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Thank you for visiting. Photo source.

Ludwig Uhland - Faith In Spring

The gentle winds are awakened,
They murmur and waft day and night,
They create in every corner.
Oh fresh scent, oh new sound!
Now, poor dear, fear not!
Now everything, everything must change.
The world becomes more beautiful with each day,
One does not know what may yet happen,
The blooming doesn't want to end.
The farthest, deepest valley blooms:
Now, poor dear, forget the pain!
Now everything, everything must change.

William Blake - Spring

Sound the flute!
Now it's mute!
Bird's delight,
Day and night,
Nightingale,
In the dale,
Lark in sky,--
Merrily,
Merrily merrily, to welcome in the year.

Little boy,
Full of joy;
Little girl,
Sweet and small;
Cock does crow,
So do you;
Merry voice,
Infant noise;
Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year.

Little lamb,
Here I am;
Come and lick
My white neck;
Let me pull
Your soft wool;
Let me kiss
Your soft face;
Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year.

Robert Frost - A Prayer In Spring

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.

Goethe - Early Spring

Days of delight
Are you almost here?
Bringing the sunlight
Hills and woods near?

Oh, and the streams
Richer in flow.
Is this the valley?
This the meadow?

How blue now and fresh!
Heaven and height!
The bright golden fish
In the lake's night.

Rainbows of feathers
Rustle the leaves:
Celestial songs, where
Echo deceives.

Under the greenery's
Blossoming powers,
The buzzing of bees
Sipping the flowers.

A gentle movement
Trembling in air,
Sleep-bringing scent
Loveliest stir.

Soon there's a greater
Force to the breeze,
Yet it is lost there,
Now, in the trees.

But back to the heart
It's carried again.
Muses, help me with art,
To suffer joy's pain!

Since yesterday say, here,
What's happened to me?
My Beloved Sisters,
The Beloved I see!

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev - Spring Storm

I love a storm in early May
When springtime's boisterous, firstborn thunder
Over the sky will gaily wander
And growl and roar as though in play.

A peal, another - gleeful, cheering...
Rain, raindust... On the trees, behold!-
The drops hang, each a long pearl earring;
Bright sunshine paints the thin threads gold.

A stream downhill goes rushing reckless,
And in the woods the birds rejoice.
Din. Clamour. Noise. All nature echoes
The thunder's youthful, merry voice.

You'll say: 'Tis laughing, carefree Hebe -
She fed her father's eagle, and
The Storm Cup brimming with a seething
And bubbling wine dropped from her hand.

Christina Rossetti - Spring

Frost-locked all the winter,
Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits,
What shall make their sap ascend
That they may put forth shoots?
Tips of tender green,
Leaf, or blade, or sheath;
Telling of the hidden life
That breaks forth underneath,
Life nursed in its grave by Death.

Blows the thaw-wind pleasantly,
Drips the soaking rain,
By fits looks down the waking sun:
Young grass springs on the plain;
Young leaves clothe early hedgerow trees;
Seeds, and roots, and stones of fruits,
Swollen with sap put forth their shoots;
Curled-headed ferns sprout in the lane;
Birds sing and pair again.

There is no time like Spring,
When life's alive in everything,
Before new nestlings sing,
Before cleft swallows speed their journey back
Along the trackless track -
God guides their wing,
He spreads their table that they nothing lack, -
Before the daisy grows a common flower
Before the sun has power
To scorch the world up in his noontide hour.

There is no time like Spring,
Like Spring that passes by;
There is no life like Spring-life born to die, -
Piercing the sod,
Clothing the uncouth clod,
Hatched in the nest,
Fledged on the windy bough,
Strong on the wing:
There is no time like Spring that passes by,
Now newly born, and now
Hastening to die.

 Emily Dickinson - A Light Exists In Spring

A light exists in spring
Not present on the year
At any other period.
When March is scarcely here

A color stands abroad
On solitary hills
That science cannot overtake,
But human nature feels.

It waits upon the lawn;
It shows the furthest tree
Upon the furthest slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.

Then, as horizons step,
Or noons report away,
Without the formula of sound,
It passes, and we stay:

A quality of loss
Affecting our content,
As trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a sacrament.

Title: Goethe´s Garden in Early Spring set to E. Grieg´s "Last Spring" ♪. Source: Anna Rubato. Date Published: March 31, 2014. Description:

Situated in the beautiful Ilm valley the house and garden given to Goethe by the Duke Carl August in 1776 became his first place of residence in Weimar. He stayed there for six years before he moved to a house in the centre of Weimar. He kept his first house though - by then called the garden house - as a place of refuge and to entertain guests. It is reported that he often visited it until shortly before his death on March 22, 1832. There is a certain likelihood that Goethe´s last impressions of his terraced garden may not have differed much from the scenes shown in the video.
Given the fact that its first owner is a world-famous poet the garden is refreshingly unpretentious sporting large patches of white and blue windflowers, violets and buttercups.
The sheet music (arrangement of Grieg´s "Last Spring" for flute and piano) can be found at flutetunes.com.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-88322995643166813002016-04-11T21:45:00.001-04:002016-04-11T21:45:31.379-04:00X22Report: US Preparing A Major Offensive Push In The Middle East

ISIS and NATO are joined at the hip.

Title: US Preparing A Major Offensive Push In The Middle East - Episode 942b. Source: X22Report. Date Published: April 11, 2016. Description:

United Health Care leaves Obamacare. Yatzenyuk resigns and Biden says Ukraine is a complete success. US corporate media pushing that Putin is ready for a spring offensive in Ukraine, which means the US and Ukraine are ready to push the offensive. Iran receives the S-300 missile defense system from Russia. Turkey sneaks 100 special op teams into Syria 4 days ago. Ceasefire breaking down, peace talks not working, US gets ready for a major offensive in the middle east.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-14469199677664988982016-04-11T18:54:00.003-04:002016-04-11T19:00:35.134-04:00Former Indian Spy Chief: "Pakistan has a Balochistan obsession"; Russian Report Documents Turkey's Arms Shipments To ISIS; Western Elite's Crusade Against Secular Nationalists Is In Line With ISIS's Genocidal Aims

Full Spectrum Terrorism: NATO in the air and ISIS on the ground. Both transnational death cults will be destroyed intellectually, politically, and militarily, but not before they unleash even more mass carnage, genocidal terrorism, and destruction in the name of Islam and humanitarianism.

