London High Drama Starring President Barack Obama
By Jean-Pierre A. Fenyo, Philosopher & Writer
02:20 a.m., London, England, UK, EU – George Soros understands better than almost any person alive today just how dire the circumstances are, not just financially but in terms of global economic and geo-political stability! Within less than 24 hours the world, starting with its key decision-makers, will either breathe a deep sigh of relief and begin to rise constructively out of the muck of financial and economic doom and gloom or the world will begin its final roller-coaster ride of weeks of extreme market volatility and the beginning of what would definitely not only be something far worse than The Great Depression of 1929, but a series of other related disasters that would definitely destroy human civilization as we know it today! Given the kind of weird Global Russian Roulette Situation we have, with every one of the G-20 nations holding a gun to the head of the other, and all the potential for a total meltdown of trust, not to mention the kind of weapons of mass destruction that did not even exist in 1929, we must all hope and pray that these powerful leaders and their advisors will heed the warning of George Soros and others.
In the past few days, just before this G-20 Crisis Meeting is about to convene, France and Germany have decided to stick to their guns in their conviction that what is really needed most is stronger and better regulation of global business and finance practices and activities, and France has even threatened to walk-out if Global Financial Regulation is not significantly strengthened. For in their view this Global Financial and Economic Crisis is evidence, as they say, of the systemic failure of the Anglo-Saxon type of Global Financial Markets and International Finance structures and business activities, with its excessive deregulation, especially during the Bush Administration years. This rather harsh anti-Anglo-American stance is in contrast to the preference of the British and Americans to get the Continental European giants and other G-20 nations to pool and pour more money into government financial-crisis-management programs, including massive infrastructure investment projects and works as well as other business-salvaging programs to reduce and eventually reverse the rapidly growing unemployment rates, efforts to bail-out and prop-up key financial, banking, insurance and securities institutions, efforts to use this crisis as an opportunity to shift production towards alternative, green, transportation and energy technologies, as well as other efforts to not only restore confidence in the global economy but to set a new course for the entire world! France, Germany and a few other key European Union nations think that most of the burden of the costs of restoring global market stability should be born by the key perpetrators of this crisis, namely the United Kingdom and The United States of America. And it seems that if both sides are willing to play a dangerous, ultimate high stakes international Game of Chicken the ultimate losers may be everyone else in the world!
Obviously what is needed is some cool-headed wisdom and the determination to make every effort to find a relatively reasonable compromise, but in such a way that somehow really does end up providing the world most of what either side has wanted in the first place. For anyone sufficiently educated, knowledgeable and informed can see that both sides are more right than wrong. Sure, to blame this Global Crisis on the so-called Anglo-Saxon Financial Markets and International Finance Model is wrong. The idea that rich people and their Big Businesses would never do anything that would significantly endanger the very global stability they depend on is either very naïve or born of short-term malicious greed and selfish-minded foolishness. But such stupidity was not at all part of the original so-called Anglo-Saxon model when it all came into place at the height of The Industrial Revolution. In fact, one could just as well argue that it was actually the extremely aggressive and strict German labor-intensive model combined with the traditional Japanese Corporate Fascism model, where the individual worker is practically owned by the company they work for, which too many greedy businesspersons throughout the world, and especially in America, adopted beginning in the early 80s with Reaganomics and its sick Trickle-down Supply-side excessively consumerist-addicting economic model. Clearly this Era of Careless and Imbalanced Globalization, with its increasingly nasty and excessive competition between nation-state economies, was heavily exploited by the rich everywhere, including, to a great extent, by rich German, French and other Western European businesspersons, as well as by many rich OPEC member state citizens!
While most American and European citizens were not in any significant way the ultimate beneficiaries of the kind of greed- and selfishness-driven, ruthless business practices that made the American-owned markets such lucrative sources of investment- and speculation-based fortunes, not just for the top one percent of Americans, but also for European elite businesspersons, many who are multi-national citizens, and quite a few who are dual American and European citizens, most people in the poorer nations of the world, as well as a significant minority in America and Western Europe were the ones to have to pay the price for such excesses! Not just in terms of jobs and household economies at risk, but in terms of serious job-related health problems, suffering and premature deaths! But we must also remember the cost of AIDS and other preventable epidemics which were not at all helped (and in fact were exacerbated) by the very erroneous and zealous ideals, social strictures and policies of the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, then to a lesser extent Bush Junior’s policies, and the unrealistic attitude of some other major religious institutions. And to top it all, one must not forget to take into serious consideration the very negative financial and economic consequences of the sick terrorist attacks of 9-11-2001, which were exploited for very sinister political and financial interests by the Neo-Conservatives of the Bush Administration, to the added benefit of extreme Rapture-addicted so-called-Christians (mostly of the Neo-Evangelist type). In sum, the current Global Crisis was caused by many things combined which together became the proverbial “perfect storm”. Thus Sarkozy, Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker, to name just a few, are not as righteous in their condemnation as would first appear to be the case.
Surely President Obama cannot be in any way held responsible for this mess which was caused, in great measure, by the Bush Administration’s rampant deregulatory practices and policies and its Fiasco in Iraq, with its very negative consequences for the rest of the world! In fact both Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy would be well advised to listen to Obama and his entourage of experts, as well as to George Soros, whose advice was echoed just the other day by both Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd of Australia and Gordon Brown of the UK. Now would be the very worst time for France to storm out and Germany to stand still, especially as recent events in The Middle East show how desperately and urgently all peoples there need President Obama to be able to restore confidence in the global markets so as to concentrate on using his magnificent talent at bringing diverse groups together and his exceptional skill at talking sense into people, for the sake of lasting peace, global security and a New Era of Prosperity based on real technological, social and environmental progress!
Jean-Pierre A. Fenyo is an Independent Philosopher, Writer and Political Scientist, famous for being The Original New York City Free Advice Man in the late 1980s. He is the author of several books, including “The Most Important Thought” and “Infinitism: Secret Key To The Doors of Wisdom”, and was the first Democrat to accurately predict almost a year in advance the Obama-Biden ticket and its subsequent victory at the US National Elections of 2008. He currently resides in London, England, where he is busy with various new projects, and writing a book about Eccentrics and their Indispensable Role in Healthy Democracies. A movie about his life as The Free Advice Man is in the works He has advised thousands of people directly, including famous celebrities and other VIPs, such as George Soros, Vice President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton, former Vice-President Al Gore, The Obama Campaign, Actor and Director Woody Allen, the late Actor and Song & Dance Man Andy Kaufman, and many others. His ideas and indirect advice have influenced the lives of millions.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Dehumanizing Your Enemy Serves Only To Dehumanize Yourself!
In the past I have tended to be very specific about what specific incident(s), event(s) or issue(s) I am writing about. While doing so may have been useful in getting people to think about those things more seriously it has often harmed my more universal goal(s). In effect; universal wisdom is very hard to convey without giving specific examples, but by going into specifics one risks being misunderstood and one's universal values risk being perceived as hypocrisy! So, this time I find myself forced to avoid being specific in the hope that a broader and ultimately more important message be conveyed.
A recent event happened that over time will push a certain set of people in the world to re-evaluate things and to make very hard decisions. This event was not only a most complex event, but its root causes are even more complex! To give you a rough idea of what I might be talking about I am going to relate to you a semi-fictional story that has a lot of basis in reality:
The Story of History Island
(by Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo...myself ofcourse)
Not very long ago there was a time when large sailing ships were the only way significant numbers of people could travel from one side of an ocean to another. In those days there were many unchartered, undiscovered and unknown islands, especially in Tropical waters. This is the story of such a ship and such an island.
H.M.S. Wilberforce was a grand Galleon over 120 feet in length and 80 feet in width, fore to aft. It had three decks and could comfortable transport over 300 persons from the coast of England to the coast of Peru in about 2 and a half months.
On May 14, 1748 H.M.S. Wilberforce was caught in a sudden and rather violent storm, and during that storm it went off course nearly 40 nautical miles! By nightfall the storm began to subside but not enough to prevent the ship from hitting a reef and being split into two! Fortunately enough, all but 11 of the 220 passengers aboard managed to swim to the safety of the shores of a nearby, uninhabited island! The ship was transporting 170 ethno-religious fanatics and 50 relatively normal persons! And of the fanatics most were of X Ethno-Religion and only a few were of Y Ethno-Religion. The ratio of each group among the 11 dead was approximately the same.
Within a few days the island had been fully explored, and was found to be as big as London City proper was in 1748! It had everything imaginable for relatively normal living, including several fresh water springs, a few small lakes, a couple of waterfalls, several small dormant volcanic mountains, plenty of tropical fruit trees and berry bushes, an assortment of various wild animals, including fowl, reptiles and rodents, not to mention some poisonous spiders, snakes and what not! It also was surrounded by beautiful soft-sanded pearly-white beaches, brilliantly clear aquamarine blue warm tropical water and inlets, rich in fish and other wonders of the sea! The Captain of the ship tried to keep everyone united, but soon enough two main groups formed, and two smaller groups. The largest group was for those who were religious fanatics of the X Ethno-Religion, numbering some 130 people, followed by the second largest one, comprised of the 50 non-fanatic persons of both ethno-religious backgrounds, but mostly being of the Y Ethno-Religious background, another smaller one comprised of the Y ethno-religious fanatics whose number was 20, and the smallest of them all was made up of the few who were a-religious and who numbered just 9!
Logically the island was divided into four distinct territories, but the proportions were not quite fair! The X fanatics, being the largest number of people, easily managed to force everyone else into much smaller parcels of land, especially parcels of land that were not the nicest ones either! The X fanatics named their 90% of the island "X-ria", the non-fanatic, predominantly of Y background, group named their 4% of the island "Democratonia", the Y fanatics named their 4% "Zealand", and the group of 9 a-religious people named their 2% "Athenia". Already the seeds of conflict were beginning to be sown! Especially because there was a brief time of a few days when the "Democratonians" held at least 10% of the island, including a very viable section which would have made it possible for them to live relatively decent lives, without harming anyone else!
In the first two months that followed there were signs of growing tension and some minor border disputes and fist-fights, but otherwise there was so-called 'peace' without fairness; an obviously false peace that would not last long!
The "Athenians" had also had enough of the situation and decided to join forces with the "Democratonians" in demanding that the "Democratonians" get a full 10%, and they, the "Athenians" get another 2%. The "Zealanders" suffered in their small and poor piece of the island, but refused to risk war!
What happened next was totally unnexpected! One of the women from X-ria fell in love with a man from Democratonia, and left her parents, brother and two uncles to be live in Democratonia with her newfound love! In effect, she had decided not to be a fanatic anymore. Unfortunately this did not go down well with her familials and they attempted to force her back and threatened to kill her lover. When they almost succeeded, causing serious injury to the love-struck couple, the Democratonians and Athenians declared war on the X-rians and after three days of violent conflict, in which ten X-rians, two Democratonians and one Athenian were killed, the Democratonians managed to capture roughly 16% of the island, and awarded 2% more to the Athenians. From that point on things were definitely not peaceful. After ten years of conflict the borders changed little, but the children were born and the total population began to increase, even with a few fatalities every now and then! Then in the 12th year the Democratonians, in an attempt to get back to the 'real world', sent an expedition on a small raft, which discovered another much larger island that was actually inhabited! Its people were called the Restonians and soon enough trade was established between the two islands. The Restonians did not know who their ancestors were or how they had come to live on their island and they had had no contact with any other peoples for longer than they could remember! But the Restonians trade was not exclusively with the Democratonians, Athenians or even the Zealanders. They soon made special and exclusive alliances and deals with each group, and discovered that by exploiting the conflict between the peoples of The Island of Historia they could benefit greatly! After all the Restonians numbered four times the total number of people on Historia!
