Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Should the government determine how religions operate? Why or why not?
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/22/morning-bell-religious-liberty-under-attack/
The controversy over the Obama Administration's anti-conscience mandate and the fight for religious liberty only serves to highlight the inherent flaws in Obamacare.
"The official said American troops at the base would have been unable to read the texts, which could have contributed to the error. Another military official said earlier the materials had been removed from a detainee center's library because they carried "extremist inscriptions" on them and there was "an appearance that these documents were being used to facilitate extremist communications."
Rainbow in the Night, a short YouTube clip, is a brief but exceptionally powerful video created specifically for today's fast paced generation. Using stunning cinematography, a haunting score, hard hitting lyrics and vocals that will touch the deepest recesses of the soul, this historical work offers a glimpse into World War II Krakow as seen through the eyes of a survivor. Beginning with footage of a 1939 original oil painting of a synagogue being ravaged by the Nazis, shown at a private event in the survivor's home, Rainbow in the Night is an exquisitely emotional journey, as the survivor recalls first the warmth of his childhood home, then the shock and disbelief as people are forced to leave their homes for the Krakow ghetto, taken to an extermination camp and after enduring unspeakable cruelty, finally liberated. Set against a backdrop of utter despair and hopelessness, the survivor relives the inexplicable power that enabled him to persevere, the rainbow in the figurative night that promised better days to come. Culminating triumphantly with our hope for the future, the faces of hundreds of modern day Jewish children, Rainbow in the Night is both a euphoric tribute to the indomitable human spirit that enabled the Jewish people to survive against all odds and also a call to arms, to rekindle the spark of Jewish pride and unity among Jews worldwide, as we continue to rebuild the generations that were destroyed by the Nazis.
To download the song, please visit:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rainbow-in-night-feat.-yanky/id498260454
http://www.mostlymusic.com/rainbow-in-the-night.html
Executive Producer - Cecelia Margules
Directed by Daniel Finkelman
Cinematography by Mauricio Arenas
Produced by Daniel Finkelman and Maurico Arenas
Art director - Tzirel Raskin
Co-produced by:
Sigmund Rolat
The Rabbi Leib Geliebter Memorial Foundation, Dr. Joseph Geliebter, Director.
Adam Margules
Lev Rivkin
Song written and composed by Cecelia Margules
Musical production - Yitzhak Shemtov
Score - Israel Edelson
Vocals - Yanky Lemmer, Sparks Choir
Vocals recorded by: Ruli Ezrachi
Cast: Yanky Lemmer, Ari Raskin, Leah Raskin, Justyna Orzechowska, Iga Piwowarczyk, Meir Stessel, Zahava Stessel, Harry Wanderer, Mark Orbach, Helen Orbach, Eddy Privitzer, David Vaitsman, Yehudah Lindenblatt, Rubin Margules, Arlene Fox, Moshe Fox, Gladys Kohler, Dr. Jeffery Weber, Rachel Margules, Eli Verschleiser, Jacob Verschleiser, Lev Rivkin, Tzvi Berke
Art director 2nd unit - Kim Schnieder
Stylists - Danna Gal (NY)
Art assistants - Karolina Ziółkowska, Izabela Ziółkowska
Line Producer: Valerie Hayward, Paul Plonka, Kasia Lesniak
Associate Producers (Poland): Kasia Lesniak, 24MEDIA production
Production Manager (Poland): Agnieszka Dudala, Michal Nowak
Production Assistants (New York): Althea Wilson-Berkowitz, Alejandro Marulanda, Eva Serebrinsky
Production Assistants (Poland): Michal Novák, Jacek Czepulkowski, Pawel Kantor, Marcin Protasiewicz
Costume Designer -- Iza Ziolkowska, Karolina Ziolkowska (Poland)
Scenography -- Ewelina Gasior, Alicja Kazimierczak, Iwona Bandzarewicz
Set builder -- Rafal Szybki
Camera operators: Pawel Plonka (Poland) Ivan Cortazar (NY)
Light/gaffer -- Marian Brzoza
Key grip -- Zbyszek Mierzwinski
Grip assistant -- Marek Bajda, Bartek Szoja, Milosz Skorczynski
Set Manager -- Dominik Czepulkowski
Focus Puller/1st AC -- Pawel Krawczyk
Camera assistants: Sean Sinderbrand, Eric Bejarano, Simon Luethi,
Noel Galvez Rodriguez, Dominik Czepułkowski, Bartłomiej Szoja
1st Assistant Director (NY) - Samantha Santos
Editors: Eric Bejarano, Massimo Crapanzano
Driver - Jack Crocknin
Makeup - Lauren Killip (NY) Anna Jachimczak, Basia Kulaga (Poland)
Catering: "The Olive Tree" (Krakow) "Bunch 'O' Bagels" (NY)
Cover design by: Designsbysruly.com
Website by: Thesaberteam.com
Thanks to: Sheldon Margules, Rabbi Dovid Plotkin, Rabbi Jeremy Fader, Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, Benshimon's studio, Leslie Maria A, Shoshana Lyampe, Mendy Schlanger, Richie Hagler, Menachem Cohen, Sandy Eller, Sruly Meyer, Patrick Michael Wickham, Tzippy Finkelman
Can American citizens be secure in their persons and defend themselves? Why or why not?
