<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498</id><updated>2012-01-21T15:39:18.300+08:00</updated><category term='terrorism'/><title type='text'>the HERETIC</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>101</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-5770743792420601308</id><published>2009-11-20T03:01:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T20:59:00.863+08:00</updated><title type='text'>This site has migrated</title><summary type='text'>to, according2ed.com

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The Inquisitor</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/5770743792420601308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2009/11/this-site-has-migrated.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/5770743792420601308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/5770743792420601308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2009/11/this-site-has-migrated.html' title='This site has migrated'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-2142984917550645027</id><published>2007-02-11T22:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T22:41:06.572+08:00</updated><title type='text'>In brief: Capitalism &amp; Communism</title><summary type='text'>Capitalism:To make the most of ourselves at the expense of others is to make the least of ourselves.Communism:To make the most of others is to make more of ourselves.To compromise the intellectual and spiritual progress of my neighbour is to compromise the quality of her/is contribution to the intellectual and spiritual progress of myself.  Thus, to love another as much as I love myself is to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/2142984917550645027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2007/02/in-brief-capitalism-communism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/2142984917550645027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/2142984917550645027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2007/02/in-brief-capitalism-communism.html' title='In brief: Capitalism &amp; Communism'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-116919228771205403</id><published>2007-01-19T15:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-19T15:44:27.413+08:00</updated><title type='text'>On Chavez and the Communocratic Ideal</title><summary type='text'>Rule by decree passed for ChavezFriday, 19 January 2007, 00:23 GMT"President Chavez has vowed to deepen his "Bolivarian revolution"Venezuela's National Assembly has given initial approval to a bill granting President Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for 18 months.Mr Chavez said he wants to approve "revolutionary laws" to enact sweeping political, economic and social changes."bbcTo Rule By </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/116919228771205403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2007/01/on-chavez-and-communocratic-ideal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116919228771205403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116919228771205403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2007/01/on-chavez-and-communocratic-ideal.html' title='On Chavez and the Communocratic Ideal'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-116858157312817082</id><published>2007-01-12T13:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-12T13:59:33.170+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Look Hu's Talking</title><summary type='text'>Shock in China and Japan over Saddam’s Hanging"The United States considers itself the patriarch of the world," it wrote. "Whenever someone doesn't please its eyes or obey its words, it will use its own ways to punish them, imposing sanctions or using force."- xinhua, the official chinese news agency on the execution of saddamThe summum bonum of Chinese HistoryAnd this coming from a country world </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/116858157312817082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2007/01/look-hus-talking.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116858157312817082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116858157312817082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2007/01/look-hus-talking.html' title='Look Hu&apos;s Talking'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-116825691394032096</id><published>2007-01-08T19:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T19:48:34.100+08:00</updated><title type='text'>In Defence of Saddam</title><summary type='text'>“To leave the bases for tyranny unchallenged is to become the abettors of its consequences.”"made in the USA"Firstly, Saddam, or any individual, ought not to be tried for crimes upon the application of laws that were not applicable in Iraq at the time of its commission.Secondly, to apply International Laws and Conventions on Human Rights whilst recognising local variants of punitive reaction </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/116825691394032096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2007/01/in-defence-of-saddam.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116825691394032096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116825691394032096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2007/01/in-defence-of-saddam.html' title='In Defence of Saddam'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-116548397264746784</id><published>2006-12-07T17:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-07T17:32:52.650+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Fallacy of 'Per Capita Income'</title><summary type='text'>In brief,In considering per capita incomes, one would have to take into account, amongst others, the 'per capita debt'(debt which is enforced upon all via, amongst others, housing/education costs) and 'per capita liabilities'(amongst others, healthcare costs).  Thus, an individual earning 'less' in a semi-socialist state than her/is counterpart in a bourgeoiscratic one may actually be earning </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/116548397264746784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/12/fallacy-of-per-capita-income.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116548397264746784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116548397264746784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/12/fallacy-of-per-capita-income.html' title='The Fallacy of &apos;Per Capita Income&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-116420258620280309</id><published>2006-11-22T21:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T12:09:58.193+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Paradox of 'Top Givers'</title><summary type='text'>The GuiltyBusinessweek published a list of what they term, ‘The Top Givers’, which, amongst others, included Bill Gates. What Businessweek forgot to mention is that many of these ‘Givers’ and ‘philantropists’ also range amongst the ‘Top Expropriators’ – that is, those who take what does not belong to oneself in the first place whilst being extremely successful in doing so.In Truth, A ‘Top Giver’ </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/116420258620280309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/11/paradox-of-top-givers_22.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116420258620280309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116420258620280309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/11/paradox-of-top-givers_22.html' title='The Paradox of &apos;Top Givers&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-116322082969866231</id><published>2006-11-11T12:25:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-11T12:53:49.793+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why the absence of online censorship is not a good indicator of the absence of oppression</title><summary type='text'>“More than 25,000 people have already voted against Internet enemies Internet users flocked to the Reporters Without Borders website to take part in a 24-hour protest against online censorship that has just ended...By 11 a.m. today, more than 17,000 people had voted on the Internet enemies map. Breakdown of the votes: Belarus (2,500), Burma (4,500), China (4,100), Cuba (1,000), Egypt (650), Iran </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/116322082969866231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-absence-of-online-censorship-is.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116322082969866231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/116322082969866231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-absence-of-online-censorship-is.html' title='Why the absence of online censorship is not a good indicator of the absence of oppression'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115916347546644703</id><published>2006-09-25T13:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-09-25T13:51:15.560+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fuelling Terror, Fuelling Love</title><summary type='text'>“The New York Times newspaper has published what it says are the findings of a classified US intelligence paper on the effects of the Iraq war.The document reportedly blames the three-year-old conflict for increasing the threat of terrorism and helping fuel Islamic radicalism worldwide. …According to the New York Times, which has spoken to officials who have either read it, or been involved in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115916347546644703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/09/fuelling-terror-fuelling-love.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115916347546644703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115916347546644703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/09/fuelling-terror-fuelling-love.html' title='Fuelling Terror, Fuelling Love'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115795700495566853</id><published>2006-09-11T14:30:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-09-13T12:29:37.316+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Time to Stop 'Remembering' 9/11</title><summary type='text'>“Bush launches 9/11 remembrancesMonday, 11 September 2006US President George W Bush has laid a wreath at Ground Zero, the site of New York's twin towers, ahead of the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attack.Afterwards he attended a remembrance service at a nearby chapel...  ”bbcOn the surface, upon which the mindless masses skim, the aforementioned seems self-explanatory enough. A number of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115795700495566853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/09/time-to-stop-remembering-911.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115795700495566853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115795700495566853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/09/time-to-stop-remembering-911.html' title='Time to Stop &apos;Remembering&apos; 9/11'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115606975832177809</id><published>2006-08-20T18:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T13:24:49.906+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Essence of Humanitarianism</title><summary type='text'>The essence of Humanitarianism lies in the ability to identify an alternative to the current perspectives underlying, motivating and directing Social Activism, and to agitate for the Displacement or/and Revision of the said 'current perspectives' despite one’s propensity to take the well-trampled route and ‘join the (placarding) crowd’.We must err on the side of caution and assume that we do much</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115606975832177809/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/08/essence-of-humanitarianism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115606975832177809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115606975832177809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/08/essence-of-humanitarianism.html' title='The Essence of Humanitarianism'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115590753279870019</id><published>2006-08-18T21:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-08-18T21:25:32.973+08:00</updated><title type='text'>on 'Child Beauty Queens'</title><summary type='text'>‘Child Beauty Queens’?Is there no end to this american/juvenile nonsense,amongst a host of other perspectivally-retarded rubbish, of affording those with a particular set of features the kind of treatment and validation that contributes to their psychological resources and further endows them to take on life’s challenges? This, in addition to the positive view people are trained to have towards </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115590753279870019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-child-beauty-queens.