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On2 Technologies today extended its Flash 8 video encoding capabilities to users of Apple's popular digital media design tools; Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. The company today released with builtin support for Compressor, Apple's automated media encoding tool integrated with Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. Version 8.003 offers seamless integration to enable output content to high quality Flash 8 video formats directly from within each application's tool bar. It offers support for alpha channel encoding to preserve "green screen" special effects and background masking; output to SWF and FLV formats; fractional frame rates, such as 23.98 and 29.97; and for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. On2 Flix Exporter 8 for Macintosh is available for $150.


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text: What is the difference in the force of gravity on a 1.0-kg mass atthe bottom of the deepest ocean trench and that at the top of thehighest mountain? Assume that g = 9.8 m/s2 atsea level. The radius of the earth at sea level is 6.37 ×106 m. The deepest trench is the Marianas Trench, southof Guam, which has a depth d= 1.103 × 104 m below sea level. The highestmountain is Everest in Nepal, which has a height of h =8.847 × 103 m above sea level. The difference is


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The warm temperatures may mean other things on your mind, but if you're thinking of celebrating the winter holiday season on a cruise ship now would be the time to consider booking.
Major cruise lines including Carnival and Royal Caribbean have holiday cruises sale-priced for early bookers. Prime space on the popular itineraries tends to go fast.
Last year, my partner, David, and I checked out what the fuss is all about by hopping on Oceania Cruises' 1,250-passenger Riviera for a two-week holiday sailing – leaving Miami right before Christmas and getting back after New Year's (an itinerary also offered this year and sale-priced through Aug. 31). Riviera is an upper premium ship.
Santa and carolers dressed in Victorian outfits greeted us as we stepped off the gangway onto the ship.
We passed an extravagant gingerbread house display on the way to our cabin. It was immediately clear we wouldn't miss the holidays just because we were on a ship.
Santa was at the reception desk too, in the form of a statue, and there were traditional decorations in many public areas.
A week earlier, during Hanukkah, there had been a nightly menorah lighting ceremony and the dining room menu had included potato latkes, matzo ball soup and challah.
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For Christmas, the chefs prepared creamy pumpkin soup cappuccino, orange and Madeira-glazed Virginia ham, roast turkey and Christmas goose with walnut stuffing.
Passengers could sign up to participate in a Christmas choir that performed carols in the ship's lobby. Eggnog flowed liberally. There was even a midnight mass.
St. Nick of course appeared with gifts on Christmas Day, much to the delight of the few dozen children onboard.
Passengers found their own ways to celebrate. One couple from Chicago came onboard with their own artificial tree and favorite ornaments to decorate their penthouse suite. They picked up additional ornaments at each port.
On New Year's Eve, we danced at midnight on the upper deck under warm Caribbean skies as complimentary champagne flowed liberally – a perfect way to start the new year.
--Fran Golden is the Experience Cruise expert blogger and a contributing editor of Porthole Magazine. She is the co-author of Frommer's Alaska Cruises and Ports of Call.


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Here is a flier summarizing the problems with desalination, and three alternatives to desalination. To download a printable version click here.
Santa Cruz Water Supply Advisory Committee meets
Mar 18th, 5pm; Mar 20th, 2pm. The meetings will be held at Peace United Church, 900 High St.
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Conference Board: Consumer Confidence Inches Up In August
Tuesday August 27th, 2013 - 11:41AM
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The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index increased slightly in August, the organization announced. The index had declined in July, it noted.
The Index now stands at 81.5 with 100 being a measure of a positive economic outlook. It gained from 81 in July.
The Present Situation Index decreased to 70.7 from 73.6. The Expectations Index increased to 88.7 from 86 last month.
Fewer consumers stated that business conditions are good, down to 18.4% from 20.8%, while the proportion of consumers that said business conditions are bad remained essentially unchanged at 24.8%, the Conference Board maintained. Consumer appraisal of the labor market was mixed, it added. Those claiming jobs are plentiful decreased to 11.4% from 12.3%, while those claiming jobs are hard to get declined to 33% from 35.2%.
The proportion of consumers expecting business conditions to improve over the next six months edged up to 20.1% from 19.9%. Those expecting business conditions to worsen declined slightly to 11.1% from 11.3%.
The figure for consumers anticipating more jobs in the months ahead increased to 17.6% from 16.7%, while those anticipating fewer jobs edged down to 17.3% from 17.7%. The proportion of consumers expecting an income increase improved to 17.4% from 15.7% while that anticipating a decrease declined slightly to 13.5% from 13.7%.
Lynn Franco, Conference Board director of economic indicators commented on the announcement, saying, "Consumer Confidence increased slightly in August, a result of improving short-term expectations. Consumers were moderately more upbeat about business, job and earning prospects. In fact, income expectations, which had declined sharply earlier this year with the payroll tax hike, have rebounded to their highest level in two and a half years. Consumers' assessment of current business and labor market conditions, on the other hand, was somewhat less favorable than last month."
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Embodiment and Epigenesis: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Understanding the Role of Biology within the Relational Developmental System
Part B, Ontogenetic Dimensions
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- Janette B. Benson, Morgridge College of Education and Department of Psychology, University of Denver, CO, USA
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including multiple trajectories in the developmental psychobiology of human handedness and the integration of culture and biology in human development.
Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students.
Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students.
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Table of Contents
Embodiment and Epigenesis: A View of the Issues
Richard M. Lerner and Janette B. Benson
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ShelterLogic 13 x 13 Royal Pavilion Gazebo CanopyItem # HN-NA303
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I live in a fairly windy area, but it's not like it's typhoons or something. During the summer, though, it can be windy. I put this up and within 3 days it was down, totally twisted from the wind. The fabric won't even stay on in normal wind without extra help. I had to use zip ties. So I wasted $200 and a lot of my time.
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برای دیگر کاربردها، جهاد (ابهامزدایی) را ببینید.
جِهاد یکی از مفاهیم دین اسلام است.
واژه «جهاد» از ریشه «ج-ه-د» به معنی کوشش و مبارزه و فعالیت است. جهاد برعکس آنچه که امروزه توسط سیاستمداران مطرح میشود تنها به معنی جنگ و خونریزی نیست. بلکه در اصل به معنی کوشش و مبارزه میتواند در عرصههای گوناگون باشد. جهاد، مصادیق دیگری چون جهاد اصغر، جهاد مالی و جهاد زبانی دارد. برخی از عبادات نیز همسنگ جهاد دانسته شدهاند. متصدی امر جهاد، حکومت دینی است.[۱] بزرگترین جهاد «جهاد با نفس» است که با نام (جهاد اکبر) شناخته میشود و تلاش در راه دفاع از دین اسلام یا گسترش قلمرو اسلام، جهاد کوچک (جهاد اصغر) نام دارد.
جهاد یکی از فروع دین و از واجبات اسلامی است. کلمهٔ جهاد حدود ۱۰۸ بار در قرآن آمدهاست.
انواع جهاد[ویرایش]
جهاد به صورت کلی به دو نوع جهاد دفاعی و جهاد ابتدایی تقسیم میگردد. جهاد دفاعی، جنگ و مبارزهای است که در صورت تجاوز دشمنی به حریم مسلمین واجب و لازم میگردد و آیات متعدد قرآن به آن دستور دارد. جهاد ابتدایی، جهادی است که مسلمانان ابتداءاً به جنگ وارد میشوند، بدون اینکه طرف مقابل ابتدا جنگ را آغاز کرده باشد. بر خلاف فقهای سیاسی یا جهادگرا همچون روح الله خمینی , علی خامنه ای و اصولاً اندیشه فقهی حکومت ایران و فقهای مایل به اسلامگرایی انقلابی، فقهای سنتی و غیر ایدئولوژیک جهاد ابتدایی را تنها در زمان پیامبر یا امام معصوم ممکن میدانند و انجام آن را بدون اجازه معصوم خطا میدانند. برخی اندیشمندان اسلامی مثل سیدمصطفی محقق داماد جهاد را در اسلام حتی در زمان امام معصوم تنها محدود به جهاد دفاعی میدانند.[۲] محقق خوئی با اینکه مسئلهی ولایت فقیه را از نظر علمی قبول ندارند، اما یک فتوای منحصری دارند که میفرمایند: جهاد ابتدایی نه تنها در اسلام مشروع و واجب است و نیازی به اذن معصوم ندارد، حتّی بالاتر، نیازی به اذن فقیه نیز ندارد، یعنی اگر در یک زمانی، عموم مؤمنین دیدند، شرایط جهاد ابتدایی هست، باید انجام بدهند، درس خارج فقه شیخ محمدجواد فاضل لنکرانی- جهاد ابتدایی جلسه هشتم
اهداف جهاد[ویرایش]
به دیدگاه مسلمانان جهاد اسلامی دارای اهداف مقدسی مانند براندازی شرک و کفر، مبارزه با تبهکاران و گمراهان، پاسداری از نظام اسلامی و دفاع از مرزها است و از نگر ایشان این اهداف موجب برتری این نوع جنگ نسبت به دیگر جنگها میشود.