An excerpt from, "Q&A: 'Pak is having a rough time in Balochistan…'" By Namrata Biji Ahuja, Deccan Chronicle, April 9, 2016:

Pakistan has a Balochistan obsession. It is not recent; it's an old thing. They have a serious problem in Balochistan. I do a lot of Track II dialogue and I met some of these Baloch boys and they are very critical of Pakistan. They openly talk about disappearances and other things. So Pakistan is having a rough time in Balochistan. When you are having a rough time, you want to blame somebody else for it. The easiest thing is to blame the R&AW and India. It is all a figment of their imagination. That we would be in contact with Baloch leaders is a legitimate part of diplomacy, leave alone whatever the R&AW does. There is nothing wrong with that. As far as spies go or espionage goes, that is also an acknowledged part of statecraft. There is nothing new in that.
An excerpt from, "Second Russian intelligence report on Turkey's current assistance to Daesh" Voltaire Network, April 9, 2016:

Between 11 and 21 January 2016, Turkish intelligence officers supplied Jabhat al-Sham terrorists with 7.62mm and 12.7mm ammunition and with rounds for RPG-7 grenade launchers. The cargo was transferred across the Turkish-Syrian border, in the area of Kizilcat (540 km south-east of Ankara), to a fighters' camp in the province of Latakia. Some of the weapons and ammunition received were subsequently sold by field commanders to ISIL representatives (in exchange for petroleum products, food and tangible assets).

On 25 January 2016, the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms financed a shipment of equipment and food (approximately 55 tons) to ISIL terrorists. The union of fraternal societies and foundations of Turkey was responsible was forming the convoy. The "humanitarian cargo" travelled through the Yayladağı border crossing (530 km south-east of Ankara, Hatay province) to the Bayırbucak district. Earlier, in July 2015, the Foundation assisted The Association for Human Rights and Solidarity for the Oppressed in transferring over 177 tons of military cargo to the north of Syria.

Smuggling explosives and industrial chemicals to terrorist groups operating in Syria is also usually organized from Turkish territory, through border crossings in the vicinity of Reyhanlı (Turkey), Azaz (Syria), Al-Qamishli (Syria) and Jarablus (Syria). Waterways, particularly the Euphrates River, are often used to transport large consignments of explosive components: nitroglycerine, ammonium nitrate, gunpowder and trinitrotoluene (TNT).
An excerpt from, "Terror Bombing in Brussels and Paris: Europe's "Islamist Legionnaires" Come Home to Fight" By Prof. James Petras, Global Research, April 8, 2016:

Ever since the US-EU policymakers decided to implement a war against Arab and West Asian secular nationalism in the Middle-East, Afghanistan, Iran and North Africa through serial 'regime change' campaigns they have relied on Islamist Salafist mercenaries and volunteers to do most of the killing on the ground, while the West operates from the air. Washington and its NATO allies operated on the assumption that they could use and then discard their recruits, mostly from marginalized urban youth and criminal gangs, once they had served imperial military purposes. A few with requisite talent and ruthlessness could be turned into puppet 'leaders' to unleash on the Russians and other 'obstacles' in future engagements.

The EU-US totally misunderstood the volunteers' high level of independence, their organizational autonomy and their own understanding of the tactical nature of their alliance with Western imperialism. Islamist extremist leaders, like their Western counterparts, believe there are no permanent alliances – only permanent interests.

The EU and US have pursued a policy of overthrowing independent Muslim and secular Arab nations and returning them to the status of pre-independence semi-colonies.  The rollback policy against secular nationalism (with its deep roots in the Dulles era) has extended from North Africa, through the Middle East to Southwest Asia. For its part, ISIS and its allies envision a return to a pre-colonial Islamic caliphate over the same lands and people to counter Western imperialism. Millions are caught in the middle.

Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-31927455629810547772016-04-11T17:56:00.000-04:002016-04-11T17:56:22.356-04:00The Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace

An excerpt from, "Bronze statue of Wallace" The Alfred Russel Wallace Website:

The statue was donated by the Memorial Fund to London's Natural History Museum, where it was unveiled by Sir David Attenborough on the 7th November 2013 - the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death. It has been installed outside the Darwin Centre 2 building (which contains many of Wallace's insect specimens) near the wildlife garden. A video of the unveiling can be seen HERE and photographs HERE. BBC Radio 4 'Inside Science' reported on the event and the broadcast can be heard HERE.
Title: David Attenborough and Bill Bailey give brilliant talks at London's Natural History Museum. Source: blaberus1. Date Published: February 15, 2014. Description:

The unveiling of the first ever statue of the great 19th century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), who independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Indonesia and jointly published the theory with Charles Darwin in 1858. The statue was donated to London's Natural History Museum by the A. R. Wallace Memorial Fund, where it was unveiled by Sir David Attenborough on the 7th November 2013 - the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death. Before it was unveiled Wallace's grandson Richard and comedian Bill Bailey (Patron of the Wallace Memorial Fund) gave excellent speeches, which can be heard in this video. For more information about the statue see http://wallacefund.info/bronze-statue...

This video is copyright of the Natural History Museum, London, UK. Many thanks to Sinclair Stammers for fixing a problem with the sound.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-47817112440081605872016-04-11T16:42:00.000-04:002016-04-11T16:49:16.980-04:00Is Washington Getting Ready To Throw Saudi Arabia Into The Ash Heap of History?

Saudi Arabia is being sacrificed. ISIS is the new and more exciting game in town. With full U.S., British, Israeli, Qatari, and Turkish support, its momentum will sweep aside Saudi rulers and revive medieval fantasies of an Islamic Caliphate dominating the majority of the Muslim world.

There are signs that U.S. support for the House of Saud is ending. And the reason is not because Washington has suddenly grown a conscience. More nefarious motives explain why Washington has decided to finish off Saudi Arabia now that it no longer serves any useful purpose in the regional order in the Middle East.

The King of Saudi Arabia won't get the Saddam treatment. Washington will at least offer the poor bastard the courtesy of leaving this world in a little more dignified manner. But like Saddam, he and his sons will be thrown under the bus in the international media. And the propaganda campaign has already begun.

Whether it is the U.S.-funded leak the "Panama Papers," or the threat of leaking the 28 pages in the fraudulent 9/11 report, it is clear that Saudi Arabia is the target of a coordinated propaganda blitz by Washington.

Add President Obama's controversial statements in an interview with The Atlantic that the U.S-Saudi relationship is "complicated" and the picture becomes even more clear. Saudi Arabia is being sacrificed on the altar of ISIS.

But, no tears shall be shed, because in many ways these idiots dug their own graves. Washington only had to lease them the shovel and stand to the side. They only have themselves to blame.

After Washington retires the King, will it let chaos bloom and tear apart the region or replace him with a controlled Caliph?

Whether the new boss will be as U.S.-friendly as the old one remains to be seen, but if the peace deals between Syrian ISIS-linked opposition factions and Israel are anything to go by, then the answer is certainly yes.

If there is a new Caliph, backed by Muslim Brotherhood-friendly regimes in the U.S., England, France, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, and other ISIS-sympathizing countries, he will be much like the old King. He will have his eyes set on places like Iran, Pakistan, Kurdistan, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Africa, not Israel.

It's almost like Israel doesn't even exist in the minds of ISIS fanatics. They're too busying chopping the heads off of innocent Muslims and indigenous ethnic and religious minorities to get worked up about the crimes and massacres that are taking place in the Holy Land.

