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Fertiliser Subsidies
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Budget 2013 math is going out of the window already
The subsidy bill is beginning to look very suspicious. The fertiliser minister has already said this year's subsidies are out of alignment with requirements #Fertiliser Subsidies #food subsidies #Budget 2013 #Petro Subsidies
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Relatives of victims of Lamma ferry disaster may get to read damning report
Internal probe into Marine Department could be revealed to those who sign confidentiality deals
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The government is considering allowing lawmakers and the families of victims of the 2012 Lamma ferry disaster to read its internal investigation report on the Marine Department - as long as they sign a confidentiality agreement.
But one bereaved mother reiterated her demand that the report - which severely criticised the department's administration and pointed the finger at misconduct by 17 unnamed officials - should be made public.
The government had ruled out releasing the report, which identified "suspected criminality" by department officials, as it had been handed over to the police and could form the basis of criminal proceedings.
Officials from the Transport and Housing Bureau told the Legislative Council's panel on economic development yesterday that the bureau had been in talks with the Department of Justice and the Civil Service Bureau on the feasibility of allowing lawmakers and relatives of the 39 victims to read the report. They would first have to sign a confidentiality undertaking.
The government would take into account the legal issues involved and "seriously" consider how these issues could be resolved, with the aim of working out a feasible arrangement as early as possible, the bureau said.
Families reacted angrily last week when the government revealed only a summary of the 430-page report's findings.
Lawmakers had proposed invoking Legco's investigative powers to compel the government to release the report. But the House Committee, the body responsible for overseeing Legco business, yesterday voted against a motion by Dr Kenneth Chan Ka-lok to invoke the Powers and Privileges Ordinance.
Irene Cheng, whose son Thomas Koo Man-cheung, 24, died in the collision between the Lamma IV and Sea Smooth ferries on October 1, 2012, demanded yesterday that the investigation report be released in full. She was against the idea of signing a confidentiality agreement in order to read the details.
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Cheng also insisted that she should be accompanied by a lawyer if she were to read the report. "A lawyer is a more qualified person who will understand the details," she said.
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Skip to comments.Bloodlusting crowds make GOP look bad (LAUGH ALERT)
Posted on 09/16/2011 8:00:31 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
I love the smell of bloodlust in the evening.
Not every evening. Just the evenings that have Republican presidential debates.
There have been five such debates so far, but only the last two of them have been considered major because they have featured Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is leading in the polls.
Except the debates havent really featured him. They have featured the audience.
If you have ever asked yourself how crowds could have gathered to cheer public burnings and beheadings in times past, tune in to one of these debates, and you will stop asking.
At a Politico/NBC debate last week in Simi Valley, Calif., Brian Williams began asking Perry about one unique aspect of his record: the number of people Texas has put to death.
Williams: Gov. Perry, a question about Texas. Your state has executed 234 Death Row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. Have you . . .
At this point, at least part of the audience burst into loud applause and whistles and stopped only because Williams continued with his question.
Williams: . . . have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?
Perry: No, sir. Ive never struggled with that at all. . . . You kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, youre involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.
Here the audience erupted into very loud, prolonged applause with a couple of whoops thrown in. It was certainly the biggest audience reaction of the evening, so much so that Williams asked a good follow-up question on the fly.
Williams: What do you make of that dynamic that just happened here, the mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause?
Perry: I think Americans understand justice.
Flash forward to Mondays debate, this time in Tampa and sponsored by CNN and the Tea Party Express.
The moderator was Wolf Blitzer, who was trying to pin down Ron Paul, a libertarian and a physician, on the question of what you do about a young man who refuses to buy health insurance and then gets deathly ill.
Paul: What he should do is whatever he wants to do, and assume responsibility for himself. My advice to him would (be to) have a major medical policy, but not be forced . . .
Blitzer: But he doesnt have that. He doesnt have it, and he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?
Paul: Thats what freedom is all about, taking your own risks . . .
