tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-104595652012-01-23T08:37:24.823+01:00<a href="http://www.last.fm/user/jonathanez/?chartstyle=Bubbles"><img src="http://imagegen.last.fm/Bubbles/recenttracks/jonathanez.gif" border="0" /></a>jonathan even-zoharhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04692321923017493652noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10459565.post-70239713433313840302007-12-07T15:30:00.000+01:002007-12-07T15:32:27.543+01:00

It has been a really long time since i have posted a blog. And, guess what, not so much has changed in the world. The West is still stuck, Russia is stuck, China is stuck, EU is stuck, Israel is obviously stuck, and my parents divorced.Here is an amazing composition by Terence Blanchard, for the Spike Lee Joint "WHen the levees broke", on hurricane Katrina.

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http://view.break.com/278059 - Watch more free videosFrom onegoodmove.orgCrazy American church....

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In a month where relationships around me that seemed stable and grounded fell apart, or got destroyed, this song with this video helps reminding me what it is about

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What? On June 9th 2007 a one-day Symposium will be held in the Great Auditorium of Naturalis, the Natural History Museum of Leiden. Everybody is welcome, entrance fee is 20,-, 10,- for students. Register Now!Why? So if evolution is the theory of the development of life and human history is a collection of arguments, data and constructs, then what on earth would the two have in common?

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So what do we make of this? The end of the video concludes "Now You Know", but will the computers ever know? I guess not..

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So downloading movies and music without paying fo rit is piracy, and so major conglomerations and captains of legal industries are on the hunt to torrent spreaders and p2p-users. They may as well keep hunting as the economy of digital media is not on their side.Insightfull and interesting aspect here.

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Never mind the regular joints, Spike Lee Joints always open my eyes. Last nights we watched Inside Man with Clive Owen and Denzel Washington starring a very unusual bank-robbery vs. NYPD story. I won't go into the details but this movie, mostly due to its soundtrack puts you in the position i as viewer enjoy most: thinking and consuming.Not your average stampeding police action, or criminally

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Still puzzling for me: what's wrong with a female face?

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I yearn to learn, yet I have no problem looking into the redecorated unskinned unidentified dead Chinese carcasses at the Bodies exhibition, now on display in Amsterdam.Fascinating as the human body is, with all the different systems working with blood, nerves, the brain and the senses, this does conflict with the superhigh moral Human Rights values.Yet, the museum is filled with high-educated

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Some time after disaster struck New Orleans, i wrote a blog called Hurricanes Kill, Humans confuse.Humans confuse now even more, after i seen part one and two of spike lee's documentary on the whole thing.And now i know how George Bush got himself re-elected after this fuckup. He didn't cut up national budgets, so economists sit quiet, nagging about bankpolicy.

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And so the election in The Netherlands came and went. Tidy, clean, organised, informing, hotly debated but mildly put. Diverse political colors, wings, fractions, perspectives, percentages, biographies, histories, interviews and some comedy have passed my view of the media. The Dutch people seem to be Democracy-loving people. In a world of civil war, exploitation, unfairness, inequality,

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And so the election in The Netherlands came and went. Tidy, clean, organised, informing, hotly debated but mildly put. Diverse political colors, wings, fractions, perspectives, percentages, biographies, histories, interviews and some comedy have passed my view of the media. The Dutch people seem to be Democracy-loving people. In a world of civil war, exploitation, unfairness, inequality,

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Yet another fulfilling hour of YouTubing, accomplishing this:

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A large chunk of land, held to be a part of Europe, historically ruled by many differing empires, split into three categories of big religions, that by themselves count for many differing sects. The Balkan, Turkey and the Caucasus is a very complex area, which perhaps explains the scale of nationalistically inspired violence in the last century. Just have a look at these websites to get a grip on

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and Bush uses "The Google"

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I don't know much about Afghanistan, except the broad outlines of its history. Hellenic, Persian, Muslim, British, Russian, Taliban...and then there is now. The free West, allied under the umbrella of NATO is in charge of babysitting the young democracy of Afghanistan. From the debates and information available in general media, the most important issue seems to be the fight against the Taliban

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Yesterday I watched a piece on CNN International (the only CNN I can receive in The Netherlands) about some town in Arizona with a legendary wool-factory, which was now taken over by hispanics. This was in a programme (Insight) hosted by this trustworthy Jonathan Mann (i believe this was his name yes). Now, i have heared lots about the hispanisation problem of the USA, as cheap labor is puring in

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Many of us are used to the standard projection of the globe with north being up, etc...There are endless ways to project the world, and i will post them all here when i have the time. For now, i ran into this blog on the net. Amazing maps!