Now what I forgot to tell you is that in 2% of that extra 4% of the land the Democratonians held a family of X-rians decided to remain and they soon grew in number. These X-rians somehow managed to live under Democratonian rule without much ado, until a group of the originally displaced X-rians decided to exploit this fact and force that family into conflict with the Democratonians. At some point the X-rians began launching suicide attacks, using crude explosives made from the various natural minerals imported from Restonia Island! The situation eventually became so bad that the Democratonians threatened another all-out war with the X-rians, especially after the X-rians began to tell half-truths about the history of the conflict of Historia Island to the Restonian Islanders. The Restonian Islanders were such opportunists that they cleverly managed to play up to each side to the degree that suited them best; knowing that it would always be to their advantage to keep the conflict going while seeming to want all sides to make a lasting peace settlement! The X-rians even tried to turn the Y fanatics of Zealand against Democratonia and Athenia! Such that most of the Y fanatics of Zealand felt forced to leave Zealand and live in Democratonia, leaving a small fraction of Zealanders to actually allow Restonia to use Zealand as their foothold, in exchange for protection from either side! For this to work these few Zealand fanatics who remained in Zealand spoke more and more in favor of the "plight" of the X-rians, even lying about the actual truth of the actual History of Historia's conflict. Thus such a situation began to arise that was to the detriment of all! The X-rians began to subdivide into various clans, some of whose leaders were worse than others, and even a few who made relative peace with Democratonia! The Democratonians were living in constant fear of the suicide attacks by the X-rians in the land they held, which they were more than willing to return to X-ria if all the X-rians would agree to let Democratonia live peacefully on its original 10% of the island's land! Even though the Democratonians had set up, over time, a very strict set of rules and laws governing their military, a small but growing minority within their military began to violate those wise rules and laws, mostly out of revenge for the loss of loved ones to the X-rians, who seemed to have no qualms about using such suicide attacks! Such suicide attack methods were alien to the culture and history of the Democratonians, and to even most of the Restonians! Yet the Restonian leaders, who also had various competing clans, failed to ever point out to the X-rians how totally unacceptable such suicide attacks were, and continued to profit from the conflict! Anyway, as time went on another minority of Democratonians, joined by many Athenians, a few former Zealanders and even some Restonians and X-rians began to express concern over that minority of the Democratonian military which were even killing unarmed X-rians in the occupied part of X-ria. Things were obviously going to get even more and more dangerous as new and more destructive technologies and weapons were invented and any peaceful outcome seemed less and less likely!
That is, until twenty years and countless lives lost later, yet another large island, slightly further away, finally discovered the Island of Historia and The Island Restonia! For on that island, New India, lived a wise man who was their democratically elected leader and knowing that he could use his islands vast wealth and resources for good began to try to point out to all parties concerned just how dangerous the situation was. But the Restonians, who had profited, did not care to take the warning seriously enough, and they argued that if New India wanted to really help they should give a piece of their own island to the non X-rian Historians, especially to the Democratonians! But by now the Democratonians had suffered too much injustice and would never agree to anyone else running their affairs! Even if the New Indians were able to give a part of their island to the Democratonians, which they were not, the Democratonians had a deep historic connection to their land and that combined with their fear of having to rely on outsiders made such a proposition pointless! Thus, because of these very complicated entangled interests and constant half-truths and even outright lies, a situation arose where the Restonian majority actually began to hate the Democratonians, even as they were themselves not fanatics and would never agree to have the X-rians living next to them! Fortunately for the Democratonians and Athenians of Historia Island a growing number of X-rians were also seeking to live in true democratic and non-fanatic communities within X-ria, but these efforts were violently squashed by most X-rian clan leaders. Most but not all! Another important factor was that many of the X-rians living under Democratonian occupation were actually becoming more interested in Democratonian social ideals and the freedom offered by such, such that the majority of X-rians were no longer really interested in their welfare and yet were more than willing to help incite conflict between occupied and occupier, and to provide the means, in effect the weapons, to keep the conflict going on and on and on! And even in Democratonia there emerged a few corrupt and unethical leaders who abused their positions of authority and who understood that their own ability to profit financially from the continuation of the conflict was to insure that the conflict would continue!!!
Still, the problem was that a new and most terrifying weapon, based on parabolic mirrors and the rays of The Sun was about to make the whole mess even more dangerous for all three islands! The Democratonians managed to invent this Sun Ray weapon, but the Restonians were soon able to invent their own version, which they sold to one of the X-rian clans! The New Indians were now forced to make their own Sun Ray weapon and soon enough this super weapon was in the hands of all sides. But to make matters worse it was discovered that an X-rian group of ultra-fanatics were making efforts to get the biological weaponry developed by the Restonians and the New Indians, with which they would be able to unleash utter chaos!
End Of Story -Sort Of
Now, if you do not see the real story behind this fictional story then you are probably not as well educated, informed and enlightened as you thought you were!
End of Blog Article
A recent event happened that over time will push a certain set of people in the world to re-evaluate things and to make very hard decisions. This event was not only a most complex event, but its root causes are even more complex! To give you a rough idea of what I might be talking about I am going to relate to you a semi-fictional story that has a lot of basis in reality:
The Story of History Island
(by Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo...myself ofcourse)
Not very long ago there was a time when large sailing ships were the only way significant numbers of people could travel from one side of an ocean to another. In those days there were many unchartered, undiscovered and unknown islands, especially in Tropical waters. This is the story of such a ship and such an island.
H.M.S. Wilberforce was a grand Galleon over 120 feet in length and 80 feet in width, fore to aft. It had three decks and could comfortable transport over 300 persons from the coast of England to the coast of Peru in about 2 and a half months.
On May 14, 1748 H.M.S. Wilberforce was caught in a sudden and rather violent storm, and during that storm it went off course nearly 40 nautical miles! By nightfall the storm began to subside but not enough to prevent the ship from hitting a reef and being split into two! Fortunately enough, all but 11 of the 220 passengers aboard managed to swim to the safety of the shores of a nearby, uninhabited island! The ship was transporting 170 ethno-religious fanatics and 50 relatively normal persons! And of the fanatics most were of X Ethno-Religion and only a few were of Y Ethno-Religion. The ratio of each group among the 11 dead was approximately the same.
Within a few days the island had been fully explored, and was found to be as big as London City proper was in 1748! It had everything imaginable for relatively normal living, including several fresh water springs, a few small lakes, a couple of waterfalls, several small dormant volcanic mountains, plenty of tropical fruit trees and berry bushes, an assortment of various wild animals, including fowl, reptiles and rodents, not to mention some poisonous spiders, snakes and what not! It also was surrounded by beautiful soft-sanded pearly-white beaches, brilliantly clear aquamarine blue warm tropical water and inlets, rich in fish and other wonders of the sea! The Captain of the ship tried to keep everyone united, but soon enough two main groups formed, and two smaller groups. The largest group was for those who were religious fanatics of the X Ethno-Religion, numbering some 130 people, followed by the second largest one, comprised of the 50 non-fanatic persons of both ethno-religious backgrounds, but mostly being of the Y Ethno-Religious background, another smaller one comprised of the Y ethno-religious fanatics whose number was 20, and the smallest of them all was made up of the few who were a-religious and who numbered just 9!
Logically the island was divided into four distinct territories, but the proportions were not quite fair! The X fanatics, being the largest number of people, easily managed to force everyone else into much smaller parcels of land, especially parcels of land that were not the nicest ones either! The X fanatics named their 90% of the island "X-ria", the non-fanatic, predominantly of Y background, group named their 4% of the island "Democratonia", the Y fanatics named their 4% "Zealand", and the group of 9 a-religious people named their 2% "Athenia". Already the seeds of conflict were beginning to be sown! Especially because there was a brief time of a few days when the "Democratonians" held at least 10% of the island, including a very viable section which would have made it possible for them to live relatively decent lives, without harming anyone else!
In the first two months that followed there were signs of growing tension and some minor border disputes and fist-fights, but otherwise there was so-called 'peace' without fairness; an obviously false peace that would not last long!
The "Athenians" had also had enough of the situation and decided to join forces with the "Democratonians" in demanding that the "Democratonians" get a full 10%, and they, the "Athenians" get another 2%. The "Zealanders" suffered in their small and poor piece of the island, but refused to risk war!
What happened next was totally unnexpected! One of the women from X-ria fell in love with a man from Democratonia, and left her parents, brother and two uncles to be live in Democratonia with her newfound love! In effect, she had decided not to be a fanatic anymore. Unfortunately this did not go down well with her familials and they attempted to force her back and threatened to kill her lover. When they almost succeeded, causing serious injury to the love-struck couple, the Democratonians and Athenians declared war on the X-rians and after three days of violent conflict, in which ten X-rians, two Democratonians and one Athenian were killed, the Democratonians managed to capture roughly 16% of the island, and awarded 2% more to the Athenians. From that point on things were definitely not peaceful. After ten years of conflict the borders changed little, but the children were born and the total population began to increase, even with a few fatalities every now and then! Then in the 12th year the Democratonians, in an attempt to get back to the 'real world', sent an expedition on a small raft, which discovered another much larger island that was actually inhabited! Its people were called the Restonians and soon enough trade was established between the two islands. The Restonians did not know who their ancestors were or how they had come to live on their island and they had had no contact with any other peoples for longer than they could remember! But the Restonians trade was not exclusively with the Democratonians, Athenians or even the Zealanders. They soon made special and exclusive alliances and deals with each group, and discovered that by exploiting the conflict between the peoples of The Island of Historia they could benefit greatly! After all the Restonians numbered four times the total number of people on Historia!
Now what I forgot to tell you is that in 2% of that extra 4% of the land the Democratonians held a family of X-rians decided to remain and they soon grew in number. These X-rians somehow managed to live under Democratonian rule without much ado, until a group of the originally displaced X-rians decided to exploit this fact and force that family into conflict with the Democratonians. At some point the X-rians began launching suicide attacks, using crude explosives made from the various natural minerals imported from Restonia Island! The situation eventually became so bad that the Democratonians threatened another all-out war with the X-rians, especially after the X-rians began to tell half-truths about the history of the conflict of Historia Island to the Restonian Islanders. The Restonian Islanders were such opportunists that they cleverly managed to play up to each side to the degree that suited them best; knowing that it would always be to their advantage to keep the conflict going while seeming to want all sides to make a lasting peace settlement! The X-rians even tried to turn the Y fanatics of Zealand against Democratonia and Athenia! Such that most of the Y fanatics of Zealand felt forced to leave Zealand and live in Democratonia, leaving a small fraction of Zealanders to actually allow Restonia to use Zealand as their foothold, in exchange for protection from either side! For this to work these few Zealand fanatics who remained in Zealand spoke more and more in favor of the "plight" of the X-rians, even lying about the actual truth of the actual History of Historia's conflict. Thus such a situation began to arise that was to the detriment of all! The X-rians began to subdivide into various clans, some of whose leaders were worse than others, and even a few who made relative peace with Democratonia! The Democratonians were living in constant fear of the suicide attacks by the X-rians in the land they held, which they were more than willing to return to X-ria if all the X-rians would agree to let Democratonia live peacefully on its original 10% of the island's land! Even though the Democratonians had set up, over time, a very strict set of rules and laws governing their military, a small but growing minority within their military began to violate those wise rules and laws, mostly out of revenge for the loss of loved ones to the X-rians, who seemed to have no qualms about using such suicide attacks! Such suicide attack methods were alien to the culture and history of the Democratonians, and to even most of the Restonians! Yet the Restonian leaders, who also had various competing clans, failed to ever point out to the X-rians how totally unacceptable such suicide attacks were, and continued to profit from the conflict! Anyway, as time went on another minority of Democratonians, joined by many Athenians, a few former Zealanders and even some Restonians and X-rians began to express concern over that minority of the Democratonian military which were even killing unarmed X-rians in the occupied part of X-ria. Things were obviously going to get even more and more dangerous as new and more destructive technologies and weapons were invented and any peaceful outcome seemed less and less likely!
