Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    grafton

    Pro-Mubarak supporters have come on to the streets of Cairo and there have been violent clashes between demonstrators and police in Alexandria. Will Egypt manage to avoid serious violence between now and Friday? It’s not looking good. But let’s hope that daylight will calm things down.

    Posted in: Egyptian army sides with Mubarak

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    grafton

    I am not always sure I like the way that the Holocaust is presented, it gives the simple minded the opportunity to use it as a means of saying the Jews are using it as a victim card. This however is different in that the Holocaust is being used as an example of where racism can ultimately lead. Reading the British papers over the last week in an attempt to try and get a better idea what is happening in Egypt I have been really sickened by the accepted level of anti-Jewish feeling that is being openly expressed in many of the papers, and the comments sections have been horrendous. (Dear Mod they really do need your critical eye). I think we have all seen how some people will use the word “Israel” when they really mean “Jewish” but last week it was openly anti-Jewish AND anti-Israeli. I have never read any national paper that printed such things before. Maybe what the Aladdin Project can help in some small way. I hope so, because poison is poison no matter who it is given to.

    Posted in: Muslim dignitaries pay their respects at Auschwitz

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    Triumvere at 12:43 PM JST - 1st February

    “On the contrary, I see enormous potential for a freer, more democratic world here.”

    I know what you are saying and do sort of agree with you, but we have seen potential for so much good hijacked before and it is that possibility that I have at the back of my mind. And without trying to deride Islam we have seen it used very effectively in the past as a means of controlling people. And seldom for the good. As a mechanism for getting and keeping control of a country Islam is a very good tool. I’m not at this time knocking it as a religion but we know how it can and does get used. That is my fear and my reason for doubting that any good will come out of a general popular uprising against the ruling dictators in the Middle East. I would like to believe and to be wrong, but can’t.

    Posted in: Egypt's military promises no force against protests

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    grafton

    Watched the Mubarak speech on Aljazeera and he seems to be totally out of touch with what is really happening on the streets. His speech seemed designed to split the demonstrators and sap their will to continue. Made himself sound like every bodies favourite uncle and said he would die on Egyptian soil and the reaction from the crowd made that sound very possible because they were not at all happy. If the momentum holds and the military stay calm, and the police don’t get a chance to create trouble then Friday should be Mubarak’s last day. One way or another.

    Posted in: Egypt's military promises no force against protests

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    grafton

    Sengoku.

    Thank you for saying what should have been said in the (none)article.

    Posted in: Report warns of Iran nuke disaster due to computer worm

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    grafton

    Triumvere “Tunisia was one thing, but Mubarak goes down we'll see popular revolutions across the Middle East. This could be a dawning of a new era.”

    And probably not a good one.

    Posted in: Egypt's military promises no force against protests

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    grafton

    I came by to see what everyone was saying and found two posts neither of which I can really disagree with. Glycol57, although I can fully understand you reticence re having the military take over I also well understand Mike’s fears that the Brotherhood might just hijack all that has been achieved this far. There is middle ground here if the military could be trusted to take control of the country for a set period with a promise of election on a particular date. Yes, we have seen this done before with some African countries that never did get their elections. But I think that the military in Egypt might be a tad more trustworthy. Besides I have a strong suspicion the Egyptian military have no wish to go up against the Israelis again and that might help them avoid falling under the leadership of Islamic crazies.

    I have one serious fear about today though, the army has said they will not use violence unless the demonstrators get out of hand and commit crimes against the country. But we have already seen that Mubarak has put troublemakers out on the streets, police in plain clothes, what if that is done today and it is these agent provocateurs that create the spark that the army can use? Not nice thinking on my part I know, but we have all seem far worse in other places. Let’s all hope that I am very wrong.

    Posted in: Egypt's military promises no force against protests

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    Foxie at 07:42 PM JST - 26th January

    Perhaps you could go on to list all the infectious properties of the human being and then tell them to return to their natural habitat.

    Pigeons have the same right to be where ever they want as you do. The fact that somebody has taken the time to feed them is really quite nice. What an incredibly cold and barren place cities would be if there were no natural life forms other than grey soulless human beings?

    Posted in: Life's for the birds

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    grafton

    just-a-guy at 03:55 PM JST - 13th January “i wonder how many Japanese sdf members died in their duty in th past 50 years that need such a huge memorial stone!”

    What would rather they did, build a little one and add to it with each new death? Lego style memorials thought of by “Just a guy”.

    By the way, are you having trouble with you keyboard caps key again? Strange how it only functions for the letter “J” and “!”. Maybe a new keyboard would be a good investment.

    Posted in: Defense rests

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    grafton

    arrestpaul

    The constitution was written as a protection of the people from government, it never had a thought about criminals, Indians maybe, but not criminals.

    And magazine capacity is an issue. My guess would be that this crazy used a 19 round magazine and then needed to reload and it is only because he needed to reload that anybody got a chance to get near him to stop him. Limiting magazine capacity would have reduced the damage he did. Why does anybody outside a war zone need 19 or 31 rounds?

    “He should have been in a hospital or institution where he couldn't have harmed anyone.”

    But he wasn’t because he has civil rights given to him by that same constitution that you hold as paramount.

    Posted in: Arizona shooting once again ignites gun control debate

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    grafton

    People don’t want to be wrong so don’t really listen (read) and being self opinionated brain dead freaks they never take my word for gospel so turn acrimonious as the only way they can try and get their point across, not that I pay them any attention given that they are of course wrong.

    Posted in: Why are so many people unable to debate contentious issues such as whaling, gun control, politics and so on without getting acrimonious?

