| 500,000 deaths provoke no moral outrage, just one example among so many others ... something is not right here. Violence does not take place in a vacuum nor must we assume that certain nations or people are 'subhuman' or 'demons' (I was particularly concerned with statements out of Israel looking for sympathy in the 'constant fight against terrorists' (Palestinian = terrorist). In any case I thought I would constrast the statements of the U.S. state department and the statements of Bin Laden... http://www.zmag.org/meastwatch/prospects_for_peace.htm The only serious question about the sanctions is whether they’re simply terrible crimes or whether they are literally genocidal, as charged by those who have the most intimate acquaintance with the situation, in particular the coordinator of the United Nations programs, Denis Halliday, a highly respected UN official who resigned under protest because he was being compelled to carry out what he called “genocidal acts,” as did his successor Hans von Sponeck. It’s agreed on all sides that the effect of the sanctions has been to strengthen Saddam Hussein and to devastate the population .... There are justifications offered, and they merit careful attention — they tell us a good deal about ourselves, I think. The simplest line of argument to justify the sanctions was presented by the Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. You’ll recall, I’m sure, that she was asked on national television a couple years ago about how she felt about the fact that she had killed half a million Iraqi children. She didn’t deny the factual allegation. She agreed that it was, as she put it, “a high price,” but said, “we think it’s worth it”. That was the end of the discussion ... That’s the important fact, and it’s very enlightening to see the reaction. The comment is hers; the reaction is ours. Looking at the reaction we learn about ourselves. http://www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm for over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples. If some people have formerly debated the fact of the occupation, all the people of the Peninsula have now acknowledged it. The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people using the Peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, still they are helpless. Second, despite the great devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by the crusader-Zionist alliance, and despite the huge number of those killed, in excess of 1 million... despite all this, the Americans are once against trying to repeat the horrific massacres, as though they are not content with the protracted blockade imposed after the ferocious war or the fragmentation and devastation ... Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries ... On that basis, and in compliance with God's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies--civilians and military--is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it ... The Campaign to Impeach George W. Bush Click here for more information |
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A Unified Field Theory
The Unified Field Theory
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Introduction :The Pioneer Effect and the New Physics. A brief description of the new physics required to explain the 'Pioneer Effect', which is the constant deceleration of space craft as they fly through space.