An excerpt from, "President Obama and the Saudi Allies: It's Complicated" By Cinzia Bianco and Giorgio Cafiero, Lobe Log, April 1, 2016:

Throughout Barack Obama's presidency, the U.S. has faced unprecedented challenges across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The Obama administration's response to these crises has created substantial friction between Washington and some of its allies in the Arabian Peninsula. The perception of the U.S. supporting the "Arab Spring" uprisings across the MENA region and Washington's diplomatic overtures to Iran unsettle some Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) officials.

After Egypt's "Arab Spring" revolution in 2011, the Saudis angrily accused Washington of dropping key U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak "like a used Kleenex." The State Department's criticism of Bahrain's crackdown on political activists irked authorities in Manama. The U.S. refusal to intervene militarily in Syria against the Damascus regime frustrated Riyadh. Yet the geopolitical implications of last year's watershed Iranian nuclear deal, which some GCC officials argue will increase the Islamic Republic's influence across the Middle East, appear to represent the greatest source of tension in Washington-Riyadh relations.

Obama's landmark Middle East foreign policy decisions fit within the context of a new U.S. posture in the region and "pivot" to Asia. Exemplified by Washington's limited military role in Libya, the term for this new posture is "leading from behind." Indeed, President Obama's many decisions reinforce the idea that even if Washington cannot afford to look away from the Middle East, the U.S. should nonetheless re-interpret its traditional role as the dominant outside actor in the region.

Expectedly, this approach has disappointed many traditional American allies, chiefly Saudi Arabia, which has long considered its relationship with the U.S. to be privileged. Since the 1940s, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, Riyadh has maintained a steady relationship with Washington, built on converging strategic interests and in spite of tactical disagreements and ideological differences. But Obama's foreign policy has raised questions about the persistence of such convergence and the alliance's long-term strength.
Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-73131173673873955712016-04-10T18:38:00.003-04:002016-04-10T18:39:35.086-04:00The West's Tolerance For Wahhabism Must End

The government of England and other European governments have tolerated, and even promoted, Wahhabism in their societies for far too long. Their insane policies have encouraged the rise of ISIS and contributed to the spread of terrorism in the Middle East, North Africa, and, now, on their own continent.

An excerpt from, "The Saudi Wahhabis are the real foe" By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Politico, November 16, 2015:

So instead of invading Iraq, blowing up Jihadi John and individual terrorists, thus causing a multiplication of these agents, it would have been be easier to focus on the source of all problems: the Wahhabi/Salafi education and the promotion of intolerance by which a Shiite or a Yazidi or a Christian are deviant people.

If we absolutely need to put people in Guantanamo, it would be far more effective to ship the Salafi preachers and Wahhabi clerics over there, not just the people swayed by their teaching. And if we need to correct the profound Saudi problem, we need to start by sending to them our preachers, educating them into tolerance, explaining the very concept of the separation of church and state. Or, better even, encourage Muslim preachers who promote religious tolerance ("laka dinak wa li dini") — instead of seeing them ostracized.
An excerpt from, "Europe, and the Islamic State within" By Alfred Raouf, Mada Masr, October 31, 2014:

What is most dangerous to Europe is not the Islamic State itself, but rather, "the IS within." Europe's governments are at a loss as to how to stop this from happening. Their responses are ineffective, even futile. There are no easy solutions, but Europe must tackle the main roots of the problem: finances, fanatical doctrines controlling the preaching of Islam in Europe, European policies toward the Middle East and immigration.
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Regarded by Europe as a democratic, moderate political Islamic group, the Muslim Brotherhood operates freely there and has a pivotal role in spreading Islamic preaching, together with these radical concepts, through a well-planned, organized, tightly connected network.

In dealing with "the IS within," Europe needs to understand that preaching the tolerant teachings of Islam through Wahhabi scholars' texts and by Wahhabi sheikhs paves the way for the future acceptance of violent, fanatic interpretations.
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Western post-Enlightenment liberal thought acknowledges that society and its values are in constant development. But according to Wahhabism, society and its values must return and remain confined to the teachings of the 7th century Arabic peninsula.

These differences create conflicts for many European Muslims adopting the Wahhabi doctrine, and are some of the reasons why they endorse the IS and join efforts in establishing the state that Wahhabism preaches. The Islamic State is the perceived answer to the conflicts that they face and struggle with living in Europe. While aspiring to a united large Islamic state can be a legitimate goal, destroying all other states, killings, beheadings and terror are not legitimate means. The problem is that teachings of Wahhabism incorporate both.
An excerpt from, "Wahhabism: A deadly scripture" By Paul Vallely, The Independent, October 31, 2007:

King Abdullah will go home to Saudi Arabia today with the charges of human rights protestors ringing irritatingly in his ears. But his controversial visit may well have left an unpleasant legacy for the people of the country which has feted him with full state honours.

There was a hint of it in a report written this week by Dr Denis MacEoin, an Islamic studies expert at Newcastle who previously taught at the University of Fez. Leading a team of researchers over a two-year project, he uncovered a hoard of malignant literature inside as many as a quarter of Britain's mosques. All of it had been published and distributed by agencies linked to the government of King Abdullah.

Among the more choice recommendations in leaflets, DVDs and journals were statements that homosexuals should be burnt, stoned or thrown from mountains or tall buildings (and then stoned where they fell just to be on the safe side). Those who changed their religion or committed adultery should experience a similar fate.

Almost half of the literature was written in English, suggesting it is targeted at younger British Muslims who do not speak Arabic or Urdu. The material, which was openly available in many of the mosques, including the East London Mosque in Whitechapel, which has been visited by Prince Charles, also encourages British Muslims to segregate themselves from non-Muslims.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-64202804878402923092016-04-10T15:50:00.001-04:002016-04-10T15:50:24.264-04:00Christine Ferguson - Other Worlds: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Cross-Cultures of Spiritualism

Title: Christine Ferguson - Other Worlds: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Cross-Cultures of Spiritualism. Source: Situating Science. Date Published: February 5, 2014. Description:

October 30, 2013
Dr. Christine Ferguson, University of Glasgow
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta

A part of the Alfred Russel Wallace lecture series at the University of Alberta.

In 1848, a young Alfred Russel Wallace arrived at the gate to the Amazon river in Pará, ready to embark on the exploration tour that would provide him with his first extended contact with non-Western indigenous peoples. Thousands of miles to the north, an encounter of a very different kind was taking place in the rural hamlet of Hydesville, New York. Here the young mediums Kate and Maggie Fox had just started to receive the rapped séance communications that would launch the international modern spiritualist movement. My lecture considers the impact of contact with these sometimes overlapping constituencies of spirits and non-Western peoples on Wallace's writings on social progress and spiritual evolution. Wallace entered the public sphere as a defender of spiritualism at a time when anthropological accounts of cross-cultural spirit belief was regularly being claimed by believers and anti-Spiritualists alike— William Howitt and E.B. Tylor, to name just a few— as evidence for their respective positions. Wallace remained relatively silent on the subject of so-called "savage" spiritualism in his main spiritualist opus Miracles and Modern Spiritualism (1875), perhaps out of fear of confirming the Tylorite equation of modern séance practices with primitive survivals; yet in his late-life sociological and biographical writings, he became far more explicit in his incorporation and endorsement of the numinous testimony of global indigenous peoples. I read Wallace's shifting position towards the evidentiary value of non-Western spiritualism as an important index of both his increasing skepticism towards the Enlightenment project and of the role of race in Victorian spiritualist and occult thought.
Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-37636756367473002462016-04-09T21:31:00.003-04:002016-04-09T21:31:35.240-04:00US Should Drastically Change Its Policy Toward The Delusionary Pakistan - Husain Haqqani

"Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding" By Husain Haqqani (2013).