Raucous applause and whistling broke out from the audience, almost covering up the rest of Pauls answer.
Paul: This whole idea that you have to prepare and take care of everybody . . .
Blitzer: But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?
Yeah! a man screamed loudly from the audience, setting off more applause.
Paul: No.
And then Paul explained how when he practiced medicine before Medicaid, the churches took care of the uninsured and we never turned anybody away from the hospitals.
But it was the audience that made the news, not Paul. Some people wondered how you cheer for letting a sick person die.
Easy. You just open up your mouth and spew. And it became one of the debate moments that people remembered.
The next morning, Perry, probably after being briefed by his handlers, told reporters: I was a bit taken aback by that myself. Were the party of life. We ought to be coming up with ways to save lives.
Jacob Weisberg of Slate called the audience reaction medieval, Tommy Christopher of Mediaite called it ugly and ghoulish and many news organizations carried the story that Ron Pauls former campaign manager, a libertarian, died at age 49 in 2008 from viral pneumonia, was uninsured and left $400,000 in medical bills for his mother and friends to pay.
There have been a number of loud and ugly moments in Americas recent political history, ranging from Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) shouting, You lie! during President Barack Obamas address to a joint session of Congress in September 2009 to the cheering for a sick persons death in Tampa this week.
But at least Wilson was forced by the leaders of his party to apologize for his boorishness. In Tampa, those who want to be the future leader of the Republican Party stood on stage in utter silence, not one using the moment to rebuke the crowd for its behavior.
It is said there is wisdom in crowds. But sometimes a crowd is just a mob that happens to be sitting down.
But sometimes a crowd is just a mob that happens to be sitting down."
AND sometimes a columnist, is just a homo looking for his next gig....
What a puke this Roger Simon is.
Paul always has that tendency to punk out when pressed.
St Rick was the one who was "taken aback" (punked out)
"Kill those white 'cracker' babies"
Perry blew it as well.
Blitzer: But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?
Paul: No.
OK, so who pays?
The next morning, Perry, probably after being briefed by his handlers, told reporters: I was a bit taken aback by that myself. Were the party of life. We ought to be coming up with ways to save lives.
But I didn't hear any good ideas from Perry either. Again, who pays for the sick guy who has no money and no insurance?
"...many news organizations carried the story that Ron Pauls former campaign manager, a libertarian, died at age 49 in 2008 from viral pneumonia, was uninsured and left $400,000 in medical bills for his mother and friends to pay."
How does one leave debts to one's mother and friends? Did they somehow obligate themselves to pay?
I know an administration apologist who is a lawyer and is over 50, a smoker and no health ins. I think it's irresponsible, but she does it. And she shares prescriptions, has her kids share inhalers...........I told her I couldn't talk about it anymore; I didn't agree with it. She accuses anyone who has a policy difference with the administration of "hate".
On the plus side, she is pro-life.
I don't mind liberals perceiving conservatives as savages to be feared. Sometimes I wish it were true.
Regardless of Paul's, Perry's, or anyone's answer to the hypothetical posed, it is ridiculous for the media to cling to crowd reaction. We could compile a laundry list of youtube videos depicting liberal/Democrat crowds cheering violence, racism, etc. The desperation is palpable.
The noise came from a handful of Paul supporters but the Tea Party is getting blamed.
The point that neither Paul nor Perry made clear is that the crowd was mocking the liberal stupidity of the questioners rather than cheering anyone's death.
exactly. Stupid straw man question that the crowd was sarcastically cheering, IMO.
I watched MSNBC that night (I like it for the laughs), and they were apoplectic over the crowd cheering. I thought it was funny myself.
Or these:
"When Simon dies, he intends to be buried in Chicago, so he can still participate in the politics of that city."
To be fair, it was a hypothetical sick person's hypothetical death.
I remember the crowd reaction at the NAACP when the story was about 'sticking it to whitey'.
