Thursday, May 07, 2009

From the top

In the current crises we have found a natural failure from hierarchy structures. When the assumption is wrong and the assumption is perpetuated. The error kept to repeat with out any check or correction. They are close to 20,000 Economics in US in this time only 3 or 4 make the prediction, since these three or fourth question the idea self-regulation, and the wisdom of greed is a guide principal. The idea the self-interest will translated to stop the individual desire into self destruction.
Historical when an individual or individual whether come from high power or moral high ground, for example Working Class or Aristocrats, the Authority will considered anything to self perpetuation. The authorithy will do whatever needs to mainatin the control and justify by any means. If power is deluted, the control is stop manifasted from economics to education.
Education system is base on top down in US the Licence of managent is given by PhD and the Ivy or close to that become the spring which trickle down to what consider less. There is not variablility an anologue if certain group has DNA error and kept intermarry the error recure again and again, only by having other group who does have the error will give a better chance, but since poison from the spring, eventually any thing down river get s kill. Education is to express an experience to a though, if kept rrapt the same and mistake repeats, the idea the variablity and difference makes the one with power fear, since they do not control the spring, to many springs is not good as one single spring, the middle way where multy spring and single spring.
Knowledges has been reduce about control, Norton in her book: Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, make a point the Straussina take point to have Monograph by only them to comsumen, and the results the misscalculation and cost of the Middle East.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Anti-Semitic
Christianity
The relationship between Christianity and Judaism turned into a hate relationship and reinforced with western concepts of power. In 325 A.D, the first council of Nicea established two doctrinal rules which formalized anti Jewish feeling, because according early doctrine, the Jews did not accept the new Messiah, and I can discuss with anyone this particular issue, but when Augustine in City of God structure power relationship between Authority of the Church and Political system, the base of the relationship was established, having a consequence that lasted 2,000 years.
The first doctrinal rule was that Christians don't need to be circumcised, the consequence being Judaism was no longer the gate to a God. There was a new gate, the church. The second doctrinal rule was that Jews were not allowed to own Slaves, especially Christians. Rome, like Athens, was an economic power built on slaves and subjugation of conquest. Since the Jewish land owners couldn't own slaves, the consequence was that they could not compete with free labour. The denial led to guilds and other limited options. When the first universities were created in the 12 Century, Paris and Bologna, access was denied. In the pyramidal world, the Jews belonged to the King. Only professions where royalty license was required, allowed few access and they were in the Medical Profession and Attorneys. But, the majority of the Jews, lived in the margins of the society. In Worms Germany, the Jewish community came through Constantinople via Prague. They lived by selling Onions, a difficult living, and created a community life. In the 11 Century and 12 Century , Worms had a famous Talmudic School, that influenced the communities through centuries to come. Money lending was not allowed in the Christian world and Jews, being in the margins, found a small niche, but only few found work in money lending and mythology spurred, but for the majority they lived in poverty.
Land ownership for the Jews especially, since the slaves provided the labour in Rome, was reinforced in Augustine, inspired by Plato. Republic, where everyone had a place in the pyramidal hierarchy, where the top was the philosopher king, where the philosopher as ideal ruler and everyone in the utopia community has a place in this pyramid.
Augustine, in the City of God, rationalized and legitimized that everyone had a place in this utopia where the new philosopher was the church and the king, the lords and the serfs are under this despotic rule. And then were the Jews, they did not fit in this universe and they become the outsiders. In Europe they belonged to a pyramid, giving them a sense of collective destiny, through the power of the church and the state, but the Jews were outsiders, and this took an ugly side.
Constantine converted to Christianity and Rome's conquest of Judea 70 CE, denied access to Jerusalem, but communities flourished in Galilee. With Constantine, Jews didn't fit in the Christian Power system. Denying access to all the land of Judea, denied any validity to Judaism as a religion, since there is only one gate to god, and Judaism was not to be. Still, from the first exile there were communities in Babylon and they moved west to Spain from the first century. The conflict in Spain was significant when the Visigoths converted to Christianity making the Jews the outsider. The first massacres, and forced conversions were in the 5th and 7th century.
After Islam's conquest, in the Iberian Peninsula, the Jew's life took a worse turn. The first crusade was against the Cathars in the 11 Century, when the Popes from Avignion excommunicated count Raymond VI from Toulouse. Since Raymond VI protected Cathars and Raymon produced high quality of wines, the King of France wanted the lands and Pope did not want a heresy who would threaten the church power, especially the women with the Cathars who were part of the authority and the church had issues from the beginning.
For the Jews, the streets behind the cathedral of the town were restricted. Despite the Sicut Judea is, which was supposed to protect the Jews, not to force or harm them, reinforced by many Popes from 700 to the 11 century, but in practice, Pope Innocent III (1198-1296) introduced yellow clothes to identify the Jews, and his innovation was practice by Islam towards the Jews.
Early in the 10th century, the Jews in England were expelled until the 15th Century, but in the crusades, the story took a ugly side, which is important to recount. In 1096, the Jewish communities in the Rhine and Danube were destroyed in Mainz in 1096. 11,000 were burned alive. In many cases, the communities committed suicide rather than being forced into a Christian Conversion. With the conquest of Jerusalem by Crusaders, the Jerusalem Jewish community was massacred. Described by the Muslin accounts by Ibn al Qalanisis, where all were burned alive and the Crusades ransomed the Jewish Holy books. In the period of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, after Christian nations' reconquest of Jerusalem and the region calcified by Rome as Palestine, the take over, the Christian forces burned the Jewish community alive in the synagogue and Islam did not do much better, but no Jews were to be in Jerusalem according to Roman law after the conquest of Jerusalem in 70 CE.
In the second crusade, in 1147, the communities in France were destroyed and in Metz, 1,000 were burned alive. By the third crusade. the Jewish communities were expelled.
In 1010, the council of Toledo authorized the kidnapping of Jewish Children to convert them into Christians. This tradition continued to the 1815. There was a famous case in Italy where the servant baptised the family child and the child was removed by the church. The case was notorious in New York at the time it was reported.
But the legitimization of Christian Anti-Semitism took place in Seville in the 13 Century, with Iberian reconquest by Christianity in the 13 Century, in Seville, half of the 40,000 Jews were forced to convert to Christianity. Archbishop Martinenez called for the genocide of Jews and later on Luther took the same stand after Jews from Worms refused to convert to his Christianity. In Toledo, 4000 were kill and 25,000 were sold to slavery. Eventually in 1493 the inquisition was established. In that time, 10,000 were accused of being Jews and 1,400 burned alive.
With the introduction of separated zones for the Jews and a Ghetto, a place in Venice where Jews where allowed to get water was created, since for the Jews to use the water, they needed to pay a special tax.
At the same time in the 13 century in Seville, laws were passed where office Holders needed to be Pura Sangre. No non-Christians were allowed to have any power position in the new world. In 1700, in Mexico City, the Carvajal Family, who had influence, the New Governor accused them of being secret Jews, Marranos, pig. They made a public trial and eventually the family was burned in Mexico City. Interested Franco never used these laws which were passed in Germany and Italy in the 1930s and 1940s.
The Jews were blamed for the black plague in Europe. In part, Jewish Ritual, the simple washing of hands, stops the spread of virus carried by rats who spread the sickness over Europe.
The pressure was great in the Jewish community when the invitation by the King of Krawko, offered open land ownership to the Jews for the first time since the time of Rome, after Sweden gave up the Pale region from Estonia to Ukraine to Russia. Katherine the
Great limited the Jews into the Pale and they were not allowed in Russia Proper.
When Luther appeared as a reformer and wanted a more conservative Christian approach, he tried to convert the Jews in Germany but the Jews refused to accept the New Christian Religion culminated with Von den Juden und Ihren Lügen and eventually was used by the National Socialist party in Germany.
In the 1800s began major migrations by Ukrainian Jews from the Pale to the US, after 100,000 Jews were kill in pogroms by the Cossack under encouragement by Russian Czars, and culmination in 1900s with the book of the Protocols of Zion.
Emile Zola
Anti Semitic has been used as a power and more a control through violence. The nobility used the Jews as an escape from their political and economic failures, i.e. Napoleon breaking the power of the church giving the French Jews civil rights but not rights as a nation.
In 1800, National identity took place and the tolerance of the North Countries extended to Jews. In the case of Dreyfus, the Jewish Capitan accused of selling French military secrets to the German High command, and sentenced to life spending 10 years in Devils Island in French Guiana. Eventually, when the Military secrets kept coming to the German High Command, Emily Zola took the cause of injustice. It was eventually discovered that the spy was Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy and the counter intelligence officer Lt Colonel Piquart was sent to Tunisia to silence him, but Emile Zola took his case. This situation influenced many Middle Class Jews who wanted to maintain a Jewish identity and to be a citizen. To be a normal citizen, requires a place where a majority culture can be maintained, and the solution was a creation of a Jewish nation. From the Dreyfus spending 10 years and eventually pardon by the French WWII, the tarnished French intelligence serve on the eve of WWII, when German attack France from the woods of the Ardent, they had information, by internally had not confidence or any credibility with the French military establishment.
The French Anti-Semitism from the 1800s was real. Even today, there is a special tax to be paid if selling to non-Christian even if one of the spouses is of Hebrew race or is from a race that is Anglo-Saxon and is known in covenanted clauses. Another tradition took root in the intellectual left and right in France. One issue was that they wanted assimilation, not a distinct group, in the Libertarian Left like Pierre Joseph Proudhon, and later Michael Bakunin, on the Marxist side, because of an ambiguity and later on Lennin in the Jewish Question, tried to put into a working class setting, misunderstood that the Jewish question was about identity. In Communism, there was a repression to national identity and distinctness, and here Jews had no place, despite that an Autonomous region was assigned for the Jews close to Mongolia, away from any major population center.
Judaism does not try to create a universal religion, like Christianity or Islam, but conversion had happened from Ruth the mother of David, about 20% of the Jews had Visgoth DNA. Today in Spain 20% have Y male DNA from Jews and 13% from Arabs.
In the 20th Century in Germany, the National Socialist party went further and used race as a political solution. Anti-Semitisms was secularize, the introduction of Eugenic to Phrenology, not just Germany but Italy.
The holocaust was a solution for a total destruction of a group because of race and religion. It was not just the use of Zyclon B or slaves forced to death, in some way in the 20th century, the first elimination of groups in industrial scale was not done by Germany, despite the irony, the reason of the Genocide of one and a half million Armenians was known due to German military medic Amid T Wegner, who took photos of the deportation and camps WWI. But was also knows to US, British and French at the time. The first industrial Genocide was achieved by an Islamic country in WWI, and when we mean industrial is mass murder, still the criminal act, has impact to the pathology of actor.
In some ways, in the Americas, with the introduction of the European Colonies, though unintentional, brought sickness to the natives that were not immunized.
In Africa, Leopold II of Belgium in the 1800s in Congo, imposed a quote in the Rubber Plantations. Leopold cut the right hands of the tribesmen that did not achieve quotas.
The use of race as a political and economic solution, was created in 400 Years of British Colonies in America and eventually the US. The second was as national police as race applied by Germany against the Jews and Gypses (Romma), considered as non-people, as a political solution was the total extermination, and yes 6 Million Jews were exterminated in Europe, by Germany in 1930’ to 1945, not only active but passive as well.
In the late 20th Century, the same was done in Cambodia by a communist regime. Stalin, with 20 Million killed by force collectivization. Iraq used gas to kill the Kurdsih population.
Jews and Islam
The relationship between Muhammad and the Jews had a bad start from the beginning, like in Christianity. The idea of being Chosen by God had justification to legitimize the new religions and Judaism had proclaimed the special relationship. Islam wanted to be legitimized and the competition came from Judaism.
Even Muhammad had treaties with Jewish tribes of Medina, but they took the side against Muhammad. In the Battle of Banu, Quarayza took the side of the potential prince of Medina Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy. The conflict took an ugly turn since the Jews refused to accept Muhammad as prophet or his prophecy. 900 Jewish enemies of Muhammad, after the capture of Medina, were decapitated.
More over, Muhammad had never been to Jerusalem, but Muhammad claimed, the inspiration of the Koran was given to him by the Angel Gabriel on the Temple Mount.
