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The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate Under the League of Nations

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:00:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ........The Jewish Connection To The Land......
We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic, and geographical bonds."[10]

The purpose of post-World War I's League of Nations was to prepare those liberated from the Turks for independence. Once the indigenous populations demonstrated their ability to assume control, the mandates given to the war's victorious superpowers were supposed to be self-terminating. For the international community, justice for the Arabs meant guaranteeing their economic, civil, and religious rights. Awarding the Arabs any form of self-government within Palestine was precluded by British commitments to the Jews under the Balfour Declaration, which had been incorporated in the mandate of the League of Nations.[11]

Clip Source: globalpolitician.com

At this point in history, post-World War I, political pressure caused the international community to endorse the Jewish desire for national self-determination and acc epted that the Jewish people had a justifiable claim to return to their homeland. Significantly, in this recognition, the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate under the League of Nations make no mention of Palestinians as a separate and distinct people with their own national rights. The indigenous people were regarded as residents whose political identity was connected to the larger Arab nation.[9]

For the British, the matter was quite clear: Palestine was not a state but the name of a geographical area. This had been reinforced by the indigenous Arabs themselves.

When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to select Palestinian Arab representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, they adopted the following resolution:

Arthur Balfour
British Foreign Secretary

Tags: israel, league of nations, balfour declaration, palestinians

Finkelman; bonds; drugs

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:01:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The reality is that MLB's owners and managers all knew about juicing. They turned a blind eye to the problem because they only cared about home runs, crowded stadiums, and winning games. So why punish Bonds? If MLB needs to cleanse itself from the era of juicing, then let it get rid of all those managers and owners who looked the other way when the juicing was going on. Fire the team physicians who ignored obvious signs of steroids and human growth hormones. But if we did that, who would be left? Not many owners, and maybe not many managers and coaches? So, if MLB is not going to really clean its house, it should stop using Bonds as a scapegoat. Let him play. He wants to play. Let's see if he still can. It would be great is some team has the guts to sign Bonds this season and let him back on the field. It may be his last season. Next year he might be playing on the Leavenworth team, with prison stripes instead of pinstriped. Or he may walk out of court an innocent man, and play again.

Gene linked to commitment-phobia

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:40:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: commitment-phobia, everybody has it..

Clip Source: www.sciencenews.org

Men with a common gene variation for "bonding" hormone report more marital strife

There’s news for women who want a man who bonds instead of a James Bond: Scientists have identified a common genetic variation that appears to weaken a man’s ability to emotionally attach to one partner.

The study, to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to try to examine whether a hormone that encourages monogamy in animals plays a similar role in male humans. Before getting ideas about a DNA-fidelity test, though, women should consider that the study wasn’t designed to determine how much — or even whether — the gene in question is responsible for monogamy in humans.

“We can’t with any accuracy predict effects on behavior,” says Hasse Walum of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. “A lot of different things determine how happy you will be in a relationship.”

But women can now wonder, “What about his vasopressin 1a receptor subtype?”

Tags: genetics, commitment-phobia

Stocks Bonds Options Futures

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:49:34 GMT

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Stocks Bonds Options Futures (Paperback)

by Stuart R. Veale (Author) "The recent banking reform legislation removed the last impediments that prevented securities firms from entering the banking business and banks from entering the securities business..." (more)
Key Phrases: United States, Rules of Fair Practice, New York Stock Exchange (more...)

Tags: investment book

Mother of missing Fla. toddler arrested again

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:11:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Okay I have one question -- not just to this particular case but in general to the posting of these huge bonds etc.. Who's put up the money for these people are they rich - do their parents put up there homes for their release? I don't get it -- if that were me -- I'd just be in jail awaiting my hearing period!

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Mother of missing Fla. toddler arrested again

ORLANDO, Fla. - The $500,000 bond posted a week ago for the mother of a missing Florida girl was rescinded after she was taken back to jail on check fraud and theft charges, a bondsman said Saturday.

Unwanted tattoos can be removed by cream injected into skin - without pain or scarring

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:11:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Unwanted tattoos can be removed by cream injected into skin - without pain or scarring

By Rebecca Camber
Last updated at 12:53 PM on 27th August 2008

Tattoos can often be a case of ink now, regret later.

