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Domain should be all set now! :) —PhilipNeustrom
2010-08-27 18:31:25 israel forbidding access to its historical records of the 1948 invasion of palestine — summer 2010 news
2010-08-27 18:33:56 vaccine adverse events definition changed by the WHO to exclude deaths and attribute it to SIDS and others
— and what about the effects apperaing consistently 28 days +/- 1 day afgter the vaccine?.... ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
http://www.initiative.citoyenne.over-blog.com/article-l-oms-continue-de-trafiquer-ses-propres-criteres-56024303.html —PerigGouanvic
2010-08-27 18:34:55 should i make a page for each major nutrient missing to our bodies/diets/environment and later add it to nutritional supplementation if necessary. —PerigGouanvic
2010-08-27 18:35:56 create a three column page with all articles that are worth any attention, 1. featured; 2. live; 3. other; for easy access.... but it might give a faulty impression of the wideness of our interests —PerigGouanvic
2010-08-30 07:00:54 Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr. vol.68 no.4 São Paulo Aug. 2010
Neuronal damage and memory deficits after seizures are reversed by ascorbic acid? —PerigGouanvic
2010-08-30 07:04:12 Ascorbic Acid and Gene Expression: Another Example of Regulation of Gene Expression by Small Molecules?
Authors: Belin, Sophie; Kaya, Ferdinand; Burtey, Stephane; Fontes, Michel
Source: Current Genomics, Volume 11, Number 1, March 2010 , pp. 52-57(6)
Abstract:
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C, AA) has long been considered a food supplement necessary for life and for preventing scurvy. However, it has been reported that other small molecules such as retinoic acid (vitamin A) and different forms of calciferol (vitamin D) are directly involved in regulating the expression of numerous genes. These molecules bind to receptors that are differentially expressed in the embryo and are therefore crucial signalling molecules in vertebrate development. The question is: is ascorbic acid also a signalling molecule that regulates gene expression?
We therefore present and discuss recent publications that demonstrate that AA regulates the expression of a battery of genes. We offer a clue to understanding the biochemical mechanism by which AA regulates gene expression. Finally we will discuss the question of a receptor for AA and its potential involvement in embryonic development and cell differentiation. —PerigGouanvic
2010-09-10 05:28:11 Manifesting the mind
http://manifestingthemind.com/ —PerigGouanvic
"you don'T have to believe - you can be as skeptical as you want" (the realities will still be visible.)
2010-09-17 04:15:03 http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/sept11/bloombberg_BAamong38.html http://activistteacher.blogspot.com/2008/07/against-chomsky.html http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/sept11/londontimes_insidertrading.html http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/left-leaning-despisers-of-the-911-truth-movement-do-you-really-believe-in-miracles-by-david-ray-griffin/
2010-09-17 04:16:21 http://activistteacher.blogspot.com/search/label/Derek%20Jensen —PerigGouanvic
2010-09-25 05:49:32 Teitelbaum was rescued from death in the Holocaust during 1944 in Nazi-controlled Transylvania as a result of a deal between a Hungarian Zionist official, Rudolph Kastner, and a deputy of Adolf Eichmann. Although Kastner intended to rescue only Hungarian Zionists on a special Kastner train bound for Switzerland, Teitelbaum and a few other religious Jews were also given seats. —PerigGouanvic
2010-09-25 05:56:02 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vayoel_Moshe Other arguments
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Rabbi Teitelbaum refers to religious Zionism as a major desecration of God's name.
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Blames Zionism for worsening, and the aveirah of Zionism for being a cause of, the Holocaust.[1]
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Refers to Zionist leaders such as Theodor Herzl as 'heretics'.[2]
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Argues that any participation in the Israeli elections is one of the worst sins and halachically a Jew must rather be killed than vote.
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Blames some of the bloodshed in the middle east on the Zionists.[2]
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Rules that it is forbidden to accept any money from Israeli government programs.
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Asserts that the way of the Baal Shem Tov is forgotten today, and we do not understand fully what Hasidus meant.
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Declares not to accept stories of Hasidic Rabbis as the Halacha.