Jerusalem was Conquer in 638 CE by Islam, 20 years after the death of Muhammad, from Rome. The Christian and Jewish communities were allowed a state under, dhimmi laws which were codified around 622 CE. This still applies in Islamic states today, like Iran and the Kingdom Saudi Arabia.
The dhimmi laws were intended to dehumanize the other people from the book.
Rules like special blue colour was introduced by Christians in 717 CE, and yellow for the Jews, special taxes like Jizya was applied to all the people of the book, even in the public baths, where Jews like Islam, circumcision was shared, Jews needed to wear a yellow string. They designed jobs only for them. In Christian grave yard jobs were allowed, since Islam considered these impure jobs. The restrictions were not just dress codes or jobs, but physical aspects of the sizes of towers of churches. No new synagogues were built since when Muhammad was alive. Jews were not allowed to ride camels. The only transportation was donkeys and for Christians mules.
But there was other side of Islam, pogroms and harsh application of the law. In the Iberian Peninsula, under the Islamic Conquest, the puritan movements of the Almohad dynasty in the 11 Century, forcing conversion for Christians and Jews, choosing exile or martyrdom. In some ways, the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia began in the 11 century.
Forced conversion by Islam was found in great numbers in Timbuktu. Bukharan Jews, in Persian, during the Safavid dynasty, in the 16th and 17th century, pogroms in Mashhad Iran. Major pogroms in the Islamic world was found in Lybia in 1785 and 1945, Damascus 1840, Casablanca 1907 and Egypt 1945.
The same killing practice against the Jews was found in the Islamic world,
But the compelling relationship is in the Shura of the Koran towards the Jews:
The Cow
1.[2.62] Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.
2.[2.113] And the Jews say: The Christians do not follow anything (good) and the Christians say: The Jews do not follow anything (good) while they recite the (same) Book. Even thus say those who have no knowledge, like to what they say; so Allah shall judge between them on the day of resurrection in what they differ.
3.[2.120] And the Jews will not be pleased with you, nor the Christians until you follow their religion. Say: Surely Allah's guidance, that is the (true) guidance. And if you follow their desires after the knowledge that has come to you, you shall have no guardian from Allah, nor any helper.
4.[2.135] And they say: Be Jews or Christians, you will be on the right course. Say: Nay! (we follow) the religion of Ibrahim, the Hanif, and he was not one of the polytheists.
5.[2.140] Nay! do you say that Ibrahim and Ismail and Yaqoub and the tribes were Jews or Christians? Say: Are you better knowing or Allah? And who is more unjust than he who conceals a testimony that he has from Allah? And Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.
The Family of Imran
1.[3.23] Have you not considered those (Jews) who are given a portion of the Book? They are invited to the Book of Allah that it might decide between them, then a part of them turn back and they withdraw.
The Women
1.[4.46] Of those who are Jews (there are those who) alter words from their places and say: We have heard and we disobey and: Hear, may you not be made to hear! and: Raina, distorting (the word) with their tongues and taunting about religion; and if they had said (instead): We have heard and we obey, and hearken, and unzurna it would have been better for them and more upright; but Allah has cursed them on account of their unbelief, so they do not believe but a little.
2.[4.160] Wherefore for the iniquity of those who are Jews did We disallow to them the good things which had been made lawful for them and for their hindering many (people) from Allah's way.
The Dinner Table
1.[5.18] And the Jews and the Christians say: We are the sons of Allah and His beloved ones. Say: Why does He then chastise you for your faults? Nay, you are mortals from among those whom He has created, He forgives whom He pleases and chastises whom He pleases; and Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, and to Him is the eventual coming.
2.[5.41] O Apostle! let not those grieve you who strive together in hastening to unbelief from among those who say with their mouths: We believe, and their hearts do not believe, and from among those who are Jews; they are listeners for the sake of a lie, listeners for another people who have not come to you; they alter the words from their places, saying: If you are given this, take it, and if you are not given this, be cautious; and as for him whose temptation Allah desires, you cannot control anything for him with Allah. Those are they for whom Allah does not desire that He should purify their hearts; they shall have disgrace in this world, and they shall have a grievous chastisement in the hereafter.
3.[5.44] Surely We revealed the Taurat in which was guidance and light; with it the prophets who submitted themselves (to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jews, and the masters of Divine knowledge and the doctors, because they were required to guard (part) of the Book of Allah, and they were witnesses thereof; therefore fear not the people and fear Me, and do not take a small price for My communications; and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed, those are they that are the unbelievers.
4.[5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
5.[5.64] And the Jews say: The hand of Allah is tied up! Their hands shall be shackled and they shall be cursed for what they say. Nay, both His hands are spread out, He expends as He pleases; and what has been revealed to you from your Lord will certainly make many of them increase in inordinate and unbelief; and We have put enmity and hatred among them till the day of resurrection; whenever they kindle a fire for war Allah puts it out, and they strive to make mischief in the land; and Allah does not love the mischief-makers.
6.[5.69] Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabians and the Christians whoever believes in Allah and the last day and does good-- they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve.
7.[5.82] Certainly you will find the most violent of people in enmity for those who believe (to be) the Jews and those who are polytheists, and you will certainly find the nearest in friendship to those who believe (to be) those who say: We are Christians; this is because there are priests and monks among them and because they do not behave proudly.
The Cattle
1.[6.146] And to those who were Jews We made unlawful every animal having claws, and of oxen and sheep We made unlawful to them the fat of both, except such as was on their backs or the entrails or what was mixed with bones: this was a punishment We gave them on account of their rebellion, and We are surely Truthful.
The Immunity
1.[9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!
The Bee
1.[16.118] And for those who were Jews We prohibited what We have related to you already, and We did them no injustice, but they were unjust to themselves.
The Pilgrimage
1.[22.17] Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabeans and the Christians and the Magians and those who associate (others with Allah)-- surely Allah will decide between them on the day of resurrection; surely Allah is a witness over all things.
The Congregation
1.[62.6] Say: O you who are Jews, if you think that you are the favorites of Allah to the exclusion of other people, then invoke death If you are truthful.
Christians and Islam
The Cow
1.[2.62] Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.
2.[2.113] And the Jews say: The Christians do not follow anything (good) and the Christians say: The Jews do not follow anything (good) while they recite the (same) Book. Even thus say those who have no knowledge, like to what they say; so Allah shall judge between them on the day of resurrection in what they differ.
3.[2.120] And the Jews will not be pleased with you, nor the Christians until you follow their religion. Say: Surely Allah's guidance, that is the (true) guidance. And if you follow their desires after the knowledge that has come to you, you shall have no guardian from Allah, nor any helper.
4.[2.135] And they say: Be Jews or Christians, you will be on the right course. Say: Nay! (we follow) the religion of Ibrahim, the Hanif, and he was not one of the polytheists.
5.[2.140] Nay! do you say that Ibrahim and Ismail and Yaqoub and the tribes were Jews or Christians? Say: Are you better knowing or Allah? And who is more unjust than he who conceals a testimony that he has from Allah? And Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.
The Dinner Table
1.[5.14] And with those who say, We are Christians, We made a covenant, but they neglected a portion of what they were reminded of, therefore We excited among them enmity and hatred to the day of resurrection; and Allah will inform them of what they did.
2.[5.18] And the Jews and the Christians say: We are the sons of Allah and His beloved ones. Say: Why does He then chastise you for your faults? Nay, you are mortals from among those whom He has created, He forgives whom He pleases and chastises whom He pleases; and Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, and to Him is the eventual coming.
3.[5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
4.[5.69] Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabians and the Christians whoever believes in Allah and the last day and does good-- they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve.
5.[5.82] Certainly you will find the most violent of people in enmity for those who believe (to be) the Jews and those who are polytheists, and you will certainly find the nearest in friendship to those who believe (to be) those who say: We are Christians; this is because there are priests and monks among them and because they do not behave proudly.
The Immunity
1.[9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!
The Pilgrimage
1.[22.17] Surely those who believe and those who are Jews and the Sabeans and the Christians and the Magians and those who associate (others with Allah)-- surely Allah will decide between them on the day of resurrection; surely Allah is a witness over all things.
Secularization of Anti – Semitisms
Mussolini's Italy became recognized by the Roman Catholic Church that kept the 2,000 year anti-Semitic tradition. The initial Fascist Italian philosophy was the desire of the Empire. In WWI, the German Kaiser wanted to be like the British or French empire. After an Italian pact with Nazi Germany in 1930s, the imperial desires of Italy took a new development with introduction of races as a political instrument. The first diplomatic recognition of Nazi Germany was the Roman Catholic Church, and industrial mass killing of Jews was justified under this racial policies.
The Anti-Semitism traditions of Europe were customized, in the beginning by Nazi Germany, and not just Austria, Hitler's home land, but Croatia and Slovakia under the Roman Catholic dictatorship. These two countries were under two Roman Catholic Priests, which by the end of WWII Germany, when Germany was losing and the SS ranks were open in Holland, Slovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Croatia, Flanders and Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine, special police units were formed to deal with the Jewish question and Muslins in Bosnia, but this time it was open to any one who was blond and blue eyed, even the sub Asiatic, even the ones who accepted the offer, eventually left because the arrogance of the SS officers towards them.
The eugenics movement in the 1900s were used as scientific evidence about one race versus another. Eventually, other pseudo sciences emerged like Phrenology, anthropology to differencing race and of course trying to rationalize using Darwin theories on evolution. Evolution can describe and with that, found a DNA blue print, but no question of intelligence can be defined by DNA. What genes tell you the mechanism which intelligence could arise, but not intelligence per se.
Islam and Nazis
The relationship between Nazi Germany and Islam took distinct paths in North Africa, like in the case of Europe, some individuals saved Jews. In Europe, collaboration governments like Vichy France or neutral Switzerland let the trains carry deported Jews from Italy to camps in Eastern Europe. Other counties like Denmark or Bulgaria took measures to save the communities. In Iran, the regime of Reza Shah was prepared to take sides with Nazi Germany, and the British and Soviet Union invaded Iran to prevent becoming allied with Germany.
Mufti of Jerusalem
With the early Jewish immigration in late 1800s and 1900s, the Arabs were alarmed, but the leader of Islam in Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, was active against the British in Palestine and Jewish Immigration. In the 1920s, after the Balfour declaration riots took place, his leadership helped to increase due to the riots intensive under his banner, his family, his half brother was the Mufti of Jerusalem, eventually created a rift. His politics went to Pan –Arabism, in 1922 he was elected to the Mufti of Jerusalem.
In 1936 to 1939 he lead a revolt against the British and Jewish immigration, one reason was the Western Wall was under Wafq (Muslin Supreme Council) and Jews hand not right to the Western wall.
After the failure of the revolt, the British try to engage him, but he send decrees against the Jewish immigration. He tried to make the Al-Alqsan a symbol of Palestine under Arab rule and Pan-Arabism.
In 1943 Himmler sent a Telegram to the Mufti of Jerusalem saying that the National Socialist moment from the inception, declared war against his common enemies the Jews. Eventually the Mufti declared fatwa against the British and the Jews, from expulsion and genocide of the Jews, but this time he was in Iraq after the British occupied Iraq, he was granted asylum in Iran. Since the British eventually occupied Iran, he found a home in Italy in 1941. He made a deal with Germany by declaring war against the Allies. The axis would recognize a Pan-Arabic Kingdom which included Palestine, Syria and Jordan. The Jewish solution would be resolved in cooperation with agreement of the Jewish situation by Germany and Italy. In 1941, the Mufti of Jerusalem meets Hitler to finalize the agreement and the Mufti denied he knew about the Holocaust, but Eichmann amd deputy Dieter Wislicery, in his trial gave testimony that Mohammad Amin al-Husayni knew about the holocaust. Today there is a historical document were Mohammad Amin al-Husayni with Himler set SS units to be sent to Palestine to the only purpose to Genocide the Jewish communities in Palestine, if Rommel would break the British line in Egypt.
But the second action he encouraged was to help to established SS units in Bosnia to support the extermination of Serbs. After WWII, he was arrested by the French in France and sentenced by the Yugoslav Military Court as a war criminal and denied rights. In 1946 he escaped, in 1950 was in Egypt and later on, came to Lebanon to his death in 1974.
Pan-Arabism