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115590753279870019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115590753279870019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-child-beauty-queens.html' title='on &apos;Child Beauty Queens&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115561756351375479</id><published>2006-08-15T12:36:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T12:24:03.200+08:00</updated><title type='text'>In Defence of Yasukuni Jinja  (abridged)</title><summary type='text'>"Koizumi Defies War Shrine ProtestJapanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has prayed at the country's national war shrine in Tokyo despite protests from China and South Korea.Fourteen war criminals including wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo are honoured there among 2.5m war dead.China said Mr Koizumi's visit offended victims of past Japanese militarism and South Korea also voiced disapproval.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115561756351375479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/08/in-defence-of-yasukuni-jinja-abridged.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115561756351375479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115561756351375479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/08/in-defence-of-yasukuni-jinja-abridged.html' title='In Defence of Yasukuni Jinja  (abridged)'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115452370116688883</id><published>2006-08-02T20:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T21:01:41.200+08:00</updated><title type='text'>on Just Wars</title><summary type='text'>“Voters for Peace is asking people to sign the following pledge: “I will not vote for or support any candidate for Congress or President who does not make a speedy end to the war in Iraq, and preventing any future war of aggression, a public position in his or her campaign.” The group defines a war of aggression as “any war that is not in response to an invasion, or attack on a nation.””</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115452370116688883/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-just-wars.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115452370116688883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115452370116688883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-just-wars.html' title='on Just Wars'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115426079749293075</id><published>2006-07-30T19:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T19:59:57.510+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Who You Calling 'Radical'?</title><summary type='text'>“I’m sorry, but a nation has a duty to control the radical elements of its populace. It cannot allow its citizens to spend six years publicly building an army that clearly states that its main objective is the utter destruction of a neighboring nation…”usmediawebYour point can equally be applied to the Jews in Palestine prior to the establishment of Israel - with the ‘neighbouring nation’ being </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115426079749293075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-you-calling-radical.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115426079749293075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115426079749293075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-you-calling-radical.html' title='Who You Calling &apos;Radical&apos;?'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115349139923097817</id><published>2006-07-21T22:10:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T12:04:15.733+08:00</updated><title type='text'>How 'Israel' Justifies Tibet et al</title><summary type='text'>for wallpaper and 'blog' buttonThe state of Israel was formed on the basis of a number of reasons, with one of them being the increasing rate of Jewish occupation of the region which in turn served to bolster the Zionist claim to a significant portion of the land of the Palestinians. (what may be termed, 'Ethnic Saturation').The Ethnic Saturation of Palestine commenced with the efforts of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115349139923097817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-israel-justifies-tibet-et-al.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115349139923097817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115349139923097817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-israel-justifies-tibet-et-al.html' title='How &apos;Israel&apos; Justifies Tibet et al'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115340313017114000</id><published>2006-07-20T21:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-20T21:49:42.310+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Virtuousness of War</title><summary type='text'>The following is a post from 'LittleIsrael'." Just thought to contribute something.Here is a humble button I've madeSupport the idea? Feel free to use and comment. "Whilst LittleIsrael's intentions are obviously noble and laudable, the problem with 'No War' is that it usually implies, 'Live with the Status Quo'.Peace is never a virtue if it allows Injustice to proceed with impunity. In fact, it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115340313017114000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/virtuousness-of-war.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115340313017114000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115340313017114000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/virtuousness-of-war.html' title='The Virtuousness of War'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115242090889589828</id><published>2006-07-09T12:45:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-09T12:55:08.913+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Just 52 people Died In The London Bombings</title><summary type='text'>Just 52 people died in last year’s London Bombing….. “Just”?! Would such a reaction be due to the recognition that life was invaluable and its passing ought not to be mentioned in such a callous manner?Or would it be more true to say that such indignation finds significant root in the sentiment that ‘our citizen’s lives’ are invaluable and its passing ought not to be mentioned in such a callous </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115242090889589828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/just-52-people-died-in-london-bombings.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115242090889589828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115242090889589828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/just-52-people-died-in-london-bombings.html' title='Just 52 people Died In The London Bombings'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115227676002742329</id><published>2006-07-07T20:33:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-07T20:52:40.056+08:00</updated><title type='text'>London Bombing</title><summary type='text'>[photograph by AFP, colour modified by A.D.]1 year on and the following article is, unfortunately, still applicable...   as published in,download magazine or go to IMAGupdated 19th July 05 A.D.1. Whilst I would like to extend my unreserved and heartfelt sympathies to the victims of these bombings, and by 'victims' I refer to both parties in the tragedy, of one thing we can be certain, no '</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115227676002742329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/london-bombing.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115227676002742329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115227676002742329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/07/london-bombing.html' title='London Bombing'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114913685462438271</id><published>2006-06-01T12:15:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-06-01T12:40:54.643+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Damn Your Democracy! - the true price of a placard</title><summary type='text'>We cannot tolerate children dying for a glass of water"The rich world must act to prevent dirty water and poor sanitation now killing more than a million children a year…"GuardianSo this ‘collateral damage’, amongst a host of others, is the true price of the ubiquitous and ominous Placard as opposed to more effective methods of Self-defence.What's chilling is that this ‘collateral damage’ does </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/114913685462438271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/06/damn-your-democracy-true-price-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114913685462438271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114913685462438271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/06/damn-your-democracy-true-price-of.html' title='Damn Your Democracy! - the true price of a placard'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114519213930847506</id><published>2006-04-16T20:55:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-04-16T21:09:27.626+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pop-e's Easter Massage</title><summary type='text'>Yet another pointless message by the Pope this Easter calling for love, peace and an end to the Iran and Palestinian crises. This message is reminiscent of similar nonsense ‘explicated’ by Lennon in, “…all we are saying….is give peace a chance….” Perhaps he could consider his own ‘label’. A half consumed ‘forbidden fruit’ would serve well as its icon.Such messages from the head of the ‘Catholic’ </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/114519213930847506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/04/pop-es-easter-massage.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114519213930847506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114519213930847506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/04/pop-es-easter-massage.html' title='Pop-e&apos;s Easter Massage'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114395391203022486</id><published>2006-04-02T12:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-04-18T10:21:03.450+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Pope and Catholic Bi-Polarity</title><summary type='text'>Poles remember Pope John Paul IISaturday, 1 April 2006, 23:27 GMT 00:27 UK“Events to mark the first anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II are under way in his homeland of Poland.Hundreds of thousands are expected to attend the main events, including large open air masses and concerts on Sunday.People in churches across the country will attend special masses on Sunday to remember their </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/114395391203022486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/04/pope-and-catholic-bi-polarity.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114395391203022486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114395391203022486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/04/pope-and-catholic-bi-polarity.html' title='The Pope and Catholic Bi-Polarity'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114385794005601534</id><published>2006-04-01T10:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T16:04:01.640+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Iran's Right to Reasonable Force</title><summary type='text'>“Speaking in Qatar, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief said his "message to Iran" was "the international community is getting impatient".The UN chief welcomed the statement.“It showed a spirit of international consensus on Iran's nuclear programme”, Kofi Annan said.US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the meeting sent"a very strong signal to Iran that the international </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/114385794005601534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/04/irans-right-to-reasonable-force.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114385794005601534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114385794005601534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/04/irans-right-to-reasonable-force.html' title='Iran&apos;s Right to Reasonable Force'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114251500457506950</id><published>2006-03-16T20:35:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-16T21:16:44.643+08:00</updated><title type='text'>of Taina and Chaiwan</title><summary type='text'>“China has denounced a comment by Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso after he called Taiwan "a country". Japan's foreign ministry denied Mr. Aso's remark was a change of Tokyo's official position, which recognises China's claim to Taiwan.”BBC : Japan-China row turns to TaiwanThe question I’m inclined to ask whenever the Sinical Imperium, along with its perspectivally prostrate population, kicks up</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/114251500457506950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/03/of-taina-and-chaiwan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114251500457506950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114251500457506950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/03/of-taina-and-chaiwan.html' title='of Taina and Chaiwan'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114174281978016968</id><published>2006-03-07T22:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-08T11:44:58.090+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Nay! That's Entertainment?!