Somehow the media was all up in arms about how the story came full circle and the speaker decided that 'sticking it to whitey' was not productive, so therefore the clip of the audience reaction was somehow "out of context".
The audience at the NAACP didn't know where the story was going - they cheered a black woman using the power of government to discriminate against white people.
Good point. These Dems who are concerned about a hypothetical deadbeat were the same people who approved the murder of Terry Schievo.
who cares what they say anymore- they obviously missed the point.
The audience member was responding to the IDOCY of the question, not expressing an actual desire for death of a less fortunate.
Ron Paul's BRILLIANT answer was lost in all this discussion over an audience jeer- which is probably their intention.
He [Paul] said that before the government took over everything people were never turned away from hospitals or churches when they needed help.
No one was left dying in the streets because THE GOVERNMENT was not mandating it.
It is not a Government or Nothing problem, as the question implies.
All Republicans should practice this answer:
"It is not a 'Government or Nothing' problem. For the money the government wastes helping this ONE person, private charities could have helped THREE"
Another Libtard. Another Axelrod inspired lie.
[Art.] Jacob Weisberg of Slate called the audience reaction "medieval," Tommy Christopher of Mediaite called it "ugly" and "ghoulish" and many news organizations carried the story that Ron Paul's former campaign manager, a libertarian, died at age 49 in 2008 from viral pneumonia, was uninsured and left $400,000 in medical bills for his mother and friends to pay.
That's the payload -- ugly, piggish, nasty, hateful, love-to-hurt Rethuglicans! And mind that Blitzer was in on the play, because he broached the subject with Ron Paul.
This was a called MSM play on Ron Paul and the GOP -- they went to Paul because he'd be most likely to say, "well, the guy wouldn't buy insurance, so he is responsible for his own bills", which they could then spin. But the audience rooting for Paul and against the obvious "throw Granny in the snow" headline play, gave them their peg -- Monstrous Rethuglicans Et Cetera.
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Looks fine to me. They keep lowering "normal" so they can sell more lipitor. Please watch this series:
Chris Masterjohn on Cholesterol and Heart Disease (Part 3)
My doctor said that my cholesterol was too high, and that I should take yeast rice tablets. Here are my levels:
Chol i: 227; Trig 162; HDL i 74 H; LDL Calc i 121; Chol/HDL R 3
Any opinions, do you think I need to pay more attention to balancing out my Omegas 3's with 6's may that be the problem, or is it something else?
Looks fine to me. They keep lowering "normal" so they can sell more lipitor. Please watch this series:
Chris Masterjohn on Cholesterol and Heart Disease (Part 3)
Primal since March 2011
Female/29 years old/5' 1"/130ish lbs
Seems like your trigs are really high. What is your diet like?
You do need to work on getting your tryglicerides down. That should be your main goal <100. What is your current diet, body fat mass, and how long have you been following it? Have you been losing weight? If so how long?
Primal since March 2011
Female/29 years old/5' 1"/130ish lbs
Agree that everything except for the trigs look fine. Get a few more of these drawn over a few days to see differences in your profile. Your body might have decided to unlock a lot of fat right before the blood draw...
Steak, eggs, potatoes - fruits, nuts, berries and forage. Coconut milk and potent herbs and spices. Tea instead of coffee now and teeny amounts of kelp daily. Let's see how this does! Not really had dairy much, and gut seems better for it.
What he said ^^^
Echoing Masterjohn position, a single test is meaningless. I took notes on Kresser presentation at paleo summit. The wide variations day to day are so big you need at least 3 tests.
If trigs stay that high though you may need to look at what sugars you eat. But that said, there is a mechanism by which trigs are extracted from LDL. That may cause a spike. There is also a finger prick test like for glucose. Not as accurate as venous blood but good for trend following.
My trigs were 50 my HDL was 89 and my LDL 200 Iranian and I got the statin shit from my doc. So far as I am concerned, I eat clean, do my hiit 2x week, walk a lot, consume no toxins and go to bed at a decent hour and try to not stress. Stress can inclucde staring at numbers on a paper that are so infininity arbitrary...