Two arrested after disturbance on Continental flight headed to Houston KHOU Two people were arrested after a scare on board a Continental flight that was headed to Houston. view full article From Jihad Watch: "Two Middle Eastern men" on a Continental flight from Portland to Houston. "He was screaming, 'Allah is great, Allah is great,' you know, and it kinda worries you when all of that happens..." says a passenger on the flight in the video above. The KHOU story doesn't mention this, and says the flight turned around and landed back in Portland because one of them wouldn't obey the "No Smoking" sign.
Pennsylvania Press Conference on Obama Ballot Access Challenge, 3 PM 17 Feb 2012
Harrisburg PA
Kerchner & Laudenslager v Obama
PA Ballot Challenge/Objection Filing
Speakers:
Attorney Karen L. Kiefer
Counsel for Objectors
CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret)
Lead Plaintiff/Objector
Dale Laudenslager
Plaintiff/Objector
http://www.art2superpac.com/paballot.html
We examined whether Washington was a devout Christian or not; we considered whether Lincoln expressed a deep faith in God.
Then Senator Obama's 28 June 2006 speech to the group Call to Renewal.
In comparison to Washington and Lincoln, does Obama appear to be a devout Christian? Does he express a deep faith in the God of the Bible? What does the evidence suggest?
In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called "gendercide".
This documentary film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters' lives, and of other mothers who would kill for a son. Global experts and grassroots activists put the stories in context and advocate different paths towards change, while collectively lamenting the lack of any truly effective action against this injustice.
Learn more about the film and sign up for email updates at www.itsagirlmovie.com
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/3321.htm
Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian presidential candidate Tawfiq Okasha, owner of Al-Faraeen TV, which aired on Al-Faraeen TV on February 9, 2012:
Tawfiq Okasha: Hitler's principle was that the best race must become master of the world, and must spread worldwide. Hitler established German Nazism on this, in order to rule and own the world. On the other hand, we find that this is precisely the same philosophy as that of the Israelites and the Jews, who say: We are the Semitic people, we are the best people in the world, and we must rule and own the world, because the Semites are the kinds of the Earth and all that is upon it.
[…]
Hitler knew that the Jews upheld the same ideology. They shared the same ideology. Hitler believed that the Germans were the masters of the world, whereas the Jews believe that they are the masters of the world. Thus, a battle ensued – either the Jews would destroy Hitler, so that they would be able to continue pursuing their goal of ruling the world, or else Hitler would annihilate the Jews, and realize his own goal of ruling the world. This led the Jews to play a very important role in World War II, which brought about Hitler's defeat.
What all the intellectuals and all the people believe is that the reason for Hitler's defeat in World War II was that he moved his forces into Russia at a time of heavy snow. The temperature in Russia reached minus 7, 10, or 12 degrees Celsius, and the German soldiers and officers were not used to this climate. On the other hand, Hitler sent his forces to North Africa in June, July, and August, when the weather was very hot, and there too, his soldiers were unable to cope with the weather. People believe that these two fronts were the main reason for Hitler's defeat. That is what historians have written. But no. That is a mistake.
The truth is that a secret battle was conducted between Hitler and the Jews, and Hitler launched this battle with the Holocaust. All the Jews and all the historians say that Hitler burned the Jews in the Holocaust. Nope. Hitler gathered all the Jews that he could, and all the depraved people that he could… In other words, people who were unable to work – people with polio, people with special needs, and the elderly… He rounded them up and burned them. He said that they were non-productive and were a burden on the German economy, and therefore, let them enter the Holocaust.
The Jewish Holocaust was not only for the Jews, but for everybody who was "depraved," in Hitler's view. These included Muslims and Christians – everybody.