</title><summary type='text'>UK triumph as Wallace wins Oscar(the aforementioned page and title has since been changed to "Crash lands shock Oscar Triumph" - prior to the publishing of this article.)UK Stars Shine at Academy AwardsIt’s a sad day when British film producers are reflexively motivated to break into cartwheels after being given a pat on the back by their American counterparts in Hollywood. It’s even sadder when </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/114174281978016968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/03/nay-thats-entertainment.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114174281978016968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114174281978016968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/03/nay-thats-entertainment.html' title='Nay! That&apos;s Entertainment?!'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114130909182050094</id><published>2006-03-02T22:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-19T18:22:24.793+08:00</updated><title type='text'>China's Yang vs. India's Yin</title><summary type='text'>Or,Should we support China's call to India to Dismantle its Nuclear Arsenal?CHINA URGES INDIA TO ABANDON NUCLEAR WEAPONS“India should sign the NPT and also dismantle its nuclear weapons, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang, told a news briefing in Beijing.“As a signatory country, China hopes non-signatory countries will join it as soon as possible as non-nuclear weapon states, </summary><link 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113889093345453674</id><published>2006-02-02T22:20:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-15T10:08:27.236+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Chinese New Year : Celebrating Mass Devolution</title><summary type='text'>click for wallpaperThe question I’m inclined to ask, given the propensity by the practitioners of Chinese culture (PCCs) to rely on just about anything to enhance their personal interests other than the strength of the collective, is how it is logically possible to have a ‘New’ year when the previous, and aforementioned, methods of ‘problem resolution’ are again applied in the next calendar </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113889093345453674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114541198146893575</id><published>2006-01-19T09:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T10:08:37.943+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Faith</title><summary type='text'>Pop-e's Easter MassageThe Pope and Catholic Bi-PolarityAtheism and Prayer</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/114541198146893575/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/faith.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114541198146893575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114541198146893575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/faith.html' title='Faith'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115812199151429056</id><published>2006-01-13T12:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-09-13T12:33:11.516+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Intellectual Impropriety</title><summary type='text'></summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115812199151429056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/intellectual-impropriety.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115812199151429056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115812199151429056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/intellectual-impropriety.html' title='Intellectual Impropriety'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115397291411453487</id><published>2006-01-07T12:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-31T11:40:59.400+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Israel</title><summary type='text'>Who You Calling 'Radical'?How 'Israel' Justifies Tibet et alOn the Real 'Third Party' Behind this Conflict (arab-israeli conflict, episode 2006) - from DiretribeWhy the Zionist Anti-War Movement is Oxymoronic - from DiretribeThe Virtuousness of WarBush Justifies 911 - from DiretribeRemember the JEWISH Holocaust Please - from Diretribe</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115397291411453487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/israel.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115397291411453487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115397291411453487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/israel.html' title='Israel'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113041598242149726</id><published>2006-01-05T20:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-25T15:32:21.663+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Politics</title><summary type='text'>ArticlesIn Defence of SaddamThe Essence of HumanitarianismIn Defense of Yasukuni Jinja [abridged]On 'Just' WarsThe Virtuousness of WarHow Israel Justifies Tibet et alIran's Right to Reasonable ForceRed HijabIn Defense of Yasukuni JinjaSedition? Prior Edition!Cindy She &amp; G.I.Joe</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113041598242149726/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/politics.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113041598242149726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113041598242149726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/politics.html' title='Politics'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115374402067430264</id><published>2006-01-03T20:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-25T15:31:28.436+08:00</updated><title type='text'>General</title><summary type='text'>The Fallacy of 'Per Capita Income'on Child 'Beauty' QueensNay! That's Entertainment?! - on the oscars and co.Are Creative People Luckier in Love?The Problem with the Idea of 'Top Intellectuals'Too Much Ado About Shakespeare'Terrorising Bill' - Free SpeechPronouncing ColonialismThe Fallacy of DisabilitySmurfs Up!V-ipod : Tuning out the HerdImpeach Blair?Ipod: Nano 4 NanoThe Big 'C' : on copyright</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115374402067430264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/general.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115374402067430264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115374402067430264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/general.html' title='General'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-115374292591915779</id><published>2006-01-02T20:07:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T13:19:51.553+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Charity &amp; Catastrophes</title><summary type='text'>The Paradox of 'Top Givers'The Essence of HumanitarianismCharity KillsMultiDimensional AmericaThe Proletarian HolocaustWhen St. Katrina SingsAvian : Time for Humanity to Pay its DuesTabulating Death TollsQuantifying CompassionWhen Death Tolls but the Bells Doth NotAid Games Anyone?Quake 7.6 : Stock Options</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/115374292591915779/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/charity-catastrophes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115374292591915779'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/115374292591915779'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/charity-catastrophes.html' title='Charity &amp; Catastrophes'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114913511795903083</id><published>2006-01-01T12:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-25T15:34:18.243+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thoughts on Democracy</title><summary type='text'>On Chavez and the Communocratic IdealWhy the Absence of Online Censorship is not a good indicator of the Absence of OppressionDamn Your Democracy! - the true price of a placardLondon BombingsThe Tyranny of the MinorityA Majority of OneNational Humanitarianism</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/114913511795903083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/thoughts-on-democracy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114913511795903083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114913511795903083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2006/01/thoughts-on-democracy.html' title='Thoughts on Democracy'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113340566186465553</id><published>2005-12-01T10:49:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-12-01T10:54:21.876+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Are Creative People Luckier in Love</title><summary type='text'>Creative People 'Luckier in Love'"If you are hoping to improve your love life, it may be wise to develop artistic traits, researchers suggest.The more creative a person is, the more sexual partners they are likely to have, UK investigators have found.There are historical examples of creative people who were as notorious for their sexual exploits as their creative talents.Actor Errol Flynn, famous</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113340566186465553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/12/are-creative-people-luckier-in-love.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113340566186465553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113340566186465553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/12/are-creative-people-luckier-in-love.html' title='Are Creative People Luckier in Love'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-114273978821951121</id><published>2005-11-19T11:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-25T15:33:25.533+08:00</updated><title type='text'>china</title><summary type='text'>Look Hu's TalkingChinese Erection in Tibet [from diretribe]China: On what Vatican and can't [from diretribe]of Taina and ChaiwanThe Sinicism behind Technorati's Top 5 [from diretribe]China's Yang vs. India's YinChinese New Year - celebrating mass d/evolutionThe Spirit of the Revolutionary</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/114273978821951121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/11/china.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114273978821951121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/114273978821951121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/11/china.html' title='china'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113110910161958792</id><published>2005-11-04T20:31:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-11-04T20:58:21.680+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Problem with the Idea of 'Top Intellectuals'</title><summary type='text'>According to Prospect Magazine’s poll on global intellectuals, Noam Chomsky has been voted as ‘The World’s Top Public Intellectual’.ProspectMagHere are some more accurate title’s that can be applied in place of the above :"The World's Top Publicised Intellectual'.“The West’s Idea of a Public Intellectual”“The Top Intellectual of the Mainstream Media of a non-right Orientation”“An Intellectual </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113110910161958792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/11/problem-with-idea-of-top-intellectuals.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113110910161958792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113110910161958792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/11/problem-with-idea-of-top-intellectuals.html' title='The Problem with the Idea of &apos;Top Intellectuals&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113093830818962881</id><published>2005-11-02T21:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-11-04T15:27:19.016+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Red Hijab</title><summary type='text'>"Every morning headteacher Genevieve Piniau stands guard at the gate of the Lycee Robert Doisneau in Corbeil-Essonne near Paris.She is there to ensure no rules are broken, including a ban on Muslim headscarves and other "conspicuous" religious symbols in French state schools. Dozens of girls duly take off their hijabs as they approach the gate."Headscarf Defeat Riles French MuslimsThe French Ban </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113093830818962881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/11/red-hijab.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113093830818962881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113093830818962881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/11/red-hijab.html' title='Red Hijab'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113085399901231340</id><published>2005-11-01T22:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-11-01T22:06:39.016+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Much Ado About  Shakespeare</title><summary type='text'>Much of the greatness of Shakespeare lies in English having attained the status of the Lingua Franca of the World.  As a teen, I had marvelled at his illustration of the intricacies of human relationships, the poetical expressions and the passions and profundity contained within his works that exposed the depths of the various potentials of the human soul. It suggested who we are, who we could be</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113085399901231340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/11/much-ado-about-shakespeare_01.