That is, until twenty years and countless lives lost later, yet another large island, slightly further away, finally discovered the Island of Historia and The Island Restonia! For on that island, New India, lived a wise man who was their democratically elected leader and knowing that he could use his islands vast wealth and resources for good began to try to point out to all parties concerned just how dangerous the situation was. But the Restonians, who had profited, did not care to take the warning seriously enough, and they argued that if New India wanted to really help they should give a piece of their own island to the non X-rian Historians, especially to the Democratonians! But by now the Democratonians had suffered too much injustice and would never agree to anyone else running their affairs! Even if the New Indians were able to give a part of their island to the Democratonians, which they were not, the Democratonians had a deep historic connection to their land and that combined with their fear of having to rely on outsiders made such a proposition pointless! Thus, because of these very complicated entangled interests and constant half-truths and even outright lies, a situation arose where the Restonian majority actually began to hate the Democratonians, even as they were themselves not fanatics and would never agree to have the X-rians living next to them! Fortunately for the Democratonians and Athenians of Historia Island a growing number of X-rians were also seeking to live in true democratic and non-fanatic communities within X-ria, but these efforts were violently squashed by most X-rian clan leaders. Most but not all! Another important factor was that many of the X-rians living under Democratonian occupation were actually becoming more interested in Democratonian social ideals and the freedom offered by such, such that the majority of X-rians were no longer really interested in their welfare and yet were more than willing to help incite conflict between occupied and occupier, and to provide the means, in effect the weapons, to keep the conflict going on and on and on! And even in Democratonia there emerged a few corrupt and unethical leaders who abused their positions of authority and who understood that their own ability to profit financially from the continuation of the conflict was to insure that the conflict would continue!!!
Still, the problem was that a new and most terrifying weapon, based on parabolic mirrors and the rays of The Sun was about to make the whole mess even more dangerous for all three islands! The Democratonians managed to invent this Sun Ray weapon, but the Restonians were soon able to invent their own version, which they sold to one of the X-rian clans! The New Indians were now forced to make their own Sun Ray weapon and soon enough this super weapon was in the hands of all sides. But to make matters worse it was discovered that an X-rian group of ultra-fanatics were making efforts to get the biological weaponry developed by the Restonians and the New Indians, with which they would be able to unleash utter chaos!
End Of Story -Sort Of
Now, if you do not see the real story behind this fictional story then you are probably not as well educated, informed and enlightened as you thought you were!
End of Blog Article
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Think About This, If You Can!
NOTE: The following words are Copyright & Self-Published by Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpts from my next book, titled: "Light-Time & Other Deepest Thoughts" by Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher Extraordinaire.
Generally speaking; the faster one travels through space the slower time passes/happens! And, until recently, based on the Theory of Special Relativity and Einstein’s famous E=mc Squared equation, it would seem perfectly, i.e. equationally (mathematologically), true to state that someone traveling at the speed of light would not perceive the passing of time at all! But according to Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo’s theory, known to a very select few Theoretical Physicists as “Fenyo’s Theory of Differential Times”, sub-atomic particles, i.e. Quantum Particles, exist in their own types of time, and the time in which Living Organisms exist and which they “experience” is Macro-Atomic or Chemical Time!!! Light’s own time is Micro-Atomic or Quantum Time!!! That is to say; Time is actually not Absolutely Relative, but only Relatively Relative, and there are between two to four possible Different Types of Time! In general time is the measurement of the activity of relatively motionless matter (slow or weak “energy”…in effect Weak Force o) as it is affected by the force of other relatively motionful matter, fast matter or strong energy (the Strong Force)! Since Photons are the Quanta radiations (or emissions) that emanate from the interaction of Matter (Weak Force) and Energy (Strong Force), which are two states of the same Atomic (i.e. Chemical) Realm of Physics, they are not existing within the Atomic or Chemical Time, i.e. Macro-Atomic Time, but in Micro-Atomic Time, i.e. The Quantum Realm of Physics (the study of which is known as Quantum Physics). Light cannot travel exactly at the Absolute Speed of Theoretical Light! The Constant or Speed at which Light does travel will always be less than 100% of it Purely Hypothetical Speed, as no such thing as an Absolute Vacuum can exist anywhere in Reality! Space-Time is subject to the Weakest Force: Gravity, which is also the Fastest Force! Faster than Light! But Gravitation Time, or Intra-Universal Time is also not the type of Time we Bio-Chemical Beings can ever experience! (There exists, in a loose sense of the word “exists”, a Fake “Fifth Time”: Imaginary Time…but that is an Unreal Time and not subjectable to True Scientific Inquiry!)
Absolutely Important Eternal Truths/Axioms to keep in mind:
Absolutely Important Eternal Truths/Axioms to keep in mind:
1. There can be no such thing as NOTHING! Theoretically and logically nothing would be what an Absolute Vacuum would be, if it could be! Which is a good thing, as that would have opened the possibility of a Universe devoid of an Absolute Insurance Against Non-Existentiality!
2. Also; nothing can be Absolutely At Rest or Devoid of Time! NOTHING! Light itself “experiences” (using the word “experiences” metaphorically only) its own passing of events or Light Time, i.e. Micro-Atomic Time, or Quantum Time!
3. Spin (motion of electrons around atomic nuclei) is always happening, even when Chemical Conditions (Macro-Atomic States) are such that almost all Energy is almost totally released! Nothing can ever become totally Absolutely At Rest (so as to be able to become NOTHING…the NOTHING from which Absolute Vacuum would come into EXISTENCE!!!)
4. As Light (Photon Quanta and Waves of Chain-Photon Reaction) travels/moves through the Relative Vacuum of Outer Space (in this case Inter-Stellar and Inter-Galactic Space) it is slowed down over vast periods (Eons) of time, and thus becomes Weak Light! In fact, the Theory of The Big Bang is based on the wrong observations of what is really happening throughout the Cosmos of The Visible Universe! Most of what is observed is less about Red Shift, if about any Red Shift at all, and more about Weak(ened) Light!
5. There are no Absolutely Perfect Spheres of ANYTHING! No Quantum Particle, no Atom, not Planet or Star is ever able to be a Perfect Sphere! Of course, in terms of the kind of balls (spheres) we are able to produce on Earth, under the influence of gravity, the balls (spheres) that are produced in the Near Zero Gravity are far more perfect, but never totally perfectable! This is very important, because this also has to do with another fundamental aspect of Light In Motion! Since Photons are only near-perfect, thus imperfect, spheres they are “shifted” out of any “straight” line of movement over any extent of Space-Time! That is to say, the Light we observe from distant celestial objects (“natural” Super-Atomic Physical Structures, i.e. Stars, Galaxies, etc.) can never convey perfectly reliable images! In effect, the “information” we have about ever-distant objects is less and less accurate! Time is only RELATIVE! Time never truly, totally equals Distance divided by Rate (or Ratio). The equation t=d/r is subject to both The Type of Time we are concerned with (as in Macro-Atomic Time, Micro-Atomic Time, Hyper-Dimensional Spiritual Time, etc.) and the Relatively Factor of The Imperfection of Time-Flow! Time does not “flow” totally coherently or “smoothly”! Time is always DISTORTED! Light is always DISTORTED!
6. No Macro-Atomic Entity, such as an Atom (Element), Compound, Molecule, Organic Compound, Single Cell Life-form, Multi-cellular Organism (includes us Humans), Space Craft, can travel sufficiently close to the Relative Speed of Light in Relative Vacuum of Space without the effects of something that is similar to what we call ‘Friction’! Macro-Atomic objects traveling close to the Relative Speed of Light in Relative Vacuum are increasingly ‘warped’ out of shape and Gravitationally and Electromagnetically ‘over-excited’…pretty much blown to smithereens by the cumulative Strong and Weak Forces as what happens to food subjected to Microwaves! Microwaves are Electromagnetic waves that cause excessive vibrations within the molecules of relatively moist, i.e. watery, things (i.e. Food substances and organic compounds)!
7. The Spectra Electromagnetic Waves includes the 2 obvious Types of Time! Micro-Atomic or Subatomic and Macro-Atomic or Super-Atomic! The Observable Universe is only possible directly through Light Waves! The reason Light Waves are somewhere in the middle of the Spectra is because of The Radiation Eye Factor! Our eyes are made of living cells able to transmit Visible Light into our Brains! When one understands that even what we “see” (observe) concerning the other Electromagnetic Waves (Frequency & Wavelength) is ultimately ‘seen’ (observed) through Scientific Instruments that ‘convert’ those much Higher and Lower Electromagnetic Waves into Visible “information” Light Waves! All our physical memories (mental images, sounds, and other sensual information) are composed of ‘matrixes’ (‘multi-dimensional grids’) of Manipulated Light Waves!!! Our Spiritual Souls are able to store and retrieve such Light Wave “Compositions”!!! Micro-Atomic Time is not directly experienced through the Mental Mind as organized by The Brain-Body Organism, but while one is in the Living State one can again use Conversion Tools (Scientific Instruments) to perform imperfect observations of the “behavior” of Quanta!!! However, and this is Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo’s own Absolute Rule of Imperfectable Observation also known as The Law of Observationability (term coined by Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo): No observation of anything through the Living Bio-Chemical Senses and Bio-Chemical Brain’s Mental Faculties can ever be perfectly correct observations of any phenomena, as the very imperfection of one’s Senses and Brain must be taken into account even to approximate a potentially more perfect observational understanding! { All Non-Physical memories are Emotional Memories, and require an Eternal Spiritual ‘Existence’ to be perceived and given meaning! } Our very own sense of Time is relatively subjective to our Emotional State of Mind and Spiritual Intuitional Awareness of Time’s passing! In the final analysis; No matter how close we get to perfectly understanding Reality, Physical and Spiritual, through our Living Brain’s Mental Faculties, our conclusions will always be, at best, shy of the Actual Truth of Things! Thus, the best we can do is allow our Intuitive Spiritual Sense to help determine that which is likely (almost certain), that which is unlikely (probably false) and that which is obviously impossible!
8. The starting point of all, true intellectual Reasoning must be with the logical understanding that the Totality of All That Exists and Can Exist is, and has to be, INFINITE! For once we are able to be certain of that Ultimate Absolute Logical Truth ….the only one of Three Ultimate Absolute Truths… of which the other two being: The Ultimate Absolute Physical Truth That NOTHING does not exist and that therefore nothing that TRULY AND FULLY EXISTS NOW can ever truly totally become TOTAL NOTHINGNESS! ; and The Ultimate Absolute Spiritual Truth that there must be an Eternal, Indestructible NON-THING that, while having the ability to interact with The Physical Realm, remains ultimately Existentially Real and Spiritually Perfect! In effect, what we sense to be Our Soul(s)!...then we are able to determine whether or not an Theory or Hypothesis based on any Observation is likely to be Correct (True) or Incorrect (False)! Here are some practical examples: 1. Travel back in time by semi-Physical Bio-Chemical Entities is IMPOSSIBLE, given that Near- and Super-Luminal Speeds for such Entities are impossible! 2. No Super-Spiritual Being, however Spiritually Powerful, could create All Of Infinity! Thus G-D is only Spiritually Almighty; whatever that means! 3. Life cannot just exist in one point in all Infinity, because that would be suggesting that the Infinite Universe is Senselessly Lonely and Life-Wise Meaningless! Thus Life exists throughout all Infinity in those places suitable for it! 4. Life allows the Soul of The Eternal Spiritual Realm to eventually manipulate The Physical Realm to the point of being able to Re-Start The Cycle of Reality in a given, limited ‘portion’ of Infinity!!! Which means that the sense of G-D being Physically Omnipotent may have some element of truth to it as a Spiritually Eternal One, albeit, a Physically Limited One!
9. Everything we can think of and imagine must have some element of truth to it, but nothing we can think of or imagine is a perfect version of the truth concerning anything! – Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher Extraordinaire.
Excerpts from my next book, titled: "Light-Time & Other Deepest Thoughts" by Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher Extraordinaire.