My omega 6 to omega 3 may be out of wack, is that a possibility. I eat a good amount of brazil nuts, almond, steak, grass fed bison, bacon, and a ton of eggs.
I've mentioned it before elsewhere, but I brought my trigs down from 355 to 115 in just a couple of weeks on a low carb, low fructose diet + fish oil supplementation. It's been 7 months or so since then, so I'd be very surprised if they weren't under 100 now.
This is a great time to recommend The Protein Power Lifeplan, by Michael & Mary Dan Eades.
Great book with lots of info on this topic, and very primal friendly.
Also, be careful with those brazil nuts. They are a great source of selenium, which I use in lieu of supplementation, but you can overdo it. Limit yourself to one or two per day to avoid selenium overdose which can cause a bunch of nasty symptoms/complications.


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Creating a Seamless and Intentional Career Engagement ContinuumSummary:
The primary goal is to educate college preparatory students about the career planning process to assist them in making informed career/major choices resulting in increased retention and attainment of academic credentials This process should also reduce the length of time and amount of money students require to complete their goals as they will have the tools necessary to effectively develop and track their academic progress
Aims' reasons for taking on this Action Project now:
One of the many reasons that students might longer than normal to complete their academic credentials is a lack of academic/career goals. As confirmed by research, using an intentional career planning process to helping students commit to a career that fits their interests, values, and lifestyle, increases the probability of the timely completion of a degree or certificate. Furthermore, this process teaches students a life skill that can be utilized throughout their lives during times of career transition.
Measures or indicators to monitor success during and at the end of the project:
We have identified the following methodologies and data collection points to assess the effectiveness of this project:
- Students complete career inventories immediately after enrollment into college-prep and AAA course.
- Compare career readiness pre-post scores to determine if students felt more career ready on posttest.
- Gather feedback from advisors to ascertain if students were more engaged in the academic plan/destination graduation assignment for AAA.
- Gather feedback from AAA instructors concerning positives and opportunities for improvement with the curriculum content.
- Compare completion rates and time to graduation rates pre and post implementation.
Survey Emerging Scholars students to determine perceived value of 2nd semester activities in preparation of finding employment or transferring.
Early College High School Initiative
The Early College High School initiative at Aims Community College is a partnership between Aims, School District 6 and Windsor Charter Academy and is intended to provide area youth with the opportunity to complete an Associate of Arts degree while they earn their high school diploma. The ECHS initiative is intended to reduce the need for remediation in post-secondary education, provide high quality and rigorous academic instruction in a small school community, increase the number of underserved students entering postsecondary education and reduce the students' overall postsecondary educational costs. Each of these four points addresses key institutional processes or priorities.
Aims' reasons for taking on this Action Project now:
The ECHS initiative is a priority for Aims Community College as it is (1) a board directed initiative and (2) it addresses several key issues in postsecondary education as outlined in the above description. The ECHS initiative is an opportunity to continue to focus on reducing remediation rates as well as an opportunity to collaborate with k12 to improve postsecondary access and success for our communities' youth. It is part of a larger vision to increase post-secondary access and success for our local community. The larger vision of the Division of Extended Studies is to increase access to and success in postsecondary education via concurrent enrollment and collaborative partnerships with our local school districts. The ECHS initiative is one of several initiatives supporting that larger vision.
Measures or indicators to monitor success during and at the end of the project:
In order to monitor progress on the ECHS initiative we will work closely with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness to determine appropriate metrics and tracking mechanisms. Additionally, we work with the Office of Assessment to determine an assessment plan for the ECHS courses aligned to the Aims Community College assessment process and procedures.
The measures for this project are evolving, but will include:
- Enrollment
- Retention
- Graduation
- Post-high school enrollment in postsecondary education
- Course level assessment to ensure high quality, college-level teaching and learning
We will be establishing baseline measures over the course of the 2015-2106 school year.