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113085399901231340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113085399901231340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/11/much-ado-about-shakespeare_01.html' title='Much Ado About  Shakespeare'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113063929898232063</id><published>2005-10-30T10:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-30T10:28:19.006+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Expelling Iran will Facilitate 'Clash of Civilisations'</title><summary type='text'>Israel calling for Iran to be expelled from the UN could not be a worse move with regards to the interests of America or its Proconsuls in Europe in their ‘War on Terror’.Briefly, what the west terms as ‘Terrorism!’ emerges from a combination of the following.1.  The advance of technology and its facilitation of the ossification of a pre-existing Islamic consciousness;2. The inability of the UN </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113063929898232063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/expelling-iran-will-facilitate-clash.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113063929898232063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113063929898232063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/expelling-iran-will-facilitate-clash.html' title='Expelling Iran will Facilitate &apos;Clash of Civilisations&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112981104753751275</id><published>2005-10-20T20:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T21:14:30.726+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tabulating Death Tolls</title><summary type='text'>...Or why it may be true that the recent earthquake did not result in any deaths.It is very simple to attribute death tolls to natural disasters. That just makes these natural events one of the most wrongfully vilified personalities of our times. Once we attributed calamities to the will of the Gods, when it was often due to our lack of knowledge that enabled the forces of nature to do their </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112981104753751275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/tabulating-death-tolls.html#comment-form' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112981104753751275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112981104753751275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/tabulating-death-tolls.html' title='Tabulating Death Tolls'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112972165858000613</id><published>2005-10-19T19:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-19T20:49:18.996+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Quantifying  Compassion</title><summary type='text'>The number of comments posted on The Guardian’s Newsblog in a variety of issues might indicate the inclination of the English-speaking western mind. The following is a list of the topics found on a single page and the number of comments that each had attracted.The heading are listed in the same order as in the original site with the most recent news articles superseding, in order, those posted </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112972165858000613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/quantifying-compassion_19.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112972165858000613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112972165858000613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/quantifying-compassion_19.html' title='Quantifying  Compassion'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112946306626856210</id><published>2005-10-16T19:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-16T22:32:50.263+08:00</updated><title type='text'>When Death Tolls but the Bell Doth Not</title><summary type='text'>Asian Earthquake Death Toll Approaching 40,000Well, from here we can tell that an American disaster is 40 times more valuable and worthy of mass attention and concern than a non-western one when one considers the lack of 'blogger' and media empathy of a nature similar to that witnessed in the course of, and after, Katrina.I say 40 times more valuable because as the death toll is fast approaching </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112946306626856210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/when-death-tolls-but-bell-doth-not.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112946306626856210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112946306626856210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/when-death-tolls-but-bell-doth-not.html' title='When Death Tolls but the Bell Doth Not'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112929591000395641</id><published>2005-10-15T21:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-15T21:49:49.300+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Avian : Time for 'Humanity' to Pay its Dues</title><summary type='text'>last updated : 15th Oct 05 a.d.It's time we realised that there is no difference between Systematic and Systemic Genocide. One is Intentional whilst the other is a consequence of a system that is Intentional.If we don't value life despite illusory borders, we will be devalued by the most devalued of lives.Avian is on the way. The system will ensure that it strikes.The system is already 'preparing</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112929591000395641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/avian-time-for-humanity-to-pay-its.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112929591000395641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112929591000395641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/avian-time-for-humanity-to-pay-its.html' title='Avian : Time for &apos;Humanity&apos; to Pay its Dues'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112920789631559806</id><published>2005-10-13T20:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-13T21:26:25.180+08:00</updated><title type='text'>V-ipod : Tuning Out the Herd</title><summary type='text'>The following are responses left on various sites reacting formulaically to Apple's release of the V-ipod, which is known as the video ipod, for the perusal of regular visitors and stumblers-by.*‘I am tempted to ditch my iPod mini 4G to get the 60G iPod in black.’What's left unsaid by Jobs' opening line, "One more thing"?"One more thing" to make that loved yesterday redundant so that our profits </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112920789631559806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/v-ipod-tuning-out-herd.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112920789631559806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112920789631559806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/v-ipod-tuning-out-herd.html' title='V-ipod : Tuning Out the Herd'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112911821185003232</id><published>2005-10-12T19:39:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-16T22:57:00.410+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Smurf's Up!</title><summary type='text'>Unicef bombs the Smurfs in fund-raising campaign for ex-child soldiersvideo clipIf War is the Effect, then the Cause must surely be the Mindset that cannot see Red till it sees Blue.One has to wonder why the UN might think it necessary to put across the reality of child casualties in the aftermath of a bombing via an animated bombing of inanimate Smurfs.Using cartoons to forward messages to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112911821185003232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/smurfs-up.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112911821185003232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112911821185003232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/smurfs-up.html' title='Smurf&apos;s Up!'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112903266534394003</id><published>2005-10-12T00:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-12T12:13:09.413+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Aid Games Anyone?</title><summary type='text'>The true nature of this global system can be seen in a myriad of ways, one of which is the absence of Aid Games, as opposed to War Games.[The absence of a humanitarian version of ‘The Apprentice’; the BBC's omission of a section for 'humanitarianism' or 'environmentalism'; or the S.Asia earthquake's failure to maintain itself amongst the top 5 topics in the Technorati directory for more than 24 </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112903266534394003/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/aid-games-anyone.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112903266534394003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112903266534394003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/aid-games-anyone.html' title='Aid Games Anyone?'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112894708975591977</id><published>2005-10-12T00:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-12T00:15:10.350+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Quake 7.6 : Stock Options</title><summary type='text'>Leaders Plead for Help after Asia QuakeTremors leave 22,000 dead demolishes villages[image by AP Photo, modified]Another disaster has struck and its time for you to ensure that the local departments of the International Capitalist Confederation (aka, 'governments', MNCs) will be able to reserve most of their funds to continue their pursuit of profit at the expense of the International Proletarian</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112894708975591977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/quake-76-stock-options.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112894708975591977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112894708975591977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/quake-76-stock-options.html' title='Quake 7.6 : Stock Options'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112860062515717382</id><published>2005-10-06T20:02:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-10T14:59:53.716+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why I am A Generic ‘Terrorist’</title><summary type='text'>“Either You are with Us or with the Terrorists!”- Statesman Bush -Statesman (or stateswoman) - a skilled, experienced, and respected political leader or figure.– Derivatives statesmanlike adj. statesmanship n.– Origin C16: from state’s man, translating Fr. homme d’état.(Oxford 10th Edition)Stateswo/man – one who is deemed to be skilled, experienced and a respected political leader or figure </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112860062515717382/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/why-i-am-generic-terrorist.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112860062515717382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112860062515717382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/why-i-am-generic-terrorist.html' title='Why I am A Generic ‘Terrorist’'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112843494396603462</id><published>2005-10-04T21:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-10T14:59:22.460+08:00</updated><title type='text'>'Terrorising' Bill</title><summary type='text'>I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.VoltaireThe case of a Bad BillThe gentlemen may be right in making such a correlation from the scientific point of view given the right amount of relevant data and the employment of the correct analytical methods.However, rather than spend much time and type on giving in to our first reactions in the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112843494396603462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/terrorising-bill.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112843494396603462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112843494396603462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/terrorising-bill.html' title='&apos;Terrorising&apos; Bill'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112826497652825574</id><published>2005-10-02T22:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T22:19:11.006+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Impeach Blair?</title><summary type='text'>Here we go again.  First it was the 'Impeach Bush' parade, and now this. Calling for an 'impeachment' of a statesperson because s/he has gone back on or not adequately fulfilled her/is promises is political nonsense according to the logic upon which the current system is based. As I had stated in previous articles, all that is required, in the absence of provable constitutional transgressions, is</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112826497652825574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/impeach-blair.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112826497652825574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112826497652825574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/impeach-blair.html' title='Impeach Blair?'