غرب و مسألهٔ جهاد[ویرایش]
«استیون ورتووک» یکی از جامعه شناسان غربی دربارهٔ رویکرد رسانهها نسبت به اسلام میگوید: «از پایان دهه ۱۹۷۰، مسلمانان همواره در عملیات خرابکارانه و تروریستی در نقاط مختلف جهان، به عنوان یک گروه هدف قرار گرفتهاند ... در ۱۷ ژانویه سال ۱۹۹۱، عنوان پرفروشترین روزنامة ایتالیا- کوریر دلامرا- چنین بود: "ترس بازشدن جبهة دومی در میان جهان مسلمان، به نام جهاد اسلامی" این دیدگاه، با عناوینی مانند"خطر تروریسم، وضعیت قرمز!"، "نقشهای برای جبهة داخلی" و یا "اعلام خطر! تروریسم گسترش مییابد" ادامه یافت ... ایدهٔ "تروریست عرب مسلمان"، مدام تولید میشد؛ زیرا از آن دسته اخباری بود که مردم دوست داشتند بشنوند و در ضمن، افکار عمومی را علیه اعراب مهاجر، تقویت میکرد».[۳]
«دن کوئل» از معاونین سابق دولت آمریکا بنیادگرایی اسلامی را یک خطر جهانی و جایگزین کمونیسم مطرح ساخت.[۴] از سوی دیگر، ویلی گلاس دبیر کل سازمان ناتو نیز در یک کنفرانس امنیتی در آلمان، اعلام کرد که بنیادگراییِ اسلامی اکنون برای سازمان پیمان آتلانتیک شمالی به اندازهٔ خطر کمونیسم در گذشته، تهدید آمیز است.[۵]
جهاد در منظر قرآن[ویرایش]
در قرآن آیاتی بسیار دربارهٔ عظمت و جایگاه رفیع جهاد در میان عبادات به چشم میخورد که به برخی از آنها اشاره میکنیم:
جهاد در روایات[ویرایش]
روایاتی بسیار در عظمت و اهمیت جهاد در راه خدا نقل شدهاست که به عنوان نمونه به چند روایت بسنده میکنیم: ابوذر غفاری از محمد پرسیدهاست:
جستارهای وابسته[ویرایش]
For other uses, see Jihad (disambiguation).
Jihad (English pronunciation: /dʒɪˈhɑːd/; Arabic: جهاد jihād [dʒiˈhæːd]) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to maintain the religion. In Arabic, the word jihād is a noun meaning "to strive, to apply oneself, to struggle, to persevere."[1] A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid, the plural of which is mujahideen (مجاهدين). The word jihad appears frequently in the Quran,[2] often in the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of God (al-jihad fi sabil Allah)", to refer to the act of striving to serve the purposes of God on this earth.[1][3][4][5]
Muslims and scholars do not all agree on its definition. Many observers—both Muslim[6] and non-Muslim[7]—as well as the Dictionary of Islam,[3] talk of jihad having two meanings: an inner spiritual struggle (the "greater jihad"), and an outer physical struggle against the enemies of Islam (the "lesser jihad")[3][8] which may take a violent or non-violent form.[1][9] Jihad is often translated as "Holy War",[10][11][12] although this term is controversial.[13][14] According to Orientalist Bernard Lewis, "the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists", and specialists in the hadith "understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense."[15] Javed Ahmad Ghamidi states that there is consensus among Islamic scholars that the concept of jihad will always include armed struggle against wrong doers.[16]
It was generally supposed that the order for a general war could only be given by the Caliph (an office that was claimed by the Ottoman sultans), but Muslims who did not acknowledge the spiritual authority of the Caliphate (which has been vacant since 1923)—such as non-Sunnis and non-Ottoman Muslim states—always looked to their own rulers for the proclamation of a jihad. There has been in fact no universal warfare by Muslims on non-believers since the early caliphate. Some proclaimed jihad by claiming themselves as mahdi, e.g. the Sudanese Mahommed Ahmad in 1882.[17] In classical Islam, the military form of jihad was also regulated to protect civilians.[18]
Jihad is an important religious duty for Muslims. A minority among the Sunni scholars sometimes refer to this duty as the sixth pillar of Islam, though it occupies no such official status.[19] In Twelver Shi'a Islam, however, jihad is one of the ten Practices of the Religion.[20]
Main article: List of battles of Muhammad
In Modern Standard Arabic, the term jihad is used for a struggle for causes, both religious and secular. The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic defines the term as "fight, battle; jihad, holy war (against the infidels, as a religious duty)".[21] Nonetheless, it is usually used in the religious sense and its beginnings are traced back to the Qur'an and words and actions of Muhammad.[22][23] In the Qur'an and in later Muslim usage, jihad is commonly followed by the expression fi sabil illah, "in the path of God."[24] It is sometimes used without religious connotation, with a meaning similar to the English word "crusade" (as in "a crusade against drugs").[25]
Quranic use and Arabic forms
The word jihad (or variations based on its root -- the letters J,H,D) appear 164 times in the Quran according to one count.[26]
According to Jonathon Berkey, jihad in the Quran was originally intended for the nearby neighbors of the Muslims, but as time passed and more enemies arose, the Quranic statements supporting jihad were updated for the new adversaries.[23] This encourages the use of jihad against non-Muslims.[23][not specific enough to verify]
The context of the Quran is elucidated by Hadith (the teachings, deeds and sayings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad). Of the 199 references to jihad in perhaps the most standard collection of hadith—Bukhari—all assume that jihad means warfare.[27]
Among reported saying of the Islamic prophet Muhammad involving jihad are
Ibn Nuhaas also cited a hadith from Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, where Muhammad states that the highest kind of jihad, is "The person who is killed whilst spilling the last of his blood" (Ahmed 4/144).[31]
It has also been reported that Muhammad considered performing hajj to be the best jihad for Muslim women.[32]
History of usage and practice
The practice of periodic raids by Bedouin against enemy tribes and settlements to collect booty predates the revelations of the Quran, and according to some scholars, while Islamic leaders "instilled into the hearts of the warriors the belief" in jihad "holy war" and ghaza (raids), the "fundamental structure" of this bedouin warfare "remained, ... raiding to collect booty".[33]
"From an early date Muslim law laid down" jihad in the military sense as "one of the principal obligations" of both "the head of the Muslim state", who declared the jihad, and the Muslim community.[34] Within classical Islamic jurisprudence – the development of which is to be dated into the first few centuries after the prophet's death[35] – jihad is the only form of warfare permissible under Islamic law, and may consist in wars against unbelievers, apostates.[36] (Rebels and bandits may be fought also but not in jihad.[37]) According to another source (Sadakat Kadri) Islamic jurists first developed classical doctrine of jihad "towards the end of the eighth century", using the doctrine of naskh (that God gradually improved His revelations over the course of the Prophet Muhammed's mission) they subordinated verses in the Quran emphasizing harmony to more the more "confrontational" verses of Muhammad's later years and linked verses on exertion (jihad) to those of fighting (qital).[38] They also developed the theory that following the conquest of Mecca by Muhammad and the early Muslims, the world had become divided into Dar al-Islam (Abode of Islam) and Dar al-Harb (the Abode of War), and that these two realms would be separated in a state of hostility until the hour of judgement or until Dar al-Harb was conquered. The duty of Jihad was a collective one (fard al-kifaya). It was to be directed only by the caliph who might delayed it when convenient, negotiating truces for up to ten years at a time.[38]
The primary aim of jihad as warfare is not the conversion of non-Muslims to Islam by force, but rather the expansion and defense of the Islamic state.[39][40] In theory, jihad was to continue until "all mankind either embraced Islam or submitted to the authority of the Muslim state." There could be truces before this was achieved, but no permanent peace.[34] One who died 'on the path of God' was a martyr, (Shahid), whose sins were remitted and who was secured "immediate entry to paradise."[41] (However, some argue martyrdom is never automatic because it is within God's exclusive province to judge who is worthy of that designation.[42])
Classical manuals of Islamic jurisprudence often contain a section called Book of Jihad, with rules governing the conduct of war covered at great length. Such rules include treatment of nonbelligerents, women, children (also cultivated or residential areas)[43][44] Such rules offered some protection for civilians.[18] Although some Islamic scholars have differed on the implementation of Jihad, there is consensus amongst them that the concept of jihad will always include armed struggle against persecution and oppression.[16] The first documentation of the law of jihad was written by 'Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani. (It grew out of debates that surfaced following Muhammad's death.[22])
Early Muslim conquests
Main article: Muslim conquests
In the early era that inspired classical Islam (Rashidun Caliphate) and lasted less than a century, jihad spread the realm of Islam to include millions of subjects, and an area extending "from the borders of India and China to the Pyrenees and the Atlantic".[45] The two empires impeding the advance of Islam were the Persian Sassanian empire and the Byzantine empire. By 657 the Persian empire was conquered and by 661 the Byzantine empire was reduced to a fraction of its former size.