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    grafton

    All the pro gun people state that an American has the right to own a gun to defend him/herself has a given under the constitution. This is true, but where it gets a little twisted out of shape is that the constitution gave this freedom to protect the people from a government that might get above it self and need the people re-take control of the country. The right to carry a gun was never meant for self defence against their fellow citizens who happened to be criminals. That however is how it is being seen today only because the country has degenerated into a country where guns are so readily available that even a lunatic can pop into a shop and get a Glock 19 that can hold anything from 10 rounds up to 31 rounds depending on the magazine. Just how many criminals are Mr. and Mrs. America expecting to have to shoot down? Is the country that dangerous? If you wish to defend the US against such comments by saying that it isn’t that dangerous you then need to say why a gun that can hold 31 rounds is available.

    Posted in: Arizona shooting once again ignites gun control debate

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    grafton

    A missile of any speed can only hit what it can “see” so the way to go is to “hide” the carriers and I am sure that if electronics can be used to create multiple radar images from fighter aircraft they can be used to do the same for carriers.

    There would also seem to be another question here that presents a puzzle. These scramjets engines need oxygen to function and there isn’t a lot of that in space, so just how do they to get around this? I accept that there is a way in that they could use a conventional engine to take the missile into space AND not separate until after the turn downward. This however would defeat the whole point of the speed these missiles have in that the launch could be tracked and target predicted. Maybe the US carriers have less to worry about than we are being lead to believe. Maybe the US navy would like some extra spending money and this is just a devious way of getting the US government to part with that money.

    Posted in: Hypersonic missiles could challenge U.S. naval supremacy

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    grafton

    Syria pulling the strings again.

    Strange that when a U.N. tribunal says what Hezbollah &/or Hamas want to hear everything is believed, but when it says anything else it is a US and Israeli conspiracy against these peace loving freedom fighters.

    Well Hezbollah has had time now to breed a new team to take the place of all those lost in the last blood bath they brought about and they have Iran to help cover the costs.

    Posted in: Hezbollah and its allies topple Lebanon government

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    grafton

    Woflpack.

    The above was in answer to your 2-20 post but you got in with another one before I chance to answer. Damn your quick!

    I know what you are talking about when say that the empty space needs filling with something, not from something within me, but from good, close friends with whom I have talked. For myself I can only say that after 40 plus years I still can’t feel that need, no it is not a new thing.

    One thing that I suspect we might agree on it a distaste for those “atheists evangelists” that are “believers” in not believing, if you follow my odd reasoning.

    Also agree that it is an interesting discussion.

    Posted in: Waiting for a sign

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    grafton

    Woflpack.

    Well said.

    I may not agree with the idea that there is a human need for spirituality, but I do agree that it is wrong to hold “religious wars” against any religion. Human beings do have a habit of using whatever means come to hand for killing each other and religion has been used as a mechanism for moving the masses the way a particular leader wanted them moving. That is not the belief that is at fault but the man behind the belief. In that sense it is too simplistic when the religion is held to blame.

    Posted in: Waiting for a sign

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    grafton

    I don’t how Wikileaks fits into this odd question. Wikileaks aims to expose information that is being wrongfully hidden from people. We the individual are not of interest to them, besides which they simply wouldn’t have the ability to collate and release the enormous amounts of information that exists on the equally enormous numbers of people. Governments and large corporations do however have the ability to collate the information they collect. Though their objective is to use that information rather than release it. The real fear should be the overlap between government and business. To a large degree we can hold back information about ourselves when WE use our own computers, and only a fool gives away personal information to sites like facebook. But we do not have that same control where government agencies are concerned.

    Tax, health, social security, military, school and university, banks and so on and so on all hold records about who we are. How do we stop all that lot finding ins way into ….? Where? I don’t know where all that might end up and I have no control over any of it. On various web sites I can make my self “Micky Mouse” with a fantasy profile to match and that is what I do and would advice everybody else to do. But when it comes to official situations I would be sent to prison for doing such a thing so have no choice but to give the information I would rather not find in the hands of large corporations.

    We have all heard the idiocy of government when it says that it is collecting data for our good, they need to plan for how many school places they will need, hospitals and whatever. Yes all true, or should that actually be all half true?

    The very fact that we cannot say for sure is what is wrong. We should be able to feel confident that the information that is held on us is safe and is used only for the reasons that we were told it would be used and we are not. There is very little that we can about it though.

    Does not show that we do not trust any of our governments?

    Transparent government and Wikileaks, something we might all have to give a lot more thought to in the future. And if you are an American you might just change your mind about Bradley manning being a bad guy.

    Posted in: In view of what has been happening with WikiLeaks and various file-sharing software, is privacy a lost cause?

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    grafton

    I have no religion and feel no need for any spiritual dimension to my life. An atheist yes, but not one of those atheists that seem to treat what they don’t believe in almost like a religion. It is neither an opposition nor an empty space being filled with something else. Religion is not something that we are born with, it is something that gets added and if it doesn’t get added we live normal lives.

    But, any excuse for a party or a fiesta, so, hope you are all having a good holiday.

    Posted in: Waiting for a sign

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    grafton

    Reading about Wikileaks and Assange in the Daily Mail?

    Now I understand where some of the posts here come from and I fear I may be keeping bad company.

    Posted in: WikiLeaks founder freed on bail

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    grafton

    DuraAce at 08:01 PM JST - 17th December “Meh. Look at her face, then look away, close your eyes, and try to visualize her. Yep, you can't. She has no redeeming features to her face.”

    Just tried your “redeeming features” test and not problem visualising her. Have you been having problems with your short term memory for long? Sorry, that must sound like a cruel question to ask of a person with memory problems. But then you have quite probably forgotten all about the post you made.

    Yes, she’s cute, but beautiful is something quite different. And as for the others mentioned, well, if that is what is being seen as beautiful we are living in a very bleak world. Sad.

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