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112821964193547373</id><published>2005-10-02T09:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-02T10:30:17.706+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pronouncing Co-lo-nial-ism</title><summary type='text'>What can we make of the tendency amongst the Americans, and now, the British, in pronouncing regional and other names of those in the Southern hemisphere according to their pronunciational rules?Implicit in western pronunciational arrogance is the underlying notion that, “it is our view of you that is relevant as opposed to your view of you.” Anyone with some knowledge of Colonial history will </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112821964193547373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/pronouncing-co-lo-nial-ism.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112821964193547373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112821964193547373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/pronouncing-co-lo-nial-ism.html' title='Pronouncing Co-lo-nial-ism'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113041600764883960</id><published>2005-10-01T20:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-07-24T20:32:29.196+08:00</updated><title type='text'>In Brief</title><summary type='text'>In Brief</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113041600764883960/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/in-brief.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113041600764883960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113041600764883960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/10/in-brief.html' title='In Brief'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112809009956440120</id><published>2005-09-30T21:55:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T22:46:46.686+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Death : On the Wings of a Dove</title><summary type='text'>It's time we realised that there is no difference between Systematic and Systemic Genocide. If we don't value life, we will be devalued by the most devalued of lives.Our failure to utilise the sufferings of victims of past disasters to instigate an address of the conditions that make victims of those occupying the lower deck of civilisation in the face of ‘natural’ disasters has now brought us to</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112809009956440120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/death-on-wings-of-dove.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112809009956440120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112809009956440120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/death-on-wings-of-dove.html' title='Death : On the Wings of a Dove'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112804972808546697</id><published>2005-09-30T10:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-30T11:48:30.413+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lynndie &amp; the Justice League</title><summary type='text'>She is another victim of the perceptions underlying and serving as a moral impetus in the 'War on Terror'. On the one hand, the ‘war on terror’ aims to eliminate the threat to its idea of humanity via inhumanity, and on the other hand, it strives to protect itself from allegations of its inhumanity. Inhumanity, unlike Justice, must be done, but never seen to be done.Attitudes and behaviour are </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112804972808546697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/lynndie-justice-league.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112804972808546697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112804972808546697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/lynndie-justice-league.html' title='Lynndie &amp; the Justice League'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112800214797523768</id><published>2005-09-29T21:37:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T20:27:02.346+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Tyranny of the Minority</title><summary type='text'>Huge rally against Iraq warSaturday, September 24, 2005; Posted: 6:49 p.m. EDT (22:49 GMT)“WASHINGTON (AP) -- Crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House on Saturday, shouting "Peace now" in the largest anti-war protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion.”The Tyranny of the MinorityIt has been said by some thinkers that Democracy is a fallacy and that the people </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112800214797523768/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/tyranny-of-minority.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112800214797523768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112800214797523768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/tyranny-of-minority.html' title='The Tyranny of the Minority'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112787709878345207</id><published>2005-09-28T10:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-28T21:39:24.713+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The New Nigger</title><summary type='text'> "The enemy knows very clearly they cannot defeat us militarily, so they rely on acts of terrorism to try to chip away at our resolve, our resolve to win."pentagon briefing, 27th Sept.05 a.d.The above is a most interesting statement.On the surface, it implies that 'the enemy' is unable to 'defeat us militarily' because the U.S. military machine is far superior to any on the planet. Thus, 'the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112787709878345207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/new-nigger.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112787709878345207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112787709878345207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/new-nigger.html' title='The New Nigger'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113041595510573227</id><published>2005-09-27T20:25:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-27T23:02:54.073+08:00</updated><title type='text'>European Union</title><summary type='text'>Analysis :EU : Realising Marx  readWhy a 'Yes' to the European Constitution is a 'Yes' to the Socialist Cause  readEU : on the Need for Unity Before Satisfaction  readEU Q&amp;A : Reflecting on Queries  readEU : Witholding Grievance  readEU : Conceptual Incongruence  read</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113041595510573227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/european-union.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113041595510573227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113041595510573227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/european-union.html' title='European Union'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113041592800371445</id><published>2005-09-27T20:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-11T13:12:41.700+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Terrorism</title><summary type='text'>Analysis :Fuelling Terror, Fuelling LoveTime to Stop 'Remembering' 9/11Just 52 People Died in the London BombingExpelling Iran from the UN will Facilitate the 'Clash of Civilisations'Lynndie England &amp; the Justice LeagueCan Democracy Stop Terrorism?Creating Al QaedaHiroshima.  Never Again?Explaining the Error in TerrorPolites ergo Sum?!Is Islam the Cause of Terrorism Committed by Muslims?Terrorism</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113041592800371445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/terrorism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113041592800371445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113041592800371445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/terrorism.html' title='Terrorism'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112774640455264421</id><published>2005-09-26T22:52:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T20:35:53.573+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Majority of One</title><summary type='text'>Defenders of Iraq War counter rallySunday, September 25. 2005WASHINGTON (AP) -- Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied Sunday on the National Mall just a day after tens of thousands protested against the war in Iraq.*A Majority of OneIs all that is required for the powers</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112774640455264421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/majority-of-one.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112774640455264421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112774640455264421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/majority-of-one.html' title='A Majority of One'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112766978228540002</id><published>2005-09-26T01:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-26T14:03:16.236+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sedition?  Prior Edition!</title><summary type='text'>A Soldier speaks to Anti-War Protestors,“The battlefield this weekend will be on the homefront. The only thing that truly concerns me is that the seditionist groups will succeed in causing the American people to lose their will and the enemy will win politically the victory we have denied them militarily.”Firstly,to equate dissent against the policies of the government with ‘sedition’ is to imply</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112766978228540002/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/sedition-prior-edition.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112766978228540002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112766978228540002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/sedition-prior-edition.html' title='Sedition?  Prior Edition!'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112761617691289764</id><published>2005-09-25T10:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T20:23:18.286+08:00</updated><title type='text'>National Humanitarianism</title><summary type='text'> Anti-war rally held in Washington Thousands of anti-war protesters are marching in Washington to demand the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.Saturday, 24 September 2005, 21:03 GMT 22:03 UK  Thousands stage anti-war protest in London Several thousand protesters have taken part in a demonstration in central London against the conflict in Iraq.Saturday, 24 September 2005, 16:19 GMT 17:19 UK*These </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112761617691289764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/national-humanitarianism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112761617691289764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112761617691289764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/national-humanitarianism.html' title='National Humanitarianism'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112753065543236569</id><published>2005-09-24T10:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-24T11:18:56.550+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Islamic 'Threat'</title><summary type='text'>Qur’an 21:44 Do they see Us advancing, gradually reducing the land, curtailing its borders on all sides? It is they who will be overcome.Some have alluded to the above to argue that Islam is a megalomaniacal force seeking global domination.*It is interesting to note that Islam is one of the few religions, if not the only one, to promote an abstract appreciation of reality. It does not have </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112753065543236569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/islamic-threat.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112753065543236569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112753065543236569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/islamic-threat.html' title='The Islamic &apos;Threat&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112747822449005978</id><published>2005-09-23T19:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-26T12:56:22.576+08:00</updated><title type='text'>In the Garden of Extremism</title><summary type='text'>This is a brief response to the following observation and a hip-pocket version of the essays,Can Democracy Stop Terrorism 1The Fallacy of Extremism and the Return of the Sans Culottes“At long last, somebody in the US government has publicly identified ‘Islamic extremism’, instead of terrorism or “evil-doers”, as our — and the West’s enemy. In “Information on U.S. Agencies’ Efforts to Address </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112747822449005978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/in-garden-of-extremism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112747822449005978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112747822449005978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/in-garden-of-extremism.html' title='In the Garden of Extremism'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112739698289352555</id><published>2005-09-22T21:29:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-23T10:23:24.366+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Solving 'Terrorism'</title><summary type='text'>The following is a brief discussion of the phenomenon of ‘Terrorism’ that has been explored at length in the articles under ‘Analysis: Terrorism’. The various principles and ideas contained in them have been compressed within this brief article to bite sizes for the click-happy or those who just want to have a brief wade through these ideas before considering a brief career at the deep end in the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112739698289352555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/solving-terrorism.