The role of religion in these early conquests is debated. Medieval Arabic authors believed the conquests were commanded by God, and presented them as orderly and disciplined, under the command of the caliph.[46] Many modern historians question whether hunger and desertification, rather than jihad, was a motivating force in the conquests. Some recent explanations cite both material and religious causes in the conquests.[47]
Post-Classical usage
According to a number of authors, the more spiritual definitions of jihad developed sometime after the 150 years of Muslim jihad wars and territorial expansion, and particularly after the Mongol invaders sacked Baghdad and overthrew the Abassid Caliphate.[48] According to diplomat/scholar Dore Gold, at beginning of the ninth century, "Muslim theologians broadened the meaning of jihad, de-emphasizing armed struggle and, under the influence of Sufism, adopting more spiritual definitions. ... the Islamic mainstream had shifted away from this focus on the religious requirement of a universal campaign of jihad. Consequently, the meaning of shahid changed as well. Whereas the term had originally applied to one who gave his life in battle, a scholar or someone who led Muslim prayers could now be compared to a shahid when his day of judgement arrived." [49]
Historian Hamilton Gibb noted that "in the historic [Muslim] Community the concept of jihad had gradually weakened and at length been largely reinterpreted in terms of Sufi ethics."[50]
Islamic scholar Rudolph Peters also wrote that with the stagnation of Islamic expansionism, the concept of jihad became internalized as a moral or spiritual struggle.[51] Earlier classical works on fiqh emphasized jihad as war for God's religion, Peters found. Later Muslims (in this case modernists such as Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida) emphasized the defensive aspect of jihad—which was similar to the Western concept of a "just war".[39] Today, some Muslim authors only recognize wars with the aim of territorial defense as well as the defense of religious freedom as legitimate.[52]
Bernard Lewis states that while most Islamic theologians in the classical period (750–1258 C.E.) understood jihad to be a military endeavor,[53] after Islamic conquest stagnated and the caliphate broke up into smaller states the "irresistible and permanent jihad came to an end". As jihad became unfeasible it was "postponed from historic to messianic time."[54] Even when the Ottoman Empire carried on a new holy war of expansion in the seventeenth century, "the war was not universally pursued". They made no attempt to recover Spain or Sicily. The major imperial Muslim dynasties of Ottoman Turkey (1299–1923) (Sunni) and Persian Safavid (1501–1736) (Shia) dynasty often used the term ghaza (a sister obligation to jihad[citation needed]) to refer to military campaigns against Byzantium or each other, the enemy being giaurs or heretics.[55]
When the Ottoman Caliph called for a "Great Jihad" by all Muslims against Allied powers during World War I, there were hopes and fears that non-Turkish Muslims would side with Ottoman Turkey, but but the appeal did not "united the Muslim world",[23][54] and Muslims did not turn on their non-Muslim commanders in the Allied forces.[56] (The war led to the end of the caliphate as the Ottoman empire entered on the side of the war's losers and surrendered by agreeing to "viciously punitive" conditions. These were overturned by the popular war hero Mustafa Kemal, who was also a secularist and later abolished the caliphate. [57])
Contemporary Fundamentalist usage
With the Islamic revival, a new "Fundamentalist" movement arose, with some different interpretations of Islam, often with an increased emphasis on jihad. The Wahhabi movement which spread across the Arabian peninsula starting in the 18th century, emphasized jihad as armed struggle.[58] Wars against Western colonial forces were often declared jihad: the Sanusi religious order proclaimed it against Italians in Libya in 1912, and the "Mahdi" in the Sudan declared jihad against the British and the Egyptians in 1881.[41]
Other early anti-colonial conflicts involving jihad include:
The so-called Fulbe jihad states and a few other jihad states in western Africa were established by a series of offensive wars in the 19th century.[59] None of these jihad movements were victorious.[60] The most powerful, the Sokoto Caliphate, lasted about a century until the British defeated it in 1903.
Early Islamism
In the twentieth century, one of the first Islamist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood emphasized physical struggle and martyrdom in its credo: "God is our objective; the Quran is our constitution; the Prophet is our leader; struggle (jihad) is our way; and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations."[61][62] In a tract "On Jihad", founder Hasan al-Banna warned readers against "the widespread belief among many Muslims" that struggles of the heart were more demanding than struggles with a sword, and called on Egyptians to prepare for jihad against the British,[63] (making him the first influential scholar since the 1857 India uprising to call for jihad of the sword). [64] The group called for jihad against the new Jewish state of Israel in the 1940s,[65][66] and its Palestinian branch, Hamas, called for jihad against Israel when the First Intifada started.[67][68] [69] In 2012, its General Guide (leader) in Egypt, Mohammed Badie also declared jihad "to save Jerusalem from the usurpers and to [liberate] Palestine from the claws of occupation ... a personal duty for all Muslims." Muslims "must participate in jihad by [donating] money or [sacrificing] their life ..."[70][71] Many other figures prominent in Global jihad started in the Muslim Brotherhood[72] -- Abdullah Azzam, bin-Laden's mentor, started in the Muslim Brotherhood of Jordan; Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin-Laden's deputy, joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood at the age of 14;[73] and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who planned the 9/11 attack, claims to have joined the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood at age 16.[74] The Brotherhood supports statements such as those of Yusuf al-Qaradawi—a prominent cleric with a long association with the Brotherhood—that "it is dangerous and wrong to misunderstand jihad, to shed inviolate blood in its name, to violate property and lives and to taint Muslims and Islam with violence and terrorism, ..." But when asked by an interviewer, "On the subject of resistance and jihad—do you consider Bin Laden to be a terrorist or a jihad fighter?", it's Supreme Guide replied, "Without a shadow of a doubt—a jihad fighter."[75]
According to Rudolph Peters and Natana J. DeLong-Bas, the new "fundamentalist" movement brought a reinterpretation of Islam and their own writings on jihad. These writings tended to be less interested and involved with legal arguments, what the different of schools of Islamic law had to say, or in solutions for all potential situations. "They emphasize more the moral justifications and the underlying ethical values of the rules, than the detailed elaboration of those rules." They also tended to ignore the distinction between Greater and Lesser jihad because it distracted Muslims "from the development of the combative spirit they believe is required to rid the Islamic world of Western influences".[76][77] Dore Gold writes that while previously "jihad could be declared only by an authoritative leader for all Muslms, such as a new caliph for Sunni Islam. ... putting jihad off into the distant future ...," fundamentalist Wahhabi cleric Bin Baz taught that military jihad was needed to open the door for da'wa (the spreading of Islam by conversion).[78] Muslim Brother Abdullah Azzam also taught that an Amir of jihad was not necessary for jihad.[79]
Contemporary fundamentalists were often influenced by jurist Ibn Taymiyya's, and journalist Sayyid Qutb's, ideas on jihad. Ibn Taymiyya hallmark themes included
Ibn Taymiyya recognized "the possibility of a jihad against `heretical` and `deviant` Muslims within dar al-Islam. He identified as heretical and deviant Muslims anyone who propagated innovations (bida') contrary to the Quran and Sunna ... legitimated jihad against anyone who refused to abide by Islamic law or revolted against the true Muslim authorities." He used a very "broad definition" of what constituted aggression or rebellion against Muslims, which would make jihad "not only permissible but necessary."[81] Ibn Taymiyya also paid careful and lengthy attention to the questions of martyrdom and the benefits of jihad: 'It is in jihad that one can live and die in ultimate happiness, both in this world and in the Hereafter. Abandoning it means losing entirely or partially both kinds of happiness.`[82]
The highly influential Muslim Brotherhood leader, Sayyid Qutb, preached in his book Milestones that jihad, `is not a temporary phase but a permanent war ... Jihad for freedom cannot cease until the Satanic forces are put to an end and the religion is purified for God in toto.`[83][84] Like Ibn Taymiyya, Qutb focused on martyrdom and jihad, but he added the theme of the treachery and enmity towards Islam of Christians and especially Jews. If non-Muslims were waging a "war against Islam", jihad against them was not offensive but defensive. He also insisted that Christians and Jews were mushrikeen (not monotheists) because (he alleged) gave their priests or rabbis "authority to make laws, obeying laws which were made by them [and] not permitted by God" and "obedience to laws and judgments is a sort of worship"[85][86]
Also influential was Egyptian Muhammad abd-al-Salam Faraj, who wrote the pamphlet Al-Farida al-gha'iba (Jihad, the Neglected Duty). While Qutb felt that jihad was a proclamation of "liberation for humanity", Farag stressed that jihad would enable Muslims to rule the world and to reestablish the caliphate.[87] He emphasized the importance of fighting the "near enemy"—Muslim rulers he believed to be apostates, such as the president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, whom his group assassinated—rather than the traditional enemy, Israel. Faraj believed that if Muslims followed their duty and waged jihad, ultimately supernatural divine intervention would provide the victory:[88]
Faraj included deceiving the enemy, lying to him, attacking by night (even if it leads to accidentally killing innocents), and felling and burning trees of the infidel, as Islamically legitimate methods of fighting.[89][90] Although Faraj was executed in 1982 for his part in the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, his pamphlet and ideas were highly influential, at least among Egyptian Islamist extremist groups.[91] (In 1993, for example, 1106 persons were killed or wounded in terror attacks in Egypt. More police (120) than terrorists (111) were killed that year and "several senior police officials and their bodyguards were shot dead in daylight ambushes."[92]) Ayman al-Zawahiri, later the #2 person in Al-Qaeda, was Faraj's friend and followed his strategy of targeting the "near enemy" for many years.[93]
Abdullah Azzam
In the 1980s the Muslim Brotherhood cleric Abdullah Azzam, sometimes called "the father of the modern global jihad",[94] opened the possibility of successfully waging jihad against unbelievers in the here and now. Azzam issued a fatwa calling for jihad against the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan, declaring it an individual obligation for all able bodied Muslims because it was a defensive jihad to repel invaders. His fatwa was endorsed by a number of clerics including leading Saudi clerics such as Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz.