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What is one planet for one person, is a world full of terrifying alien elements to another. Western Civilisation is supposidly under threat. Our freedom of speech is under siege, no longer can we walk the streets without looking behind our backs. We, esspecially the Europeans, are loosing pride and confidence in our culture, thereby making way for Eurabia, Eurasia of Eurafrica.Within one or two

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I hereby declare death to all that is "West". I see no logic or any form of sense in the existence of such an identity, or reality. Accepting the existence of such a term has caused only pain, inequality, poverty, war and destruction. Science is supposed to use words that contain a certain quantifyable and/or falsifyable truth, and i think "West" has non of these traits. For when one looks at a

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Yet another fun thing on YouTube:

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YouTube seems to become my new TV. I imagine what i want to see or absord, i look for it, i find it, i see different options to continue to other video's. Here is a great interview with my favorite music band, which i am going to see live for the second time this year (in Ahoy, Rotterdam).Tool!

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Apperantly the US also stuck its nose into the Iraqi history school textbooks and appointed some iraqi expat to assign some history educators to put together a saddam- and baathless history book in 2003. Some Fuad Hussein, a European Kurd, was in charge and i have a hard time finding anything else about him on internet. Curious as i am, working at euroclio, the european history teachers

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Most of the time I wonder what will come next, how i could anticipate this happening and what can be needed to improve the progress during this time. Often I also reflect an evaluate the methods applied during this time. Sometimes i am critical of the chosen procedures, sometimes i am content and every once and a while i am happy. This is not say i am not a happy person. Happiness is an essential

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Visit Borat.tv for more ridiculous comedy

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...you have to mash some chickpea'sAnother exemplar example why i love the daily show for holding up a mirror to the USA.

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Bombs and Rockets, Alliances and Empires, Democracies and Nations. Dictatorships and Revolutionaries. All keep feeding the big Terror that mankind seems to need in order to live. Security can only be achieved through agreements. Agreements cannot be achieved by power, not standing ones at least.Israel must be allowed to exist? Hezbollah must be allowed to kill? Iran must be allowed to develop

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A demonstration in Britain (London, i presume) that clearly celebrates Hezbollah's efforts to kill innocents, and legitimises this in the violent history of the state of Israel and their military-fascist regime. I am no man for choosing sides, in any conflict. People do as they do, and they will continue to do so.

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A nice article from a Manhatten-Israeli to be read here

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For the 4th time in a row I have spend four days in the dusty, dirty and heated post-apocalyptic youth-oriented alternative music festival near Mons, in the south of Belgium. With friends and my girlfriend we have witnessed crazy, beautiful, stoned, drunk, kind and rude Europeans having a time of their life. We have seen musical expressions from many parts of the world. Mono from Japan,

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For years now i am watching The Daily Show, for my input on the American News. I enjoy his sense of parody in every rendition of the headlines and i enjoy the interviews, whether serious or funny. I now just seen his comment on 9/11-attacks, and being almost 5 years ago it seems surreal..

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As a kid growing up in Israel i have always, always, been told Hezbollah get their katyushot missiles from Iran and Syria. Several BBC reporters have gone into the world of Hezbollah and it is not a pretty sight. Like in Kony's Ugandan "Army of the Lord" children are disciplined to join the military order from 7-10 years old. They breathe hate and loathing of the State of Israel and learn the

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Vrede, hoop op een toekomst zonder grenzen tussen mensen, een toekomst met voldoende eten, drinken en met een zekerheid van vrede. Het houdt veel mensen bezig. De mensen in Europa zijn reeds vrij zeker van hun toekomst en het bestrijden van de armoede lijkt aan de hand een succesformule door te gaan. Het vertrouwen in de economie en het begrip "groei" is stevig en met gemak leven de mensen binnen

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No words can cover the pain that madness and inhumanity experienced by people confronted with massive disruptions in lives caused by war, and genocide in particular. Forms of expression trying to deal with these stories like photographs, histories and movies are all ways to counteract the violence itself, mostly by reenactement, retelling and exposing this dark side of the human form. All people

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Evert and me visited Little John in Oxford, and we were pulling it very goodly     