Mohammad Amin al-Husayni manefested religious Anti-Semitism in the 1920s in Egypt, developed by School Teacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928. The Islamic Brotherhood, as a revival of Islam Sharia Law and the Sunnah, called the way of Jihad and established a puritan Pan-Islamic regime. One of the influential members, Sayyid Qutb and his brother Muhammad Qutb, had influence that was felt even by Osama bin Laden.
The Islamic brotherhood was contrary to secular parties derived from Pan-Arabism, where philosophy was not a religion, but based on an ethnic connection. Socialism for Arabs, was an ethnic group.
Nasser of Egypt tried a Pan-Arabic nation with Syria. After a coup by the Shiaa Minority in Syria, the Bath party in Syria was run by the Alawi Shiaa minority that created a conflict with the Sunni Islamic Brotherhood in Allepo in 1985. The Islamic Brotherhood was in open rebellion against the Baath Party (Arab Socialist Renaissance Party) of Hafez al-Assad in Syria, killing between 150,000 to 200,000 civilians by the military. The Baath party came to power in 1963. Besides Syria, Iraq was another regime. The philosophy was socialism and Pan-Arabism and nationalism. The Baath party was created by Michel Aflaq an Orthodox Greek, who believed Islam provided the Arabs an expression of high culture. The differences was the Syrian Baath party and Iraq Baath, who were considered true Baaths and in Syria Alawi minority.
Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt has called for the revival of the Jizya tax for Christian Coptics to be under protection of the Islamic Regime.
Two States
Since the partition in 1947 of Palestine, a name given by Rome to deny the Jews any claim, the religious conflict with a secular Zionist movement, from cleaning the area of Arabs and Arabs that didn't want Jews in the historical land. From the Partition, both sides had used clear areas. The expulsion of the Jews from Hebron in the 1930s and pogrom in 1939 made sure no Jew would be in Hebron. The place has historical significance, since Abraham, Jacob and Isaac. Both groups make a claim, and there is no one willing to share.
It is clear the two state solution has become the reality of the ground and the fantasy the Jewish will be swimming will not happen.
The Jewish question has been about identity, especially since human evolution, our real Eden is somewhere in Ethiopia Africa. The idea of ethnicity has been used in Bosnia against Muslins and Rwanda in recent times or today in the Sudan, by Islamic regime against the Christian South.
Hammas, being born from religious charities, supported by the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, had become a counter weight to secular Palestinian Authority, when the PA was in control especially in Gaza became corrupted.
Hammas, being Sunni supported by Iran, Shiaa, with money and weapons, Egypt and Saudi regimes feel threatened, after Hammas took over Gaza from PA by a Coup d’Etat. Egypt with Israel closed the border. Hammas was elected to power through a ballot with the objective of one single Islamic Palestinian State with the territories before the 1947 partition and free of Jews in this Palestinian State and Christians under Islamic law.
Israel has occupied the territories in 1967 and settlements policy had created a conflict not because the occupation, since creation of Palestinian State side by side will begin to resolve the historical rift, but because the issue today is Iran's desire to be the leader in the Islamic world and the symbol is not just Arabs in Jerusalem, but Jerusalem itself.
In July 18 of 1994 AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) was destroyed. 85 people were killed and 200 people injured, in October 25 2006, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman and Marcelo Martínez Burgos, officially charged the Islamic republic of Iran, directing the bomb and Hezbollah militia for executing the bomb explosion. The reason given was because Argentina had stopped the Nuclear Transfer Technology to the Iranian Islamic regime.
On March 6 2007, former Congressman Mario Cafiero and former government official Luis D'Elia provided evidence at a press conference that Abolghasem Mesbahi, along with two other Iranians that gave alleged evidence implicating Iran in the bombing, were members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran and arrest warrants were issued by Interpol for the other two Iranians, Hadi Roshanravani and Hamid Reza Eshagi Hadi Roshanravani.
After Israel left Gaza in 2002 and a year and half of the expulsion, the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier in 2006 accelerated the conflict. Because the wall built in 1967 used to separate the territories, there was limited movement to Israel proper. No suicide bombings were possible. The alternative was the use of Rockets and to use an improved version. Chinese rockets given to Iran that Iran transferred to Hammas, improved the range to include 1.5 Million inhabitant of Southern Israel.
In 2006, Hezbollah kidnapped an Israeli soldier which opened a second war in Lebanon and since the occupation of 10 years by Israel, was the first war in Lebanon. The ferocity of Israel to Lebanon, despite Hezbollah's declaration of victory, issues an apology for bringing such destruction, which we are seeing again in Gaza. The killing of civilians by any side is a crime, but wars create a situation in which civilians pay a price. In Gaza, Hammas was elected and Hammas has an agenda, which is to stop the existence of Isreal as a state. No Jew will be allowed in the new Islamic state. Egyptian state feeling threatened by the Islamic brotherhood and Islamic State of Iran, has kept and will keep the crossing to Rapha closed. Egypt, like Jordan, PA and Saudi Kingdom will come to agreement on the two state solution.
If the right in Israel will take power in the next elections, it will make it difficult at least for four years for any comprise. Violence is an act of last resort and does not produce a good result, but is sometimes inevitable. It is no secret the Israel has in his hands 200 nuclear weapons, and the US 15,000, Russia about 13,000, as a national deterrence, but never explicitly has been used as threat. But the fact that in possession becomes the threat itself, except Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iranian president in October 26, 2005 calling Israel a disgrace and stain in the Islamic world needed to be wiped from the world map, after the Iranian said what he mean was from pages of history. The New York times reviewed the original comments given by the office of the Iranian president, where he called for the wiping of Israel from the map.
The second time he called for the use of nuclear destruction. In the 2008 Election, in the Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton declared if Iran will wipe out a friend of the US, US will wipe out Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the US for the threat of Genocide.
In December 16, 2006, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressing the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust, were he said, ”Israel is about to crash. This is God's promise and the wish of all the world's nations."
Moreover in the same year, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote Angela Merkel a letter where he said the Holocaust was a creation of the Allies against Germany, to make feel guilty.
Another remark Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said to the Iranian news was that he has seen the 13th Immnan. In some ways in Shiaa, will be equivalent to the Messiah. When he gave his speech in the UN, George the 42 President of the US was not the only one to be speaking to God.
A nation which a political system where different religious groups in a parliament defined by this religious groups, France tilted from beginning towards the Maoirie Christian, which at the time had the most population to change eventually, confessionalism in Lebanon had not work just because the 4 distinct groups, Christian Maorite, Druze, Shiaas and Sunis, but because the Israeli conflict and occupation of 10 years by Israel and 20 years by Syria.
Apartheid
In the South Africa act in 1909 by the British Government creating the South African Union, there were two provisions dealing with race. One put a socio economic limitation and the second was the creation of the native affair Ministry, which was used later on the Native Land and Trust Act (1936) that complemented the 1913 Native Land Act, which remove blacks from Cape Town voting roles, but the most significant of the act was that 20% of the controlling population was white, with control over 80% of the land and 80% of the population with 20% of the land. When South Africa past in 1946, the Asiatic Land Tenure Bill (1946), it denied any sale of new land to Indians.
Not since the institution of slavery in the US, has race been used to define a social, political and economic agenda.
The state can limit privileges allocated to the natives, but in secular states the limitations, are defined by civic duties. In some countries, like Iran, Sudan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, were Sharia law is in placed, the rights depend on religion, including sexes and females are limited to a dress code, driving education limitation.
DNA
The question of Israel is about historical claims to a land, and the land has been in major conquest by many of the Religions. Ernest Renan popularized between the years 1923 to 1927, the Ashkenazi Jews were a mix and most of the mix comes from the Khazars who converted to Judaism in the 9th Century. John O. Beaty published The Iron Curtain over America, where he wrote the Khazars Jews would take over America, since he saw the Russians as Turks. Many Pan-Arabic and Islamic used this argument to deny any claim to the land to the Jews, and that the Palestinians had more right then the Jews.
With the DNA study using the Y Chromosome which carried male by male in 1999 study by Hammer et al, published the comparion of the Y chromosomes of Ashkenazi, Roman, North African, Kurdish, Near Eastern, Yemenite, and Ethiopian Jews with 16 non-Jewish groups from similar geographic locations. It found that "Despite their long-term residence in different countries and isolation from one another, most Jewish populations were not significantly different from one another at the genetic level. The results support the hypothesis that the paternal gene pools of Jewish communities from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population, and suggest that most Jewish communities have remained relatively isolated from neighboring non-Jewish communities during and after the Diaspora.”
Left Anti-Semitism
The relationship between Socialist philosophies with the Jews and Israel had been at least confrontational. Many Jews being in the margins of society, took sides with the ones who are being marginalize by the legitimizing power. In many cases the legitimization was by religion.
The sense of marginalization, took many forms from Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Alexander Beckman and Emma Goldman. But a tradition of the 20th Century had manifested in Europe, having a collective tradition and being comprised of marginal groups as more a of tradition of individualism.
This produced a conflict, not just individual rights like Emma going to Lenin and asking for free speech versus the collective demand for individual rights.
With Cuban the Revolution and Vietnam, native revolutions were legitimized, so for example, in Iran, the primer minister through out the 1950s dared to nationalize a natural resource or Honduras at the same time for Land Reform.
The question of nativism is the heart of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict and the left has difficulties to accept a historically marginalized group to challenge collective mentality in Europe. Moreover the fact that the land has been conquered by different groups in region, but the strip has strategic value. The land connects to Africa, with the Middle East and Europe. In the 1960s with liberation theology, where Marxist ideas mixed with Christian ideas in social issues, drew back into Anti-Semitism that has been a part of Christianity since it's inception, whether the Jews are guilty of killing the Christian God, or for not being kind to Christ carrying the cross, or not. There was a recent mini attack in the Synagogue in Caracas, sanctioned by Hugo Chaves' Government, and he did not take responsibility, blaming the opposition.
Of course it is necessary to be critical of governments, their policies, human right violations, and individual making decisions, but the Palestinian Authority and Israel must begin an agreement to resolve the creation of a Palestinian stated leaving side by side.
Because, so far with exception of Turkey, after WWI, who become a secular dictatorship and in recent times, the revival of Islamism in Turkey, the Middle East has no secular tradition except the Baath party. In the case of Iraq, Egypt, or Syria, even the Palestinian Authority has it's origins in the Baath Party which has Authoritarian tendencies, corruption and incompetence.
The partition is a reality and like in Gaza, the settlement was extricated, and will be eventually in the West Bank, opened for the establishment of the Palestinian state.
The UN as of today is out of Gaza not because Israel this time, but Hammas has taken the warehouses from the UN, to exert control over Gaza. Hammas is afraid the PA will reassert itself in the Gaza, and of course both are using the population as pawns, not to deny Hammas was elected in Gaza and that is no secret that Hammas wants Israel to no longer exist and to establish as an Islamic state.
The left is taken by Palestinian nativism force in part because Jews in Europe had not wanted to assimilate to Europe. In some ways the new Islamic population in Europe wants to maintain their identity and Europe demands assimilation in the name of collective assimilation found in the European tradition.
After the Lebanese war and now with the Gaza, the accusation of Human rights or bringing to Holland for the international war crimes, in some ways the US with Israel and 85 nations does not ardent to the court and can not be bring it to a trial, and Hammas is not represented as a nation.
Israel is a secular system with a Jewish identity. The political system is drawn from the British system and the Supreme Court has upheld the rights of Arabs Israelis, regarding job or housing. Of course there is an ethnic conflict, but a secular nation is a internal solution to the Jewish question of having a Palestinian state side by side with Israel.
Close to Hannover, about 15 km from the home where the King George I, II and III were born. The House of the Prussian Kaiser and Royal House of Denmark, Celle was about 1 km from Bergen Belzec, and a camp originally used to house Russian Prisoners of war. The British liberated the camp. The Royal British family origins are from Celle. The British destroyed the camp after liberation out of anger against the Celle population. But at that time it was too late for Anna Frank, who as a Deutsch Jew lived at the camp. Nazi Germany wanted to Bargain them for German prisoners or Ransom her mother and sister that ended up in Auschwitz. Anna's death was due to Cholera in the camp. The camp just put up a memorial and the camp had a small gas chamber, which began to be used by end of the WWII.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Structural Change