An excerpt from, "Impossible to achieve uninterrupted talks with Pakistan: Shashi Tharoor" The Indian Express, March 18, 2016:

The former minister also said that whenever India has tried to make peace, that has been reciprocated with an attack. "There is nothing we want from Pakistan but peace," Tharoor said, adding that they seem to want Kashmir and they will continue to do so.

Tharoor noted that the core issue with Pakistan is not Kashmir but the nature of the Pakistan state. Paraphrasing Voltaire, he said that Pakistan army has a state, not otherwise. "You join the army to run the country," he added.

He went on to say that the military is involved in everything in Pakistan – from petrol pumps, exports, real estate, think tanks and imports to universities- Pakistani army has the highest portion in the country's GDP in the world. "This is justified by conflicts on borders," said the Congress MP.
Title: US Should Drastically Change Its Policy Toward The Delusionary Pakistan - Husain Haqqani. Source: DLX Area 1. Date Published: December 16, 2015. Description:

Former Pakistani Ambassador to US, Mr. Husain Haqqani urges US to drastically change its policy toward Pakistan to bring it out of its delusional quest for parity with India in this "Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs" hearing held on December 8, 2015 about "Civil Nuclear Cooperation with Pakistan: Prospects and Consequences". Full Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqRsj...
Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-9308335055038093872016-04-09T17:37:00.001-04:002016-04-09T17:41:09.273-04:00#PakTerrorGames: Mind-Games In India, Savagery In Baloch

Pakistan and Israel share many traits in common. Both are rigidly ideological states, both profess to rule in the name of religion, both claim national victimhood and use the victim card when faced with international criticism, both are led by elites that are deeply racists, both are staunch U.S. allies, both are creations of the evil British empire, both depend on Saudi Arabia and ignore its Wahhabi mission to convert all Muslims to religious extremism, both use U.S. weapons against indigenous peoples demanding their inalienable rights, both illegally obtained nuclear weapons, and both back head-chopping terrorist groups to gain influence over their neighbouring countries.

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The Crimes of Pakistan Against Balochistan

Captured Indian Spy's Taped Confession Vindicates Pakistan's Narrative That India Is Funding Terrorism In Pakistan

Mashal Khan Takkar: Birth And Death of Pakistan

Title: #PakTerrorGames: Mind-Games In India, Savagery In Baloch. Source: India Today. Date Published: April 7, 2016. Description:

Pakistan appears to be back on it's usual games, raising the Kashmir bogey, blaming India for unrest on it's soil and refusing to allow a reciprocal visit of the NIA team to probe the Pathankot attack. What did expose Pakistan was the brazen backing of China on the Pathankot mastermind Masood Azhar. A Balochistan activist in India spoke out. She's an exile escaped from Pakistan and has a horrific story to tell. Take a look.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-77184975244288734042016-04-09T16:21:00.001-04:002016-04-09T16:21:27.943-04:00Russian Journalist Maxim Shevchenko: We Support a Federation in Syria

Title: Russian Journalist Maxim Shevchenko: We Support a Federation in Syria. Source: MEMRITVVideos. Date Published: April 7, 2016. Description:

In a recent TV interview, leading Russian journalist Maxim Shevchenko said that the Russian position on Syria was "quite clear. We support a federation." "This has been discussed at the highest level. Syria must become a federation," he said in the interview, which was posted on the Novaya Gazeta website on March 21, 2016.
"Middle East studies in Russia have freed themselves from the pressure of the Israeli lobby which was formidable regarding many "resolutions" taken on Syria. The inclination to partition Syria - into an Alawite state and so on - has clearly been an Israeli position. The Russian position today is quite clear. We support a federation." - Russian journalist Maxim Shevchenko.

Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-56712083279201986762016-04-09T15:52:00.002-04:002016-04-09T15:52:50.018-04:00Corruption Is A Key Factor In The Rise of ISIS; Mainstream Iraqi Shiite Militias Get Well-Deserved Pat On The Head From Big Daddy US; Archaeologists Begin Return To Liberated Palmyra

In Iraq, it takes two hundred thousand dollars to become a colonel and two million dollars to become a general. Is it any wonder why these guys keep losing? If money bought military victories or a reputation then the Saudis would be kings of the world, but, they are hardly even the kings of Arabia.

An excerpt from, "The Corruption Revealed in the Panama Papers Opened the Door to Isis" By Patrick Cockburn, Unz Review, April 8, 2016:

Crucial to the rise of Isis, al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan is not their own strength and popularity, but the weakness and unpopularity of the governments to which they are opposed.

The danger of citing extreme examples of corruption from exotic and war-ravaged countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria is that these may sound like events happening on another planet. But the political and economic systems in Iraq and Afghanistan were devised under the tutelage of the US and allies like Britain.

Neo-liberal economists have a lot to answer for. A few days after Isis had captured Mosul in June 2014, I was in Baghdad and asked a recently retired four-star Iraqi general why the much larger and better-equipped Iraqi army had been defeated so swiftly and humiliatingly. He replied that the explanation was: "Corruption! Corruption! Corruption!"

He added that this was pervasive and had begun when the US was building a new Iraqi military after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, when the American commanders had insisted on out-sourcing food and other supplies to private contractors. These businessmen and the army officers soon determined that, if the Iraqi government was paying money to feed and equip a battalion of 600 men, but its real strength was only 150, they could pocket the difference. So profitable was this arrangement that by 2014 all officers' jobs were for sale and it cost $200,000 to become a colonel and up to $2m a general in charge of a division.

The most corrupt ministers were appointed and the most crooked contracts signed at a time when US officials were the real decision-makers in Baghdad.
An excerpt from, "Has the US Found a New Friend in Iraq's Shiite Militias?" By Ali Mamouri, Al Monitor via Global Research, April 9, 2016:

On March 12, US Consul General Steve Walker visited Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital in Basra to pay his respects to wounded members of the Popular Mobilization Units. The visit marked the first time a US official has publicly met these troops. This is particularly remarkable as until now, the official US position toward the Popular Mobilization Units was negative, and the United States had even demanded that the Iraqi government prevent the forces from taking part in the operations to liberate some areas, such as the city of Ramadi in Anbar, that were freed without their participation by US request.

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Some observers feel that Walker's visit and remarks reflect a great shift in the US alliances in the Middle East. Following Iran's nuclear deal, US policy has clearly changed, moving away from its old friends in the region, most notably Saudi Arabia, and closer to Iran.