Generally speaking; the faster one travels through space the slower time passes/happens! And, until recently, based on the Theory of Special Relativity and Einstein’s famous E=mc Squared equation, it would seem perfectly, i.e. equationally (mathematologically), true to state that someone traveling at the speed of light would not perceive the passing of time at all! But according to Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo’s theory, known to a very select few Theoretical Physicists as “Fenyo’s Theory of Differential Times”, sub-atomic particles, i.e. Quantum Particles, exist in their own types of time, and the time in which Living Organisms exist and which they “experience” is Macro-Atomic or Chemical Time!!! Light’s own time is Micro-Atomic or Quantum Time!!! That is to say; Time is actually not Absolutely Relative, but only Relatively Relative, and there are between two to four possible Different Types of Time! In general time is the measurement of the activity of relatively motionless matter (slow or weak “energy”…in effect Weak Force o) as it is affected by the force of other relatively motionful matter, fast matter or strong energy (the Strong Force)! Since Photons are the Quanta radiations (or emissions) that emanate from the interaction of Matter (Weak Force) and Energy (Strong Force), which are two states of the same Atomic (i.e. Chemical) Realm of Physics, they are not existing within the Atomic or Chemical Time, i.e. Macro-Atomic Time, but in Micro-Atomic Time, i.e. The Quantum Realm of Physics (the study of which is known as Quantum Physics). Light cannot travel exactly at the Absolute Speed of Theoretical Light! The Constant or Speed at which Light does travel will always be less than 100% of it Purely Hypothetical Speed, as no such thing as an Absolute Vacuum can exist anywhere in Reality! Space-Time is subject to the Weakest Force: Gravity, which is also the Fastest Force! Faster than Light! But Gravitation Time, or Intra-Universal Time is also not the type of Time we Bio-Chemical Beings can ever experience! (There exists, in a loose sense of the word “exists”, a Fake “Fifth Time”: Imaginary Time…but that is an Unreal Time and not subjectable to True Scientific Inquiry!)
Absolutely Important Eternal Truths/Axioms to keep in mind:
Absolutely Important Eternal Truths/Axioms to keep in mind:
1. There can be no such thing as NOTHING! Theoretically and logically nothing would be what an Absolute Vacuum would be, if it could be! Which is a good thing, as that would have opened the possibility of a Universe devoid of an Absolute Insurance Against Non-Existentiality!
2. Also; nothing can be Absolutely At Rest or Devoid of Time! NOTHING! Light itself “experiences” (using the word “experiences” metaphorically only) its own passing of events or Light Time, i.e. Micro-Atomic Time, or Quantum Time!
3. Spin (motion of electrons around atomic nuclei) is always happening, even when Chemical Conditions (Macro-Atomic States) are such that almost all Energy is almost totally released! Nothing can ever become totally Absolutely At Rest (so as to be able to become NOTHING…the NOTHING from which Absolute Vacuum would come into EXISTENCE!!!)
4. As Light (Photon Quanta and Waves of Chain-Photon Reaction) travels/moves through the Relative Vacuum of Outer Space (in this case Inter-Stellar and Inter-Galactic Space) it is slowed down over vast periods (Eons) of time, and thus becomes Weak Light! In fact, the Theory of The Big Bang is based on the wrong observations of what is really happening throughout the Cosmos of The Visible Universe! Most of what is observed is less about Red Shift, if about any Red Shift at all, and more about Weak(ened) Light!
5. There are no Absolutely Perfect Spheres of ANYTHING! No Quantum Particle, no Atom, not Planet or Star is ever able to be a Perfect Sphere! Of course, in terms of the kind of balls (spheres) we are able to produce on Earth, under the influence of gravity, the balls (spheres) that are produced in the Near Zero Gravity are far more perfect, but never totally perfectable! This is very important, because this also has to do with another fundamental aspect of Light In Motion! Since Photons are only near-perfect, thus imperfect, spheres they are “shifted” out of any “straight” line of movement over any extent of Space-Time! That is to say, the Light we observe from distant celestial objects (“natural” Super-Atomic Physical Structures, i.e. Stars, Galaxies, etc.) can never convey perfectly reliable images! In effect, the “information” we have about ever-distant objects is less and less accurate! Time is only RELATIVE! Time never truly, totally equals Distance divided by Rate (or Ratio). The equation t=d/r is subject to both The Type of Time we are concerned with (as in Macro-Atomic Time, Micro-Atomic Time, Hyper-Dimensional Spiritual Time, etc.) and the Relatively Factor of The Imperfection of Time-Flow! Time does not “flow” totally coherently or “smoothly”! Time is always DISTORTED! Light is always DISTORTED!
6. No Macro-Atomic Entity, such as an Atom (Element), Compound, Molecule, Organic Compound, Single Cell Life-form, Multi-cellular Organism (includes us Humans), Space Craft, can travel sufficiently close to the Relative Speed of Light in Relative Vacuum of Space without the effects of something that is similar to what we call ‘Friction’! Macro-Atomic objects traveling close to the Relative Speed of Light in Relative Vacuum are increasingly ‘warped’ out of shape and Gravitationally and Electromagnetically ‘over-excited’…pretty much blown to smithereens by the cumulative Strong and Weak Forces as what happens to food subjected to Microwaves! Microwaves are Electromagnetic waves that cause excessive vibrations within the molecules of relatively moist, i.e. watery, things (i.e. Food substances and organic compounds)!
7. The Spectra Electromagnetic Waves includes the 2 obvious Types of Time! Micro-Atomic or Subatomic and Macro-Atomic or Super-Atomic! The Observable Universe is only possible directly through Light Waves! The reason Light Waves are somewhere in the middle of the Spectra is because of The Radiation Eye Factor! Our eyes are made of living cells able to transmit Visible Light into our Brains! When one understands that even what we “see” (observe) concerning the other Electromagnetic Waves (Frequency & Wavelength) is ultimately ‘seen’ (observed) through Scientific Instruments that ‘convert’ those much Higher and Lower Electromagnetic Waves into Visible “information” Light Waves! All our physical memories (mental images, sounds, and other sensual information) are composed of ‘matrixes’ (‘multi-dimensional grids’) of Manipulated Light Waves!!! Our Spiritual Souls are able to store and retrieve such Light Wave “Compositions”!!! Micro-Atomic Time is not directly experienced through the Mental Mind as organized by The Brain-Body Organism, but while one is in the Living State one can again use Conversion Tools (Scientific Instruments) to perform imperfect observations of the “behavior” of Quanta!!! However, and this is Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo’s own Absolute Rule of Imperfectable Observation also known as The Law of Observationability (term coined by Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo): No observation of anything through the Living Bio-Chemical Senses and Bio-Chemical Brain’s Mental Faculties can ever be perfectly correct observations of any phenomena, as the very imperfection of one’s Senses and Brain must be taken into account even to approximate a potentially more perfect observational understanding! { All Non-Physical memories are Emotional Memories, and require an Eternal Spiritual ‘Existence’ to be perceived and given meaning! } Our very own sense of Time is relatively subjective to our Emotional State of Mind and Spiritual Intuitional Awareness of Time’s passing! In the final analysis; No matter how close we get to perfectly understanding Reality, Physical and Spiritual, through our Living Brain’s Mental Faculties, our conclusions will always be, at best, shy of the Actual Truth of Things! Thus, the best we can do is allow our Intuitive Spiritual Sense to help determine that which is likely (almost certain), that which is unlikely (probably false) and that which is obviously impossible!
8. The starting point of all, true intellectual Reasoning must be with the logical understanding that the Totality of All That Exists and Can Exist is, and has to be, INFINITE! For once we are able to be certain of that Ultimate Absolute Logical Truth ….the only one of Three Ultimate Absolute Truths… of which the other two being: The Ultimate Absolute Physical Truth That NOTHING does not exist and that therefore nothing that TRULY AND FULLY EXISTS NOW can ever truly totally become TOTAL NOTHINGNESS! ; and The Ultimate Absolute Spiritual Truth that there must be an Eternal, Indestructible NON-THING that, while having the ability to interact with The Physical Realm, remains ultimately Existentially Real and Spiritually Perfect! In effect, what we sense to be Our Soul(s)!...then we are able to determine whether or not an Theory or Hypothesis based on any Observation is likely to be Correct (True) or Incorrect (False)! Here are some practical examples: 1. Travel back in time by semi-Physical Bio-Chemical Entities is IMPOSSIBLE, given that Near- and Super-Luminal Speeds for such Entities are impossible! 2. No Super-Spiritual Being, however Spiritually Powerful, could create All Of Infinity! Thus G-D is only Spiritually Almighty; whatever that means! 3. Life cannot just exist in one point in all Infinity, because that would be suggesting that the Infinite Universe is Senselessly Lonely and Life-Wise Meaningless! Thus Life exists throughout all Infinity in those places suitable for it! 4. Life allows the Soul of The Eternal Spiritual Realm to eventually manipulate The Physical Realm to the point of being able to Re-Start The Cycle of Reality in a given, limited ‘portion’ of Infinity!!! Which means that the sense of G-D being Physically Omnipotent may have some element of truth to it as a Spiritually Eternal One, albeit, a Physically Limited One!
9. Everything we can think of and imagine must have some element of truth to it, but nothing we can think of or imagine is a perfect version of the truth concerning anything! – Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher Extraordinaire.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
If We Moderates Fail To Speak Out Against Extremists Everyone Is Doomed.
If We Moderates Fail To Speak Out Against Extremists Everyone Is Doomed.
By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher.
If there is any one thing the brutal Winter War in Gaza, which was between a minority of extremists holding hostage most of Gaza’s Palestinian citizens and an Israel that cannot afford to let extremists develop a situation that would forever manage to ruin every realistic chance for peace, has taught us it is this: extremists should not and cannot be tolerated by moderates on either side, anywhere in the world! Extremism and extremists are a threat to world socio-economic stability, security and overall peace, but the longer the world’s moderates fail to realize the urgency of the need to unite and speak with one unitary and strong voice against extremists, regardless of which specific conflict it may be, the closer we get to a situation that could very well push the world into a truly hopeless abyss of extreme violence spiraling totally out of control, which would eventually, probably within years, set the whole world ablaze! You do not have to be some neurotic doomsday nut to understand why the status quo of a massive failure of moderates to truly unite, and to speak out as one, risks letting extremists decide the course of history. And if extremists are left to decide the course of human history humanity will soon be history.
One would think that the Winter War in Gaza (2008-2009) would have been enough to send a shockwave of alarm bells going off in the capitals of those relatively moderate Middle Eastern and North African, predominantly Arab and Islamic, states. The Good Lord knows that if Egypt’s moderate government were ever to fall and end up in the hand of extremists then that, in of itself, would be enough to end all chances of a relatively peaceful settlement and agreement between relatively moderate Palestinians and Israelis, and that would herald a time when almost every relatively moderate Arab government would fall and the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah would begin to take over and start both a fight amongst themselves and a seemingly endless series of extremely dangerous attacks on Israel, which would not just mean that decades of very hard diplomatic work and strategic alliance building (on the part of The United States and Europe) would vanish into oblivion, but it would mean that extremists on both sides (Israelis and Arabs) would claim to have been proven right all along: that peace cannot exist between these two peoples! And an Arab world taken over by extremists and united by perpetual and senseless extreme hatred of Jews and Israelis would also be a world that would pose a threat to Western Civilization and Liberal Democratic values, including Human Rights and the rights of Individuals, mostly by means of energy resource blackmail. The world, which already suffers from the previous eight years of Neo-Con incompetence and dangerously destabilizing policies in The Middle East and elsewhere, would surely fail to restore itself, economically and otherwise, and that would certainly lead to exceedingly violent rioting throughout Europe and North America, which would then be exploited by brutish megalomaniacs who would manage to take over control and cause further havoc and mayhem everywhere! Hundreds of years of hard work and real progress would go down the drain in a matter of a few years, if not faster, and World War Three would be one horrific mega-shock after another, including chemical, biological and nuclear warfare, to the point of total annihilation of all significant life on Earth!
And when one studies up on the whole complexity of the region’s conflict, and takes into consideration the current Iranian regime’s obvious efforts to attain nuclear weapons, with full launch capacity, capable of striking all of The Middle East and most of Europe, and when one understands what Iran would do, once it would attain such a capacity, then the urgency for real unity and progress among moderates should be absolutely obvious. For Iran would not use its nuclear weapons to strike Israel directly, but instead would be able to force the hands of Europe and The United States, after sinking several large Oil Tankers at the narrowest point of The Persian Gulf, thereby choking off a significant supply of the world’s desperately needed Oil! Iran would then be able to avoid being directly attacked by conventional military means as the USA would not want a Europe obliterated by Iranian nuclear weapons…something the extremist Iranian regime would not hesitate to do if attacked for having gained full control of the flow of Gulf Oil to the world! And then Israel, which would most likely face economic and social collapse, should the Western world stop supporting it, would then have no option but to play its only remaining cards, and that would definitely lead to World War Three, which would not last more than a few months at best!