2009 begins with a structural change, the economy meltdown just began with an unemployment to have effect from December 2008 and taken full speed in the come months of 2009. Not just the fact the assumption the greed is a good drive for the market and self regulation of the market, the analogy is to ask the wolf to take care the sheep and not to prey the sheep. The fallacy is to assume the system: the market in the long run has a tendency to concentrate the power into the few, and the consequence is incompetence and nepotism.
The educational system is good example to look into, where there is base an educational hierarchy. Where the managers, PhD , MBA are being training in the ivy league universities and they trickle down the philosophy into the rest of the system, since they become the educators, the free market and free market approaches.
The fundamental errors committed in the educational system, from the creation of hedge funds to computer driven market. Nobel prices won by written equations describing this market illusions. The illusion of free market self-regulation and cooperative capitalism where access to the market for everyone, using retirement accounts, with any volatility in the market, the fallacy in this assumption, but more fundamental, the welfare of society base in 19century capitalism, where the wealth concentration in the hands of the few.
Carnegie the steel Baron in his book of Gospel of money following the Calvinist tradition, the wealth is power was God given, his Philanthropy when to the free library system. Carnegie will prefer to see th revenue into libraries any wage increase to a workers, since his argument will use the money to be drunk.
The 19century created inequality and speculation the boots and few benefit. With FDR using Keynesian Economics to stop a working class revolt, but created the middle class, but the fundamental failure, the cure will work for sometime, but the haven work is not enough, because not system or state can not control the market, the fundamental fact the managers, the share holders owners always will benefit in the few hands, in the long run Keynesian economics can not over come. After the FDR and Great society, deregulation was necessary to stop economy stagnation reversing into concentration of the wealth in the hands of the few, a cycle can not be brake into assume the market to be control or market itself is self regulated system.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