In addition, a combination of quantitative (ex. graduation and retention data) and qualitative (ex. focus groups and open ended question surveys) measures will be used to fully understand the impact of the ECHS on Aims and our surrounding communities.
Faculty Peer Mentoring Program
This project involves the training of experienced faculty to mentor new full-time faculty. New faculty will be paired up with a trained mentor that teaches in a different academic area than they do. During the first semester, mentors will meet weekly with mentees and will observe them in the classroom at the beginning, middle and end of the semester. The observation will be scored with a rubric and robust feedback will be provided. During the second semester mentors will continue to "coach" their mentees and provide support on an as needed basis. This program will be coordinated by the Faculty Teaching and Learning Center.
Aims' reasons for taking on this Action Project now:
It is common for new full-time faculty at Aims to have advanced degrees in their subject area, but have little or no experience or training in the pedagogy required for effective student learning. Aims requires all new faculty to complete a series of courses on education theory and practical application in the classroom. The main focus of the mentor relationship will be in reinforcement of these new skills and development of teaching methodology and learning-centered philosophy. Another area of focus will be Aims specific systems, such as Banner and Starfish. The institution considers this an important project because it relates directly to AQIP Cat. 1, Helping Students Learn and to Aims Strategic Plan Long Term Goal "Prepare Aims for the learning needs of current and future students".
Measures or indicators to monitor success during and at the end of the project:
Project goals and measurable outcomes for the first year of the project include:
- At the completion of the program new faculty will report a sense of professional support from their peer mentor (as indicated by surveys).
- At the completion of the program new faculty will report a sense of understanding of the Aims culture (as indicated by surveys).
- At the completion of the program, new faculty will show a 50% increase in the use of learner-centered teaching techniques in the classroom.
- At the completion of the program new faculty will show a 50% increase in the use of classroom assessment techniques in the classroom.
Baseline metrics will be collected at the beginning of the semester through mentee surveys and multiple measures will be collected during the semester to understand changes in the use of learning-centered techniques. Milestones will include mentor observations at early, mid- and late semester. If the project is continued for successive years, metrics will be revised to reflect learning from the first mentoring cycle.
Institutional-level Student Learning Outcomes - Where are we headed?Summary:
Aims Community College is working on our approach to assessment of student learning. Last year we focused on working with faculty to develop more substantial course/department level projects. Now our focus has expanded to institutional-level assessment while continuing to cultivate and expand course/departmental level assessment efforts. This project addresses development, implementation, and deployment of our newly determined Institutional-Level Student Learning Outcomes (ILSLOs) for assessment of student learning in key courses across the institution. The Assessment Office, along with multiple academic areas will determine courses where the ILSLOs best fit. The Assessment Office will then determine structure and sequence to create a systematic college-wide assessment plan for measuring ILSLOs.
Aims' reasons for taking on this Action Project now:
Recommendations from the Higher Learning Commission, along with best practices in assessment of student learning, indicate a need for improvement and expansion of our assessment practices and efforts as a whole. Several comments in our last systems appraisal specifically indicated the need to redefine, expand, and improve our approach to assessment of student learning as well as develop and measure Institutional-Level Student Learning Outcomes.
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Bluster is a Tormato Slug who belongs to Beatrice Sting. He can create a tornado or vortex when he reaches 100mph. His name was revealed in his debut episode. It is unknown whether Trixie named him before meeting Eli or had simply quickly adopted his habit of naming Slugs.
He is the favourite slug of Beatrice Sting and along with Spinner and Polo are her favourite slugs. He used most by Beatrice Sting in Light as Day and also mega morph in that episode. In "Return of the Elementals" Bluster was ghouled after the Air Elemental Slug was ghouled after they unghouled the Air Elemental Bluster was un ghouled.
