medieval pogroms. In modern-day Sweden, the purported Christian boy victim has been replaced by a real-life Palestinian suicidal killer. The angry ambassador was backed to the hilt by his boss, foreign minister Silvan Shalom - more unexpectedly by former prime minister Ehud Barak, who said he understands the emotions the exhibit aroused in the diplomat, but confessed he cannot fathom Israelis like Feiler who efface themselves at European feet. The to-do in Stockholm occurred on the day that Pope John Paul II invited Israel’s two chief rabbis to the Vatican for the first time to discuss the tide of anti-Semitism besetting Europe. Crucifixes were taken off the walls of the papal audience chamber as a gesture of respect to the guests. But did the historic meeting have any concrete results? Not immediately. Heads of the European Union and its members talk constantly about combating the blight of anti-Semitism but the only action they have taken is to shelve a report they themselves commissioned because it pointed to Islamic and Palestinian agitators as leading culprits. Israel has not done much either. When Miki Theodorakis branded the Jews “the root of the world’s evil,” the Greek government, while refraining from entering the controversy over freedom of speech versus racial incitement, made the gesture of finally introducing a Holocaust day on the 2003 national calendar, suddenly noticing that 90 percent of Greek Jews had perished in Nazi concentration camps in World War II. However, in Israel, no banking or financial institution has ever responded actively to comments made by the Dutch wife of the president of the European Central Bank last year that “Israel is worse than the Nazis,” and “the rich Jewish lobby in America is responsible for the Palestinians’ plight.” ” (“Jews” and “Israelis” are interchangeable when it suits their denigrators.) The recent poll in which a majority of Europeans canvassed described Israel as the biggest threat to world peace likewise went by without response. In fact, shortly after its publication, Israel’s deputy prime minister and minister of industry, Ehud Olmert, bowed to the EU’s demand to add special markings to Israeli products manufactured across the Green Line in order to help European consumers boycott them. As for Sweden, after the Palestinians embarked on their 2000 confrontation with Israel, more than one voice urged the Nobel Prize committee to recall the peace prize awarded jointly to the late Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat from… Peres. If Israel were to follow the European example, its ministers, senior officials and high court judges would tomorrow morning hand in the Swedish Volvo automobiles which are standard Israeli VIP issue and trade them for cars made in other countries. There is nothing, moreover, to stop the heads of the Jewish Agency advising Jews around the world to boycott Volvo, SKF and Ikea, in the same way that many American consumers spontaneously blacked French wines and cheese in response for French hostility to the Iraq War. European democracies like Sweden might then have the necessary incentive to finally decide how far freedom of expression or art may be indulged when blood libels against Jewish citizens are published freely on European Web sites and exhibited publicly in their national museums. Who will draw the line on freedoms used to license incitement to mass murder? Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
drf ....When you stand for your liberty 20.01.05, 20:34 Some, I know, have questioned the global appeal of liberty - though this time in history, four decades defined by the swiftest advance of freedom ever seen, is an odd time for doubt. Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of our ideals. Eventually, the call of freedom comes to every mind and every soul. We do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do not accept the possibility of permanent slavery. Liberty will come to those who love it. Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world: All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