Just this past Monday representatives of non-moderate Sunnite Islamic groups, who obviously do not represent all Sunnite Arab Muslims, met in Turkey and began to voice their desire to ignite a fully violent Jihad (as opposed to any relatively peaceful type of Jihad) in Gaza and the West Bank! Should they succeed the situation would soon become even worse than it was just this past Winter, and that would mean a final blow to any and all chances for an otherwise urgently needed, lasting, viable peace!
Time is really running out for President Barack Obama and his magnificent team of professional peace-makers to unite the relatively moderate Arab nation’s governments and to support the lukewarm beginnings of true peace between Israel and the relatively moderate PA Palestinians of the West Bank (and eventually to include Gaza…once the Hamas extremists have been properly dealt with by the PA). And one reads too many editorialists and commentators talking about how the War in Gaza means that peace between Israelis and Palestinians will now be further delayed for another two to four ears, at least! Well, we just don’t have the luxury of waiting any longer. I have good reason to think, based on various ominous reports and logical insight, that if a relatively peaceful Two-State solution is not reached by June, then too many things will ensue (happen) that will make it impossible to ever have peace at all! Both Israel and the relatively moderate Arabs must be made to understand why this is so, and how important it is for them to begin to dare to speak out against extremists on all sides. And for that to happen, for Arab and Israeli moderates to be able to come out and speak with one, loud, unequivocally strong and united voice, the rest of the world’s moderates must join the chorus and let the extremists, not just those in Iran and throughout The Middle East, but everywhere in the world, know that we moderates are not willing to remain silent and divided any longer. If we moderates fail to speak out against extremists everyone on Earth is doomed. This is just as true about The Middle East as it is about ultra-nationalists in Europe exploiting the current economic and social crises, and extremists elsewhere in the world who seem to be born of generations of people whose mindset and way of thinking is based on the artificial idealism and the surreal extremism that is caused by almost constantly playing fortuitously violent computer video games, as well as communicating over the Internet instead of in real life and even pretending to live inside virtual reality worlds! Most of these people of the Computer and Internet Age are addicted to “Virtual Reality Think” and have very weak social skills and are desensitized to extreme violence. They are generally intolerant, lack compassion and have trouble understanding why it is that in the real world one cannot just wipe out every ‘enemy’ and every person who causes the slightest annoyance or discomfort! They are unable to understand why real solutions to real problems in the real world are going to be imperfect, and as such require both willingness and even the desire to compromise and to tolerate differences in a relatively peaceful manner.
Yes, it’s that scary! The world is more and more in the hands of generations of people who grew up surrounded by computers, video games and the Internet, and who can easily become exceedingly dangerous once they mix extremist agendas with such modern technological means of communications and networking, through which it has become all too easy to sell preposterous myths and dangerously unrealistic expectations and ideals.
So, no matter how you look at the situation today; the need for peace in the Middle East is so urgent and so important that any failure to convey this awareness is, in of itself, going to give more power to the extremists who wish to convince young minds that peace is impossible and that the enemy can and will eventually be obliterated! Nothing could be further from the truth! Violent conflict between peoples will bring nothing but further senseless horrors and will push the whole world into that final abyss of total destruction and death.
What I wonder is this: Is anyone intelligent and influential enough really listening to this? And will they not see for themselves how right I am when I say that we just don’t have any time left to wait another year or more?!?
By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher.
If there is any one thing the brutal Winter War in Gaza, which was between a minority of extremists holding hostage most of Gaza’s Palestinian citizens and an Israel that cannot afford to let extremists develop a situation that would forever manage to ruin every realistic chance for peace, has taught us it is this: extremists should not and cannot be tolerated by moderates on either side, anywhere in the world! Extremism and extremists are a threat to world socio-economic stability, security and overall peace, but the longer the world’s moderates fail to realize the urgency of the need to unite and speak with one unitary and strong voice against extremists, regardless of which specific conflict it may be, the closer we get to a situation that could very well push the world into a truly hopeless abyss of extreme violence spiraling totally out of control, which would eventually, probably within years, set the whole world ablaze! You do not have to be some neurotic doomsday nut to understand why the status quo of a massive failure of moderates to truly unite, and to speak out as one, risks letting extremists decide the course of history. And if extremists are left to decide the course of human history humanity will soon be history.
One would think that the Winter War in Gaza (2008-2009) would have been enough to send a shockwave of alarm bells going off in the capitals of those relatively moderate Middle Eastern and North African, predominantly Arab and Islamic, states. The Good Lord knows that if Egypt’s moderate government were ever to fall and end up in the hand of extremists then that, in of itself, would be enough to end all chances of a relatively peaceful settlement and agreement between relatively moderate Palestinians and Israelis, and that would herald a time when almost every relatively moderate Arab government would fall and the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah would begin to take over and start both a fight amongst themselves and a seemingly endless series of extremely dangerous attacks on Israel, which would not just mean that decades of very hard diplomatic work and strategic alliance building (on the part of The United States and Europe) would vanish into oblivion, but it would mean that extremists on both sides (Israelis and Arabs) would claim to have been proven right all along: that peace cannot exist between these two peoples! And an Arab world taken over by extremists and united by perpetual and senseless extreme hatred of Jews and Israelis would also be a world that would pose a threat to Western Civilization and Liberal Democratic values, including Human Rights and the rights of Individuals, mostly by means of energy resource blackmail. The world, which already suffers from the previous eight years of Neo-Con incompetence and dangerously destabilizing policies in The Middle East and elsewhere, would surely fail to restore itself, economically and otherwise, and that would certainly lead to exceedingly violent rioting throughout Europe and North America, which would then be exploited by brutish megalomaniacs who would manage to take over control and cause further havoc and mayhem everywhere! Hundreds of years of hard work and real progress would go down the drain in a matter of a few years, if not faster, and World War Three would be one horrific mega-shock after another, including chemical, biological and nuclear warfare, to the point of total annihilation of all significant life on Earth!
And when one studies up on the whole complexity of the region’s conflict, and takes into consideration the current Iranian regime’s obvious efforts to attain nuclear weapons, with full launch capacity, capable of striking all of The Middle East and most of Europe, and when one understands what Iran would do, once it would attain such a capacity, then the urgency for real unity and progress among moderates should be absolutely obvious. For Iran would not use its nuclear weapons to strike Israel directly, but instead would be able to force the hands of Europe and The United States, after sinking several large Oil Tankers at the narrowest point of The Persian Gulf, thereby choking off a significant supply of the world’s desperately needed Oil! Iran would then be able to avoid being directly attacked by conventional military means as the USA would not want a Europe obliterated by Iranian nuclear weapons…something the extremist Iranian regime would not hesitate to do if attacked for having gained full control of the flow of Gulf Oil to the world! And then Israel, which would most likely face economic and social collapse, should the Western world stop supporting it, would then have no option but to play its only remaining cards, and that would definitely lead to World War Three, which would not last more than a few months at best!
Just this past Monday representatives of non-moderate Sunnite Islamic groups, who obviously do not represent all Sunnite Arab Muslims, met in Turkey and began to voice their desire to ignite a fully violent Jihad (as opposed to any relatively peaceful type of Jihad) in Gaza and the West Bank! Should they succeed the situation would soon become even worse than it was just this past Winter, and that would mean a final blow to any and all chances for an otherwise urgently needed, lasting, viable peace!
Time is really running out for President Barack Obama and his magnificent team of professional peace-makers to unite the relatively moderate Arab nation’s governments and to support the lukewarm beginnings of true peace between Israel and the relatively moderate PA Palestinians of the West Bank (and eventually to include Gaza…once the Hamas extremists have been properly dealt with by the PA). And one reads too many editorialists and commentators talking about how the War in Gaza means that peace between Israelis and Palestinians will now be further delayed for another two to four ears, at least! Well, we just don’t have the luxury of waiting any longer. I have good reason to think, based on various ominous reports and logical insight, that if a relatively peaceful Two-State solution is not reached by June, then too many things will ensue (happen) that will make it impossible to ever have peace at all! Both Israel and the relatively moderate Arabs must be made to understand why this is so, and how important it is for them to begin to dare to speak out against extremists on all sides. And for that to happen, for Arab and Israeli moderates to be able to come out and speak with one, loud, unequivocally strong and united voice, the rest of the world’s moderates must join the chorus and let the extremists, not just those in Iran and throughout The Middle East, but everywhere in the world, know that we moderates are not willing to remain silent and divided any longer. If we moderates fail to speak out against extremists everyone on Earth is doomed. This is just as true about The Middle East as it is about ultra-nationalists in Europe exploiting the current economic and social crises, and extremists elsewhere in the world who seem to be born of generations of people whose mindset and way of thinking is based on the artificial idealism and the surreal extremism that is caused by almost constantly playing fortuitously violent computer video games, as well as communicating over the Internet instead of in real life and even pretending to live inside virtual reality worlds! Most of these people of the Computer and Internet Age are addicted to “Virtual Reality Think” and have very weak social skills and are desensitized to extreme violence. They are generally intolerant, lack compassion and have trouble understanding why it is that in the real world one cannot just wipe out every ‘enemy’ and every person who causes the slightest annoyance or discomfort! They are unable to understand why real solutions to real problems in the real world are going to be imperfect, and as such require both willingness and even the desire to compromise and to tolerate differences in a relatively peaceful manner.
Yes, it’s that scary! The world is more and more in the hands of generations of people who grew up surrounded by computers, video games and the Internet, and who can easily become exceedingly dangerous once they mix extremist agendas with such modern technological means of communications and networking, through which it has become all too easy to sell preposterous myths and dangerously unrealistic expectations and ideals.
So, no matter how you look at the situation today; the need for peace in the Middle East is so urgent and so important that any failure to convey this awareness is, in of itself, going to give more power to the extremists who wish to convince young minds that peace is impossible and that the enemy can and will eventually be obliterated! Nothing could be further from the truth! Violent conflict between peoples will bring nothing but further senseless horrors and will push the whole world into that final abyss of total destruction and death.
What I wonder is this: Is anyone intelligent and influential enough really listening to this? And will they not see for themselves how right I am when I say that we just don’t have any time left to wait another year or more?!?
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The Global Economic & Financial Crisis; Everything Is Interconnected.
Solving Our Crises Requires “New” Thinking.
By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher.
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them." -- Albert Einstein
The World Economic Forum in Davos 2009 was a total failure! Instead of the brightest and best qualified minds telling the whole world what the real situation is, what the real causes of the crises are, and what the obvious solutions must be, we had one mediocre minded technocrat after another detailing information that lower middle class and poor people, as well as a very few formerly rich people, already know, all too well! Where are the fresh new ideas, where are the true intellectuals, the contemporary geniuses, Einsteins, Gandhis, Karl Poppers and others of the world?? I cannot accept the idea that the world today is devoid of such great, creative, innovative and deeply perceptive thinkers! Are they being suppressed and silenced?? And if so, by whom??
I turn on the TV and watch CNN, BBC, ABC, CBS, SKY, etc., news, news and more news! And all I see are images of throngs of very frustrated, disillusioned and desperate workers and students in France, the UK, throughout Europe and the US and elsewhere sounding off the naïve mantra of radical revolution and failed political ideologies! I hear calls by masses of apparently superficially educated neo-Marxists demanding the resignation of governments, the defeat of Capitalist enterprises and institutions and the rise of totally unrealistic systems of governance and economy! At the same time I see a glimmer of real hope in Washington, as an intellectual man takes the oath of the office of The Presidency of The United States, and seems to fully understand the real causes and the real solutions to this most urgent and dangerous global set of crises! Unfortunately, I also see a Middle East on the brink of total disaster, which would surely engulf the rest of the World, and a link between events there and the global financial and economic crises.