Azzam claimed that "anyone who looks into the state of Muslims today will find that their great misfortune is their abandonment of Jihad", and warned that "without Jihad, shirk (joining partners with Allah) will spread and become dominant".[95][96] Jihad was so important that to "repel" the unbelievers was "the most important obligation after Iman [faith]"[96][97]
Azzam also argued for a broader interpretation of who it was permissible to kill in jihad, an interpretation that some think may have influenced some of his students, including Osama bin Laden.[98]
An charismatic speaker, Azzam traveled to dozens of cities in Europe and North American to encourage support for jihad in Afghanistan. He inspired young Muslims with stories of miraculous deeds during jihad—mujahideen who defeated vast columns of Soviet troops virtually single-handed, who had been run over by tanks but survived, who were shot but unscathed by bullets. Angels were witnessed riding into battle on horseback, and falling bombs were intercepted by birds, which raced ahead of the jets to form a protective canopy over the warriors.[99] In Afghanistan he set up a "services office" for foreign fighters and with support from his former student Osama bin Laden and Saudi charities, foreign mujahideed or would-be mujahideen were provided for. Between 1982 and 1992 an estimated 35,000 individual Muslim volunteers went to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets and their Afghan regime. Thousands more attended frontier schools teeming with former and future fighters.[100] Saudi Arabia and the other conservative Gulf monarchies also provided considerable financial support to the jihad—$600 million a year by 1982.[101]
Azzam saw Afghanistan as the beginning of jihad to repel unbelievers from many countries—the southern Soviet Republics of Central Asia, Bosnia, the Philippines, Kashmir, Somalia, Eritrea, Spain, and especially his home country of Palestine.[102] The defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan is said to have "amplified the jihadist tendency from a fringe phenomenon to a major force in the Muslim world.[100]
Having tasted victory in Afghanistan, many of the thousands of fighters returned to their home country such as Egypt, Algeria, Kashmir or to places like Bosnia to continue jihad. Not all the former fighters agreed with Azzam's chioice of targets (Azzam was assassinated in November 1989) but former Afghan fighters led or participated in serious insurgencies in Egypt, Algeria, Kashmir, Somalia in the 1990s and later creating a "transnational jihadist stream."[103]
In February 1998, Osama bin Laden put a "Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders" in the Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper.[104] On September 11, 2001, Four passenger planes were hijacked in the United States and crashed, destroying the World Trade Center and damaging the Pentagon.
In Shia Islam, Jihad is one of the ten Practices of the Religion,[20] (though not one of the five pillars). Traditionally, Twelver Shi'a doctrine has differed from that of Sunni on the concept of jihad, with jihad being "seen as a lesser priority" in Shia theology and "armed activism" by Shia being "limited to a person's immediate geography".[105]
According to a number of sources, Shia doctrine taught that jihad (or at least full scale jihad[106]) can only be carried out under the leadership of the Imam,[107] (who will return from occultation to bring absolute justice to the world).[41] However, "struggles to defend Islam" are permissible before his return.[106]
At least one important contemporary Shia figure, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian Revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, wrote a treatise on the "Greater Jihad" (i.e., internal/personal struggle against sin).[108]
Jihad has been used by Shia Islamists in the 20th Century: Ruhollah Khomeini declared jihad on Iraq in the Iran–Iraq War, and the Shia bombers of Western embassies and peacekeeping troops in Lebanon called themselves, "Islamic Jihad". Nonetheless it has not had the high profile or global significance it had among Sunni Islamists.[105] (The Afghan jihad for example was led and populated by Sunni Muslims.)
According to The National, this changed with the Syrian Civil War, where, "for the first time in the history of Shia Islam, adherents are seeping into another country to fight in a holy war to defend their doctrine."[105] Thus, Shia and Sunni fighters are waging jihad against each other in Syria.
Current usage
See also: Opinion of Islamic scholars on Jihad
The term 'jihad' has accrued both violent and non-violent meanings. According to John Esposito, it can simply mean striving to live a moral and virtuous life, spreading and defending Islam as well as fighting injustice and oppression, among other things.[109] The relative importance of these two forms of jihad is a matter of controversy.
