7fatcow.com

truly amazing developments how the leading global warming scientists lied, squelched data, and tried to cover up.

"…Consider the following note that appears to have been sent by Mr. Jones to Mr. Mann in May 2008: "Mike, Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. . . . Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same?" AR4 is shorthand for the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, presented in 2007 as the consensus view on how bad man-made climate change has supposedly become.

In another email that seems to have been sent in September 2007 to Eugene Wahl of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Paleoclimatology Program and to Caspar Ammann of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Mr. Jones writes: "[T]ry and change the Received date! Don't give those skeptics something to amuse themselves with."

When deleting, doctoring or withholding information didn't work, Mr. Jones suggested an alternative in an August 2008 email to Gavin Schmidt of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, copied to Mr. Mann. "The FOI [Freedom of Information] line we're all using is this," he wrote. "IPCC is exempt from any countries FOI—the skeptics have been told this. Even though we . . . possibly hold relevant info the IPCC is not part of our remit (mission statement, aims etc) therefore we don't have an obligation to pass it on." "

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704888404574547730924988354.html

Shmarya writes, 

Choshen Mishpat 163:1-3 gives a town's beit din the right to tax all residents to meet communal needs.Included in those communal needs are defensive fortifications, mikva(s), synagogue(s), and salaries for rabbis, teachers, and doctors.In other words, the community is specifically given the power to tax everyone to pay for healthcare.In the same way, halakha (Jewish law) forbids living in a town without a doctor.While this isn't the same thing as mandating socialized medicine, it does clearly establish a communal responsibility for healthcare, and halakha's mandate is far more in consonance with President Obama's vision for healthcare than it is with the Sarah Palin-Rush Limbaugh Republican version or, ironically, the Senator Joseph Lieberman version.

For a while, i've preferred quietly bowing out to dramatic public announcements, not wanting to endlessly retire like an aging rock band. But now, a solid three years into the exciting creation and invitation of theis forum into being, i'm stepping down formally, from any inolvement with 7fatcow, unconvinced that it exists at all.

No bitterness. Dissapointment would imply expectations, and all my hopes and expectations for this blog where satisfied right away, constantly, along with all my concerns and suspicions, re: the inevitably difficult nature of True Expression and Engagement. That was understood from the beginning to be OK. Sometimes, when you talk with people, a lot of bullshit comes out as cushion for any insight and genuine heart-of-self that might be revealed, and that condition was understood from the beginning: along with the genius in our wider community of not-quite-ex/not-quite-ohs is a multitude of protective layer of ego and dogma; of noise and principle, of assumption and of flawed language, furious at the implication that it must be probed to be understood. That's OK, as much as any of the troublesome nature of our world is to be called OK, it's part of who we have been, and how we have expressed.

All that said, it's boring now, because maybe we've gone as far as any of us wanted to go. One of our founding members has moved beyond interest in the conversation here, as a funner life beckoned where the wit was expresseable and the company close enough that trying to blog in a noise filled room of cheesy links and ironically repressive vulgarity became uncompelling, especially once the Twitter and Facebook Status update was given unto us, to let the impulse sound more immediately, without need for context, or consensus. And so, the chance to say just a few things here was all he needed.

Another founding member has tried to give up so many times, and the clamor of each dramtic farewell, combined with the unelaborated links and occasional disavowels of entire identities for fear of Who May Be Listening, and Who May Be Judged along with him, often prevented the depth of his insight from being expressed. He erased all his posts, psuedonym after psudonym, and tried to convince somebody that he was somebody, and not actually somebody. And in that noise, his genius is silenced, and a certain unconfrontational decadence tried to grow around him; alas, woe unto those who think their sacrifices will provide security, money, or love.

