Mahatma Tawakul Karman

[Koyaanisqatsi Fahrvergnugen]

Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order,
offered this insight in the early [Twentieth] century:
"The hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a
higher evolution." Women have always functioned in all
roles of spiritual leadership within the Order.
Spiritual practices and service are fully integrated
and initial attempts have been made to update the
language of the teaching to include the feminine.
Women teachers in the Order have made rich contributions,
and have joined in developing practices that facilitate
an awareness of, and a deeper identification with the
feminine aspect of the Divine.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sufi+order+sufism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Sufism

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Tawakul Karman
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Tawakul+Karman

This 32-year-old mother of three is an unlikely activist.
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=Tawakul+Karman

But as the chair of Women Journalists Without Chains -- a Yemeni
group that defends freedom of expression -- she has been
protesting at Sana'a University, in the nation's capital, every
Tuesday since 2007. Her aim: to pressure Yemen's President of
32 years, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to step down. Though she's been
arrested several times, she remains an advocate for peaceful
change, inspired by the success of democratic movements in
Tunisia and Egypt.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Women+Journalists+Without+Chains

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Thursday 29 July 2010 08:55 pm
http://www.womenpress.net/articles.php?lng=english&id=309
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Renowned activist and press freedom advocate
Tawakul Karman to the Yemen Times:

"A day will come when all human rights
violators pay for what they did to Yemen."

Tawakul Karman
Head of Women Journalists Without Chains,
Yemeni Organization

Interviewed by: Nadia Al-Sakkaf

Published:17-06-2010

She believes that peaceful advocacy and struggle
without public demonstrations and sit-ins is useless.
This is why she is the leader of the protest every
Tuesday on "Freedom Square" in Sana'a. She advocates
for change on many fronts, and takes up the defense
in support of almost every cause. Although she is
very much visible in the internal arena through her
work, her recognition came from abroad as she was
awarded the International Woman of Courage in
March 2010. She is one of only 13 women members
on the Shura Council of the Islah opposition party.
She is a journalist, an activist, a freedom fighter,
a wife and a mother of three.

Since May 2007, Tawakkol Karman has been leading
demonstrations and sit-ins in front of the cabinet
to defend human rights. In Yemen's male dominated
conservative society, women do not have much
presence in the public sphere. However, those who
do participate in public life, especially in
politics, have earned their place 110 percent.
Gradually women activists created alliances while
keeping space for specialization and individuality.
This is why perhaps when it comes to taking to the
street, the first name that comes to mind is
Tawakkol Karman.

The journey has just started

Tawakul Karman , head of Wome Journalists
Without Chains , Yemeni Organization
"We will continue our protests every Tuesday
without fail until oppression ends in Yemen
and people are free to enjoy their human rights,"
says Tawakul passionately. This is a big promise
to make, yet she feels that she and her supporters
in and outside the Women Journalists Without
Chains organization that she established in 2005,
will be there to ensure Tuesday demonstrations
happen without fail.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) is a
non-governmental organization that works towards
promoting civil rights, particularly freedom of
opinion and expression, and democratic rights.
"We also promote utilizing different media outlets
to promote education, culture, thought and
comprehensive community development by focusing
primarily on women's issues, children's issues
and promoting principles of good governance and
anti-corruption."

Although the organization was created for the
defense of journalists and media rights initially,
it quickly expanded its scope to include all
rights. As she puts it, "you cannot separate one
right from another."

However, her actual confrontation with the state
took place when the Ministry of Information
refused to grant WJWC a license to issue their
publication. Now Tawakul is not only demanding a
paper, she has also added a radio station to the
list of demands.
As expected she received threats and temptations from
state authorities in order to get her to back off.
"I was threatened through phone calls, letters, and
other means of communication. I was threatened to be
imprisoned and even killed. So far, the threats have
not been fulfilled although I consider that taking
away my right to expression is worse than any form
of physical violence," she says.

Tawakul's organization had started an SMS service
to mobile phones through which her organization
sent news on human rights within the country.
Soon after this service became popular the Ministry
of Information ordered the Ministry of
Telecommunications to cancel the permission, and
so WJWC could no longer tell people through mobile
phones the human rights news of the country.

In the meantime, the state seems to use the carrot
and stick approach and according to Tawakul she has
also been promised much. She was promised a position
in government as well as financial compensations
to which she said no.

Her dream is for Yemen to become a democratic,
free, and prosperous country where everyone
enjoys equal rights.

And her struggle with the government, especially
the Ministry of Information, seems to be eternal.
"It is not only my struggle with this ancient
ministry. It is every Yemeni's problem. One look
at the Yemeni Satellite Channel and you know why.
The old ideology of worshiping the ruler is
persistent in the minds of our official media
leaders and not much progress in the media will
happen until the mentality of its leaders change,"
Tawakkol karman insisted.

She blames the Ministry of Information for the
creation of a special court for the persecution
of the media which was established in 2009 and
is dedicated to trying journalists and newspapers.
The ministry is also proposing a draft bill for
broadcast media such as radios, television
and websites.

Tawakul does not have a very favorable opinion of
this bill and has called it a tool for manic
control on media and expression.

"What I don't get is, how does the Minister of
Information believe he can control the media in a
time where hundreds of satellite channels reach
Yemeni televisions across the country without
needing permission from the ministry?" she exclaimed.
Through close scrutiny of the bill, Tawakul discovered
many odd articles such as one that allows the minister
to take out 10 percent of the revenues coming to the
Ministry of Information through license and
registration fees of visual and audio media.
According to the article, the ten percent go to a
special fund controlled by the minister.
She argues that this is a direct violation of the
financial legislation of the ministry which dictates
that all revenues must go to the ministry's account
at the central bank.

