Sayyid Qutb, Leo Strauss, they hate our our freedom

Sayyid Qutb:
"Even the Western world realizes that Western civilization is unable to present any healthy values for the guidance of mankind. It knows that it does not possess anything which will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence..."
.....understand the imperfections, injustices and moral poverty of jahiliyya

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fe.bailey
"At the heart of the neoconservative attack on Darwinism lies the political philosophy of Leo Strauss. ..In an intellectual revolt against modernity, Strauss focused his work on interpreting such classics as Plato's Republic and Machiavelli's The Prince.
Kristol has acknowledged his intellectual debt to Strauss in a recent autobiographical essay. "What made him so controversial within the academic community was his disbelief in the Enlightenment dogma that `the truth will make men free.'"
[nb not Enlightnement, actually said by ol' JC hisself, its in the book...]

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now Baily sticks his foot in it, attempting to show that evolution is dis-proveable:
"Also, biologists agree that a general principle of evolutionary biology rules out the possibility that there are organisms that will sacrifice their own reproductive success in order to enhance the reproductive success of some other species."
- Dianne Fossey an example? I wouldnt bet on neo-Darwinism blocking any odd human behaviour.. Altruism as a pathology? but seriously folks, humans run on an idea of the "sort of person they would like to be" - thus trancending neo-Darwinism, and enabling all kinds of weird charity. Of course the 'idea' in most peoples heads is to score big with chicks by means of a huge car & house with air-con, so charity is a fringe affair.

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stcynic A couple weeks ago, in response to an article about the Miami police staging random "shows of force" at hotels and banks, surrounding the place with swat teams and forcing everyone to show ID to go in or out for no apparent reason, Radley Balko sarcastically commented that if the terrorists hate us for our freedom then clearly attempts to reduce our freedom amount to "appeasement."

Weird Science..

Coffee and tea ..people who drink too much alcohol, are overweight, or have too much iron..10,000 people ..more than two cups of coffee or tea a day developed chronic liver disease at half the rate of those who drank less than one....
I have broccoli seeds sprouting, which completes my anti-alcohol kit. NAcetylCysteine, TriMethylGlycine, Se-methylselenocysteine, Kyolc garlic, [enough Sulphur to stop a Rhino] Bvitamins, zinc, Aspirin, Vit A E C, Lecethin

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Fast Breeders still operating
India FBTR 1985 13MWe
Japan JOYO 160MWe? restarted 2003?
Japan MONJU 280MWe 1995 closed due to a massive leak of sodium coolant. due to re-open 2008
France Phenix1973 250MWe? shut down 1998-2003 ..started again recently at a reduced power due to close..
Beloyarsk BN-600 600MWe The only large breeder still operational?
China Tuoli Construction is well under way on China’s first
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