In an interview with The Atlantic on March 12, US President Barack Obama criticized Saudi Arabia, which "heavily funded Wahhabist madrassas, seminaries that teach the fundamentalist version of Islam." When asked whether Saudi Arabia is a friend of the United States, he answered, "It's complicated." Obama added that the Saudis need to "share" the Middle East with their Iranian foes.

The United States seems to have become more aware of the nature of Iraqi actors like the Popular Mobilization Units. In May 2015, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter IS, retired Gen. John Allen, told CBS News, "The militias are not just a single monolithic entity. There are the militias that you and I are used to hearing [about] that have close alignments with Iran. Those are the extremist elements, and we don't have anything to do with that. But there are elements of the [Shiite] militias that volunteered last year to try to defend Iraq from the onslaught of [IS] who were called to arms by Grand Ayatollah [Ali al-] Sistani, and those elements, or the Popular Mobilization Force, as they are known, have been subordinated to the Iraqi higher military campaign or command."

Allen concluded that the United States is going to need to assume a positive role in supporting the force in order to defeat IS.

An excerpt from, "As ISIS loses ground, scholars return to beloved historical sites" PBS, April 5, 2016:

When ISIS captured the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria last year, they destroyed and looted priceless pieces of Middle Eastern history.

The city was retaken last week by Syria's army, and as the extremists lose more ground in Iraq, archaeologists are returning to endangered sites to resecure the past.
Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-48446127902716971002016-04-09T00:46:00.001-04:002016-04-09T00:49:24.285-04:00Al Qaeda Is Turning Yemen's Ungoverned Spaces Into Private Fiefdoms

 Instead of striking Al-Qaeda or ISIS, the brilliant strategists behind the US/UK/Saudi military campaign in Yemen have opted to strike markets, schools, and hospitals.

An excerpt from, "How Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen has made al Qaeda stronger – and richer" By Yara Bayoumy, Noah Browning and Mohammed Ghobari, Reuters, April 8, 2016:

Once driven to near irrelevance by the rise of Islamic State abroad and security crackdowns at home, al Qaeda in Yemen now openly rules a mini-state with a war chest swollen by an estimated $100 million in looted bank deposits and revenue from running the country's third largest port.

If Islamic State's capital is the Syrian city of Raqqa, then al Qaeda's is Mukalla, a southeastern Yemeni port city of 500,000 people. Al Qaeda fighters there have abolished taxes for local residents, operate speedboats manned by RPG-wielding fighters who impose fees on ship traffic, and make propaganda videos in which they boast about paving local roads and stocking hospitals.

The economic empire was described by more than a dozen diplomats, Yemeni security officials, tribal leaders and residents of Mukalla. Its emergence is the most striking unintended consequence of the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen. The campaign, backed by the United States, has helped Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to become stronger than at any time since it first emerged almost 20 years ago.
An excerpt from, "A False Foundation? AQAP, Tribes, and Ungoverned Spaces in Yemen" By Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Combating Terrorism Center, October 3, 2011:

The reported deaths of Anwar al-`Awlaqi and Samir Khan on September 30, 2011, while a tactical victory for U.S. counterterrorism efforts, are unlikely to impact AQAP's operations in Yemen or its desire to attack the interests of the United States. While justifiably the focus of counterterrorism experts concerned with homeland security, al- `Awlaqi and Khan were far less relevant players in explaining the resiliency of al-Qa`ida in the Arabian Peninsula. In fact, too often the attention and focus on AQAP's English- speaking members came at the expense of a deeper understanding of the group's local strategy and operations, the central focus of this report. While it is too soon to tell whether either al-`Awlaqi or Khan will be replaced by other English speaking propagandists, policymakers will need to carefully consider the repercussions of their deaths from a broader strategic perspective, one that looks beyond imminent threats against the U.S. homeland and includes AQAP's operations in Yemen.

This study specifically focuses on events and actors in Yemen's eastern governorates, often described as Yemen's most tribal and an epicenter of AQAP activity. This discussion of the tribes of Marib and al-Jawf is the result of tw elve months of research conducted in Yemen by the author, including fieldwork in the governorate of Marib. His network of contacts and dozens of interviews with tribal leaders and tribesmen suggest that although tribes have long been cited as a primary resiliency mechanism for AQAP, the group enjoys no formal alliance with tribes in either Marib or al-Jawf. Likewise, there is ample evidence to suggest that, contrary to popular analysis, the group's strength and durability does not stem from Yemen's tribes.
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To date, al-Qa`ida in the Arabian Peninsula has largely avoided serious mistakes thanks to the guidance of a small group of Yemeni leaders. From its inception—then under the banner al-Qa`ida in the Land of Yemen (AQLY), AQAP has endured for nearly five years by maintaining rigid organizational discipline; crafting a consistent and highly nuanced discourse; and avoiding military or outreach efforts likely to spark a public backlash. AQAP's unusually capable strategic decision making reveals that the group's greatest asset is also its most glaring vulnerability. The most direct way to reduce the group's viability in Yemen, while simultaneously limiting its capacity to attack the United States at home, lies in removing those Yemeni leaders responsible for the group's operational coherence: Nasir `Abd al-Kareem `Abdullah al-W ahayshi, Qasim Yahya Mahdi al-Raymi, Muhammad Sa`id Ali Hasan al-'Umda and `Adil bin `Abdullah bin Thabit al-`Abab.

This suggestion appears counterintuitive, especially given the importance often attributed to al-Qa`ida in the Arabian Peninsula's high-profile foreign members. The jihadist ideologue Anwar al-`Awlaqi, the propagandist Samir Khan, the bomb maker Ibrahim `Asiri and numerous Saudis who joined the group in 2008 and 2009 have attracted considerable attention from U.S. media and policymakers. Yet the addition of these prominent foreigners reflects AQAP's successes far more than it accounts for them. Killing Samir Khan, Anwar al-`Awlaqi or Ibrahim `Asiri might reduce the threat to the United States in the short term but will do little to address the resilience and strength of AQAP, which has long excelled at attracting foreign talent. From its first attack in 2006, the group has proven itself adept at fitting local grievances into a global narrative that justifies taking action against U.S. interests both inside and outside Yemen. Newer members from abroad may certainly extend the group's reach, but they hardly strengthen AQAP's durability inside Yemen.

Analysis of AQAP's history and center of gravity suggests that a refocus on the group's local capabilities is especially appropriate as Yemen faces mounting instability. If local dynamics are not sufficiently weighed in this crucial period, the United States runs the risk of miscalculating the efficacy of military action, inflaming anti-American sentiment and potentially giving AQAP the opportunity to overcome the triple bind that has curtailed the organization to date. Rather than poverty, political repression or even civil war, only U.S. military intervention in Yemen has the potential to unite the otherwise competing local, regional and global agendas that constitute AQAP's central challenges.
An excerpt from, "'Arc of Instability' across Africa, If Left Unchecked, Could Turn Continent into Launch Pad for Larger-Scale Terrorist Attacks, Security Council Told" United Nations, May 13, 2013:

An "arc of instability" was stretching across Africa's Sahara and Sahel region, and if left unchecked, it could transform the continent into a breeding ground for extremists and a launch pad for larger-scale terrorist attacks around the world, delegates in the Security Council stressed today during a high-level debate on combating that growing scourge across the region.