According to scholar of Islam and Islamic history Rudoph Peters, in the contemporary Muslim world,
Muslim public opinion
A poll by Gallup showed that a "significant majority" of Muslim Indonesians define the term to mean "sacrificing one's life for the sake of Islam/God/a just cause" or "fighting against the opponents of Islam". In Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, and Morocco, the majority used the term to mean "duty toward God", a "divine duty", or a "worship of God", with no militaristic connotations.[110] The terminology is also applied to the fight for women's liberation.[111] Other responses referenced, in descending order of prevalence:
Distinction of "greater" and "lesser" jihad
In his work, The History of Baghdad, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, an 11th-century Islamic scholar, referenced a statement by the companion of Muhammad Jabir ibn Abd-Allah. The reference stated that Jabir said, "We have returned from the lesser jihad (al-jihad al-asghar) to the greater jihad (al-jihad al-akbar)." When asked, "What is the greater jihad?," he replied, "It is the struggle against oneself."[113][114][115] This reference gave rise to the distinguishing of two forms of jihad: "greater" and "lesser".[113]
The hadith does not appear in any of the authoritative collections, and according to the Muslim Jurist Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, the source of the quote is unreliable:
Abdullah Azzam attacked it as "a false, fabricated hadith which has no basis. It is only a saying of Ibrahim Ibn Abi `Abalah, one of the Successors, and it contradicts textual evidence and reality."[117]
Nonetheless, the concept has had "enormous influence" in Islamic mysticism (Sufism).[115] Other observers have endorsed it [118][119] including Al-Ghazali.[120]
Hanbali scholar Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya believed that "internal Jihad" is important[121] but suggests those hadith which consider "Jihad of the heart/soul" to be more important than "Jihad by the sword", are weak.[122]
Muslim scholar Mahmoud Ayoub states that "The goal of true jihad is to attain a harmony between islam (submission), iman (faith), and ihsan (righteous living)."[123]
In modern times, Pakistani scholar and professor Fazlur Rahman Malik has used the term to describe the struggle to establish "just moral-social order",[124] while President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia has used it to describe the struggle for economic development in that country.[125]
According to the BBC, a third meaning of jihad is the struggle to build a good society.[8] In a commentary of the hadith Sahih Muslim, entitled al-Minhaj, the medieval Islamic scholar Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi stated that "one of the collective duties of the community as a whole (fard kifaya) is to lodge a valid protest, to solve problems of religion, to have knowledge of Divine Law, to command what is right and forbid wrong conduct".[126]
Majid Khadduri lists four kinds of jihad fi sabilillah (struggle in the cause of God):[127]
Scholar Natana J. Delong-Bas lists a number of types of "jihad" that have been proposed by Muslims
Other "types" mentioned include
Warfare (Jihad bil Saif)
Further information: Mujahideen, Jihadism and Jihad fi sabil Allah
In the late 20th and early 21st century, many militant groups include the term "jihad" in their names
Some conflict fought as jihad since the 1980s include:
Whether the Quran sanctions defensive warfare only or commands an all out war against non-Muslims depends on the interpretation of the relevant passages.[138] This is because it does not explicitly state the aims of the war Muslims are obliged to wage; the passages concerning jihad rather aim at promoting fighters for the Islamic cause and do not discuss military ethics.[139]
Controversy has arisen over whether the usage of the term jihad without further explanation refers to military combat, and whether some have used confusion over the definition of the term to their advantage.[140]
Middle East historian Bernard Lewis argues that "the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists (specialists in the hadith) understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense."[141] Furthermore, Lewis maintains that for most of the recorded history of Islam, from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad onward, the word jihad was used in a primarily military sense.[142]
According to David Cook, author of Understanding Jihad
Cook argued that "Presentations along these lines are ideological in tone and should be discounted for their bias and deliberate ignorance of the subject" and that it "is no longer acceptable for Western scholars or Muslim apologists writing in non-Muslim languages to make flat, unsupported statements concerning the prevalence – either from a historical point of view or within contemporary Islam – of the spiritual jihad."[145]
According to Lewis, "jihad" in the Quran "has usually been understood as meaning 'to wage war'". Historian Douglas Streusand writes that "in hadith collections, jihad means armed action". In what is probably the most standard collection of hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari, "the 199 references to jihad all assume that jihad means warfare."[146][147]
Views of other groups
Main article: Ahmadiyya view on Jihad
In Ahmadiyya Islam, jihad is primarily one's personal inner struggle and should not be used violently for political motives. Violence is the last option only to be used to protect religion and one's own life in extreme situations of persecution.[148]
Quranists do not believe that the word jihad means holy war. They believe it means to struggle, or to strive. They believe it can incorporate both military and non-military aspects. When it refers to the military aspect, it is understood primarily as defensive warfare.[149][150]
The Sufic view classifies "Jihad" into two parts: the "Greater Jihad" and the "Lesser Jihad". Muhammad put the emphasis on the "Greater Jihad" by saying, "Holy is the warrior who is at war with himself".[citation needed] In this sense external wars and strife are seen as but a satanic counterfeit of the true "jihad", which can only be fought and won within. There is no salvation for man without his own efforts being added to the work of self-refinement. In this sense it is the western view of the Holy Grail which comes closest to the Sufic ideal, for to the Sufis, perfection is the Grail, and the Holy Grail is for those who, after they become perfect by giving all they have to the poor then go on to become "Abdal" or "changed ones" like Enoch, who was "taken" by God because he "walked with God" (Genesis:5:24). Here the "Holy Ones" gain the surname "Hadrat" or "The Presence".
The Bahá'ís believe that the law of Jihad has been blotted out from the scriptures.[151]
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A US drone firing missiles into a village in northern Pakistan killed at least 19 people over the weekend. The targets were militants, said the US military. The victims included six dead children, said a local tribal elder.
"Suspected US drone kills Suspected Taliban Commander." That's becoming the stuff of very suspect news stories. The reporting is so weak there's almost nothing confirmed except that the killer operator is far away in front of a computer screen.
Suspected killing of suspected people covered by unsuspicious media? It would be sci-fi if it weren't so here-now, and it's only going to get more so.
The Democratic administration just made a big deal of cutting the cumbersome F-22 fighter jet. "We don't need it any more," said the President. What he didn't say is that the defense department is seeking $3.5 billion for unmanned aerial vehicles a.k.a. "drones." Funding is expected to increase to $55 billion by 2020. The air force is currently training more drone operators than fighter and bomber pilots.
Drones have been around since the US-led NATO war on the former Yugoslavia. Since '06, drones have launched hundred of missiles along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border killing as many as 700 civilians according to Pakistani officials.
Forbes magazine's "king of the armed drone makers" is a little known company called General Atomics whose founder James Neal Blue came up with the drone as a way of defeating Soviet-backed Sandinistas by blowing up oil pipelines in Nicaragua. He's a fervent anti-communist and quite possibly the next Erik Prince -- only his mercenaries aren't Blackwater's flesh and blood killers, but conveniently bloodless machines.
General Atomics is small by defense industry standards, but it has a lot of friends in Washington. Between 2000 and 2005, GA was the top corporate sponsor of privately funded congressional travel. So perhaps it's no surprise, there's little resistance to more drones in the US arsenal.
Drones are not cheap -- between $10 million and $12 million apiece per GA "Reaper." Their success rate is widely disputed. They kill civilians and even General David Petraeus admits, they make people hate us. But cynical political calculus is on General Atomics' side.
President Obama has a problem. Every American military commander wants more troops, but resistance among foot soldiers is growing and maybe, someday - someday - the president's anti-war base will make itself heard.
How to heed the commanders and quiet the critics simultaneously? Welcome to the super drone bonanza. The pilotless drone is the military's version of cash for very clunky policy.
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There are days when one's reminded why one works in independent media. August 1st was one of those days, when the New York Times ran a front page media story that might as well have been headlined: GE and Fox Hush Hosts For Profits.
In a nutshell, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Bill O'Reilly of Fox have been going at it. For months, Olbermann's called the Fox host out for his lies and smears, regularly dubbing him "Worst Person in the World," while O'Reilly's raised questions about MSNBC's corporate owners, General Electric.
The on-air feud was good for ratings. It wasn't even bad journalism, for these kind of programs. Olbermann held Fox's O'Reilly to account for dubbing Dr. George Tiller "baby killer" in the run up to Tiller's assassination. O'Reilly sent a producer to a GE shareholder's meeting to raise questions about company business in Iran.
The feud wasn't bad for ratings, but it was perceived as a potential threat to other corporate interests. And so it was that some time this May, the chairman of General Electric (which owns MSNBC), and Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation (which owns Fox News), were brought into a "summit meeting" for CEOs where Charlie Rose played peacemaker.
Said one General Electric employee quoted by the Times, calling the two into line meant, "Fewer headaches on the corporate side."
The sniping's stopped. There's been virtually none of it since the deal took effect on June 1. When Glenn Beck called the President a racist, for example, commentators criticized Beck, but they obediently avoided going after the network that pays him.
It's just another reminder why we don't see stinging reporting, say, of General Electric's investment in the weapons trade, or the healthcare business, or News Corp's dealings with the Chinese government.
Posing divided, united they stand. In the all-about profits media business, ideological rifts are fine for the purposes of gaining notoriety and building audience. Stir things up and deepen divisions among parties, politicians, workers, little people. But go after business interests -- and that's another story. Then, the same media moguls who profit off our social divides sing corporate Kumbaya when their profits are in peril.
Making independent media's tough. It's hard to fund and it's tempting to think there must be a better way. Wouldn't it be easier if some corporation paid the bills?
Not exactly.
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The National Council of La Raza, a top Latino civil rights group, is taking a shot at RNC chair Michael Steele and several prominent GOP figures for skipping its ongoing annual conference while Democrats are basking in the contrast. Having nominated the first Latina to the Supreme Court and sending no end of speakers to the La Raza conference, they're in like Flynn with Latino voters, they hope.
But things are not so simple. The day after the La Raza affair there was another gathering in NY, to which Latinos came out. That was to protest at the Council on Foreign Relations -- where Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano was talking up the Administration's anti-terror policy.
A slew of human rights and immigrant-rights organizations, including many Latinos, called the protest because -- for all the nice talk -- the administration's immigration policy has actually put more, not less power in the hands of law enforcement and done little so far to stop abusive raids and deadly detention practises.
Armed federal immigration agents are still illegally pushing and shoving their way into homes and taking people away, breaking up families, on suspicion and Latinos are getting the lion's share of the grief. The Cardozo school of law reports there have been hundreds of predawn raids in just two states (New York and New Jersey) in violation of agency rules as well as the Constitution. And that's not just happening under the big bad Bush crackers-down. It's happening under Napolitano and Obama.
The demonstration by the immigration groups outside the Council in New York is a wake up call. Obama allies and voters, like many of those gathered outside Wednesday, aren't happy.
A Latina on the Supreme Court's great. And a love fest at La Raza's lovely. But just as in the case of the wrongful-arrest of Harvard Professor Skip Gates, a beer in the White House is no fix for what ails us.
