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Today Iran has ignored once again another UN passed resolution deadline for ending uranium enrichment which Tehran maintains is a necessary and sovereign right of the Iranian nation's nuclear ambitions.
Surprise, surprise! For the first time in roughly two years of diverse news coverage of drama between Washington & Tehran the Irish Scotsman describes the unfolding story in the appropriate context. That of hostility and arrogance passed to and fro the respective neo-conservative regimes. In well informed circles in the United States it is known that the neocon movement is the culmination of Straussian political philosophy and reactions of conniving e.g. Donald Rumsfeld, conservative politician to liberalism. Beginning in the 1960's a similar reaction to liberalism took hold in Egypt inspired by Saeed Kotub, whose Jihadist ideology paved the way for militant Islamists like Aymen Zwahari. The premise of the neocon movements was to lead their populous out of what Strauss & Kotub deemed the rippling clutches of liberalism. The means by which the different schools of neoconservatives managed to establish their brands of governance was based on targeted propaganda and violence aimed at propagating social myths, fears, and tensions.

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If you sleep with a missle,
you might not wake up in the morning.
Dan Gillerman, Israeli UN Security Council Amb.

The fact of that matter depends on the girth of the arsenal;
on whether the stick is wielded by insurgents, proxy or
freedom-fighters.
For human-shields waking up is non-negotiable.
For bankers everything is negotiable;
while killing goes on.
Crooks mascrading governments perpetuate
permanent economies of guns and no-fat butter.

Terror,
A real reality,
world-wide, transnational, global.
unconscious feces dropped by thinkers
in tanks of impudent imbeciles.
Self-prolcaimed experts on nonesense,
creating conflicts vis-à-vis terror.

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Excerpt North Korea in the Eyes of Iran

Iran is neither Iraq under Saddam Hussein nor North Korea under Kim Il Song and Kim Jung Il. Iran is a very important geo-political, geo-strategic and geo-economic power regionally and internationally. Iranians do not deserve the humiliation associated with referral to the UN Security Council and being branded as a pariah within the international community.

No! The Iranian government pans out enough humiliation for Iranians the world over. It is not a question of whether or not Iranians deserve more shame but rather a question of saturation. Iraq had only one Saddam Hussein and North Korea only one Kim as dictator at a given moment. Iran has an entire supreme council of zealots pulling the strings of one fanatic president. Surely the barrels of Islamo-nationalist propaganda consumed by Iranians at the hands of these tyrants can only prime public sentiment for hostility against any sort of action or criticism passed by an International body; especially in light of the fact that the Islamic Republic is quick to silence the voices of reason or skepticism towards its policies. Obviously a government bent on power and the cultivation of theocracy, a government that freely violates the civil & humane rights of all its citizens, has a singular agenda for nuclear capabilities. This agenda cannot be for peaceful purpose, but rather for the ability to wield at will friction and conflict on the geo-political, geo-strategic and geo-economic stages. Iran is vying for power on an international field occupied by powers using terror as justification for the spread of their own brands of democracy & capitalism. What better piece for Iran to have than the ability to take hostage terror at will?

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Much to my dismay I learned this morning that the Pirate Bay, the Sweden based torrent tracker service was raided by police brandishing breach of copyright warrant(s). The Los Angeles Times reports
Sweden Pulls the Plug on Pirate Bay
The website was known to enable illegal copying. The U.S. movie industry praises the action.

According to Wired News the recent crack down on Pirate Bay is the culmination of six years of cooperation between the Motion Picture Association of America & the US government pressuring the Swedes. Apparently the Bay has been number 1 on the MPAA hit list for years along with torrentSpy. As entertainment scoundrels scramble to swindle consumers through every avenue of business, cyber-pirates have managed to turn the table on industry by swarming virtually $6.1 billion in booty. Actually the case against The Bay appears to pose a great challenge to Swedish courts in light of the nation’s lax copyright laws and technical details behind the BitTorrent system. The system was originally conceived by academics interested in modeling Economic models. Ironically it is now used by the people for the people to irritate greedy entertainers, agents, and suits who perpetually infest and feed of the Economy.

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By far not the last time I will come back to this issue, but it seems that of all the entries in this nascent blog that titled Nature of (wo)Man has sparked the most interest. One reader did not understand the implications of the montage of magnetic resonance images of different human brains. Another criticized the quote by Confucius.
In the field of Neuroscience, experience dependent neural plasticity refers to the capacity of the central nervous system for reorganization in response to repeated input. By definition learning through practice amounts to learning through repeated experience; thus practice constitutes a major driving force behind the reorganization of the nervous system. In my interpretation of the sayingby nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart by Confucius I am just highlighting the effect of practice on human individuals with equal application to both sexes.

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These two Neanderthals who have both managed by different criminal means to obtain the post of presidency in their respective nations have taken bullshit to a whole new playing field. In his magnum opus love letter Ahmadinejad claims to have addressed the will, thoughts, and desires of the Iranian people. I feel sorry for any thick Iranian who believes that an ounce of truth may be attributed to this fanatic. At the end of the day Ahmadinejad and George Bush Jr. are one and the same overenthusiastic mind occupying different men. They are both fanatics.

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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius

Courteously of Patrick Bermudez the picture above provides a glimpse into the stuff of our humanity. Shown here are horizontal slices from an identical cross section of magnetic resonance images from a sample of healthy adults involved in Bermudez's research (Neuroscience of Music). Briefly, the images have been meticulously coregistered and aligned in order to carry out statistical analysis in a standardized space. Careful attention was paid to preserve individual variability. It's time consuming and computationally intensive for researchers to play around in Procrustes' bed, but Patrick does it well. The resulting image is beautiful testament to the diversity that lends credit to Confucius' keen observation.

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"If you wait long enough by the river, the bodies of your enemies will float by." Anon

Anonymous because I cannot figure out to whom the above quote belongs to. A search on the Internet led me to an Australian band called The Drones whom on their website is said to sound like a car crash inside a washing machine. I also came across two obsolete references; one pointed to an old Native American tribe called the Abenaki and the other to Sun Tzu, the great Chinese general warrior. Moreover a query of various search engines dedicated to quotations turned up no result. For now I will presume it was Sun Tzu who said it, frankly because it sounds like something he might have said.

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