Other articles in the bill allow the minister to
penalize and carry out actions against any media
organization without needing to go through the
legal system or through a judiciary verdict.

But what strikes Tawakul more in her reading of
the proposed bill, is the astronomical fees required
for the licensing of any television channel,
radio station, or even website.

"Can you believe that if a new media website
is to be created they have to pay more than
USD 100,000? Which journalist has that kind
of money considering Yemen's conditions?"
demanded Tawakul.

International recognition

In March this year, Tawakul Karman was invited
to New York in the US to receive the International
Women of Courage Award, along with another nine
women from all around the world.

US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and First Lady
Michelle Obama awarded Tawakul her exceptional
leadership and courage in the area of women's
rights and equality.

Although she is not doing what she is for personal
gain or propaganda, she appreciates the recognition
and takes pride in it. She would have wanted her
own country to appreciate her and her government
to work with her for the sake of the whole
country's development.

"Yet to think about it, had my country appreciated
me I would not have gone to the streets demanding
change and would not have received this award,"
she laughed.

Perhaps one of her most daring actions was when
she put up a black list of the names of the most
"anti-free press" people in Yemen.

"I promise all those people who used their
position to unjustly hurt others and prevent
people from exercising their rights that one
day they will be tried in front of the law and
made to pay for their wrong doings," she said.

She put the list on banners and stuck them on
walls and high buildings and on the list were
the names of the Minister of Information, the
Political Security director, the National
Security director, the Minister of Interior,
and others. She promises an updated list to
come out soon with more names.

In her acceptance note, she thanked all her
supporters and especially her father
Abdul-Salam Karman, a well-known politician
and activist. It is because of him that
she has become the conscious activist she
is today. And she refers her legal and
rights based education to her father who
used to be Minister of Legal and
Parliamentary Affairs.

She also is grateful to her husband and three
children who support her work and her brothers
and larger family.

"I thank my family for supporting me and
believing in me, without them I would not
have been able to do anything," she said.

Taking off the veil

Tawakul started her public activities as a
veiled woman as many Yemeni women cover
their face regardless of their occupation.
With time, she decided the "niqab" was not
helping her to be as effective in
communication as she wanted to be. One day
she was presenting a working paper on human
rights at a conference in 2004 when she
simply took her niqab off and went to the
podium with her face uncovered for the
first time in her adult life in public.

"I discovered that wearing the veil is not
suitable for a woman who wants to work in
activism and the public domain. People need
to see you, to associate and relate to you.
It is not stated in my religion [Islam] to
wear the veil, it is a traditional practice
so I took it off," she explained.

Although she admits it was a difficult decision,
she has accepted it and moved on and does not
regret it at all. She even calls other women
and female activists to take theirs off.

There are many Yemeni women who are active
in the public and political sphere and,
according to Tawakul, they are more sincere
than the men because they have to be twice
as good in a patriarchal society.

The problem is that active women undergo double
oppression as a woman and as an activist,
because our society does not accept women to
lead in public life or to be visible.

"As it is being part of the democratic process
is very difficult for both men and women,
especially if the position the activist or
politician takes is against the state or
influential bodies. So imagine what it would
be like for women who are already oppressed
just because they are born as women?"

This is why she advises all activists, men
and women, to never give up and to work
together so that they are able to make real
change. Encouraging freedom of expression,
she sees, is the first and far most important
way to achieve change in a society.

She called on those in media and activists
to take to the streets and not just sit
there in their offices. They should
demonstrate and protest and not feel afraid
because "fear paralyzes us and we need
to get moving."

Her special advice for women is not to wait
for permission before they demand their rights.
There is a large number of educated women who
are qualified and capable and they should
participate in the public and political life.

"Women should stop being or feeling that they
are part of the problem and become part of the
solution. We have been marginalized for a
long time, and now is the time for women to
stand up and become active without needing
to ask for permission or acceptance. This is
the only way we will give back to our society
and allow for Yemen to reach the great
potentials it has," concluded Tawakkol Karman.

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"In a Quasi-Parallel Multiverse, in the dimmest
recesses of ancient fore-history, there did manifest
a powerful, quantum computing device, located at
approximately 2/3rd radius along one arm of a spiral
galaxy. A cosmological variation on the double-slit
experiment arose:

"How about running a near infinite number of
simultaneous interdimensional 'big bang' simulations
with infinitesimal variations in each simulation to
determine the most novel, and long-lived, open-ended
scenario of survival; thereby selecting the specific
'history' of this advantageous pathway over all other
shorter-lived, 'extinction' pathways...?