At this point I find it necessary to disabuse you, the reader, of the notion that this article will also end up being just another well-intended failure to deliver sound advice, valid answers, and real solutions. It will not. This particular global financial and economic crisis, which can easily turn into a catastrophic global security meltdown, has its roots in systemic failures that are interlinked and deeply connected, that are socio-political and socio-economic, and which require a sophisticated set of both political and financial solutions, as well as the ability of responsible political leaders able to bring the public sector and the private sector to the negotiating tables and to hammer out truly sensible, intelligent, wise, long-term solutions, as well as immediate remedies requiring strong government intervention and massive infrastructural works and an overhaul of wasteful antiquated and environmentally unsound technologies, consumer productions and business practices! Again, let there be no mistake about it; for governments to be able to deliver urgently needed results, public trust and confidence in both the public and private sector must be restored, and that cannot happen without also strengthening Democratic and Pro-Social and Pro-Individual Freedoms, Liberties and Rights! For even as the masses rightfully sense that things are not right, they are generally mal-informed, deliberately so by political opportunists from both extremes (Right and Left), about the real causes and the real solution to the interlinked (connected) local, national and global crises we all face! It is exactly at a time like this that we need stronger voices of Universal reason and Humanistic wisdom, of true moderation and responsibly progressive liberal political orientation. Only when the masses of the people understand that the wealthy few cannot be violently overthrown or destroyed and the wealthy few understand that they need to share more of the world’s wealth and help restore public confidence in both government and the private sector, and that that can only happen if there are bright minded intellectual heroes who are afforded by the privately-controlled mass media a greater voice, only then will we be successful in diminishing the voices of extremism, of ultra-nationalism, of economically unsound protectionism, of religious intolerance, of racism, ageism and other chauvinistic and barbaric voices, that for too long have managed to gain public credence on account of a sickly mass media that feeds on extremism, sensationalism and vanities galore!
It needs to be said that the very first step to global financial and socio-economic (thus political and security) stability must surely involve a mass media willing to give much more of a voice and podium for those true intellectuals, some of whom are self-educated, who understand just how complex things really are and just how multi-disciplinary-minded one must be in order to see through the complexity the light at the end of the tunnel, the light of greater reason and understanding that shines brightly and reveals the true solutions, which are themselves based on an understanding of the interconnectivity, interdependence, and correlation of things that otherwise seem, to average mediocre minds, totally unrelated and unconnected! As long as the general public is distracted and divided by illusions of get-rich-quick schemes, or the false hope offered by extremists who sell intolerance and who get way too much media attention, the general public will not pay attention to those who offer real solutions to real problems and will not pressure their governments and leaders to take all the action urgently needed.
Capitalism has never failed humanity at all! For what has been going on, more so these past eight years under the Bush Administration, has not been real Capitalism at all, but what should properly be identified as and called Global Mass Piracy, in which a significant number, albeit not all, of the world’s richest few have plundered and pillaged societies, wrecked havoc upon and destroyed much of the Middle Class, who are the backbone of any healthy Democratic and Capitalist Social Democratic society!!! This Global Mass Piracy, which still operates as a vast conspiracy of thuggish thieves, cannot be brought down to its knees by mere public anger and government reprimands! This Global Mass Piracy has only managed to get its way because of a combination of weakness and selfish opportunism on the part of a fear- and hate-mongering mass media and inept, technocrat-riddled, cowardly governments!
The world needs to be regularly and properly educated and informed by the mass media and by governments about the interconnectedness of things, about the real dangers of extremist ideologies, about the real nature of and benefits of true Democracy, about the fact that without Capitalism and Private Ownership there can be no Privacy Rights, Personal Liberties, Freedoms and thus no Personal or Public Security at all! Social Democracy, regardless of whether it is slightly Right-of-Center or Left-of-Center is the only viable option! Social Democracy is what insures both the rights of Private Individuals and Capitalists, as well as the rights of the greater public in general, especially the rights of properly paid and relatively protected working class people and properly educated and compensated middle class people, without whom society, Democracy and Capitalism, is doomed to fail! When moderate political forces lose, the extremists win and subsequently plunge the world into total chaos and a final catastrophe!
It does not take a genius to understand all that I have said thus far!
And once the mass media is once more on the side of reason, of wisdom and of moderation, then it will be able to help herald the news of all those massive public works projects and giant infrastructural works that will provide the kind of employment and income needed to restore the world’s economic health! And then the overhaul of big business away from manufacturing junk and antiquated transportation and energy technologies towards quality, green, environmental technologies will be possible! Yet there is one other very important change needed; and that concerns the availability of truly affordable housing, both in the suburbs and within our great city-state cities! For without relatively safe, efficient, comfortable, compact and truly affordable housing there will be no healthy and new mass of long-term home owners! It is clear as can be that over-speculation in private housing drove up the cost of housing beyond the real means of the working and middle classes, and that this also created a false economy in which millions prospered at the expense of billions, and vast fortunes of digitalized wealth were amassed at the expense of entire economic sectors and financial institutions, which have since begun crumbling down unto our own heads!
We need to do in principle much of the same things that were done by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and The New Deal, but in a fresh, new and much more sophisticated, visionary, long-term-considerate way!
Remember, it all starts with the right attitude on the part of the mass media and the governments, properly informing the general public about what are the real causes and what must now be done, and then going to the negotiating tables to negotiate with the world’s wealthiest few about the terms of not just a Global Sociological Ceasefire, but a long term Viable and Just Peace! The days of violent revolutions (not that they ever really worked) are over, but so must the days of unscientific and illogical and inhuman attitudes and conditions be over! We do not have a moment’s time left to waste: is the mass media going to do the right thing and share this understanding with the world, or is it going to ignore the voices of reason and wisdom still alive and kicking?? Perception sells the product first, and the product continues to sell if the perception has any real basis! The mass media are responsible for perceptions, and we must be responsible for the product!
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities." -- Albert Einstein
Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, also known as The Free Advice Man, is a Self-Educated Philosopher currently residing in London, where he is busy writing his books and ceaselessly communicating his ideas on the need for responsibly progressive liberal social democracy and unity-in-diversity!
By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher.
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them." -- Albert Einstein
The World Economic Forum in Davos 2009 was a total failure! Instead of the brightest and best qualified minds telling the whole world what the real situation is, what the real causes of the crises are, and what the obvious solutions must be, we had one mediocre minded technocrat after another detailing information that lower middle class and poor people, as well as a very few formerly rich people, already know, all too well! Where are the fresh new ideas, where are the true intellectuals, the contemporary geniuses, Einsteins, Gandhis, Karl Poppers and others of the world?? I cannot accept the idea that the world today is devoid of such great, creative, innovative and deeply perceptive thinkers! Are they being suppressed and silenced?? And if so, by whom??
I turn on the TV and watch CNN, BBC, ABC, CBS, SKY, etc., news, news and more news! And all I see are images of throngs of very frustrated, disillusioned and desperate workers and students in France, the UK, throughout Europe and the US and elsewhere sounding off the naïve mantra of radical revolution and failed political ideologies! I hear calls by masses of apparently superficially educated neo-Marxists demanding the resignation of governments, the defeat of Capitalist enterprises and institutions and the rise of totally unrealistic systems of governance and economy! At the same time I see a glimmer of real hope in Washington, as an intellectual man takes the oath of the office of The Presidency of The United States, and seems to fully understand the real causes and the real solutions to this most urgent and dangerous global set of crises! Unfortunately, I also see a Middle East on the brink of total disaster, which would surely engulf the rest of the World, and a link between events there and the global financial and economic crises.
At this point I find it necessary to disabuse you, the reader, of the notion that this article will also end up being just another well-intended failure to deliver sound advice, valid answers, and real solutions. It will not. This particular global financial and economic crisis, which can easily turn into a catastrophic global security meltdown, has its roots in systemic failures that are interlinked and deeply connected, that are socio-political and socio-economic, and which require a sophisticated set of both political and financial solutions, as well as the ability of responsible political leaders able to bring the public sector and the private sector to the negotiating tables and to hammer out truly sensible, intelligent, wise, long-term solutions, as well as immediate remedies requiring strong government intervention and massive infrastructural works and an overhaul of wasteful antiquated and environmentally unsound technologies, consumer productions and business practices! Again, let there be no mistake about it; for governments to be able to deliver urgently needed results, public trust and confidence in both the public and private sector must be restored, and that cannot happen without also strengthening Democratic and Pro-Social and Pro-Individual Freedoms, Liberties and Rights! For even as the masses rightfully sense that things are not right, they are generally mal-informed, deliberately so by political opportunists from both extremes (Right and Left), about the real causes and the real solution to the interlinked (connected) local, national and global crises we all face! It is exactly at a time like this that we need stronger voices of Universal reason and Humanistic wisdom, of true moderation and responsibly progressive liberal political orientation. Only when the masses of the people understand that the wealthy few cannot be violently overthrown or destroyed and the wealthy few understand that they need to share more of the world’s wealth and help restore public confidence in both government and the private sector, and that that can only happen if there are bright minded intellectual heroes who are afforded by the privately-controlled mass media a greater voice, only then will we be successful in diminishing the voices of extremism, of ultra-nationalism, of economically unsound protectionism, of religious intolerance, of racism, ageism and other chauvinistic and barbaric voices, that for too long have managed to gain public credence on account of a sickly mass media that feeds on extremism, sensationalism and vanities galore!
It needs to be said that the very first step to global financial and socio-economic (thus political and security) stability must surely involve a mass media willing to give much more of a voice and podium for those true intellectuals, some of whom are self-educated, who understand just how complex things really are and just how multi-disciplinary-minded one must be in order to see through the complexity the light at the end of the tunnel, the light of greater reason and understanding that shines brightly and reveals the true solutions, which are themselves based on an understanding of the interconnectivity, interdependence, and correlation of things that otherwise seem, to average mediocre minds, totally unrelated and unconnected! As long as the general public is distracted and divided by illusions of get-rich-quick schemes, or the false hope offered by extremists who sell intolerance and who get way too much media attention, the general public will not pay attention to those who offer real solutions to real problems and will not pressure their governments and leaders to take all the action urgently needed.
Capitalism has never failed humanity at all! For what has been going on, more so these past eight years under the Bush Administration, has not been real Capitalism at all, but what should properly be identified as and called Global Mass Piracy, in which a significant number, albeit not all, of the world’s richest few have plundered and pillaged societies, wrecked havoc upon and destroyed much of the Middle Class, who are the backbone of any healthy Democratic and Capitalist Social Democratic society!!! This Global Mass Piracy, which still operates as a vast conspiracy of thuggish thieves, cannot be brought down to its knees by mere public anger and government reprimands! This Global Mass Piracy has only managed to get its way because of a combination of weakness and selfish opportunism on the part of a fear- and hate-mongering mass media and inept, technocrat-riddled, cowardly governments!
The world needs to be regularly and properly educated and informed by the mass media and by governments about the interconnectedness of things, about the real dangers of extremist ideologies, about the real nature of and benefits of true Democracy, about the fact that without Capitalism and Private Ownership there can be no Privacy Rights, Personal Liberties, Freedoms and thus no Personal or Public Security at all! Social Democracy, regardless of whether it is slightly Right-of-Center or Left-of-Center is the only viable option! Social Democracy is what insures both the rights of Private Individuals and Capitalists, as well as the rights of the greater public in general, especially the rights of properly paid and relatively protected working class people and properly educated and compensated middle class people, without whom society, Democracy and Capitalism, is doomed to fail! When moderate political forces lose, the extremists win and subsequently plunge the world into total chaos and a final catastrophe!
It does not take a genius to understand all that I have said thus far!
And once the mass media is once more on the side of reason, of wisdom and of moderation, then it will be able to help herald the news of all those massive public works projects and giant infrastructural works that will provide the kind of employment and income needed to restore the world’s economic health! And then the overhaul of big business away from manufacturing junk and antiquated transportation and energy technologies towards quality, green, environmental technologies will be possible! Yet there is one other very important change needed; and that concerns the availability of truly affordable housing, both in the suburbs and within our great city-state cities! For without relatively safe, efficient, comfortable, compact and truly affordable housing there will be no healthy and new mass of long-term home owners! It is clear as can be that over-speculation in private housing drove up the cost of housing beyond the real means of the working and middle classes, and that this also created a false economy in which millions prospered at the expense of billions, and vast fortunes of digitalized wealth were amassed at the expense of entire economic sectors and financial institutions, which have since begun crumbling down unto our own heads!
We need to do in principle much of the same things that were done by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and The New Deal, but in a fresh, new and much more sophisticated, visionary, long-term-considerate way!
