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Boss Elements Aqua by Hugo Boss is a Woody Aromatic fragrance for men. Boss Elements Aqua was launched in 1997. Top notes are pineapple, lavender and mint; middle notes are coriander, pepper, freesia and tea; base notes are sandalwood, patchouli, vanilla and vetiver.
Perfume rating: 3.78 out of 5 with 159 votes.
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for me its similar after 15 minutes to L`Air du Desert Marocain Tauer Perfumes
wow amazing
Very underrated. Fantastic fragrance that is getting harder to find now days.
i recently found this, but liquid looks green.. ti tac.. does anybody now if this its correct? maybe a late issue?
Love this cologne. My hubby has been wearing it for years and he loves it too as women ALWAYS tell him how lovely he smells or ask who is wearing that really nice cologne - he gets them sniffing his neck and going "oh, it is lovely!" Any man who wants women to gravitate to him should wear Elements Aqua! So, so, so appalled that Hugo Boss stopped producing it - I just ordered two more bottles online which we will now treasure, as so difficult to fine any to buy these two may be the last ones he ever has! Simply don't understand why they stopped making a cologne that men like and women LOVE! I keep trying and buying other colognes for him to but not one so far has been appealing as Elements Aqua. Not too spicy, not too fruity, not too anything except delish!
Very sweet, woody and likable scent. Quite potent too. Staying power and silage excellent. This is, however, not a marine or aqua juice but it's a great male fragrance.
Boss Elements Aqua is a surprisingly nice scent, really modern for its era and really quality for being a Boss. It opens with a remarkably balanced and intriguing blend of watery-green notes perfectly interacting with sweet notes of sandalwood and vanilla, something balmy-piney (a bit like fir balsam, just less sticky and more minty), a subtle old-school bone accord of lavender and vetiver connecting Aqua to many crisp and fresh fougères, and something smelling leathery or more decidedly "woody (probably patchouli, dark pepper and woods give me that feeling). I also get cedar and something fruity. It may sound as a screechy scent, it's not at all: it's really enjoyable, fresh, mannered and sweet in a classy, "virile" way, played on sandalwood and green-woody notes rather than plain fruity or "sea" aromachemicals. It has something conveying the idea of "water", and I appreciate it is a result of a clever combination of notes. I mean – you get the notes, and they're juxtaposed in a way they *also* end in up in creating some "watery" feel. Which is brilliant for me, and I guess it is how perfumes are supposed to be composed. As regards of the fruitiness, it's Chanel Egoiste's kind of fruity-woody sweetness, to give you an idea – nothing juvenile or sickening. And in fact I think Aqua shares quite something with Egoiste anyway, as it seems clearly based on sandalwood as "central" note – some real, nice, smooth sandalwood, perfectly connecting with other notes enhancing its facets. Finally what strikes me the most is the final result: Aqua smells quite rich, refined, complex and natural, at the opposite of many other Boss fragrances which to me always smelled a bit cheap and tacky. A bit linear, but really well made with really nice materials for me. Nothing to go mad for, but a nice gem among their range.
I really love this perfume! I actually found my bottle 8 years ago in a locker room. I used it when I met a special woman and the scent just takes me back to that wonderful time like it was yesterday :)
I think the scent is fresh, sweet and abit spicy. It really is a scent that sticks out and it last a full day. The bottle is also really beautiful. I cant connect to the name though, because it doesnt really feel aquatic.
I really hope Hugo Boss starts produce Elements Aqua again because today (2015) it is hard to find. I just payed 85 GBP (about 150 USD) to get 100 ml, which would tell you how much I love this scent. You can get it cheaper on ebay if you live in the US, but as a European there´s not much to do. At least I got the first bottle for free ;)
Anyway, i think its worth every cent.
There is an extremely strong peppery note in Elements Aqua which ruins it for me. Given the bottle design and name one would expect an aquatic, but the pepper and tea give it an odd facet that is not to my nose's taste. Woody drydown.
Woody, spicy and sweet. Not really aquatic ... unique. A big dose of juniper blends with mint, amber and sandalwood. Very good projection, long lasting. Great for casual wear. A great fresh scent.
pineapple, vanilla and mint. Can be worn in Spring and summer day and even in hot summer night. a little cloying if over applied but you can't go wrong with 2 spray on the chest and one behind the neck
long lasting,and greta projection.
Hugo Boss should re-introduce this one on the market or creating a flanker of this
Spicy, creamy, oriental, fresh but not aquatic at all.
I have good memories of Aqua Elements. It's one of my first fragrances, and the fact that it was a bit more expensive than other Hugo Boss fragrances made it special for me: I liked to think it was because of the ingredients that were of a higher quality.
However, the two ottles I have owned both detoriated after a while. I could clearly notice that after a year or so, the scent didn't have it's "edge" and complexity anymore. I always store my frangrances in a dark place at room temperature, so that couldn't be it.
A new bottle of AE is an 8,5/10, an older bottle is a 7/10.
Really good one from the house off Boss.
Although suggested by the name, bottle and packaging, this is not an aquatic. Rather a warm, oriental scent. A bit sour, which gives it its freshness. Original (I don't know something alike), but unfortunately out of production.
My bottle is almost five years old now. I noticed that the smell has vhanged a bit. I recall a rich, creamy base when I first bought it. It's much thinner now, a bit sour as I stated before. Too bad!
I love this!!! Very, very very sweet almost sickly so to the point of Willy Wonka!!! The initail sweetness reminds me of dolly mixture but it has fruitiness and definite peppery notes which balance it perfectly. I get a little vanilla in the dry down too it's a lovely fragrance. I remember looking at it on here and decided to take a chance on it and I'm so glad I did...a blind buy but I got it cheap.
This is another really nice Hugo Boss fragrance...refreshing and after the top notes of sweetness(which endures but is not intrusive) it dries down to a nice scent.
This one reminds me of Cerruti 1881.. its not the same , but on the same league..
