Deadly Islamist Fanaticism escalates-Shiite shrines and processions were targeted extracting a heavy toll of lives at Iraq and Afghanistan
Published on Dec 6, 2011 by AssociatedPress
An unprecedented wave of violence against Shiite worshippers marking a holy day in Afghanistan has killed more than 50 people. In Iraq, five bomb attacks have struck Shiite pilgrims killing at least 21 people. (Dec. 6)
Published on Dec 6, 2011 by AssociatedPress
A suicide bombing tore through a crowd of Shiite worshippers marking a holy day Tuesday in the Afghan capital, the deadliest of twin attacks that killed at least 20 people in a rare burst of violence targeting the minority Islamic sect. (Dec. 6)
World Health Organisation declares one in three Somalians suffering from Psychosis. The rest two thirds are into Drugs and Sea Piracy and Islamist insurgency.
Somalia is famous for its Islamic Radicals as in Black Hawk landing, Al Qaeda and now Al Shabab.
Its notorious for its Sea Pirates – costing 7 Billion Dollars of shipping losses.
To that if we add genocides and the civil war, we would understand why the Nation became a basket case.
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The Word Health Organization says as many as 450 million people suffer from mental disorders globally.
The continuing conflict in Somalia is having a huge impact on the mental health of many Somalis.
Dr Abdirahman Ali Habeeb, is a psychiatric nurse by training, but prefers the title doctor, says:”The bombardments, shootings and mortar shellings is what is causing the increasing number of mentally ill in Mogadishu.”
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports from Mogadishu Somalia.
Wall Street protesters have little faith in US democracy
From: AlJazeeraEnglish | Oct 8, 2011 | 301 views
Discontent with the state of the US economy has drawn many protesters out to demonstrations in major cities in the United States.
The “Occupy Wall Street” movement that started in New York on September 17 has spread to over 90 other US cities.
As the 24-hour encampment continued in New York City on Friday, there were demonstrations around the country, including in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chicago, Illinois; Austin and Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; and Washington DC.
Some Republican politicians are criticising the movement.
Republican House Majority leader Eric Cantor called the protesters “growing mobs”.
But the protesters are not focused on the US’ traditional political system.
“We need to dictate the policy up, not policy being dictated down,” Jesse LaGreca, a protester on Wall Street, told Al Jazeera.
“We will be the leaders, and if there’s any politicianss who wanna support us in passing policies that we support, then that’s the best we to about gaining our support.”
Katie Davison, another Wall Street protester, agreed.
“A candidate is sort of the old way of doing things,” she told Al Jazeera. “We’re looking for a new way of doing things that is more participatory and more meaningful. What that looks like we’re still figuring out.”
Anthropoligist, writer and protest organiser David Graeber, told Al Jazeera why he thinks young people in the US have reached an especially frustrating point.
In making a demand, you’re essentially recognising the authority of the people who are going to carry it out,” he said.
“Our message is that the system that we have is broken. It doesn’t work. People aren’t even discussing the real problems Americans face.”
Al Jazeera’s Scott Hydler reports from New York
Gaddafi loyalists continue to fight
From: AlJazeeraEnglish | Oct 7, 2011 | 715 views
Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are being hemmed into an ever decreasing area of the ousted Libyan leader’s home town of Sirte.
They are surrounded in the heart of the city, being pounded by rockets, mortar shells and tank fire as National Transitional Council fighters press forward from the west, east and south.
But still, the loyalists continue to fiercely defend the seat of Gaddafi’s family and tribe.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr reports from the frontline.
Steve Jobs was an enigma to those who miss to look up at what changed the course of his life. A visit to India and his own Redefinition of Life as a result - behind the facade of the rags to riches legend, could well be the making of a Zen Apprentice to mastery of Life transcending its illusions with a deceptive double life we little know.
The achievement of great material success requires an unlimited capacity for self-delusion and rationalization. Zen Sutras
Steve was born at Sanfransisco to John Jandali, a Syrian Muslim immigrant and Swiss student Jihan Scheible in February 24, 1955.
Adopted by a Californian family – Paul and Clara Jobs living in Mountain View.
Obviously, the story tells us he was an unwanted child and had parental rejection- his maternal side didn’t agree their Swiss girl marrying a Syrian Muslim.
He also has a sister who is the famous novelist Mona Simpson from her another marriage.
No wonder when his dad came to own his son, Steve didn’t respond.
We see what this Syrian dad did later- he leaked his medical report of pancreatic cancer to press.
If you want to understand why-
Job had to go through pretty good hardship at school.
He earned food by moving trash and empty coke crates.
Slept at the floor of some friend at hostel, attended evening classes and later got hired by Hewlett Packard.
There are number of variants of this story.
That starving Jobs had to walk miles to reach the Hare Krishna free kitchens to get his single full square meal at other side New York.
Whether it is Hare Krishna or not, like many Californians Jobs took to a spiritual Quest in India.