There's still a problem of inequality and discrimination in America and it isn't solvable by improving our personal (or political) relations. At the end of the day policy -- like policy governing policing and immigration -- is where the action needs to be. If Obama and the Dems are going to applaud themselves for "being on the right side of history" they need to back up their words with real work.
Again, beer and a chat is nice. But ensuring equal protection is better. ICE and police who abuse power need to be reined in at once.
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Told to make more loans, TARP banks made fewer, gambled on the stock market and bought other banks. Will we "tell" them to go to their rooms? Or at least cut their allowance?
Just a few months ago, the Treasury Department stress tested the banks. The result was a call for massive new capital infusion -- for them, from us.
Even then, academic studies were clear that the very same banks were making more than a buck. TARP recipients JP Morgan and Wells Fargo cut dividends to investors only once, and, well we all know what was happening at Goldman. They were on track -- boy, were they on track -- to super-profits.
Now there's news -- from special inspector general Neil Barofsky, the overseer of the TARP bailouts.
Of 360 banks that got money through the end of January -- Barofsky reports that 110 invested at least some of it in the stock market, 52 repaid bad debts they'd taken out, and 15 used our funds to buy up other banks. And that's not even counting the millions they spent lobbying against bankruptcy reform or credit card regulation.
To make things right Barofsky's calling on the Treasury Department to require regular, detailed reporting from TARP recipients. Just in case you forgot, so far, the Treasury has refused to collect such information. In a written response, Geithner et al are still against it. "Officials have taken the view that the exact use of the federal aid cannot be tracked because money given to a bank is like water poured into an ocean. "
Oh, really? Well, that's a little different from how TARP was sold to us.
Back last fall, Hank Paulson, a former Goldman CEO, who once owned $700 million worth of the company's stock, told taxpayers that if we gave to the banks, they'd give back to us --in jobs, and loans, and new businesses on Main Street. (Even though CitiGroup were stating publicly their intention to reduce, not grow, lending.)
Opponents of healthcare are all hot and bothered about $1 trillion -- that's $1 trillion over ten years for healthcare for everybody. Most estimates put the final cost of the TARP fiasco at twice that.
Would we have gone for that -- any of us -- if we'd been told it was to "pour money like water into an ocean?"
A very profitable, private ocean, at that. What do you think?
President Obama was elected with a large enough mandate for fundamental change that he could forge a fresh social compact, lock in place a new set of mutual obligations and rewrite the relationship between the state and the populace.
Sasha Abramsky's comments in his book Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It (which I'm paraphrasing there) would be striking enough on any day. The need for change is obvious. In 2008 the official poverty line stood at a shameful $10,590 for a single person and $21,203 for a family of four. And according to the Census 37 million Americans were living at or below those numbers. In 2008, 28.4 million Americans were receiving food stamps, a number that's risen 19 percent since today's recession started.
The need for change is obvious, and last November, the appetite for it became palpable. "President Barack Obama's election was an astounding transformative moment," writes Abramsky. "Tens of millions of voters, from the most liberal to the most conservative regions of the country, stood up and said no more to the divisive greed-driven policies and priorities of the recent past."
But then there's this, from today's news. Analysts report that the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, a major recipient of government cash, has earned a staggering $2 billion in the last three months. The bank's stock value has soared 68 percent and the Wall Street Journal predicts that it's on track to pay out as much as $20 billion this year, in compensation and benefits to its employees -- or about $700,000 per person.
As formerly homeless mom, Franceska Dillella told GRITtv today -- poor Americans, like those in her New York shelter, celebrated on election night. But well-connected Goldman didn't just get hugs or hope when they fell on hard times: Goldman received $13 billion from the Bush bailout of the failed insurance giant AIG and $28 billion more in low-interest loans -- plus insurance worth untold billions more -- thereafter. Now the bank's repaid that loan and bounced back: how? The Times says Goldman "Brilliantly" capitalized on chaos--making a fortune trading bonds and buying and selling volatile currencies in a shifting market, and making out from gambling on commodities like oil -- raising prices for everyone.
Back to Abramsky. In Breadline USA Sasha writes that if Obama rewrites the social contract and all the rest, he might be able contain the calamity of the 2008 economic collapse. "But if he fails that calamity will haunt the next several decades..."
What's more too big to fail: The banks or the country?
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Don't like the way the Wall Street bail-out turned out? It looks as if we're in for something similar regarding healthcare.
With popular fury at the status quo rising and hunger for a real, public option attracting over 70 percent approval in polls, the White House is urging public-option advocates to hush.
According to the Washington Post, in a pre-holiday call with half a dozen top House and Senate Democrats, Obama asked health care advocates to ratchet back their pressure for a public option. He's apparently concerned about advertisements and on-line campaigns targeting foot-dragging Democrats.
We've been here before. Back in the fall and spring, when popular fury at private bankers was soaring, Washington urged liberal lobbying groups to focus more on backing the White House plan and less on attacking bankers and banks.
What happened? Washington allowed Wall Street insiders, many of whom had overseen the breaking apart of the economy, to manage the so called recovery, putting most of what was rotten back in place. The re-distributions of wealth to the top continued, while civilian unemployment headed through the roof.
As Barney Frank told bankers back in February, "People really hate you, and they're starting to hate us because we're hanging out with you."
The health care debate is suffering from the same dynamic.
Specifically, on July 4, Obama said he is hoping left-leaning organizations will rally support for "advancing legislation" that fulfills his goal of expanding coverage. But the words public option were left out.
Pro-reform activists are pushing a public plan because it's popular, it's doable -- and it's at least a step closer to the only thing most actually think will work -- which is a totally public system.
Why are they pushing so hard? Well, consider what they're up against. Pulling against anything remotely public, is the biggest lobbying blitz Washington's ever seen. The Washington Post reports that private insurers, drug companies and their representatives spent more than $126 million on lobbying in the first quarter of this year. That's over $1.4 million a day.
And they've hired more than 350 former government staff members and retired members of Congress to do all that lobbying work.
When Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sat down with health-care lobbyists on June 10, two were his former chiefs of staff. Their aim: to minimize the "damage" in profits to insurers, hospitals and drug makers from any change in approach from government. Specifically, they oppose any even remotely public option, the details of which are right now up for debate.
Want to hush the activists? The real scandal, it seems to me, shouldn't be the thousands of dollars that on-line organizers are spending on advertising to the public and Congress. The real scandal should be the millions that private insurers and pharmaceutical firms are spending infiltrating the government.
If the public option lobbyists had the access Big Pharma's got, they might not need to buy all those ads. Besides -- $1.4 million a day. Imagine what real-life nurses could do with that!
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Michael Jackson. Dead at 50, with over 750 million albums sold. A genius, a freak, a trail blazer, a victim. Jackson's been called all that and more – sometimes in a single piece of prose.
People will be talking about Jackson, his music, performance style, but most of all perhaps his persona, for decades. But ironically, one of the most perceptive reflections on Jackson was penned not since he died on June 25, but years before. Circulating around the internet over these past few days, has been an essay by James Baldwin which originally appeared in Playboy in 1985.
It's not about Jackson, James Baldwin, wrote in the essay, originally titled "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood" (and later renamed "Here be Monsters.") Our culture's discomfort with those we consider "freaks" actually reveals something about ourselves.
"The Michael Jackson cacophony is fascinating in that it is not about Jackson at all," Baldwin wrote. "All that noise is about America, as the dishonest custodian of black life and wealth....the burning, buried American guilt; and sex and sexual roles and sexual panic; money, success and despair…"
Baldwin put his finger on it: we're provoked -- and call "unstable" those who actually destabilize us. While Jackson may have been struggling with his own demons, he powerfully stirred up ours.
"Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated–in the main, abominably" continued Baldwin, "Because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires."
Freaks, so-called, destablize notions we're more comfortable keeping fixed, and mess about with ideas we prefer to box in -- like ideas about identity, sexuality, race, and control. "Freaks" destabilize. They also release something, if we let them.
So thanks to Michael, and to freaks and transformers everywhere. On a good day, loosening up that previously fixed-space opens up room for change.
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While the Obama administration's getting serious about healthcare reform, it's time for a rather pointed reading comprehension test.
Consider the following story and find, if you can, the obvious problem:
The Swiss drug company Novartis will not give free vaccines against H1N1 flu to poor countries -- it will only consider discounts.
Novartis's refusal comes in the wake of a request from the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, who has called for drug companies to show solidarity with poor countries as they develop vaccines against the H1NI or "swine flu" pandemic.
Just by way of reminder, H1N1 has infected around 30,000 people globally, mostly in North America, though there have been a few deaths outside Mexico and the United States. Europe suffered its first death on Sunday. The first has just been reported in Argentina.