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Political AffiliationFor the second time in my life i joined a political movement. The first time was when i just moved to live on my own. I was very attracted to the SP (Socialist Party). I had just walked in anti-war demonstrations in Amsterdam and Leiden, and being very disappointed with the other parties in The Netherlands i decided to join the SP...For months i received their party spam, i

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Yesterday I went to my second Tinbergen Lecture, organised by the Natural History Museum, the NRC and Leiden University. Last year Jared Diamond spoke about collapsing societies and the need to acknowledge the need for cooperation if we want to survive. This time it was Edward O. Wilson. This eminent scholar spoke about the need for unified science. Environmental Policy, Biology, Social Science

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How come that movies such as Saw, Hostel and other Gore flicks are good entertainment, while a realization of true violence makes people sick. People attracted to real violence footage are considered as sick people by society in a comparable manner as pedophiles and snuffophiles.I recently downloaded Faces of Death and Terrorists, Killers and Middle East Wacko's. I watched Faces of Death for

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Remarkably important website of a pro-peace person: Just and PeacefulThis man went to a meeting of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (The main US-Israel militant Lobby group keeping conflict and repression alive in the Holy Land), i read on Dennis Fox's BlogAnd shit, I forgot Europe Day on the 9th, how un-European of me was that!

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First Post using 'Post Blog Entry'I have been enjoying Ubuntu today, configuring shit, moving shit, installing with the tip of my fingers (and without the mouse)So this is just a test, results: positive!

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I have been contacted to participate in an online discussion group that will adress misconceptions, bring peace and understanding and level between the islam and europe. The initiative for this Alliance came from the Spanish and Turkish Prime Ministers.I am very happy that something like this happens, proving that the internet does have use not only in the global-universal meaning of the word,

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What to do when people stop looking inwards at all in order to engage in violent conflict is easy.You fight back and you win.Keeping people who start looking inwards after a period of violence and crime happy is more difficult.You tell them life is better with mutual respect, understanding, agreements on disagreements, open discussion, critical thinking and interpretation.But who gives you the

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  I once read a nice jewish story about the invention of money. All men were depressed and only thinking about death. Worms went to God to complain they had no human meat to consume after burials. God conferred with the angels and agreed. Money was invented to keep men busy, thinking about spending, investing, trading, accounting, budgeting, saving and of course, eating. Worms and Men lived

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While not forgetting about this blog alot of new things have come to pass since the last entry was made. The Energy and Innovation in World-Historical Perspective Symposium i am organising with Steven is open for reservations. And next to John McNeill, Paolo Malanima, Peer Vries and Joachim Radkau who were involved from the first hour, we now also present Coby van der Linde, Pieter Boot and

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Said and Khalid are ready. They're time has come to attack in a suicide mission. And then the day is there and as the rest of us beings on this planet, there is doubt in their minds. There is fear of being caught and there is fear of letting down their only one true cause, living in a community which is already dead.The movie Paradise Now is exciting, calm and collective, educating, insightful

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So (almost) no one felt pressed into respnding to the identification post. Not so weird considering the current terrorism-led U.S.A. by Bush. These weeks have been very interesting and I have learned much. I now know that the Chinese are making an old communist empire into a vast capitalistic bureaucracy where humanrights is something you must earn. Yet they do seem to be doing a good job on the

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Eventhough most of the readers of this blog are lost individuals who come and go quickly, i have noticed that there are some regulars here. There is one person from Arizona, and a few people visit regularly from Amsterdam and Arnhem. Most others are friends and family, which is normal for weblogs.I am not bothered with anonymity and commentless posts, but i like people and therefore would ask you

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I just came across an article about Islamic Charity Foundations on the loose in the Balkan. Surely the Balkan is one of the most troubled areas in the world, esspecially when it comes to religious and national conflicts. This however is a very dodgy story on how blacklisted organisations still manage to produce funds for terrorism. Please Read On...