2008
We are in a historical time, since the time of the 1970ś when Nixon implemented Casino Market advocated by Milton Friday, applied to health care, by changes the system from non-profit, for a profit and the completed implementation in the 1980s the end result is a permanent 45 Million people in US with out a health care and a total of 52 Million, which included people in one point does not have a health care.
Another social service, which has suffered a similar fate: the student grants were face out to be replace only with student loan, from 1980 to 2008, the private school when from 5,000 USD to 50,000 USD, making an impossible situation, the education become a privilege and through back into the medieval and the renaissance, when the education was only for the elite, not to mention since 1940s education was obtained for the middle class in US through the GI, today the GI bill does not pay tuition for a private institution or public.
Slowly a change start in 1963, when the introduction of credit to replace pay is you go, 40 years plus, today with not trust in a financial system, in post-industrial, where is not actual object can be value, since the industrial world depend on cheap manufacture of Capitalist state like China or Vietnam.
We have a reality: we are in a finite world, were consumption for the few can be substance but consumption for a world of 6 to 9 Billion is not possible. The solution is to leave in a world can be regenerated itself, consume what is possible to replace. And what about the market? The market is artificial build, where the distribution will always benefit to concentration of wealth to few in the society. For that reason a alternative most be found, now more then ever.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Greatness

A major of civilization is not the achievements from monuments, culture or any intellectual, but greatness is how we treat, respect and take care the weakest amount us. In 365 in Nicea, the west take the path which define what type of civilization, before the Authoritarian tendency of Persia and Rome, the absolutist of the Middle East Religions, the Greek democracy Elitism, but what Nicea accomplished, crated the Proto-Feudal economy eventually the Capitalistic System. Buy deigning the Jews to own Slaves, yes in Judaism the master had the right to free the slave , but he will be consider a Jew. The New Developed Christian Religion did not one, the consequence was, since the economic system in the period and more in Rome based on Slaves. The Jewish land owner can not competed with free labor from a slave work. Austine in the City God, base on Plato Republic created a political structure the every one belong to some one, the lords to the king, the peasant to lords and the outsiders, the Jews to the King.
The second event from Nicea was the legitimization of power, the new Christian Religion did not required the circumcision of the Hebrew tradition but proclaim a new law in the process they become the new self chosen appointed in the process legitimize power as divine right affirmed by the new Christian religion power. The tradition of the divine was invoke not just by the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, Islam, and Luther Reformation was a not revolution but request to be to past the purity of what Luther bias of his time of what Christianity, a reactionary force.

The holocaust born in Nicea, but putting the Jews outside, when the community of Worms rejected Luther, the Anti-Semitic spread from Crusades, the Ghettos of Venice and Islam own challenge because the Jews did not accepted the New Messiah, not like Christianity, the Messiah was sacrifice and hence a new Religion was created, Islam needed actual acknowledgment from the Jews which did not get to legitimize the divine right.

The tradition was past into the secular world, where this absolutes hypothesis like Authority Market of the 19 Century Capitalism and collapse in 1920ś another Authoritarian strands, Fascisms born in the Roman Catholic Church. Italian Mussolini and Franco Spain, the Nazi the hybrid of the Catholic Church and Luther, of course the Soviet Union, the Manager paradise in the name of the oppress working class could not escape the Authoritarian tradition of the West.

Our failure is not recognize the assumptions, our free marketers which assume our individual interest will not created self destruction and the crams of a table will be diluted into society.