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112739698289352555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112739698289352555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/solving-terrorism.html' title='Solving &apos;Terrorism&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112731319035209507</id><published>2005-09-21T22:13:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-22T12:11:20.366+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Self-Segregating Communities</title><summary type='text'>Following the London bombings, some commentators warned that some British Muslim communities were failing to integrate fully whilst others referred to Muslims as ‘self-segregating communities’.Whilst it might, in varying degrees, be true that Muslims may not be as integrative as other communities, this fact is of little analytical value if we do not acknowledge the context within which ‘</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112731319035209507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/self-segregating-communities.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112731319035209507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112731319035209507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/self-segregating-communities.html' title='Self-Segregating Communities'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112721796998333235</id><published>2005-09-20T19:16:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-20T20:28:12.366+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Crescent of Embrace - symbolic appropriation?</title><summary type='text'>credit : zombieThere has been much ado about the design for the Flight 93 memorial - a memorial to those who died in '9/11's' flight 93 - which is supposed by many to be modelled on the Islamic Crescent and which is, in fact, called the 'Crescent of Embrace'.Certain quarters see this as a deliberate affront to the tragic events of '9/11' which was perpetrated by 'Islamic' 'Extremists'. To model </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112721796998333235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/crescent-of-embrace-symbolic.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112721796998333235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112721796998333235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/crescent-of-embrace-symbolic.html' title='Crescent of Embrace - symbolic appropriation?'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112718712075672590</id><published>2005-09-20T11:24:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T20:25:14.753+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cindy She &amp; G.I JOE</title><summary type='text'>The reason why Sheehan is able to attract Bush's attention is because they are both part of, and thrive, albeit unwittingly on Sheehan's part, on a deficiency that is one of the hallmarks of American culture - the inability to appreciate reason and facts for itself till it is complemented by a 'celebrity', ‘fairy lights’ or transfigured in the spotlight of PrimeTime.That is why Bush is less </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112718712075672590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/cindy-she-gi-joe.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112718712075672590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112718712075672590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/cindy-she-gi-joe.html' title='Cindy She &amp; G.I JOE'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112692328519433233</id><published>2005-09-17T10:14:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-17T15:21:16.743+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Can Democracy Stop Terrorism 1</title><summary type='text'>The globalisation of democracy has to be preceded by, or accompanied with, the globalisation of citizenship. Without this latter, the former becomes a non sequitur.The point of political democracy is to effect control over the forces that administer or affect our interests. The value of Political democracy, therefore, is negatively correlated with economic and military globalisation which is not </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112692328519433233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/can-democracy-stop-terrorism-1.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112692328519433233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112692328519433233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/can-democracy-stop-terrorism-1.html' title='Can Democracy Stop Terrorism 1'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112675013932490491</id><published>2005-09-15T10:08:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-15T14:31:58.880+08:00</updated><title type='text'>What is the 'Post 9/11 World'</title><summary type='text'>"We’ve heard many times that we’re living in a post 9/11 world. What does that really mean?"(question as appearing in : FreeandJust.org)‘9/11’ represents the devaluation of the human life – not because of the lives lost on 9/11 but because lives have not been valued enough to see all losses of lives as significant and worthy of attributing an entire date to. The fact that we attribute an entire </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112675013932490491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/what-is-post-911-world.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112675013932490491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112675013932490491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/what-is-post-911-world.html' title='What is the &apos;Post 9/11 World&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112657737171162167</id><published>2005-09-13T10:09:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-14T20:52:10.436+08:00</updated><title type='text'>NANO 4 NANO</title><summary type='text'>[This site posted a part of the following in a few sites and decided to accord it its minute of infamy on this site. To regular visitors, apologies for the momentary lapse of reason and deviation from more important issues. Just had to say something about this.]last updated : 15th Sept. 05 a.d.Seems like the smaller they get and the less music they hold, the more heftier the price, just due to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112657737171162167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/nano-4-nano.html#comment-form' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112657737171162167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112657737171162167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/nano-4-nano.html' title='NANO 4 NANO'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112644896984827929</id><published>2005-09-11T22:29:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-12T13:05:14.473+08:00</updated><title type='text'>9/11: Miscalculating Life</title><summary type='text'>last updated: 11th Sept. 05 a.d.No people have a right to attack a Nation-State, especially if they are not an official army of a Nation-State.It matters little if you share a familial sense of consciousness with others on the basis of, for instance, ‘Religion’, you are still not a geographically contiguous Nation-State. Thus, familial sense of consciousness ceases to exist when it does not </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112644896984827929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/911-miscalculating-life.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112644896984827929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112644896984827929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/911-miscalculating-life.html' title='9/11: Miscalculating Life'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112636070144948096</id><published>2005-09-10T21:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-11T10:00:50.623+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Indicting Al Jazeera</title><summary type='text'>Perhaps Al Jazeera, when one considers the intermediary role they play between Al Qaeda and the rest of the world, should be brought up on charges of ‘encouraging’ or ‘condoning’ 'Terrorism'?If Blair and other Creationists thinks that explaining the evolution of 'Terrorism' is synonymous with condoning it, then giving them a 'voice' must mean that we are condoning their gift of speech, which, by </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112636070144948096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/indicting-al-jazeera.html#comment-form' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112636070144948096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112636070144948096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/indicting-al-jazeera.html' title='Indicting Al Jazeera'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112631462113310459</id><published>2005-09-10T09:07:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-19T13:00:44.000+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Charity Kills</title><summary type='text'>last updated :10th Sept. 05 a.d.- Charity -The government taketh,and the people giveth,so that the government may taketh,knowing that the people will giveth.A brief analysis of the ‘Charitable’ follows the following letter.“We maintain a system that keeps many eating out of the gutters whilst profiting from their labour. Is it any surprise that they are the first to be swept away in the event of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112631462113310459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/charity-kills.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112631462113310459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112631462113310459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/charity-kills.html' title='Charity Kills'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112609489200847936</id><published>2005-09-07T20:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-10T09:11:19.150+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Multidimensional  America/n</title><summary type='text'>last updated : 9th Sept 05 a.d.One Newsweek photo-essay, in reference to Katrina, was entitled, “A Tragedy of Biblical Proportions.”I was led to wonder if its Biblical Proportionality was due to the momentous loss of lives or was it due to it having occurred to the ‘Chosen People’.Or putting it another way, "do disasters reach epic proportions when it is preceded by an epic presentation of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112609489200847936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/multidimensional-american_07.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112609489200847936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112609489200847936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/multidimensional-american_07.html' title='Multidimensional  America/n'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112598664948208179</id><published>2005-09-06T14:04:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-06T20:50:37.386+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Atheism &amp; Prayer</title><summary type='text'>  “The American Atheists organization says President Bush should stop urging prayer for Hurricane Katrina victims because it violates the Constitution.Ellen Johnson, president of the group said Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Bush "should not be violating the Constitution by telling people to pray for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. It's unconstitutional for government officials to be </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112598664948208179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/atheism-prayer.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112598664948208179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112598664948208179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/atheism-prayer.html' title='Atheism &amp; Prayer'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112583264250600832</id><published>2005-09-04T18:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-05T13:20:49.936+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Proletarian Holocaust</title><summary type='text'>MetaDesign by A.D.last updated : 5th Sept 05 a.d.If we view the many who died in the wake of Katrina's visit as part of a single state of consciousness despite the nation-state's illusory borders, just as many Muslims are gradually viewing themselves, we would have realised that a Proletarian Holocaust has systematically been taking place, and that its numbers have just been added to by recent </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112583264250600832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/proletarian-holocaust.