And also, Brin's ideas about amateurism seem to be percolating out:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/87/open_essay.html
~Maru
David Brin wrote:
well, thanks Dave. But that's wrong.
I meant precisely what I said. The privately owned
family cartel that is the govt of SA has spent a huge
fraction of its oil revenue on "Islamic chariteis"
that consist of buying or building mosques and
training academies all over the world. With this
influence they have pushed Wahhabism as the main
orthodoxy in the Sunni branch of Islam.
Under Wahhabism, there is no cohabitation on the
planet with infidels. Modernism is purely evil as is
secularism and any thought of separation of Church and
State. The destruction of Israel and all of its
inhabitants. Then onward. This is explicit and well
delineated and it involves a long term plan as clear
as Mein Kampf.
These people finance lavish parties with our leadership class (and probably take pictures). They bribe and hire consultancies. They funnel mountains of cash to second cousins who then pass it on to Osama. The biggest effect of 9/11 was to shift it from ONE link of second-cousins to SEVERAL links.
Events of 9/11 stunned me because of how blatant and
unhidden most of the links were. As if they felt so
safe - once W was in office - that they could do
anything with impunity. W may have felt briefly
betrayed, since he ordered GO on Clinton's Afghanistan
plan. It worked so well that the Saudis had to come
up with a new approach.
They looked around for THE THING that came closest to ruining American society in our life times.
A land war in Asia. A stupidly bungled land war in Asia, based on lies and social divisiveness, with Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya cameras ready to blare our "atrocities" every night, giving an evening recruiting drive for pan Islamic unity and Jihad that money simply could not buy.
Every night.
What's bizarre, Dave - and so bizarre that you can't
see it - is that these kneejerk, relfexive neocon
dopes will do anything to hide SA complicity. Notice
that it's all right to claim the Saudi PEOPLE are at
war with us... but it's an OUTRAGE to imply that it
might be the government!
Elistist snobs, bought and paid for with the money we pour into the fuel tanks of our SUVs. And for four years there has been nothing, nada, zip about an energy bill from this administration. After 6 years of GOP Congress blocking every energy initiative from Clinton. The only people served by this?
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