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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8297698.stm

“Meanwhile negotiator Saeb Erekat has been threatening to name other countries – hinting that these include Arab governments which would face domestic anger – that he says pressured the Palestinians to back down.”

Money money money.Saudi and other Gulf State Arab countries Candy oil ..throw in Egypt as well….they actually care more about containing Iran than ever the plight of the Palestinians.

What more proof do you need to see…the Next alliance..Arabs and Isrealis.I bet they are begging the Isrealis to neuter Iran.I can really understand now why the Persians hate the Arabs.

 

Can’t wait for the investiagtion by Abbas  into the decision  (by Abbas ).That should be hilarious.Maybe that will be delayed as well for six momths …the same hidden hand / culprits will line up and ask for delay into the findings.

Is anybody in the Muslim world WATCHING THIS!!!!!!!!

I don’t mind the Arabs getting together with Israelis…thats their decision.But for 60 years they have stoking the Palestinian fires and now we see it was just a sham.Just disgraceful.

Scattered comments

Scattered reply by me from elsewhere

Kids at college are always against ‘somebody’ big dealing with somebody ‘smaller’ because they’ve just left the nest and are projecting their hormonal anger that can’t express itself from the parental power structure that they’ve just left.
That way they become natural agents for change.
And they get over it very quickly once they age.

( The earlier blogger had mentioned Noam Chomsky …who by my definition..would be living  un-reconstructured childhood because he is always fighting against his own parents …i.e symbolically through his opposition to the might of the US .Thats why he’s an unquestioned hero to the Left and young .But essentially he’s like any economist who always believes in one view of the markets only…that is..he will always be right half the time……but hopelessly wrong in others.)

Taliban , Hamas , and Hezbollah have ethincally and geographicaly defined constituencies…unlike AQ which just has a few funding pathways at its roots.

( I like that last definition of AQ)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/world/asia/15swat.html?ref=world

Hard to feel sympathy…they butchered..now they are being ‘halaled’.

Pakistan nation , Army, Politicians, Landlords,USA,Nato,common folks , Merchant classes , Chinese ….what a brilliant strategy by our religious loonies…create a new Islamic Sharia state by having everyone as your enemy.

Real clever stuff .

Glen Beck by Colbert

Good fun…Jon Stewart wondered about the source of material after Bush was gone…

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=55a_1252775352

Artificial Intelligence

An article discussing AI.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html

“I would rework Minsky’s definition as the science of making machines do things that lead us to believe they are intelligent”

“It is the person who designs the algorithms and programs the machine who is intelligent, not the machine itself.”

“But accepting mind as a physical entity does not tell us what kind of physical entity it is. It could be a physical system that cannot be recreated by a computer.”

This Robotics expert is full of childish shyte.AI does’nt need to mimic a human in form or in sentience.

If a non-human physical system ( a computer system) can take and hold / alter a data-set freely , observe patterns and make accurate predictions with a data-set that is then validated …you have an intelligent system….for example..when we get to the stage a system can theorise  a new aspect of  physics/biology from a self-sustaining data-set  without instigation or input from a human …we then have AI.

It does’nt require it to pee or smell like a human , have legs and look sexy , compete with the fragile ego’s of Metaphysically inclined psuedo-philosophers , or pick up a pair a shoes and ties some  laces up ( all of some of  the extensive  astonishing deeds the human is soooo capable of doing but dumb ass computers can’t…).

Man is  fragile &  ego-centric.A set of Algorithms and a data-set  are going to take a huge  proverbial piss on his fire one day.

I’ve met Greeks , Italians , Maltese and I am sure there are plenty others ..Spaniards…who are native yet obviously of Arab origin.
Yet to be an Arab is an unwelcome identity ( even though Arabs are quite proud of their culture/history).
But Israeli jews of 100% Arab origin ( nearly 50% of Jews there I think ) have been busily erasing their roots since their arrival there.
Israel needs to keep a real division between Arabs ( who can be shipped  out of West bank /Gaza/Isreal  into the greater Motherland without penalty  ..i.e they are just going back home ) ….and Jews ….who are the real original settlers of Isreal and deserve the land as a birthright.This narrative falls apart if you don’t keep the Jews separate to the Arabs within it.
Arabs who want to hate Israel…would probably prefer to keep them as Jews and not muddy the water with the idea that Parts of the ME are just being  colonised by close cousin returning / jewish ‘Arabs’

Their roles are zilch…zero…nothing.

Here’s my argument.

It goes back to the cross shaped trade routes that intersected in the Middle East and had China/Indies/Africa/Europe as the corners.

Trading and travelling over such distances was quite a dangerous undertaking and there would have been many areas where praying for a safe  journey would have salved the soul.

Just by the simple geometry of a cross..the middle bit would have had the greatest flow and transit of praying /thanksgiving merchant-traders.Therefore the richest prayer houses would have concentrated over in the ME ( Middle East).Prophets..great individual human beings…who can lead people and inspire with spiritual rheteoric oocur all the time all over the place.But  the ones that are going to get the most ‘footfall’  &  ’play’  time are the ones situated in the eye of the cross ( yep..thats it ..the ME) and not at the nodes.

This process will continue as long the trade route remains in that structure.Therefore…after Christainity…Islam was bound to just follow in its footstepd and travel all over the nodes that it itself had previously followed.It would then have fragemented just like Christainity did ( Eastern vs Catholic vs Protestants )  previously according to local political spheres of interest. But Islam did’nt.

Why?

 

Because the trade route structure was short circuited by Christopher Columbus.This was inevitable because at this node…Europe..rough sea necessitated strong ships and poor geology ( lacking in items to trade) caused them to poke around for a short circuit.

Everything that happened ..would have happened.And even if it did’nt…it would’nt make any difference.Religions are like different coloured team shirts..the colour itself does’nt cause Football or Rugby to take place…they just happen to be markers and nothing more.

Geography is the real key

 

Don’t wear a bowtie at an evening do..they might think your’e  a closet Muslim.( Muslims in the US wear bowties regularly)

Clothes do have implications for the wider society by the messaging we give off by them.They ceased to be purely functional a long time ago as we all know.
Look at the red ties worn by left wingers and blue ones by rightwingers in the UK political scene for long periods of time during the 80′s and 70′s.

Certain fabrics were banned for some people in England in old times , to prevent up and coming small-holders and uppity merchants from dressing in the manner of their ‘superiors’.
Clothes are the essential tool for the vertical separation ( hierachical) and lateral separation ( tribalising ..cliques ) of humans.
It was just interesting to speculate if the POTUS was actually trying to signify a ‘null’ association by avoiding certain neckwear.An unusual confluence of race , politics,religion & the Presidency

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