This is good sweet casual wearing cologne for Spring & Fall seasons
This was bought by mistake. I asked for perfume Boss Elements and the cashier gave me perfume Boss Elements Aqua. By the time I realized the mistake, it was TOO LATE.
All I get is tea-mint and a bad...bad... headache
Longevity / Sillage: Strong at start
My Total Score: 2/10
This was bought by mistake as a present for me, im so glad i got it. It's one of those at the time i hated it fragrances but i stuck with it and i adore it now. Its still not your typical woody aquatic it has a blast of juniper and something that just feels like you should run outside in the summer rain.
A great rare Boss scent, one that i wear just for myself i dont care if people dont like it :D
This juice is like having a warm spicy aqua
force field protecting you!
This is one of the best spiced aqua scents out there!!
If you shut your eyes..you can picture wearing this
aboard your Yacht sipping a Campari on the rocks
drifting down the Amalfi Coast!!
If you can picture that?
Too sweet for me.
I do not like it.
This is a spicy and green fresh scent which opens with very interesting notes.The middle notes creates on you a deep green atmosphere with some notes similar to Polo Sport. Good scent for any daily situation.
It s somehow spicy,earthy.The "aqua" in the name is misleading.But no longevity on me,though.I wouldn't buy it again...
Sweet scented and woody! The dry down reminds me of Hugo Dark Blue and Amber Baldessarini.
What a nice surprise!!!!!! This scent took me for a tizzy..... I am not super crazy about the over smell of the scent but it definitely will get you compliments. I gave this a full wearing at work. When I got to the office and sat down at my desk I was starting to doubt this fragrance after reading the reviews on here and was thinking about taking back to the store. A few minutes later a female Co-worker walks in and she says who has on cologne? It smells really niiiiccceee. She walked over to me smelled my neck and says yep it's you and asked me what it was and I gladly told her. A few hours later I went to another office located at another branch and as I walked passed another female gave me almost the same exact compliment. So everyone is spot on that this is a office scent and it will get you compliments. I was truly amazed because i was getting ready to take it back and decided not to because of the compliments I am getting. I don't mind wearing a fragrance that is not my favorite but gets compliments. I have worn fragrances that I love and have never gotten a compliment on it. At this price and the compliments you receive Def give this a try. I am so glad I did.
Also, I forgot to mention the projection and longevity is SUPERB.... believe it or not I got a full 8 hours out of this beast....
sweet and sexy ! love it !!!
My first cologne,i was 13 years old and my godmother gave me.It is very fresh,woody on first minutes,a little bit spicy but i dont know why aqua on the name.i like it.worth to buy
It's fresh, but the top notes was too much strong for me and the middle not makes me a headache a bit. I remember it's simillar with my father scent perfume. I only used for once and then I give it to him.
Agree with all of the reviewers. My all time favourite sent - all the women across the ages loved this when I wore this to the office.
Only available online due to stores discontinuing this scent many years ago.
My absolute favourite ever scent!
Somehow, my girlfriend loved to linger me around when I wear this!
8.5/10 - day fragrance
This is my FIRST fragrance, and I bought it after get first salary on my first job after graduating. Just a blind buy...
I put my choice just because Hugo Boss had associated with a male, masculine, energy, power and young age.
But when I spray it for first time, it not smell like aqua nor something associated with it (citrus or fruity). The strange smell I think, and that's make me dizzy...
So I give 2nd chance to Element Aqua, but until many spray, I couldn't except the smell at all.
I hate it !!! and keep it for 2 years before my uncle ask it for him.
Great male scent!! - Woody and aromatic (and a little powdery, but surprisingly, fresh) It's sweet and likeable with spearmint, spices and vanilla throughout. But this is not a marine or a watery fragrance, in my opinion it's misleading to have "aqua" in the name. However, this is a nice long lasting scent with good sillage, one of the best Bosses - oh, and a nice bottle too.
This is, so far, the only fresh scent that's ever worked on me! (I stole it from my stepfather.) A little spicy, a little watery, and very fresh without turning sharp or sour. Excellent!
i have to say this is the BEST fresh scent ive smelled in some time one thing with the hugo boss line is their spicy fresh sophisticated blends that are really well done
excellent scent line much better than D&G, armani and lots of others
this is a really nice (wet)cologne.is that possible? lol
I agree, it's very very sexy!!! My husband had it 5-6years ago and I remember and love it ever since. Unforgetable...
aromatic,clean,fresh, for every day.
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TAG | Islamic fundamentalism
Bangladesh: Darkness Falls
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics, Religion
When a sub-headline begins like this…:
Niloy Chakrabarti was only the latest atheist blogger to be hacked to death in the country this year.
That refers to the murder of Chakrabarti, slaughtered by a group of attackers in his appartment earlier this month.
A long piece in today's Guardian explains what's been going on.
Here's an extract:
[Avijit] Roy, who held dual US and Bangladeshi nationality, was the most prominent atheist writer to be attacked in Bangladesh, but he was not the first – or the last. On 30 March, a month after Roy's murder, another blogger, Washiqur Rahman Babu, was set upon by a group of masked assailants. On 12 May, Ananta Bijoy Das, who wrote for Mukto-Mona on rationalism and science, was attacked in his hometown of Sylhet. On 7 August, men with machetes broke into the Dhaka home of Niloy Chakrabarti, a blogger who used the pen name Niloy Neel. All three men died.
The four murders in 2015 were brutal and happened in quick succession, prompting police action. Three people have been arrested – including a British citizen, Touhidur Rahman – over the deaths of Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das.
A British citizen: I'll just interrupt to note that fact.
But the violence goes back further. It began on 15 January 2013, when atheist blogger and political activist Asif Mohiuddin was on his way to work and was attacked from behind by a group of men with machetes. "I [thought] I would die," he tells me over Skype from his new home in Germany. "But somehow I survived." He spent weeks in intensive care, and still finds it difficult to move his neck. "I think I will carry this problem all my life."