2010-09-25 06:05:26 Anti-Zionist arguments that consider the Three Oaths
An overview of some of the primary claims made by anti-Zionists concerning the Three Oaths:
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The Satmar Rebbe, in his book Vayoel Moshe maintains that Maimonides spoke of the Three Oaths as binding. (See Modern Debate on the Appropriate Understanding of Maimonides above)
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The oaths are between the Jewish people and God, and the gentiles and God respectively. The fact that the gentiles violated their oath does not tacitly mean that the Jewish people are free to do so as well. Historically, atrocities prior to the Holocaust have generally not prompted rabbinic encouragement of mass immigration to Israel, though there have been some notable exceptions.[26]
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Living in Eretz Yisroel is not a general mitzvah for the Jews collectively, only individuals (see discussion of Rashbash (Solomon ben Simon Duran) in Nachmanides section above).
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The Balfour Declaration never covered the Oaths.
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The State of Israel has expanded its borders beyond the areas mandated by the UN and have thus expanded the borders without the permission of the nations.
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The United Nations approval of the establishment of the State of Israel does not constitute permission from the nations of the world. The Halacha attaches no significant value to the United Nations. The relevant approval should be that of some of the other people who live in the land (in this instance, Arabs including Palestinians).[27]
2010-09-25 06:21:29 Satmar opposition to Zionism See also: Haredim and Zionism
The Satmar's vehement position against Zionism was refined and officially formulated by Joel Teitelbaum, though it did not originate with him.[citation needed]
Before World War II most Hasidic rabbis, (including Rabbi Joel's father, Rabbi Chananyah Yom Tov Lipa), as well as many prominent non-Hasidic Orthodox leaders, believed that God had promised to return the Jewish people to the Land of Israel by means of the actions of the Jewish Messiah. Rabbi Yom Tov Lipa expressed the opinion that God had promised to return the land to the Jews via the Messiah alone and that any Jewish efforts to facilitate this redemption would be punished.[8] Instead of accepting benefits from the State of Israel, Rabbi Joel encouraged his followers to form self-sufficient communities in "the Holy Land." He recorded his views on Zionism in his polemical work Vayoel Moshe, published in 1958 and in a second book "Al Hageulah V'al Hatamurah" published in 1967 in the wake of the Six-Day War. Shortly before his death he set up the Keren Hatzalah fund to help those Jews who refrain from taking money from the Israeli Government.[citation needed]
Although it was certainly not the only reason for his opinion, one of the core citations from classical Judaic sources cited by Rav Yoel for his opposition to modern Zionism was that of the Three Oaths mentioned in the Talmud (Kesuboth 111A) which discusses a passage from the Song of Songs in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) in which God made the Israelites promise "to wait for Him before arousing His love":
"King Solomon in Song of Songs thrice adjured the 'daughters of Jerusalem' not to arouse or bestir the love until it is ready.' The Talmud explains that we are bound by three strong oaths not to ascend to the Holy Land as a group using force, not to rebel against the governments of countries in which we live, and not by our sins, to prolong the coming of moshiach"[9]
A variant interpretation of the three oaths has the third oath being that God would not allow the non-Jewish world to "excessively" persecute the Jews. Rabbi Teitelbaum expressly held that the oaths were not dependent upon one another.[10]
In VaYoel Moshe Teitelbaum explicitly declared that, from the time of the very inception of the Zionist movement in the 1890s, the Zionists violated the three oaths, and thereby caused the Holocaust, as well as all wars, terrorism, and violence in modern Israel, and most anti-Semitism around the world since that time, as a result:
"...it has been these Zionist groups that have attracted the Jewish people and have violated the Oath against establishing a Jewish entity before the arrival of the Messiah. It is because of the Zionists that six million Jews were killed."[11]