"Could sporadic, sentient unhappiness and suffering
throughout the successful pathway be entirely
ruled out?" http://tinyurl.com/ba5s2
http://tinyurl.com/an3so

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http://tinyurl.com/History-1977

To No0ne In Particular...

o0O0o

On, or around, Sept, 9th 2001, it was written:

"...Continuity of Consciousness, by definition,
presupposes that the perceptive core tracks
continuously across all parallel realities...
One femtosecond is to a second as one second is
to 32.6 million years! The 'Parallel Universe'
theory (Many-Worlds Theory) is a defunct
bastardization of an ill-perceived anthropocentric
misunderstanding of the double-slit experiment,
[Collapse of a Quantum Wave Function into a
Measurable Particle w/ History]:
In the 'Many Worlds' theory of quantum physics,
popularized by David Deutsch and others,
( http://www.qubit.org/people/david/ ), our conscious
selves inhabit an infinite realm of parallel
universes: a 'multiverse.' Now, over the many years
wherein we've all made countless decisions both
conscious and automatic, and the countless times
we've all pondered ending our own miserable
myriad existences, what if we actually did?
Would it, therefore, seem like a cruel fate for
consciousness to have no final escape from
awareness, perception, and embeddedness...?
And what if it's true?! Whooooooooooshhh!!!!
Is everyone the same biospheric personage? Are
we dispersed across an undifferentiated
light-cone of ultra-dimensional wavelike
potentiality in nature, and only specified
in particularity as a 3D lifeform?
( http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/ManyWorlds.html )
Who-are-we to suffer such an endless fate?
And what does it mean?!! What if there is a seamless
continuity to sentience, so that no matter how
many times you actually 'die,' your multiversal
"self" continues uninterrupted?"
[circa: Sept 9, 2001] http://tinyurl.com/History1977

See also: http://www.eelstheband.com/biography/index.php
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=hugh-everett-biography
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READING In-between-the-lines therein,
above, a bit of a crisis, which made
the subsequent events - days later -
seem like a parallel life had been
embodied as the previous one seemed
to have possibly evaporated?
Cryptic? Yes, probably... but, point
being, the MindGland was not so
rigorous in delineating factual data
in a subsequently accurate manner.
Which is my convoluted, elaborate
excuse for presuming such erroneous
trans-temporal back-engineered loopy
mentations of multidimensionality!

Glad to have caught up with your
enormously talented real self? again!

Warmest Regards,

<>
<> "This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic:
<> There are no atoms, only waves and motions
<> all around. Here, you discard all belief in
<> barriers to understanding. You put aside
<> understanding itself. This universe cannot
<> be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected
<> in any way by fixed perceptions.
<> It is the ultimate void where no preordained
<> screens occur upon which forms may be projected.
<> You have only one awareness here - the screen
<> of the magi: Imagination!
<> Here, you learn what it is to be human.
<> You are a creator of order, of beautiful
<> shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos."
<> --Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune -
http://tinyurl.com/History1977
[...] http://tinyurl.com/eyedead

QUESTION

IF:
In terms of spatial ratios, a hypothetical
'super string' is to an atom as a tree is to
the visible universe... AND: In terms of
temporal ratios, a femtosecond is to a
second as a second is to 32.6 million years...
THEN: ...?

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A Physicist Explains Why Parallel Universes
May Exist: [...] "But there's a more
confounding aspect of quantum theory that
receives less attention.
After decades of closely studying quantum
mechanics, and after having accumulated a
wealth of data confirming its probabilistic
predictions, no one has been able to explain
why only one of the many possible outcomes
in any given situation actually happens.
When we do experiments, when we examine
the world, we all agree that we encounter
a single definite reality. Yet, more than
a century after the quantum revolution
began, there is no consensus among the
world's physicists as to how this basic
fact is compatible with the theory's
mathematical expression." [...]

Excerpted from 'The Hidden Reality'
by Brian Greene
Copyright 2011 by Brian Greene.
http://www.iscap.columbia.edu

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Unsticking the "brane"

Professor Tom Weiler and graduate fellow Chui Man Ho
hypothesize using the Large Hadron Collider as a TIME TUNNEL
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/03/hadron-collider-time-machine/

LHC http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

Several mornings ago, had a dream of two silhouettes
'Snow Boarding' thru a tunnel of concentric rings,
ala the old 60's TV show: 'THE TIME TUNNEL' see pic:
http://www.oscuro.org/mjr/htms/time_tunnel/pics2/17.jpg
[Wed, 9 Mar 2011]

Book Tour Dates & Locations for
Physics of the Future: How Science
will Change Daily Life by 2100 :
[Welcome to Explorations in Science
with Dr. Michio Kaku][...]
http://mkaku.org/home/?p=1151

<> Entombing Fukushima?
<> As all other methods fail to stop the tragic slide toward full
<> meltdown, physicist Dr. Machio Kaku (on a book tour) suggests
<> a Chernobyl style preemption... Is it premature? See:
<> http://www.commondreams.org/forward/emailref?path=node/66996

[SEE ALSO] :::

Reactor Type - National Geographic News:
http://tinyurl.com/Japan-Chernobyl-3-Mile-Island

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The Origins of the Sunni/Shia split in Islam
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Shia+demographic+Sunni+demographic

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Revolution in the Arab World...

'Libya in its Arab Context'
by Marc Lynch [ http://www.marclynch.com/curriculum-vitae/ ]
http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/21/keeping_libya_in_context

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M E A N W H I L E . . .
_____________________________

The Arab League - The League of Arab States
MUST be RESPECTED as much as possible NOW,
kept in The Loop, permitted full access
to each nuanced decision of operation,
given the role of First-Among-Equals,
informed, updated, and empowered
as the preeminent voice in the
global media. Make It So,
Mahatma Obama...

... and then we all wake up ...
_____________________________

The Arab League - The League of Arab States
http://www.arab.de/arabinfo/league.htm

Members of the Arab League:

Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti,
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait,
Lebanon, [Libya], Mauritania, Morocco,
Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia,
United Arab Emirates, Yemen

http://www.arab.de/arabinfo/league.htm

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The Gaddafi family tree

A look at the roles and relationships of the
Libyan leader's closest family, amid ongoing
protests and violence across the country.