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112583264250600832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112583264250600832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/proletarian-holocaust.html' title='The Proletarian Holocaust'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112572950562513675</id><published>2005-09-03T14:38:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-05T10:36:57.930+08:00</updated><title type='text'>When St. Katrina Sings</title><summary type='text'>last updated: 4th Sept 05 a.d.Reality is best discovered when the Law is absent and the Disorder that is incubated within the Prior Order reveals itself.  The Disorder that prevails is, thus, not a revelation of the Reality of Human Nature but of that Nurtured within the Prior Order.When the natural dams break, the pre-existing social dams, holding back the tide of pain, alienation and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112572950562513675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/when-st-katrina-sings.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112572950562513675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112572950562513675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/09/when-st-katrina-sings.html' title='When St. Katrina Sings'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-113042562877072196</id><published>2005-08-27T23:06:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-10-30T13:17:31.373+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Links</title><summary type='text'>AssociationsInquisitive BlogsFor your convenience, all links will open in a new windowAntagonistBlairWatchEternal HopeFading HopeGod Is Not An AssholeHicham Maged's PerspectivesHuman StrategyLess IdiotsLittle IsraelManic NotesOpinionatedPolosthoughtsRed BaronFriendsImagine EchoesResistence is Phutile</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/113042562877072196/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/links.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113042562877072196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/113042562877072196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/links.html' title='Links'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112515317830715048</id><published>2005-08-27T22:32:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-09-05T13:21:40.253+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Fallacy of 'Extremism' &amp; the Return of the Sans-Culottes</title><summary type='text'>last updated : 28th Aug 05 a.d.Or, the conditions under which ‘extremism’ can logically existOverview :Without the Globalisation and Equity of Fundamental Rights, the Global Application of Standards of Virtue, the contravention of which leads to the emergence of terms of deviance such as 'Extremist', is a simultaneous denial of the Equality of Humanity.The term, Extremist, refers to individual/s </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112515317830715048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/fallacy-of-extremism-return-of-sans.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112515317830715048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112515317830715048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/fallacy-of-extremism-return-of-sans.html' title='The Fallacy of &apos;Extremism&apos; &amp; the Return of the Sans-Culottes'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112494428818761189</id><published>2005-08-25T12:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-26T21:20:14.203+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Terrorism, Capitalism &amp; the Nature vs. Nurture Debate</title><summary type='text'>last updated : 26th Aug 05 a.d.It has been said that those on the ‘Left’, if left unhindered to their own devices, would have done away with the ideas behind Genetic inheritance along with the School of Genetic Science, as they, or at least most of them, are firm believers in Nurture over Nature.However, till the core of Life, or the very first cell from which Life first began, has been </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112494428818761189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/terrorism-capitalism-nature-vs-nurture_25.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112494428818761189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112494428818761189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/terrorism-capitalism-nature-vs-nurture_25.html' title='Terrorism, Capitalism &amp; the Nature vs. Nurture Debate'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112477425704180297</id><published>2005-08-23T13:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-26T23:03:52.780+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Islam the 'Cause' of Terrorism Committed by Muslims?</title><summary type='text'>Last Updated : 26th Aug 05 a.d.Question :Is Islam the Cause of Terrorism Committed by Muslims?The following is a more in-depth discussion than that posted in response to the above query at the site: Free&amp;JustOVERVIEWThere is a tendency to ask, "if Islam causes Terrorism committed by Muslims", because the totality of Muslims do not form a nation-state. In other words, they do not have a SELF. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112477425704180297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/is-islam-cause-of-terrorism-committed_23.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112477425704180297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112477425704180297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/is-islam-cause-of-terrorism-committed_23.html' title='Is Islam the &apos;Cause&apos; of Terrorism Committed by Muslims?'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112428499304323866</id><published>2005-08-17T21:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-18T21:48:48.730+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Polites ergo Sum?!</title><summary type='text'>[MetaDesign by A.D.]last updated : 18th Aug 05 a.d.main points1. The Institutionalisation of the Citizen necessarily leads tothe Production of the Terrorist2. The Terrorist is an indicator of the contradictions within the National and Capitalist Global Framework3.  That Pluralism, in association with the above, produces Terrorism1. Am 'I' because 'I' am a Citizen?It appears that we have gone back</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112428499304323866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/polites-ergo-sum_17.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112428499304323866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112428499304323866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/polites-ergo-sum_17.html' title='Polites ergo Sum?!'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112407294950402911</id><published>2005-08-15T10:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-15T20:59:44.833+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Explaining the Error in 'Terror' 1</title><summary type='text'>last updated on : 14th Aug 05 a.d.‘Terror’, the Scientific Age and the Great Chain of BeingScience is not utilised to study and query after optimum conditions for Humanity,Rather, it has sought to optimise Humanity for existing conditionsOverviewThe idea of ‘terror’ has its conceptual foundations in our prior training in a subject-object appreciation of reality, as opposed to an organismic one. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112407294950402911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/explaining-error-in-terror-1_15.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112407294950402911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112407294950402911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/explaining-error-in-terror-1_15.html' title='Explaining the Error in &apos;Terror&apos; 1'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112381815469738229</id><published>2005-08-12T11:41:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T11:42:34.703+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Word to the 'Left' - on 'Terror'</title><summary type='text'>As a prelude to the next series of articles attempting to explain the philosophical, historical and psychological basis for the emergence of the idea of 'Terror', [explaining the error in 'terror'] I would like to make the following observation. There has been much talk in the mainstream (core/periphery) and periphery media on Britain's denial that its partaking in the unholy meal that the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112381815469738229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/word-to-left-on-terror_12.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112381815469738229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112381815469738229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/word-to-left-on-terror_12.html' title='A Word to the &apos;Left&apos; - on &apos;Terror&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112364211768801205</id><published>2005-08-10T10:48:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-10T10:48:37.710+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hiroshima  -  Never Again?</title><summary type='text'>[MetaDesign by A.D.]last updated on : 7th Aug 05 A.D.Hiroshima - The Prototypical Anti-Terrorist ParadigmWhat caused the detonation of the A-Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?The causes have been located variably. Some see it as an attempt to study the effect of the bomb on people and cities whilst others deemed it a necessity to put an abrupt end to what most in the west, and as a consequence, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112364211768801205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/hiroshima-never-again_10.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112364211768801205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112364211768801205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/hiroshima-never-again_10.html' title='Hiroshima  -  Never Again?'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112321444146940220</id><published>2005-08-05T12:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-08T17:59:42.099+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='terrorism'/><title type='text'>Creating Al Qaeda</title><summary type='text'>

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last updated : 5th Aug 05 A.D.



There has been much speculation as to whether 'Al-Qaeda' ('the database') was responsible for the London Bombings. It is, however, of little significance, other than psychological, if 'Al-Qaeda' or any similar Islamistic ('Islamist' is an inappropriate term as it literally encompasses the entire Islamic perspective. Islamistic, in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112321444146940220/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/creating-al-qaeda_112321444146940220.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112321444146940220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112321444146940220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/creating-al-qaeda_112321444146940220.html' title='Creating Al Qaeda'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112312247928854387</id><published>2005-08-04T10:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-08T17:59:30.182+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='terrorism'/><title type='text'>The Error in the Idea of 'Terror'</title><summary type='text'>


last updated : 4th Aug 05 A.D.



The word 'Terrorism' serves as a statement and misrepresentation of Cause and Effect. It is a statement of how we feel and what has made us feel what we feel. When we say 'Terrorism', it immediately directs us not to consider the phenomenon further than that suggested by the word. It is a word that immediately creates a small circle, a molecule, within which </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112312247928854387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/error-in-idea-of-terror_04.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112312247928854387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112312247928854387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/08/error-in-idea-of-terror_04.html' title='The Error in the Idea of &apos;Terror&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112175989647945593</id><published>2005-07-19T15:50:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-08T17:59:17.742+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='terrorism'/><title type='text'>Why I did not observe Britain's 2 Minute Interlude</title><summary type='text'>

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last updated : 21th July 05 A.D.


"Social Consciousness has to be preceded by Familial Unconsciousness."