It seems he worked around 1974 with some Video games firm to just save enough money to visit the Indian Retreat of Neem Karoli Baba.
Many American icons like Roger Hodgson were his devotees.
At any rate he is reported to have assumed the typical dress habits of such East turners, and with a shaved head walking bare foot.
At any rate Jobs did what was normative of Californians of his times.
What he did next then would leave a mark upon history.
Teaming with another friend he made during his Spiritual Retreat in India, Steve Wozniak they would found the Computer maker Apple.
By 1983 Apple had become big enough for him to persuade the CEO of Coke to come over to Apple- in that infamous line- “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
So we have a Spiritual seeker who returns wrongly described as a ‘Buddhist’ but so unlike Buddhist escape from life to Nirvana, Steve takes his obscure persona with a troubled childhood and destitution, along with a fledgling firm into a formidable Blue chip company that would urge Coke CEO to quit being a lemonade seller and ‘change the world’ with his gizmos.
That remarkable and a restatement of spirituality,
This is what offends both the God boo boo tribe and the have nots pleader snobs, an altogether incomprehensible guy- who seeks escape in another direction and world and returns to change direction the very same materialist world he fleed.
From Nirvana and renunciation to the good life Redefined is a bit of leap they don’t follow.
Especially when it is a tough task boss driving you nuts-
People often need an authority figure to tell them what they already know. Zen.
When you don’t understand the thing, then does the next easier thing- hate?
So petty things his colleagues and hired hands bitched about this incomprehensible visionary becomes a part of Steve Jobs obituaries and story.
He falls out of Sculley the Apple co founder and exits Apple.
He founds another company Next Computer.
His innovations were all high end, but most write-ups fail to mention why?
Because they were made for the Cutting edge folk- academic researchers and scientists.
Later Apple would simply gobble those projects- along with Next Computer and apply them to her Apple and i Tune store and mobile me.
So that was quite a trail blazer and remarkably vindicates his visionary pursuits.
Jobs then buys the firm Pixar a digital workstation and kick starts the Digital animation film era.
The Toys, The Incredible, Finding Nemo and the Toy Story trilogy.
Naturally Jobs became the largest single share holder of Walt Disney!
Note also that when Apple bought the Next Computers he is back with the company he had co founded-The Apple.
The thing to note is that he had a confrontation with environmentalists about e-waste dumping but later he made Recycling a company policy with all its products.
When the news of his ill health was leaked in august 2011, the shares dropped 5%.
Walt Disney where he is a Director holding most shares also dropped that day.
Which reflects the share holder esteem and confidence-was with Jobs and not the sole health of the books of mighty mammoths?
He owned 5 million shares in Apple and 130 million of Walt Disney that Forbes says was worth over 8 Billion dollars – the 42nd richest man.
If you want to understand the depth of both depravity and indicator of the level of envy-
Steve owned some over 300 Patents to innovations and inventive products.
What they hate most was- he didn’t endorse Charity.
Steve abolished all Social programs at his companies.
Being a practicing Zen Buddhist, that means he was firm in his convictions.
Which might be actually due to his experience of hardships in early life- and the faith in making people work hard towards dreams? Not just simple selfishness.
Note his stock money is just nominal – unless they’re sold and the minute he does it they will crash.
There is not much there to show he did sell.
At 1 Dollar pay at Apple as a CEO- which he explained was 50 cents each for the job and performance, the money he refused to throw away to philanthropy must be due to his strong conviction in self making of man’s destiny.
“There’s big money in helping people avoid facing reality and/or responsibility” says the Zen sutras.
So why would he give to charity against what he knows is real?
“Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today”. Steve
That email was a tit for tat for Dell telling he would’ve sold the company and given back the money to share holders- meaning it wasn’t worth investing in Jobs ideas.
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As early as 1982, he was the machine of the year in Times’ Cover, the most admired entrepreneur for Fortune magazine, and ranked 17th in the list of most powerful people in the world.
He had a successful marriage for 20 years and is survived by wife and 3 children besides another kid through a former affair.
In short Steve was edifying in all respects for the man of the world, with enough firmness of vision and integrity of convictions- which presented a contradiction in it-
That made understanding this man not so easy- – of envy for his success, and incomprehension of his convictions, the relentless pursuit of objectives with a singular drive and ruthless at that to others.
Not so inexplicable when you hear the Zen-
Many a lifetime is wasted between “good enough” and “perfect.”
The contradiction of later good life as its icon and his past penury, and the combination of the Zen of the Chips and Wall Street with the Zen of the East like a Samurai.
“The three great struggles of the individual: Identity – Who am I (against consumerism)?; Meaning – What am I (against nihilism)?, and Reality – What is true (against cognitive dissonance)?”
Says Zen sutra.
There are many levels of Zen.
The less advanced are not given the tasks of the Higher Apprentices-
Such as Zen masters running a Brothel.
The displayed Contradiction is the exactitude of inner Perfection.
The Sutras help you with this-
“The first rule for being successful by conventional standards is not to question success by conventional standards”.