Fatiha

Gaddafi's first wife was a schoolteacher.
The couple are reported not to have met before
they married. They had one son, Muhammad,
but separated after six months.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi

Age: 68. In power 41 years, Colonel Muammar
Gaddafi has been the longest-serving leader
in both Africa and the Arab world since he
toppled King Idris I in a bloodless coup at
the age of 27. Born in the desert near Sirte
in 1942, he is known for his flamboyant
dress-sense and gun-toting female bodyguards.
His political philosophy, laid out in his
Green Book, is a homemade alternative to
both socialism and capitalism, combined
with aspects of Islam. In 1977 he invented
a system called the "Jamahiriya" or "state
of the masses", in which power is meant to
be held by thousands of "peoples' committees".
In reality Gadaffi has retained absolute,
authoritarian control.

Safia al-Gaddafi

Gaddafi's second wife and mother of seven
of his biological children. The couple also
adopted a son and daughter, Milad and Hanna.
Hanna was killed in the American bombing
of Tripoli in 1986 at the age of four.

Muhammad al-Gaddafi

Born to Gaddafi's first wife, Muhammad al-Gaddafi
heads the Libyan Olympic committee, which has its
headquarters in Tripoli. He is also the Chairman
of the General Post and Telecom Company which
owns and operates cell phone and
satellite communications.

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi

Age: 38. A fluent English speaker with a PhD from
the London School of Economics, he is widely seen
as belonging to a camp that aims to open Libya's
economy. Runs the Gaddafi International Charity
and Development Foundation, http://www.gicdf.org/
which has been involved in negotiating freedom for
hostages taken by Islamic militants, especially in
the Philippines. In 2006 he left Libya after
criticising his father's regime, but later returned
to the country. He is regarded as the modern face
of Libya, but in 2008 declared he had no interest
in "inheriting" power from his father. Appeared on
Libyan TV at the height of the protests to warn
of civil war.

Saadi Gaddafi

Age: 36. A son of Gaddafi's second wife,
Saadi Gaddafi is married to the daughter
of a military commander. A former footballer
who had a very brief career in Italy's
Serie A, he now runs the Libyan Football
Federation after being national team captain.
Since retiring from football, he has become
involved in the film industry, apparently
investing $100m in a film fund whose first
production was set to be a remake of a
German thriller called The Experiment.

Mutassim Gaddafi

Age: Unknown. A lieutenant colonel in the
Libyan army, he fled to Egypt after
allegedly masterminding a coup attempt
against his father, but was later forgiven
and allowed to return. He is now National
Security Advisor to his father and heads
his own unit in the army.

Hannibal Gaddafi

Used to work for Libya's General National
Maritime Transport Company, a company that
specialises oil exports. He has reportedly
been involved in a number of violent
incidents. In 2005 he was accused of
beating his pregnant girlfriend in Paris
and in 2008 was arrested in a Geneva hotel
after two of his servants accused him of
assault. Although later freed on bail,
the incident prompted the Libyan government
to boycott Swiss goods, expel Swiss companies
and recall diplomats from the capital Bern.
Hannibal has described Switzerland as a
"world mafia" which should be split up.

Saif al-Arab Gaddafi

Very little is known about Saif al-Arab,
one of Gaddafi youngest sons. In 2008 his
Ferrari was impounded by German police
because of a noisy exhaust, according to
a report in the UK's Daily Telegraph
newspaper. He was said to be a student
in Munich at the time.

Khamis Gadaffi

Khamis is a police officer and operates
his own special forces unit having
received military training in Russia.
He is said to have been in charge of
the suppression of protests in Benghazi.

Ayesha al-Gaddafi

Age: 34. A lawyer, who joined the
defence team of executed former leader
of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. She married
a cousin of her father in 2006.

Milad Abuztaia Al-Gaddafi

Adopted son and nephew, Milad is
credited with saving Gaddafi's life
during the 1986 US bombing of the
Gaddafi compound.

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Background Note: Libya
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5425.htm

Official Name:
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/ly/
PROFILE

Geography
Location: North Africa, bordering the
Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt, Tunisia,
and Algeria, southern border with Chad,
Niger, and Sudan.
Area: 1,759,540 million sq. km.
Cities: Tripoli (capital), Benghazi.
Terrain: Mostly barren, flat to undulating
plains, plateaus, depressions.
Climate: Mediterranean along coast;
dry, extreme desert interior.
Land use: Arable land--1.03%;
permanent crops--0.19%; other--98.78%.

People
Nationality: Noun and adjective--Libyan(s).
Population (July 2010 est.): 6,461,454.
Annual population growth rate (2010 est.): 2.117%.
Birth rate (2010 est.)--24.58 births/1,000 population.
Death rate (2010 est.)--3.45 deaths/1,000 population.
Ethnic groups: Berber and Arab 97%; other 3%
(includes Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians,
Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, and Tunisians).
Religion: Sunni Muslim 97%, other 3%.
Languages: Arabic is the primary language.
English and Italian are understood in major cities.
Education: Years compulsory--9. Attendance--90%.
Literacy (age 15 and over who can read and
write)--total population 82.6%; male 92.4%;
female 72% (2003 est.).
Health (2010 est.):
Infant mortality rate--20.87 deaths/1,000 live births.
Life expectancy--total population 77.47 yrs.;
male 75.18 yrs.; female 79.88 yrs.
Work force (2010 est.): 1.686 million.