Help the poor prevent a pandemic? Novartis said 'No'. That's Novartis --makers of Exedrin and Bufferin -- I guess they haven't made enough off those over-the-counter best-sellers.
"If you want to make production sustainable, you have to create financial incentives," explained Novartis Chief Executive Daniel Vasella.
By "financial incentives" he means the 'p' word: profits.
Spot the flaw in the profit-driven approach to health care? Anyone?
Financial incentives?
When a pandemic isn't incentive enough -- I'd say we have another 'p' word -- a problem.
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President Obama said in Cairo this week that he sought a new beginning in US relations with the Muslim world, and a relationship based on common principles, including "principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."
Beautiful words, but deeds tend to speak louder and this week one spoke volumes. Just a few days before the president spoke, a US prisoner held for seven years without charge, killed himself rather than endure one more day at the US Detention center in Guantanamo.
Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al-Hanashi, whose death was announced Tuesday, was the fifth prisoner - and the second Yemeni - to die in an apparent suicide at the Guantanamo prison. Not charged with any crime, Saleh was 31 years old. Information is limited, but lawyers who visited in May said Saleh was one of seven being held in a psychiatric ward where he was restrained in a chair and force-fed through a tube the width of a finger. It's an excruciating process. The attorney of another striker described a tube being inserted by one guard while another holds the prisoner's chin and a third holds him back by his hair. "No anesthesia or sedative".
Pentagon medical records show Saleh weighed 124 pounds when he entered Guantanamo. A few years later he was down to just 87 pounds.
How a man in his shape might have managed to kill himself is hard to imagine. Why is far easier.
The vast majority of Yemenis in Guantanamo have never been charged -- and more than a dozen have been cleared for return. But only two have left in the past two years and talks with the Yemeni government are stalled.
Meanwhile, 17 Chinese Uighur Muslims prisoners some of whom the Bush administration cleared for release as early as 2003, continue to languish occupying an iconic place in Gitmo culture. Their release would give hope to the hopeless, say fellow prisoners' attorneys. They should never have been incarcerated. They could be released into the US tomorrow. It's going to take actions like that, Mr. President for those words, "Justice, progress, tolerance, and respect for the dignity of all human beings" on an American president's tongue might begin the long journey of actually gaining some meaning.
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OK, let's get this right: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is making the rounds of the Capitol this week and some jackasses are still saying she has to explain her "wise Latina" comment?
In a 2001 speech Sotomayor said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
It's been a week that the quote has been out there and, for just as long, the question's been waiting to be answered: A better conclusion about what subject?
Does Sotomayor believe that Latina judges are ipso facto smarter? That's what her right-wing critics want her much-mangled quote to mean. But smarter about what? The price of beans? The weather? What two and two add up to?
Not exactly. While the money-media have spent the week making the comment "controversial" (and then calling it that), the non-profit media watch group FAIR (where I once worked) looked at the transcript and they report (drum-roll):
"The topic under discussion was race and gender discrimination. Talking about judging such cases- Sotomayor argued that the experience of facing discrimination might lead to a better decision about discrimination and she pointed out: 'Let us not forget that until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case.'
On the moon maybe it's different – or in the privacy of your kitchen -- but out here in the actual, lived USA – white males have been the norm (originally white, not-Irish or Italian or German-males). All "others" have had a different experience. A different experience – not of snow or rain or the price of beans – but of discrimination.
In a week that saw the killing of an off duty police officer by an another police officer in New York, and the killing of a women's doctor in Wichita, it's hard to believe that anyone in their right mind would disagree with Sotomayor.
The New York shooter took the victim for a criminal at least in part because the victim was a black man.
The assassination of the country's eighth abortion provider brought out of the margins and into the media the reality that women seeking legal care and the people who look after them are still, after decades, subject to the kind of daily harassment, vandalism and threats that no corporate CEO would tolerate for a weekend. Women's lives are not the same.
In a week like this, it's hard to believe that anyone in their right mind would argue that to mention difference in America is to be racist -- or that to have experienced discrimination might make one smarter about it. But what am I saying? All those "right" minds are the problem. Right minds would rather that we pretend we're all already equal, because then we'll stop working to make it that way.
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Sara McGinnison September 8, 2015 | 4 comments
Alyssa Milano couldn't help but notice something a little funny and a little infuriating at the MTV VMAs. When it came time to talk to reporters the mother of two took the opportunity to point out all the skin that was on display, and question why her breastfeeding photos are treated differently. Speaking of nearly nude show… Read more »
Carolyn Robertsonon July 31, 2015 | no comments
Have you ever had a bad mom day? I mean an unbelievably awful day, the kind of day where absolutely everything goes wrong and all you can do is count down the seconds until bedtime? Welcome to the club. And I'd like to welcome a famous mom to our ranks, too: Alyssa Milano. The actress… Read more »
Sara McGinnison May 3, 2015 | 5 comments
Alyssa Milano is toying with the idea of going for baby three, but her husband isn't exactly on board. The actress, who is mom to son Milo and daughter Elizabella, has opened up about her thoughts on another pregnancy as well as her kids' latest milestones. "My son is like a teenager it feels like," the… Read more »
Sara McGinnison April 9, 2015 | 14 comments
Alyssa Milano knows the value of "liquid gold" (also known as pumped breast milk) all too well and is livid over a recent encounter with airport security guards. Referring to the incident the breastfeeding supporter, who is mom to son Milo and daughter Elizabella, tweeted in the early hours of Thursday morning: (1 of 2)… Read more »
Sara McGinnison December 9, 2014 | 9 comments
Alyssa Milano and I have come to the same conclusion about adding a second child into the family. The first baby is one thing (and welcoming number three and beyond is a topic for another day) but it isn't too hard for number two to just fit right in. The breastfeeding advocate, who welcomed daughter… Read more »
Carolyn Robertsonon November 17, 2014 | 5 comments
Kim Kardashian's bum-baring Paper magazine cover didn't manage to "break the internet," but breastfeeding moms just might do it if actress Alyssa Milano gets her way. It's been a week since North West's mama revealed her very provocative, very naked pose on Twitter, sparking a huge response from both Kim's Hollywood peers and the general… Read more »
Carolyn Robertsonon November 8, 2014 | 16 comments
Alyssa Milano just stole a mommy move right out of Gisele Bundchen's playbook. Last year Gisele, who is of course no stranger to controversy, sparked yet another round of criticism when she posted a photo online that showed her breastfeeding her daughter Vivian while being tended to by a team of stylists: "What would I… Read more »
Sara McGinnison October 28, 2014 | 13 comments
Alyssa Milano has taken to Instagram to give fans a peek at how much she loves breastfeeding newborn daughter Elizabella Dylan. Posting a sweet black and white pic online the actress shared this quote: "Ah, the joy of suckling! She lovingly watched the fishlike motions of the toothless mouth and she imagined that with her… Read more »
Carolyn Robertsonon September 4, 2014 | 10 comments
Congratulations go out to Alyssa Milano and her husband Dave Bugliari! The couple, who are already parents to 3-year-old son Milo, welcomed a baby girl named Elizabella Dylan Bugliari on Thursday, September 4. A rep for the 41-year-old Mistresses star says that both mom and baby, who was born weighing 7lbs 7oz and measuring 19.5… Read more »
Carolyn Robertsonon July 29, 2014 | 4 comments
With baby #2 on the way, actress Alyssa Milano and her husband Dave Bugliari decided they wanted to find out the gender in advance. When they got the big news – it's a girl! – the 'Mistresses' star wasn't surprised at all. Alyssa, whose son Milo turns 3 in August, tells Fit Pregnancy magazine how… Read more »
Carolyn Robertsonon January 1, 2014 | 15 comments
I'd guess that any guy who grew up watching Who's the Boss? had a massive crush on Alyssa Milano – and probably still does to this day. Little Samantha Micelli is of course now all grown up, and today the 41-year-old actress is the star of the ABC series Mistresses and mom to 2-year-old son… Read more »
Sara McGinnison August 27, 2013 | 10 comments
A recent photo of Alyssa Milano and son Milo at the beach caught my eye, and not for entirely good reasons. Check out a sweet shot of the pair hitting the beach below, and see if you notice the same thing I did. First off, of course, let's talk about the adorable boy, his smiling mother and… Read more »
Carolyn Robertsonon February 15, 2013 | 11 comments
It sounds like Alyssa Milano's son Milo is blazing through his baby milestones. "[Milo] started talking at four months, he started crawling at five months, and he started walking at 12 months! He thinks he's 12 years old!" the former Charmed star recently gushed of her now 18-month-old son to US Weekly. Talking at four… Read more »
Sara McGinnison July 31, 2012 | 7 comments
Alyssa Milano is raising money in honor of her son Milo's upcoming birthday. Aiming to celebrate his first year of life in a charitable way, the actress is hoping you'll donate to an Indiegogo account she's set up with hopes of reaching $50,000. "For Milo's 1st birthday, we want to help St. Jude provide life-saving… Read more »
Sara McGinnison April 9, 2012 | 16 comments
Alyssa Milano is fed up with the paparazzi taking pictures of her son Milo — that doesn't, however, mean she's itching to keep his privacy intact. The actress let out her frustrations via Twitter last week with the following message directed at The Daily Mail Online: "@mailonline Please stop buying paparazzi pics of my child…. Read more »


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DD is 21 months old and will be traveling with me out of state. This will be her first time on an airplane and since she is under 2 she gets to ride with me on my lap. Now.... how do I get an ACTIVE toddler to sit still for a 3 hour flight? My MIL gave me a portable DVD player but she can hardly still through a 30 minute episode of Dora let alone a 2 hour movie! I thought about coloring books, snacks, toys, but I don't think she'll make it for 3 hours without trying to run up and down the isle of the plane! HELP! I'm in fear of a LONG and drowning flight with a toddler.
