An Epicurean swerve

An Epicurean swerve

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus#Teachings

“Like Democritus, he was an atomist, believing that the fundamental constituents of the world were uncuttable little bits of matter (atoms) flying through empty space (void). Everything that occurs is the result of the atoms colliding, rebounding, and becoming entangled with one another, with no purpose or plan behind their motions. His theory differs from the earlier atomism of Democritus because he admits that atoms do not always follow straight lines but their direction of motion may occasionally exhibit a 'swerve'. This allowed him to avoid the determinism implicit in the earlier atomism and to affirm free will. “

Reading Vignettes of What’s Happening In America 9.09.06 (overview through transcendental synthetic unity of apperception later)


I.
MALE WARRIOR PSYCHOLOGY

http://news.scotsman.com/latest_uk.cfm?id=1330332006&format=print
Fri 8 Sep 2006
Researchers identify "male warrior effect"
NORWICH (Reuters) - Men may have developed a psychology that makes them particularly able to engage in wars, a scientist said on Friday.
Men respond more strongly to outward threats, we've labelled that the 'man warrior effect'," he told the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting.
II.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2349869,00.html

Sex scandal kept Clinton's eye off bin Laden threat, TV drama says
BY TIM REID IN WASHINGTON



BILL CLINTON responded furiously yesterday to an American television mini-series about the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, which portrays him as so distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal that he failed to focus on the emerging threat of Osama bin Laden.


III.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/world/middleeast/06jordan.html
Typical of a New Terror Threat: Anger of a Gunman in Jordan

(Headline on A13 hardcopy:
New Scourge Attacking the West: Personal Anger Compels Killers )

By HASSAN M. FATTAH
Published: September 6, 2006
AMMAN, Jordan, Sept. 5 — To many of his neighbors, Nabeel Jaoura was a gentleman: soft spoken, mild mannered and religious. He kept to himself, and never really discussed politics.
But deep inside, Jordanian security officials say, Mr. Jaoura was brooding, waiting for the day that he could avenge the death of his brothers in 1982 at the hands of Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon.
When Mr. Jaoura, a 38-year-old blacksmith and father of five, opened fire on Monday at a group of tourists in downtown Amman, killing a Briton and wounding six others, he became the latest in a new breed of terrorist, stirred by boiling anger and frustration, and taking matters into his own hands, security officials say.
While security officials are largely focused on organized terror groups like Al Qaeda, lone attackers like Mr. Jaoura present a new challenge. They are hard to track and even harder to stop, making them an especially difficult target for the police and security officials.
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III. The news here is the arrival of a truly terrible situation: the equivalent of blood feuds between clans (Martins and McCoys); rival gang wars; mutual tribal extermination raids.

This time between Arab/Muslim males and “the West”. Note the on-line heading relents naming the entire hemisphere under attack by wronged, angry, revengeful men of non-Judeo-Christian descent; but the hand-held hardcopy has no such compunctions. The man striking Jordan tourists in ’06 for Christian Phalangist killing his family in ‘82 in Lebanon is an attack on “the West”. The culture, civilization, hemisphere is totally hated by those who have been supplied with a revenge motive for suicide killing, and make it a duty to fulfill. This one waits 24 years, until he has done right by his own children, keeping it to himself, but knowing. It is a simple but remarkable story. Who will tell him he must not? The ones who killed his kin?

It is important to remove “the West”. Glad some editorial eye caught it :p It ‘targets” all for the sins of some. It is important to remove ALL terms identifying America with Israel; for it has sinned, and would take whoever joins with them down the same road, deserving what they deserve. . (Israel’s own courts convicted Ariel Sharon of barbaric atrocity in allowing the Sabra and Shatila massacres.)

II. Still Wagging that Dog

The movie Wag the Dog was seen worldwide (trust me: mislaid data, but particularly in the Arab world and continents of Asia and Africa. – he should have resigned; or held his ground; but leave that aside)

I was the only one then, as now, who called attention to its “reversal”: the movie showed how a war could be faked to cover for sexual scandal; whereas the fact of the matter was, a fake/contrived sexual scandal was used as PR cover for the real Kosovo war. Everybody who got “hip” to what was going on, according to the movie learned the sex-war PR trade-off on reverse. The sexual content, associated with the sleaze Slick Willie brought to the WH, blocked out public awareness of what was going down in old Yugoslavia.

As for Osama bin Laden – nothing up (on page One). Turns out, the family relationships via Bilderburgers, or whatever, goes back to pappa Bush and the Reagan’s CIA. He wasn’t close to Saddam Hussein, but he prohibited deployment of U.S. military machines on the Saudi peninsula on religious grounds, which Aitch knew before he Desert Stormed Iraq the first time. This was the cross they hung Clinton on, creating such an enemy. And John Doe #2 at the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was almost certainly what everyone at the time more or less assumed without saying: it was domestic terrorism motivated by revenge for what G.W. Bush had done to Iraq; a white radical nationalist, angry over Waco, became the PR patsy who took the fall. Timothy McVeigh, by name. But fingerprints of Middle Easterners were all over that scene in ’95.

So the story now is, Clinton bears responsibility for 911, blamed on Bin Laden, because he was distracted by the impeachment proceedings. I am on record from the outset as loathing this individual (though not his wife, at first), but this ‘rounding out” on him, subjecting blame and shame again another time around for not doing the job they prevented him from doing is too much. I won’t defend him; but will not deny his right to defend himself to the utmost against that behavior, as he should have done earlier,

I. Examples of male warriors (crypto and real).

-J.M. Karr – the Boulder DA dame didn’t have the goods: who got her to go along with the farce?
-“Bucky” Phillips
-Man Charged in 4 Killings at Maine Bed and Breakfast (NY Times A14 9.06.06)
-Phoenix “baseline killer”

-Brits MI5 busting up plot by Arab/Muslim Islamic fascist jihad males to mix potent liquid explosives on board 10 planes headed into US. cities, bringing them down in one fell swoop. Biggest terrorist act since 911 FOILED! THANK GOD! They had to act when they did, Aug. 10, officials said, because they didn’t know whether maybe there weren’t more out there (in other words, they had no basis whatsoever to act when they did, since those busted were not ready to do anything)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/world/europe/28plot.html?ei=5070&en=8810e21a2b9...

This is “acting out”. Being The Man; taking charge, taking control, hitting them before they can hit us. It connects with III. through the text of the script one of the arrested terrorists recited before a videocamera: “The man said he was seeking revenge for the foreign policy of the United States, and “their accomplices, the U.K. and the Jews..” The man said he wanted to show that the enemies of Islam would never win this “war” (sic).”

Why do we have to deal with this shit?