Government
Official name:
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
Type: "Jamahiriya" is a term
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi coined and
which he defines as a "state of the masses"
governed by the populace through local councils.
In practice, Libya is an authoritarian state.
Independence: Libya declared independence
on December 24, 1951.
Revolution Day: September 1, 1969.
Constitution: No formal document.
Revolutionary edicts establishing a government
structure were issued on December 11, 1969 and
amended March 2, 1977 to establish popular
congresses and people's committees that
constitute the Jamahiriya system.
Administrative divisions: 32 municipalities
(singular--"shabiya", plural--"shabiyat"):
Butnan, Darnah, Gubba, al-Jebal al-Akhdar,
Marj, al-Jebal al-Hezam, Benghazi, Ajdabiya,
Wahat, Kufra, Surt, Al Jufrah, Misurata,
Murgub, Bani-Walid, Tarhuna and Msallata,
Tripoli, Jfara, Zawiya, Sabratha and Surman,
An Nuqat al-Khams, Gharyan, Mezda, Nalut,
Ghadames, Yefren, Wadi Alhaya, Ghat, Sabha,
Wadi Shati, Murzuq, Tajura and an-Nuwaha al-Arba'a.
Political system: Political parties are banned.
According to the political theory of
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi, multi-layered popular
assemblies (people's congresses) with executive
institutions (people's committees) are guided
by political cadres (revolutionary committees).
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory.

Economy
Real GDP (2009 est.): $85.04 billion.
GDP per capita (PPP, 2009 est.): $13,400.
Real GDP growth rate (2009 est.): -0.7%.
Natural resources: Petroleum, natural gas, gypsum.
Agriculture: Products--wheat, barley, olives, dates,
citrus, vegetables, peanuts, soybeans; cattle;
approximately 75% of Libya's food is imported.
Industry: Types--petroleum, food processing,
textiles, handicrafts, cement.
Trade: Exports (2009 est.)--$34.24 billion: crude oil,
refined petroleum products, natural gas, chemicals.
Major markets (2009 est.)--Italy (37.65%),
Germany (10.11%), Spain (7.94%), France (8.44%),
Switzerland (5.93%), U.S. (5.27%).
Imports (2009 est.)--$22.11 billion: machinery,
transport equipment, food, manufactured goods,
consumer products, semi-finished goods.
Major suppliers (2009)--Italy (18.9%), China (10.54%),
Turkey (9.92%), Germany (9.78%), Tunisia (5.25%),
South Korea (4.02%).

PEOPLE
Libya has a small population in a large land area.
Population density is about 50 persons per sq. km.
(80/sq. mi.) in the two northern regions of
Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, but falls to less
than one person per sq. km. (1.6/sq. mi.) elsewhere.
Ninety percent of the people live in less than
10% of the area, primarily along the coast.
More than half the population is urban, mostly
concentrated in the two largest cities, Tripoli
and Benghazi. Thirty-three percent of the population
is estimated to be under age 15.

Native Libyans are primarily a mixture of Arabs
and Berbers. Small Tebou and Tuareg tribal groups
in southern Libya are nomadic or semi-nomadic.
Among foreign residents, the largest groups are
citizens of other African nations, including North
Africans (primarily Egyptians and Tunisians),
West Africans, and other Sub-Saharan Africans.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5425.htm

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I had a vivid dream [several months] ago
about Deepak Chopra. I was in some kind of
room or chapel sitting on a wooden bench amid
a row of such benches or pews. The room was
full of people likewise seated. Deepak Chopra
entered the room from a side passage, and
everyone stood up, myself included. Suddenly
it occurred to me that I was standing up for
Deepak Chopra out of respect for his 'great
spirituality', but I didn't really feel that
way at all, so I sat back down. Deepak Chopra
noticed this and came over to me placing his
hand on my back, visibly irritated, and
attempted to make me stand like the others.
I subsequently expressed my outrage with him,
telling him not to touch me, that regardless
of all his many books he is basically a
spiritual materialist, money making fraud,
and so on... His mighty ego grew visibly angry
indeed as I articulated this deep lack of respect.
Upon awakening, I was both amused and surprised
by this dream. I had recently heard a brief
radio interview with Deepak Chopra, about his
new book on Muhammad, and thought it sounded
very interesting and worth reading. I always
considered Deepak Chopra to be one of the cool
people on the planet. Perhaps I'm merely growing
weary of affect and conformity within myself,
and Deepak Chopra is simply an available icon to
cast off, archetypally speaking, or perhaps,
maybe Deepak Chopra really is an ass hole,
or, again, maybe he's just a convenient model to
hang my own 'ass holiness' upon! HAH! ... In any
event, it helps to remember the wise old cliche':
'hindsight is 20/20 vision.' However, if you have
a quantum mechanical bent toward 'back acting'
quantum wave forms collapsing a particle with a
specific history, then all bets are off! AHA!
And so it goes... take care. Your pal. eMpTy
SAT|30|OCT|2010|2:22AM|PLANET|STAR|GALAXY...