Especially, Humans we have prove how creative we can be in self-destruction Only when actual pain we stop and think the consequence, some times. Today as we have found again, the we need to have a middle ground between need of community and individuals, and crumbs never reach.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

A Question of Crises
George of Santayana famous warning “Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat”, crises, occurred not as a single moment but a build of many moments. Human history has been bases on crises and these crises are about power. Since human gathers settled into dwellers, the losses organization was structure, whether intentionally or by accident into despotic authoritarian individual, from east to a single individual, China to Persia and for the west the Athens of class of free white men or Rome a plutocrat classes, eventually evolved into a single individual.
Constantine by embracing Christianity created a another hold, human in early stage is to be trusty to elders to leant from previous experiences, but Constantine genius was use religion, to that time was devolved to multiple worships into a single one, and St Augustine expressed into City of God, but the rationalization of despotic system was Socrates and expressed in Plato Republic. In the Republic, the poets and dramaturges were the outsiders, since they appeal to human emotion creating skeptics, who are challenging the established order. Into today terms are culture, scientist will fall into the category, since they question the established order.
Two results are clear the property was base on the power of Authority whose defined who was to benefit ownership, created the right to land, case in point the conquest of America by West was in name of the Monarchy establishing right of the land independent of who was in the land.
The second the emotional justification, religion, using the God given right, but the Hebrew had tradition, the fact they existed challenge the justification of divine right, hate is political tool born, we called today as Anti-Semitism promoted for 2000 years by the Roman Catholic Church, by manifestation appear in Against the Catarrhs, the Crusade used to recapture Jerusalem from Islam who also being influence by the western thinking, manifested in Caliphate or power of the Mullah Shia Islam.
Luther in the reformation past the same Anti-Semitism rage, because question the new self described chosen people, but the issue against the Jews was not Christianity alone, but Islam, since both were make claim the Divine right. The consequence was by legalize Anti-Semitism in Ghettos, in Europe, was pogroms beginning in the Christians Crusades, the inquisition in Spain and combine the last 200 years of intensity Anti-Semitism by the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Church especially Lutheran Evangelic Church in Germany, when Anti-Semitism was secular out the power of the Religious groups was Holocaust, there is a need to point out, by Roman Catholic church by recognized Mussolini power and helping. In Germany case, the first country to recognize the Nazi regime in diplomatic level was the Roman Catholic Church.
The political consequence of Authoritarian Despotic initially, manifested in the slave trade accepted in Islam, for Western Europe the introduction initially soft, meaning to Original Natives of The Americans the Spaniards slave them, to de las Casas after 20 years abdicate they were Humans, so they had a soul, the church accepted the argument, but did not stop exploitation as slaves, but not open call as slave, case of Guarani in Paraguay. The French in Haiti used race as tool to defined slave included the Portuguese in Brazil.
But the strong effect was found in the British Colony were with introduction of Slaves was legalize as race. Even after abolition of Slave, the new US of America continue to 1863, three years after civil conflict begin 1861, since Lincoln come to the realization the 400 years of the trade, especially in the Southern States, the economy was based using African Decent slaves by this time the international trade was being abolished. The used of raced produced wealth since the commodities (i.e. tobacco and rice and by the time of the civil conflict cotton become king). Lincoln method for dismantle the South was not new in the 1776 war with British, the British offered freedom to any slave will fought for the crown.
Since the civil conflict was not moral issued, but to maintain a federal structure, after the reconstruction 1873, began in South (the appear early by start to take shape KKK as intimidation to deny right to vote) idea of separation of the races, eventually legalize in case of New Orleans for African Americans to sit in the back to of the Bus.
The economy of this system was the all financial system benefit and the eve of the civil conflict New York wanted to be out of the Union, many trade, investment firms and manufacture firms, like in the case of ship yards Philadelphia and Rode Island, who built transport for the slave trade itself or transport the commodities to Europe.
The attitude of master and servant build in this despotic Authoritarian system peculated into the American industry, even the most Progressive in the industry like Pulman ideal city any worker could be evicted for change in his house, since the company defined what was acceptable, on the other hand in more repressive in West Virginia the mine cities, the only store in the camps owned by the company gauge the market and pretty much workers had not choice to pay extortion monies to the industry. The reaction by Authoritarian power for example the steel industry dealt with strike in Mckee Rocks 1900 strikes and 1886 Haymarket in Chicago which catalyzed the labor movement in US of America.
After so many social, race and religious conflict we left with different type despotic and authoritarian models, in Europe, we have or had in the right to left, in the right from Absolutes in case Mary Antoinette, and following this tradition Fascist in Italy, Nazi Germany and Christian Dictator in Spain by Franco. To Absolutist President in France, the Parliamentary system of British Aristocrats, to Scandinavian Moderate absolutisms base on the homogenous society and the old Soviet Union, where a new management class suppose come from the working class become the new lords, and practice in China today.
In the case US the political system has reduced to despotic, authoritarian model base in nepotism, which has produce incompetence, FDR to deal of free for all Capitalism put internal brakes in the assumption the individual needs, eventually will be in conflict with community, the member enter into the elite is wealth, the Calvinist attitude god choose me and therefore I have the wealth, so I can be the benevolent dictator, has be come the ideal, the reality a massive incopentese system one again is collapsing.
Journal Biotechnlogy, January 2008, by Bouchard, et al, repeating a study done by MIT in 1997, of the 21 drugs most important introduce from 1961-1992 , the used of public funding 14 of the 21, and continue by study of the Boston Globe in 1998, 45 of the 50 drugs best selling drugs in US from 1992-1997 come from public funding. Another study from Center Study of Responsive Law from 2007, 34 of 37 cancer studies done in US from 1955-1992 was funding by US Public funding.
One issue is clear long term work, since DNA discovery in 1950’s to today still the Gene Therapy a promise, but a long term commitment can not be done by single individual or a group, because there is not guaranty or possibility any success, communities making the commitment.
The idea a single authority can or defined, the need of community, or just a group, enter into conflict, the question is if the son is responsible of the father mistakes, the answer is depends, if we do not confront and find and take not responsibility we are not just a guilty we are more guilty
What are our options, the options is Libertarian Comunities.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Responsibility
A fundamental question for individuals and a social when responsibility need to take place, in Anglo universe, a responsibility is a right. For example, many who belong to the religion of the free market does not think the health care is not right, despite the fact because not individual, social group or corporation, which are limited in time and finite resources to committed to a long and not guaranty of success like health care.
The fact is every individual has finite days and the human condition will brake down, we all get sick and will be death of anything, because the incentive of a profit when human condition is to come to some end the market can not be premise to a loss, then society come into place and resources are used to guaranty not by small group, but a social decision guaranty a chance, a example DNA, from the discovery in the 1950ś to the Human Genome in the 1990ś was close 40 years, not only possible medications but the total enterprise which is survival, with out not guaranty.
Another example of consequence is social responsibility, in example since 1861 the beginning of USA civil war, the war has been repeated every 4 years, weather one group another has used the fear of losing control of the plantation and the African Americans in the plantation. The slave system in US was unique using race is away to become a questions of economics. The economics when for 500 years and the economics were found, in educational system, Brown University, founders made the wealth in the salve trade, but they where not the only ones, Harvard, Princeton and Kings College (Columbia University), not just from donations or endowments of wealthy benefactors, but insurance like Aetna guaranty loans to the plantation owners against the collateral, slaves, humans being sell into the market, but not the only ones or unique, to the investments banks in New York City, which plantation owners invested, but a economic system base on the slave trade, the ship builders in Philadelphia and Rhode Island, the economics trade peculated into donation of slaves for the construction of the congress builds in Washington D.C. never the less never to forget, the plantations owner in democratic system had a 3/4 value for each slave on the top of one man one vote, where is the responsibility of 500 years, not only the 100 after civil war second class was accepted into 1963, but because 500 years still question, one hectare and one mule, or the benefit of WWII generation were extended to African Americas were is the responsibility.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

How Many is to Many?