Known Attacks
Normal Slug
- Protoform Abilities - Blows a small jet of air, like a hairdryer.
- Slyphoon - Spins in the air producing a rampaging tornado.
Ghoul Slug
- Protoform Abilities - Can blow dust in your eyes.
- Cyclovise - Can create a small cyclone around an opponent, sucking out oxygen until they pass out.
Fusion Shots
- BoulderStorm: "Bluster"+"Bludgeon" - Rammstone launches Tormato at multiple opponents as the Tormato creates a rampaging cyclone filled with boulders.


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All That I Wish To Transmit - Poem by Rohit Sapra
Just felt like saying hello to anyone who ever cared. I know that not many do care about me though still feel like writing something for the ones who ever did care.
I cannot gift anything to anyone. To be honest for me it is even difficult to smile. In such moments how can you possibly imagine happiness to exist?
My depressions and my being Bi-polar is always an issue for everyone. Everyone has a problem in accepting me the way I am. Actually, I never did want to cause pain to anyone. My difficulties you can never understand since things are just out of control at times. Please, do not be angry with me as my intention was never to hurt you. It would not be possible for me to say that I love you though I certainly can express one thing, which is that I never did hate you.
Often, I am really confused and that is when I end up being so isolated and depressed. Then, my heart and even mind succumbs to complete depressive stage. It is a phase in which I am stuck to unhappiness so much that everyone just begins to dislike me to my very core. Even then I can never hate you because my goal is not to spread enmity. All that I wish to transmit is a message which contains love.
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P4 the Warbler a new portable amp from iBasso . . first impression pg 3 . images Pg 6&7 . . . - Page 31
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i was interested to find the stock configuartion has the gain at the +10.5db setting. I thought it was always best to set the gain at the lowest setting you are happy with that works with the head unit. I wondered why they would set the stock to this?
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warbler or pb2? i want the best souding quality for my ultrasone pro 900 and my hd598. i know the warbler is fine for *drive* my headphones, but i really want the best sound quality , soundstage, base deep, instruments separation, details, and more. thx!
I have both the P4 and PB2/DB2. If you are using them single ended, you may not hear too much difference, depending on the op amps and buffers. Where you will hear a difference is running balanced. I have the iBasso balanced Sennheiser cord to my HD600s and there is a noticeable openness in the sound.
My P4 is for on the road driving my Ety 4S and I'm running an 8620 OPA and HA5002 buffers. I did have 627s in the V/G sockets but I change them out but I don't recall what is in there. In my PB2 I also use the HA5002 buffers but swap around the OPAs. If you are going to go balanced, get the PB2.
I need help... lol
P4, D4 or D12...
All I really need is an amp, but I could use a different DAC.
Taking any opinions.
Check the D6. It looks nice too. Coworker got a Fiio E17. Actually sounds pretty good.
Edited by Bugdozer - 9/16/12 at 9:28am
Forgot to put it in my post lol
P4, D6, D4 or D12....
They just give something different even with the same opamps, In 4 channel mode the P4 is a very exiting amp to listen to, the PB-2 is probably a more realistic sounding amp and one I transport for vacations etc with a set of balanced cans (D7000 usually). The P4 is a nice form to strap to a classic for an involving on the go listen but not one I use for critical istening. With the right chipset you probably could tune it for any application I just choose to have the two amps for separate uses.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the advice on the Warbler. =)
I've noted...
+ gold-plated sockets
+ 3CH / 4CH design
versus Pelican
+ balanced
- four op-amp's required, or 2x stereo (like MUSES01 x2 etc.), no advantage here.
- less battery life
- higher THD and crosstalk? Not listed in the .pdf.
Naturally there are more differences, anyone else compared them?
What's the IC at the bottom-left in this pic?
P4 Warbler arrived today.
Anyone know the voltage supply in this? Will the stereo left and right meet at least +-9V (18V)?
I'm fine fitting the 627's but do I fit The 5002's the same only in the middle two sockets?