P.S. 'Muhammad: A Story Of The Last Prophet'
by Deepak Chopra
[...]
The tale was not incredible to everyone.
Jinns roam the desert thirsting for human
souls. That was the strongest possibility.
I had my doubts, though. Jinns attack at
night, and they don't need knives to pluck
out your soul. They have dark enchantment.
Not that anyone has survived to say what
that enchantment is. I feared Muhammad
would be shunned for drawing two demons so
close to camp in broad daylight. In fact,
the opposite happened. The fact that he
had survived their attack was considered
to be a sign of stronger magic than that
of the jinns. It was decided that
Muhammad's name would be added to the
songs about our ancestors who had driven
off jinns. After that, his reputation was
made. Besides, it was obvious he hadn't
had his soul sucked out.
[...]
"Do you remember one day in the desert,
when you got lost?" I asked.
He nodded. "But I wasn't lost. I had
a feeling where I should go. Two men were
waiting for me when I got there."
I was amazed. "They attacked you, and
you never told me? After we got you home,
you wouldn't say a word."
"I couldn't. I knew you thought the
jinns had captured me."
"It had to be jinns. They left no
footprints. They were seen ripping open
your chest."
"I wondered why everyone whispered
behind my back. But it wasn't jinns.
Other beings live in the desert. You should
know that."
If it had been anyone else putting me
in my place, my nails would have been at
his face. But with him I felt a mixture of
meekness and wonder. "What kind of beings?"
I asked in a small voice.
A strange smile crossed Muhammad's
face. "I've never stopped asking that
question. You came running in such a
panic, you scared then off." He put a
finger lightly on his heart. "Don't worry.
Whatever they wanted to do, it's done."
[...] Pgs. 53-54, Chapter 3, HALIMAH,
THE WET NURSE; MUHAMMAD: A Story of the
Last Prophet (c) 2010 by Deepak K. Chopra
and Rita Chopra Family Trust;
ISBN 978-0-06-178242-8

Surprise! It is a great little book!

NOTE: [Quote: "Depak does not write his own books...
A man in Santa Fe New Mexico does it all...I know
him and his work is just about a secret!" -ANON] AHA!

[]CANADA[]
http://www.amazon.ca/Muhammad-Story-Prophet-Deepak-Chopra/dp/0061782424
][USA][
http://www.amazon.com/Muhammad-Story-Prophet-Deepak-Chopra/dp/0061782424

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[>> "If you bring forth what is
[>> within you, what you bring
[>> forth will save you. If you
[>> do not bring forth what is
[>> within you, what you do not
[>> bring forth will destroy you."
[>> -- Joshua, Gospel of Thomas
[>>
[>> ~^~^~^~^~^~
[>> "Whoever undertakes to set himself up
[>> as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
[>> is shipwrecked by the laughter
[>> of the gods." Einstein

**********************
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh
wgah'nagl fhtagn" --H.P. Lovecraft
**********************

"And... have been thinking alot
about the character in the novel:
-- LIFE OF PI --
have you read it?
Anyway... more later about that,
and particularly the KORAN."

Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel

[... Piscine Molitor Patel ("Pi") ... He tried to
understand God through the lens of each religion,
and came to recognize the benefits of each. ...]

I liked this novel.
It reminded me a bit of
my childhood's fascination
with world religions.

Never gave 'Islam' much thought; although,
I read once in Crowley, his commentary about
illiterate You-Know-Who's epiphany (so to
speak) resulting from long periods of isolation,
a variation on yoga and meditation, or at least
that was A.C.'s thought.

Only recently have I learned that the Koran,
spoken by 'You-Know-Who,' is really a long
tone-poem. The original Arabic is the only
way to hear the book. It is Onomatopoeia in
uttered form, hence, a great work of auditory
art, and should be regarded, in my opinion, as
a synaesthetic creation. No more, no less.
And I've been meaning to search for a DVD
or some other media or presentation of the
book that is in auditory Arabic with supertitles,
as in contemporary opera. I would like to
experience that manifestation of the crazy Arab's
epiphanous inspired utterance. Very sad, isn't it,
how one man's art becomes generations later, an
excuse to practice a vast institutionalized
rigid misogyny?! Stupid Humans:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"... In pre-Islamic days, called the Days of
Ignorance, the religious background of the
Arabs was pagan, and basically animistic. ..."
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html

"According to some (apparently different)
sources such as
http://www.hinduism.co.za/kaabaa.htm

"... Muhammad's uncle was one of the resident
priests of the Shiv temple known as 'Kaaba'. ...
this glorious Hindu temple was made to
symbolically represent a microcosm of the universe.
... Right at the centre of the Kaaba was the
octogonal pedestal of Bramha the creator. ...
Muhammad destroyed all 360 idols,
but even he could not summon the courage to
completely obliterate the Shivling in the Kaaba. ...

"... Today it [the Shivling] lies broken at seven
places and held together by a silver band studded
with silver nails, bearing the name 'Sangey Aswad'
which came from the Sanskrit Ashwet meaning
non-white or black stone.
[...] From the Hindu point of view, it is
Shiva's lingham, or phallic symbol. [...]
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html#earlyarabia
***********************
"The status of women was that
of pride and equal respect.
http://www.hinduism.co.za/kaabaa.htm
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/kali.htm
**********************
"The Shivling is the sacred meteorite. [...]

"More material and pictures about such
things on webpage:
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html

"Although the above is not widely known in
Eurocentric societies, it is common knowledge
in India, and indicates some of the history
and depth of feeling that is involved in the
Muslim-Hindu conflicts between Pakistan and India."
**********************
"... Muhammad received his first revelation in
610, on the mountain of Hira outside Mecca. The
revelation came in a time when Muhammad searched
for solitude. ..."
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html
[...]
"According to a xenohistorian.faithweb web page:
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/neareast/index.html

"... Mohammed stayed [in Mecca in 615] because
his family connections protected him ... He came
into the courtyard of the Kaaba and suggested
that the gods and goddesses of Mecca might be
real after all, serving as saints or angels to
mediate between God and man. ... These are the
so-called "Satanic verses" that have caused much
controversy among scholars of Islam. ... They
[the Meccan establishment] enthusiastically
received his [Mohammed's] recantation, but when
he [Mohammed] saw the reaction he repented ...
He [Mohammed] said that the devil had momentarily
possessed his tongue, and denounced idolatry more
vigorously than before. ...".
**********************
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html
**********************