A month later, another blogger critical of Islamic fundamentalism, Ahmed Rajib Haider, was attacked in the same way outside his house in Dhaka. He did not survive. In August 2014, someone broke into the Dhaka home of TV personality Nurul Islam Faruqi, who had criticised fundamentalist groups on air, and slit his throat. A humanist academic, Professor Shafiul Islam, who had pushed for a ban on full-face veils for students, was murdered near Rajshahi University in west Bangladesh in November.
These brutal crimes have gone unpunished; arrests have not led to prosecutions. The government appears unwilling, or unable, to stand with atheists. Instead, in an attempt to appease Islamists, it has ramped up its own actions against "blasphemous" bloggers….
Read the whole thing.
atheism · Bangladesh · blasphemy and defamation of religion · Islamic fundamentalism
"In a battle of facile narratives, the one with more action wins"
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics
Writing in the Independent, Howard Jacobson on reactions to the terrorist atrocities in London ten years ago and some uncomfortable truths about which 'narratives' appeal:
"We need a counter-narrative." How often have we heard that since 7/7? We need to tell a better story to those young British Muslims for whom bombs and beheadings hold a greater allure than anything we have to offer. Someone's seducing them away with a narrative of lies, so we must seduce them back again with a narrative of truth.
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional. And while we like to think it's stories as subtle as Ulysses or humane as Middlemarch that drive civilisation along, in fact what quickens the popular imagination are simpler tales of goodies and baddies, in which the baddies are always someone else. Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.
The Government's proposed hymn to British values is equally naiive. Man wakes up, kisses wife (but not in a homophobic sort of way), reads chapter of Magna Carta aloud to family, goes bareheaded to work, eats humanely killed pork sandwich, practises sundry acts of tolerance, returns home to gin and tonic, prays unfanatically to secular god, and goes to sleep thinking of the Royal Family. Indubitably, there are worse ways of getting through the tedium of existence, but as a narrative this one's unlikely to prevail against millenarian fantasy and a plentiful supply of virgins. In a battle of facile narratives, the one with more action wins.
But why must it be a choice, anyway, between blowing people up on buses and a docile embrace of British values to which very few Britons of any faith or temper subscribe? Extreme views can kill, but disagreement is the breath of life. Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British. The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous…..
The writer Mehdi Hasan similarly sprays guilt around and, for good measure, suffering as well. If we think 7/7 was a terrible time for the victims, he wants us to remember who else got it in the neck. When the bombers were identified as British men with names like his, "a knot tightened at the pit of my stomach", he wrote in The Guardian. "We're screwed," he told a Muslim friend. Beware the grammar of narrative. Self-concern appears to come too quickly here, trumping the horror of the moment. You're screwed, Mr Hasan? There are dozens dead and hundreds injured and bereaved, and you're screwed?
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Shocker: Salon Does Right by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2 Comments · Posted by mupetblast in Biased reporting, Religion
Salon, the progressive website so enamored of SJW politics that even white belly dancers attract condemnation, today publishes a piece entitled, "Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Jon Stewart: Islam, Liberals, and the Media's Dangerous Double Standard." Excerpt:
A determination to avoid judgment consistently disorders rational thinking about Islam and draws too many progressives into thickets of idiocy where they entangle themselves in contradictions and assume positions that are nothing short of reprehensible. Let's not, they would say, criticize Islam (no matter what atrocities its votaries commit), because Muslims are a minority and are sometimes discriminated against. Let's not, in other words, "punch down."
Such a progressive is, sadly, Jon Stewart.
As you can see from the below, this article is a bit of an anomaly at Salon. But here's to hoping (not praying) for more such writing in the future.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Islamic fundamentalism · jon stewart · salon
In eliminating ancient architecture, ISIS is also destroying the architecture of minds. Until there is nothing between you and your judging, revengeful God. Not a single joyous distraction – of art or music or history or dance – to fill your heart. The work of 2,000 years gone in minutes. Nothing left but blood and sand.
Link: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4448785.ece
ISIS · Islam · Islamic fundamentalism · Palmyra · Syria
Conservative vs. ISIS and…Silicon Valley
3 Comments · Posted by mupetblast in Science & Faith
For a guy who laments moral relativism, Rod Dreher doesn't shy away from equating ISIS, though with the expected qualifier, to the folks in Silicon Valley. Upon reading a dialogue between two future forecaster types at Edge.org – who talk about "useless" people (from an economic, military, and intentionally hyperbolic POV, let's be clear) and the possibility of the very rich cheating death – he's come away convinced that "slavery" will soon be at hand:
This is the religion of the future. Slavery will come to us disguised as the light of liberty and progress. These are the barbarians coming to rule us — and the masses will welcome them.
If you are not part of a church community that is consciously resisting this vision, then your children, or at best your children's children, will be lost to the faith. There is no thought more corrupting to the human soul than the Serpent's promise in Eden: "Ye Shall be as Gods."
Goodness, er, gracious.
Dreher is disturbed by modernity, period, and for him Silicon Valley is symbolic of everything wrong with the (relatively) rationalist, reductionist tendency in the human affairs of the Global North. He blames the "barbarians" of Silicon Valley for being both elitist – e.g. with their talk of a technological "singularity" and interest in life extension – and down-to-earth in the worst way, by promoting "bread and circuses." Think Netflix and Snapchat (or to get really granular, the animated gif keyboard).
Some of what Dreher is criticizing is rightly considered problematic (to borrow a term from the left), such as long-term unemployment becoming the norm. And Dreher correctly points out that the trends being noticed in the conversation between Yuval Noah Harari and Daniel Kahneman aren't necessarily being promoted. But the solution to these and other ills aren't being obstructed by techno-optimists as much as they are anti-state libertarians (to call out "our" side), or the political dysfunction seemingly difficult to dislodge given increasing ideological rigidity.