The propensity to conduct observances such as '2 minute silences', particularly in the face of national tragedies, lies at the root of social evils that depend on nationally familial contradistinctions to exist.

The 2ms, amongst others, is a symptom of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112175989647945593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/07/why-i-did-not-observe-britains-2.html#comment-form' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112175989647945593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112175989647945593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/07/why-i-did-not-observe-britains-2.html' title='Why I did not observe Britain&apos;s 2 Minute Interlude'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-112079768242192856</id><published>2005-07-08T12:19:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-08T17:59:06.388+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='terrorism'/><title type='text'>London Bombings</title><summary type='text'>

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updated 19th July 05 A.D.


1. Whilst I would like to extend my unreserved and heartfelt sympathies to the victims of these bombings, and by 'victims' I refer to both parties in the tragedy, of one thing we can be certain, no 'innocent people' died in these bombings.

'Civilian Innocence' expired with universal enfranchisement.


Monarchial </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/112079768242192856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/07/london-bombings.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112079768242192856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/112079768242192856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/07/london-bombings.html' title='London Bombings'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111927588150255609</id><published>2005-06-20T21:42:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-03-15T10:09:44.266+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Spirit of the Revolutionary</title><summary type='text'>"A whole generation of Chinese intellectuals and students felt humiliated by what was being done to one of the world’s oldest and greatest civilisations…They looked desperately for an alternative ….Finally they looked towards the 1917 revolution that had recently taken place in the neighbouring Russian empire. "(extracted from article, ‘Myth of Mao’ from socialist worker issue 1956, 18th June 05.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111927588150255609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/spirit-of-revolutionary.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111927588150255609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111927588150255609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/spirit-of-revolutionary.html' title='The Spirit of the Revolutionary'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111900825266374130</id><published>2005-06-17T19:36:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-06-17T21:50:41.263+08:00</updated><title type='text'>EU : Conceptual Incongruence</title><summary type='text'>It is not the End of the Nation-State that I seek,But the Redefinition of the State of the  Nation....A Redefinition that Reflects the Realities of Life as indicated by the similarities in the Economic and Life Chances of the Masses.Opposition to the EU is, to a significant degree, a natural corollary of the pervasity of Conceptual Incongruence arising from socialisation and consequent conceptual</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111900825266374130/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/eu-conceptual-incongruence_17.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111900825266374130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111900825266374130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/eu-conceptual-incongruence_17.html' title='EU : Conceptual Incongruence'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111838794133069226</id><published>2005-06-10T15:18:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T20:42:02.116+08:00</updated><title type='text'>EU : Witholding Grievance</title><summary type='text'>Witholding GrievanceTill Reinforcements, in the form of the Proletarians of previously ‘other’ nations, arrive.Till all of you share the same political rights to agitate as one supranational body.Till the conceptual boundaries of the nation-state, once removed, enable the Proletarians to perceive themselves as one Proletarian body.Till the regional Bourgeoise are centrally located and may </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111838794133069226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/eu-witholding-grievance_10.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111838794133069226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111838794133069226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/eu-witholding-grievance_10.html' title='EU : Witholding Grievance'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111837573964514336</id><published>2005-06-10T11:30:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-07-10T14:19:06.726+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Q&amp;A : Reflecting Upon Queries</title><summary type='text'>Joe 72 :Yes, I think there are benefits to the EU, but if you take the veiw of causing the conditions to cause a revolution, you should vote for right wing governments, vote to cut welfare and vote for the poll tax. In other words, you should make peoples' lives terrible under capitalism to force them to seek socialist alternatives. I hope no one takes this view?1. That's an interesting point. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111837573964514336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/qa-reflecting-upon-queries.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111837573964514336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111837573964514336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/qa-reflecting-upon-queries.html' title='Q&amp;A : Reflecting Upon Queries'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111828404370230507</id><published>2005-06-09T09:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-06-10T12:00:07.316+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Clarification - EU, on the need for Unity before Satisfaction</title><summary type='text'>The emails and comments i have received on the previous articles in socialist forums highlights particular points which I will attempt to clarify below.Facilitating &amp; Harnessing Discontent1. The formation of the EU will enable the nationally fragmented Proletariat to eventually unite as one nationally unconscious but regionally conscious body. They will come into the EU as dissatisfied former </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111828404370230507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/clarification-eu-on-need-for-unity.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111828404370230507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111828404370230507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/clarification-eu-on-need-for-unity.html' title='Clarification - EU, on the need for Unity before Satisfaction'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111812998130802168</id><published>2005-06-07T13:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-06-08T12:00:00.696+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why a 'Yes' to the European Constitution is a 'Yes' to the Socialist Cause</title><summary type='text'>[picture modified by author]more activistArt @ the Art-DirectiveWhy a 'Yes' to the European Constitution is a 'Yes' to the Socialist Cause.1. Our focus ought not to be trained on those rights that are compromised but on those that will facilitate our acquisition of more than that we lost. An acceptance of the EU Constitution provides an expanded space within which these rights may be exercised </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111812998130802168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/why-yes-to-european-constitution-is.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111812998130802168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111812998130802168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/why-yes-to-european-constitution-is.html' title='Why a &apos;Yes&apos; to the European Constitution is a &apos;Yes&apos; to the Socialist Cause'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111780308174267618</id><published>2005-06-03T20:40:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-06-07T13:18:02.416+08:00</updated><title type='text'>the EU ~ Realising Marx</title><summary type='text'>[picture modified by author]more activistArt @ the Art-DirectiveEU ConstitutionQ&amp;A: myths and realities - bbcWhat the EU Constitution Says - bbcWhere Member States Stand - bbcEU : Special Reports - guardianeureferendum.blogspot.comReconceptualising the StateMarx forsaw a time when the masses of the Proletariat would be on the one side whilst being confronted with a small but immensly powerful </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111780308174267618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/eu-realising-marx.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111780308174267618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111780308174267618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/06/eu-realising-marx.html' title='the EU ~ Realising Marx'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111728246282619831</id><published>2005-05-28T19:59:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-06-06T22:15:36.016+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Big 'C'</title><summary type='text'>A string of persons transcending time and space stand in a circle.A circle so wide that an individual standing at any point is unable to see the one in front of her at directly the opposite end.They each hand something to the next one in line.Some add to it, some subtract from it and some just merely pass it on.Some do it intentionally, some do it reluctantly and some do it unintentionally.Some </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111728246282619831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/05/big-c.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111728246282619831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111728246282619831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/05/big-c.html' title='The Big &apos;C&apos;'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111633284921963555</id><published>2005-05-17T20:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-08-15T12:35:20.620+08:00</updated><title type='text'>In Defence of Yasukuni Jinja</title><summary type='text'>Fact : There are no deities of Class A War Criminals housed in the Yasukuni Jinja.  1.  objectively attributable intent behind the visitsWhat most of these critiques ignore is that the Yasukuni Jinja is a commemoration of those who had died in all the wars and conflicts from the Meiji Restoration onward and cannot necessarily, nor specifically, be of those particular wars and atrocities in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111633284921963555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/05/in-defence-of-yasukuni-jinja.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111633284921963555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111633284921963555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/05/in-defence-of-yasukuni-jinja.html' title='In Defence of Yasukuni Jinja'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12139498.post-111598853465047333</id><published>2005-05-13T20:12:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T14:09:12.790+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Fallacy of Disability</title><summary type='text'>who's disabled here?left : Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's unfortunately 'back' in prominenceright : Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds in his field and impacting significantly on the course of human history in myriad ways.left-click on the pictures to learn more"1. The term "disabled person" means any person unable to ensure by himself or herself, wholly or partly, the necessities of a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/feeds/111598853465047333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/05/fallacy-of-disability.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111598853465047333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/12139498/posts/default/111598853465047333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://the-heretic.blogspot.com/2005/05/fallacy-of-disability.html' title='The Fallacy of Disability'/><author><name>ed</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cKbXnl8iso0/TxprXqCrx5I/AAAAAAAAA6Y/0iSobiG3SK4/s220/avatars-000005902231-cwnyv7-crop.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