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This Monday Dutch Parliament held a planned session to discuss the working program of the European Commission. After the Dutch voted "no" to the referendum in July, government swore to enhance public debate and so to try and figure out what the hell the Dutch citizens DO want and make them feel involved.Well, the session went on as planned, but only four Parliamentarians actually showed up,

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Buddhism79%Islam75%Hinduism67%atheism63%agnosticism63%Satanism58%Paganism58%Judaism46%Christianity29%Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)created with QuizFarm.comAs you can see I am 79% Buddhist. I learned this via a quiz posted on a very interesting blog i found today called Mumin Al-Bayda, as it was co-nominated best new blog on A Fist Full of Euros by Non Tibi Spiro.I am

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Now, I normally don't like to interfere in Religious Business, since it only leades to more division, hate and misunderstanding. However, unlike the Papel Election last year, today the Church of England looks Progressive. Ugandan-born Dr. John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu was inaugurated today as the 97th Archbishop of York. There was a very colorful and perhaps ground-breaking ceremony - with African

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Doing Comparative World History. Pomeranz, Bayly and Lieberman under reviewThe books under review in this essay are studies of comparative world history. This relatively new field of historical study most notably proves the interconnectedness of human socities and lives. Isolationist historical concepts that only investigated Europe or the United States are crumbling as this new umbrella of

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Humans vs. Earth on a collision course? How can Big History correct us?On board of your typical Star Trek-vessel, an officer, when reporting status, always mentions that “our sensors indicate that...” If Leopold von Ranke has ever been right that any historian’s mission is to look at the sources, than that time has now come. Our environment has changed absurdely in the last hundred years, so do

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Philosophical issues in world historyWe humans are one of a kind. A mystery and an interesting question for historians lies in explaining this species and what it has done on earth. Are humans just another fase in evolution, a construction of amazingly complex systems based on amazingly simple cores? Are there certain rules of nature that have shaped our common evolution? Or are we not so easily

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A person from Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India has searched google to:explain the impact of the internet on mother natureA person from Uganda has asked msn.com to:EXPLAIN THE IDEAL RULE OF LAWI find these extremely fascinating questions any I trust many zero and ones have ordered themselves around the globe to seek the most accurate linguistic answer possible. So here goes.Mother Nature, or Gaya,

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In 1830 French armies in Algeria started what was to be a long history of imperialism. Algeria was to become a full-on French province, much like Normandy. Indeed, the new colony attracted many French people. Algeria soon developed a new French population that considered itself indigenous. The process of decolonisation, however, is perhaps one of the horrors of the decade, resulting in an eight

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This last weekend The Hague hosted a new Film Festival called Shoot-Me. Unfortunately I only had time to visit one movie, but it was really worth it. I went to Michael frantic "I Know I'm Not Alone" and was confronted with the situation in Baghdad and in Israel/Palestine. This time it wasn't about History. It wasn't about politics. It wasn't about oil. It wasn't about money or about "Clash of

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Ever since the rise of communication between human beings, "function" has had a cousin called "trend", "fashion" or "leisure". One can imagine the cave-drawings of hunter-gatherer societies not only to represent the prey, but also the nice examples.Skip a few thousands of years and here is Google.Humans made the internet, now we can search for "cave-drawings". I just found out that google itself

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Yesterday i was struck by the toughness of the 8 o'clock news. Earthquake catastrophe strikes Pakistan, India and Afgahnisten. Africa refugees deported to the desert by Spanish-Marrocan inhuman politics. Sudan more and more unsafe. China builds huge oil-facilities in Sudan.Hold on for a second, what? China? I know they were messing around in Central Asia, but now it seems Chinese world

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In today's stats i found this question from someone in Houston, Texas:explain the meaning of deathWell, there are several options. One could argue death has no meaning, but one could also argue death is the meaning of life (the universe and everything). So, in effect, the question is unanswerable. Moreover, even if death has a specific meaning, there is no way in knowing this meaning, since the

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Here i post the full text of the Bush speech, as it seems different media are highlighting different aspects of the speech. I thank ThinkProgress Blog for the full text. Read on, and don't be frightened, he doesn't really mean it...REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE WAR ON TERRORAs Prepared for DeliveryThank you and good evening. I am pleased to visit Fort Bragg — “Home of the Airborne and Special

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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, browsing through the visitors-statistics i found a person from Kansas, Witchita browsing ask.com with this question:what motivated the spanish to sail towards the united states?Ok, now first of all, there was no united states to sail to in the beginning. Second of all, the spanish were not the first to sail, as columbus was a Genoese, at that time an

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Starting tomorrow I will be working at EUROCLIO. In order to share and evaluate my time there I started yet another blog, where I will try and post after each work day. This will help me focus on my progress there and will perhaps bring more online attention to this vital organization, even though I will probably close the blog once the internship is over. Follow my progress here