In any case, egghead utilitarians deliberating about how the masses will endure the end of work and ample food and entertainment is not at all on par with radical Islam. But that's just my two cents. Or is that two bitcoins? Whatever.
ISIS vs. Silicon Valley
The Islamic State is now directing its wrath at Twitter. Namely its co-founder, Jack Dorsey, but also his underlings. And if you thought the Twitter Mob was bad, check out what happens when Twitter itself is in the crosshairs for wrangling with the ultra-reactionary:
ISIS posted an online threat Sunday warning Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey that "your virtual war on the Internet will cause a real war on you."
The threat was posted in Arabic under a headline, "Foundation for the conquest of Jerusalem for the Islamic State," and "Twitter a target for the caliphate."
"Jack, how will you protect your helpless employees when their necks are on the line and they become an official target for soldiers of the succession and their supporters among you?" the online post states. "What will be your response to their families and sons, and their plight in this failed war?"
Oddly, ISIS has nothing to say about the awful, terrible and no-good lack of diversity at Twitter. It's merely upset that the company is constantly taking down its videos. How selfish! Clearly the fledgeling Islamic State is not in tune with 21st century moral posturing. (Only 8th century beheadings.)
Luckily for the civilized world, the hacktivist spirit that dwells within ISIS is also at work among its opponents. As CNN reports, someone going by the name of "The Jester" has been undermining online jihadis for nearly half a decade:
"I realized something needed to be done about online radicalization and 'grooming' of wannabe jihadis, and we didn't have mechanisms to deal with it," Jester said in an interview with CNNMoney. "I decided to start disrupting them."
My black hat's off to you, sir.
ISIS: Looking to the North
2 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics, Religion
Cross-posted on the Corner:
Over in the Financial Times, there's an interesting piece on Putin's friends abroad, but this passage in particular caught my eye:
The current Egyptian government believes that the Obama administration's failure to support former President Hosni Mubarak, during the Egyptian revolution of 2011, revealed the US to be both duplicitous and naive.
Hold that thought, now read this (from the Daily Telegraph) (my emphasis added):
Islamic State militants are planning a takeover of Libya as a "gateway" to wage war across the whole of southern Europe, letters written by the group's supporters have revealed. The jihadists hope to flood the north African state with militiamen from Syria and Iraq, who will then sail across the Mediterranean posing as migrants on people trafficking vessels, according to plans seen by Quilliam, the British anti-extremist group. The fighters would then run amok in southern European cities and also try to attack maritime shipping.
The document is written by an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) propagandist who is believed to be an important online recruiter for the terror in Libya, where security has collapsed in the wake of the revolution that unseated Colonel Gaddafi in 2011 . . .
[British] security officials also share Isil's view about the possibility of using people trafficking boats to smuggle fighters into Europe. Thanks to its vast, porous desert borders with Sub-Saharan Africa, Libya has long been a key operating hub for trafficking boats heading into Europe, but numbers have escalated dramatically since the collapse of the Gaddafi regime. Italy's interior ministry estimates that at least 200,000 refugees and immigrants are poised to make the crossing from Libya to Sicily or the tiny island of Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost territory. Last year more than 170,000 arrived in Italy by boat, including tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing the civil war in their home country. . . .
Nasser Kamel, Egypt's ambassador to London, warned Britain brace itself for 'boats full of terrorists' unless action was taken in Libya. He spoke after 2,164 migrants were rescued at sea in a 24-hour period over the weekend in what has been described as an 'exodus without precedent'.
"Those boat people who go for immigration purposes and try to cross the Mediterranean … in the next few weeks, if we do not act together, they will be boats full of terrorists also," he said. . . .
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Isil's leader, has since laid claim to Libya as part of his "Caliphate". Whilst on the whole that remains more rhetoric than reality, support for the group in this war ravaged state is growing. In September, Abu Nabil, an Iraqi and key leader within Isil, travelled to the country to build support for the group. His men took control of much of Derna, a traditionally conservative city in the east of the country, that is now being run according to the extremist group's strict Shariah law. Hundreds of Libyans who had travelled to fight alongside Isil in Syria have started to return to fight for the group on home turf, residents say. They have expanded the group's influence into the east of the country, taking controlling of parts of Sirte, a former Gaddafi stronghold.
Barack Obama (January 7, 2014) on ISIS:
I think the analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant. I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.
And since then there has been the claim that ISIS is somehow "not Islamic."
The term "out of his depth" comes to mind.
In this context, this lengthy, intriguing piece by Graeme Wood in The Atlantic on ISIS is very well worth your time. Its implications are terrifying.
Some extracts:
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.
The millennialist temptation takes many forms, is perennial and, at its worst, very, very dangerous, but it is not something that a president wrapped up in the soft certainties of the end of history can be expected to understand.
The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.
Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, "the Prophetic methodology," which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn't actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it….
Following takfiri doctrine, the Islamic State is committed to purifying the world by killing vast numbers of people. The lack of objective reporting from its territory makes the true extent of the slaughter unknowable, but social-media posts from the region suggest that individual executions happen more or less continually, and mass executions every few weeks. Muslim "apostates" are the most common victims. Exempted from automatic execution, it appears, are Christians who do not resist their new government. Baghdadi permits them to live, as long as they pay a special tax, known as the jizya, and acknowledge their subjugation. The Koranic authority for this practice is not in dispute . . .
Centuries have passed since the wars of religion ceased in Europe, and since men stopped dying in large numbers because of arcane theological disputes. Hence, perhaps, the incredulity and denial with which Westerners have greeted news of the theology and practices of the Islamic State.
The incredulity and denial are true enough, and, ironically, Wood's history (at this point) in a sense reflects very similar thinking. Contrary to his assertion, wars of religion (even if largely unacknowledged as such) did very nicely for themselves in Europe during the last century. Both communism and Nazism were, in many respects, millennialist cults (think of that "thousand year" Reich), and, as such cults can do, they killed millions.
ISIS may well try the same.