In keeping with the three oaths, Satmar Hasidim were strongly opposed to the creation of modern Israel through violence and antagonism against gentile nations such as the Ottomans and Britain. In the years following the Holocaust, Rabbi Teitelbaum undertook to maintain and strengthen this position, as did many other Torah Jews and communities. Rabbi Teitelbaum declared that the State of Israel was a violation of Jewish teachings. This was both because of the Zionists' violation of the traditional belief that Jews must wait for the Messiah to re-create Israel, and also because its founders included many personalities who were both hostile to Orthodox Judaism, or simply indifferent to it. Rabbi Teitelbaum believed the creation of the State of Israel, against the oaths described in Ketubot, constituted a form of impatience. In keeping with the Talmud's warnings that impatience for God's love and redemption can lead to grave danger, the Satmar Hasidim have often interpreted the constant wars and terrorism in Israel as fulfilment of that prophecy.[citation needed]
Rabbi Teitelbaum saw his opposition to Zionism as a way of protecting Jewish lives and preventing bloodshed. Most Haredi rabbis may agree with this idea; however, the general view of Agudath Israel is that, despite this, for all practical purposes, efforts can be made to prevent Israel from becoming even more anti-religious through participating in the Israeli government, seen by the Agudah as a form of "damage-control." Rabbi Teitelbaum however, felt that any participation in the Israeli government, even voting in elections, was a grave sin, because it contributed to the spiritual and physical destruction of innocent people. He felt that by voting one had a hand in these sins. Thus, he was officially opposed to the views of Agudath Israel, and the Satmar movement continues to refuse membership in the Agudath Israel organization or party. The Satmar view is that only the Jewish Messiah can bring about a new Jewish government in the Holy Land, and even if a government declaring itself religious would be formed before the Messiah, it would be illegitimate due to its improper arrogation of power, and it would still pose a danger to Jewish life.
While the Satmar Hasidim are opposed to the existence of a state of Israel, many of them live in and visit Israel (as Rabbi Teitelbaum did, many times).[citation needed] They see opposition to Zionism as an expression of love of the Holy Land, protecting it from the defilement of bloodshed and war (and not only from secularism, as many assume).[citation needed] —PerigGouanvic
2010-09-25 06:55:35 ==The Central Rabbinical Congress (in full: Central Rabbinical Congress of the U.S.A. and Canada==
In 1986 the CRC publicized the following declaration:
It is our duty to denounce those who invoke the name of the Almighty in vain. It is our holy obligation and our moral responsibility to call on them: Stop using these falsehoods and heresies to justify yourselves and your misdeeds. The Jewish faith, as transmitted by the Almighty to our forefathers has not and will never countenance the zionist and nationalistic doctrines of the state of Israel. These false doctrines are compounded of atheism and anti-religious zionism, ideologies alien to Judaism. Let them not be misrepresented to the world as Jewish.[4]
2010-09-25 07:00:05 In 2002, the rabbinical leadership of the Edah wrote a complimentary introduction to Vayoel Moshe. The introduction mentioned: "and it is necessary to learn about this subject [of Zionism]... the holy book Vayoel Moshe will open [its readers'] eyes to see [the reasons behind] all troubles and horrors of our time, and will prevent readers from being drawn after the Zionist heresy, may the Merciful One save us."[4]
In 2006, during a campaign against the participation of Haredim in the Israeli parliamentary elections, the Edah accused the Zionists of having played a role in the Holocaust. [5]
In March 2008, an article in the Edah's newspaper HaEdah blasted the 'first chassidic police officer' and the newspapers who had praised him, and called for him to be thrown out of the Haredi world. It referred to him as presenting his children to Molech. Addressing him personally, it said, "and even if you are great in your own eyes, you are worth nothing and an embarrassment to us", and, "we will continue our continuous war, the days of which are the same as the days of the existence of the Zionist entity, against them and against everything you represent."[6] —PerigGouanvic
2010-09-25 07:00:49 Should Palestinians join forces with orthodox Jews against Israel?? —PerigGouanvic
2010-09-25 07:05:50 =Rephrased: should Haredims, Arabs and other Palestinians resist together to Zionism?=
Main article:
Haredim and Zionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haredim_and_Zionism
The relationship between Haredim and Zionism has always been a difficult one. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, the majority of Haredi Jewry was opposed to Zionism.[1] However, after the de facto creation of the state, each individual movement within Orthodox Judaism charted its own path in their approach to the State of Israel. A study in late 2006 claimed that just over a third of Israelis considered Haredim the most hated group in Israel.[2]
2010-09-25 07:07:34 
—PerigGouanvic
2010-09-25 07:11:34 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Yishuv
The advent of secular Zionism, whose goal was to transplant Jews to the Land of Israel in a society devoid of Torah values, was the antithesis of the aims of Jews who were already established there.