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It is very, very unbelievable to accept the fact that the United States government knew about the risks of New Orleans from the seventies on.The threat of Terrorism is renewed by presidents according to the changing political landscape. The threat of flood, hurricane and natural catastrophe is a known. How can a president that is waging war in Iraq in order to "protect the United States" still

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I've recently watched James' Journey to Jerusalem on DVD and this Israeli movie hit the spot for me. Because I myself am born in this land and I have some knowledge of this language this movie was particulary interesting. I could read the subtitles and grasp some of the meaning of the hebrew words. By the second time I watched the movie I started to notice the huge shortcomings of the translation

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To give this blog some more structure, not only physical but also in my mind.To play with my statistics, that I adore so much.To have fun.To loosen this blog's iron rule.What I will do is try and give straight-forward answers on queries that people have entered in Google. By complete chance my weblog has been chosen by this people and being able to view the queries I know my blog could not

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zwijndrecht 

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European Jews are not the only Jews. Ever since the tribes of Juda split up into twelve different units, they spread out to all corners of the world. Here is a very interesting article about the Japanese Jews and their influence on Japanese culture.

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Iraq War/Censorship: Britain's former special representative inBaghdad has been told he cannot publish a book that describes the invasionof Iraq as "politically illegitimate". Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who hasretired as a diplomat but is still bound by Civil Service rules, has beentold by his former employers at the Foreign Office that The Price of Warwill have to be substantially edited before they

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Here is a very interesting article on a the Red Cross, the Red Crescent and the Red Magen David.

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I just found this fantastic overview of Chinese history. Enjoy

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Gmail is offcourse fantastic. You get loads of space, a comfortable GUI and fast service without too many ads in the way. Until recently I thought there was one problem: One couldn't send a group mail. But apparently there are solutions to all problems.Read here

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Everything that has ever existed in the past is no more. All our archives and archeological founding are clues to give us some idea of the past, but there is no more past. It has become present, and glides into future. Historians have the job to reconstruct the past, in order to correct the sense of history, but in picking their subjects of research they are mostly adding their own sense of

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Even if there is any sense in evolution, it is a really hard job to prove it historically. The trick is to invent a thing called "Cultural evolution".In NonZero. The logic of human destiny, Robert Wright explains how evolution as a whole, cultural and biological, is a forward-driven developement of information-transport. Memes, Genes, Writing, Printing Press and the Internet are all expresion of

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There are people in Indiana who seemed to have no idea what the world is about. They decided that state-funded schools should not be able to put up a statue honoring the ten commandements. First of all why on earth would a school want to do that? They could also promote it with movies or in class and spending the money for something that has to do with humans outside of the US. Second of all i

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Crayenborgh Essay: CrusadesBy Jonathan Even-Zohar Then came Islam, spread by the tribes of Mudar; whereupon conditions were once more revolutionized, taking much the same forms which we know to-day and which have been transmitted to us by our ancestors. Later on the power and glory of the Arab dynasties was overthrown, and the generations that had laid the foundation of that power and glory

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People like to complain about the governement, or about the contents of the media. But they do not realise that there is only one system and one world. You cannot buy your cheese, without paying some teenagers that work in a supermarket, some students that manage the facility, some multinational that cashes in and some farmer that owns a cow. You divide money that leaked into your wallet in some

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What is interesting from an historical point of view is the global world we live in. The news of the abuse could reach the arab world so fast, it could beat any military strategist. This points to the power of media like nothing else.In the imperial times of the west revolutions in the colonies got started because of the modern media. So if media is power, how come we don’t vote for them?In a

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So you grow up in Tel Aviv, and by the age of ten your dutch in The Hague, but in what society do you live? Who should you pledge alligiance to?Most people would choose the country where you live in. For nostalgia or for the political unit. But one should realise we live in one political unit, one economical unit and one social unit. The terrorists attack of 9/11 showed us a global conflict

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So here is an 14th century Arab scholar. I am now reading his philosophy of history and it strikes me how modern he is. All of this is due to the translator that implemented many "western" words, such as Sociology.Here is a nice index of his writings and analyses

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So tommorow the dutch hold their first even EU-related referendum. All the pros and cons have been illuminated in such an overwhelming fashion on Television, Radio, Blog-o-sphere, Forums and in real life, that there is no more room for doubt and uncertainty.Sure, the French said No, but this is about the dutch wanting to say something, based on solid argumentations, and not 'because the French

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Please read the following story:A Professor in Valencia that was not allowed to explain Peer-to-peer technology.Basically about P2P becoming scary for the establishment.