In a presidential statement, the Council expressed its deep concern with the increasing violence perpetrated by armed groups, whose numbers were growing in several regions and subregions of Africa, where porous borders, illegal arms trafficking and difficult socioeconomic situations had made it difficult to effectively combat terrorism.

Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-19727493541900283842016-04-08T20:09:00.002-04:002016-04-08T20:09:11.407-04:00X22Report: Turkey And Saudi Arabia Setup Chemical Weapons Facilities On The Syrian Border

"Turkey and Saudi Arabia have set up production of shells containing poisoning chemical substances on the Syrian border, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party told Sputnik on Friday." (Source: Sputnik News).

Title: Turkey And Saudi Arabia Setup Chemical Weapons Facilities On The Syrian Border - Episode 940b. Source: X22Report. Date Published: April 8, 2016. Description:

New bill will require companies to allow access to encrypted devices. US/NATO still training military in Ukraine. UK and US involved in drone wars in Yemen. Lebanon is collapsing and John Kerry makes a surprise visit to Iraq. Turkey and Saudia Arabia setup chemical weapons facilities on the border of Syria. US ships in massive amount of weapons. Syrian air force destroys command center for the IS. US and the moderate rebels say Assad is not cooperating and won't step down.
Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-38177402160906559032016-04-08T17:06:00.001-04:002016-04-08T17:06:16.851-04:00Yemen: the silent war

Title: Yemen: the silent war. Source: International Journalism Festival. Date Published: April 8, 2016. Description:

Yemen is presented by the Western media as the hideout of al-Qaeda and the kingdom of child brides. But it is also a nation with a millenary culture and youthful creativity, both back in vogue during the 2011 revolution which was the most peaceful among the so-called Arab springs. Yemen is currently being destroyed by a terrible war, largely ignored by the media, despite its centrality, along with Syria and Iraq, to the Middle Eastern crisis. In this war scenario, in which Western countries participate by selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, the Yemeni population has been extremely resilient and local artists have tried to recount the conflict by showing its consequences on civilians and on a unique cultural and architectural heritage.

Con: Laura Silvia Battaglia (freelance journalist), Malachy Browne (Europe anchor Reported.ly), Iona Craig (freelance journalist), Abdurahman Hussain (film-maker and producer), Sara Ishaq (film director ), Sara Ishaq
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-29533379903959357582016-04-08T16:44:00.001-04:002016-04-08T16:44:46.957-04:00Robert Anton Wilson - Getting High On Doing What You LoveTitle: Robert Anton Wilson - Getting High On Doing What You Love. Source: Omid Pakbin. Date Published: March 20, 2015. Description:

Part of a lecture by Robert Anton Wilson. Noise-reduction and sound-enhancement by me.
For the full lecture, watch "Politicians, Peptides, and Stupidity: An Evening with Robert Anton Wilson."

Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-35377111244793601762016-04-08T16:27:00.000-04:002016-04-08T16:27:12.563-04:00In The Footsteps of Alfred Russel Wallace

Title: In The Footsteps of Alfred Russel Wallace. Source: DINOSAUR DREAMING. Date Published: May 22, 2014. Description:

November 7, 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist and explorer among other things. While traveling through South East Asia in the 1850's he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. In June 2013 a team of scientists and academics retraced some of his travels through the Malay Archipelago. This is the story of that journey and it is hoped that after watching this video you will delve into the fascinating life and times of Wallace.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-32957307403084995802016-04-07T20:36:00.000-04:002016-04-07T20:36:05.759-04:00X22Report: US Government Is Strategically Positioning Military Assets In Syria And Iraq

Source of photo: Daily Mail.

Title: US Government Is Strategically Positioning Military Assets In Syria And Iraq - Episode 939b. Source: X22Report. Date Published: April 7, 2016. Description:

Wikileaks reports that the US Government leaked the Panama Papers. Obama and the IMF are pushing for a worldwide tax. France and Germany will back Ukraine in EU, Dutch say no. Turkey and Ukraine hold Black Sea drills. China will get delivery of the S-400 missile system this year. US might create more bases in Iraq. Turkey fired on journalists as they bombed the Kurds. The FSA has now taken over the supply routes of the IS. Turkey and the US are pushing the further into the east of Syria. The FSA and IS used chemical weapons on the people of Aleppo. There was a secret shooter drill at the Port Authority and the police had no clue it was a drill.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-37204667563755502792016-04-07T18:33:00.000-04:002016-04-07T18:33:15.725-04:00Book Launch - Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State

"Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic lllusion of an Islamic State" By Tarek Fatah.

Title: Book Launch - Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State. Source: Kautilya Books. Date Published: June 24, 2015. Description:

Shri Ajai Sahni, Executive Director, Institute of Conflict Management at the book launch of 'Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State' by Tarek Fatah.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-76688246144914474192016-04-07T16:40:00.001-04:002016-04-07T16:44:53.191-04:00Israeli Drones Are Being Used To Kill Armenians; Lying Islamic Organization Accuses Armenia of "Aggression"

Israel, Turkey, Pakistan, the United States, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation are all bullying tiny Armenia, whose only international defender is Russia and its great son, Vladimir Putin.

An excerpt from, "Azerbaijan said using Israeli drones against Armenians" By Sue Surkes, Times of Israel, April 7, 2016:

An Israeli-made kamikaze drone has apparently been spotted in the skies over Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus.

Artsrun Hovhannisyan, a press spokesman for Armenia's defense ministry, said on his Facebook page that the Azerbaijani army was using the using the Israeli Harop drone.

He told the state-run Russian agency Ria Novosti that the drone had apparently fixed on a bus full of "Armenian volunteers" and killed seven of them, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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Azerbaijan is Israel's biggest oil supplier, a key recipient of Israeli arms, and a partner in a complicated three-way dance with Iran.
An excerpt from, "OIC Youth Forum strongly condemns Armenia's aggressive actions against Azerbaijan" AzerNews, April 6, 2016:

The Board of Directors of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Youth Forum held an extraordinary meeting on the recent provocation of Armenian armed forces in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, as they adopted Declaration.

"OIC Youth Forum strongly condemns Armenia's provocative, aggressive actions against Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh region, to keep the fire of settlements and military positions and regards it as an act violating peace and increasing tension in the region", the statement says.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-8990325436457745882016-04-07T15:42:00.000-04:002016-04-07T15:42:15.793-04:00Pak Using American Weapons To Brutally Suppress Balochis - Dana Rohrabacher

An excerpt from, "Human Rights in Balochistan: A Case Study in Failure and Invisibility" By Hamid Yazdan Panah, The World Post, March 25, 2016:

Last month a shocking story gained little traction in the mainstream press, despite its horrific implications and brutal reality. A report from Iran emerged which detailed how every male from a village in the province of Sistan Balochistan had been executed. The Baloch, an ethnic minority in both Pakistan and Iran, continue to face systematic repression in both of these countries, yet remain largely ignored in both the East and the West. Simply having their voices heard remains a major struggle for this stateless population faced with poverty, violence and discrimination.