As for ISIS attacks on southern Europe (and in the end it would not just be southern Europe), it's important to remember that the writings of one propagandist do not necessarily translate into deeds, but . . .
As the atrocities in France and Denmark remind us, Europe's intertwined immigration and Islamist crises are already bad enough. They may well be about to get much worse.
Fundamentalism · ISIS · Islam · Islamic fundamentalism · Italy · Libya · Millennial Cults
Cross-posted on the Corner.
A writer for the Guardian, on cue (my emphasis added):
We are in perilous territory. Slaughter as political protest cannot be defended. Free speech as legal and moral pre-requisites in a free society must be defended. But there are also other obligations to be laid upon those who wish to live in peaceful, reasonably harmonious societies. Even after Paris, even after Denmark we must guard against the understandable temptation to be provocative in the publication of these cartoons if the sole objective is to establish that we can do so. With rights to free speech come responsibilities.
Ah yes.
After the uproar that followed the appearance of the original Mohammed cartoons, an article was published in Jyllands-Posten (the newspaper that first published those cartoons) included this phrase: "Ytringsfrihed er ytringsfrihed er ytringsfrihed. Der er intet men."
The translation? "Free speech is free speech is free speech. There is no but."
But there is.
As I noted the other day, Jyllands-Posten is singing a different tune these days, made all the bleaker by its bluntness. The newspaper declined to republish the Charlie Hebdo cartoons after the Paris murders saying this:
"We have lived with the fear of a terrorist attack for nine years, and yes, that is the explanation why we do not reprint the cartoons, whether it be our own or Charlie Hebdo's," Jyllands-Posten said. "We are also aware that we therefore bow to violence and intimidation."
In writing about the (first) Copenhagen murder last night, I linked to a 2010 Philadelphia Inquirer story that revealed how a number of the meetings due to be addressed by Lars Vilks (the artist whose event was attacked) had been canceled.
If I had to guess, I suspect that those who, however sadly, canceled those events, are today feeling, however sadly, that they did the right thing. Violence works.
There will be many more cancellations, many more invitations that go unissued, many more articles that do not get written, and many more cartoons that do not get drawn.
The noose tightens a bit more.
In a piece published by The Spectator before Copenhagen, Douglas Murray writes about a rally held in London a week or so ago:
Yesterday in London a crowd of more than a thousand British Muslims (carefully divided between males and females) gathered outside Downing Street. The rally – organised by something calling itself 'The Muslim Action Forum' – was a protest against freedom of speech, specifically to cartoons of Mohammed in the French publication Charlie Hebdo. Among the banners carried by protestors were ones that read, 'I am a servant of holy prophet Muhammad (pbuh)', the sinister 'We love prophet Muhammad (pbuh) more than our lives', 'Jesus and Moses were prophets of Islam' and the even more presumptuous 'Learn some manners'. Among those holding a banner reading 'Charlie and the abuse factory' was a little boy. Others bore banners with the fantastically awful words spoken by the Pope last month: 'Insult my mum and I will punch you (Pope Francis).' A large banner hung beneath the stage from which speakers addressed the crowd carried the barely concealed threat: 'Be careful with Muhammad.'
Meanwhile a group of tribal leaders presented a petition to Number 10 Downing Street which they said had been signed by 100,000 UK Muslims criticising publications which 'sow the seeds of hatred'…. Among the speakers was one Shaykh Tauqir Ishaw, a spokesman for the organisers who said:
'Perpetual mistakes by extremists, either by cold-blooded killers or uncivilised expressionists, cannot be the way forward for a civilised society. The peace-loving majority of people must become vociferous in promoting global civility and responsible debate. At this time of heightened tension and emotion, it is crucial that both sides show restraint to prevent further incidents of this nature occurring.'
"Restraint." "Responsibilities." "But."
Of course much though these fanatics may like to pretend otherwise there are no 'two sides' of the same coin going on here. The 'expressionists' and the 'terrorists' are not 'as bad as each other'. The only two things which are in fact conjoined are the people who use guns and bombs to terrorise people for exercising their rights as free Europeans and the very large number of people from the 'moderate majority' who back up such violence (even while, like yesterday's speakers, claiming to deplore it) with warnings that non-Muslims should be 'careful' when addressing their religion.
blasphemy and defamation of religion · Free Speech · Islam · Islamic fundamentalism
Too Dangerous a Historical Debate
2 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in history, Religion
Writing in the Guardian, Nick Cohen on self-censorship:
Unless we find the courage to overcome fear, the self-censorship will spread, and not only in the media.
Colleagues who wanted historians at a London museum to talk about the long history of depictions of Muhammad in Islamic art last week were met with panicking press officers trying to shut them up. Historian Tom Holland, who received death threats after he challenged the creation myths of Islam, said: "I cannot think of any other area of history where debate is so nervous." He hopes that historians will continue to say that the Koran was a manmade creation, but doubts that journalists will be keen to take their work to the public.
This is not a small capitulation. In the 19th century, the textual criticism of German scholars revealed that the supposed word of God in the Bible was a mess of competing stories. It did as much damage to Christianity and Judaism as Darwinism. Anyone hoping to repeat the exercise by taking apart the Koran and the hadiths today will be restrained by the fear that they will end up as dead as satirists who try to do the same with anti-clerical humour.
blasphemy and defamation of religion · Islam · Islamic fundamentalism
#PasCharlie 2
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics, Religion
Cross-posted on the Corner (yesterday):
Tomorrow Paris will play host to a march designed to show France's unity in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
The Guardian explains:
Je suis Charlie. Nous sommes Charlie. La France est Charlie.
Under the banner of Tous Unis! (All United!), France's Socialist government has called for a show of national unity after three days of bloodshed that were felt as a direct blow to the republican values of liberté, egalité, fraternité.
On Sunday David Cameron and Angela Merkel, as well as the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, president Matteo Renzi of Italy and the Spanish premier, Mariano Rajoy – 30 world leaders in all – will take part in one of the most significant public occasions in the history of post-war France….
