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Recently, Glen Beck of Fox News was opining about radical Muslim clerics and leaders and their effect on politics throughout the Arab world, and the recent turmoil in many Middle Eastern countries. He quoted a radical cleric as offering that ” the children bombs” would continue until “liberation.”
Are you sure the cleric wasn’t referring to the ” population explosion” of Muslims as the “bomb” that continues until liberation? Mightn’t there be multiple definitions, because as we have seen, so many Muslim statements have hidden meanings?
The Muslim Crusades continue apace, and have for a generation, with over 50 million Muslims emigrating, with many “crusading,” in over 30 countries around the world. Muslims number just over one and one-half Billion and are growing at twice the rate of Christians, the number one faith, and who are growing ever more slowly, even declining, in many areas. Christian faith in modern times is nowhere near as “fundamentalist” or fervored as that of Muslims, whose ability to put a mantle of religiosity on sacrifice far outpaces that of Christians.
If there is a Muslim terrorist “Caliphate Strategy,” it doesn’t only have to include terrorism threats as methods of control, it could just as easily include filled ballot boxes driven by a Muslim population explosion, as they are so rapidly doing in many Middle Eastern countries. Evidence recent opportunistic efforts by the Muslim Brotherhood and all it’s affiliates, in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Sudan, and many more, with emulators and chapters in over 70 countries.
That we haven’t recognized the population explosion for what it is, an “army of liberation,” is just near-sightedness on our part. And, let’s remember that in the radicalist ideology, population may be just as potent a weapon, if not more so, than the short term effect of terrorism, albeit it very effective. Westerners tend to think in much shorter time frames than the Islamics, whose culture and history extols waiting generations, if need be, to extract revenge for perceived family, clan, and tribe offense. If democracy’s weakness is a mirror image of it’s strength-representative government-then using our strengths against us seems to be a great “Plan B.”
Much as I’d like to add the “children bombs” to the terrorist lexicon, in this context I believe the quote referred to “population bombs” not suicide bombers.
I’d also like to point out that the U.S. and other countries, but primarily the U.S., has spent over two and one-half Trillion (that’s Trillions with a big “T” folks!) on security related issues-equipment, people, and military actions since 9/11. The worst of this effort is that when we depart from these “liberation” wars and our nation building efforts, we we be offering up ever more fertile populations, with U.S. resources, to the possible manipulation of Islamic radicals.
Keep in mind that their Family, Clan and Tribal loyalties and religious affiliations and manipulations, started long before Western secular influences entered, and it’s not hard to imagine them quickly, even overnight, reverting to the traditions and religious influences that have controlled that part of the world for thousands of years.Perhaps Islamic radicalism has taken a page from the Reagan playbook, “We’ll force them to spend so much money, we’ll win by bankrupting them.” Sound reasonable?
My point is there are multiple “arrows” in the Islamist quiver and we need to be alert for new and perhaps even more pages in their “playbook.”As in the Cold War, we are fighting the “Domino Theory,” in this case, however, it is Islam and religious fundamentalism, rather than Communism, that propels this long-term “war”-this modern day Crusade.
Monday, February 7, 2011
The "Children Bombs" of Islamic Fundamentalists | Socyberty
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
We Want Zero Sum Pollution-now | Scienceray
We Want Zero Sum Pollution-now
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December 28, 2010, Category: Biology
We’ve allowed business and commerce, government and institutions to pollute our air, food, water, and airwaves for a long time, and paid them doing so!
It’s time to get it right.
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Let’s try this as a working theory.
No corporation, business, institution,commercial or government enterprise or other “citizen” has the right to change the environment and ecology in pursuit of profit, unless and until their processes become “zero sum” based; that is, restoring and/or improving the air and water used in their processes to the highest quality level, with the goal of zero pollution. Recycling all waste to highest value use through re-manufacturing into other products, or ensuring downstream use by others dedicated to that purpose.There is no inherent right for any commercial, industrial or government enterprise to be anything other than a zero-sum participant in the economy as regards pollution and the environment. If fact, they have a demonstrable duty and responsibility to affirmatively ensure that any of these operations of government or commerce operate ONLY as zero-sum participants, making sure that the quality of air, water and other materials generated through operations are BETTER after the operation of their processes.
If Citizens take the time to reason this through, they may see that giving anyone the right to pollute, or otherwise harm the ecology and environment in the pursuit of profit cannot be allowed for the sake of current and future generations. For hundreds of years government, industry and commerce have been allowed to ignore the effect of their operations on the health and welfare of others.
As long as Citizens are paying for the privilege of buying products and services, and supporting operations of commerce and government, the price will have to include making sure that participants in the economy operate under the zero-sum mandate.
To do otherwise is to further subsidize air and water pollution, food pollution, even radiation pollution.
Licenses and permits MUST include necessary agreements to “do no harm” to the ecology and environment, both internally in plant and commercial operations, and externally by making sure that all by-products are recycled to highest value, treated to equal-or-better than the intake (as in water and air) to the net effect of “Zero Sum,” meaning no addition, dilution or subtraction to the environment from the materials, resources, and processes used.0
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Another “Aid Package,” Another Tax | Newsflavor
It’s ironic that the 26 Billion “aid package” to the states is mainly to protect the highest paid civil servants on payrolls with the highest city and state deficits, highest union and pension benefits, and by some standards the least deserving, compared to others with real needs for food, (this aid includes early termination of food stamp benefits for hundreds of thousands); shelter- homelessness due to foreclosures and evictions is way up, and others.
It is supposedly paid for with termination of tax breaks for corporations doing business overseas, and the above-mentioned early termination of food stamps.
Forgetting the obviously skewed vote-buying of teacher, police and fire, and civil service union and other special interest constituencies, it also prolongs the unnecessary economic imbalances that stop free-market, normal economic cycle corrections that have always led to better results in the future, by eliminating waste and improving productivity. (Question: When does most violent crime occur? Answer: At night. Question: when do most police work- day shift or night shift? Answer: Day shift.) See anything wrong with that equation?
The free market system works best in the private sector so when demand slows down,or revenues don’t support a given level of staffing or production, firing and layoffs occur. Unfortunate as they may be, they continue until demand picks up along with revenues.
Public Sector jobs like Police, Firefighters, and Teachers have become, in some cases overpaid, and in most cases so over-benefited, that they are breaking the bank in many states and cities, to the degree of a one hundred percent or higher salary and overtime premium ( for less education), more when ridiculous early-out, and overpaid pensions and easy-to-get disability benefits are included. ( Example:Cop is on 100 percent disability-at $75,000 year plus medical, yet goes sky diving, mountain climbing, golfing, fishes on his own boat, and more).
The free market system is not being allowed to operate as it should.
How much better it would be if this “aid” package were directed at small business creation and financing, which creates over 60% of all the jobs in the U.S., and funds from unused Stimulus Funds and TARP unused and already repaid funds were also included. Then, you might have stimulus that would encourage jobs AND repay the taxpayers..productively. As it is now, these funds are being re-tasked for programs and contracts that primarily benefit union and public sector jobs.