Whether by nature or desire a consequence of our evolution, we have spent our short time to find a meaning, and we measure our meaning, perhaps, because our span of our life to short, we measure everythingg, as raising against time and in generally, since, the late 20 Century we consider a changes for a period of 10 years.
Our obsession of measure try to answer a question, what are measured needed for actual event could happen, like life and everything? 42 dimensions, a dimensions is a value, like distance, time and the total 42 values is needed to have a event to happen like life itself.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Responsibility
In the Anglo-Saxon world we are in a continues bombardment of personal responsibility, the question what is personal responsibility and what is a community. In the 90ś a communitarian philosophy was developed on the idea of the individual responsibility. When the myth of individual is with certain frame, the frame is base on, we have choice in an open system, the basic flow is the system is not open and so the choices either. The system we are part as base on nepotism, family connections, where the wealth open access to certain positions and race.
The question of community in Europe which there is central, dependent in the homogeneous of the group or race, many immigration conflict is base on this principle. Today in Spain with the Roman Conflict and Italy where the spirit of Authoritarian and fascist ideals had not change since WWII.
On the other extreme is US where the open system with race and nepotism driven the idea of individual, the choice does not exits, the market is just a illusion where the elites benefit for themselves. In Colombia where 80% of the population is in poverty and the informal sector can't give a security. Where welfare system is base on charity can not solve the or begin to deal with inequality and elites owning 70% of the economy.
One sad behavior the case of abortion is deny on any case and women have found death because cancer found in pregnancy can not be treated and for the cancer victim only death. The Roman Church with all historical crimes against humanity and not just the willing and participant with Nazi Germany or Mussolini fascist or the force Baptism of Lazzaro or after WWII help many war criminals to escape to Latin America. Religion, State, Capital or power are the ones who define our system and our choice, still we have the power just to walk away, the long we submitted our own will, they have the power, the cost is to lose anything in the system, but what we gain is our freedom.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Judgment
Spinoza in A Theologico-Political Treatise in Chapter XX, "If men's minds were as easily controlled as their tongues every king will sit safely on his throne", later on in the same place man has natural rights he can never abdicate even his consent and Spinoza admit the judgment has an inherent bias. The questions arise what is the inherent bias in judgment, Montaigne in Essay Vol I Chapter 34, of a defect in our policies "My whilome-father. a man who had no helped but from experience, and his owned nature, yet of an unspotted judgment, hath heretofore told me, that he much desired to bring this costume. which is. that in all cities there should be a certain appointed place, to which, whosoever should have need of any thing, might come cause his business to be registered by some officer appointed by this purpose." He said judgment from experience and from the type of experience an action. Judgment are bias build on assumptions acquired by experience, there is educational tradition, the knowledge exists independent of reality, and the reality conform, but judgment is a cation to a point of reference, and reference is the bias a experience which is built on a set of assumptions.

Of course each culture, given by the social experience created the reference points, which action are created, but this assumptions are from behaviors, many times misplace and of course the absolutes come from the repeated experienced, nature is being defined by the repeating a method, but there is a social definition. The repeat or the method can be reproduce, but there is context or meaning need consider every step in the method need to be understood, where social assumptions are involved a judgment depend on the frame of references which is being applied.
What certain behavior is acceptable or expected in some frame referenced, in another will not be acceptable, to defined in absolutes the consequence is many case this absolutes experience or judgment can't be adapted. In there is a behavior, like we expect for example everyone around us to behave the same, when is not the case, a social conflict has following. Family, and the power associated with cast in the family created conflicts, historically had grave consequence.
A failure in judgment is to impose a behavior, because threat our power relationship producing a conflict.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Delusion
When powers losses their strength are many factors, but the they are two tend to appears most overreach and denial.
The overreach manifest some times as material wealth, power in general tend to use what what is easy, for example force and terror, since there is an immediate control and short run the cost is not that great, except in the long term to maintain the power the cost increase since, the power is not cost free, to maintain, there is a greater cost .
The delusion of power is the can be maintain without any cost, since is base in an immediate necessity can't be plan in a long term.
The overreach is base on a believe this power can be maintain and project. Any projection will increased the power, power has hiding cost-time becomes the material cost and trying to maintain an elite is created for the only purpose is to pay the price of maintain the control, but in time and space the cost is not free need to be share by the whole, then cost become share everyone and the accumulation brings a society to brake point.
The delusion to maintain the power and project, the group needs to created myth of the power, to project and justify, even many generations, since the assumptions can't be maintain due to the cost of maintain and project the power will collapsed out his own power. Since justification and reason of power is control, the losing control, bring to a end. Control for for the sake of control, to maintain any mythology has a cost from the elite who benefit of the status qua and population a large who will and always has to pay the final price.
The difference between of revolution and a rebellion, a revolution changes elites, where a rebellion is the individual change the social contract, and reshaped the structure which form the society's, from the individual behavior what is acceptable, to a collective, what is reason for the society, how to related to each other.
We all have the power to make change, the reason society function, we all accepted the rules, but if we all cross our arms, everything stop, when a single individual cross their arms, is called antisocial, when two cross the arm is described a relationship, but when there are more then two becomes rebellion and social changes.
Society to control the power of stop believing, give us a frame we can change, but of course the rules are defined but the ones who are benefit and the elites defined the frame of the rules. The educational system and especially higher education is reinforcing a propaganda defined by elites and consequences has been a bad judgment Oh Syracuse!
A solution is to create solidarity across and just cross the arms to stop. We have power by not believing Galileo sin was to cast doubt to the doctrine, to the frame, we should cross our arms and cast doubt, we only one and two and then a Union.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Review
A factor in the island mentality, which have own US for generations: there never has been occupation by a foreign force since 1812 war with British Empire, in the 20 Century Japan attack to the Hawaiian Islands and more recent time the events of September 11.
A factor in 1920 and 1930's California had a Spanish population who was absorbed when territory was lost in the war 1846. In the 1920's and 1930's many decedent of the Spanish colonization were deported to Mexico and help reinforce a racial divided driven by the economics, The color slave economic had a 500 years use of Africans of color and after 1863 when Lincoln out to brake the south liberate the free labor which the South and North benefit for 400 years, the story does not end for 100 years with the civil rights struggles and today we still feel the consequence.
The isolation of a truthful continental nation with exception of Canada and Russia, who developed the continental nation in different direction of the racial US, where Canada base in multi culture and Russia just a Empire.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Conquest
When a land has been conquer, what are the consequences? The first concequence is oppress has the right and obligation to rebel, if many generations are born in the conquest land does not make property of the conquest, the place is located in the hands of the original claim (we are talking about a legal transaction). If we considered Islam conquest of Spain in 718 and holding the land for closed to 800 years and the Spanish reconquest in 1492 completed a cycle, with the expulsion not only of Islam, but the Jews.
The conquest of Jerusalem 637 from the Byzantine Empire, did not resolve the claim to the city, and the fact through period of close of 2,000 Jews were outsiders in the Christian and Islamic society. Where in Christian did not have a legal identity, being a permanent outsiders and Islam world, they had legal identity as second class citizen and the same to Christians in the land control by Islam. The Christian claim took action the right to reconquest in 11 and 12 century haven the Latin Kingdom for closed 90 years, going back to Egypt, after to Turkish Empire, and later to the British.
In recent times Canada for example is trying to resolved the conquest by England with the first nations, where the fact there never was a legal resolution, in the case of Spain, Islam was force was use force out and Israel (especially Jerusalem) after the partition by UN, whether the partition was act upon, since in 1920´s the British took control from the Turks, a partition was promise as solution to permanences of the Jews being outsiders in Europe-this type relationship is not just one case, but when the Turks conquest the Balkans, the rural areas hold there Christian identity and city dwellers when to Islam the conflict of 1990´s was result of the conquest and without resolution. Today in Iraq, the Kurds are dealing being a distinct group one a national identity separate, the consequence of conquest a permanent conflict, since conquest does not create a ownership right.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Hope
Despised of so many silver lines and black clouds, the are moments which can say humans have some hope. The fact the New York philharmonic give a friendship concert in north North Korea, not the first time since Berlin, even all Soviet Union the fact the long we have contact with each other we can share our experience, since we are belong to the family specie. We share a common destiny, to find the middle ground is a very hard how to be individual and being part of community, maybe the answer ethical choice some times individuals need to be the individuals to put the community interest over them selves, but in other cases the individual need t make a choice which is against the community. Ethical behavior is to learn how to make a decision where middle ground need to be found.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Solidarity
Solidarity is an interested word or an interested though, today in the US, we have between 42 to 47 Million person without any kind health insurances and 52 Million total with in year without health insurance. The rest who has any insurance, they are been restricted to the access from the primary care, specialist or medication, and whether you forgot intentional or unintentional omitted information, they reserved the right to deny retroactive the access, even when you have the access you have pay some cost from hospital care , medication or physician.
The US in development world pay the most expensive care close to 7,000 USD and in some level US get very little in return, since at least 17% has not access compare to Europe, where there is universal access or Canada with a national health insurance administer by provinces, and the right to health insurance as part of the bill of rights of Canada.
The public in the US subsides health system, NHI provide grants from the basic biology to medical application and NSF provide more money for fundamental work, without the support many technology development can´t be happened. But the support does not end there, teaching Medical School, get support from the federal, state even local (city). In Puerto Rico the pharmaceuticals have tax heaven since their argument become provide jobs, which is the case in some cases. and many commercial enterprise get tax shelters, subsides and grant money as public support to the public health.
Still despited the society share or paying the cost not just we have a portion of the society without health care or the one who has is ration, the question is how we got to this point, in 1970´s Nixon with Kaiser Permanent of California conspire the creation of commercial health care where the objective is profit.
The idea of the market driving with myth whatever is good for the individual trickle down to community, the end result is a conflict with the reality we born and we die in between we get sick. The biological machine with time degrades and each time become a cost.
There another example where cost come with conflict with society as education, we are not just talking about human knowledge, but the educational system in US is a vocation to obtained a job. In the end of WWII white America give himself GI Bill where two options: one option was down payment for a house, to build a capital or legacy transferring to the own future generations and the second option educational grants, millions white America education give access to consumer life, where African Americas was deny for the second time, the first in the reconstruction after of the civil war was promise of a mule and some acre of land.
In the 1980´s with the ideal of dismantle Keynesian economy of Government involvement, where Nixon started with the most intimate aspect of existence life, health care by given Health Insurance a commercial mandate, the next was the educational system, where Regan cut grants not just the GI Bill, but any government grant and turn to loans, the educational system become just a commercial enterprise. The dismantle of the government also dismantle the access to social system.
In 1980´s and and 1990´s economic crises in Asia, Latin America, Mexico, but the total collapse of the Argentinian monetary system, in many cases money loans by the Government to factory owners, they default loans in many case ended in private accounts outside the country, where the Argentinian people could not access their own money during the crises.
There is illusion human relationships can be put into a logical system and hence, define rules can predicted behavior and one of this illusion is the science of economics. To reduce humans to simple logical rules, forget our 90% or irrationality. Our irrationality makes us to do things against our interest, form electing politician who will go against our interest, to destructive behavior, all political systems from left to right had done in one point in time, democracy for example for close to 165 years had a set of people as perpetual slaves.
There is human feeling which sprung with the same irrational state of the human condition empathy, we share experience, the same human pain of the human condition, not to say the because truly cultural difference, because geography, family, values or religion, but human condition is we born and we die in between we struggle, in this struggle we find solidarity. The idea we are individuals and there is not consequence, when economic collapse occur and situation become outside of our control solidarity born, and we can relate to the individual pain and we willing to do something to give a chance not about the individual but to all of us.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Thousand Island
Kafka in the Castle, K is being charge, just for being himself, there is not need for any explanation, since the charge, become a existential question. The romantic moment in Germany was about the existential question, in return to the right to exist as individual, the individual needed to accepted the collective identity, there was not room for K, Slavic, Czech or Jews.
The concequence is intolerance to the right to decent. The collective identity was base on the ideal of agriculture society. But the power was not in a commune or village or a city, the power was a paternalistic structure, where the lord defined the values for the collective identity, there is not accident the Europe Aristocrats families come from the House of Hannover or more exact Celle a small city about 15 Km of Hannover. Where a minor French Aristocrat Sophie Dorothea descents are the major aristocrats of Europe. Where the Sun king had the absolute power.
The idea of absolute power in US was extended to a small class, defined by a privilege education, where privilege is access to the information of what is power, connections, money and image of all of them define the power elite, where in Europe immediate Family, tribe is the main drive, where in the US race is the case for example in the Southern States after even civil war was lost, the power over dark skin slaves was by the white skin, through separate but equals, but some are more equals then others, and the equal was the same skin, of course up to and after WWII, antisemitism was and still a factor, but was defined through the cultured, since intolerance was towards individuals, who will not accepted the collective believes and values. The Calvinist believe God give a wealth, so is a responsibility to control the wealth, the morality is not how to obtain wealth, but how to manage. The wealth in US or European nations had not issued with ethics of exploitation, since God defined power.
In the border between US and Canada the St Lawrence river has a thousand island, each one independent, but the ecosystem intertwined, the question how to balance the middle ground, where the individualism of US or collectivism of Europe, or tribal political power of Africa, the Middle East or East itself, or the cast system of India.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Education is Power
Since, the time we have recorded events we have describe these events in two level, the personal our immediate family, relationships in this context and authority. Knowledge is to transmitted a behavior, and the power define the norms as Henry V play the King of England define costume. In the Greek Tradition the pedagogue was a slave with the job to protect suitors of boy, since in Greek Culture relationship between the same sex was accepted, the pedagogue represented the father authority, the Sunday schools control by the religious authority defined the norm, eventually the cathedral schools were transform into power centers of the secular power in University of Bologna and Theology of University of Paris in Medieval Europe.
In Bologna, the house of the students were supported by the nobility of their land, since they will be Nobility, Bureaucracy and the power which define Behavior. Knowledge become defined as power itself, in some traditions the higher the educational title is a license to practice a behavior and authority is given to practice behavior by state.