Remember, it all starts with the right attitude on the part of the mass media and the governments, properly informing the general public about what are the real causes and what must now be done, and then going to the negotiating tables to negotiate with the world’s wealthiest few about the terms of not just a Global Sociological Ceasefire, but a long term Viable and Just Peace! The days of violent revolutions (not that they ever really worked) are over, but so must the days of unscientific and illogical and inhuman attitudes and conditions be over! We do not have a moment’s time left to waste: is the mass media going to do the right thing and share this understanding with the world, or is it going to ignore the voices of reason and wisdom still alive and kicking?? Perception sells the product first, and the product continues to sell if the perception has any real basis! The mass media are responsible for perceptions, and we must be responsible for the product!
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities." -- Albert Einstein
Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, also known as The Free Advice Man, is a Self-Educated Philosopher currently residing in London, where he is busy writing his books and ceaselessly communicating his ideas on the need for responsibly progressive liberal social democracy and unity-in-diversity!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
AN OPEN LETTER TO MY PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA!
What President Barack Obama Needs To Tell The Palestinians And Israelis
By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher & Middle East Peace Analyst
It is absolutely imperative that we, The United States of America, and all the other moderate states of the world, that our leaders, make it clear to both the Israeli and Palestinian sides that there is absolutely no other option but to reach a final, truly viable and relatively just peace settlement within months and not years! If anything, the complex, disturbing and very sad and tragic events of the Gaza War demonstrate just how urgent and how dangerous this historic conflict is! Given the many obvious and not-so-obvious security concerns, regarding not only the dire realities and urgency, but which involve the overall regional situation throughout the greater Middle East and its direct and indirect impact on the security and stability of the entire world, peace can no longer be postponed indefinitely. Peace must not be held hostage to senseless nuances and antiquated notions on the part of either side nor should the need for peace be perpetually ignored and avoided on account of a systemic failure of the international community to make the urgency clear to everybody, or the failure of the Israeli and Palestinian authorities and leaders to properly inform their constituents about what is really at stake here! Any relatively intelligent and knowledgeable person, especially anyone with a serious background in security issues, understands all too well that the time is already long overdue for a peace of the brave and wise, within months, if not sooner!
1967: A Non-Starter
President Obama needs to make it clear to The Palestinians and to the relatively moderate Arab nations most concerned, that the idea of Israel withdrawing to the pre-1967 borders has already, long ago, been shown to be a total and absolute non-starter for any realistic chance of a peace agreement! The Oslo Agreements and all subsequent agreements that were reached before the Camp David negotiations between Prime Minister Ehud Barack and Chairman Yasser Arafat, under the auspices of President Clinton, in 2000, make it perfectly clear that Israel, for very specific and understandable reasons, both logical and hypothetical, cannot agree to withdrawing to borders that existed prior to 1968. Obviously no Israeli political leader would survive long enough to deliver any such 1967-type agreement, such as the one proposed by Saudi Arabia lately, for that would mean an Israel that would actually have no strategic parity with its neighbors should they ever default on any so-called peace treaty, peace settlement agreement!
In fact, it would cause a more dangerous situation to arise, which would easily turn into the very kind of Global Security Meltdown and Final World War conflagration we currently risk facing. True deterrence, in effect prevention of total disaster, is contingent on The Palestinians accepting a situation that does not involve Israel withdrawing exactly to the pre-1968 borders and lines of demarcation. That said, what Oslo and Madrid and all subsequent understandings have basically suggested and offered is a viable, lasting, and relatively just peace involving almost everything that the Saudi Plan would entail, with some very clear exceptions, that, I must stress once more, are totally non-negotiable by any realistic Israeli leader! Most of the issue revolves around the special status of Jerusalem, which in a certain sense and manner will have to remain almost entirely united and part of Israel, with obvious exception to The Old Muslim Quarter, which would itself gain a special, unique, and rather seemingly complex status under a joint Palestinian-Jordanian authority, and which would still be part of a very complex Intra-National and International agreement and arrangement. And there are other relatively minor territories and issues that collectively are major factors in establishing the kind of viable and logically sensible peace arrangement and agreement, whose details I shall not be able to specify in this relatively brief essay.
Further Postponement of Peace: Too Great a Peril To Israel, The Palestinians and World Peace and Stability Itself
President Barack Obama needs to use his superb communication skills to make it perfectly clear to the Israeli side that, provided the Palestinians also understand that any 1967-type border situation is a total non-starter, further avoidance of the urgent and dire need for a truly viable, relatively just and lasting peace, even if it involves a special set of sub-agreements and subsequent creation of special diplomatic enclaves on both sides for both sides, is tantamount to seriously risking a complex chain of destructive events that would easily lead to a Final Most Horrific Global Security Meltdown and a World War which would not be worth surviving and whose survivors would be very few, if any and who would end up dying shortly thereafter, in the most horrific circumstances! President Obama must make it clear that the further mere perception of Israeli intransigence and significant risk of further extremely violent conflict, regardless of any strategic justification, is rapidly bringing us closer to the brink of total destruction and doom. Israel needs, more than ever, a relatively responsible Palestinian government authority, in charge of a viable Palestinian State, along The Two State Oslo-type solution already agreed to in theory by both sides in previous years, as soon as humanly possible. Not only are we all, the whole world, being held hostage to this failure of the sides to make it clear to their own constituent populations (and to the leaders themselves) that the actual situation risks much more than their direct peace, but the ever-increasing sense of desperation, frustration and subsequent extremist tendencies are beginning to create a situation whereby reaching such an urgently needed peace settlement will become impossible and thus disaster, not just regionally but globally, will become no longer just a possibility but an absolute certainty! Anyone fairly educated and properly informed about this otherwise senseless and tragic conflict, can easily appreciate and understand how much of a disaster it would be if Egypt alone would give up on its tentative peace with Israel and turn into another front for the type of mindset that is prevalent at the top of the current Iranian extreme leadership in Tehran! It should be perfectly clear to those directly involved in making the kind of hard decisions needed that the Gaza War was rapidly turning into a very dangerous spark that would have eventually ignited the entire region, especially posing a threat to the stability of key strategic allies of America and of relative peace, such as Egypt and Jordan, to mention the most important two! Israel has no right to hold the rest of the world hostage to its own internal squabbles and it needs to get its own population majority solidly behind any realistic agreement that would deliver the kind of viable solution towards real peace.
President Barack Obama Can Make It Happen; He’s Probably The Last Chance Hope!
To avoid the kind of tainted situation that has plagued all previous American Presidents involved in trying to bring a lasting peace to The Middle East, between Israel and her neighbors, President Barack Obama must not risk the slightest impression and misperception that we can still wait, if need be, another year or two for the relatively moderate Palestinian Authority and The Israeli government to reach a peaceful settlement agreement! Logic dictates that if there really is any realistic solution to this most urgent and dangerous of conflicts then it can be arrived at within weeks, provided that all parties involved face up to the logical facts as they presently stand! There is absolutely no way President Obama would remain credible enough if he were to get entangled in the kind of on-again, off-again kabuki theatre antics that plagued President Bush! President Barack Obama must use every reasonable tool at his disposal, even if it means risking seeming to be a bit of an alarmist, to get American and world public opinion to fully support the need for the successful and relatively immediate brokering of The Two State Solution envisioned at Oslo and in most tentative agreements arrived at since! Timing is crucial here and any failure to act on time, any failure to exploit the freshness of the moment, will likely risk making the same kind of mass perception and reaction that could easily undo everything! This is not the time to act on the basis of being overly cautious or too impatient! As far I can sense and the way I really see it, based on what I consider to be a very realistic understanding of what is really involved, a meaningful and lasting peace can be arrived at within two to three months, max! NOW is the time to launch a Final Marathon Effort in pursuit of a peace whose benefits would far outweigh any so-called sacrifices that both sides would have to make! NOW is the time to explain, not just to The Palestinians and Arabs and The Israelis, but to the whole world, just what needs to be done, should be done and just what kind of real disaster would easily happen if we do not DO IT ASAP!
The “Yes We Can” mantra of The Obama Presidential Election's Campaign must be turned into the “YES WE MUST” mantra of The Obama Middle East Peace Mission! Another Gaza War, or another Lebanon War over this otherwise senseless and absolutely tragic conflict would kill the chances for peace indefinitely! And INDEFINITELY is TIME we never really had. President Obama, if you’re listening: I know you have what it takes to make this work; TIME TO DO IT NOW!
By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher & Middle East Peace Analyst
It is absolutely imperative that we, The United States of America, and all the other moderate states of the world, that our leaders, make it clear to both the Israeli and Palestinian sides that there is absolutely no other option but to reach a final, truly viable and relatively just peace settlement within months and not years! If anything, the complex, disturbing and very sad and tragic events of the Gaza War demonstrate just how urgent and how dangerous this historic conflict is! Given the many obvious and not-so-obvious security concerns, regarding not only the dire realities and urgency, but which involve the overall regional situation throughout the greater Middle East and its direct and indirect impact on the security and stability of the entire world, peace can no longer be postponed indefinitely. Peace must not be held hostage to senseless nuances and antiquated notions on the part of either side nor should the need for peace be perpetually ignored and avoided on account of a systemic failure of the international community to make the urgency clear to everybody, or the failure of the Israeli and Palestinian authorities and leaders to properly inform their constituents about what is really at stake here! Any relatively intelligent and knowledgeable person, especially anyone with a serious background in security issues, understands all too well that the time is already long overdue for a peace of the brave and wise, within months, if not sooner!
1967: A Non-Starter
President Obama needs to make it clear to The Palestinians and to the relatively moderate Arab nations most concerned, that the idea of Israel withdrawing to the pre-1967 borders has already, long ago, been shown to be a total and absolute non-starter for any realistic chance of a peace agreement! The Oslo Agreements and all subsequent agreements that were reached before the Camp David negotiations between Prime Minister Ehud Barack and Chairman Yasser Arafat, under the auspices of President Clinton, in 2000, make it perfectly clear that Israel, for very specific and understandable reasons, both logical and hypothetical, cannot agree to withdrawing to borders that existed prior to 1968. Obviously no Israeli political leader would survive long enough to deliver any such 1967-type agreement, such as the one proposed by Saudi Arabia lately, for that would mean an Israel that would actually have no strategic parity with its neighbors should they ever default on any so-called peace treaty, peace settlement agreement!
In fact, it would cause a more dangerous situation to arise, which would easily turn into the very kind of Global Security Meltdown and Final World War conflagration we currently risk facing. True deterrence, in effect prevention of total disaster, is contingent on The Palestinians accepting a situation that does not involve Israel withdrawing exactly to the pre-1968 borders and lines of demarcation. That said, what Oslo and Madrid and all subsequent understandings have basically suggested and offered is a viable, lasting, and relatively just peace involving almost everything that the Saudi Plan would entail, with some very clear exceptions, that, I must stress once more, are totally non-negotiable by any realistic Israeli leader! Most of the issue revolves around the special status of Jerusalem, which in a certain sense and manner will have to remain almost entirely united and part of Israel, with obvious exception to The Old Muslim Quarter, which would itself gain a special, unique, and rather seemingly complex status under a joint Palestinian-Jordanian authority, and which would still be part of a very complex Intra-National and International agreement and arrangement. And there are other relatively minor territories and issues that collectively are major factors in establishing the kind of viable and logically sensible peace arrangement and agreement, whose details I shall not be able to specify in this relatively brief essay.