The Guardian continues:
While almost everyone is Charlie when it comes to defending the fundamental values of the French republic, there is less unity when it comes to dealing with threats to those values.
Everyone is Charlie?
No, everyone is not.
And the French state most definitely is not.
Writing for the Washington Post, Jonathan Turley argues (my emphasis added):
Indeed, if the French want to memorialize those killed at Charlie Hebdo, they could start by rescinding their laws criminalizing speech that insults, defames or incites hatred, discrimination or violence on the basis of religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, sex or sexual orientation. These laws have been used to harass the satirical newspaper and threaten its staff for years. Speech has been conditioned on being used "responsibly" in France, suggesting that it is more of a privilege than a right for those who hold controversial views….
The cases have been wide-ranging and bizarre. In 2008, for example, Brigitte Bardot was convicted for writing a letter to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy about how she thought Muslims and homosexuals were ruining France. In 2011, fashion designer John Galliano was found guilty of making anti-Semitic comments against at least three people in a Paris cafe. In 2012, the government criminalized denial of the Armenian genocide (a law later overturned by the courts, but Holocaust denial remains a crime). In 2013, a French mother was sentenced for "glorifying a crime" after she allowed her son, named Jihad, to go to school wearing a shirt that said "I am a bomb." Last year, Interior Minister Manuel Valls moved to ban performances by comedian Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala, declaring that he was "no longer a comedian" but was rather an "anti-Semite and racist." It is easy to silence speakers who spew hate or obnoxious words, but censorship rarely ends with those on the margins of our society…
Recently, speech regulation in France has expanded into non-hate speech, with courts routinely intervening in matters of opinion. For example, last year, a French court fined blogger Caroline Doudet and ordered her to change a headline to reduce its prominence on Google — for her negative review of a restaurant.
While France long ago got rid of its blasphemy laws, there is precious little difference for speakers and authors in prosecutions for defamation or hate speech. There may also be little difference perceived by extremists, like those in Paris, who mete out their own justice for speech the government defines as a crime. To them, this is only a matter of degree in responding to what the government has called unlawful provocations.
And as Turley points out, it's not just France:
The French, of course, have not been alone in rolling back protections on free speech. Britain, Canada and other nations have joined them. We have similar rumblings here in the United States. In 2009, the Obama administration shockingly supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard.
And ask yourself this: What would have been the reaction on an American campus, Brandeis say, or Yale, if (before this week) some of its students had retweeted some of those Charlie Hebdo covers or, maybe, horrors, invited the magazine's now murdered editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, to speak?
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The next shortwave/precipitation now over central MT should reach western ND between 12z-15z Tuesday. UPDATE Issued at 916 PM CDT Mon Jul 25 2016 A few showers/storms continue to develop along boundary that is now draped from east-central North Dakota into south-central North Dakota. Models continue to show strong instability, though with weak shear in place storms have been pulsing up and down. Will keep precipitation chances in the forecast through the night mainly over the southern half of the area. Updates have been sent. UPDATE Issued at 626 PM CDT Mon Jul 25 2016 Stronger instability remains in place over the area this evening, though shear is weak and there is no strong forcing mechanism in place. Therefore, only expect some isolated storms to develop tonight. Storms could become strong, but with the lack of shear do not expect them to be long lived. && .SHORT TERM...(This evening through Tuesday) Issued at 347 PM CDT Mon Jul 25 2016 Main forecast issue in the short term period will be possible thunderstorm chances late this afternoon through Tuesday. Currently, sunny skies across western and central ND. The exception being an area of cu development over the far southwest. Instability continues to increase across central ND with mlcapes approaching 2000-2500 j/kg. However, lapse rates are not impressive and bulk shear is lacking most areas. In the north central where there is an area of impressive shear is where lapse rates are the lowest. Convection-allowing models are still indicating isolated convection from mainly Sioux/Grant counties in the far south central, into the James River Valley and into east central/northeast ND. Will utilize a time-lagged blend of short term models for late afternoon/evening pops, which is yielding 20-30 pops in this general area through mid evening. The potential for severe weather appears limited given the meager shear and mid level lapse rates. But due to the unstable conditions, a briefly severe thunderstorm can not be ruled out. The boundary that convection fires on this afternoon/evening becomes nearly stationary just south of south central/southeast ND late tonight and Tuesday. This will set up a moist easterly flow along and north of the boundary, keeping the chance for showers and thunderstorms across southern ND through tonight and Tuesday. Surface high pressure north of this boundary currently over southern Alberta/Saskatchewan will move east into Manitoba Tuesday bringing more stable conditions into the northern half of ND Tuesday. After lows around 60 tonight, highs will range from the upper 70s north to the upper 80s southwest on Tuesday. The threat for severe weather on Tuesday will be marginal with the best chances over the southern half of the state. .LONG TERM...(Tuesday night through Monday) Issued at 347 PM CDT Mon Jul 25 2016 A persistent eastern Canadian trough and Western N.A ridge will maintain a nearly stationary boundary from the northern Rockies into the northern and central Plains. This will keep the risk of showers and thunderstorms in the forecast through the work week. For western and central ND the best chances for precipitation will be across the west and south central, while the north central will see limited chances. By the weekend the western ridge begins to build over the central U.S. perhaps bringing a little drier weather, but with warming temperatures, at least a slight chance of diurnally driven thunderstorms will remain through the upcoming weekend. 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Individual differences in impulsive decision-making may be critical determinants of vulnerability to impulse control disorders and substance abuse, yet little is known of their biological or behavioural basis. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been heavily implicated in the regulation of impulsive decision-making. However, lesions of the OFC in rats have both increased and decreased impulsivity in delay-discounting paradigms, where impulsive choice is defined as the selection of small immediate over larger delayed rewards.
