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Released June 2011 "Familiarity breeds contempt”,  said the lion to the fox. While the application of this principle exists in our psychological make-up, the opposite effect is more often than not the case when one is up close with the blow by blow from the catalogue of renowned progrock overlords, YES. The loveliness of their tunes have a gradual crushing effect on one's welling criticism for their anticipated 2011 release,  Fly From Here.  If you can’t pick out the sucker in the listener within 20 minutes of a YES journey  which isn’t up to par , chances are, the sucker is you. Yes, familiarity impairs one’s judgment for a constructive breakdown when it comes to reviewing the YES catalog. Steer clear from their centrifugal force as subliminal programming, gradual conditioning and inevitable conversion to being diehards are usually the order of the day. Which is why Grim never engages the REPEAT ALL b...

A brilliant caricature depicting the power who lords over his dominion that includes the Muslim world. I am unable to trace the source or the caricaturist. It is intriguing because the All Seeing Eye appears dumbfounded and unable to control the pesky people disconnecting the puppet master from his puppets. One school of thought is that people power is emancipating itself from the clutches of the Global Elite (GE), but the question remains! Is the caricaturist asking us to swallow that Gaddafi himself was amongst the rest of his puppets? Indeed he was! Over the years Gaddafi, the main African instrument of the Elite, realized the value of his land, strengthened himself from his resources and even up to the months leading to the NATO military intervention, was calling upon African and Muslim nations to create the Gold Dinar, a new currency pegged against their own gold reserves that would rival the Dollar and Euro and that would sell oil exclusively in exchange for the new ...

Return of the 12th Imam • ©2011 Iran by 1tommypeters1 Belief is an impetus for action. Say you believe your home is about to be burgled. The perception of such certainty would have your vigil for intruders for as long as the conviction holds. It underscores that belief is an impetus for action, but sometimes it becomes stimuli for detrimental ones. In Christianity, the term 'Rapture' is evolving into a euphemism for conviction, a harmless conviction. It is not a biblical word, but whenever the term erupts, non-adherents roll their eyes and entertain themselves with a plethora of evangelists who go about embellishing biblical prophecies as fact, but the point is, predicting the second coming or 'rapture' of Christ has spawned a harmless industry, if not entertaining. At worst, you have a coterie of placard-wielding die-hards holding up traffic, lest a deluge of printed pamphlets littering township and neighbourhood is preferred. In Shiite dogma, the spec...

In the Allah issue, three churches are jostling for pole position in Malaysia.  The Christian church graduated in splitting-hairs and is all gung-ho about vocabulary oppression nothwitstanding that challenging the extreme physical persecution of the founder even, is forbidden by his doctrine, not to mention by the founder himself. While his tenacity and industry are admirable traits, with agonizing fervor, he lays claim to an Arabic word quite alien to him, when a Malay synonym is traditionally available.  The Muslim church does not know what the fuss is all about. Naturally, he is miffed at the attempt to appropriate what he perceives to be well within his domain. He is peeved, not because defining god by vocabulary is relevant to him in form before function, but because the expression has been traditionally applied as a device in worshipping his 'divine'.  The third church is the Atheist, perceived by the other two as a hedonist without a 'god'. The Athe...

Siberia, November 15th 2011:- A dialogue between a hysterical school principal and a calm, tech-savvy 15-year old, who surreptiously made the recording, represents a generation gap where the old fascist reigns, not necessarily in that part of the world, that symbolizes ignorance in assuming that knowledge is and will always be the monopoly of politicians in higher echelons. November 16th 2011, GlobalVoices:- A scandal caused by a hidden camera recording at a school in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia has highlighted a serious problem in Russian schools: teachers campaigning for the ruling party,  United Russia . Underpaid and dependent on government funding, teachers are one of the pillars of the current political system. Local and regional elections often take place in school buildings, and the electoral committees in Russia often consist mainly of teachers. Whether it's from fear of losing funding, or belief in United Russia's promises, this often leads to illegal electione...

There is a distinct fissure between one who is intellectually dishonest and one who is oblivious. To turn a phrase with undiscerning mathematical vocabulary, you face a toss between a liar and the ill-advised. Say, if you disagree that 5+1+8 amounts to 14, then the crevice between the storyteller and the unwise becomes apparent. I deal with data and subscribe to the data-information-knowledge construct. Conversely, a reasoned opinion precedes the accrual of knowledge, information and data on any given issue. Data is the basement of the construct, thus conscious deliberation in the realm of conjecture and supposition enhances the job description of the storyteller. An example of conjecture:- Datuk Ahmad Maslan, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, was quoted to have said that the Klang Valley has less than 2 kilometers of rail per million residents. He parlayed the number to justify construction of the Klang Valley MRT. Pemandu (The Performance, Management and ...