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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Horary Astrology is an ancient art handed down from guru to trusted disciple. The knowledge is whispered, and only a very subtle mind, purified by years of meditation and fasting, can master this.
What are you talking about? Elysian Mysteries? In English, if you please.
Battle-hardened ATS officials are surprised by the details of the training the terrorists were put through before being despatched for the macabre mission. This was very different from a terrorist attack, and amounted to an offensive from the seam, said a source.
What does this mean, do you think? How is this different from (what I assume is a "typical") a terrorist attack? Many attacks, I'm thinking, have been equally well-thought-out. What am I missing?
I will not reveal anything about my birthdate because that might enable someone to put a spell on me -- especially if I reveal the hour, huh? ;)
I will tell you that I do not fit within the dates you have given.
Horary Astrology -- only means that which takes the hour (time of birth) into account. It is part of both Western and Eastern astrology -- lots of types of astrology, including Mayan.
So what do you practice, Lotus Feet? Bazi?
About Putin -- I actually agree with John McCain. His sign is KGB.
No use.
In mining, a seam would be a source, a vein, wouldn't it?
How many of you were born June 6, 1966, or 1976?
I was born on both those dates. I guess that would explain my schizophrenia.
Kidding. (Well, one of me, at least)
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2004/03/the_concept_of_seam.html
But I still don't get it.
A worthy rejoinder.
the Mediterranean itself is a key seam between Europe and Africa/Middle East. In my mind, then, several states that line this historic sea are classic Seam States, such as Morocco, Spain, Greece and Turkey.
I see (I think). So Pakistan is a Seam State in that it hedges between Southwest Asia/Central Asia (like Afghanistan) and, geopolitically speaking, straddles the worlds of western democritization and the Middle Eastern world of Islam.
Maybe I'm wrong (can it be!). However, I wonder how useful the term is if it's that malleable. A distinction without a difference, in other words. Still, I salute you for searching out a meaning.
The complexity for one. Modes of attack vary from group to group (and I'm no expert) but generally because of the clandestine nature of the groups, they lack the organization and resources to stage more than one attack at a time. This was ten seperate attacks, many of them concurrent.
Modes of attack vary from group to group (and I'm no expert) but generally because of the clandestine nature of the groups, they lack the organization and resources to stage more than one attack at a time. This was ten seperate attacks, many of them concurrent.
Are you suggesting some sort of cross-organizational coordination? If so, I haven't read that but, boy, would that be a change in tactics!
you did inquire as to the difference between other acts and orgs. That seemed to be it. Ondolette would probably be a good source for more such info.
Got it.
Thanks.
I await Ondelette's take on this.
A retired Indian general writes (link in signature)
"The philosophy behind jihad is well explained by Brig SK Malik of Pakistan Army in his book, The Quranic Concept of War, penned under the tutelage of Gen Zia-ul-Haq, the Islamic ruler of Pakistan. Zia fell back on the concept of inflicting a ‘thousand cuts’ after Pakistan failed to defeat India on the battlefield. And, these ‘thousand cuts’ were to be delivered by jihadis through acts of terror.
What Brig Malik explains most forcefully is the role of ‘terror’ in the implementation of these ‘thousand cuts’. He says, “In war our main objective is the opponent’s heart or soul, our main weapon of offence against this objective is the strength of our own souls… Terror struck into the hearts of the enemies is not only a means, it is the end itself. Once a condition of terror into the opponent’s heart is obtained, hardly anything is left to be achieved. It is the point where the means and the end meet and merge. Terror thus is not a means of imposing decision on the enemy; it is the decision we wish to impose on him.”
Describing the role of terror as a destroyer of faith, he explains, “To instill terror into the heart of the enemy, it is essential, in the ultimate analysis, to dislocate his faith…This faith can be religious, patriotic, values and cultural”."
and
"In this fight for our survival, collateral damage has to be accepted. Terrorists cannot function without local logistics, intelligence and moral support. This crucial help needs to be denied to them without letting the human rights activists bully the security mechanism. Strict and fool-proof legislative and judicial measures need to be taken.
Media plays an important role in this battle. Unfortunately, the present impression is that the media is a bystander, advocating an even-handed policy towards the victims and the murderers alike. The repeated showing of horror scenes give publicity to the terrorists and only adds to the terror effect.
Here I quote from an American journal, “In denying any terrorist successes, and by suppressing any knowledge or admission of terrorist success or of active planning in their operations — the US Federal Government has effectively mitigated and out rightly denied the primary goal of the Islamists and prevented the terrorising of the American population”.
In this fight, what is lacking is national will. Four points that need immediate implementation are vigilance, accountability of the law enforcement agencies, an effective legal regime, and a check on sources of terrorist funding."
"In this fight for our survival, collateral damage has to be accepted. Terrorists cannot function without local logistics, intelligence and moral support. This crucial help needs to be denied to them without letting the human rights activists bully the security mechanism. Strict and fool-proof legislative and judicial measures need to be taken.
This is an interesting (well, horrific) contrast with this:
In this fight, what is lacking is national will. Four points that need immediate implementation are vigilance, accountability of the law enforcement agencies, an effective legal regime, and a check on sources of terrorist funding."
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