Reviewing the different methods used, we hypothesized that the effects of OFC inactivation on delay discounting may be critically affected by both subjects' baseline level of impulsive choice and the presence or absence of a cue to bridge the delay between selection and delivery of the large reward.
Here, we show that OFC inactivation increased impulsive choice in less impulsive rats when the delay was cued, but decreased impulsive choice in highly impulsive rats in an uncued condition.
Providing explicit environmental cues to signal the delay-to-reinforcement appears to change the way in which the OFC is recruited in the decision-making process in a baseline-dependent fashion. This change may reflect activation of the dopamine system, as intra-OFC infusions of dopamine receptor antagonists increased impulsive choice but only when the delay was cued.
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Toward a New Energy Economy: Part 1, Action in 100 Days
There is no lack of ideas for what President Obama and the 111th Congress should do to address three of the most pressing issues they will face when they take office in January — global climate change, the energy crisis, and economic transformation. It may be winter in Washington, D.C., but it's springtime in national politics. Policy agendas are blooming like cherry blossoms.
For example, last week alone, Washington, D.C. was introduced to three comprehensive plans to address economy, energy and climate. Two were issued by the Center for American Progress, headed by John Podesta, co-chair of President-elect Obama's transition team, including an excellent strategy for green recovery by Bracken Hendricks and Benjamin Goldstein.
The Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP) was released during a standing-room only briefing on Capitol Hill, after two years of gestation at the University of Colorado. PCAP contains more than 180 proposals for President Obama and the next Congress, across 18 topics, ranging from natural resource stewardship to public health and from farm policy to zero-carbon buildings and transportation systems. All were designed for action during President Obama's honeymoon period — the six months in which a new president traditionally sets the tone of his administration, between inauguration and the August congressional recess.
Published electronically with hyperlinks to the material behind the ideas, PCAP is the result of 22 months of work involving more than 200 people. Its proposals come from some of the nation's leading experts on climate and energy policy, from original research, from members of the project's prestigious national advisory committee and from present and former federal employees who understand the inside workings of government and whose desire to do something about climate has been pent up for the past eight years.
Among the several white papers and studies PCAP commissioned is a keep-it-simple plan for capping and trading carbon emissions, proposed by Yale economist Dr. Robert Repetto, and recommendations from international experts — including Alden Meyer at the Union of Concerned Scientists and Daphne Wysham of the Institute for Policy Studies — on what the president should do to make the United States an honest partner in international negotiations over climate action.
PCAP also includes policy roadmaps from the Alliance to Save Energy for changing America's building practices and from the Center for Neighborhood Technology on retooling America's transportation policies. It offers a detailed plan for reducing emissions from the world's largest single energy user, the U.S. government.
Because we anticipated that the legislative branch might be sensitive about presidential abuse of power in the wake of the Bush Administration, the PCAP team commissioned an extensive analysis of the president's authority to act on climate and energy without waiting for Congress. Scholars at the University of Colorado School of Law studied the 96 current statutes in the U.S. Code that specifically address climate change; many of our landmark environmental laws; 140 federal court cases and 370 executive orders going back to 1937. They analyzed about two-dozen executive orders proposed by PCAP and identified the specific statutes that give the president the authority to implement them.
The conclusion: President Obama will take office with plenty of power to jump-start federal leadership on climate and energy security and to begin America's necessary transformation to a safe, sane and secure 21st century economy.
That conclusion doesn't leave the nation's lawmakers off the hook. PCAP contains 75 major action items for Congress. At the top of the legislative list is a two-part plan to mobilize the marketplace for the new economy:
- 1. A fair, workable, transparent and elegant scheme called "upstream cap and auction" to put a price on carbon, generating between $100 billion and $250 billion annually. Part of the money should be returned to the American people. The rest should be invested in clean energy research, modernization of America's infrastructure, a training program for green jobs, and grants to states and localities for "energy and climate security plans".
- 2. The repeal of federal subsidies for fossil fuels so that our tax dollars are no longer distorting market signals and paying to ruin the planet.
PCAP also recommends that President Obama do the following:
- Seek a bilateral agreement with China to reduce both nations' greenhouse gas emissions and to collaborate on clean energy technology. A concrete commitment in 2009 between the world's largest developing and developed nations would be an enormous breakthrough before the international community gathers in Copenhagen in December 2009 to figure out what to do after the Kyoto Protocol expires.
- Reinstitute specific carbon-cutting goals for the federal government (they were removed by the Bush Administration) and mobilize the game-changing procurement power of the government to buy green energy and products.
- Forbid political censorship of federal climate science and give government scientists the right of last review of their technical conclusions.
- Set ambitious new energy and climate goals for the country. We should reduce our greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2020; cut our oil imports in half by 2030; raise the CAFE standard to at least 50 mpg by 2025; achieve zero-net-carbon buildings by 2030; and improve the nation's energy efficiency 50 percent by 2030.
- Begin regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Regulation will help convince the international community that we're serious. More importantly, regulation will begin cutting emissions even before cap-and-auction takes effect, and curb emissions that a cap-and-auction system cannot.
- Order agencies to review the more than 200 financial assistance programs administered by the government and redirect them wherever possible to invest in the new economy rather than the old.
- Appoint climate experts rather than lobbyists to senior positions. We have provided President-elect Obama's transition team a list of 250 senior jobs where we believe climate expertise is critical, along with the names of 200 experts who should be considered for appointments.
These investments in a new energy economy — including a market-based system to gradually raise the price of fossil fuels — won't be easy in this time of economic hardship, but they are necessary. The cost of not acting is much higher and much more painful. President-elect Obama knows that. He also knows that while have promised him a rose garden, no one said there wouldn't be thorns.
Part 2 examines how the next Congress will have to resolve some tough questions that past Congresses avoided.