Extracting the dye from the skin has usually been a painful process.

However, cosmetic surgeons are now offering what they say is a more efficient and less painful way of removing body art.

Step-by-step: The Rejuvi cream is injected through tiny needles and causes the ink to come to the surface of the skin, form a scab and then drop off

A cream called Rejuvi can be injected into the skin in much the same way as the ink is injected into the top layers of the epidermis to create the tattoo.

The Rejuvi is absorbed by the pigmented cells and bonds with the pigment, say experts.

This softens the ink and pushes it to the surface of the skin where it forms a scab.

When the scab falls off after six to eight weeks, the ink goes with it.

Tags: tattoo

Bank of China Flees Fannie-Freddie

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:20:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Foreigners have been mainstay of market for this debt, but Asian investors in particular have become net sellers.

Clip Source: www.ft.com

Bank of China has cut its portfolio of securities issued or guaranteed by troubled US mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by a quarter since the end of June.

The sale by China’s fourth largest commercial bank, which reduced its holdings of so-called agency debt by $4.6bn, is a sign of nervousness among foreign buyers of Fannie and Freddie’s bonds and guaranteed securities.

Tags: bank of china, fannie mae, freddie mac, credit crisis

The Price of Putin

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:33:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: when Russia defaulted, and the amount of cash leaving the country in the second week of August was the highest on record.

Russia's central bank, which reported the $16.5 billion decline last week, still reckons to have $581 billion in reserves, money being stored away when the oil runs out and the gas flow starts to falter. This may come somewhat sooner than many think.

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin spoke after the Cabinet approved the draft federal budget for the next three years, which assumes that Russia's main oil blend, Urals, will sell for at least $95 a barrel. (Russian government's own budget estimates, oil is expected to drop to $90 in 2010 and $88 in 2011.)

At current rates of extraction combined with rising national consumption, Russia's known oil reserves will start to run out in the 2020s, and a lack of investment in maintenance and development means the two main gas fields expected to maintain Russia's export income are falling ominously behind schedule.

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But there are intriguing signs in Russia that those whose jobs and markets and investments are most integrated with Europe and the global economy are starting to count the cost of Vladimir Putin

Russian officials have sought to explain away the $16.4 billion outflow in foreign reserves in the week of the invasion of Georgia and also the 32 percent drop in Moscow's stock market since Putin began expressing his displeasure with the Mechel coal group in May. Mechel shares alone lost $8 billion after Putin's first remarks.

But Russian debt and equity markets also have gone into decline since the conflict with Georgia began Aug. 8, with yields on domestic ruble bonds increasing by up to 150 basis points over the last month. That is the equivalent of a 1.5-point jump in interest rates, the kind of panic measure that few central banks would risk taking except in extreme circumstances.

The pace of capital flight from Russia has been the highest since the 1998 collapse of the ruble,

Tags: putin, georgia, 32% drop in moscow's stock market, decline in debt/equity markets, capital flight

The six forms of music

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:06:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.theispot.com

Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

In his new book, The World in Six Songs, cognitive psychologist and former record producer Daniel Levitin argues that all music, from orchestral classics to thrash metal and tribal dance, can be grouped into just six categories: friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, ritual and love.

Friendship

songs have served to reinforce social bonds throughout human history.

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Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon

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Give Peace a Chance became an anthem for the anti-war movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Joy

joyful singing is a sign of positive mental health

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Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

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Comfort

many people continue to use music to ease their worries and soothe their emotional pain.

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Everybody Hurts

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Ceremony

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Elgar conducting Pomp and Circumstance March no.1

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Love

Presumably the popularity of love-based music stems from the universal need to mate and reproduce, a need that in many species overpowers all others, including the urge for individual survival.

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The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Love Version)

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Do subatomic particles have free will?

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:26:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciencenews.org

If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.

“If the atoms never swerve so as to originate some new movement that will snap the bonds of fate, the everlasting sequence of cause and effect—what is the source of the free will possessed by living things throughout the earth?”—Titus Lucretius Carus, Roman philosopher and poet, 99–55 BC.

Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably.

Tags: science, faith, quantum mechanics

Illusions : As Seen Thru Our Eyes

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:59:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The window to our soul. When we look we see the things that we do not want to see sometimes. A deep gaze into someones eyes will tell us more than words. Are we really seeing? Or merely looking?

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Illusions: The Eyes Have It

Eye gaze is critically important to humans, as social primates. Maybe that's why illusions involving eyes are so compelling.

The eyes are the windows to the soul. This fact is why we ask people to look us in the eye and tell us the truth. Or why we get worried when someone gives us the evil eye or has a wandering eye. Our everyday language is full of expressions that refer to where people around us are looking. Particularly if they happen to be looking in our direction.

As social primates, humans are very interested in determining the direction of gaze of other humans. It’s important for evaluating their intentions, and critical for forming bonds and negotiating relationships. Lovers stare for long stretches into each other’s eyes, and infants focus intently on the eyes of their parents. Very young babies look at simple representations of faces (such as smileys) for longer than they look at similar cartoonish faces in which the eyes

have been scrambled.

The response from Dean Baker to WaPo

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:12:34 GMT

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The Post is complaining yet again that politicians are unwilling to deal with a Social Security shortfall that is first projected to hit in 2049, when John McCain will be 113 years old. To try to makes it case sound more compelling it refers to the date 2018 when the Social Security trustees project that tax revenues will first be inadequate to meet benefit payments. Of course 2018 is completely irrelevant to the finances of the program. At that point the program is projected to have accumulated more than $5 trillion in government bonds. But the Post wants to scare readers to advance their Social Security agenda so they trot out 2018 as though it is a date that anyone needs to worry about.

Tags: social security

WaPo on Social Security

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:11:38 GMT

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The Post is complaining yet again that politicians are unwilling to deal with a Social Security shortfall that is first projected to hit in 2049, when John McCain will be 113 years old. To try to makes it case sound more compelling it refers to the date 2018 when the Social Security trustees project that tax revenues will first be inadequate to meet benefit payments. Of course 2018 is completely irrelevant to the finances of the program. At that point the program is projected to have accumulated more than $5 trillion in government bonds.

Tags: social security, obama

aaa

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:37:19 GMT

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Clip Source: finance.yahoo.com

OVERALL PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION (%)

Cash:

0.17

99.83

Stocks:

Bonds:

N/A

0.00

Other:

TOP 10 HOLDINGS ( 28.49% OF TOTAL ASSETS)

CompanySymbol% AssetsYTD Return %EXXON MOBIL CPXOM7.05-13.40CHEVRON CORPCVX4.22-8.15CONOCOPHILLIPSCOP3.16-5.28PFIZER INCPFE3.12-15.36GEN ELECTRIC COGE2.58-22.13OCCIDENTAL PETOXY2.072.73AT&T INC.T1.68-23.42WALT DISNEY-DISNEY CDIS1.59-5.98ALLSTATE CPALL1.52-10.00INTL BUSINESS MACHIBM1.5019.33

EQUITY HOLDINGS

AveragesMDLVXCategory AvgPrice/Earnings12.5613.47Price/Book2.001.96Price/Sales0.981.14Price/Cashflow8.758.29Median Market Cap25.02B38.29B3 Year Earnings Growth21.98%16.70%

Chinese bank now world's most profitable

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:14:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.reportonbusiness.com

Chinese bank now world's most profitable

HONG KONG — Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world's biggest bank with a market value of $235-billion (U.S.), posted a 41 per cent increase in second-quarter profit, buoyed by widening interest margins and fee income growth.

Like most Asian banks, ICBC's subprime-related holdings in the West are small relative to its size, leaving the sector relatively unscathed by the fallout from the U.S. subprime crisis that has battered western peers.

The bank also said it held bonds related to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the troubled U.S. mortgage agencies, totalling $2.7-billion, or a fifth of 1 per cent of its total assets.

ICBC's Hong Kong shares have fallen 8.6 per cent so far this year, outperforming a 26.7 per cent drop in the benchmark Hang Seng Index amid a rout in global equity markets.