After 1918, immigration was controlled by the British, who had been given a mandate over Palestine by the League of Nations. They restricted immigration of Jews (but not to Arabs[3]), and operated a quota by means of certificates. The distribution of these certificates was in the hands of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, a Zionist organization. The allocation of certificates to Haredi Jews was severely restricted so as not to compromise the goal of a secular state.
After World War II
After World War II many Jewish refugees found themselves in Displaced person camps. The Zionists controlled a camp for Jewish refugee children in Tehran where they operated an anti-religious policy in an effort to cut off Haredi children from their spiritual roots. To a large extent they were successful, and many children from Haredi homes were dispatched to irreligious settlements.
2010-10-07 17:59:48
What should Jews do about the state of Israel?
True, it is not always clear what God wants believers to do. Following the Prophet, for Muslims, might eventually mean marrying a 6 years old girl and having children with her when she's 9. All Muslims know about Aisha, the youngest of Muhammad's wives. Still, this practice is not widespread, despite of the fact that there exists in all cultures people who are attracted to people of this age. There is room for interpretation. Similarly, a majority of practising Jews would not condone the death sentence for those who work during the Sabbath, say, in the atomic plant of Dimona, Palestine (or "Israel"), even though the Leviticus orders believers to do so (Exodus 35:2).
Still, it is sad that so few Believer's voices are heard when it is time to address the fate of the so-called "Israel-Palestine conflict".
The Central Rabbinical Congress (in full: Central Rabbinical Congress of the U.S.A. and Canada) made the following declaration, in 1986:
It is our duty to denounce those who invoke the name of the Almighty in vain. It is our holy obligation and our moral responsibility to call on them: Stop using these falsehoods and heresies to justify yourselves and your misdeeds. The Jewish faith, as transmitted by the Almighty to our forefathers has not and will never countenance the zionist and nationalistic doctrines of the state of Israel. These false doctrines are compounded of atheism and anti-religious zionism, ideologies alien to Judaism. Let them not be misrepresented to the world as Jewish.
Most observers of the Middle-East consider this argument as a slippery slope, in part because they are atheists who believe that religion is at the root of the problem, or is irrelevant.
Noam Chomsky, for instance, is proud of having been a Zionist in his youth, although, as the linguist wits, it would probably be called anti-zionism today:
I was deeply interested in... Zionist affairs and activities — or what was then called 'Zionist,' though the same ideas and concerns are now called 'anti-Zionist.' I was interested in socialist, binationalist options for Palestine, and in the kibbutzim and the whole cooperative labor system that had developed in the Jewish settlement there (the Yishuv)...The vague ideas I had at the time [1947] were to go to Palestine, perhaps to a kibbutz, to try to become involved in efforts at Arab-Jewish cooperation within a socialist framework, opposed to the deeply antidemocratic concept of a Jewish state (a position that was considered well within the mainstream of Zionism).
In another vein, Norman Finkelstein, Israel critic, in his poignant response to a young woman who brought up the Holocaust card yelled:
Every single member of my family on both sides were exterminated. Both my parents were in the Warsaw ghetto uprising and it's precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings, that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians. I consider nothing more despicable than to use their suffering and their martyrdom [of his relatives] to try and justify the torture, the brutalization, the demolition of homes that Israel daily commits against the Palestinians. So I refuse any longer to be intimidated, or browbeaten by the tears. If you had any heart you'd be crying for the Palestinians.