Monday, October 29, 2007

The Question of Power
To talk about tolerance, there is a need to talk about more basic behavior of power. The assumption that power is method, but reality is a social, biological interaction. From the social stand the conflict between individual and collective behavior. Individually power is to pas to a next generation, the conflict arise since sometimes is not just individual but the collective. The idea of individual sacrifice for the common good, is not a exception, but more regular event, but depends in the common value and the situation where the challenge happen.
Second level is the immediate, the family. Because the behavior is about the next generation, female was reduce to subservient, and method to achieve the status is about information control, access to the information was reduce to power.
For a period of 4,000 years there where periods the subjugation was broken. But Christianity is an institution inherent a empire, and the need for status control was manifested not just a political power, but knowledge the fact was the transform Roman Empire into a Christian Empire and close of the Academy and Lyceum in Athens, set precedent to control.
Islam with their own version of Empire and control challenge Christian power structure, because the failure of Latin Kingdom Christianity turn into self into corruption, the reformation was revolution and also reactionary reaction to power. Where the reactionary aspect of the revolution was to a more patriarchal dominance.
But, because Islam challenge the creditability of Christian power is minimize and to explain the failure open themselves to the pagan Knowledge of Socrates and Aristotle. The industrial revolution braked the power of the small communities and the cities created the anonymous individuals. The power of patriarchal force through Napoleon was transform the citizen and the new structure was the state. But the individual structure existed because the control of female through sex, the pill open the power, now we are in cross roads, how to created a relationship between equals, where individual and collective need to come to terms.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Fall
The fall is period when push before the winter slowdown everything, for Western Societies is period of reflection, just take a moment feel the wind getting cooler and change colors, in the north, and reflect the long year to come.

Monday, September 03, 2007

Freud and Today
Whether you admire Freud or not, the slow process of question orthodoxy of the social system in Europe for 2,000 Christianity as force which dominate the political landscape, social and economics. Galileo was a son of the Roman Catholic church and needed their approval, even accepted the seclusion impose by the Pope. Only by the time Darwin, Europe was transform from rural society were major land owners, by conquest as the case William the Conqueror making claim land of the Anglo-Saxons by force and eventually through this force claims private propertied was expand and extended dominance. In other lands of Europe, the claim was done by the Feudal order impose by the pyramid expose by the Catholic Church, where there order start with the power of the Church given by God and Nobility overlord, whether elected or by family and validated by Church saying he god has defined the power of the lord. Not to the time of the reformation of Henry VII, England secular power by the King become the only power or in Germany where the reform movement was Romantic, to the ideal of an individual religion. But the order of power was not alter, Luther despite the peasant revolt, because alter the sense of order, Luther had since the time of being a monk.
The industrial revolution alter the rural power to concentrate more power to the cities, in so many ways, some German cities had chapters of independence or recognition by the lords, by accepted some authority by the lords and many cities pay the lords for the rights.
With the power of the state being secularize there was some independence, and Napoleon Europe's was base in the citizen obligation to the state, not lord or God. Darwin with the laws of evolution when to fundamental questions to give alternative to creation independent of God and Mendel himself a member of the cloat with Genetics with the work define alternative history to the one given by any religion. So far in Mendel time Nature was descriptive before any Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Mendel work using probability give a theoretic foundation to descriptive study of Nature.
But Freud brought the question not just to Nature observations, but brought to the human experience, whether was due to reproduction or more complex, where Biochemistry of Humans, had made a more complex understanding. Freud obsession with Moses in the question about God and for Moses if existed was figure of history and the rest was mythology, created from the psychological need of sexuality of slaves being abuse by a master. For Freud Moses was a empirical question.