Don't want to blow my baby.
Where did you get the 5002's? They are not your standard plug and play as they have to be mounted on an adapter with smd resistors etc....
If you got them ready mounted then yes you put them in the centre sockets.
Where do i get them pre mounted?
It's worth doing though as the 5002 is easily my favourite buffer.
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That's the setup I currently have in my P4! It's very good indeed...


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Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is the Turkish "historian of Islamic science" whose outward appearance is so deceptively modern and secular and sweet-reasonable. Then one realizes that that is merely camouflage and that his mental baggage, while not quite as primitive as that of the qaradawis and tantawis, is from the same product line manufactured by Islamic Tourister.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was carefully chosen to assume the position of head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, as the most moderate and presentable (to the Infidels) person, after the bad impression left by Mohamad Mahathir's celebrated rant. He has since then been beavering away at the OIC's pet project, a transparent attempt at across-the-globe censorship of criticism of Islam. It is an attempt that constitutes an assault on the advanced, Western world, whose citizens are being threatened if they dare to exercise their right of free speech about what Ihsanoglu primly and self-righteously calls a "religion" (as if that conferred some kind of special immunity).
But Islam is an all-encompassing ideology, a Total Belief-System that presumes to regulate every detail of a man's life, and offers a Complete Explanation of the universe. Furthermore, it places great emphasis on inculcating the idea that all of humanity is divided between Muslims and non-Muslims, Believers and Infidels. Muslims are taught that between the two there must exist a state of permanent war (though not always of open warfare), and that all Muslims have a duty, central and not tangential, to participate in some way in the "struggle" or Jihad to remove all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam.
Islam is a politics, Islam is a geopolitics. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu knows that, but he doesn't want the world's Infidels to find that out, or to discuss it among themselves, much less to actually criticize it. And so he will do what he can to shut down the exercise, in the Western world (and elsewhere in the non-Muslim lands), of our right to free speech, a right that could not possibly exist for one minute in the lands where Islam dominates, and Muslims rule. But in the advanced West, as one of its achievements, such a right has been won and is now exercised, possibly not quite as impressively, or with as much gratitude, as it might be -- but the important thing is the right, the untrammelled right.
Does Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu want Infidels to read the Qur'an? The Hadith? The Sira? Does he want them to read the histories -- the histories written by Muslims, for god's sake -- about the Muslim conquests, and the subsequent mass killings and subjugation of non-Muslims? What does he want us to find out about Islam? What is in the glossy brochures prepared by assorted Ministries of Islamic Propaganda, or by individual smiling imams (the kind who keep getting picked up later for connections to terrorism, or are revealed later, after they have decamped back to a Muslim land, to have made all kinds of disturbing and even blood-curdling remarks)? Is that it?
Amazing, isn't it, the real outrage, the genuine fury, that we should actually find out what Islam inculcates, and connect it to the recorded behavior of Muslims over the past 1350 years, and to the observable behavior of so many Muslims today, as we open our newspapers or turn on our radios and televisions, and piece together what might well be a separate section of the paper or segment of the broadcast, to be called The Jihad News.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was chosen to be the head of the O.I.C. because he was a "moderate" Turkish Muslim and a presumably respectable "historian of science." But he turns out to be not that but rather an historian, and defender, of "Islamic" science, who attempts to tortuously explain away the absence of science in the Islamic world since its brief flourishing thanks to Christians, Jews, and those who, while they were called Muslims, were only a generation or two away from being something else, in a milieu still heavily influenced by non-Muslim elements -- which, when greatly reduced, also reduced the atmosphere in which science could be conducted.
That bizarre figure, Ziauddin Sarkar, was somehow permitted to review, in the pages of the British journal "Nature," the large claims made on behalf of "Ottoman" -- i.e., "Islamic" science -- by Ihsanoglu. Some of Ihsanoglu's attempts to explain why such things as the clock did not develop in the East but only in the West (you see, since the early clocks were not sufficiently accurate for Muslims to rely on them for knowing when it was time for prayers, they did not think it worth using them, or trying to improve them) raise far more disturbing questions about the Muslim mindset than Dr. Ihsanoglu apparently realized.