In these three quotes are captured three main lines of reasoning that Jews (talking about the "ethnicity", not the belief) may take to criticize Israel and favor dialog with Palestinians and the Arab world. Of course, everybody is allowed to think like the North American rabbinical congress, Chomsky or Finkelstein think. The problem is that the Anti-defamation league can itself be defamatory when talking about critics of Israel, especially if they are not Jews. (See Defamation, a documentary by Yoav Shamir: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMcXkKwqKDw&feature=related).
But these issues, which involve the risk of a Nuclear Holocaust, should worry all, Jews and gentiles alike.
2010-10-07 18:06:21 Noam Chomsky was and remains a Zionist for members of the rabbinical congress. He couldn't care less: his critique of Israel is unrelated to religion. —PerigGouanvic
2010-10-13 03:30:49 Finding Your Roots http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/finding-your-roots/#more-40347 —PerigGouanvic
2010-11-26 00:08:39 Note to self... (Moved from the Evolution of evolution theory page.)
From
What Role Does Heritable Epigenetic Variation Play in Phenotypic Evolution?
(full text online)
Christina L. Richards, Oliver Bossdorf, and Massimo Pigliucci
BioScience • March 2010 / Vol. 60 No. 3
An interesting feature that seems to be common (though not necessarily universal) in epigenetic heritable systems is that they are more labile (i.e., less stable) than their DNA sequence counterpart (Kalisz and Purugganan 2004, Vaughn et al. 2007, Johannes et al. 2008, 2009, Reinders et al. 2009), which implies higher mutation rates (Finnegan 2002, Kalisz and Purugganan 2004, Richards 2008, Zhang et al. 2008).
These higher rates suggest the possibility of a two-track system of inheritance underlying phenotypic variation: A fast but unstable (epigenetic) track and a slow but stable (DNA sequence) one (Bossdorf et al. 2008). This may open up an obvious solution to a classic problem in population genetics: It is well known (Hartl and Clark 2007) that new advantageous mutations appearing in a population face an immediate evolutionary hurdle, in that they start at a very low frequency (depending on the population size) and can easily be lost by genetic drift. If, however, the new heritable variant is causally dependent on high-frequency (possibly environmentally induced) epigenetic variation, the novel phenotype may appear at a nonnegligible frequency from the onset, which would facilitate the role of natural selection in overcoming stochastic loss.
The scenario sketched above is consistent with West-Eberhard’s (2003) suggestion that sometimes genes are “followers” rather than initiators of evolutionary change, meaning that they stabilize phenotypic changes that are started by epigenetic or developmental processes.
Indeed, epigenetic inheritance systems could provide a reasonable mechanistic link between West-Eberhard’s interesting but rather speculative suggestions about the role of developmental plasticity in evolution on one hand, and standard population genetic models of evolutionary change on the other.
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2010-08-13 22:23:34 Biochemical Pharmacology Review
Nature or nurture: Let food be your epigenetic medicine in chronic inflammatory disorders
Katarzyna Szarc vel Szic1, et al.
Epigenetic changes in DNA methylation patterns at CpG sites (epimutations) or corrupt chromatin states of key inflammatory genes and noncoding RNAs, recently emerged as major governing factors in cancer, chronic inflammatory and metabolic disorders. Reciprocally, inflammation, metabolic stress and diet composition can also change activities of the epigenetic machinery and indirectly or directly change chromatin marks. This has recently launched re-exploration of anti-inflammatory bioactive food components for characterization of their effects on epigenome modifying enzymatic activities (acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, ribosylation, oxidation, ubiquitination, sumoylation). This may allow to improve healthy aging by reversing disease prone epimutations involved in chronic inflammatory and metabolic disorders. —PerigGouanvic
2010-12-08 12:58:34 Just to say, I've uploaded your photo of Maurice Mearleau-Ponty from onto Wikimedia Commons, with attribution, for use on Wikipedia
I'm assuming the photo is subject to CC 3.0 Attribution, as it says at the bottom of the page
Do you have any information on the provenance of the image?
Thanks —212.219.131.20
2011-03-10 21:07:25 Great Picture, P-A!
Can you have a look at Ahmed's article on the Egyptian Revolution, and if you're okay with it, maybe upgrade it to Featured status? —NormanNitram