[…]
Hitler was defeated in World War II because the Jews conducted a clandestine battle against him, by planting one… Two of Hitler's advisors were working for the Jews. They were the ones who advised Hitler to mobilize his forces to Russia and to North Africa. Hence, the Jews managed to get close to Hitler, by means of his closest advisors.
[…]
See how long the Jews have been conspiring against the world? Since the end of World War II. They struck the Soviet Union, and it collapsed. They entered Eastern Europe through NGO's, under the pretext of promoting democracy, and so on. They divided all the countries. Yugoslavia was divided. In the Balkan countries, wars were waged and massacres carried out, and they conducted revolutions on rivers of blood, while claiming that this was non-violent, peaceful change. Get it? They conducted close to twenty bloody revolutions in order to achieve this goal. Why did Germany join all these NGO's? Because each party has its own interests. Germany is getting ready to rule the world once again.
[…]
I say this to the Jews: Brothers, do not lie to yourselves. You have played around with German demography as best you could, and you have managed to get the Germans to abhor marriage. This was in order to prevent births. But what is happening now in Germany? For the past five years exactly, marriages have sky-rocketed, and so has the birth rate in Germany today.
[…]
America, Israel, and the European Union are planning to destroy three institutions in Egypt with exceptional malice: the Egyptian general intelligence agency, the Egyptian armed forces, and the Egyptian military intelligence.
[…]
As of today, the war effort of the people has begun. This is essential. A war effort! People, we are waging battle against the greatest country in the world, and against the second greatest country in the world. America is the greatest country in the world, and Germany is the second greatest country economically. We are fighting two superpowers. There are eight great industrialized countries in the world, and we are fighting two of them. We are currently at war with two of them – an official, declared war. The movement of the armed forces today means a real war, but worse is still to come.
[…]
Either the country is wide open, with holes like sieve, or else they call us enemies of democracy. What's that supposed to mean? That's what is written in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
[…]
This is a fierce and bitter battle, which began without any shooting, but will end with shooting. I say this here and now. The Egyptian army will open fire on the armies of the enemies. While you are talking to me right now, the battle with tanks, cannons, and airplanes is near.
Interviewers: I said at the beginning of the show that the war that Egypt is undergoing is not a war of shooting, of missiles, and so on. When will Egypt wage such a war?
Tawfiq Okasha: Within three months. Armed war will begin within three months.
The astrolabe was developed, if not perfected, long before Muhammad was born.
The zero, which is often attributed to Muslims, and what we know today as "Arabic numerals" did not originate in Arabia, but in pre-Islamic India.
Aristotle's work was preserved in Arabic not initially by Muslims at all, but by Christians such as the fifth century priest Probus of Antioch, who introduced Aristotle to the Arabic-speaking world. Another Christian, Huneyn ibn-Ishaq (809-873), translated many works by Aristotle, Galen, Plato and Hippocrates into Syriac. His son then translated them into Arabic. The Syrian Christian Yahya ibn 'Adi (893-974) also translated works of philosophy into Arabic, and wrote one of his own, The Reformation of Morals. His student, another Christian named Abu 'Ali 'Isa ibn Zur'a (943-1008), also translated Aristotle and others from Syriac into Arabic.
The first Arabic-language medical treatise was written by a Christian priest and translated into Arabic by a Jewish doctor in 683.
The first hospital was founded in Baghdad during the Abbasid caliphate -- not by a Muslim, but a Nestorian Christian.
A pioneering medical school was founded at Gundeshapur in Persia -- by Assyrian Christians.
I wonder if an Islamic scientist took flight, not documented or verified by anyone of course, over the hills of Spain 1000 years ago, why did Muslims forget how to do it until the Wright Brothers stumbled on it in 1903?
Camera is from the Greek kamara, meaning "vaulted chamber," from PIE base *kam- "to arch." The origin, in English arises in 1700–10, from the Latin camera, meaning vaulted room, vault.
WomenNow visit The Tech Museum for a tour around Ingenious Innovations: Islamic Science Rediscovered exhibition. Roqua Montez, Director of Public Relations here at The Tech Museum, briefly talks about what to expect and what visitors can obtain from the exhibition.
About The Tech Museum
The Tech Museum is a hands-on technology and science museum for people of all ages and backgrounds. The museum - located in the Capital of Silicon Valley - is a non-profit learning resource established to engage people in exploring and experiencing technologies affecting their lives. Through programs such as The Tech Challenge presented by Cisco, our annual team design competition for youth, and internationally renowned programs such as The Tech Awards presented by Applied Materials, Inc., The Tech Museum celebrates the present and encourages the development of innovative ideas for a more promising future.
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