And around that, behind that, so much genius was expressed.  Zoroastro/IslamoYid's and Atgate231's Scholarship, Class and Humor, Shitalpin's withering and ultimately humanist hot/cold sarcasm-masking-authenticity, Hashemsucksdick's marriage of post-religious concience and artistry, Mohammed's strange and shocking form of concience, Anivaho's Mercurial genius to let words permute into sublime association (even as any conceit towards divine synchronicty was despaired of) Yalhak's Majestic magnimamity and wholeness of vision/purity of impurity of perspective (along with the  lucid clarity of Yesod, Aisav, and the other maaminim he brought) and the writers we never even really identified, who bought so much class, genius, and perfect kvetchery to the conversation (who was Hiavrom anyway? he was brilliant! I hope he's OK.)

All the Neo-Nazis who stopped by to let us now what was going on, all the feminists and fetishists, all the excited Chabadskers, all the grieving relatives– so much got circulated, and maybe so little was heard, who knows? who knows. Who knows how much we ever hear from each other that we weren't ready to chap. But I feel like a lot of rare expression and relative taboo was aired here, and i'm really proud of that. As proud as one can be of something that one just let happen.

All the martyrs and all the victims; all the heroes and all the wimps. All the Faggotry and all the ugly, ugly Charedi shock-porn. All the piety and simple faith. Everything but the bullshit, and the noise, and the hiding of ourselves inside of our conceptions. It really has been a great ride, and I can only pray that some of this survivesinto the annals ofHistory, the story of how the Jewish Problem was, if only for a moment, touched upon, if not successfully adressed, from within, rather than just from without. God bless you all, to move on, and see how easy it is just to start up a crazy fucking conversation in this great, wide future of accessible interests, may we one day merit to see it to it's end.

Shana Tov, and i'll see you at the Jubilee

Yoseph Leib,

AKA Yhosephus,

AKA the guy that fucked your sister, back when she was still cute.

FEUDALISM
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you a glass of milk.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM
Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you should need.

FASCISM
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM
You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.

PERESTROIKA
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

CAPITALISM
You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.

PURE ANARCHY
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

ANARCHO-CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

OLYMPICS-ISM
You have two cows, one American, one Chinese. With the help of trilling violins and state-of-the-art montage photography, John Tesh narrates the moving tale of how the American cow overcame the agony of growing up in a suburb with (gasp) divorced parents, then mentions in passing that the Chinese cow was beaten every day by a tyrannical farmer and watched its parents butchered before its eyes. The American cow wins the competition, severely spraining an udder in a gritty performance, and gets a multi-million dollar contract to endorse Wheaties. The Chinese cow is led out of the arena and shot by Chinese government officials, though no one ever hears about it. McDonald's buys the meat and serves it hot and fast at its Beijing restaurant.

i received my first installment of shrimp (from fairway not citarella but who's counting). it seems boruch hertzfeld's chulent is a gold mine. there's nothing like hitting up naive Ramaz, YU, and Heschel  guys for TZEDAKAH.

Boruch Hertzfeld is trying to usurp our chulent, (which Issac Schonfeld has organized with real mesiras nefesh,) starting his faux bourgeois Chulent. We will be marching and attempting to join Boruch's bettered version. Meet at 12am at the Millinery.

(There's more money to be made at Boruch's since they actually have jobs!)

Tehran, December 1978

Tehran, June 2009

In light of 7FATCOW being as alive as a pro-Mousavi blog in Tehran, it is appropriate to break this track of slow traffic by bringing you DIRECT reports from those in Iran. A Cow has been in regular touch with residents in Tehran since Election Day in Iran over a week ago, and has heard confirmation of many of the reports and images we've been seeing lately. Here are some more details to fill in the gaps. According to 7fatcow's Tehran informant, who lives in the south near Tehran University:

* Already on Election Evening, when they kept the polls open for an extra 4 hours, the feeling was that practically everyone in line to vote expressed that they were voting for Mousavi. And this was in South Tehran. Unlike Iranians' general mannerisms to push & cut in line etc., everyone was very cordial, even letting otehrs go ahead of them.