Why did an editor at Nature give the job of reviewing Ekheleddin Ihsanoglu's book to the apologist Ziauddin Sarkar? And who at Science allowed to be published his puff-piece about "Islamic science," with every cliche that no historian of mathematics, or science, or technology -- not Giorgio di Santillana, not Crombie, not Charles Singer, not a hundred others -- would have permitted?
What is happening when standards, supposedly so rigorous at "Science" or at "Nature," are so obviously non-existent, and both journals become, rightly, the object of ridicule?
Then there is this, taken from a web-site that follows the OIC:
In March 2006, OIC General Secretary Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu embraced Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal at a press conference at OIC's headquarters. Ihsanoglu whitewashed: "With its win, Hamas begins a new stage in the development of the Palestinian issue. We assure that Hamas will deal with all national and international requirements in a practical and logical way."
And there is the OIC's explaining away of the 9/11 attacks, which "expressed the frustration, disappointment, and disillusion that are festering deep in the Muslims' soul towards the aggressions and discriminations committed by the West."
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is also the one who, at the time of the death riots and Muslim riots over those anodyne cartoons in a Danish paper, solemnly likened the effect of those cartoons on Muslims as being akin to the effect on Infidels of the mass murders carried out by Muslims on 9/11.
Finally, Ihsanoglu has explained to an American audience how splendid was the system of "protection" that Islam offered Christians and Jews -- "protection" offered by Muslims, for the payment of Jizyah, from those same Muslims. A system that would have impressed Al Capone. He helpfully explained that the "privilege of becoming a protected minority via an act of dhimmiship was given only to the followers of a prophet to whom a sacred book was revealed."
Christians and Jews, because you are the lucky "followers of a prophet" -- Moses, Jesus (that is, the Muslim Moses, the Muslim Jesus) -- you will enjoy, when Muslim rule comes everywhere, the same "privilege of becoming a protected minority via an act of dhimmiship" that Christians and Jews have enjoyed in the Middle East, and elsewhere in Muslim-ruled lands, for so long.
So what's your problem? Never satisfied? What's the reason Islam is not pleasin' you?
In defining "dhimmiship" as the "privilege of becoming a protected minority," Dr. Ihsanoglu did his best. But those who are so solicitious of the public image of Islam and of Muslims realize that it should not be left up just to NPR, or the BBC, or Le Monde; we all have to pitch in, and do our bit. It might be better if "dhimmi" were to be jettisoned altogether. The word upsets Infidels, and it does nothing for Muslims, either.
Instead of "dhimmis," why not call them "Friends With Benefits"?
Islam is not merely a bunch of rituals of individual worship, or an explanation of how the universe came to be. It is, more importantly, also a politics and a geopolitics. A man who can present the dhimmi system, and describe the status of the "Protected People" un-ironically as A Good Thing, an Example of Muslim Benevolence and Tolerance, as Ihsanoglu does, is for all of his outward mien, that tie, that Western suit, inwardly as hopelessly primitive as any daggers-and-dishdasha Saudi.
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We do indeed need to keep chipping away at the atavistic edifice which is Islam and with respect to the indifference of the upper, as well as lower, classes to that threat to our way of life, that too, needs chipping. Norton (rarely called, even in the pre-Pc era, by his full name, Edward Lillywhite Norton), a New York City sewer worker, has already risen above his station with his Notes From The Underground, as well as translating Nabokov's Memoirs From A Mousehole into Cornish. There is, as Norton (who fought Hurricane Sandy in his hip boots) might observe, light at the end of the tunnel, for, if I could put Alice on the moon, why can't we take this affair of aggression against us Kaffirs at the flood and turn back the blood-dimmed tide of dhimmism?
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