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I just found this wonderful story, plus some links ans data about the history of advertising in relation to weblogs. A good read.Link.

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Ideas spread, whether you like it or not. Ideas spread and multiply as they do. This happens through Media, such as Trade routes, Blogs, Telepathy and just talking.These media are based on individual human thoughts, ideas and concepts. They can be very shallow or very sofisticated. Are there ways to judge thoughts? Can ideas be censored?This is a very vague issue that has to do with morality and

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My name is Jonathan Even-Zohar. Even-Zohar is to be linked with the European Finkelstein, but also with the arabic Ibn Zuhr, or the lating Avenzoar.Trying to express my thoughts on this blog here, i seek to express feelings on this blog over there:By the way. Ahava is the hebrew word for love.About Love: However, there is doubt in the world. So lets see if we can trace a bit of it's beginnings

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http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.htmlEnter any text and find out the authors gender. A nice web-application by some crazy israeli.

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An interesting articel on Worldnetdaily.com

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"Pictures don't inspire murders. Murders are inspired by an ideology, that is so barbaric, that the people of the West cannot cannot understand"...GWBushWhen will the interventionalist american foreign policy reap what it has sown?"Kill George Bush""Nuke Washington"Not exatly the stuff you want to hear, and it takes an easy lesson in sociology and psychology to be able to understand these

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I've just finished redecorating the blog, added some links, and then I found this weblog about Ayaan Hischi Ali, Geert Wilders, Theo van Gogh and all the other dutch heroes.I hear that she is becoming a famous person in 'the west' and that she wants to move to New York and continue her Crusade for a better position of women in the islamic world. I believe this is a good cause. I don't believe

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Nike, my soulmate-girlfriend-angel is digging for prehistoric animals and humanoids in Tautavel, near Perpignan. Anyway, I miss her. Esspecially since we just moved. Luckily I'm going to pick her up there in less than five weeks.

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Were There Blog Enough and Timeby Ralph E. Luker As the 20th century faded into the 21st, the Internet gave birth to a new form of communication, the weblog or "blog." A blog is a commonplace journal maintained on the Internet, where it is accessible to other readers. At the beginning of 1999, there were about two-dozen blogs known to exist. This was an intimate world, in which every blogger

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A quick read from a lebanese newspaper, half an hour ago...Israel releases Jewish extremists who plotted Al-Aqsa attack Government proceeds with plans to extend West Bank barrier Compiled by Daily Star staff Tuesday, May 17, 2005 A group of at least three Jewish extremists planned to fire a missile into Islam's

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Here you can see some pictures from my housewarming party yesterdaynight. These pictures are not complete. There are no pictures of the crazy, friendly and hyperactive people from Brielle; there are no pictures of 15 people in a crowded hall, but anyway....i hade a pretty good time with all of my very nice friends. thankyou!Ik heb trouwens geen idee waarom deze hele weblog in het engels is, maar

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Georgia is a beacon of Freedom. Liberty is the future...And some nice quotes to followBushismAnd still, this great, warm southern man (who is actually from the north) is the president of the world's biggest weapons-traders, environment-destroyers, moviemakers, fastfood-dealers and cocaine-addicts.strange...

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According to the Oxford Dictionary genocide has the following meaning:the deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation.Yesterday I read this amazing article by Dr. J. McCarthy, who has almost been removed form his office for denying the Armenian genocide. According to his very clear comparison of the available evidence it is very hard to put the

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Armenia is known as an ancient country with long-during connections with Europe, this may explain the easy way in which Europeans are and were sure of the existence of an Armenian Genocide by the Turks in 1915, and this may explain the passion Europeans have in condemning this genocide.Armenians, together with Koptic and Syrians, are one of the oldest Christian people.Armenians have for long been

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...the kind that sees miracles, or the kind that believes he's just lucky?That is the question posed by Mel Gibson in Signs (2002 I believe). Off course the movie triumphs when he sees the miracle, makes the connection and mobilises the divine spirit. I think this is too much of a dichotomy. There is luck, there is spirit, and there probably are miracles as well, but there is also chaos in which

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History is about "what stories do we tell each other about our surrounding and how that surrounding came into being". In the end it's all a story, BUT science and scientific methods have made people reconsider the stories and search for relative truth. Why study history? To prove everybody is wrong, to be progressive, to show the 'truth' about the past. World History / Big History has a direct

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