I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
Omar Khayyam

http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/intraphz.htm

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khayyam

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Gandhi Nobody Knows
by Richard Grenier
http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt
**************************************************
Was Sir Ben Kingsley as Don Logan
in Sexy Beast much more honest?
http://tinyurl.com/SIR-BEN-KINGSLEY

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[...] Whether M-theory exists as a single
formulation or only as a network, we do
know some of its properties. First, M-theory
has eleven space-time dimensions, not ten.
[...] Also, M-theory can contain not just
vibrating strings but also point particles,
two dimensional membranes, three dimensional
blobs, and other objects that are more
difficult and occupy even more dimensions of
space, up to nine. These objects are called
p-branes (where p runs from zero to nine).
[...] The laws of M-theory therefore allow
for different universes with different
apparent laws, depending on how the internal
space is curled. [...] M-theory has solutions
that allow for many different internal spaces,
perhaps as many as 10^500, [a 1 with 500 zeros]
which means it allows for 10^500 different
universes, each with its own laws. [...] only
one of which corresponds to the universe as we
know it. [...] [Chapter 5, The Theory Of
Everything - pgs. 117-119] THE GRAND DESIGN
(c)2010 by Steven W. Hawking [www.hawking.org.uk]
and Leonard Mlodinow [www.its.caltech.edu/~Len]
Random House, Inc. - ISBN 978-0-553-80537-6
__________________________________________________

NOTHING is True, Everything is Permitted:
A Deconstruction of the Last Words of
Hassan-i Sabbah by Brian D. Hodges

According to legend, the master of the
Order of Assassins uttered the famous
phrase "nothing is true, everything is
permitted" on his deathbed prior to his
soul departing for Hell. This axiom has
made its way into a number of historical
accounts regarding Sabbah and the Nizari
Isma'ilis. As with so much of the lore
surrounding the "order", it is likely
that this quote is no more true than most
of the other legends circulated by Western
historians, medievalists, anarchists and
occultists. It is worth looking into three
competing explanations for how it found
acceptance and examine the probabilities
of each. ... Cont...
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1562/pg1/
... Some need first to understand the
ancient dictum "discipline precedes freedom"
before they will be able to dance with the
last words of Hassan-i Sabbah.

DID YOU KNOW That *THE JINN* invented the
electric toaster oven?!! Hard to believe??!
YES! BUT...
It's ALL TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!
Visions of the Jinn
Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
Ibn Taymeeyah's Essay on the Jinn
http://www.islamawareness.net/Jinn/itjinn.html

JINN: http://muttaqun.com/jinn.html

"Statistically, the probability of any
one of us being here is so small that
you'd think the mere fact of existing
would keep us all in a contented
dazzlement of surprise."
-- Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell

Jacques Vallee UFO interview JINN
http://www.thejinn.net/jacques_vallee_interview.htm

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dissociation Dynamics,
the Alice Miller Finding
and the Social Organization of Torture:
http://www.alice-miller.com/index_en.php
http://alice-miller.com/readersmail_en.php?lang=en&nid=2137&grp=0708
http://www.alice-miller.com/articles_en.php?lang=en&nid=63&grp=13

[See also NPD: (DSM-IV code 301.81)
Synopsis
Diagnostic Features:
'Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition
characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance,
need for admiration, extreme self-involvement, and
lack of empathy for others. Individuals with this
disorder are usually arrogantly self-assured and
confident. They expect to be noticed as superior.
Many highly successful individuals might be considered
narcissistic. However, this disorder is only diagnosed
when these behaviors become persistent and very
disabling or distressing.' ... ]

====================================================
T A T T V A M A S I
====================================================
[Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011] :::::
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's Green Book Extract

A key ingredient to Ultraterrestrial
biochemists who meta-design various
pharmaceutical psychoactive concoctions
for Ultraterrestrial entertainment
enhancements include extract from
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's amygdala
gland. Needless to say, the current
multiversal rate of Col. Mu'ammar
al-Qadhafi amygdala gland extract has
skyrocketed (to invoke an archaic
metaphor) in price. The last such time
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's amygdala gland
extract was spread so thin, the 'Green Book'
was written -- an unforeseen byproduct of
subject-dysphoria iatrogenically caused by
'over-farming' (to invoke another
unfortunate archaic metaphor). However, on
the eve of final extinction of the SOURCE
of Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi amygdala gland
extract, meta-designing Ultraterrestrial
biochemists who concoct various
pharmaceutical psychoactive enhancements
for Ultraterrestrial entertainment, have
indeed hedged their bets anticipating the
highest grade quality extract yet produced.
Many in the Ultraterrestrial biochemical
community have grown tentative over all the
collateral damage inherent to such rare and
exotic farming practices, and have begun to
adopt certain non-entertaining attitudes and
disciplines undoubtedly resulting from too
much exposure to contaminants from the host
livestock, ironically referred to as 'Green
Book Corporate Shadowing.' And although
'GBCS' Ideological Infectious Disease
[GBCSIID] may seem threatening to the
entertainment enhancement industry at the
current moment, the good news is that
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's amygdala gland
extract (and numerous others) has been
cloned, bought, corporatized and syndicated.
The early investor will see long range gains
morph into retroactive multidimensional loss
of cognitive dissonant repetition superseding
indefinite spin with a fractal quantum stop.
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/mission8.htm
_____________________________________________