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I've been thinking that a 'Back to Basics' theme would go enormously far for the pres-elect when it comes to setting, selling and implementing an agenda on all issues, let alone energy and climate. The removal of government subsidies to the biggest companies is a pretty good example of a 'basic' action (i.e. inherently & obviously fair) and I'm glad to see talk of it. Helping push for the removal of these world-wide (the IEA says $310B last year) would also be a no-brainer, easy to sell, & inherently fair thing to strive for internationally (though tricky to accomplish I imagine).
This is but one example though, and there is no shortage of examples. From democratic reform (especially electoral and lobbying reform), to competition reform, to specific policies knocking down barriers to progress of all kinds, Obama has before him a system that is sufficiently corrupt that just asserting fairness and transparency will go enormously far on a range of problems. Makes you wonder if GHG emissions might be less of a "problem" than a symptom? A physical symptom of social corruption and inequity?
We need to look this over closely, offer improvements where we can, and then get behind it (letters to editors, to Congress, the Daily Show, etc).
The sticking point will be cap and trade or a tax of any kind. That will need serious support and re-education of the media.
Remember, the anti-tax noise machine is ALWAYS fired up, and ready to go.
This is absolutely fantastic news! A reduction of emissions of 30% by 2020 could be consistent with 450ppm. Contraction and Convergence to 450 ppm would suggest this target for the United States if the convergence date was 2050, this date may be at the limit of what developing countries are prepared to accept however. But this is the first sign I have seen for a while that an agreement consistent with 450 ppm may be possible at Copenhagen.
The upstream approach is quite interesting and quite promising.
Polluting industries are likely to make a large amount of noise. This has been happening in Australia over the past year. Expect them to hire consultants to write reports predicting that the sky will fall down and businesses will close if these reforms are introduced. Progressives should get ready to debunk these reports when they come out. It is time to educate the American public about 'rent-seeking'.
Here's one specific idea I have, to save the automakers and fast track fuel efficient vehicles here:-
Americans want and need efficient vehicles, Ford and GM don't make them. So Ford and GM going out of business, taking many Americans with them.
Solution premise:
GM and Ford do make fuel efficient vehicles for the EU market, but cannot import them as they met ECE rules, not our different NHTSA rules.
Two steps to implement solution:
1. New congress: new legislation. Adopt ECE rules. Accept them in lieu of NHTSA for Detroit's own EU models of more efficient cars.
2. Use auto bailout funds to duplicate the factory supply chain that Ford and GM used there to build those fuel efficient models in Europe, and set up "mirror factories" here in Detroit, so Ford and GM can build them here.
3. Legislate a binding contract with automakers: that this funding is only for use in producing a (minimum of one) specific fuel efficient model.
(rather like the govt ordered up X many of aircraft Y for WWII)
I wonder what a complete factory machinery set-up costs? I don't know what entire auto factory assembly-lines cost to put together. Does anyone know?
I would think you could set up here to build at least one model for $25 billion. Maybe it doesn't take all that much money to adapt what they have here now – after all they bring out new models each year anyway.
It may be winter in Washington, D.C.
One of these years … maybe soon … either winter will come really late, or spring will come early, and it won't be winter in January in Washington D.C.
"Two were issued by the Center for American Progress, headed by John Podesta, co-chair of President-elect Obama's transition team,"
"mobilize the game-changing procurement power of the government to buy green energy and products."
"Further, we will invest $15 billion each year to catalyze private sector efforts to build a clean energy future." (from Obama speech in earlier post)
I'm not sure how much Joe or Bill are aware of every position paper from the Center for American Progress, but I wanted to point out one item from a position paper by Neal Lane and George Abbey on space policy that I think is a spectacularly bad idea, with some implications to our energy and climate situation.
"Specifically, the decision to phase out the shuttle by 2010 should be reconsidered; it should be flown until a suitable replacement becomes available."
In case it's not obvious, they're talking about the Space Shuttle.
"First and foremost, the mandate to stop flying the space shuttle in 2010 meant the United States would depend on Russia for human access to space for at least four years, but more realistically a decade."
The paper quite rightly points out that the NASA Shuttle replacement, a set of government rockets and space vehicles called Ares 1, Ares V, and Orion, has delays, cost overruns, and technical problems. These expensive government systems should never have been started, and should probably be totally reworked or replaced when Obama gets in office. However, the solution is not to keep the Space Shuttle going.
– The Shuttle is too expensive. It costs about $4B per year to maintain. NASA could do a lot with $4B/per: double its Earth Science budget, increase its planetary science budget for climate studies with different conditions from Earth's, start a new type of Earth science observations using low-cost commercial reusable suborbital vehicles, improve power subsystems and power using subsystems on satellites with spin-offs for home/industry use, research improved airplane fuel efficiency, etc (I could but won't continue) ….
– The Shuttle has shown that it's dangerous, and cannot be made safe (eg: no ejection seats).
– NASA already has a modestly-funded program to encourage commercial vehicles to send cargo to and from the Space Station, in exactly the sense of the quotes at the top of the government encouraging private enterprise to solve national problems. This effort should be expanded to crew (including ISS rescue). Continuing the Shuttle would crush this innovative effort. One of the primary participants happens to spin off environmentally-useful companies like GeoEye; the other is run by Musk of Tesla Motors. Would their other efforts survive if this one was wiped out by Shuttle?
– The position paper is reluctant to depend on Russian Soyuz for ISS access, but we already do that. Shuttle does not and can not serve as an ISS emergency crew return vehicle unless we only man ISS for a week or so. Thus continuing Shuttle would actually wipe out our efforts to have a U.S. alternative to Soyuz (U.S. commercial vehicles).
The rest of the paper is fine. I don't agree with every sentence, but many points are totally right, like increasing NASA's science and aeronautics efforts (perhaps with a focus on energy/environment). However, continuing the Shuttle would make just about all of the rest quite difficult to fund.
Bill –
In your survey of things the federal government should be doing, did you identify areas
where it would be most helpful for states to initiate their own actions?
What do you think are the most important items or areas that citizens must urge representatives and govts to address at the state level?