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Khalid Amayreh Interview: “the mental landscape of every Palestinian man, woman and child is overwhelmed with the Israeli nightmare” By Mary Rizzo Those who seek information about Palestine often tend to be attracted to particular writers and journalists for the special insights and gifts that seem to be uniquely their own. “The Middle East Crisis” is an issue having a profound, complex and multi-faceted dimension of interpretation, that for however long there has been a crThe line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn Following my review of Between the Monster and the Saint posted on Monday I had the pleasure of interviewing the author, Richard Holloway. Here is a transcript of our conversation: Mary: I’ll go straight for the jugular and start with the most personal questions. You were Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish EpiscThose who seek information about Palestine often tend to be attracted to particular writers and journalists for the special insights and gifts that seem to be uniquely their own. “The Middle East Crisis” is an issue having a profound, complex and multi-faceted dimension of interpretation, that for however long there has been a crisis , and despite the great abundance of written material available, more than we can ever realistically confront, the reader is driven to seek the vo

“Far more interesting than Beck himself is the increasingly futile effort to classify the protest movement to which he has connected himself.  Here, too, confusion reigns.  In part, this is due to the fact that these “tea party” and “9/12” protests are composed of factions with wildly divergent views about most everything.  From paleoconservatives to Ron-Paul-libertarians to LaRouchians to Confederacy-loving, race-driven Southerners to Christianist social conservatives to single-issue fanatics , and despite the great abundance of written material available, more than we can ever realistically confront, the reader is driven to seek the voices th

Rousseau's Form of Socialism Mises Daily by Alexander Gray Bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fortunately, we are here concerned with only one side of Rousseau — assuming, indeed, that it is possible to detach for consideration one aspect of his legacy. Rousseau was primarily a writer on politics, concerned, after the manner of Hobbes and of Locke, in explaining the origins of goA Tuesday hot as hell up here in Hollywood, the Santa Ana winds blowing the alkali dust in off the Mojave, the air all sepia and thick – more big fires out east too – and everyone on edge. Folks in the South of France know the Mistral, and off the Sahara there’s the Sirocco. It’s like that with hard, dry gritty winds – uncomfortable and electric. Domestic violence rates go up. Van Gogh cuts off his ear. So it was an afternoon for heading on down to the rock ‘n’ roll supermarket down on SunFrom Glenn Greenwald : Far more interesting than Beck himself is the increasingly futile effort to classify the protest movement to which he has connected himself. Here, too, confusion reigns. In part, this is due to the fact that these “tea party” and “9/12″ protests are composed of factions with wildly divergent views about most everything. From paleoconservatives to Ron-Paul-libertarians to LaRouchians to Confederacy-loving, race-driven Southerners to Christianist social conservatives

By applying an organised system of work that replaces good intentions with method, we are able to define and then record our systems and organization. This pinpoints the responsibilities of every individual in carrying out their duties, encourages continuous improvement and consolidates process management. Last night during his CBS interview with Katie Couric, Glenn Beck said he may have voted for Hillary Clinton and that "John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama."  This comment predictably spawned confusion among some liberals and anger among some conservatives .  But even prior to that, there had been a palpable increase in the right-wing attacks on Beck -- some motivated by professional competition for the incredibly lucrative industry of ri

The physics arXiv blog , Nature , Ethiopia , Softpedia , and many people on the Facebook were thrilled by a new preprint about the preparation of Schrödinger's virus, a small version of Schrödinger's cat. The preprint is called Towards quantum superposition of living organisms and it was written by Oriol Romero-Isart, Mathieu L. Juan, Romain Quidant, and J. Ignacio Cirac. They wrote down some basic stuff about the theory and a pretty clear recipe how to cool down the virHe gets thrown under the bus, while manifestly corrupt career politicians thrive. Also: See Update below. ____________________ Note: This column appeared at Pajamas Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Thursday. ____________________ You know, if I were Van Jones, I’d be pretty upset right about now, but for reasons other than the ones he is citing . Don’t get me wrong. Jones had to go, for reasons somewhat known and others hardly known. At this point the somewhat-kno

Okay, maybe that’s a bit much to hope for. But Dr. Ellen Brandt has noticed some encouraging trends: Equal numbers of Followers and Following: More and more often, we see users whose Follower-Following ratios are just about dead-even, meaning they are shunning the concept of following Celebrities or Big Media pundits and choosing to connect more naturally and equally with potential friends the way they do on Linked In and Facebook. There are now some applications that allow you to see iYou know, if I were Van Jones, I’d be pretty upset right about now, but for different reasons than the ones he is citing.Don’t get me wrong. Jones had to go, for reasons somewhat known and others hardly known. At this point the somewhat-knowns are his consistent communism, his documented 9/11 “truther” beliefs (with a totally unconvincing “I never read it” denial

In the comments to this post I was asked "How do you define a maskil?" given that the meaning of the term is somewhat elusive, or rather what made someone a maskil appears to be elusive. At the time I responded "It depends on time and place. The same definitions will not apply in late 18th century Berlin as in early 19th century Galicia or in mid 19th century Russia, although some common ground will be found between all of them. I cannot offer a concise definition, but « PreviousRepublican Sanity Next »The Week That Was White House Declines To Express Confidence In Van Jones Posted by Michael SchererFriday, September 4, 2009 at 12:51 pm 57 Comments • Trackback • Related Topics:barack obama, white house, van jones Last night, Van Jones, an adviser to the Council on Environmental Quality, released a statement apologizing for some of his past remarks, and disavowing his signature o

Orly Taitz, Esq Attorney & Counselor at Law 26302 La Paz, Suite 211 Mission Viejo Ca 92691 ph. 949-683-5411 fax 949-586-2082 California Bar ID No. 223433 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA COLUMUS DIVISION 120 12th Street P.O. Box 124 Columbus, Georgia 31902 CAPTAIN CONNIE RHODES, M.D. F.S.,    ß Plaintiff,                ß    Civil Action No:____In today's Washington Post , David Broder argues that the Attorney General should not have authorized special US Attorney John Durham to investigate the Bush interrogation program. While Mr. Broder apparently believes that public officials should generally be held to account for violations of law or breaches of the public trust, in this case he thinks the cost would be too great. Mr. Broder argues that the Attorney General should have weighed the various political and practical consequenby DefendUSx September 02, 2009 15:57 One of the Communist Goals Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963 is to Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals . Are we starting to see this propaganda now? If anything, wouldn’t being a Communist radical be a mental illness? It seems to have more supportive evidence making this claim more true, as nothing but pathologica