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His Husband, Her Wife December 12, 2013 If a word as spoken does not contain the entire history of its usages, neither does it offer any defense against them- state-nation as nation-state January 21, 2014 Its notion turns the whole world upside down, since the ideal state-nation is the universal homogeneous state, the world state or the democracy whose demos would be all of humankind, not any particular state within history but the action of history itself under a declared progressively "federative concept."
- A Collective Suicide Note February 22, 2014 So much to admire about this historical document, which came up yesterday on the excellent twitter feed of "Todo libro antiguo" (@Libroantiguo) with the following description: "Declaration of war from the German Empire 1914, starting WORLD WAR I. Signed by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II."
August 14, 2014
August 14, 2014
Anismism, Liberalism v Islamism as a Syncretic Problem, On Liberal Democracy in Relation to Islamism, Political Philosophy, Religion, The Exception
The alternative resolution or the other Islamic state, the one that avoids the tyrant’s despair – or, put more politically-philosophically, allows for a liberal-Islamic assimilation that would also be integrative or unitary rather than irrecuperably conflictual – would appear to rely on modes of idealization of religion that would evolve simultaneously and bi-conditionally, or, as Fadel or Fadel’s Khaldun puts it, “organically.” Their current impermissibility is a reflection of the same problem.
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It is perfectly normal, and beyond that it is natural and altogether archetypical, for human communities in times of crisis to look for and seek to rally behind a commanding figure. The American electoral process is in many ways already the institutionalization of crisis even in the normal course of events, and this year, with one of the two major parties struggling to fight off a hostile takeover by a crypto-fascist and his movement, has had more of that character than usual.
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John 3:16 encapsulates a question, is belief static or dynamic? I believe threfore I am saved. Or, I believe and every action [...]
On “Tales from the Geopolitical Crypt: Seven Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich”
Well I got from Pete Wyden's account of Hiroshima, take it for what it's worth
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Kyoto was out because many moons before, Secretary Stimson had his honeymoon there
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Are you cosmically stupid instinctively, or do you work at it?
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It takes him nine months to decide on a mission we're already on, an actual new crisis would be beyond him, several would task him
to the limit. but we have the expertise of Biden
On “Portrait of a Failed Presidency: "What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?" by Kevin Mattson”
Right I'm just making the comparison between now and 1977. The Shah of Iran was still on his throne, although the Ayatollah's transfer
from Najaf to Paris, would hasten his departure.
Pannetta tried to pull a Turner, but that didn't hold so far. Now interest rates will like spike and we really didn't get around to fixing that
subprime problem, with the resetting rates
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Carter was a piker, with Obama just comparing their first year in office. At 10.2 (closer to 17%
unemployment, before the inevitable
hyperinflation and interest rate spike, there hasn't quite been a Halloween massacre, type purge of Langley, but not for lack of trying. With the Russians ruefully suggesting a possible first strike, the Iranians announcing ten more nuclear facilities, the upcoming show trials in NY. 'interesting times' my friends
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