The Baloch are a distinct ethnic group who reside in the lands between southwestern Pakistan, southeastern Iran and a very small section of southwestern Afghanistan. Yet many fear that they have become invisible in their plight. Their struggle is reduced to a footnote in a region locked in turmoil. Their stories are overshadowed by the refugee crisis, bloody civil wars, and an attempt to silence them in the countries they now reside.

The executions in question took place in the village of Roushanabad, in southeastern Tehran, with the entire male population being arrested and sentenced to death on drug charges. Incidentally, Sistan Balochistan is Iran's poorest province, and home to the ethnic Baloch who remain disenfranchised in Iran both as an ethnic minority and as Sunni muslims.

The majority of those executed in the province faced drug charges, and often receive convictions without access to counsel or proper due process. Iran's use of the death penalty in such cases is illegal under international law, yet the practice not only continues, but is actually funded by the United Nations and European countries.
An excerpt from, "Balochistan: 'Hundreds of people abducted and murdered by Pakistan army' activists warn" By Ludovica Iaccino, International Business Times, March 11, 2015:

Baloch activists are urging rights groups and the international community to pay attention to the situation of people living in the Balochistan province, western Pakistan.

According to some members of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) – a democratic and secular organisation that aims to repel Pakistani occupation and regain sovereignty in Balochistan –Balcoh people are persecuted, abducted and systematically killed by Pakistani security agencies and the Pakistani Army.

Ashraf Sherjan, president of the BRP Germany Chapter, has warned that Balochs are haunted by what he calls "Pakistani kill-and-dump-policy intelligence agencies and armed forces."

Speaking to IBTimes UK, he said: "Since Balochistan was forcefully occupied by Pakistan, Baloch people have been living as guests of death.

"It has never been considered, even outside Pakistan, that Balochistan belongs to the Baloch people who are now hunted. Baloch leaders are being deliberately assassinated by the occupying state of Pakistan for demanding rights to their own land."
Title: Pak Using American Weapons To Brutally Suppress Balochis - Dana Rohrabacher. Source: DLX Area 1. Date Published: January 28, 2016. Description:

Dana Rohrabacher blasts Pakistan for brutally suppressing Balochis just as they did with Bengalis in 1971 and criticizes US for supplying weapons to Pakistan. Clip from the House Foreign Relations Committee's hearing of US Ambassador to Pakistan and State Department Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Olson on 16 December, 2015 on "The Future of US-Pakistan Relations". Full video of the hearing - https://youtu.be/iQpCn83PV6k
Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-36777814878719321432016-04-07T14:39:00.000-04:002016-04-07T14:39:10.076-04:00Ryan Dawson: Panama papers, call in to Mike Rivero + Jack Dallas: Examining the Biased Media Coverage of the Panama Papers

Title: Panama papers, call in to Mike Rivero. Source: Ryan Dawson. Date Published: April 6, 2016.

Title: Examining the Biased Media Coverage of the Panama Papers. Source: Jack Dallas. Date Published: April 7, 2016. Description:

As expected, the usual Western mouthpieces are framing this already suspicious story in a way which solely benefits their own governments.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-52204758008256453012016-04-07T14:13:00.001-04:002016-04-07T14:13:20.161-04:00The Forgotten Voyage: Alfred Russel Wallace and his discovery of evolution by natural selection

Related: Darwin's Heretic: Did the Co-Founder of Evolution Embrace Intelligent Design?

Title: The Forgotten Voyage: Alfred Russel Wallace and his discovery of evolution by natural selection. Source: blaberus1. Date Published: Oct 24, 2013. Description:

The dramatised story of Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th century naturalist who published the theory of evolution by natural selection together with Charles Darwin in 1858 - more than a year before Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species" was released. This film was directed by Peter Crawford and was broadcast by the BBC as part of its The World About Us series in 1983. For more information about it see http://www.petercrawford.co.uk/tvdram...

This really is an excellent film - without doubt the best docudrama ever made about Wallace's life and work. It was uploaded to YouTube in 2013 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death. Peter Crawford has given permission for this film to be put on YouTube.
Saman Mohammadihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-74502112648055052862016-04-06T21:09:00.005-04:002016-04-06T21:28:56.053-04:00X22Report: It Has Begun, Counting down To The Next Event Title: It Has Begun, Counting down To The Next Event - Episode 938b. Source: X22Report. Date Published: April 6, 2016. Description:

Panama Papers is an intelligence operation. 1 in 4 college students want to crush the First Amendment. Netherlands voted down the proposal of the EU-Ukraine relationship. China announce trade sanctions against North Korea. Syrian opposition fires MANPAD that brings down a Syrian jet during the ceasefire. Obama pulling troops out of Sinai and moving them to another location. US ups military spending. The countdown has begun to the next event.
Saman Mohammadihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8288505742676241874.post-90682049757372507692016-04-06T16:46:00.000-04:002016-04-06T16:46:07.983-04:00Foreign Policy Diary - Nagorno-Karabakh Standoff: geopolitical struggle in the Caspian Sea region

"Location explains Azerbaijan's standing in the world. Situated on the oil rich Caspian Sea, the state is wooed by Western governments seeking an alternative to Russia as a source of energy imports. Israel is one such customer and in return sells large quantities of sophisticated weaponry to Azerbaijan, partly in exchange for oil." - Robert Swift, "Azerbaijan: Israel's secret Muslim friend" Jerusalem Post, November 2, 2015.

An excerpt from, "Why the Armenian conflict should remain in the frozen status quo" By Kristin Cavoukian, The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2016:

With Nagorno-Karabakh's frozen conflict thawing its way back into the Western news, Canadians might be puzzled by this renewed battle between Armenians and Azerbaijanis – people about which they know or care little – over a tiny non-country. As if on cue, historians and post-Soviet political experts are pulling out their historical overviews and timelines, providing easily digested bites of background information suited to our era of low attention spans and divided attention.

This information will explain how the Armenian-majority territory ended up included, as a bubble-like enclave, in Soviet Azerbaijan in the first place, just waiting to become a bone of contention when the inevitable "ancient hatreds" re-emerged to engulf the region as the Soviet Union collapsed. That war killed more than 30,000 people and resulted in virtually complete population un-mixing, with ethnic Azerbaijanis fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, and ethnic Armenians fleeing Azerbaijan, collectively producing about a million refugees, many of whom still have not been resettled more than two decades after the 1994 ceasefire. And, invariably, it will focus on the international legal environment that gave rise to modern-day "frozen conflicts" in the first place – the post-Second World War international prohibition on the alteration of borders by force, and the international community's clear prioritization of territorial integrity over self-determination.
An excerpt from, "Video: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. Geopolitical Standoff between Turkey and Russia?" South Front via Global Research, April 5, 2016:

After 22 years, the shaky Armenian-Azeri ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region fell apart overnight on April 2 with both sides of the front using mortars, artillery, armored vehicles, battle tanks and multiple rocket launchers. Azerbaijan also uses UAVs and helicopters.