 * It is rumored that many of a basijis are speaking Arabic, the assumption being that they are Hamas or Hezbollah members trained in Iran.

* It is the women who are the most brave & have been at the forefront of the green movement from the beginning.

* The calls from the rooftops every night from 10PM on reached a cresendo  Saturday night and is still continuing every night.

* Contrary to the images we see, Tehran is not at a standstill (at least not until today), and Tehranis that need to go about their daily business know to avoid certain areas.

* After Saturday, the people were "in a state of shock" on Sunday from the brutality of the forces.

*  The general mood is that this will take a while & that more "sacrifices" will be needed.

* Travel out of the country seems to still be open, as long as you are not "suspect."

* Before the elections, the anti-cleric secular Iranians debated if they should sit this election out too or vote for Mousavi anyways, despite his being part of the Islamic Republic. While some secularists did sit it out, many DID go and vote for Mousavi, for they see him as a catalist to greater freedoms.

Much of the above may be known to some already, but hearing it live from over there directly gives it ever more validity.

Yes, I know the neo-con & right-wing Israeli views that there is no difference between Mousavi and Ahmadinejad, or that this will ironically make it more difficult for the West to halt Iran's nuclear aspirations, or that this is another case of "limakeh Mitzrayim bivchoreyhem" so who cares? — But lifee aniyus da'ati haklushoh this is nisht oysgehalten, for several reasons:

 1) Even if true, Mousavi is "the lesser of two evils."

2) Think of Mousavi as Gorbachov, who was the precursor for Yeltsin.   

3) Despite Mousavi's central role at the beginning of the revolution, he has certainly moderated, and is even at the point of critisizing some essential aspects of the Islamic Republic. Think of him as in the process of "teshuvah." This has been attested by people who know him for the past 20 years since he left politics until a couple of months ago (e.g. the filmmaker Machmalbuf who knows him during this period). Though he may never admit that the revolution was essentially wrong, he is certainly blowing big holes in the fundamentalist abslutism of the status-quo. (Even Rafsanjani seems to have changed his hardline views a=concerning the revolution, though one must certainly view him with more scepticism and opportunism.)

4)  He is certainly more trustworthy when it comes to "the Bomb."

5) Not supporting him now will send a counter-productive message to all those valient protesters, which include anti-cleric secular Iranians.

6) The opposition MUST stay united. The big flaw of 1978-9 was that the Marxists & the Socialists & Communists etc. were factionalized with inner quibbling, which enabled the Islamists under Khomeini to take over. In fact, there was a brief moment of secular rule for a few months until the Ayyatolah took over (not unlike the Reds pushing out the Whites aty the beginning of the Soviet revolution).

7) Not supporting Mousavi now in order for Ahmadinejad to remain in power so that the West can use this as final "proof" that Iran is extremely radical & hence untrustworthy, meriting to bomb their nuclear sites, will only unite the opposition with the currect regime against this external threat.

8 ) Playing into the Shiite ideology of martyrdom, the more protesters killed, the stronger the opposition becomes validated as being the true heir of Imam Hussain, grandson of the Prophet — the creation myth, so to speak, of Shiite Islam and mesiras nefesh. The more the opposition demonstrates and fataly fall, the stronger they become.

 So do not be dismayed if the opposition uses Islamic slogans & scream "allahu akbar." If anything, the protesters are spitting "Virtuous Islam" back in the face of Khamenei, making him unable to claim that they are anti-religious agitators. Let's just hope that the young Iranians do not fall back into an opium stupor, as many of this generation in Iran have.

Yidden! Goyim! it is time to take a stand up for those whose blood is spilling for freedom!!! 

Here are some sites for un-to-the minute info on what is going on.:

http://niacblog.wordpress.com/

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

There are several others, including facebook (e.g. for the young woman Neda who was killed & dies on camera) & flickr photo sites & much video etc. etc., but this is a start. The guardian and BBC have also been on top of it, as has Reuters etc.