Further Postponement of Peace: Too Great a Peril To Israel, The Palestinians and World Peace and Stability Itself
President Barack Obama needs to use his superb communication skills to make it perfectly clear to the Israeli side that, provided the Palestinians also understand that any 1967-type border situation is a total non-starter, further avoidance of the urgent and dire need for a truly viable, relatively just and lasting peace, even if it involves a special set of sub-agreements and subsequent creation of special diplomatic enclaves on both sides for both sides, is tantamount to seriously risking a complex chain of destructive events that would easily lead to a Final Most Horrific Global Security Meltdown and a World War which would not be worth surviving and whose survivors would be very few, if any and who would end up dying shortly thereafter, in the most horrific circumstances! President Obama must make it clear that the further mere perception of Israeli intransigence and significant risk of further extremely violent conflict, regardless of any strategic justification, is rapidly bringing us closer to the brink of total destruction and doom. Israel needs, more than ever, a relatively responsible Palestinian government authority, in charge of a viable Palestinian State, along The Two State Oslo-type solution already agreed to in theory by both sides in previous years, as soon as humanly possible. Not only are we all, the whole world, being held hostage to this failure of the sides to make it clear to their own constituent populations (and to the leaders themselves) that the actual situation risks much more than their direct peace, but the ever-increasing sense of desperation, frustration and subsequent extremist tendencies are beginning to create a situation whereby reaching such an urgently needed peace settlement will become impossible and thus disaster, not just regionally but globally, will become no longer just a possibility but an absolute certainty! Anyone fairly educated and properly informed about this otherwise senseless and tragic conflict, can easily appreciate and understand how much of a disaster it would be if Egypt alone would give up on its tentative peace with Israel and turn into another front for the type of mindset that is prevalent at the top of the current Iranian extreme leadership in Tehran! It should be perfectly clear to those directly involved in making the kind of hard decisions needed that the Gaza War was rapidly turning into a very dangerous spark that would have eventually ignited the entire region, especially posing a threat to the stability of key strategic allies of America and of relative peace, such as Egypt and Jordan, to mention the most important two! Israel has no right to hold the rest of the world hostage to its own internal squabbles and it needs to get its own population majority solidly behind any realistic agreement that would deliver the kind of viable solution towards real peace.
President Barack Obama Can Make It Happen; He’s Probably The Last Chance Hope!
To avoid the kind of tainted situation that has plagued all previous American Presidents involved in trying to bring a lasting peace to The Middle East, between Israel and her neighbors, President Barack Obama must not risk the slightest impression and misperception that we can still wait, if need be, another year or two for the relatively moderate Palestinian Authority and The Israeli government to reach a peaceful settlement agreement! Logic dictates that if there really is any realistic solution to this most urgent and dangerous of conflicts then it can be arrived at within weeks, provided that all parties involved face up to the logical facts as they presently stand! There is absolutely no way President Obama would remain credible enough if he were to get entangled in the kind of on-again, off-again kabuki theatre antics that plagued President Bush! President Barack Obama must use every reasonable tool at his disposal, even if it means risking seeming to be a bit of an alarmist, to get American and world public opinion to fully support the need for the successful and relatively immediate brokering of The Two State Solution envisioned at Oslo and in most tentative agreements arrived at since! Timing is crucial here and any failure to act on time, any failure to exploit the freshness of the moment, will likely risk making the same kind of mass perception and reaction that could easily undo everything! This is not the time to act on the basis of being overly cautious or too impatient! As far I can sense and the way I really see it, based on what I consider to be a very realistic understanding of what is really involved, a meaningful and lasting peace can be arrived at within two to three months, max! NOW is the time to launch a Final Marathon Effort in pursuit of a peace whose benefits would far outweigh any so-called sacrifices that both sides would have to make! NOW is the time to explain, not just to The Palestinians and Arabs and The Israelis, but to the whole world, just what needs to be done, should be done and just what kind of real disaster would easily happen if we do not DO IT ASAP!
The “Yes We Can” mantra of The Obama Presidential Election's Campaign must be turned into the “YES WE MUST” mantra of The Obama Middle East Peace Mission! Another Gaza War, or another Lebanon War over this otherwise senseless and absolutely tragic conflict would kill the chances for peace indefinitely! And INDEFINITELY is TIME we never really had. President Obama, if you’re listening: I know you have what it takes to make this work; TIME TO DO IT NOW!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
MY PREDICTION WAS RIGHT!!! Mars has life!
THE FOLLOWING IS A REPOST OF A PREVIOUS, EARLIER BLOG-POST, NOTICE THE PART IN BOLD LETTERS!!! MY PREDICTION WAS RIGHT!!!
In some ways 2008 was a year of unprecedented things and overall change towards better times ahead, in other ways it was a year of disappointments and shortcomings!
For me and the world!
The election of Senator Barack Obama to be the next, the 44th, President of The United States of America, was something I was absolute right about! As well as predicting his choice for V.P.: Senator Joe Biden, whom I consider my favorite choice! I was also right about the severe economic crisis, and the fact that we are heading into a Mini-Depression that could, if not dealth with properly, become a Final Economic Collapse, which would obviously lead to a Final Global Geo-Political and Military Mega-Conflict and Total Disaster! I was right about NASA and ESA and other Space Exploration entities finding significant evidence in favor of there being Life elsewhere and in many places throughout The Known Universe! Finding actual frozen Water (H2O)on Mars, finding vast amounts of complex sugars (Carbon-based chemical building blocks of life) throughout parts of our own Galaxy, finding Exo-Planets in great abundancy, and a dramatic increas, once more, in reported UFO spottings, all of which indicates that those who think Life is the exception are simply put: DEAD WRONG! The Known Universe seems to be teaming with Life!
Here is what I foresee for 2009 (the remainder of 5769):
1. Obama's first months of Presidency will be full of sensational near-disasters for him politically, full of controversy, but he will weather it all out magnificently and his public popularity poll rating will remain high!
2. Due to super-vigorous, proper and wise actions taken by The Obama Administration and The E.U. the Global Economic Crisis will begin to come to an end by June, 2009! That said, this good news will not mean much to all those individuals, couples and families who will end up losing almost everything. It will take another 2 years to undo much of the immediate damage caused by Housing Mortgage and Banking Crisis! There will be a significant increase in the Jobless and Homelessness rates and numbers in much of the post-Industrial World!
3. George Soros will convene a major International Summit and Symposia comprised of world leaders in business, government and finance, as well as including the participation of NGOs and private individuals concerned about a wide array of related issues, from Socio-Economic and Investment Ethics to Alternative Energies and Pro-Ecological Businesses. The Summit will include a brief appearance by President Obama. It will take place in Switzerland, as an extension of The Annual Davos Summit. Some major reports will be published and some serious initiatives will be agreed to!
4. Israel and much of The Arab World and the broader Islamic World, excluding Iran and a few other nations, will begin to end their most volatile conflict, as a comprehensive Peace Settlement is reached between Israel and The Palestinian Authority, and between Israel and Syria and Israel and Lebanon! This will take place in late June or by mid-July.
5. The first solid scientific and publically announced evidence for Life Beyond Earth or even a Non-Terrestrial Intelligence will be announced by the end of 2009! And either in late 2009 or early 2010 President Obama will announce some incredibly wonderful new joint NASA-ESA Space Exploration and Space Technologies initiatives and programs! Including the first manned landing on The Moon since the 70s, by six US and EU astronauts, who will set up the first phase construction of a permanent manned Moonbase, the first phase of the construction of a mechanism to protect Earth from threats from Outer space, and a joint Mission to Mars by 2012!
(Jean-Pierre is PROVEN RIGHT AGAIN! I predicted that 2009 will be the year we confirm the existence of Life Beyond Earth! >> SEE www.nasa.gov and latest news on Mars!!!)
) !!!
6. New, powerful and also affordable therapies and treatments and campaigns against AIDS and other STDs and other Major Public Health Concerns will be announced in 2009!
7. A totally new, responsibly progressive liberal Adult Sexual Movement will become popular throughout Europe and The Americas and elsewhere, but will be banned in China, Russia, and India. It will incorporate many of the best aspects of The Hippie Era, The Beatnik Era and post-Marxist-Communalism!
8. President Obama will announce the establishment of a New United Nations Super-Hi-Tech, Ultra-Compact (relative small units), Surgically-Pin-Point-Accurate Strike-Force against Terrorist Groups, Pirates and Human Traffickers/Slavemasters! Fidel Castro, Ahmadinejad and most of al-Qaeda and The Taliban will be gone! Pakistan will split into two distinct parts; one pro-West and pro-Peace, the other (bordering Afghanistan) the opposite! Afghanistan will also split, with the Pakistani-bordering side becoming part of a new psedo-nation that will not be recognized by any of the other nations of world!
In some ways 2008 was a year of unprecedented things and overall change towards better times ahead, in other ways it was a year of disappointments and shortcomings!
For me and the world!
The election of Senator Barack Obama to be the next, the 44th, President of The United States of America, was something I was absolute right about! As well as predicting his choice for V.P.: Senator Joe Biden, whom I consider my favorite choice! I was also right about the severe economic crisis, and the fact that we are heading into a Mini-Depression that could, if not dealth with properly, become a Final Economic Collapse, which would obviously lead to a Final Global Geo-Political and Military Mega-Conflict and Total Disaster! I was right about NASA and ESA and other Space Exploration entities finding significant evidence in favor of there being Life elsewhere and in many places throughout The Known Universe! Finding actual frozen Water (H2O)on Mars, finding vast amounts of complex sugars (Carbon-based chemical building blocks of life) throughout parts of our own Galaxy, finding Exo-Planets in great abundancy, and a dramatic increas, once more, in reported UFO spottings, all of which indicates that those who think Life is the exception are simply put: DEAD WRONG! The Known Universe seems to be teaming with Life!
Here is what I foresee for 2009 (the remainder of 5769):
1. Obama's first months of Presidency will be full of sensational near-disasters for him politically, full of controversy, but he will weather it all out magnificently and his public popularity poll rating will remain high!
2. Due to super-vigorous, proper and wise actions taken by The Obama Administration and The E.U. the Global Economic Crisis will begin to come to an end by June, 2009! That said, this good news will not mean much to all those individuals, couples and families who will end up losing almost everything. It will take another 2 years to undo much of the immediate damage caused by Housing Mortgage and Banking Crisis! There will be a significant increase in the Jobless and Homelessness rates and numbers in much of the post-Industrial World!
3. George Soros will convene a major International Summit and Symposia comprised of world leaders in business, government and finance, as well as including the participation of NGOs and private individuals concerned about a wide array of related issues, from Socio-Economic and Investment Ethics to Alternative Energies and Pro-Ecological Businesses. The Summit will include a brief appearance by President Obama. It will take place in Switzerland, as an extension of The Annual Davos Summit. Some major reports will be published and some serious initiatives will be agreed to!
4. Israel and much of The Arab World and the broader Islamic World, excluding Iran and a few other nations, will begin to end their most volatile conflict, as a comprehensive Peace Settlement is reached between Israel and The Palestinian Authority, and between Israel and Syria and Israel and Lebanon! This will take place in late June or by mid-July.
5. The first solid scientific and publically announced evidence for Life Beyond Earth or even a Non-Terrestrial Intelligence will be announced by the end of 2009! And either in late 2009 or early 2010 President Obama will announce some incredibly wonderful new joint NASA-ESA Space Exploration and Space Technologies initiatives and programs! Including the first manned landing on The Moon since the 70s, by six US and EU astronauts, who will set up the first phase construction of a permanent manned Moonbase, the first phase of the construction of a mechanism to protect Earth from threats from Outer space, and a joint Mission to Mars by 2012!
(Jean-Pierre is PROVEN RIGHT AGAIN! I predicted that 2009 will be the year we confirm the existence of Life Beyond Earth! >> SEE www.nasa.gov and latest news on Mars!!!)
) !!!
6. New, powerful and also affordable therapies and treatments and campaigns against AIDS and other STDs and other Major Public Health Concerns will be announced in 2009!
7. A totally new, responsibly progressive liberal Adult Sexual Movement will become popular throughout Europe and The Americas and elsewhere, but will be banned in China, Russia, and India. It will incorporate many of the best aspects of The Hippie Era, The Beatnik Era and post-Marxist-Communalism!
8. President Obama will announce the establishment of a New United Nations Super-Hi-Tech, Ultra-Compact (relative small units), Surgically-Pin-Point-Accurate Strike-Force against Terrorist Groups, Pirates and Human Traffickers/Slavemasters! Fidel Castro, Ahmadinejad and most of al-Qaeda and The Taliban will be gone! Pakistan will split into two distinct parts; one pro-West and pro-Peace, the other (bordering Afghanistan) the opposite! Afghanistan will also split, with the Pakistani-bordering side becoming part of a new psedo-nation that will not be recognized by any of the other nations of world!
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