Baku and Yerevan blame each other for triggering the hostilities in the mountainous area. However, the most intense fighting on April 2 and April 3 were observed in Martakert (регион) where the Azeri troops were advancing on forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, an unrecognized state which is de-facto a province of Armenia.

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Genres: horror, supernatural
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Plot Summary: Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They're the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close. Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul - a kind of monster that lives by hunting and devouring human flesh. When part of her special organ - "the red child" - is transplanted into Kaneki, he becomes a ghoul himself, trapped in a warped world where humans are not the top of the food chain.
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Interesting stuff so far with the preview. Not a big fan of the studio though but maybe this could deliver. I have been following the franchise earlier this and it could be promising. Funimation already acquired this so I might check out their BD release in the future as well. I just hope there won't be much censoring. The premise sounds decent at least. I'm hoping for 2 cour but most likely it won't be.
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Wow, I didn't thought I'd say this but it was a really good episode. There were some bits cut but overall was really strong from the set-up to, execution, and cliffhanger. I noticed they chose Kana Hanazawa to play Rize for the role too spoiler[so her revelation as a ghoul definitely contrasted some of the usual characters she stars in.]
Toka is my favorite so far from the show. Tspoiler[urns out she is a ghoul too although that doesn't surprise me. I hope they play the OP song with scenes soon.] Overall really good show so far.
A lot of potential for this.
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Gruesome. Dark. Disturbing. Perfect!
Just what I was waiting for.
Normal world vs ghoul world sharing the same reality.
Damn, poor spoiler[kid felt right into that trap].
spoiler[Think that doctor made some kind of an experiment out of him.]
Will be watching this one.
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I think I'm gonna like this one despite the fact that watching people get eaten grosses me out. That was one of the reasons I couldn't stomach (heh) Pupa.
Background art on this one is stellar - night-time Tokyo never looked so good.
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Awww, they gave it away right from the get go with the spoiler["put her organs in him"] line. It would have been a little more interesting to me if he was wondering what happened for a little longer.
Show looks decent visually and Kana Hanazawa is an interesting choice to play Rize. I have read a few chapters of the manga in the past, but haven't kept up with it. Hopefully, this will be a 2 cour show otherwise I fear it may turn into last season's Brynnhldr in the Darkness with them trying to stick 20 chapters at a time into a single episode.
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What a delightfully gruesome way to start a series! I was looking forward to this one based solely on the trailers (I am not familiar with its source material), and it was better than I was expecting. Very straight-to-the-point first episode. It didn't meander through the story with unnecessary plot points/devices, yet it was slow and thoughtful enough to let the viewer take in every plot detail and to make every emotion it wanted to convey sink in deep into the psyche.
I particularly liked the way spoiler[they portrayed Kaneki's terror of finding that he's been half-turned into this abominable human-eating monster. It somewhat reminded me of how well Attack on Titan conveyed the horror of the situation during the first few episodes.]
If there was one thing I didn't like was how they held back on showing the details of that one fight scene near the end (by doing the typical move of having two characters approach each other at full speed, clash with a bang, and then the delayed wounds and blood out of thin air), and how some of the more gory stuff was sort of left out of frame or shaded black. I'm not sure if it's just censorship that might be removed in future DVD/Bluray releases or if it's meant to be that way. In either case, it was quite a minor drawback during this first episode, and I didn't even consciously think about it until after the episode ended. Nothing to worry about here for now.
Can't wait for more!
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|@ Alberto7 - usually censored gore is restored for DVD/BD Japanese releases. Assuming Funi releases this for home distribution in NA (which it is likely to do since it has the streaming rights), that gore would be uncensored ASSUMING they get the proper masters. Unfortunately, it seems Japanese companies either accidentally or accidentally-on-purpose try to pawn off the broadcast version of shows instead of the home release versions (this has happened with Sankarea and is thought to be behind the delay of Ben-to).
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I am not really a big fan of gore, so I shouldn't be interested in this sort of show. But this episode felt so well done that I am actually interested and excited. The horror of him seeing what he has become was well plotted out, and the struggle failed to come off as cheesy, I am very interested, and maybe a little hungry.
She spoiler[offered a hand and he tossed it away, she then said she would give him a hand, and gave him]...... a spoiler[heart]?
Wasn't some of the plot of what happened from spoiler[Highschool DxD]?
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|I'm not too fond of gore, and the idea of a human being turning, unwillingly, into something inhuman and terrible is one of the types of horror I personally find the most terrifying, and yet I found myself drawn in by this first episode. The scene where spoiler[Kaneki starts to realize what's happening to him, and tries desperately to find some food that won't make him sick] was quite intense, and I felt myself despairing right along with him by the end of it. I also found his friend's concern for him to be quite touching. I hope nothing bad happens to that friend...well, given the vibes this series is giving off, I suppose I should say, "I hope nothing too bad happens to that friend."
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I'm getting Shiki vibes from this one, and that's a good thing. Shiki was a very cerebral, character focused ensemble piece, and this looks more action oriented and focused on its MC, so its sufficiently different.
Curious where ghouls come from and how people become ghouls normally (ie, not from organ transplants). The first spoiler[ghoul the mc meets says something that implies he has transitioned from human to ghoul himself rather recently. Considering that the bingeing Rize left her victims dead and devoured, how do ghouls turn humans? And can any ghoul turn a human, or does Toka's mysterious organization do recruiting? ]
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Well well well, what a fantastically dark episode... I almost feel sorry for Kaneki.
I hadn't seen the preview so naturally when they introduced spoiler[Rize binge eating on corpses as a ghoul], I assumed they would be seen as the 'bad guys' of the series. Now that spoiler[Kaneki has changed into half human/ half ghoul], I'm interested in knowing which direction it will take.
The ghouls are portrayed as spoiler[monsters and murderers but now he's 'one of them', are we meant to see them from a good perspective? And what of the other organisation killing/ capturing the ghouls? Are we looking at a 2 way fight with Humans stuck in the middle.]
Hopefully we will find some answers in the next episode.
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|Haven't seen anything this genuinely disturbing since Shiki. Not a bad show so far though, it has my interest.
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Well regardless of whether this is to your taste or not (pun intended) it seems too well done to ignore. I'm sure this is going to be very actively talked about here.
Of course the very last thing that would ever enter Kaneki's mind is to go back to the hospital to talk to that doctor and say dude WTF. And they would discharge a patient that hasn't eaten once over presumably days or weeks?
Well it seems some ghouls can exhibit some level of camaraderie if not compassion. Rise was clearly bad news but Tōka clearly is set up to be the ghoul senpai here.
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I really enjoyed that ep, though my continued loyalty to the show is largely dependent on how the main character develops and how the villain is.
I'm terrified of being eaten alive by other intelligent beings (most of my fears are pretty much impossible LOL) so the horror aspect is really there for me. Naturally I'm fine with the gore level. I just need to toughen up and swallow my fears.
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