In only one thing he made the master stroke that almost teases us with a clue to the inner man-
He fell short of Life.
As though all this good life was a bubble- and the best way to show it is-
To live it.
Maybe that’s what he discovered at the Himalayas where he began this trek?
Not as we imagine some American hippie rotating Prayer wheels smoking pipe at a remote hill retreat.
Steve Jobs-The Apprentice of Higher Zen.
His story could be the making of a Zen Master.
Indian Metros to be guarded by Israeli high tech Missile defense systems, being the best regarding Indian's specific threats from its hostile niegbour but also they help out the myopic American emabrgos that strangely wants to arm a Radicalized Theoratic terrorist State to bully one of world's largest democracies.
http://TilTul.com IAI Barak 8 advanced surface to Air and ships missiles defense system & Arrow 3 hit-to-kill interceptor, at Israel Space Tech conference Nov. 17, 2009.
Indian Indigenous Defence Innovation- The Akash or ‘Skies” Missile Defence Shield
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Akash (Sanskrit: आकाश Ākāś “Sky”) is India’s medium range surface-to-air missile defense shield system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Bharat Electronics Limited(BEL) as part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program
The Akash missile can target aircraft up to 30 km away, at altitudes up to 18,000 m. Akash missile can be fired from both tracked and wheeled platforms. Akash missile is said to be capable of both conventional and nuclear warheads, with a reported payload of 60 kg. A nuclear warhead could potentially give the Akash missile the capability to destroy both aircraft and warheads from ballistic missiles. The Akash missile air air defense system battery is described as being able to track and attack several targets simultaneously. An Akash missile air defense shield system battery comprises four 3D phased array radars and four launchers with three missiles each, all of which are interlinked. Each radar is able to track 16 targets simultaneously and control a launcher with 3 missiles. Hence Akash missile is reported to be able to track 64 targets and simultaneously attack any 12 of those targets at one time. The Akash air defense shield system is comparable to the Patriot system, but unlike the Patriot, Akash missile is fully mobile and capable of protecting a moving convoy of vehicles. Like the Patriot, the Akash is really an air defence SAM which has been tested in a ballistic missile role. The shield system provides air defence missile coverage of 2,000 km².
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• Prithvi I and Prithvi II are SRBMs
Prithvi III and Agni I are MRBMs
Agni II, Agni III, Agni IV and Agni V are ICBMs.
Shourya and K15 (naval) are Hypersonic Glide Missiles
Agni II (AT) and k4 (naval) are Hypersonic Boost Glide Missiles
Nirbhay (subsonic), BrahMos I (Supersonic),
LRCM (Long Range Supersonic) BrahMos II (Hypersonic) are Cruise Missiles
Ralph Steinman died just days before the anouncement joking- "hope I drag till the anouncement". Daniel Shechtman was thrown out of his Team and later went to Israel for his heresy that quasi-crystals exist, when later it was found true.
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Three US-born scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics after discovering that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate.
Saul Perlmutter of Berkeley National Laboratory, along with Brian Schmidt of Australian National University, and Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University together share the $1.5m prize.
Their study of exploding stars revealed that after the Big Bang, the universe continued to expand for several billion years, but at a slower rate than today.
World’s most powerful eye peers at the cosmos
From: Euronews | Oct 4, 2011 | 132 views http://www.euronews.net/ The world’s most powerful radio telescope has begun operating in Chile’s Atacama desert.
ALMA as its known is a joint US Europe and East Asia project and aims to gather information about the origins of the cosmos. So far 23 of the planned 66 antennas are functioning at a cost of more than one billion euros
Nobel award winner dies before hearing of prize
From: Euronews | Oct 4, 2011 | 364 views http://www.euronews.net/ It has been revealed that a scientist who has won the Nobel prize for medicine for his work on fighting cancer recently died of the disease himself.
It was shortly after it was announced that Ralf Steinman had shared the award with American Bruce Beutler and French biologist Jules Hoffmann that the Nobel committee became aware that he died three days ago.
The rules state that only living people are eligible for the prize. Now the committee is hoping that can be overturned and the award can go to the Canadian’s family.
Scientist gets posthumous Nobel prize
From: AlJazeeraEnglish | Oct 3, 2011 | 1,689 views
A pioneering scientist who died just a few days ago has been confirmed as this year’s Nobel Prize winner for medicine.
The award for Canada-born Ralph Steinman had been thrown into doubt because only living scientists are considered eligible. But the committee said their decision stood leading to the first posthumous Nobel prize in half a century.
Steinman and two others were recognised for their work on the immune system.
The Rockefeller University, Steinman’s former employer, said he had been diagnosed with cancer four years ago, but had managed to extend his life using his own immuno-therapy.
Al Jazeera’s Caroline Malone reports.
Daniel Shechtman Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
From: AssociatedPress | Oct 5, 2011 | 0 views
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Shechtman “for the discovery of quasicrystals.” (Oct. 5)
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