I need SERIOUS advice ASAP
Loads of snacks (raisens, goldfish, etc...), Sesame Street video, books and crayons. Three hours isn't that long but it can be painful still. do your best... that's all anyone can expect. Also, ask the boarding people to place you near the front of the plane. You can get on and off first.
We fly all the time. But its 3 4hr flights to get anywhere that we are going. We always have a seat for her, and bring her car seat. Strapping her down is the only way to go for us. We give her lots of snacks, DVD player didnt work for us, just took up room. Toys, crayons, and getting up to walk. My daughter is 22 months.
Wife to Alex 9-2-09- Mama to: Natasha Alexandria 11-21-06 and Mila (Me-luh) Scottlyn 2-9-09
First off relax!! Trust me from experience you are getting worked up for nothing. My son has flown a total of probably 14 times and he's only 14 months, so he is kind of a pro at it. I have tons of tips. First off the portable dvd player wont help much- my ds loves Backyardigans but it's hard to have a toddler on your lap and watch a movie, b/c the tray wont go all the way down and if your dd is anything like mine she'll want to grab it and hit buttons. But there are a lot of other things you can do. Dont sit in the very front seat because then you have to put the diaper bag overhead and you want toys close!. I found it's silly things that actually keep him entertained, not just the usual toys. The last trip the lid to his cookies kept him busy forever. Keys, paper, remotes- things she usually doesnt get to play with. Mine still takes a bottle at nap and bedtime, so I go to Burger King or whatever in the airport and get chocolate milk for him. Sitting by the window watching out and drinking his bottle takes up more time than you would think. Also my son isnt one that likes to be held, so letting him walk down the aisle for a second isnt even an option. He would throw a fit when I picked him up. He knows that as soon as we get on he's done walking. Sorry this is so long, anything else you want to know just ask. But again just relax, you will actually be suprised how fast the time will go.
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By Maria José firstname.lastname@example.com The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) announced Thursday that it has awarded 17 more contracts, valued at $79.5 million, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. And Clayton, Henry and DeKalb counties will be the beneficiaries of a contract awarded to World Fiber Technologies, Inc., of Alpharetta. According to state transportation officials, the $1.9 million contract will pay for the installation of advanced, traffic-monitoring and closed-circuit, video monitoring equipment, on 14 miles of Interstate 675, between I-75 and I-285. "This will allow us to monitor traffic flow, so that we can advise motorists of what travel conditions are," said David Spear, a GDOT spokesperson. According to Spear, the traffic cameras will allow GDOT to keep watch on traffic through the Transportation Management Center, located in downtown Atlanta. If there is a circumstance in which a vehicle accident may occur, GDOT is able to advise police departments of a distressed motorist's exact location, or to dispatch its own Highway Emergency Response Operators (HEROS). "We can dispatch people more quickly to the scene," said Spear. "Our camera systems allow us to tell ... precisely where the accident may be." Spear said traffic cameras allow GDOT to advise motorists of traffic information, by using the overhead message boards, on the intestate highways as well. "For every minute there is an incident on the road, it takes seven minutes for that traffic to recover ... [Traffic cameras] keep traffic moving," he added. Spear said the construction is planned to begin in September, and will take approximately 18 months to complete. Construction workers will place traffic sensors underneath the roadways, or imbed them in the pavement, and install the cameras. The length of the construction depends on the availability of the equipment, he said. "These awards represent the conclusion of Georgia DOT's implementation of phase one of the stimulus program," said Vance Smith, Jr., GDOT commissioner. "We've injected more than $200 million into Georgia's economy to create and save jobs for our citizens, while, at the same time, make important safety, capacity and maintenance improvements to our highway system, and there is more progress to come as we move into phase-two stimulus projects." During phase one, GDOT awarded a total of approximately $56 million, for 44 projects, in May, and $84 million, for 31 projects, during the month of June, according to Spear.
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Originally Posted by StoneNYC
Forgive my ignorance, but can't PE disclose stuff if they stopped making it?
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Just because they stopped making it doesn't mean the details are no longer proprietary information. There have been other cases though, where a manufacturer stopped making a product and then disclosed the details so that users could keep using it. A case in point is that when Paterson stopped making Acutol-S, they disclosed the recipe as the Crawley developer, FX-15.


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No, I'm talking about the Omega/Saunders/LPL 4500-II. It comes with the option of a "B&W module" which is an empty box, a color module or a VCCE module. These modules slide in between the light source and the diffusion chamber. The B&W module really is an empty box. The front of the head (not the module) says "Super Dichroic". It doesn't help that the B&W module is the color module without the guts but with the moldings where the 3 color adjustment displays are in the color head. This is it on B&H:
The description is wrong though (it discusses the two other modules).
But to return to the question: Is there much of a difference between using the same diffused light source with dichroic filtration versus under the lens filters?


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What begins as Constable Dallin Brayden escorting the prisoner Wilfred Calder back to Putnam quickly turns into a flight for both their lives. Political betrayal and malicious magic lurk behind every bush and boulder in their flight across the countryside, resulting in Dallin becoming more protector than gaoler, and fostering a growing connection between him and his charge. Haunted by dreams not his own and pursued by just about everyone, Dallin begins to understand that he's not just protecting Wil out of duty anymore. As the shadow of Wil's previous life as a captive and tool continues to loom, the shadow of the man who kept him prisoner looms larger. Forced into a terrifying battle of both will and magic for not only his life, but his soul, Wil discovers that the Aisling is sought by more powerful enemies than the Guild and the Brethren: ancient gods and soul-eating spirits seek what lives inside him as well. And it seems his only salvation may well be Dallin and his goddess, the Mother, against whom Wil has been warned all his life.


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Call one of our moving consultants at 866.872.2120 and they will work with you to develop a moving plan that is tailored to your transition. Not only will we help you estimate the number of containers you will need, we will also answer any questions you may have and provide cost saving tips.
The Door to Door Moving Container
Door to Door has invested years of research and everyday experience to develop our current moving container. At 5′ wide, 8′ long, and 7′ tall they are perfect for organizing your move by room. They typically hold 1 to 1.5 rooms worth of furniture, or 40 – 50 medium moving boxes, and you can adjust the quantity you need to accommodate how much you are packing. They are crafted with construction grade plywood that is rigid and strong, but also breathable to reduce the risk of mold and mildew.
- 5′ wide, 8′ long, 7′ tall
- Inches off the ground for easy loading
- Constructed from breathable plywood to reduce the risk of mold and mildew
- Transported inside locked tractor trailers, protected from weather and the risk of theft
- Stored inside one of our 24/7 secure warehouses
- You only pay for the containers you use
Storage should be more than a place to keep your stuff, storage needs to be affordable, convenient and secure. Door to Door has you covered.
With low monthly rates, we are one of the most affordable storage solutions in the Portland area. And if you load your containers at our Vancouver storage facility, you save on delivery fees, making storing with Door to Door even more affordable.
We bring storage containers to your door and you have up to seven days to load them! What could be more convenient? No need to rent a truck or make multiple car trips.
Once you have loaded your containers, you lock them and no one has access to your belongings until you unlock them again. We store your locked containers indoors at our 24/7 secure Vancouver, WA warehouse. How secure are our warehouses? To date, we haven't had a break-in, we take the security of your possessions seriously.
Call 866.872.2120 for a personalized moving or storage quote.
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We have put together a collection of articles and links that will help you to get to know the greater Portland area.
Our Porland Service Area
5720-B N.E. 121st Ave.
Vancouver, WA 98682
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Call 866.872.2120 for a custom moving or storage quote.


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