...And, as far as Muammar Al Gathafi and his 'Green Book'
hypocrisy goes.... well, all bets are WAAAAAY off!
http://www.mathaba.net/gci/theory/gb.htm
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Book-Muammar-Al-Gathafi/dp/0863723020
__________________________________________________

[Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011]:

Had a dream (in High-Def) of two
brilliant indigenous aboriginal
South American style native women,
clearly of high intelligence and
good humor, naked, immaculately
groomed, covered with subtle,
intricate designs of body art,
(the likes of which make
contemporary tattoos look garish
and koyaanisqatsi by comparison),
apparently from the near future,
surveying a surrounding area of
pre-construction grading,
indicating with facial intensity
and body language something quite
extraordinary, joyous, and wise.
[I guess you had to be there...]
_______________________________
My Ultraterrestrial Handlers, those weird little
ubiquitous corn kernels of Sentient Principalities,
popping up like so many Collapsed Wave Functions of
Specificity, (inventing 'time'), have been compelling
me to ask a handful of supposed 'People-In-The-Know'
the following question:

What IS the DEAL with NASA TV?!

I love NASA TV! I am a member of a rare and
fragile minority, that is, people who actually
watch NASA TV. An optimistic masochist, you ask?
Yes... it goes with the territory, doesn't it?
My Ultraterrestrial Wranglers would also like to
know if something could be done about Upgrading/
21st-Century-Updating - the Programming, Tempo,
Presentation, FUNDING - regular texting reality-
show nouveau generational VIEWER's interest in
NASA TV, via some kind of intelligent analog to
CPB?! [About CPB: http://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/ ]

As jaw-dropping and awe inspiring the great
mini-city under construction in orbit operated
by international zero 'g' astro-cosmo-
psycho-nauts 'is,' my Managing Ultraterrestrial
Programmers are completely BAFFLED by the
missed opportunity to excite the MindGlands of
a horrified jaded population, psychologically
taxed by wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, growing
ideologically driven polarizations under-
cutting the beauty and majesty of the local
evolutionary current, currently underway
'overhead' directly above the biosphere, and
'They' would like you to do something seriously
Pro-Active about it! S00N! Thanks for the time.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Speaking of Unspeakable Atrocities...

http://www.google.com/search?q=Iraq%27s+Secret+War+Files

"Iraq's Secret War Files is the only television
documentary to have advance access to the biggest
Wikileaks release ever. This is the unfiltered
data of what really happened during the Iraq War.
Topics include the reality behind the civilian
death count, al-Qaeda's fictitious presence, and
unabashed torture. Proven too controversial for
other U.S. broadcasters, this documentary reveals
unprecedented levels of unwarranted aggression.

"The film focuses on the huge cache of secret
U.S. field reports from the Iraq War that give
us chilling stories about civilian deaths,
torture, and lack of effective control by the
Iraqi government, which has taken on increasing
responsibilities since the start of the troop
withdrawal. It is damning of the U.S. forces and
the cover-ups by the U.S. government, and is
just as damning of the allegations showing
torture by Iraqi police and forces upon their
own people which eclipses even that by
the Americans."

http://www.linktv.org/programs/iraq-secret-war-files

(((((((((((((O)))))))))))))

What follows is a selection from Nineteen Eighty-Four.

* * * * *

"Do you know where you are, Winston?" he said.

"I don't know. I can guess.
In the Ministry of Love."

"Do you know how long you have been here?"

"I don't know. Days, weeks, months -- I think
it is months."

"And why do you imagine that we bring people
to this place?"

"To make them confess."

"No, that is not the reason. Try again."

"To punish them."

"No!" exclaimed O'Brien. His voice had changed
extraordinarily, and his face had suddenly become
both stern and animated.

[...]

"How does one man assert his
power over another, Winston?"

Winston thought. "By making him suffer," he said.

"Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not
enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be
sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?
Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
[...]
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot
stamping on a human face -- forever."

[Source: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
(New York: New American Library, 1981),
pp. 208-211, 219-220.]

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South African arms sales to Libya above board: Radebe
Feb 25, 2011 5:55 PM | By Sapa
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Arms+Sales+To+Libya
-----------------------------------------------------
======================================================
U.S. eyes arms sales to Libya
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON | Fri Mar 6, 2009 5:28pm EST
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Arms+Sales+To+Libya
======================================================
War is big business.
[...] 2011-02-24 Arming Gaddfi
http://wlcentral.org/node/1362
======================================================
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Arms+Sales+To+Libya

WAR IS A RACKET. by
Major General Smedley D. Butler. USMC, Retired.

CHAPTER ONE.

WAR is a racket.

It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most
profitable, surely the most vicious. It is
the only one international in scope. It is
the only one in which the profits are
reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
[...]
http://www.google.com/search?q=War+Is+A+Racket+General+Butler
======================================================
See also: Saudi Arabia Electric Power Shortage
http://www.google.com/search?q=Saudi+Arabia+Electric+Power+Shortage
_______________________________
MILAREPA
http://www.google.com/search?q=Milarepa
Milarepa
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499238/
"... A true story based on centuries-old oral traditions,
a youthful Milarepa is propelled into a world of sorrow
and betrayal after his father's sudden death. Destitute
and hopeless, he sets out to learn black magic - and
exact revenge on his enemies - encountering magicians,
demons, an enigmatic teacher and unexpected mystical
power along the way. But it is in confrontation with
the consequences of his anger that he learns the most ..."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499238/
http://www.google.com/search?q=Milarepa

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