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article of how Western companies helped Iran install a sophosticated system to spy on the content of all internet & email outlets in the country, & even able to rewrite content with misinformation. Read it here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html

There is so much more, so until next report,  LONG LIVE FREEDOM!!!

Hachoisem bidmo'oys sholish vidam,

Mino'i,

Zoro

Islamo

Yid

(kishmoy kein hu)

PS: Wondering what Neturei Karta's position is on all this. Mohammad, please?

and here's ha'aretz Israeli troops humiliate Palestinians - and put it on YouTube

Russian document, printed in "Ruskayia Starinah," 1901, #5, by A. Mardar — brought by David Assaf in "Derech haMalchut" (J-m, 1997), p. 467 in Hebrew translation:

"On 13 December 1838, the governer of the Kiev provinces, Podoliyah Julian [aka General Dimitry Bibikuv — Assaf's note], sent the following document to the governers:

"'In one of the provinces under my rule, certain events occur frequently, the outcome of which is that Jews are found murdered in synagogues and small prayer-houses [i.e. shtiblakh, kloizen]. This crime is particularly heinous since it is executed in places intended for prayer and religious studies. This phenomenon is due to the independent adjudication by the Rabbinical court, which implements [this verdict of capital punishment & assassination] on the basis of their false teachings concerning eradicating informers who reveal their co-religionists' crimes. The greater the crime, the more the Jews concoct ways to hide the guilty ones [i.e. the murderers] and the true reasons that led to it. Despite all the intensive investigations, they succeed in covering it up, so much so that not only the identity of the guilty ones remains unknown for a lengthy time, but even the identity of the slain [victims are unknown].

"'In order to prevent this as much as possible, the governer [Bibikuv] presents to the governers [the following solution]: To obligate the Rabbis and Kahal [representative]s (and where there is no [Rabbi or Kahal] — other representatives from the communities), in the cities, towns and settlements where there are synagogues, to hire special supervisors to guard the keys to the synagogues and small prayer-houses, and to also provide guards [at the synagogues]. They [the governers] should [also] obtain from the police supervisors  in writing their commitement to take responsibility for such possible events.'"

This seems to be a direct reaction to the authorities' frustration over the "Ushitz Case," whereby 2 mosrim were killed al pi da'as hakohol & even the Rizhiner himself [hemshech yovoy]. One was Yitzchok Oksman, and the other, Shmuel Svartzman. The former's body was found by fishermen in a river; the latter, whose body was never found, was "strangled while praying in the Ushits town synagogue; his body was dismembered and cremated in the bathhouse furnace" [i.e. the mikveh] ("The Regal Way" p. 110, "Derech haMalchut" p. 169)

According the historian Shaul Ginsburg, all the Jews in the region knew about the murders, including the victims' families, since it was practically commited in public; yet out of communal solidarity they all kept silent. (ibid.) Ginsburg also writes that "were the Dnieper able to speak, it could tell of many informers who were drowned in its waters by decision of the kahal in the Shklov region." (ibid. p. 105)

In fact, it seems that even after the abolition of  the "Kahal" system in 1844, these "rub-outs" still occured. [Hemshech yovoy]

From "The Regal Way: The Life and Times of Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin" [aka "Derech haMalchut"] by David Assaf (Stanford U.P. 2002), notes to Ch. 4, p. 361 n. 16 — paraphrasing from "Der Rebbi von Sadagora" by Arnold Hilberg, printed in "Die Gartenlaube," Leipzig 1870, no. 28, p. 473:

"Hilberg […] recounts that when visitng his followers in nearby towns, Rabbi Israel always went to the local bathhouse, and that a heretic approached him there one day and aggresively attacked Hasidism. Shocked by the man's audacity, the zaddik ordered him thrown into the boiling water, which was immediately done. The heretic was then pushed with pitchforks into the furnace until he was cremated. Rabbi Israel, who witnessed the murder, returned to Ruzhin the same day."